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  • Fishing vessels damaged by Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown Fisheries in Barbados in July 2024.

    ‘Smarter money’ is the key that will unlock the promise of Africa and the Caribbean

    Kenneth Mohammed
    Regions’ vast potential is being blocked by the need for better investments, key partnerships and reforms to global finance
  • Two black African soldiers in camouflage holding guns and surrounded by rocket-propelled grenades seen on top of a vehicle

    Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

    Human Rights Watch accuses RSF militia of ‘countless’ cases of rape and torture in Khartoum in 15-month civil war
  • Vaccines being unloaded at the airport in Pyongyang earlier this month.

    Vaccine doses for 600,000 children and pregnant women flown to North Korea

    Delivery of first medical aid since Covid raises hopes that country could open up again to UN and aid agencies
  • A basketball player tries to block another player in front of a large crowd

    Paris 2024
    ‘A journey bigger than basketball’: South Sudan​ dreams of Olympic glory

    ​The underdog team’s astonishing journey to Paris has inspired the country – and fans across Africa – with hopes the Bright Stars will light the way for the next generation
    • Women wearing brightly coloured prints walk through rows of solar panels.

      Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report

    • Children walk single file between patches of water, with temporary shelters in the background.

      Children in Gaza are now at risk of polio as well as bombs – we need a ceasefire now

      Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
    • A middle-aged white women standing on a stage talking to an unseen audience

      Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment

    • A destroyer tank lies in front of a mosque in a decimated area of Omdurman, Sudan.

      Sudan
      ‘Smoking gun’ evidence points to UAE involvement in Sudan civil war

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Explore

  • Manizha Talash, Ray Bassil and Alexandra Ndolo

    In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

    In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries’ only female qualifiers in their chosen fields
  • A cleaner in Jaipur, India, squats to sweep leaves from a lawn.

    The Hindujas made UK headlines for mistreating their servants. In India no one batted an eye – here’s why

    Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi
  • A woman wearing Indigenous dress stands on a viewpoint above a lake

    In the footsteps of tigers: the all-women patrol team protecting Sumatra’s rainforest

  • Young people gather on a hilltop called the 'roof of Tehran' to watch the sunset. Photo: Stefanie Glinski

    ‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran

  • Multicoloured striped pieces of cloth hang from the ceiling

    Thai artist gives voice to Myanmar’s Shan refugees at Venice and Bangkok biennales

  • A brass sign reading Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office shows a reflection of a brick building.

    From conflict to the climate – what are the UK parties’ international plans?

  • Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

  • Sword Granny: meet the 82-year-old dedicated to teaching India’s oldest martial art

  • Rat soup, snails and oracles: why Nigeria’s traditional midwives still have a vital role to play

  • How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

  • What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything

    Shrayana Bhattacharya

  • Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers

  • Ten years after a celebrity summit promised to end rape as a weapon of war, is there any change for the women of South Sudan?

  • Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights

    Olivier De Schutter
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Rights and freedom

  • A crowd of people on a pro-Palestine march stand behind barriers and hold flags and banners

    Labour must drop challenge over Netanyahu arrest warrant, says human rights chief

  • A very heavily made-up person, with painted-on eyebrows, bright pink lips and eyelids, and outrageously large eyelashes, with long brown hair.

    Transfemicide becomes a crime in a ‘watershed’ moment for Mexico City

  • Damaged structure of a burned out building with rubble lying around

    Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report

  • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

    UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

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A common condition

  • Sad young African man thinking and looking depressed

    Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum

  • Elizabeth Odondi standing by a bridge in a garden

    I told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18

    • Portrait of a black woman sitting in a chair next to a computer with a screensaver reading: 'Brain Health Initiative Nigeria'

      ‘They wanted her to confess to witchcraft’: ending the chilling effects of dementia stigma in Nigeria

    • The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster team team distributes dry food rations. April 2023

      ‘There was no other option’: the aid packages feeding diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands

    • Sayed Ahmed with his arm around his wife Amena Khatun by the Rupsha River in Khulna, Bangladesh

      ‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’
      The deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh

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In pictures

  • Actor and model Stella Chuisse impersonates Angélique Kidjo, a singer, songwriter and composer from Benin

    Women behind the lens: ‘I Want to Be Like Her is my way of paying tribute to 10 exceptional Africans’

    Model and actor Stella Tchuisse impersonates trailblazing women who have ‘changed narratives’ about the continent
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Southern frontlines

  • Man cycling across a bridge over a river in desert landscape in Mexico.

    ‘They’re waiting till we die of cancer’: 10 years on, Mexico’s worst mining disaster still poisons lives

  • Thomas Devroy, of Arau village, looks out over the Essequibo region. The two countries' growing dispute over the oil-rich land has raised tensions across Latin America.

    Tensions rise in Guyana as Maduro uses border dispute to build support ahead of Venezuela poll

  • Graffiti reading 'PCC' is written on a yellow wall in front of a church building

    Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

  • Aviles Morphy stands among felled trees in the forest

    ‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

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Explainers

  • Families arrive on a beach in Mozambique carrying belongings wrapped in fabric bundles on their heads

    At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

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

    What caused the civil war in Sudan and how has it become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?

  • Photo of the World Health Organization (WHO) logo displayed on screen with medical syringes and vaccine vials

    What is the pandemic accord and why have negotiations been so difficult?

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river

    Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?

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Multimedia

  • Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips on a boat
  • Shireen Abu Akleh
  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary
  • Still image from documentary, The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan
  • Chris is a reproductive health advocate in the Phillippines

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