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  • A woman holding a baby can be seen sitting in a tent through a torn hole

    Humanitarian aid
    Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire

    ‘The world thinks Palestinians don’t need help any more,’ aid organiser says, despite desperate need as winter nears
  • A person in a white protective suit with hood, face mask, goggles, elbow-length gloves and wearing a decontamination spray backpack enters a house.

    World Health Organization
    Huge staff cuts at WHO will leave world ‘less healthy and safe’, experts warn

    Health organisation is to lose almost a quarter of its workforce in 2026, reducing its ability to help countries facing disease outbreaks
  • A doctor in a lab coat holds a stethoscope to the chest of a female patient in a yellow dress who is sitting on a treatment couch

    Infectious diseases
    New drug could be a breakthrough in treatment for killer TB, trial suggests

  • People walk on a street where huge clouds of smoke consume burning buildings

    Tanzania’s descent into repression is a stark warning of how fast Africa’s progress can be eroded

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • Til, the most remote of the three villages in Limi valley.

    Nepal
    This Nepal village has survived for 1,000 years. Now recurring floods threaten its future

  • An advertisement for Cerelac showing a woman holding a small child and a South African flag.

    Global health
    Nestlé accused of ‘risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries

  • A person wearing blue latex gloves and protective gear holds up a white plastic test cassette.

    Aid
    UK warned that 15% cut to health fund will force ‘impossible choices’ on Africa

  • A woman carrying a bucket and a girl walking on a grassy mountainside with animals grazing in the distance

    Maternal health
    Born in the forest: the women giving birth alone in the Kashmiri mountains

  • Tobacco plants in a nursery in Zambia.

    Global health
    ‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK

  • A 13 year old girl sits on a bed in a dark room holding a baby

    Aid cuts
    Three countries boost family planning funding in ‘powerful shift from dependency’ in Africa after aid cuts

Explore

  • A portrait of a woman, with a drawing of a megaphone and a flag either side of her

    I was trying to run for the presidency in Uganda – yet men still found the audacity to call me ‘baby, sweetheart, darling’

    Yvonne Mpambara
    I was bruised by my experience of being kept out of an exclusively male political club – now my focus is on getting women into power in Africa, says political activist Yvonne Mpambara
  • A man holds a phone with the image of a woman on it and a deepfake sticker across the front

    ‘The chilling effect’: how fear of ‘nudify’ apps and AI deepfakes is keeping Indian women off the internet

  • A noose with a red tulip attached to it

    Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’

  • Sadiq Khan and Eduardo Paes stand with their arms around each other's shoulders gesturing in a friendly way to each other.

    ‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders

  • Architect's illustration of a large lattice-like structure with a dome and a stained-glass window in a park with palm trees

    ‘We can have art and greenery’: Black Muse festival marks opening of sculpture park in Benin City

  • Two young African men and a young African woman look at the camera with tentative smiles

    Africa’s children: 20 years on, what happened to the millennium babies?

  • Portrait of Mahnoor Omer wearing a white shirt and black jacket

    The young lawyer taking Pakistan to court over its unfair ‘period tax’

Rights and freedom

  • Two people in white hazmat suits lower an object wrapped in a bin-liner into a hole with a pig carcass lying next to them

    How dead pigs are helping in the search for missing victims of Mexico’s drug wars

  • An illustration of an eastern style building with three windows. In the first is a man with his arms handcuffed behind his back; the second a view of prisoners in cells; and the third a prisoner about to be hanged

    ‘I’ll be executed on Tuesday’: families reveal panicked last calls from foreigners on Saudi’s death row

  • Nichole Artale, holds up a phone on which is a photo of her missing sister, Leanne Marie Hausberg.

    When 14-year-old Leanne went missing, police labelled her a runaway. Her family say it’s because she is Native American

  • Zeynure Hasan says she had never considered herself political or outspoken until her husband was arrested.

    ‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom

Sudan

  • People fleeing from El Fasher arriving in Tawila after the town was captured by RSF militiamen on Sunday.

    ‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign after fall of El Fasher

  • Mohamed Khamis Douda.

    He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’

  • 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.

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

  • Composite illustration of news events in El Fasher, Sudan in the summer of 2025

    ‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher

Opinion

  • A protester at Rizal Park in Manila, the Philippines, waving a flag bearing a skull and crossbones wearing a jaunty yellow hat.

    Forget petty bribes, ‘state capture’ is corruption so deep it is shaping the rules of democracy itself

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • A health worker wearing a colourful headscarf and blue latex gloves squeezes a dose of the vaccine into an older woman's mouth as others look on from a queue beside her.MSF is involved in the fight against cholera in Adré, Aboutenge, Metché, Irdimi, Tulum, Tiné, Hadjer Hadid, Allacha, Goz Beida and Abdi through vaccination, cold chain management, active case finding, health promotion, soap distribution, water supply and water network rehabilitation, and the establishment of several cholera treatment units and centres.

    Cholera is spreading fast, yet it can be stopped. Why haven’t we consigned it to history?

    Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  • A lab technician takes a sample from a white substance on a petri dish

    ‘As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?’

    Dr Manica Balasegaram
  • A monumental sculpture of a hand holding an oil drilling rig

    As US warships prowl the Caribbean, our region must hold fast against Trump’s gaslighting

    Kenneth Mohammed

In pictures

  • Four pale images of an African woman with her body coloured blue, in a sheet wrapped around her like a dress, passing though an empty room with rough decaying walls

    Women behind the lens: ‘I envisioned these slaves whose lives were exchanged for indigo’

    Stacey Gillian Abe’s Indigogo project explores how the dye was used in the slave trade – and how those enslaved people lost their identities

Southern frontlines

  • Civilians and soldiers wade through waist-high water next to houses on a flooded street

    They just call it ‘the virus’: mosquito-borne illnesses heap misery on Cubans affected by Hurricane Melissa

  • A guanaco, which resembles a llama, stands on grassland with a large body of water and mountains in the background

    ‘Will it change the weather? Will wildlife cope?’: Europe rushes to build energy megaprojects in Chile

  • A man with a scarf covering his face stands in front of a mural, holding an automatic rifle

    Guns, gangs and drought: how crime and the climate crisis are reshaping Haiti

  • Two soldiers in a boat with machine guns

    ‘Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping’: the lawless rush for rare earth minerals in Venezuela

Explainers

  • A man in a balaclava holding a rifle looks back at the camera while walking along a dirt street

    Sudan’s civil war: how did it begin, what is the human cost, and what is happening now?

  • A masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

    Are we ready for another pandemic?

  • A woman on a street walks past a black and white mural of a woman covering her face with her arms, with the words 'Stop killing women' written across them in red

    What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

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

Multimedia

  1. 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.

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

  2. People in Gaza collecting aid overlaid with a chart showing aid announcement timings

    Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

  3. A layer of smog hanging over Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia
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