Columns / Currents

The Museum of Black Civilizations has opened in Dakar yet many of its galleries remain empty.

The Kurdish MP has been on hunger strike since November.

New developments in the Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute.

Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Sally Hayden reports on a fully independent, refugee-run news outlet in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya

Kids on strike; Plenty more fish; A fascist flop.

Amanda Sperber assesses the long-term consequences of Somalia's worst suicide attack.

Peter Yeung reports on the politics of street food in Bangkok - an informal industry currently under threat from the forces of gentrification.

Look to the sky and you can see all sorts of radical lessons, writes Tom Whyman .

Tibet's fraught political identity is being played out through emojis. Husna Rizvi reports.

A new Fanon-inspired social movement is building inter-generational accountability, writes Denise Sow.

Joe Nerssessian reports on a new 'revolutionary majority' stirring up change in Armenia's parliament.

Richard Swift profiles the extreme far-right ex-army officer due to become Brazil's president in the new year.

Carlotta Dotto reports on the trials and tribulations of Asia's largest African migrant population.

Queering Kenya; Free to campaign; Justice for cleaners.

Report from Latin America by Tom Belger.

Report from Bahrain by Phil Miller.

Is conflict in the Arctic drawing closer? Rather than spurring action on climate change, rapidly melting ice is creating more opportunities for geopolitical rivalry.

Report from Tanzania by Elsie Eyakuze.

Report from Ireland by Megan Nolan.