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10:09 Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops

As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science’s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases

08:11 Sanctioned Russia and Belarusian wood being smuggled into UK, study suggests

‘Chemical fingerprint’ shows 46% of wood samples certified as sustainable did not come from labelled country of origin

22/04 A friend killed, and inquiries shelved: life fighting the stigma of albinism in Malawi

People with albinism are often attacked and even killed for body parts. As elections approach, activist Tonney Mkwapatira fears the situation may get worse

21/04 Emboldened by Trump, the ‘liberal’ UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth Mohammed

Faced with fading empires’ petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual respect

21/04 ‘My work is a scream for help’: Gaza’s artists document life under fire

Work illustrating the war’s brutality but also the resilience of four Palestinian artists, is being exhibited at the Darat al Funan in Jordan

20/04 ‘Cañahua chose me’: can an ancient relative of quinoa revive rural Bolivia’s economy?

The effects of the climate crisis and a lack of jobs are driving young people away from the Andean highlands but a long-shunned crop could stem the tide

18/04 ‘They were chanting as they killed people in their homes’: survivors describe attack on Sudan’s Zamzam camp

On 11 April Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries attacked the country’s largest displacement camp. The extent of the brutality remains unclear, but some accounts are now emerging

17/04 About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, say researchers

Scientists sound the alarm over substances such as arsenic and lead contaminating soils and entering food systems

17/04 ‘No fish, no money, no food’: Colombia’s stilt people fight to save their wetlands

Illegally diverted rivers, seawater and poorly managed building projects have polluted the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta. But the Unesco site has a vital role to play in fighting climate change

17/04 Move over, Med diet – plantains and cassava can be as healthy as tomatoes and olive oil, say researchers

Findings from Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region indicate traditional eating habits in rural Africa can boost the immune system and reduce inflammation

16/04 ‘We feel like we’re back in Senegal’: the Sufis helping migrants in the Canaries

Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system

15/04 ‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

Amid the ruins and with fuel scarce, the animals provide vital transport for the injured as well as goods and belongings

15/04 EU will struggle to fill gap left by USAID as European countries cut their budgets

NGOs warn of ‘some difficult years’ ahead as increasing humanitarian needs meet shrinking finances

14/04 Leaked UN experts report raises fresh concerns over UAE’s role in Sudan war

As crucial London peace talks set to begin, report seen by the Guardian raises questions over ‘multiple’ flights into bases in Chad

14/04 Sudan’s news blackout stokes fear and confusion after refugee camp attacks

Families of those displaced wait for news from Darfur amid reports of hundreds killed by paramilitary RSF

14/04 Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging

The country is the most deadly to be an environmental activist – and the brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernández are the latest in a long line of violent acts against defenders

14/04 ‘It looks like I’ve gone 10 rounds with a boxer’: when hay fever becomes debilitating – and potentially deadly

Often dismissed as summertime sniffles, the condition that affects a quarter of UK adults can lead to serious and debilitating health problems

14/04 ‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina

Lured by promises of an education but allegedly trapped in servitude and self-mortification, the former members are suing the ultra-conservative organisation over their ‘exploitation and abuse’

11/04 Ink, angels and hard graft: the artists keeping Ethiopia’s ancient illuminated manuscript craft alive

In an Addis Ababa workshop, sacred texts are painstakingly crafted on goat skin using methods dating back to early Christianity – plus a bit of inspiration from Google Images

11/04 Bobi Wine to run for president in Uganda’s 2026 election ‘if I am still alive and not in jail’

Exclusive: Opposition leader says he has ‘no choice’ but to challenge Yoweri Museveni’s regime, despite threats and previous attacks

11/04 Children of war: six orphans’ 1,000-mile journey across Sudan in search of safety

After dysentery killed their mother and the civil war came to their home in Omdurman, Haroun and his young siblings were forced to set off on an epic quest to reach El Geneina

10/04 ‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

John Todd’s eco-machine stunned experts by using natural organisms to remove toxic waste from a Cape Cod lagoon. Forty years on, he wants to build a fleet of them to clean up the oceans

10/04 Investing in climate adaptation is not just good for the planet, it’s good business | William Ruto and Patrick Verkooijen

Climate denialism should not blind investors and governments to the very real opportunities to be found in financing solutions

09/04 ‘No one recognised him, even as he said his name’: last video of rescued man shows horror of Sudan torture camps

Death of well-known Khartoum businessman Alwaleed Abdeen days after his release from an RSF camp prompts wave of mourning

09/04 ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses

They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cut

08/04 ‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest city

In Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, coal fires heat almost every home. But as extreme weather drives families off the steppes into the city the air is becoming more deadly

07/04 Silence surrounds the disappearance of Chilean grandmother Julia Chuñil. What really happened?

Nearly five months ago, the Indigenous land rights defender went out to herd animals in the forest and vanished. Her family say she had been threatened – and no trace of her has been found

07/04 ‘Barcelona or death’: mothers watch and wait as Senegal’s men risk all to reach Europe

For many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the country’s new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay?

07/04 Aid cuts could have ‘pandemic-like effects’ on maternal deaths, WHO warns

Loss of funding could undo progress in reducing deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, especially in war zones, says UN

05/04 ‘Shame’ on world leaders for neglect of displaced civilians in DRC, says aid chief

US and Europe criticised by head of Norwegian Refugee Council for ‘neglect’ of people living ‘subhuman’ existence

05/04 Broken and in the grip of civil war, can Myanmar rebuild after earthquake?

The junta’s poor emergency response leaves people fearing prolonged chaos, despite the relentless propaganda

04/04 ‘Only job I know’: tiny Lesotho’s garment workers reel from Trump’s tariffs

Impoverished African country is hit with highest tariff rate at 50%, overturning decades of global trade policy

04/04 Leading the charge: how a drive for electric vehicles is cleaning up Nepal

With air pollution causing a fifth of deaths in Nepal, growing EV use could add two years to Kathmandu residents’ lives

03/04 World Bank announces multimillion-dollar redress fund after killings and abuse claims at Tanzanian project

Communities in Ruaha national park reject response to alleged assault and evictions of herders during tourism scheme funded by the bank

03/04 Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics

Fears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced to close

03/04 The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline

A week after contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza, their bodies were found in a mass grave

03/04 ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies

The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to soaring mortality rates, say experts

02/04 Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’

One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditional needlework to embellish portraits of themselves

02/04 The world is missing out on the real Yemen: we are not just war, headlines or suffering | Nada Al-Saqaf

After a decade of conflict, loss is constant, as is fear for our children’s future. But we are more than this

01/04 ‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work

Hundreds of projects supported by USAID have been thrown into doubt, as fears grow of an increase in crimes such as poaching and trafficking

01/04 Snakes, ‘border madness’ and solo trips: five Nigerian female travellers on their top tips and trickiest moments

Whether it’s driving solo from London to Lagos, a month on a motorbike or vanlife in east Africa, these influencers are sharing their adventures – and helping others to negotiate the difficulties of a ‘weak’ passport

01/04 ‘The boat owners treat us as slaves’: crews report abuse and death on long-haul vessels

The unexplained death of a fisher on a Chinese-owned trawler in the Indian Ocean illustrates the lack of accountability in the seafood industry, say advocates

01/04 India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer

Vast scheme aims to counter disinformation and increase awareness in country where low HPV vaccine take-up means many die from the preventable disease

31/03 New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing

31/03 ‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war

The country’s drawn out conflict has seen children recruited as soldiers on all sides. At the age of 18, Anina is a seasoned fighter with a feared reputation in her all-male resistance unit

30/03 How hurricanes Otis and John exposed Acapulco’s big divide and left residents ‘scared for our lives’

The last two big storms to hit Mexico have left the city vulnerable to organised crime and in fear of the next climate shock

28/03 Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

Items taken from a mountain of discarded garments in the Atacama desert were sold for the price of shipping in a fightback against the ‘racist and colonialist’ dumping of unwanted clothing

28/03 How Karachi’s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan

Two hundred women, known as the Light Sisters, have been trained as electricians in Karachi, challenging gender stereotypes and providing opportunities in the male-dominated energy sector

27/03 Dying fish, polluted water and a terrible stench: the French firm accused of dumping toxic waste in Colombia’s wetlands

A controversial landfill near Barrancabermeja has polluted protected wetlands, causing harm to people and the environment, claim local campaigners

27/03 ‘We can talk through our art’: the Malian festival uniting the Sahel’s people

In a region fractured by jihadists and coups, Ségou’Art shows ‘we share our culture, even if politics divides us’

27/03 Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study

Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV

25/03 Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes

Israel Defense Forces has confirmed it killed Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour, claiming they were terrorists

25/03 Stop-and-search, fire ants and stinging nettles: doling out justice to illegal miners in Peru’s Amazon

As gold prices soar and with little help from the national government, the Indigenous Wampis are taking action to stop their land from being polluted and plundered

25/03 Drones, informers and apps: Iran intensifies surveillance on women to enforce hijab law

Iranian police are using digital tools to identify and punish women who defy the Islamic state’s harsh dress code

25/03 ‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin

The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail uniforms, soap and lids while detained by Myanmar’s regime

23/03 Atrocities mount daily. Promised aid does not arrive. Why has the west turned its back on Sudan?

As territory is won and lost by opposing military forces, people grasp at scraps of normality. But the country is undergoing the world’s most severe humanitarian catastrophe and global announcements of help have amounted to nothing

22/03 A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

Last week, anti-choice campaigners emboldened by current US politics met in New York at the same time as UN delegates gathered to address the widespread inequalities women face. The battle to protect rights has never felt more urgent

21/03 First migrant worker dies building a World Cup stadium in Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Arshad, from Pakistan, was a foreman building Aramco Stadium in Al Khobar, one of 11 new venues for 2034

20/03 ‘Don’t call it zombie deer disease’: scientists warn of ‘global crisis’ as infections spread across the US

A contagious, fatal illness in deer, elk and moose has slowly taken hold in the US and is now reaching other countries – with potentially devastating effects on human health

19/03 ‘This is your mission’: why one Brazilian doctor is training to be a shaman

Adana Omágua Kambeba fought to become one of the country’s first Indigenous woman doctors. Now she wants to bring the worlds of traditional and western medicine closer – and help Amazonian communities in the process

18/03 ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts

The abrupt halt to US funding threatens to undo decades of advances, dramatically increasing infections and deaths, but some see an opportunity for Africa to lead the response

17/03 The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees

Hundreds of millions of pilgrims flocked to the Ganges for this year’s festival, housed in a sprawling temporary metropolis stretching across 4,000 hectares of the floodplains of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh

17/03 Landmines in Syria kill hundreds of civilians returning home after fall of Assad

Children particularly vulnerable to unexploded war remnants scattered throughout country as more than a million people return

15/03 Exploited, recognised as a slavery victim, now facing deportation: one seafarer’s UK ordeal

After years of helping Scottish criminal investigations and despite fearing for his life in India, Vishal Sharma’s asylum claim has been rejected

15/03 Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma

An investigation into the DRC’s use of hundreds of hired Romanian fighters reveals how a disorganised operation with untrained recruits became a deadly ‘circus’

14/03 Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit

Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say experts

14/03 Dragged from a taxi and driven to the border: Kenya’s ‘safe’ reputation tainted by forced deportations

Dozens of activists, critics and asylum seekers are thought to have been abducted and sent home in the past year

13/03 Israeli attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to ‘genocidal acts’, UN says

Report details attacks and abuses that ‘destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group’

13/03 The end of the Ayoreo? The race to find proof that Paraguay’s uncontacted people exist

A vast ranch in the country’s Chaco region is quietly deforesting a huge swath of land. Indigenous people say this could be deadly for their isolated relatives but others say there is no evidence that anyone lives there

13/03 Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas

From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis

12/03 ‘They turned our home into a cemetery’: the high price of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City dream

Mangroves are being destroyed and residents displaced to make way for an airport to serve president Nayib Bukele’s vision of a tax-free economic hub

12/03 Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners – report

First such study finds laws on abortion, debt and dress help increase rate of women being jailed twice as fast as for men

12/03 Economic growth for its own sake is ruining Britain | Letters

Letters: Philip Wood, Daniel Scharf and Sheila Triggs respond to an article by Rowan Williams calling for a refocusing of Labour’s goals on wellbeing, not wealth

11/03 Mother of teenage bride in South Sudan comes out of hiding to be with pregnant daughter

Athiak Dau Riak was traditionally married for a record bride price last year, despite her mother’s insistence that she was only 14, leading to threats of reprisals

11/03 ‘If you don’t get early years right, children are unlikely to catch up’: why South Africa is trying to reboot its school system

With 80% of 10-year-olds unable to read for meaning, the government is prioritising literacy and numeracy among pre-school pupils as it tackles its education problems

10/03 Drone attacks killing hundreds of civilians across Africa, says report

Calls grow to control military use of unmanned aerial vehicles which, despite claims of precise targeting, are claiming civilian lives

07/03 Allowing foreign firms to sue governments for lost profits is legal terrorism – it must end | Joseph Stiglitz

Investor–state dispute settlements don’t just mean growing debt burdens for countries: they are also a barrier to action on the climate crisis

07/03 ‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

Haunting accounts of torture in newly found detention centre lead to calls for an investigation into what experts say could be among the worst atrocities of Sudan’s civil war

07/03 Evidence of torture found as detention centre and mass grave discovered outside Khartoum

Exclusive: What appears to be a vast burial site found at former Rapid Support Forces base in Sudan, while rescued detainees speak of torture, starvation and deaths of fellow inmates

06/03 World Food Programme halves food rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh

Decision made after attempts to raise more funds had been unsuccessful, agency tells authorities

06/03 Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 – study

Stigma, lack of treatment and disproportionate rise of the disease in women draws comparisons with HIV epidemic

06/03 Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels

Companies can sue governments for closing oilfields and mines – and the risk of huge damages is already stopping countries from passing green laws, ministers say

06/03 Refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma camp clash with police after food supplies cut

Teargas fired during protest at reduced rations after US aid freeze wipes out half of World Food Programme budget

05/03 UK, France and Germany say Gaza aid freeze could breach international law

Ministers issue joint statement after Israel cuts off supplies in effort to push Hamas to accept change in ceasefire deal

05/03 Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws

Guardian analysis finds fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators

05/03 Women behind the lens: ‘In Cuba, domestic life is forced on to the streets’

Part of a project exploring islanders’ daily challenges, this photograph captures the quiet endurance of Cuban mothers

05/03 Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11bn

The island is being sued by a mining company over its decision, and faces paying nine times its annual budget in damages if it loses

05/03 Power struggle: will Brazil’s booming datacentre industry leave ordinary people in the dark?

While millions live with regular blackouts and limited energy, plants are being built to satisfy the global demand for digital storage and processing – piling pressure on an already fragile system

05/03 The Chimamanda effect: Nigerians’ delight at first novel in a decade from their beloved daughter

‘Rock star’ author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count has been hotly anticipated by her fans

04/03 Campaigners celebrate court ruling to ‘decolonise’ Kampala

After a five-year campaign, landmarks and streets honouring British colonialists will be renamed to reflect Ugandan culture

04/03 Clinging to old orthodoxies on aid and defence will not serve Britain well | Letters

Letters: In a dramatically changed world, defence, targeted aid and domestic priorities will need to be balanced to keep us secure, says Anthony Lawton. Plus letters from Tim Conway and Chris Jones

04/03 From a bombsite in Gaza to a Texas hospital: Mazyouna’s journey to safety

The thirteen-year-old lost part of her face in a missile strike last June. Now, she and three other war-wounded girls have finally been permitted to travel for specialist treatment in the US

03/03 Thailand condemned for ‘shameful’ mass deportation of Uyghur refugees to China

Amid claims that deportees may face torture, family of one man say he was forcibly repatriated and will never see his children again

02/03 ‘This will cost lives’: cuts to UK aid budget condemned as ‘betrayal’ by international development groups

Widespread alarm at Keir Starmer’s decision to slash funds, amid warnings of dire consequences for world’s poorest

28/02 How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?

With more spending going to defence, the latest budget cut will take Britain’s aid contribution to its lowest for a quarter of a century

28/02 Saudi border forces accused of killing ‘hundreds of Ethiopian migrants’

Witnesses making the crossing from Yemen report coming under machine-gun fire and seeing rotting bodies

27/02 Africa’s medical system risks ‘collapse in next few years’, warns health leader

Focusing foreign aid on infectious diseases has allowed a rise in cancer and diabetes that African governments don’t have resources to fight, says Dr Githinji Gitahi

26/02 The playbook for bombing hospitals in war: deny, deflect, justify. The law must close these loopholes | Maarten van der Heijden

Cynical actors exploit the legal ambiguities around targeting healthcare facilities, as seen in Gaza. Unequivocal protections are needed

26/02 ‘Losing hope with every day that passes’: torment of the ships’ crews abandoned at sea

Thousands of seafarers are left on board their vessels in foreign waters, unpaid, with scant supplies – and no way of getting home

26/02 ‘They forced me to stand for hours in the cold, arms raised and shackled’: eight Gaza doctors on their Israeli prison ordeal

Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge

25/02 Starmer’s cuts to UK aid budget are ‘cruel and shameful’, say experts

Reduction to 0.3% of gross national income in order to fund defence spending has been decried as a ‘move to appease Trump’

25/02 ‘I know their names, what they eat’: tracking polar bears on Svalbard’s shifting icescapes

For more than 20 years, scientists have followed the animals in Norway’s Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts

25/02 Crucial UN nature talks are about to reopen in Rome – but will enough countries turn up?

After last year’s Cop16 biodiversity talks in Cali left key issues unresolved, the extra summit will attempt to seek consensus, especially over funding

25/02 ‘It shatters my heart’: the slow death of India’s once-famous Urdu book bazaar

For over a century, poets, publishers and printers filled this Delhi district’s narrow lanes. But as profits plummet, bookshops are being replaced by kebab shops

25/02 ‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention

Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Now, some of Gaza’s most senior doctors have spoken of the violence and abuse they say they faced

25/02 More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture

Senior doctors claim they were subjected to months of physical abuse, as UN calls for release of those still detained

24/02 Thousands of children in England falsely accused of witchcraft in past decade

Kindoki Witch Boy film tells true story of Mardoche Yembi who underwent an exorcism as a child

24/02 ‘Dead white person’s clothes’ mount up as Ghana’s Kantamanto market struggles to rebuild after fire

Six weeks after a devastating blaze in Accra ripped through one of the world’s biggest secondhand markets, many stalls remain unfinished and thousands still have no income

22/02 ‘Exploited’ migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours

Call for investigation into unfair payment for labourers on seasonal visa scheme

22/02 If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt

Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development

22/02 Long-term effects of Gaza war could quadruple Palestinian death toll, warn UK doctors

Surgeons who worked in Gaza fear disease, malnutrition and eradication of healthcare will reverberate for decades

21/02 International aid groups axe thousands of jobs in wake of Trump funding freeze

Fears that cuts will ‘decimate’ ability to react to crises as sector loses expertise and skills at every level, report finds

21/02 ‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia

Ethiopia was the largest recipient of US aid assistance in sub-Saharan Africa before Donald Trump froze funding last month. From food and health to support for refugees and sexual abuse survivors, we examine the impact of a decision that has left aid organisations scrambling

20/02 How will Trump and Musk’s freeze on USAid affect millions around the world?

Immediately after his inauguration, the US president and the head of Doge froze funding for all foreign assistance, creating chaos for staff and for humanitarian projects, charities, governments and people around the world

20/02 ‘If not fire, we’ll be killed by hunger’: villagers continue to feel fallout from Bolivia’s worst wildfires

Food shortages and health issues continue after vast areas of forest and farmland burned last year

20/02 Former Foreign Office head warns Reeves not to cut international aid

Exclusive: As chancellor scans budget for savings, Simon McDonald says need for humanitarian spending is ‘greater than ever’

20/02 ‘Beware of the bat’: how a mine in Kigali became the focus of Marburg virus research

The fatality rate for the disease is usually 88%, but during a recent outbreak in Rwanda, deaths were kept to 23%. A new approach based on studying miners may be the reason why

19/02 The Ugandan arts centre bringing harmony to Africa’s biggest refugee camp

The Bidi Bidi performing arts venue offers more than 250,000 refugees the chance to sing, play, dance – and dream of a peaceful future

19/02 Off air: One by one, the Taliban are removing women’s voices from Afghan radio

As one of the last female-run stations in the country is silenced, a former broadcaster gives an inside view of the crackdown on women working in the media

18/02 I’m obsessed with fish that clean other fish: they remember their clients, much like a hairdresser

I’m campaigning for legal protection for cleaner fish, because no one has done a proper assessment of the impact of removing them from Scottish reefs

18/02 Handouts are never free. The cruel US aid freeze is an opportunity for the Caribbean | Kenneth Mohammed

Trump’s orders will cause hardship but it could allow small nations to face up to their dependence on a coercive oligarchy

18/02 ‘What a project, what a challenge!’: Africa’s leading architect gives Thomas Sankara a proper place of rest

Pritzker prize-winner Francis Kéré has designed a memorial to honour ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’, Burkina Faso’s visionary president who was assassinated in 1987

17/02 ‘Biologists were not part of the crime food chain’: why Ecuador’s scientists are facing violence, threats and kidnapping

Despite government efforts, armed groups control many remote areas. Now researchers are caught in the crosshairs

17/02 Young, old, refugees and returnees: thousands fleeing violence cross border into South Sudan

Makeshift hospitals and informal settlements deal with daily influx of those escaping the war in Sudan

15/02 Arsenal accused of snub to DRC minister over ‘bloodstained’ Visit Rwanda deal

Exclusive: Foreign minister says she sought meeting with the north London Premier League club to discuss sponsorship by country accused of aiding armed rebels

14/02 ‘Disruptive, unfair and cruel’: jobs lost and treatment stopped as USAid freeze hits HIV care in Zimbabwe

Facilities have been forced to close as halt in funding impacts country’s donor-dependent health sector

13/02 ‘It’s a cowboy show out there’: the deadly lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry

Investigation reveals ineffective products being sold across Africa, with poor regulation and shortage of effective medication leading to needless deaths

13/02 ‘Even the sound of the water has changed’: can Bogotá bring its wetlands back from the brink?

The marshes in Colombia’s capital are sacred to Indigenous peoples, provide vital wildlife habitats and could help the city adapt to climate change. But after centuries of development they are close to collapse

13/02 How Nelson Mandela’s Trafalgar Square speech still resonates, 20 years on

London event marking the South African leader’s role in the Make Poverty History campaign called for ‘more hope and political drive’ to continue the fight

13/02 What Trump’s assault on USAid means for the world – podcast

What will the world look like without US foreign assistance? Nesrine Malik reports

12/02 ‘All hell broke loose’: Colombia rethinks ‘total peace’ plan as violence grips north

With an ex-guerrilla as president, many hoped for an end to a 60-year war that has killed 450,000 people. But as rebels and cartels vie for control of the drug trade, many fear peace will never come

12/02 The Long Wave: Why Trump’s aid freeze endangers millions

Abandoning vulnerable populations impacts everything from food security to fragile ecosystems. Plus, the symbolism of Serena Williams’ crip walk

12/02 China tops list of countries trying to silence exiled dissidents over past decade, study shows

China tops list of governments engaged in transnational repression, with more than 270 known attacks in other countries in the past decade

11/02 From escaped child bride to artist: why one Ghanaian painter puts women at the centre of her work

Hawa Awanle Ayiboro’s solo exhibition opens this month in Accra with paintings that explore a difficult period in her childhood and the emancipation of other women

11/02 Dirty water and endless wars: why cholera outbreaks are on the rise again

The number of cases globally has surged since 2021, as war and the climate crisis pile pressure on vaccine supplies

11/02 Trump’s aid cuts will lead to a surge of propaganda, say press freedom groups

Loss of USAid funds will sow ‘chaos and confusion’ and force independent media outlets to shut down, says RSF

10/02 Fears grow for health of social media influencer arrested on live TV in Sierra Leone

Hawa Hunt’s detention a month ago was politically motivated, say daughter and rights groups, who also raise concerns about her treatment in jail

10/02 ‘Most at risk on the planet’: Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea but can one island live forever online?

On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears

10/02 Last throw of the boule for Addis Ababa’s historic pétanque club as developers turn city into hi-tech hub

In the heart of the Ethiopian capital is a relic of the French-built railway but the government’s grandiose redevelopment plans threaten this friendly club

10/02 Dismay as UK poised to cut funding for global vaccination group Gavi

Exclusive: Aid charities alarmed as decision would come in wake of Donald Trump’s decision to freeze USAid activities

08/02 ‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears

Developing countries urge biggest polluters to act as Trump’s return to the White House heightens geopolitical turmoil

07/02 Rwandan troops ‘dying in large numbers in DRC’, despite official denials of role

Exclusive: Sources say thousands of RDF killed supporting M23 rebels in eastern Congo, intensifying pressure on Kigali

06/02 Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest

Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards

06/02 ‘How often do you see Palestinian stories in fiction?’: the film-maker trying to adjust our focus

After a career making documentaries, Mahdi Fleifel has created To a Land Unknown, a feature film about the refugee experience

06/02 We cannot cheer on Afghanistan’s cricket team when Afghan women are being silenced | Zahra Joya

With Afghanistan set to play England in a tournament, we are calling for a boycott of a team that sportswashes the Taliban’s brutal campaign of misogyny

05/02 US federal workers weigh Trump’s buyout offer: ‘We’re feeling petty as hell’

Some civil servants determined to ‘stick it out’ as president and Elon Musk push for mass resignations: ‘We’re not even sure what is being offered is legal’

05/02 Flies in hospital wards may be spreading drug-resistant bacteria to patients

Scientists in Nigeria found the insects carry infections resistant to last-resort antibiotics, adding to fears about superbugs

05/02 Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire

Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city

05/02 Women behind the lens: ‘I fish like a woman, not like a man’

A photograph of Milagros ‘Corito’ Molina and her sons is part of a project exploring how a group of Venezuelan women went from weaving nets to using them

05/02 Being a mother in the west would be a dream, I was told. But compared to Uganda, it was a nightmare | Patience Akumu

Nothing prepared me for the reality of mothering without my extended family to help. How have western women managed like this for so long?

04/02 Labour facing defeat in vote to ban green energy investments tied to Xinjiang slavery

Cross-party backing likely for amendment to GB Energy bill aiming to block solar panels made by Uyghur forced labour

04/02 Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid

The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off

04/02 ‘The last drops of our water’: how a mine left some of Peru’s poorest high and dry

Antamina, in the Andes, makes billions thanks to the green tech boom. But locals say they are being poisoned by arsenic, losing their water and sinking further into poverty

04/02 ‘People fear eating, drinking and going outside’: anxiety stalks Indian village after mystery illness kills 17 people

Initial suspicions of food poisoning have been ruled out but the authorities are taking no chances as they wait for lab results in the search for a cause

04/02 Their husbands and sons were killed by the police. But Brazil’s grieving mothers are banding together

Every year, 6,000 people, mostly young Black men, are victims of state violence. Now, ‘scholarship mums’ are acting as paid researchers in a pioneering programme to provide support to those left behind

03/02 Taliban minister ‘forced to flee Afghanistan’ after speech in support of girls’ education

Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girls

03/02 ‘Oh my God, this is what we needed’: the Zambia style granny who went viral

What started as a fun clothes swap with her granddaughter, has given Margret Chola, in her mid 80s, a whole new lease of life – and inspired a host of fashion fans

03/02 Three kidnappings, prison and a shipwreck: Ghaith’s journey reveals the ruthless business of Europe’s migration crisis

One migrant’s torturous experience reveals how militias and traffickers profit from deadly routes across the Mediterranean from Libya

03/02 Diesel, oil, condoms: Indian transgender sex workers teach truckers about Aids

On the road for weeks at a time, STDs are rife among lorry drivers. Now, volunteers are teaching them about safe sex

03/02 A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis

An innovative mission on the Welsh border, funded by an anonymous private investor, has begun work to create a ‘permanent human settlement’ under the sea

02/02 The Guardian view on women’s unpaid labour: attitudes have shifted, but the burden hasn’t | Editorial

Editorial: The Wages for Housework campaign asked a provocative question. More than 50 years later, it is still relevant

02/02 Trump aid spending freeze halts leading malaria vaccine programme

Global collaboration with US researchers likely to be set back by years, including on spread of drug-resistant HIV

01/02 ‘People want clothes that match their values’: sustainability takes centre stage at Nairobi fashion week

As the dumping of textile waste continues in African countries, designers are making a feature of reusing and recycling – from flea markets, landfill or upcyled curtains

31/01 Woman freed by Hamas told Starmer she was held in Unrwa premises, her mother says

British-Israeli Emily Damari was taken hostage on 7 October 2023 and says Hamas denied her medical treatment after shooting her twice

31/01 Trump’s aid freeze shuts down ‘gold standard’ famine-monitoring system

Without Fews Net, recognised as ‘a vital life-saving tool’ for preventing food crises, people will die, experts warn

31/01 From missing goats to health tips: how a female-run radio station is giving rural India a voice

For nearly two decades, ‘General’ Narsamma and her team at Sangham Radio have honed their craft, learning every aspect of broadcasting, including fixing the radio mast and interview techniques

31/01 Why is Myanmar embroiled in conflict?

Armed opposition groups from all over the ethnically diverse country have been fighting the military junta since a coup in 2021

31/01 Four years after the coup, chaos reigns as Myanmar’s military struggles

A patchwork of armed opposition groups have made major gains over the past year, with the military facing further losses

30/01 ‘Like dropping a bomb’: why is clean energy leader Uruguay ramping up the search for oil?

The South American country has begun exploration in its Atlantic waters, with experts warning it is endangering livelihoods, marine life and climate goals

30/01 Trump’s US aid freeze will drive migration from Latin America, experts warn

Abrupt decision to pause all foreign aid could exacerbate violence in region already struggling with organized crime

30/01 ‘No hope’: wife’s fears for Ugandan opposition leader facing trial for treason

Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chief

29/01 The Guardian view on conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a disaster with many makers

Western resource-hunger has fuelled a vast humanitarian crisis. Donors must now press Rwanda to pull back from this war

29/01 Cate Blanchett launches fund for refugee film-makers

Actor to head scheme to award grants of up to €100,000 to five directors with experience of displacement

29/01 ‘I was told books don’t sell here. I knew that wasn’t true’: the English teacher shaking up Nigeria’s publishing scene

After a brush with death pushed Othuke Ominiabohs to self-publish his novels, he realised there was a gap in the market for fresh African writing

28/01 Get to know Deepseek, AI's breakthrough from China that shocked the world of technology

Deepseek, a Chinese startup AI, shook the technology market with a sophisticated and cost -effective AI R1 model, triggered fierce competition with the United States.

28/01 Charities reeling from USAid freeze warn of ‘life or death’ effects

Abrupt order has done ‘serious damage’, say experts, with supply chains halted, HIV clinics struggling to source drugs and refugee camps facing loss of vital services

28/01 ‘African art is not a fleeting trend’: Moroccan museum to celebrate rich creativity of continent’s artists

Reopening after renovation, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden will provide a permanent home for the extensive Lazraq family collection

28/01 The parallels between Libya’s revolution and Syria’s are stark. But they need not be prophetic | Najla Mohammed El Mangoush

A former Libyan foreign minister says stability and support are needed to avoid the chaos that engulfed her country after the fall of Gaddafi

28/01 ‘I watched every video to see my father’s face’: the woman who became the voice of Syria’s missing on why she isn’t giving up hope

Assad’s notorious prisons may have been opened, but Wafa Mustafa and thousands of others feel abandoned in their struggle to find loved ones

28/01 Can communities living side by side with wildlife beat Africa’s national parks at conservation?

Across the continent, millions of hectares of land are being used and run by local people coexisting with wildlife in spaces where both can thrive

27/01 Rwandan-backed rebels M23 claim capture of eastern DRC city Goma

Fighters enter city on border with Rwanda after lightning advance, raising risk of broader regional war

27/01 Ice stupas of the Ladakh desert: an ingenious solution to water scarcity – a picture essay

Farmers in the northern Indian region used to rely on snow and glacier meltwater, but the climate crisis is disrupting the water cycle – which means new ways of storing water are needed

27/01 ‘We’re witnesses to the horror of the world’: the one-of-a-kind Italian clinic treating refugees for trauma

Rome’s Samifo Centre helps asylum seekers and refugees who have experienced torture, persecution or violence

27/01 Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death

Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them

25/01 Rwandan army ‘ready to invade DRC’ and help rebels seize city

Intelligence sources suggest battle for Congolese regional capital Goma is imminent before UN crisis talks on Monday

25/01 Sierra Leone has a chance to protect women and girls. We must not allow US influence to stop us | Dr Ramatu Bangura

Religious extremists from the US are bolstering local opposition by pouring money and messaging into the country under the guise of supporting ‘family values’

24/01 ‘A constant state of panic’: how war in Gaza triggered new wave of depression and insomnia among Palestinian refugees from 1967 war

The stress of seeing the destruction of their homeland sent rates of mental illness soaring in Jordan’s Jerash camp – and the ceasefire has brought scant relief

24/01 Europe overhauls funding to Tunisia after Guardian exposes migrant abuse

Allegations of rape, beatings and collusion by EU-funded security forces prompt shift in migration arrangements

23/01 With the knives out on development spending, have we reached ‘peak aid’? | Nilima Gulrajani and Jessica Pudussery

From Trump’s Project 2025 to a huge aid cut by the Dutch, donors are turning their backs on the developing world

22/01 ‘The end of women and children’s rights’: outrage as Iraqi law allows child marriage

The Iraqi parliament has passed a ‘terrifying’ law permitting children as young as nine to marry

22/01 David Miliband warns rise of ‘alternative facts’ threatens global vaccination drive

Potential changes to US policy under Trump could also hamper aid efforts to most vulnerable, says former UK foreign secretary

21/01 Panama’s vast Cobre mine is closed. So why is their security still restricting access to local villages?

First Quantum Minerals’ copper operation was shut down more than a year ago, but Indigenous people report restrictions on movement and unexplained illness and death

21/01 The lost mansions of Chettinad: festival showcases opulent homes turned heritage hotels

In its heyday, Chettinad in southern India was a thriving hub of international traders. Today, the grandeur of their homes is being restored by a community keen to celebrate the houses’ cultural importance and promote them to tourists

20/01 ‘It was almost a relief when someone died’: former prisoners on the torture and terror of Eritrea’s secret prisons

Those who have escaped one of the world’s most repressive states give a rare glimpse into their horrific ordeal in the country’s vast gulag system

20/01 Moving pictures: comics and animation exhibition showcases stories of migration

Graphic novelists, cartoonists and animators use testimonies of migrants to depict tales of survival and escape across the world in show at Soas Univeristy of London

19/01 The Guardian view on development’s paradox: the rich benefit more than the poor | Editorial

Editorial: The global south needs a fairer deal than this one, in which it funds the lifestyle and wealth of the global north

17/01 ‘In Gaza, a press vest makes you a target’: the journalists who have paid a price for reporting on the war

Under the Geneva conventions, media workers are not legitimate military targets, yet at least 166 have been killed in the conflict with Israel. As a ceasefire deal takes shape, we tell the stories of three of those killed or injured in the last year

17/01 Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica

As one of the tens of thousands to have fled Daniel Ortega’s regime, singer and ‘artivist’ Olguita Acuña says she has a duty to raise awareness of her country’s situation

16/01 Lawyer for Ugandan opposition politician ‘arrested and tortured’

Eron Kiiza, who was representing regime opponent Dr Kizza Besigye, was assaulted and sentenced to nine months’ jail, say colleagues

16/01 ‘I realised we’re such hypocrites’: how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over Gaza

As images of the war flooded social media and news reports, disillusioned ex-military personnel increased their efforts to pressurise the administration to stop arming Israel

16/01 Africa has no shortage of celebrated writers – so why is it so hard for African readers to get hold of their books?

Across the continent books can be expensive and libraries scarce. But growing numbers of tech innovators and independent publishers are working to make African literature available and affordable

15/01 The Long Wave: ‘How do you teargas a baddie?’: Kenya’s gen Z revolutionaries

A vibrant protest movement mobilised online is taking on Kenya’s political elite. Plus, Somalia and Ethiopia rebuild diplomatic bridges

15/01 ‘The fight is existential’: Cameroon’s anglophone leaders lead a revolution from behind bars

Julius Ayuk Tabe and other ‘Ambazonian’ activists speak from a prison where they still call for an independent state

15/01 ‘What joy! What damn joy!’: vanilla boom transforms fortunes of Colombia’s farmers

In El Valle, the world’s second-most expensive spice is not just providing an economic lifeline but also helping to preserve rich biodiversity

15/01 Suspected outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease kills eight in Tanzania

Healthcare workers among suspected cases of Ebola-like disease as WHO issues warning of high risk to the country and its neighbours

15/01 Halt illegal imports of conflict minerals from DRC, campaigners urge EU

Law to stop armed groups profiting from trade in gold, tin, tungsten and tantalum is being breached, rights groups say

14/01 ‘We are crying for rain’: Suriname’s villages go hungry as drought bites

After the worst rains in decades, rivers are drying up and crops failing, leaving people in the interior without clean water or healthcare, and cutting transport links

14/01 Nobel prize winners call for urgent ‘moonshot’ effort to avert global hunger catastrophe

More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates sign open letter calling for immediate ramping up of food production

14/01 ‘Fadi is fighting for his life’: Israel blocks evacuation of cameraman shot in Gaza

Fadi al-Wahidi’s condition is deteriorating, say hospital staff, who do not have medication needed to treat him

13/01 ‘I was crying, there was no anaesthesia’: the fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria

In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma

13/01 The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage

Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her employer

13/01 ‘It’s about solidarity, not charity’: the Oxfam chief seeking to decolonise the aid sector

Halima Begum outlines her vision for what she sees as a ‘broken model’, with more power over spending given directly to the affected communities

12/01 ‘It’s an enormous emergency’: the doctor saving Sudan’s most vulnerable

MSF medical teams provide vital care in the war-torn country where pregnant women, new mothers and newborns are dying needlessly at alarming rates

10/01 Kenya court rules that criminalising attempted suicide is unconstitutional

The judgment has been welcomed as an important shift in perceptions by human rights and mental health groups

10/01 ‘To confront the anti-gay law is to trouble waters’: the young Nigerian novelist refusing to go by the book

Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s first novel, Blessings, about love in a hostile climate, was written after a life-changing encounter with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

10/01 ‘We would turn up to find books on fire’: the teachers risking kidnap and death to keep Burkina Faso’s schools open

Conflict has forced a fifth of the country’s schools to close. One teacher, determined to keep working despite threats from marauding Islamist militias, shares their testimony

10/01 Libya expels 600 Nigeriens in ‘dangerous and traumatising’ desert journey

Largest known deportation of people back to Niger to date comes as EU is accused of outsourcing cruelty to reduce Mediterranean crossings

09/01 ‘I’ve seen women suffer’: Malawi’s religious leaders fight for legal abortions

Deaths from backstreet abortions have united pro-choice Christian and Muslim clerics around ending the strict ban

09/01 Uncovering Iraq’s mass graves: the painstaking search for missing loved ones – photo essay

The country has as many as one million missing persons after decades of conflict. Forensic teams face huge challenges to document remains as families wait in hope of closure

08/01 Malawi sees influx of refugees from post-election violence in Mozambique

Unrest since October’s election has seen thousands of refugees look for shelter in neighbouring Malawi, despite its drought, food and fuel shortages

08/01 Want to sponsor a piece of ocean paradise? How one Pacific island’s novel response to rising seas is paying off

The tiny nation of Niue has raised £3m selling sponsorship of its marine protected area at just over £100 for a square kilometre

08/01 Breakthrough drugs herald ‘new era’ in battle against dementia, experts predict

Medical advances make pills to treat Alzheimer’s disease viable, though challenges remain in sharing gains globally

07/01 From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again

Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires

07/01 From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages

With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them

06/01 Sugary drinks linked to millions of new diabetes and heart disease cases – study

Tufts University analysis highlights rise in global health inequalities, with fastest growth in linked diseases in Africa

06/01 UK cut health aid to vulnerable nations while hiring their nurses, research finds

Royal College of Nursing says Labour has a duty to fix health ‘double whammy’ by raising aid and funding for UK nursing

06/01 Dried halibut and whale jerky: how a traditional Inuit diet fuelled an epic kayak adventure

British chef Mike Keen paddled up the coast of Greenland eating only what local people did, and the health benefits led him to question the global food system

06/01 War crimes and rebel bishops: Christmas celebrations marred by bitter split in Ethiopia’s ancient church

As millions of Orthodox Christians in the country prepare to celebrate on January 7, the legacy of a brutal conflict is tearing apart its 1,700-year-old church

05/01 Social order in Gaza will collapse if Israel ends cooperation with UN aid agency, official says

Unrwa senior officer describes 60,000 people sheltering in school buildings sharing 12 bathrooms, but says without aid things will get worse

05/01 As the Taliban open their doors to tourism, they are closing windows on women | Catherine Bennett

Specialist travel companies are using euphemisms to avoid the gender apartheid

03/01 Massive cleanup under way in Ghana after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets

Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each week

03/01 Shunned and shamed, Pakistan’s trans community finally gets help for TB

Often forced into sex work, trans people are at higher risk of tuberculosis but face abuse when they seek treatment. Now screening and outreach work are helping tackle the disease

03/01 Getting creative: African YouTubers and TikTokers search for ways to make it pay

The £2.4bn sector is thriving, says a new report, as online demand grows for authentic cultural content created outside the global north – but there are still challenges

03/01 Trinidad and Tobago’s streets are a bloodbath. Yet all our politicians offer are platitudes | Kenneth Mohammed

A state of emergency has been declared amid unprecedented gun violence, but no one in our stagnating government is taking responsibility

02/01 Are we ready for another pandemic?

After Covid-19, world leaders agreed to work together to strengthen global health systems, but negotiations on a new agreement have stalled

02/01 Threadbare facilities, high mortality, cats in the corridors: the realities of life for new Rohingya mothers in Cox’s Bazar

In the world’s largest refugee site, high mortality, child kidnapping and a lack of healthcare make the journey to motherhood a perilous one

01/01 ‘Live sick or flee’: pollution fears for El Salvador’s rivers as mining ban lifted

The landmark prohibition on mining in 2017, a world first, has been reversed by authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele but the move has met fierce resistance from environmentalists

01/01 In Gaza we were the happiest family I could imagine. Then came the worst days of my life | Fadwa al-Masry

I am an academic, a mother, no threat to anyone. Yet those I love have been injured and killed, and I have endured indescribable hardships

31/12 ‘In 10 years we may cease to exist’: rising seas and influx of tourists threaten to engulf Panama island

The island community has fought for its survival for hundreds of years. But modern threats are testing its cultural resilience

31/12 ‘Deeply inspiring and humbling’: how neighbourhoods in Sudan are coming together to fill gaps left by foreign aid

Community kitchens and emergency response rooms are providing a lifeline in serving the 11.5m people displaced by civil war

31/12 Fighting for change: why the road to parliament is still rocky for women across Africa

In a critical year for elections on the continent, three women who took office in 2024 talk about the obstacles they see in politics and where gains are being made

31/12 ‘Left at the mercy of jihadists’: Niger’s junta fails to curb surge in violence

Islamic State affiliate expands control since 2023 coup, killing hundreds of civilians and enslaving women, as media ban allows regime to cover up attacks

31/12 Live Aid campaigner Bob Geldof was ‘scathing about African leaders’, files reveal

Singer urged Tony Blair not to appoint African co-chair to commission on aid, UK government papers show

30/12 Gaza hospital director being held at notorious Israeli prison, say family

Hussam Abu Safiya feared injured as Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza shut down after 11 weeks under siege

30/12 Trinidad and Tobago declares state of emergency after weekend of violence

A spate of six murders has taken the Caribbean nation’s total to 623 in 2024, of which nearly half were gang related and almost all linked to organised crime, say police

30/12 Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025

Openings across Africa and Asia offer newcultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundings

30/12 Despite oppression, far-right gains and lack of funds, feminists still dare to dream | Faye Macheke

There are many challenges facing feminism, but a recent global gathering was a sanctuary and a rallying cry

30/12 ‘It’s not our job to make photos that are easy to look at’: the female photographers exposing the cost of conflict in 2024

Hostilities are taking place in more than 170 locations across the globe and women are suffering the effects more than at any time since the second world war. Here, female photojournalists reveal personal stories of life under fire

29/12 Prophet of the post-presidency: how Jimmy Carter changed the world

Plains, Georgia may seem an unlikely place from which to launch a global campaign of moral influence – but Carter did so

28/12 ‘Bullets can make a real mess of bones’: the hospital where the war wounded have their lives put together again

At MSF’s pioneering cntre in Amman, Jordan, the dedicated team deal with lives that have already been saved. Here they make those lives worth living