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

    Paramilitary violence
    Dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes handed to Metropolitan police

    Lawyers say evidence file outlines atrocities including torture and rape carried out by the Rapid Support Forces in the country’s brutal civil conflict
  • A group of women stand in a staggered line in a hotel foyer, most wearing saris

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

    In countries where tourism is still a male domain, all-female establishments are providing much-needed job opportunities
  • 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

    Sierra Leone
    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
  • 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.

    Fossil fuel finance
    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
    • Protesters make X signs with their arms. Those who are identifiable are young men

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

    • 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

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

    • 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

      Sudan war
      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'

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

      Winnie Byanyima
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Explore

  • Fatou Samba at her beachside home in Bargny, Senegal.

    ‘Barcelona or death’: mothers watch and wait as Senegal’s men risk all to reach Europe

    For many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the country’s new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay?
  • A battery-powered three wheeler tutktuk

    Leading the charge: how a drive for electric vehicles is cleaning up Nepal

  • A man in a yellow tshirt holds two containers and a height chart that is colour coded and divided into different sections according to height. The tallest section, about the height of a tall adult male, has the number four and a picture of four tablets; the next section down has the number three and three tablets and so on down the pole to child height and the lowest number of tablets.

    ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses

  • Buddhist monks clear up rubble at the damaged monastery: they stand on and around a huge pile, with several digging. A large section of the yellow-painted monastery has collapsed and the remaining walls are leaning.

    Broken and in the grip of civil war, can Myanmar rebuild after earthquake?

  • Garment workers in a factory at sewing machines

    ‘Only job I know’: tiny Lesotho’s garment workers reel from Trump’s 50% tariffs

  • A woman holds up a book while another woman screams into it. They are surrounded by women with pro-choice placards.

    A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

  • ‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa

  • Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

  • ‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin

  • The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees

  • ‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war

  • How Karachi’s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan

  • ‘We can talk through our art’: the Malian festival uniting the Sahel’s people

  • Snakes, ‘border madness’ and solo trips: five Nigerian female travellers on their top tips and trickiest moments

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Rights and freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Annie Kelly

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

    Annie Kelly
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Sudan

  • A wrecked office with smashed furniture and debris strewn on the ground

    New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

  • Awadin Mohammed, 10, lies on a hospital bed

    Atrocities mount daily. Promised aid does not arrive. Why has the west turned its back on Sudan?

  • A bloodied and torn mattress in front of what appear to be graves with a breeze block at each end

    ‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

  • A woman with a covered head and mouth looks directly at the camera. Behind her another woman sits on a bed comforting a small child, while another woman sits beside her, looking towards the camera.

    Young, old, refugees and returnees: thousands fleeing violence cross border into South Sudan

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Opinion

  • In this Feb. 9, 2018 photo, a Displaced woman holds her baby at a camp, Abyan, Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

    The world is missing out on the real Yemen: we are not just war, we are culture, beauty and love

    Nada Al-Saqaf
  • A woman sits along the broken steps of a partially-collapsed building destroyed by bombardment during the May 2021 confliict between Hamas and Israel, next to a graffiti mural depicting a girl with an English caption below reading "I've dream", in Gaza City on 12 August 2021.

    Trump is tearing up US women’s rights. The message from your sisters in the Arab world? Don’t give up: resistance works

    Hibaaq Osman
  • A man reads a newspaper reporting the impact of the US government aid freeze on Kenya and the rest of Africa.

    Those of us who rely on aid must accept the new reality and shape our own destiny

    Janet Mawiyoo
  • Three women in saris with goods balanced on their head waiting to cross a road as a truck and tuktuk speed past them

    If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
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In pictures

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Southern frontlines

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

    Losing its sparkle: Colombia’s emerald capital weighs the cost of its precious stones

  • A man stands on a rocky outcrop looking out at a large snowy plain with snowy mountain peaks in the background

    ‘Last chance for humanity’: the cold reality of monitoring global heating on a glacier

  • A Mexican man in a T-shirt in front of a blue wall with a barred up window

    He fought to stop the forest being felled. The price was 30 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit

  • A line of people wearing wide-brimmed hats use small sickles to cut a short crop with pinkish flowers

    ‘Cañahua chose me’: can an ancient relative of quinoa revive rural Bolivia’s economy?

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Explainers

  • Members of the Mandalay People's Defence Forces (MDY-PDF) training at a camp in an undisclosed location in Myanmar's northern Shan State.

    Myanmar civil war: a quick guide to the conflict

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

    How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?

  • A staff member sanitises a bed at the MSF cholera treatment unit in Gurei, Juba, South Sudan.

    Dirty water and endless wars: why cholera outbreaks are on the rise again

  • Flowers next to a homemade sign saying RIP USAid, 1961-2025 laid outside the door of the USAid building

    Explainer
    How will Trump and Musk’s freeze on USAid affect millions around the world?

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Multimedia

Multimedia

  • Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic
  • 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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