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  • A black doctor in white coat washing his hands in a basic setup during treatment of Ebola patients

    Global health
    Ebola outbreak in DRC has peaked, say authorities, as infection rates slow

    Almost 3,500 people have died in outbreak and experts say more must be done to ensure Bundibugyo is under control
  • Two boys in school uniforms run past a yellow Gcwalisa shop in an old shipping container as vendors watch from inside

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

    Run by a social enterprise, the six shops operate from shipping containers across Johannesburg’s Alexandra township and sell food and household goods by weight in small, affordable amounts
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    FGM
    $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

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

  • 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

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

  • A researcher sitting at the side of a medical scanning machine with a swaddled baby inside

    Maternal health
    Babies born to anaemic mothers have smaller brains, study finds

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

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

  • 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

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

  • Steam and smoke billows from a power station seen from across a wide river with small boats on it and trees on the far bank

    Sunderbans
    Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest

Explore

  • Congolese medical workers in PPE cradle sleeping children cleared of Ebola

    DRC
    ‘Behind every case, a person’: the man leading Ebola fight on the human cost hidden behind the numbers

    Prof Pierre Akilimali, who heads DR Congo’s response to an outbreak that has so far killed more than 2,700 people, says tackling the disease requires trust and respect
  • GFM's Cooking Masterclasses also offer local people the chance to learn more about traditional Ghanaian food

    Ghana
    Moringa lattes and tigernut kebabs: the Ghanaians ‘taking back the power’ of their food

  • A man loads a large ice block on to an open backed truck.

    Extreme heat
    No fridge, no fans, just blocks of ice: improvising to survive in Pakistan’s searing heat

  • A figure at the end of a dark, debris-strewn corridor

    They escaped south-east Asia’s scam compounds. Then they realised they were still trapped

  • A hand holds grass with fungus-covered armyworm larvae attached to the stems.

    Soil fungus
    Halting the march of the African armyworm: a natural cure offers hope to farmers

  • Two women work on a colourful unfinished mural depicting a bright sun, people and housing

    Heatwave diaries
    Coping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperatures

  • Three African women in formal church uniform, holding a bouquets, with their long shadows before them

    Zimbabwe
    ‘What’s happened to us? Where did we get lost?’ a nation reckons with the reality of violence against women

  • A defiant woman showing the peace sign while standing on an upturned dumpster with protesters all around her

    Iranian security forces coordinated killing, torture and sexual abuse of protesters, says Amnesty

  • A man’s face is reflected in a small mirror that he is holding

    ‘I’ve lost everything – my child, my house, my money’: how Israel’s war on Gaza has changed men

  • Three girls in headscarves and tunics seen from behind walking along a street

    ‘One day the Taliban will need women to be educated’: three sisters on being forced back to Afghanistan

  • Sudan war refugees

    ‘This is what I have to do to survive’: the Sudan refugees forced into sex work

Sudan

  • 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

  • Displaced people wait in line for food aid at a camp in Sudan.

    Humanitarian crisis
    More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as situation worsens

Opinion

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

    Women's health
    double quotation markIt’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

    double quotation markAfter 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

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

    Kenneth Ngure
  • A Taliban prison guard stands behind wire and metal fencing on which a poster orders women to cover themselves with a hijab

    double quotation markThey gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive

    Shabnam

In pictures

  • Three young African boys in dirty old clothing stand by a car in a busy street market begging for money. An arm with jewellery extends out of the car

    Senegal
    ‘It’s not about the Qur’an, it’s about the money’: how boys of five are made to beg on the street

    A practice of sending children away to study at religious schools is being used as a cover for trafficking, say human rights groups
  • A member of the Tacana Indigenous nation places their open palm against a tree trunk where chevrons has been incised

    ‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon

  • A wiry tree on the rocky shore of a lake

    ‘They take the water, the springs dry up’: fear as Guatemalan goldmine plan is revived

  • A man crouches holding palm oil fruit surrounded by palms

    ‘We now live without this violence’: the Colombian farmers giving up coca for palm oil

  • A woman walks past massive rubble piles in Porto Alegre's Sarandi neighbourhood

    ‘Everyone is scared’: flood-hit Porto Alegre braces for another El Niño

Explainers

  • 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?

  • A student washing their hands under water running into a red bowl

    Analysis
    As WHO sounds alarm over Ebola in DRC, what can be learned from previous outbreaks?

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

Newsletters

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    Global dispatch newsletter
    The goodness of strangers amid war’s inhumanity

    Newsletter
  • 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?

    Newsletter
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