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Global development

5 May 2025

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  • Fairtrade food packet labeling

    Sainsbury’s tea to return to Fairtrade label after dropping it in 2017

  • A man wearing camouflage patterned clothes and holding an automatic rifle walks past a burnt-out building.

    Dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes handed to Metropolitan police

  • Blank Newspaper<br>A newspaper with parts of the text censored out, making up the face of Abiy Ahmed

    Rights and freedom
    Mass arrests and beatings: how Ethiopia went from celebrating journalists to jailing them

  • A group of women stand in a staggered line in a hotel foyer, most wearing saris

    From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women

4 May 2025

  • Illustration of Narendra Modi made up of black lines on a page of text to look like redacted words in an article

    Rights and freedom
    ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India

    Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons’ control over the media, are all seen as eroding the country’s democracy

3 May 2025

  • Illustration of Donald Trump made up of black lines on a page of text to look like redacted words in an article

    Rights and freedom
    ‘A cocktail for a misinformed world’: why China and Russia are cheering Trump’s attacks on media

  • Annie Kelly

    Opinion
    There is a war on journalists raging around the world: let their voices be heard

    Annie Kelly

2 May 2025

  • Activist Patience Nabukalu protest during the Climate Social Camp March on July 29, 2022 in Turin, Italy. Fridays For Future is a global climate strike movement by school students that was mediatised in August 2018 with Swedish pupil Greta Thunberg.<br>2JK1G3H Activist Patience Nabukalu protest during the Climate Social Camp March on July 29, 2022 in Turin, Italy. Fridays For Future is a global climate strike movement by school students that was mediatised in August 2018 with Swedish pupil Greta Thunberg.

    Ugandan ​​activist​ asks HSBC to put ‘lives before profit’ as campaigners target bank’s AGM

    Backing of oil, gas and coal projects under fire as campaigners deliver a letter to CEO Georges Elhedery
  • A tractor with a rake attachment on a misty beach in front of furled parasols.

    The age of extinction
    Sand groomers v turtles: how wildlife is falling foul of the demand for Insta-perfect beaches

    From the turtle-nesting beaches of Italy to Greek island bird havens, across the Mediterranean campaigners are fighting to protect habitats from tourists seeking a picture-perfect holiday
  • Two women wearing T-shirts that read 'Bike Ladies' sit on motorbikes looking at each other. One wears a helmet, the other a sun visor

    On the road in Sierra Leone with Bombali’s ‘bike ladies’

    Mariama Timbo is a striking figure – and not because of her pink motorcycle. As the sole female biker in her province ferrying people and goods to town, she is now training a new generation of women to follow her lead

1 May 2025

  • An emerald held out in the palm of a muddy hand

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Losing its sparkle: Colombia’s emerald capital weighs the cost of its precious stones

    As big companies and informal miners blame each other for the damage to rivers and forests, mining risks long-term harm to those living nearby
  • Protesters make X signs with their arms. Those who are identifiable are young men

    Tortured over a tweet: how the war between Kenya’s Gen Z and their president has moved online

    Young Kenyans have aired their disappointment in President Ruto by posting satirical images of him on X – leading to some being kidnapped, beaten and tortured
  • The hands of a person can be seeding a culture. Other scientific equipment such as phials and a bunsen burner can be seen on the desk

    Lack of access to antibiotics is driving spread of superbugs, finds research

    Focus on overuse contributes to antibiotics reaching less than 7% of people with drug-resistant infections in poorer countries, say researchers

30 April 2025

  • Three sections of bright colour photographs of a tree and plants are superimposed on to a black and white photograph of a street full of rubble and rubbish

    Before and after: images by Sudan’s accidental war photographer show loss of everyday life

  • People sit facing away from the camera on chairs in a large tent labelled 'Taso' and 'Living positively with HIV'

    Opinion
    Three ways to help the developing world survive the end of aid

    Winnie Byanyima
  • Russia Prison illustration

    The Viktoriia project
    Inside Taganrog: beatings, electrocution and starvation at prison where Ukrainians were tortured

  • Aerial image of Kawasi village on Obi Island, Indonesia, with the Harita nickel mine in the background.

    Rights and freedom
    Company supplying critical EV metal ‘did not disclose’ Erin Brockovich pollutant in drinking water

29 April 2025

  • A person holds a framed photo of Viktoriia Roshchyna

    The Viktoriia project
    ‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

    The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
  • A man stands on a rocky outcrop looking out at a large snowy plain with snowy mountain peaks in the background

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Last chance for humanity’: the cold reality of monitoring global heating on a glacier

    Scientists on Union glacier in Antarctica fear the region is reaching a dangerous tipping point
  • A man in uniform walks past a car on the street holding a baby. A woman walks behind him

    Dominican Republic deports pregnant women in ‘inhumane’ migrant crackdown

    More than 130 women and children who fled Haiti to seek healthcare rounded up in hospitals and sent back
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