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  • A blonde woman lying down in a lime-green dress and platform shoes

    Opinion
    The best fashion statement you can make this season? Buy pre-loved

    My father was a garment-maker who taught me to cut waste. Buy secondhand and you wear your values on your sleeve
  • Juliana Loshiro talking to her students

    Yaakunte
    Growing a ‘word forest’: the Kenyan teacher trying to save her language from extinction

    The Yaaku people long ago assimilated with the majority Maasai, and few still speak Yaakunte, but there is a new determination to save their culture – and their forest – before it disappears
  • Tanu Bai, left, and Maha Devi, at the Satya Jeevan Leprosy Society in New Delhi

    Global health
    ‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts sceptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027

    After huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stalled. But the new campaign is seen as a political move without resources
  • A shot looking upwards at a woman climbing a sheer wall of ice. She smiles at the camera and holds up an ice pick, while the wind blows her skirt, which has red and pink flowers on it and frilly bright pink petticoats underneath.

    Mountain climbing
    ‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit

    As one of Bolivia’s first female Indigenous mountain guides, Cecilia Llusco has scaled its highest peaks and changed the tourism landscape, and she has no plans to slow down
    • An African-Caribbean woman talks at a press conference while sitting at a desk on stage with two other women and a man

      Antimicrobial resistance
      World leaders declare target of 10% reduction in superbug deaths by 2030

    • A tall teenage girl with downcast eyes wearing a woven necklace and a headband of beads, and a long blue cloth with gold embroidery stands surrounded by other women in long embroidered cloths

      South Sudan
      A teenage bride wed for a record price: the ‘marriage competition’ that divided a nation

    • A hand holding a leaflet in front of women sitting in a row

      Global health
      Race to combat mpox misinformation as vaccine rollout in DRC begins

    • A nurse injects antivenom into the upper arm of a teenage boy lying on a hospital bed

      South Sudan medics trial AI app to identify snakes and improve bite treatment

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Explore

  • A young black African man wearing sunglasses and a cap performs on stage

    ‘There’s never been a greater time to be a Nigerian artist’: but is there room for the next Burna Boy?

    Stars such as Wizkid, Davido, Rema and Burna Boy have achieved wide international acclaim. But the surge of interest from big record labels is making it tougher for aspiring artists to break through
  • A woman with a parasol walks past a VW Beetle parked in residential neighbourhood of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Ethiopia’s Beetle mania: how an entire country fell in love with Volkswagen’s quirky classic

  • The market at McLeod Ganj.

    Tourist boom threatens to swamp Indian mountain town where Dalai Lama took refuge

  • Two mud-brick buildings with blue doors

    ‘There’s a lot to be built still’: the architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future

  • A woman stands in a refugee camp

    Gaza is hell for aid workers – and it is doubly difficult if you are a woman

    Buthaina Subeh
  • Composite image of female film-makers Priscila Tapajowara, Fiona Tande and Rita Banerji

    ‘Always outsiders, always men, always white’: how women are changing the narrative of wildlife film-making

  • Out of the ruins: film inspired by slum clearance in Nigeria opens in Toronto

  • The gardener of Gaza: sowing hope by growing vegetables amid the rubble

  • ‘Not a soul is left in my village’: the displaced Lebanese caught in crossfire on Israeli border

  • ‘I wasn’t sure I’d make it’: how a new mother’s brush with TB could mean better treatment for pregnant women

  • ‘A revolution is building’: can young people force change across Africa?

  • Televisions, fridges and water pumps: why solar power means a brighter future for Gujarat’s salt farmers

  • Feast your eyes: the Ugandan artist serving up a potent mix of food, art and family

  • ‘What’s more important, my dream or the women of Afghanistan?’: breakdancer Manizha Talash on her Olympic protest

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Rights and freedom

  • People protest while holding tapestries of their missing loved ones in front of a sculpture of a big red 43

    Mexico’s ‘anti-monuments’ force country to remember its missing

  • A woman walks past two people sitting on a bench, one under blankets

    Ukrainians face growing homelessness crisis at home and abroad, report finds

  • A young child receives a vaccine shot while their sibling waits behind them. The healthcare workers are covered head to toe in burkas.

    Afghanistan risks polio outbreak as Taliban restricts women from delivering vaccines

  • A disparate group of people on the steps outside a building that has a sign reading Exile Media Hub Brandenburg.

    ‘This is a big chance for all of us’: Germany’s freedom hotel where exiled journalists take refuge

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Sudan

  • SUDAN-CONFLICT-POLITICS<br>Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on Army Day in Gadaref on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Sudan needs an exceptional humanitarian endeavour to end its horrific civil war

    Mukesh Kapila
  • A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp

    Sudan peace talks
    Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

  • Recurring Floods In South Sudan Displace Refugees And Host Communities<br>BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN - NOVEMBER 28: A group of women walk along a dyke protecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and their host community, from further flooding on November 28, 2023 in Bentiu, South Sudan. Climate change has divided South Sudan into land that is experiencing unprecedented flooding or drought, with record flooding creating widespread displacement, the destruction of livelihoods and the loss of arable land which all contribute to rising hunger and cases of malnutrition. The ongoing war in Sudan has caused displacement of over 3.3 million people, some redirected refugees travelling back to South Sudan. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

    Climate crisis
    A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?

  • Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.

    Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

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A common condition

  • A medical worker guides a patient as they walk in a hospital ward

    As a cancer care expert, my fears over my own diagnosis run deeper than just curing the disease

    Jeff Dunn
  • 2024 оны нэгдүгээр сарын 4. Хавдарын үндэсний төв. ГЭРЭЛ ЗУРГИЙГ Б.БЯМБА-ОЧИР/MPA Image from an interview at the National Cancer Center, Mongolia

    Mongolia’s ambitious programme to tackle cancer death rates reaches 40% of population

  • Sad young African man thinking and looking depressed

    Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum

  • Elizabeth Odondi standing by a bridge in a garden

    I told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18

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In pictures

  • A man wearing blue PPE overalls walks between barriers made of orange netting and wood past roughly constructed buildings made of wood with tin roofs.

    Inside the camp on the frontline of the DRC’s mpox epidemic – in pictures

    With more than 16,000 cases recorded so far this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is at the centre of the mpox epidemic that led the World Health Organization to declare it a global public health emergency. Photographer Moses Sawasawa visited Goma to report on the outbreak
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Southern frontlines

  • Lago Colhue Huapi 1 Lake Colhue Huapi 9 Nov 2023,

    ‘We used to sail and fish and play’: how did an Argentinian lake the size of New York City disappear?

  • Aerial view of an industrial park in the Mexican desert

    Mexico’s datacentre industry is booming – but are more drought and blackouts the price communities must pay?

  • A man stands in front of his laundry hanging on a washing line.

    Is circular migration a solution to the crisis at the US border? Guatemala provides a clue

  • Aerial shot of a cyclist on an empty road running through a plantation of banana trees stretching to the horizon

    ‘Every time the planes pass, my eyes burn’: the hidden cost of Costa Rican bananas

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Explainers

  • This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue)

    What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

  • Families arrive on a beach in Mozambique carrying belongings wrapped in fabric bundles on their heads

    At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

  • 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?

  • 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?

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Multimedia

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  • 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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