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  • head and shoulders portrait of Diaa al-Awadi wearing a black shirt and jacket and exhaling smoke from a cigar

    Diaa al-Awadi
    The dead doctor and a dicey diet: how a ban made a hero of Egypt’s rogue medic

    Diaa al-Awadi claimed insulin was a fraud, smoking was safe and chemotherapy useless. But despite losing his medical licence and dying at early age, his reach continues to grow
  • A pregnant woman lies on a bed while medical staff attend to her in an Ebola treatment centre

    Ebola
    Outbreak in DRC the fastest growing in the history of the virus

    As the death toll rises to almost 1,500, and with a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain potentially still months away, health workers face a battle to slow the outbreak
  • Two women, one carrying a metal container on her head, walk past a colourfully painted roadside structure

    ‘Super’ El Niño
    A rain festival with no rain: the Indian farmers bracing themselves as monsoon arrives late

  • Sports fans in Accra, Ghana waving the national flag.

    Africa
    A quarter of young Africans believe USAID cuts could be positive, survey finds

  • Two sub-Saharan African male teenagers taking off lifejackets in front of two older white men in uniform

    Home Office
    AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns

  • A view of three women's laps from above as they sit holding urine sample bottles

    Haiti
    Giving birth in the shadow of gang violence – photo essay

  • A Ugandan woman carries a back of grain on her head while watched by dignitaries

    Drought
    Uganda begins emergency food handouts after 19 die from hunger

  • A man in blue clothes and a woman in a colorful headscarf sit on a bed in a simple room in Pakistan

    Pakistan
    ‘Her screams echo in my ears’: the trauma of so-called ‘honour killings’

  • Three young men in red shirts and standing in a muddy field hold a trophy and wear medals around their necks

    Rohingya
    Family of missing footballer fear he is among 500 believed dead in Myanmar shipwrecks

  • Two young women

    Human rights
    ‘We can’t even walk through the streets’: women arrested for kissing in public on life under Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law

Explore

  • A young Somali woman in a hijab holding a cup of coffee at a cafe counter

    Mogadishu
    ‘I fell in love with the art of coffee-making’: the female baristas shaking up Somalia’s booming cafe scene

    As fear and fighting ease in Mogadishu, coffee shops have become catalysts for change, bringing jobs for women and creating much-needed social spaces
  • 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

  • People walk past a piece of twisted metal from an aircraft fuselage in a field.

    Air disaster
    Talking about death: how a father and brother found solace in a ‘living graveyard’

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

    Uganda
    Less drugs, less care, less food: how aid cuts have hit 2m refugees

  • 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

  • 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 wearing a veil with her back to us

    ‘Why are you doing this to me?’: how one woman survived two years of slavery on a Spanish farm

  • An older man in a yellow shirt watching for airstrikes from a high balcony in a hilly landscape

    ‘They targeted us directly’: how the Israel-Lebanon war became deadly for healthcare workers

  • Rescuers work at Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital that was damaged during Russian missile strikes in Kyiv

    From Ukraine and Sudan to Gaza: why have hospitals become a target of war?

  • 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

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

  • A nurse in a clinic in Africa

    Andy Burnham could easily ignore the UK’s falling aid commitment. He would be wise not to

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

    Some 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.

    Why 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

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

    Jean Kaseya and Amma Adomaa Twum-Amoah

In pictures

  • A sad-looking African woman in a headscarf looking off to one side

    DRC
    ‘All I want is to return home’: the desperate and displaced living through years of war

    The hills of the Hauts Plateaux near Lake Tanganyika have been the scene of fighting for decades between the army, rebel forces and ethnic militias. Pushed one way and another by the conflict are families just trying to survive
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  • Crosses marking the graves from a war-era massacre with names written on in felt penPhoto: Camilo Freedman/The Guardian

    ‘The number of remains is difficult to determine’: civil war death site dug up for landfill in El Salvador

  • A man in a black shirt carries a bucket up concrete stairs, with another person in the background

    ‘We count every litre’: how Cuba’s energy crisis sparked a daily struggle for water

  • Aerial view of a canal with deep concrete banks either side of a conduit dug into semi-arid land

    It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone?

  • 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

Explainers

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

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

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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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    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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