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  • Three women, moved to tears, are interviewed by the press outside a court building in Lima.

    Peru
    Soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in historic verdict

    ‘Landmark’ case is first to deal with use of sexual violence in state’s conflict with Shining Path rebels four decades ago
  • Three small children sit on the floor, while a man hands them food from a small plate.

    Egypt
    EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’

    Egypt forcibly returned 800 Sudanese detainees in first three months of this year, Amnesty International reports
  • People walk past a billboard with a message about ebola in Freetown, on November 7, 2014. West Africa's regional bloc on November 7 called for international help to go beyond immediate medical care for Ebola-hit nations, warning that lives had been blighted by the epidemic. AFP PHOTO/ FRANCISCO LEONGFRANCISCO LEONG/AFP/Getty Images

    Fair access
    Global failure to prepare for pandemics ‘gambling with children’s future’

    Lessons from Ebola and Covid were not learned, say Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as they launch report calling for urgent action
  • A group of Nigerian women singing together with two playing the drums

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

    While conflict has divided communities, a fellowship of married women offers everything from loans to spiritual guidance
    • 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

    • A bird's eye shot of a woman squatting on a rocky beach, sorting through plastic using a pink sieve.

      ‘Your plastic is here’
      How Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

    • Fathers-trail-pic2

      ‘Know how loved you were’
      Fathers write to their children from the frontline

    • 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

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Explore

  • A woman wearing a brightly pattered top and a beaded headband plus bead necklaces and bracelets smiles at the camera

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

    Charity Ekezie has made it her mission to educate naive westerners about her continent on social media, and have some fun along the way
  • Adela Rubiano Hurtado and her granddaughter, Adriana, in their living room.

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

  • A construction crane alongside a stack tower at the Dangote Industries oil refinery in Lagos

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

  • A female widow holds hands with indigenous people encircling a tree

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

  • IMG 20240207 151011 Hamza Teirab Uganda, who recently completed a three-month residency at 32° East, a major arts centre based in Uganda's capital, Kampala. The four Sudanese artists are muralist and textile artist Tanzil Abdallah Adam, filmmaker and photographer Mohammed Altaj, legendary painter Nusreldin Eldouma and painter and leather-worker Hamza Teirab.

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

  • Four African women talk in a dimly lit communal area

    Celebrate, remember and reframe: the therapy sessions healing South Africa’s women

  • Bob Marley is a national hero in all but name. So what are Jamaica’s politicians waiting for?

    Kenneth Mohammed

  • Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

  • Children of Vietnam war’s rape survivors unjustly bear the burden of others’ crimes

    Tran Thi Ngai

  • ‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India

  • ‘We all share the same pain’: can the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement rebuild after 7 October?

  • Heat stress: how soaring temperatures are taking their toll on migrant workers in India’s garden city

  • ‘It’s a barbarity’: why are hundreds of families asking to be moved away from this Dominican Republic goldmine?

  • The art of resistance: desert film festival showcases stories of the Sahrawi people

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Rights and freedom

  • Marchers at Kyiv Pride 2024 in central Kyiv, Ukraine

    First Pride march since Russian invasion takes place in Kyiv

  • westafrica trail

    A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

  • A girl in a hijab puts her hand over her face as she cries

    ‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school

  • A young girl sobs among a crowd of mourners, some holding memorial photographs

    ‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: how cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocity

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A common condition

  • 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’

    • Large electricity generators, fuelled by diesel, in the streets of Beirut, Lebanon.

      ‘Where can you hide from pollution?’: cancer rises 30% in Beirut as diesel generators poison city

    • The message 'end epilepsy stigma' is seen written on seven hands joined together

      The ‘epilepsy warriors’ breaking down the barriers in Cameroon

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In pictures

  • A woman stands in a canoe in a dress with African print. The canoe floats in a pond with scores of large lily pads.

    Women behind the lens: ‘This is how I see Zimbabwe – thriving in the face of challenges’

    Photographer Tamary Kudita chose this location for its lotus flowers, which produce beautiful blooms despite difficult living conditions
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Southern frontlines

  • Pastor Rómulo and a group of his most trusted recovering alcoholics are loading up alcoholics from the streets onto the back of the pickup to bring them to the centre. 20.04.2024 Intibucá, Honduras

    ‘They die like flies’: there is an alcohol problem in Honduras – can prohibition and tough love fix it?

  • A woman with a paddle in her hand looks out from her small boat to the misty water with trees at its edge

    ‘Without them, the city would be lost’: the art of preserving Mexico City’s ancient floating gardens

  • Small boats carry people up and down a flooded street

    ‘I’ve seen things no one should go through’: the overwhelming scale of loss in Brazil’s floods

  • A young man stands on a hillside in front of a colossal statue of a face, taking a picture

    ‘Moai designs are getting lost’: extreme weather chips away at Easter Island statues

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Explainers

  • 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?

  • Illustration of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria (white) on the colon epithelium. The antibiotic-resistant bacteria will go on to transfer its antibiotic resistance genes horizontally to the bacteria surrounding it.

    What is antimicrobial resistance and how big a problem is it?

  • 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

  • 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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