New Internationalist

‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,’ we would belt out, in ragged unison, aged 10. ‘And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by.’ Our teacher’s idea of imparting English literature was to get the class to le

I found the article ‘Progress and its discontents’ by Jason Hickel (NI 520) very informative in its discussion of global poverty and inequality. Although Hickel references Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker, neither of them are primarily concerned with i

British companies, charities and institutions have expressed their deep frustration at the UK visa system, which consistently blocks their invited guests from conferences, festivals and business meetings, according to evidence given at a recent parli

While far from new to the scene in Libya, this renegade warlord has now moved centre stage – a position that he has been seeking for many years. Haftar is behind the assault against the UN-recognized Government of National Accord in the capital Tripo

A UK-based oil company is suing Italy after a local campaign led to the refusal of an oil-drilling concession in the Ombrina Mare oil field in the Adriatic Sea. Using a secretive World Bank institution called the International Centre for Settlement o

In May 2019, three per cent of the dense rainforests that make up the Jamanxim National Forest in Pará, a state in northern Brazil, was razed by illegal loggers. The area’s legal protections have, until now, deterred the most egregious logging. But v

Workers have been bringing the moral bankruptcy of governments into sharp relief by disrupting the arms trade. In June 2019, Marseilles dockers blocked a shipment on suspicion that a Saudi shipping container was carrying ammunition destined for the K

I’m on a ship 1,600 kilometres away from the nearest landmass. It has taken us five days to get from California to the middle of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Our team sends a remotely operated vehicle 4.5 kilometres down to a flat abyssal plain that

Up to 10 million species live in coastal waters. 17,000 species thrive in the dark deep sea. 38,000 different kinds of microbes exist in 1 litre of seawater.1 25% of the ocean’s inhabitants are directly dependent on coral reefs.2 But warming seas hav

Give eating fish a miss or eat less. Be picky about sustainability (mcsuk.org has a useful ‘good fish’ guide) and whether your food is the product of slavery at sea. Eating more meat won’t help fish stocks – at least a fifth of fish feeds industrial

Everyone in Tanzania knows that the country is at war but what they would probably fail to tell you is with what or with whom. When the country’s founding father Julius Nyerere led the Kagera War of 1979 against Uganda’s Idi Amin, who had invaded Tan

LEADER: President John Pombe Magufuli. ECONOMY: GNI per capita $920 (Kenya $1,460, UK $40,600). Monetary unit: Shilling. Main exports: Gold, coffee, cashew nuts, cotton, tea, tobacco and cloves. Tanzania’s economy depends heavily on agriculture, whic

Tanzania remains one of the countries with the highest income inequality in the world. A 2018 International Labour Organization report ranked it third among 64 countries with the highest level of wage inequality. 78%, with 83% among men and 73% among

HILARY WAINWRIGHT: There’s an important distinction to be made between European Union treaties in which neoliberal economics (reducing public expenditure, deregulating labour, privatization, etc) are inscribed and, on the other hand, the implementati

Hodan Nalayeh and I only met once. She was a guest speaker at an event that I was involved in to raise awareness about the increasing presence of anti-Somali rhetoric and activity in Kenya. Prior to that, we had been following each other on Twitter,

Deepika Singh learnt to sign her name during one of India’s frenetic mass literacy campaigns in the early 2000s. The 45-year-old remembers practising for months in order to write her name on a form that would then declare her literate. Almost 17 year

by Geovani Martins, translated by Julia Sanches (Faber & Faber, ISBN 9780571348244) faber.co.uk The short story is often regarded, somewhat unfairly, as a country cousin to the novel: limited in scope and unable to match the nuance and complexity of