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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s healthcare system, like its politics, neglects the poorest in societyRecruiting patients from disadvantaged areas to regulate services would put power into the hands of ordinary people...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCOVID-19 is a bigger threat than war. So why isn’t it funded the same?With rising mutations, catastrophe looms unless powerful states stop being so inward-looking and cooperate to...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsFeminist groups demand action to ‘stop anti-rights infiltration’ at the UNGlobal organisations call on UN agencies to ‘stop access to decision-making’ for opponents of women’s and LGBT...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy the Isis hit on Boko Haram leader is a warning shot to global securityThe terror group accelerates as it becomes clear that leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban’s control could backfire on the West
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEU stands firm with Big Pharma against COVID vaccine patent waiversNew research reveals how Brussels puts companies’ profits ahead of millions of people’s lives worldwide
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Published in: Home: OpinionCracks in the Middle East’s stability grow wider as US influence wanesWith the region experiencing social unrest, greater influence of Russia and China, and Israel’s increasing...
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsWhy is a company accused of looting diamonds back in Zimbabwe’s mines?A Chinese-Zimbabwean military venture has been handed one of the country’s most lucrative diamond-producing blocks,...
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Published in: Home: OpinionNew stage of remote warfare further diminishes military accountabilityThousands of boots on the ground have been replaced by multiple deployments of smart bombs that stay under the radar...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionUganda’s sexual offences law is a bitter lesson for the women’s movementWhy did women MPs support a new law that entrenches oppression?
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionCan worsening economies and increasing repression herald a new Arab Spring?North Africa today is reminiscent of the period leading up to the 2011 uprisings. Tensions are further aggravated by...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisCOVID-19 has transformed Somaliland’s remittance lifelineRemittances were projected to crash at the start of the pandemic, but in Somaliland COVID-19 created an opportunity...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsYouTube closes African channel promoting televangelist’s violent 'conversion therapy'In response to our enquiries about TB Joshua’s controversial exorcisms, YouTube terminated his channel. Facebook...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureCan social media help in the fight against sexual harassment in Egypt?Egyptian women experience sexual harassment every day, but feminist initiatives on social media are helping to...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAs the rich get richer and the Global South gets poorer, expect more conflictRising inequality provides ripe pickings for militant Islamist groups plotting insurgencies – and ensures the ‘war...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisThe EU and UK are releasing the money of deposed dictatorsWhy is the EU lifting sanctions on politicians accused of corruption in Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine, when so little...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK needs to build a memorial for the people we enslavedThe revamp of Trafalgar Square, which is home to a statue of one of the slave trade’s founding fathers, offers the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s revolution under siege: When the IMF calls the shotsThe nation’s young democracy is already at a critical junction. What comes next?
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionStop imposing your imperialist Western transphobia on my peopleSocieties across the world acknowledged and celebrated gender-diverse communities – until the British arrived to...
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionRepressive governments play whack-a-mole with Africans’ digital rightsA new report on digital rights in ten African countries reveals how states are waging a brutal online war against...
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Published in: 50.50US Catholics funded Malawi opponents of legal abortion in cases of rapeAfter condemning abortion reform as an imposition of “foreign cultures”, a religious group in Malawi took thousands...
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