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The assault on journalists is an assault on democracy. Chin’ono’s crime was using Twitter to criticize Zimbabwe’s government, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

The invisible green warriors by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Wedding bells; Behrouz freed; Lula livre.

Report from Qatar by Barney Cullum.

Report from Pakistan by Husna Rizvi.

Report from Syria by Karlos Zurutuza.

Report from Norway by Husna Rizvi.

Report from Zimbabwe by Wallace Mawire.

The newest movement against climate degradation.

Report from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Wolfgang Sachs wrote a seminal series of essays for the New Internationalist in 1992 called ‘Development: a guide to the ruins’. The concept of development lives on – and takes on new shapes as it is reframed by the UN, reinterpreted by the Vatican or hijacked by authoritarian populists to serve their own nationalist agenda. But, he argues now, we need to move beyond its misguided assumptions into a new post-development era based on eco-solidarity.

Ever since Hurricane Irma struck in September 2017, residents of Barbuda have been trying to defend themselves against those who would cash in on their misfortune. Gemma Sou hears what they have to say.

Thousands of former ISIS foreign fighters and their families are held in Kurdish camps in Syria. Hundreds have escaped during the recent Turkish offensive. Most European countries refuse to repatriate them, but Kosovo is bringing its citizens home. Sara Manisera reports.

Data-snatching, AI and eye-spy: some of the new technologies undermining migrants’ rights.

Governments are increasingly using surveillance and big data to track immigrants. Gaby del Valle reports from the US, where activists are trying to hold data-mining firm Palantir to account.