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  • A man writes on parchment while another man talks to him

    Ethiopia
    Ink, angels and hard graft: the artists keeping Ethiopia’s ancient illuminated manuscript craft alive

    In an Addis Ababa workshop, sacred texts are painstakingly crafted on goat skin using methods dating back to early Christianity – plus a bit of inspiration from Google Images
  • A young African boy points to a child's drawings on a wall of pickup trucks mounted with guns

    Sudan
    Children of war: six orphans’ 1,000-mile journey across Sudan in search of safety

    After dysentery killed their mother and the civil war came to their home in Omdurman, Haroun and his young siblings were forced to set off on an epic quest to reach El Geneina
  • An African worker walks by pipes and chimneys that have steam bellowing out of them

    Africa is proof that investing in climate resilience works – and that it makes good business sense

    William Ruto and Patrick Verkooijen
    Climate denialism should not blind investors and governments to the very real opportunities to be found in financing solutions
  • Bobi Wine wearing a shirt and military beret, holds his fist in a salute

    Uganda
    Bobi Wine to run for president in Uganda’s 2026 election ‘if I am still alive and not in jail’

    Exclusive: Opposition leader says he has ‘no choice’ but to challenge Yoweri Museveni’s regime, despite threats and previous attacks
    • A black and white photograph of Alwaleed Abdeen looking happy taken after his graduation

      Sudan
      ‘No one recognised him, even as he said his name’: last video of rescued man shows horror of Sudan torture camps

    • 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.

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

    • A person in a wooly hat and face mask walks through steam from a vent on a snowy city street

      Air pollution
      ‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest capital

    • A man on a horse holds the halter of a second horse

      Mongolia
      Steppes and the city: how smog has become part of Mongolians’ way of life – in pictures

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Explore

  • A group of men are checked by guards in front of queues of men lined up in a courtyard

    Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma

    An investigation into the DRC’s use of hundreds of hired Romanian fighters reveals how a disorganised operation with untrained recruits became a deadly ‘circus’
  • A female teacher places Duplo blocks on a yellow plastic table in front of a class of young children

    ‘If you don’t get early years right, children are unlikely to catch up’: why South Africa is trying to reboot its school system

  • Trainer Smitha Chandran, right, speaks to final-year nursing students about safe migration at the college of nursing in Ernakulam, Kerala, last month.

    How not to be deported: India’s nurses seeking work abroad learn how to migrate safely

  • Chimamanda Adichie _ My annual Creative Writing Workshop - formerly Farafina Trust Workshop now Purple Hibiscus Trust Workshop - is in it’s eleventh year.

    The Chimamanda effect: Nigerians’ delight at first novel in a decade from their beloved daughter

  • Clay heads and torsos submerged in a green pond

    ‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park

  • A large crowd of women queues to enter a conference next to a row of signs written in Chinese

    ‘We had all this energy’: the landmark gathering of women that unnerved the Chinese government

  • ‘It shatters my heart’: the slow death of India’s once-famous Urdu book bazaar

  • ‘No longer on the margins’: how women are outperforming men in Africa’s art market

  • ‘Dead white person’s clothes’ mount up as Ghana’s Kantamanto market struggles to rebuild after fire

  • Last throw of the boule for Addis Ababa’s historic pétanque club as developers turn city into hi-tech hub

  • ‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia

  • ‘Beware of the bat’: how a mine in Kigali became the focus of Marburg virus research

  • ‘What a project, what a challenge!’: Africa’s leading architect gives Thomas Sankara a proper place of rest

  • ‘Disruptive, unfair and cruel’: jobs lost and treatment stopped as USAid freeze hits HIV care in Zimbabwe

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Rights and freedom

  • A woman dressed in black holds a screaming baby who has feeding tubes attached to her

    Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics

  • A woman in a full black chador-like veil holding a baby, enters a mud-walled compound with a man following holding a box

    ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies

  • Men on a fishing boat at sea at night

    An unexplained death, ‘abuse and slavery’: Indonesian fishers reveal life on long haul vessels

  • Distressed men gather round the body of a man wearing a press flak jacket

    Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes

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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

  • Sudan 2024 / The internal conflict raging in Sudan since 2023 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and forced 11 million people from their homes. The United Nations estimates that the ongoing famine will kill thousands. In Khartoum, once the capital, the Nile that runs through the city is a war front: government troops are stationed on one side, Rapid Support Force (RSF) militias on the other.<br>Omdurman, Sudan. A man on the rubble of residential buildings destroyed in an airstrike by Rapid Support Force militia in the Beit al-Mal neighborhood.

    On the streets of Khartoum: life amid the ravages of Sudan’s war – in pictures

  • A woman stirs a huge pot while others look on

    ‘Deeply inspiring and humbling’: how neighbourhoods in Sudan are coming together to fill gaps left by foreign aid

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Opinion

  • 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
  • Women hold up brightly coloured cuts of cloth at a market. In the foreground a small child looks out from behind one woman's skirt.

    Being a mother in the west would be a dream, I thought. But compared with Uganda, it was a nightmare

    Patience Akumu
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In pictures

  • The collective El Palomar, created by Mexican singer Vivir Quintana bringing together more than 60 Latin American singers.

    Devoted, dogged, defiant: the Mexican women who ‘sow the seeds of struggle’

    Photographer Mahé Elipe has been taking pictures of women across Mexico since 2018 as part of her project Sembrando Luchas (Those who sow the seeds of struggle), which aims to highlight the lives and challenges of women young and old
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Southern frontlines

  • BRAZIL-UN-COP30-ENVIRONMENT-MINING-DEFORESTATION<br>Aerial view of solar panels next to houses in the village of Metuktire, in the Amazon rainforest of Mato Grosso state, Brazil, taken on March 22, 2025. Metuktire, home to Brazil's most influential indigenous leader, Cacique Raoni Metutkire, has been the heart of a decades-long successful fight against deforestation in a region devastated by illegal mining and other crimes against the rainforest. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP) (Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Solar panels and pristine forest: how one Amazon village is adapting to protect itself – in pictures

  • A woman holds a sign with a photograph of a Mapuche woman with 'Where is Julia Chuñil' written above it in Spanish, among a crowd of people

    Silence surrounds the disappearance of Chilean grandmother Julia Chuñil. What really happened?

  • An aerial view of a broken road bridge over a river. Many people are standing and walking on the road and on the ground beneath

    How hurricanes Otis and John exposed Acapulco’s big divide and left residents ‘scared for our lives’

  • A man on a small yellow boat casts a fishing net into a waterway

    Dying fish, polluted water and a terrible stench: the French firm accused of dumping toxic waste in Colombia’s wetlands

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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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