Rivers and fish are being poisoned with mercury, forests are felled and land devastated as illegal mining, fuelled in part by ...

New Internationalist condemns the coordinated campaign of online harassment targeting our contributor Eiad Husham in response to his journalistic work reporting on the war in Suda ...

The company, which also owns the X social network, has quickly come to dominate both satellite communications, through its ...

The Venezuelan leader's abduction reflects US drug policy being used against Latin American governments resisting its geopolitical interests, argues Kojo Koram.

Researcher Peter Howson reports on how the global scramble for new space launch sites is affecting those who live around them – from Indonesia to Scandinavia. Tycoons like Musk want us to believe it’s ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...

Surprisingly, Rwanda regularly tops global gender equality tables. What can a traditional sexual practice reveal about gender norms? Alice McCool finds out ‘Sex is for the woman. This is because the ...

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...

As COP28 winds down, Hamza Hamouchene sounds the alarm about the dark side of climate capitalism. It now has another claim to fame however, as just six miles away from the town is one of the biggest ...

Beyond the sensationalist headlines, Obiora Ikoku finds a deeply rooted crisis, made worse by the country’s ruling elite. Nine months ago, Rita Gendaga was preparing for her late father’s funeral when ...

It was a movement that reverberated on campuses from Cape Town to Oxford. Musawenkosi Cabe speaks to activists who were part of the high-profile push to decolonize universities and challenge white ...