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To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal.

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This year marks 50 years since Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly displacing the Sahrawi people into Algeria. Women's rights and climate activist Najla Mohamed-Lamin joins us from the refugee ...

In the lead story from our May-June 2023 issue, Zoe Holman looks at how the so-called ‘peace process’ has allowed Israel to deepen its colonial project over Palestinian lives.

Iris Gonzales visits Manila’s largest fish port, where the effects of an international dispute are playing out.