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  • One man lying on a thin mattress while another man wearing a mask crouches next to him, holding his hand to comfort him or possibly perform a medical observation

    India
    ‘I’m sorry but I’m unable to speak’: hero of India’s Cockroach party weakens on 19th day of hunger strike

    The climate activist and engineer Sonam Wangchuk, who has become the figurehead of anti-government protests in Delhi, is resisting calls to end his fast until the education minister resigns
  • A healthcare worker in protective equipment inspects turquoise gloves hanging on a drying rack

    Ebola
    Uganda calls for travel restrictions to be lifted after last Ebola patient discharged

    Country begins 42-day countdown to outbreak being declared officially over, as numbers continue to rise in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • People in Jos, central Nigeria, marking World Down Syndrome Day in March 2026.

    Nigeria
    ‘When I go out, people throw jabs at us’: the families fighting for their disabled children

  • People pour buckets of water from a flooded arcade with arched openings and laundry hanging overhead

    Flooding
    ‘Every time the rain falls, the fear comes back’: life in Lagos under constant threat of the climate crisis

  • A woman (show face cannot be seen) holds a photograph of a black boy on her lap.

    Nigeria
    ‘Give us his body to bury’: a mother’s six-year fight for justice for son killed in Nigeria’s anti-police protests

  • A smiling woman holds a baby boy in her arms while a nurse looks on and a group of people gather behind her.

    DRC
    First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial

  • A group of people hold handmade signs in a park. More signs are laid out on the grass.

    Pakistan
    ‘If a woman is killed, they say she fell, she took poison’: Pakistan’s devastating rise in ‘hidden’ sexual violence

  • A teacher talks to children in a classroom in Ghana.

    Global education
    Developing countries spend more repaying foreign debt than on education, UN reveals

  • Medical staff in a clinic waiting area administer drops to babies being held in their mothers’ laps

    Uganda
    How aid cuts have hit more than 2m refugees

  • Two IV bags hang from a metal pole with a patient lying in a hospital bed in the background

    Global health
    Cancer cases expected to soar worldwide, WHO report finds

Explore

  • Three African men in traditional beaded jewellery and draped garments pose for portrait photographs

    Kenya
    ‘They sing mostly about cows … and peace’: how social media is driving a Maasai music revival

    Digital artists from Maa-speaking peoples including the Maasai and Samburu are gaining popularity in Kenya with a blend of traditional and modern sounds
  • Wooden boats moored along a waterway beside buildings with corrugated metal roofs

    Nigeria
    Smoke, soot and toxic fumes: families living in shadow of burning oil well six years after blowout

  • A woman with her back to us stands in a sparse room with a bunk bed

    Women in prison
    ‘I pray for a miracle’: the African women held for years in India’s detention centres

  • An African toddler with albinism stands at the window of a bus looking out while others sit

    US
    ‘I was devastated’: the Nigerian with albinism facing deportation under Trump’s asylum crackdown

  • A group of protesters in Durban, South Africa holding clubs and bats

    South Africa
    ‘They will attack me if I stay’: immigrants flee for safety amid violence and anti-foreigner protests

  • Two women wearing face masks and head-mounted cameras work at a table sorting packaged red items in a factory

    India
    ‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The factory workers told to film themselves for AI

  • Packs of sanitary towels showing a woman in a sari with flowers.

    Pakistan
    ‘Period tax’ on sanitary products to be abolished, says minister

  • Young men in Haiti sit on cars placed at the end of their street to stop gang members entering the street

    ‘They said I had to kill him’: the Haiti gangs forcing children into a life of brutality

  • لیلو۲ Sabza with the her daughter- she is waiting to creditor to took her daughter. These families are living in a small district in Badghis and could be identified via their pictures. Sabza and her daughter's pictures are okay to use because they covered their faces, but Sahib jan and Golnar, their face and the faces of their grandchildren could be seen. If you decide to use them, please blur,

    ‘When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage

  • A room full of male Afghan students wearing salwar kameez sitting at desks writing

    The Taliban’s war on education: ‘Nobody talks about what is happening to the boys’

  • A gravestone with a portrait photo is adorned with red and white rose petals arranged around its border

    ‘They made us say he was a martyr’: families at Iran’s largest cemetery mourn those killed in the January protests

Sudan

  • A group of men wearing khaki camouflage T-shirts celebrate raising assault rifles in the air.

    UK
    Ties with UAE prioritised over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told

  • Dubai skyline showing the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in the centre.

    RSF
    Paramilitary leaders acquired £17.7m property portfolio in Dubai

  • Displaced people wait in line for food aid at a camp in Sudan.

    Humanitarian crisis
    More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as situation worsens

  • A group of mainly women and children wait with empty bowls and pots outside near a tree.

    Sudan civil war
    Anger at ‘unacceptable’ efforts to end war as conflict enters fourth year

Opinion

  • Two young women wearing hijabs stand on a rocky mountain trail with snow-capped peaks behind them.

    double quotation markSome question why young women should climb mountains but hiking gives me freedom

    Mohsina Gufran
  • A large billboard with 'Drug resistant gonorrhea alert. Free STD check' written on it.

    double quotation markWhy a surge in sexually transmitted infections in Europe should worry everybody

    Peter Beyer
  • A person in a white T-shirt holds up a medicine bottle and smiles at the camera

    double quotation markAfrica can end Aids on its own terms. Will the world back us to finish the job?

    Jean Kaseya and Amma Adomaa Twum-Amoah
  • Burqa-clad Afghan women walk past Taliban flags

    double quotation markA bird has better protection than an Afghan woman. Welcoming the Taliban to Europe is a slap in the face

    Fawzia Koofi

In pictures

  • A woman sits on a sofa, hands and feet together wearing a fur coat. Another woman in a sleeveless orange dress lies on the couch, resting her head on the older woman's shoulder

    Women behind the lens
    ‘My grandma dressed like a celebrity, even matching the colour of her cigarettes to her outfits’

    Egyptian photographer and curator Farida Mahdy was inspired to document her grandmother’s style after finding a collection of her photos
  • Men in blue overalls, one up a ladder, installing a rainwater harvesting system outside Mexico City.

    Prickly pears, avocados and lemons: how rainwater harvesting is feeding Mexico City’s gardens and homes

  • A female coca farmer holds a container of vinegar to counteract the effects of teargas after clashes with police in La Paz, Bolivia, as a fire burns on in front of her

    Blockades, marches and human shields: Bolivia’s farmers resist as land opened up to industry

  • A line of soldiers in camouflage fatigues and gloves scoop up handfuls of an aquatic plant that covers the surface of a lake to the horizonPhoto: Camilo Freedman/The Guardian

    First came the dead fish, then invasive plants. A year later and Lake Suchitlán’s pollution remains a mystery

  • Colombia Amazon DefenderA girl looks out the window at the Amazon Pearl community farming project on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

    ‘We won’t give up, we’ll keep fighting’: activists in Colombia vow to resist far-right push for fossil fuels

Explainers

  • Using satellite imagery, leaked documents and reports and on-the-ground footage, we trace how weapons are moving into Sudan

    Why the UK is accused of allowing the UAE to fuel war in Sudan – video explainer

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  • A person wearing a mask has their upper arm swabbed by a health worker wearing protective clothing, who is holding a syringe in their other hand.

    The race to combat Ebola
    What vaccines and treatments are being developed and how long will it take?

  • A student washing their hands under water running into a red bowl

    Analysis
    As WHO sounds alarm over Ebola in DRC, what can be learned from previous outbreaks?

  • A man in a balaclava holding a rifle looks back at the camera while walking along a dirt street

    Sudan's civil war
    How did it begin, what is the human cost and what is happening now?

Multimedia

  • Map of Sudan and Sudanese refugees queuing for food

    Sudan
    ‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan

  • RSF fighters overran the camp on 11 April. The true extent of the death toll is not yet known, but is suspected to be in the thousands.

    Zamzam
    ‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded

  • People in Gaza collecting aid overlaid with a chart showing aid announcement timings

    Gaza
    Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

Newsletters

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    Global dispatch newsletter
    The goodness of strangers amid war’s inhumanity

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  • A young woman rolling bidi cigarettes.

    Her Stage
    Can promises on gender equality made in Australia help a 16-year-old cigarette maker with no toilet in India?

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