Dhondy’s work has shaped my own life. I grew up watching the TV shows that the now 81-year-old commissioned – shows which ...

Twelve states from across the Global South made history this week by announcing unprecedented measures to stop Israel’s ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has perhaps the richest concentration of precious metals and minerals on earth. Colette Braeckman describes how their exploitation by warring factions has fuelled the ...

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 below transcript is AI generated. JEAN PIERRE: The DRC as a country has been playing a critical role on supply chain of cobalt … we supply the chain with about 70% of the global demand of cobalt.

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 ...

Subi Shah speaks to DJ Ritu about the ‘Asian Underground’, women’s rights and the British honours system.

A plan to power Europe from Saharan solar plants seems to have stalled, but several large North African solar projects are still going ahead despite local concerns. Hamza Hamouchene asks: where did ...

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I an Curtis and Joy Division stand out. Not least because their music portrayed emotions, sorrows and terrors in a way that most popular music never comes within a country mile of and because Ian ...

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 ...