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How Nicaragua’s good guys turned bad

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the FSLN, from socialist liberators to the increasingly brutal rule of...

Dinamo Sukhumi’s stadium under construction.

17 Jul 2018 6 minute read

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Where football meets politics

In tiny Abkhazia, outcast from the world stage, football is a source of hope. Robert O’Connor reports.

Three former guerrillas watch the election results from La Tienda, the social space in the Icononzo reintegration zone.

19 Jun 2018 5 minute read

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FARC fears after rightwing Duque elected

Kimberley Brown speaks to former guerillas after president who vowed to rip up peace deal elected.

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga anchored at the Diego Garcia naval base in the 1980s.

11 Jun 2018 7 minute read

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‘Catastrophic’ explosion risk on Diego Garcia

Revealed: Ships at the controversial naval base are crammed dangerously close. Katie McQue reports.

15 May 2018 5 minute read

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Rape as communal violence in India

Violence against women is being used as a weapon of communal hatred, suggesting India should enact the Communal Violence...

8 May 2018 4 minute read

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Why telling victims not to ‘be victims’ is wrong

Kate Smurthwaite stands in defence of this battered word.

Philip Miriori stands over the gaping wound that is Panguna Mine.

16 May 2018 15 minute read

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This land is my land

Ian Neubauer reports from Bougainville, where rebels chased away a mining company 30 years ago. Now the company is planning...

29 Apr 2018 3 minute read

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And Finally: Meena Kandasamy

The writer and activist discusses domestic abuse, social media and politics in India with Graeme Green.

19 Apr 2018 7 minute read

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Will air strikes stop Assad using chemical weapons?

Dan Smith argues strengthening international law would do far more good than ad hoc missile strikes.

31 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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Humanitarian drones and other anachronisms

Aid-by-drone, what’s not to like? New tech in the sector brings many problems, Nick Dowson explains.

31 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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CND reaches 60

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded 60 years ago.

Portraits of three Syrian cities: Huossen Hamod’s daughter looks out from a fifth floor balcony onto their decimated neighbourhood of Ansari al-Sharki, Aleppo

31 Mar 2018 8 minute read

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Portraits of war-torn Syrian cities

For those in government-held cities, only fragments of normality remain. Sally Hayden writes.

Three displaced Yemeni girls stand by the shredded remains of their tents in Abs settlement, which is regularly damaged by passing sandstorms.

31 Mar 2018 12 minute read

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Who cares? Humanitarianism under threat

Hazel Healy investigates the challenges facing 21st century disaster response.

7 Mar 2018 2 minute read

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Theresa May rolls out the red carpet for Saudi crown prince

Only six per cent of Britons back selling arms to Saudi Arabia. So why has Mohamed bin Salman been invited to Britain?...

Bosnia’s fragile peace: a plaque to war criminal Radko Mladić

21 Feb 2018 6 minute read

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Frozen sectarian divisions heat up in Bosnia

Two decades after the war ended, the country’s peace is looking fragile. Mattha Busby writes.

14 Feb 2018 3 minute read

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Why defunding Oxfam won't stop abuse

‘The idea of altruistic morality puts aid workers in a double bind, eroding true responsibility’

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