Agenda Stories making the news this month 8 Ireland’s abortion referendum 8 Media shutdown in Kenya 9 Victory for anti-airport movement 9 Mercury rising in Brazil 9 Introducing… Emmerson Mnangagwa 10 CND turns 60 10 Indigenous lives matter in Canada 11 India’s menstrual hygiene hero 11 Iranian women protest the veil

Plus: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone and Reasons to be Cheerful

The Big Story – Humanitarianism under attack

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Hazel Healy investigates whether it’s getting harder to help people caught up in conflict. 16 Humanitarian action – THE FACTS 18 How Turkey is winning hearts and minds

Jamal Osman reports on the rise of the new humanitarians in Somalia. 20 How can famines be ended?

To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal. 23 The rise of the cyber-humanitarians

Nick Dowson explores ethical questions raised by the use of experimental tech in disasters. 24 ‘Them, the governments’

Should we give up on multilateralism altogether? Ian Williams gives an honest appraisal of the UN. 26 Rest for Rashida

Parsa Sanjana Sajid speaks to Rohingya refugees trapped on the Bangladeshi border. 29 A new universalism

Tom Whyman looks for new philosophical foundations for a shared sense of common humanity.

Magazine designed by Andy Kokotka and Juha Sorsa. Central cover image: Baraa al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images. All monetary values are expressed in US dollars unless otherwise noted.

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Features 32 When the drugs don’t work

Lea Surugue reports on the dramatic rise of heart disease in Africa and the corresponding crisis of fake cardiac drugs.

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34 Portraits of three Syrian cities For Syrians living in government-held Damascus, Aleppo and

Homs, only fragments of normal life remain. Sally Hayden shares their stories. 43 The away team For Algeria’s marginalized Kabyles people, even a game of

football can be problematic. Alessio Perrone on the region’s political struggle.

Opinion 37 Omar Hamdi The other side of the Bitcoin.

PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World. 44 Mark Engler Against shithole nationalism.

Mixed media 38 Film reviews Even When I Fall, co-directed by Kate McLarnon and Sky

Neal; 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute), directed and co-written by Robin Campillo. 39 Music reviews Mambo Cósmico by Sonido Gallo Negro; Forest Bathing

by A Hawk and a Hacksaw. 40 Book reviews – Middle East Special

No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid; Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff; Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan Wright; Sara by Sakine Cansiz, translated by Janet Biehl. PLUS: Also out there…

Regulars 6 Letters PLUS: Open Window, with guest cartoonist Miguel Morales

Madrigal from Cuba. 7 Letter from Marabá Dan Baron Cohen’s debut column from the Brazilian Afro

indigenous community Cabalo Seco. 30 Country Profile: Libya 42 Worldbeater: Mohammed bin Salman

Saudi Arabia’s King-in-waiting – and his aggressive foreign policy – is put under the spotlight. 45 Puzzle page PLUS: Marc Roberts’ Only Planet cartoon. 46 And Finally From gender-based violence to the challenges of being

an outspoken woman, Indian writer and activist Meena Kandasmy talks with Graeme Green.

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