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  • A child reaching towards the camera sits on the lap of a woman who is holding a leaflet that reads 'Malaria vaccine is now available'

    Aid cuts
    Anti-malaria funding cuts could lead to ‘deadliest resurgence ever’, study warns

    Expected reduction in contributions by wealthy countries likely to cost millions of lives and billions in lost growth
  • AI-generated image of a girl with a black eye taken from a charity campaign against child marriage. The girl is dark skinned, wears a head covering, and the words 'something blue...' appear on the left of the image.

    Exclusive
    AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies

    Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost
  • A blurred, unidentifiable woman walks past an artwork by Athina Robie depicting Aids awareness ribbons in Syntagma metro station, Athens.

    UNAids is set to close in 2026 – four years early. Are experts right to be alarmed?

  • Two Latina women in face-masks tap syringes as scores of masked people behind them in nurses uniforms stand at long tables with sharps disposal bins and other medical equipment

    Measles
    US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts

  • People stand around eight coffins wrapped in Palestinian Red Crescent flags

    ICC
    Nursing unions call for UK to back prosecutions for war crimes against health workers

  • Sudanese residents gather to receive free meals in Al Fasher, a city besieged by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in Darfur region, on August 11, 2025. RSF attacked a famine-hit refugee camp in North Darfur state on August 11, 2025, killing at least 40 civilians and injuring 19 others, rescuers said. Al-Fasher is the last city in the western Darfur region still held by the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary group since April 2023. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

    Sudan
    Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report

  • A lab technician takes a sample from a white substance on a petri dish

    ‘As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?’

    Dr Manica Balasegaram
  • A group of women pose on a runway made of wooden pallets with colourful cloth as a backdrop, People sit in chairs surrounding the models.Gikomba market near central Nairobi, Kenya

    Textiles
    Could ‘trash fashion’ save this Nairobi neighbourhood from drowning in discarded western clothes?

  • The night sky above the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle, a remote Himalayan village in Ladakh.

    India
    ‘The universe has opened up for us’: meet the astro-ambassadors who welcome stargazers to the Himalayas

  • A doctor and patients sit in a hospital waiting area

    Global health
    High youth death rates are an ‘emerging crisis’, global health study warns

Explore

  • Close-up of one of Samini Kazungu’s feet, with flip-flop, next to her youngest child’s feet, Unaya Ndogo, Kenya.

    ‘Just money, with no strings attached’: how direct cash transfers are giving women in rural Kenya a new life

    Financial support given directly to the women in rural Kilifi county has cut both infant mortality and deaths among under fives, while boosting village businesses
  • An African mother and her baby consult a female African medic in a clinic.

    ‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

  • Six women wearing karate gis, headscarves and surgical face masks take a fighting stance in a park

    ‘It’s more than martial arts – we teach courage’: the Afghan sisters honing karate skills in Iran

  • A man stands on top of a large pile of clothing outside. Another man appears to be on a small ladder reaching part way up the pile.

    Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick

  • A man and children sit in exposed rooms in a heavily damaged building near the Unknown Soldier Tower, which was destroyed by overnight Israeli bombardment, in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City on September 15, 2025.

    My life in Gaza: ‘We burned our copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four to bake bread. What would Orwell think of us now?’

  • A pregnant woman wearing a burqa walks with a small boy between makeshift camps in Gaza

    ‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza

  • Carvings of twins wearing coats made out of small shells

    Seeing double: the wooden carvings that celebrate the Yorùbá’s unique connection to twins

Rights and freedom

  • At the front of a group of children in warm clothing, three boys kneel on bare earth holding pens and paper.

    ‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school

  • Two girls and their mother, dressed in traditional Palestinian black robes with elaborate red embroidery, standing together in a garden

    At 12 an Israeli missile ‘ripped off’ her face. Now Mazyouna is safe in the US – but not all the scars have healed

  • A sign is held up that reads 'Gen Z won't be silent'.

    ‘This generation is defiant’: Gen Z protests set to resume in Morocco despite deaths and arrests

  • Manar al-Houbi with her husband, Mohammed al-Shaikh.

    Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK

Sudan

  • Makka Ibraheem Mohammed 5 A young woman sits on a bed looking away as an older woman feeds a baby

    ‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps

  • A group of people fill water cans at a water point in muddy ground at a camp for displaced people

    ‘I feel broken’: hardship bites for thousands of South Sudanese stranded and unable to get home

  • Composite illustration of news events in El Fasher, Sudan in the summer of 2025

    ‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher

  • A tent lined with beds, where patients lie receiving medication and fluids through drips.

    Sudan cholera outbreak kills 40 in a week as health centres overwhelmed

Opinion

  • A monumental sculpture of a hand holding an oil drilling rig

    As US warships prowl the Caribbean, our region must hold fast against Trump’s gaslighting

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • A formal group shot of 14 women, many wearing clothes traditional to various African countries. On either side of them branded signage promotes the Amujae Leadership Forum

    Let women lead. From peacekeeping to hunger, health to climate, the world will benefit

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Sahle-Work Zewde
  • A woman in a green dress lies next to a malnourished child on blankets on the dirt ground.

    ‘A donkey cart out of El Fasher costs more than a new car’: how 500 days under siege is tearing the city apart

  • A protester in a hijab holds up paintings portraying starving Palestinian children during a rally in solidarity with the Palestinian people, in Sana'a, Yemen, 20 August 2025.

    In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children

    Elham Al-Oqabi

In pictures

  • A woman in a voluminous white skirt, cropped top, yellow flower sunglasses and red flower hair decoration stands on what appears to be a dress surrounded by grey concrete walls

    Women behind the lens: ‘I thought, who is this woman? I need to know her’

    Indian artist Indu Antony was mesmerised when she first saw 78-year-old Cecilia and has put her at the heart of a project that interrogates women’s safety in public spaces and celebrates friendship

Southern frontlines

  • A young Indigenous woman holding a baby in a street looks at the camera. Two other women and a man stand with her. All are wearing matching navy blue T-shorts with Oco Bain written on them, and have brown symbols drawn on their cheeks

    Can Colombia embrace clean energy without damaging the Amazon?

  • A village surrounded by dramatic snow-topped mountains

    This Patagonian village has glacier-fed rivers and majestic scenery. The only problem? Sewage

  • Protesters wearing bandannas over their faces, and a woman with a megaphone, march down a street carrying a banner in a Mayan language

    Trouble brewing: Maya people in Yucatán fear new Heineken plant’s thirst for water

  • Tractors unload rocks from a barge directly on to the banks of the Madeira River, Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.

    How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Explainers

  • 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?

  • A masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

    Are we ready for another pandemic?

  • A woman on a street walks past a black and white mural of a woman covering her face with her arms, with the words 'Stop killing women' written across them in red

    What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

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

Multimedia

  1. 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.

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

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

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

  3. A layer of smog hanging over Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia
    Today in Focus

    Ulaanbaatar: a warning from the coldest capital on Earth - podcast

    Podcast

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