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Flying patients

Consumers are looking beyond their native borders for low-cost, quality healthcare. Monocle looks at the global hotspots attracting patients wanting anything from hi-tech surgery to a facelift, with a safari thrown in.

  • Issue #49
  • 6 min read
Flying patients
Business

Big guns

This year’s DSEi fair in London showed that South Africa is a major arms player.

  • Issue #48
  • 3 min read
Big guns
Business

Arms and the man

The defence industry is intertwined with politics and nationhood. Ivor Ichikowitz is a man at the heart of all three in Africa but don’t call him an arms dealer; he insists on good intentions.

  • Issue #48
  • 8 min read
Close-up detail of the AHRLAC reconnaissance aircraft engine and propeller assembly.
Affairs

Africa/Middle East

The substantial motorcade of the 'humble' Ugandan president, Norway looks to turn Quatar's desert green and a new bridge betwen Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

  • Issue #47
  • 5 min read
Africa/Middle East
Affairs

Africa/Middle East

Our column from Pretoria looks at how South Africa is manoeuvering itself into a world-power position. Plus elections in Seychelles, educating ultra-orthodox children in Israel and demanding change in Lebanon.

  • Issue #43
  • 5 min read
Join the Club
Affairs

Africa/Middle East

South Africa's ambition to host a mega-telescope, the new calendar for Senegal, and the Ugandan president's desperate measures to win the election.

  • Issue #40
  • 5 min read
Illustration of a figure wearing a blue robe and gold crown surrounded by hanging African animals including an elephant, tiger, lion, and giraffe.
Media

Talk of the town

Is there a future for local newspapers? We meet the believers from a British octogenarian maverick to a hi-tech Czech publisher and witness triumphs but also a spectacular failure as it happens.

  • Issue #37
  • 12 min read
Back issues of ‘West Highland Free Press’
Affairs

Up for the cup

The World Cup is a million different stories in one. As the tournament gets under way, Monocle looks at how players, coaches, companies and fans from all over the globe have been getting ready.

  • Issue #34
  • 8 min read
Up for the cup
Media

Ready for kick-off

As coaches plot World Cup tactics, so do journalists. Monocle visits Durban and Johannesburg to see how 18,000-plus writers, pundits and photographers will be accommodated in South Africa.

  • Issue #33
  • 8 min read
Ready for kick-off
Business

Africa/Middle East

Israel's glut of lawyers, the South Africans taking a stand against cheap imported clothes, and preparations for elections in the Central African Republic.

  • Issue #33
  • 5 min read
Illustration of multiple cartoon lawyers on a winding path with yellow signs labeled 'Lawyer' pointing in different directions.

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