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The fight to free Nigeria’s prisoners, report by Nosmot Gbadamosi.

Richard Swift introduces us to the head of the World Health Organization.

LGBTQI+ people have been scapegoated and put at risk during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard Swift. We may never get a better chance for a new normal.

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.

Western volunteers on why they fight for Rojava.

Abdullah Öcalan’s journey to democratic confederalism.

No mercy for Iran’s mountain smugglers.

Longing for a return to Turkish Kurdistan’s shattered city centre.

Key events in recent Kurdish history.

Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petro-state of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Turkey wants to undo the revolution in North and East Syria. But the women of Rojava are resisting, writes Dilar Dirik.

The Kurds – the fourth-biggest ethnic group in the Middle East – are described as ‘the largest nation without a state’. (Where accurate statistics are lacking, we have gone with ‘reasonable’ estimates.)

There are scores of different Kurdish political factions, parties and movements, some of which connect with each other, others that are radically and bitterly opposed. Here, in simple form, are the key players.