The UK's complicity in helping oppressive governments goes well beyond arms sales
Emily Thornberry is right to back stronger rules on weapons, but other deals with despots need our attention as well.
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In one corner, former trade unionist Cyril Ramaphosa. In the other, Mr Zuma’s former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
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The Gupta scandal: how a British PR firm came unstuck in South Africa
Bell Pottinger was accused of exploiting racial divisions to deflect attention from a business family’s troubles.
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Defend Europe’s plan to block migrants is just the far right setting sail on the Med
Don't let them pretend they're motivated by anything except anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant xenophobia.
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“I want to try. Live or die“: how refugees decide whether to make the dangerous trip to Europe
In a refugee camp in Ethiopia, women struggle with limited choices and a life in limbo.
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From Robben Island to Trump: what American protesters can learn from South Africa
A South African judge on lessons from the liberation struggle.
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A dictator in the family: why Ebrima Jammeh wants retribution in Gambia
“I want to see Yahya Jammeh jailed and prosecuted in this country. Justice will finally come.”
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Remembering my mother Buchi Emecheta, 1944-2017
The Nigerian-born British novelist Buchi Emecheta wrote a regular New Statesman column which became her first book, In The Ditch, in 1972.
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