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

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

    Analysis of imagery from conflict zones shows evidence of burned-out and flattened buildings, with long-term impacts on education
  • Two Arab men carry a crate of fish up a beach, as others wade into the sea to unload the catch from a fishing boat

    Yemen
    DIY artificial reefs are boosting fish numbers in Yemen. But there’s a catch

    Fishers have revived a traditional practice of building ‘scrap’ reefs to attract fish but are using plastic and tyres instead of rocks and branches, and not everyone is happy
  • 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

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

    Saudis living in the UK claim Riyadh is targeting them for speaking out on human rights and jailing of female activists
  • A girl wearing a white dress and angel's wings stands in a room with supernatural light coming through cracks in the ceiling.

    Guatemala
    Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

    As their families await justice, Jayro Bustamante’s movie, Rita, highlights the bravery of victims of 2017 blaze, and the authorities’ failure to protect them
    • A painting of a girl with her mouth sewn shut and an old women

      FGM
      ‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM

    • A view of children's feet standing in a row, some with blankets around them

      Child protection
      Children missing from Home Office hotels likely to have been trafficked, report finds

    • A dark-haired young man in a suit jacket poses on a sofa

      Transnational repression
      Iranian TV presenter stabbed in London moves abroad for safety

    • A Russell's viper snake coiled on the grass

      Bangladesh
      Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper

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Explore

  • The floodlit football pitch of Las Madres Dragonas de Lavapiés in Madrid. The club plays under a mural that has the message: ‘Socially equally, totally free’.

    Levelling the playing field: the football clubs helping migrants make a new home in Spain

    Every year thousands arrive from South America and Africa, including many young asylum seekers who find hope and opportunity in the game
  • A beach surrounded by trees

    Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise

  • A group of Nigerian women singing together with two playing the drums

    ‘This goes beyond the church’: the Nigerian women in a sisterhood of millions

  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

  • An Indian woman squats down beside a big pile of clay and a mould, with stacks of finished bricks behind her

    Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns

  • K-Zungu at Sisso Records, Dar es Salaam

    ‘I am their voice now’: the Tanzanian rapper with a mission to spread pride in his own colour

  • Under threat of jail, microfinance pioneer vows to keep lending to poorest Bangladeshis

  • Where was African joy at Cannes or African humour at Sundance? The big film festivals need to look beyond stereotypes

    Oris Aigbokhaevbolo

  • ‘Africa has zero PR in the west’: the Nigerian influencer using sarcasm on the clueless

  • A sense of optimism and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is giving respect to unpaid carers

  • My embarrassing condition needs a simple operation – but in Nigeria few can afford it

    Michael Adebisi

  • ‘There is nowhere to fish any more’: life in the shadow of Nigeria’s biggest industrial complex

  • ‘We want to forge ahead’: grief and defiance as Dom Phillips’ widow journeys to site of his death

  • ‘A small respite in the face of horror’: Sudanese artists fleeing war find a safe haven

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Rights and freedom

  • Hundreds of people stand with their hands on their heads as security forces wearing all black walk through.

    Thousands of children swept up in El Salvador mass arrests, rights body says

  • Voters in Iran put their votes into red ballot boxes.

    ‘I feel betrayed by the west’: Iran’s freedom protesters react to their new president

  • A wall mural on a street in Kabul shows protesting women. The foremost woman has her arms raised, but her open mouth has been spraypainted black. Writing in Arabic reads: 'Afghan women will not be silent anymore'

    Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

  • Afghan women in Islamabad hold up posters and placards in a protest demanding to boycott meeting with Taliban in Doha.

    Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most

    Fawzia Koofi
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A common condition

  • 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

    • A woman seen in silhouette with a cigarette in front of the Philip Morris International logo

      Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’

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In pictures

  • Gabriel Nzaji teaches internally displaced Congolese children the rules of chess rules as part of the Chess in the City initiative at Focus Congo site in Kibati

    Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures

    Chess players from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are introducing children traumatised by violence to the joys of playing the board game
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Southern frontlines

  • 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

  • A collage of men in hard hats and oil rigs against a backdrop of a map of Mexico

    Mexico’s love affair with Pemex: will its bid to save the fallen oil giant block the shift to clean energy?

  • Illustration with composite of images of oil workers and sites in Argentina

    Argentina’s future lies in the balance as vast oilfields poised for extraction

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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

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
  • Eyewitness: hell on high waters - video

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