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  • A young Somali man in a blue formal jacket faces a camera in a studio

    Press freedom
    Somali security agents arrest journalist in night-time raid

    Abduqadir Mohamed Nur’s detention is latest attack on press freedom for critical reporting on regime, media union says
  • A woman wearing black looks at the camera and appears to be talking and gesturing towards herself with both hands.

    Human rights
    Mother of 16-year-old girl allegedly killed by Iran’s security forces arrested

    Regime is punishing families of Woman, Life, Freedom protesters who died at hands of security forces, say activists
  • Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic

    PTSD
    ‘I hate the night’: Life in Gaza amid the incessant sounds of war

    Their hopes for peace fading and fearful of being forgotten, two Gazans share the trauma of living their days and nights surrounded by the noise of gunfire, missiles and drones
  • A man in a hi-vis jacket and white hard hat tips a bag of ore into a crusher as two others monitor the rock coming out lower down at the other end of the machine

    Mining
    ‘Mercury destroys lives’: but if goldmining is here to stay, is there a way to make it safer?

    Using the toxin for gold extraction is banned in the Philippines, but the practice remains widespread. Now one town is trialling a technique that could end its use and protect the world’s 15 million small-scale miners
    • Two men stand reading newspapers while others stand around them.

      Media
      Negative stereotypes in international media cost Africa £3.2bn a year – report

    • Cezar Mahumane diving

      Mozambique
      ‘People did not go quietly’: divers explore wreck of 18th-century slave ship where mutiny took place

    • An Ozempic semaglutide injection pen made by Novo Nordisk.

      Fair Access
      Weight-loss drug firm accused of prioritising profits after halting insulin pen production

    • A woman wearing a blue Unicef T-shirt gives an oral vaccine to children sitting on a bench under some trees

      Opinion
      The essential ingredient of any vaccination programme? Women

      Sania Nishtar and Svenja Schulze
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Explore

  • A shot looking upwards at a woman climbing a sheer wall of ice. She smiles at the camera and holds up an ice pick, while the wind blows her skirt, which has red and pink flowers on it and frilly bright pink petticoats underneath.

    ‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit

    As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape, and she has no plans to slow down
  • A tall teenage girl with downcast eyes wearing a woven necklace and a headband of beads, and a long blue cloth with gold embroidery stands surrounded by other women in long embroidered cloths

    A teenage bride wed for a record price: the ‘marriage competition’ that divided a nation

  • Tanu Bai, left, and Maha Devi, at the Satya Jeevan Leprosy Society in New Delhi

    ‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027

  • Sally Davies

    The world is facing an antibiotic emergency: a data-led plan of action is needed now

    Sally Davies
  • Juliana Loshiro talking to her students

    Growing a ‘word forest’: the Kenyan teacher trying to save her language from extinction

  • Simone and her brother Ugo

    That’s me, mum! The Nigerian author who wrote a book about her children … and joined a publishing revolution

  • ‘Drug-resistant typhoid is the final warning sign’: disease spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail

  • South Sudan medics trial AI app to identify snakes and improve bite treatment

  • ‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations

  • Kenyan and queer: how going public as gay and non-binary has led to a life of activism and optimism

  • How to escape the ‘heroin hustle’: the project helping South African addicts

  • People must understand: we in Malawi are paying for the climate crisis with our lives

    Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda

  • ‘The world’s simply not noticing’: 2024 likely to be deadliest year for aid workers

  • ‘We empower ourselves’: the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru

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Rights and freedom

  • Women from Sierra Leone eat a meal among boxes on the floor by torchlight

    ‘Thrown out like used washing machines’: Lebanon’s migrant workers bear brunt of displacement crisis

  • Children walk along a street with armed men

    Haitian gangs recruiting starving children to fight security forces, rights group finds

  • Burnt belongings

    Croatian police accused of burning asylum seekers’ phones and passports

  • 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?

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Sudan

  • SUDAN-CONFLICT-POLITICS<br>Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on Army Day in Gadaref on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Sudan needs an exceptional humanitarian endeavour to end its horrific civil war

    Mukesh Kapila
  • A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp

    Sudan peace talks
    Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

  • Recurring Floods In South Sudan Displace Refugees And Host Communities<br>BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN - NOVEMBER 28: A group of women walk along a dyke protecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and their host community, from further flooding on November 28, 2023 in Bentiu, South Sudan. Climate change has divided South Sudan into land that is experiencing unprecedented flooding or drought, with record flooding creating widespread displacement, the destruction of livelihoods and the loss of arable land which all contribute to rising hunger and cases of malnutrition. The ongoing war in Sudan has caused displacement of over 3.3 million people, some redirected refugees travelling back to South Sudan. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

    Climate crisis
    A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?

  • Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.

    Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

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A common condition

  • A woman wearing a face mask and a white laboratory coat holds up two pipettes as another researcher looks on

    Healthier rice variety could counter rise in diabetes, Philippine scientists say

  • A man seen from above, eating a bowl of instant noodles at a rough table covered with sackcloth

    Time for a noodle tax? Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action

  • A medical worker guides a patient as they walk in a hospital ward

    As a cancer care expert, my fears over my own diagnosis run deeper than just curing the disease

    Jeff Dunn
  • 2024 оны нэгдүгээр сарын 4. Хавдарын үндэсний төв. ГЭРЭЛ ЗУРГИЙГ Б.БЯМБА-ОЧИР/MPA Image from an interview at the National Cancer Center, Mongolia

    Mongolia’s ambitious programme to tackle cancer death rates reaches 40% of population

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In pictures

  • A group of five Iranian women sitting on the floor, with tea and smoking through water pipes. The sea can be seen through the door and windows beyond.

    Women behind the lens
    ‘I felt as if I was part of the family, like I had many grandmothers’

    A journey across Iran allowed a glimpse into the lives of women living in extended families, rooted in tradition and patriarchy, yet rich in linguistic and cultural diversity
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Southern frontlines

  • Workers from Argentine firm Pluspetrol clean up after an oil spill in the Amazon region of Loreto, 11 Aug 2011, Iquitos, Peru

    ‘I’ve seen the dark, fat grease stuck to the leaves’: oil and gas encroach on Peru’s uncontacted peoples

  • Waves break against sandbags in front of a beach restaurant

    ‘The sea came in and took it all away’: the Colombian beach resort facing a ‘public calamity’

  • Composite of Morro Do Urubu, an area in the north of Rio de Janeiro, showing how the tree cover has markedly changed between 1990 and 2019. Left, few trees; right, luxuriant growth.

    ‘I think, boy, I’m a part of all this’: how local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart

  • Mingas_Image_p46 Rebuilding a thatched house in the páramo (2011, October). Mingas+Solidarity by Tristan Partridge (Pazmaen Press, Sept. 2024) Rebuilding a thatched house in the páramo / Reconstruyendo una casita con techo de paja en el páramo.

    When work becomes a party: capturing the joy of collective effort in an Indigenous community in Ecuador

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Explainers

  • A collection of colourful pills

    Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics?

  • This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue)

    What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

  • 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?

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Multimedia

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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