How did we get to the point where two African countries are trying to shut down our aid funded schools? Nick Dearden asks.
These latest announcements look like a modern-day scramble for Africa, Kate Osamor writes.
Guns will only take you so far in the fight against the jihadist rebels, Hazel Healy discovers.
Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and inequality.
Global South workers in the digital platform-enabled gig economy are beginning to organize. Alex J. Wood and Mark Graham report.
Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.
Lea Surugue and Gisella Ligios report on the Roma women fighting to make the Czech authorities face up to the scandal of forced sterilization.
Carmen Herrera traces the history of the FSLN, from socialist liberators to the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega.
Can we still talk of a ‘migration crisis’ in the EU? Nando Sigona asks.
Human rights defenders are being criminalized in Peru. John Crabtree highlights the unusual case of Walter Aduviri.
Jillian York interviews Erika Lust about the consequences of proposed laws which aim to protect children from porn.
For Martin Jacques, 2008 represented the end of the Western-dominated financial system and the beginning of a Chinese century.
Ten years after the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, Yohann Koshy takes stock of what went wrong and where we are.
Clueless central banks? A trade war? Southern debt overload? Leading economists including Jayati Ghosh, Cédric Durand and others speculate on where the next crisis might come from...