On 7 November, Nicaraguans will elect a president. They will do so amid a wave of repression, with a presidential couple seeking re-election and controlling all the powers of the state. Daniel Ortega has already accumulated 25 years in power, more than any dictator from the country’s [...]

Although the EU maintains that the agreement will boost development in Tunisia, part of Tunisian civil society fears it will destroy the fabric of the sectors to be opened up.

Women have been at the forefront of protests against the coup that deposed Myanmar’s civilian government led by the iconic Aung San Suu Kyi. The role they will play and the space they will occupy going forward, whether under military rule or a restored democracy, remains to be [...]

Commodity traders wreak havoc on global markets and profit from ecological and social devastation. Can they be stopped?

Beijing has used the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to boost its global image. And to strengthen its foothold in the MENA region, its interests, long limited to securing the flow of oil, have been broadened to include a range of areas, stretching from culture to [...]

With an economy based on banking and tourism, Lebanon produces very little and therefore has to import 80 per cent of its consumer goods, including fertilisers, seeds and animal feed. To get by, farmers are developing ecological alternatives, but their options are [...]

Cuba has adopted drastic economic, political and social control measures in an 11th hour attempt to stem the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on a country already severely weakened by the tightening of the US blockade.

Faced with mounting poverty, local officials in France are subsidising food aid associations on the condition that they get their supplies from local producers, foreshadowing the idea of “social security for food”.

“The knowledge generated with Covid is now likely to help boost HIV research and speed up the development of other vaccine candidates, but it will require more investment, the same as that dedicated to Covid.”

Social networks have disrupted Palestinian activism and changed the image of the conflict internationally, online, and on the ground.