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  • A composite image of three soldiers imposed over a line of refugees with a satellite image of a fenced camp

    Myanmar
    ‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces

    Nearly a decade after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanmar forces, satellite images show the insurgent Arakan Army is now emulating the killings and land grabs
  • Two Nepali women sitting on the ground caring for a baby wrapped in a pink towel

    Nepal
    ‘I do not know if the doctor survived’: young mothers recall ‘living hell’ of Nepal’s floods

    Kalpana Nepali was seven months pregnant when the flash floods hit last month, while Pooja Pariyal spent three days on a hospital roof waiting to be rescued. Now, they are living precariously in temporary shelters
  • A black man and a black woman holding a framed portrait of a young man with albinism

    Madagascar
    Murdered for their eyes: people with albinism living in terror

  • A scientists wearing white lab coat and face mask viewed through the observation window of a lab testing machine

    Global health
    US response to UN pandemic talks ‘severely weakens’ global planning, says leading health expert

  • Crowds of Rohingya people gather behind a wooden fence.

    Myanmar
    Exile has not broken young Rohingya people. But survival cost us more than our homes

    Ajas Khan
  • A man in a graduate gown and hat stands facing away from us in front of a slum

    Africa
    ‘Africa hasn’t decolonised education enough’: how world’s youngest continent can unlock potential

  • Displaced community members close to the town of Kalemie. Kalemie, Tanganyika Province, 4th September 2026. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

    DRC
    ‘We fled with nothing’: the people making perilous journeys to escape violence in DRC

  • a winner of one of the rounds The Great Ajgara Debate 2026, Ajgara, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

    India
    Ethics and evil: the villagers reviving India’s debating traditions

  • A person wearing protective gear sprays a small building with a thatched roof

    As president of Botswana, I know how we can make malaria a memory in Africa

    Duma Gideon Boko
  • A young boy in Nairobi reads an informational mural warning people about the risk of Covid, April 2020.

    Pandemics
    Nearly 3m more lives could be saved in next pandemic if vaccines are shared more fairly, says report

Explore

  • Two smiling older women hold small potted succulents, one wearing a wide white hat

    ‘In parks you only see dogs, never children’: can Bogotá adapt to its ageing population?

    With a lower fertility rate than Tokyo and the number of pensioners rapidly rising, Colombia’s capital is being forced to change the way it thinks about growing old
  • A smiling African woman in a pink scarf that is wrapped around her head and shoulders

    Fifty billion trees by 2030: how Ethiopia is recruiting citizens across the country to plant, plant, plant

  • Two boys in school uniforms run past a yellow Gcwalisa shop in an old shipping container as vendors watch from inside

    A spoonful of sugar: how South Africa’s weigh-and-pay shops are tackling ‘poverty tax’ head on

  • A crowd of Africans in traditional dress queues for food aid behind sacks of food with the UN World Food programme logo amid a desert-like landscape

    Tens of millions of people fail to get humanitarian aid as global system crumbles

  • A crowd of African people by a brown river in spate surround a large and crude wooden sculpture draped in a white cloth that looks vaguely like a person

    A river goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining

  • Activists Rohey Cham and Sainabou Sey celebrate after the Gambia’s parliament rejected a bill to end a ban on female genital mutilation in July 2024.

    $15m fund launched to create ‘unstoppable momentum’ to end FGM worldwide

  • A man points at museum display cases holding carved figures and a feathered headdress

    ‘Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate after Oxford museum agrees to return remains

  • A Persian woman in a dress with bare shoulders singing on stage

    Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups

  • A boy wearing a red cap stands among flowers

    ‘I sleep with all my clothes on to protect my privacy’: a glimpse into life inside a child prison in France

  • Alaa Hessi stands amid the rubble of her home, destroyed by an Israeli strike

    We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us

  • gaza PORT A ALL still

    Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians

Sudan

  • Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) display gold bars seized from a plane that landed at Khartoum Airport in an investigation into possible smuggling, in Khartoum Sudan May 9, 2019.

    Curse of the Nile’s gold: how Sudan is losing its fertile fields and ability to produce food

  • A woman stands outside a brick building

    Samira’s story: the Sudanese refugee who has known no peace since she was 10

  • A group of men wearing khaki camouflage T-shirts celebrate raising assault rifles in the air.

    UK
    Ties with UAE prioritised over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told

  • Dubai skyline showing the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in the centre.

    RSF
    Paramilitary leaders acquired £17.7m property portfolio in Dubai

Opinion

  • Protesters hold handmade signs supporting USAID, including one reading 'USAID makes America GREAT!' during a march in support of USAID in Washington DC, February 2025.

    How misconceptions and woeful PR allowed Musk to shred USAID so easily

    Jeremiah A Carew
  • Gloria Chinyere Okwu wears a pink dress, draped over one shoulder to reveal her mastectomy scar.

    Women's health
    It’s not easy to show my scars. But I am proud to break the deadly silence around breast cancer in Nigeria

    Gloria Chinyere Okwu
  • An African woman in a Red Cross bib speaking to women as schoolchildren stand around them

    After 100 days of the deadliest Ebola outbreak, it can be stopped. Here’s how

    Jean Kaseya and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  • A map of Africa featuring Nigeria, Mozambique, Uganda, Cote D'Ivoire, Malawai and Cameroon - crucially each of the countries is mislabelled

    The US government’s mislabelled map of Africa at a global Aids conference shows again a failure to understand the continent

    Kenneth Ngure

In pictures

  • An artwork called Holy gang shows a group of women facing into the image, in white robes and headwraps, standing before a church, doves flying above a glowing moon

    Women behind the lens
    ‘The women are moving towards the church, but it is not the final destination’

    South African artist Puleng Mongale explores how her childhood church still connects her to the women of her family, not through religion but shared history and memory
  • An older man in a hat sitting on wooden porch of a farm house.

    ‘Water yes, mining no!’: the 87-year-old farmer who became a nature hero in Colombia

  • Bolivia Inflation Soars to 34-Year High Ahead of August ElectionResidential and commercial buildings in La Paz, Bolivia, on Friday, June 13, 2025. A crippling dollar shortage, fuel scarcity and mass unrest pushed Bolivia's inflation rate to its fastest in more than three decades ahead of the nation's general election. Photographer: Marcelo Perez del Carpio/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    ‘You can’t just bet everything on exports’: as its gas runs out, is Bolivia doomed to repeat history?

  • A frozen lake overlooked by a glacier and snowy mountains.

    The Patagonia town where Nepal’s deadly glacier flood could be repeated – and what they’ve learned

  • A skinny white horse with a rope halter stands in an arid landscape with rows of wind turbines in the distance

    Brazil’s windfarms have been a huge success. So why isn’t everybody reaping the benefits?

Explainers

  • The foot and hand of an African man is seen with pink blisters highly visible against his skin

    Mpox is back – and in new countries. How can this outbreak be contained?

  • A person in PPE prepares a coffin while four others carry a body from a small mud house. Two grieving women stand to the left of them.

    DRC
    Ebola outbreak: five big questions

  • Using satellite imagery, leaked documents and reports and on-the-ground footage, we trace how weapons are moving into Sudan

    Sudan
    Why the UK is accused of allowing the UAE to fuel war – video

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  • A person wearing a mask has their upper arm swabbed by a health worker wearing protective clothing, who is holding a syringe in their other hand.

    The race to combat Ebola
    What vaccines and treatments are being developed and how long will it take?

Multimedia

  • Map of Sudan and Sudanese refugees queuing for food

    Sudan
    ‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan

  • RSF fighters overran the camp on 11 April. The true extent of the death toll is not yet known, but is suspected to be in the thousands.

    Zamzam
    ‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded

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  • A young woman rolling bidi cigarettes.

    Her Stage
    Can promises on gender equality made in Australia help a 16-year-old cigarette maker with no toilet in India?

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