‘I fear people will go to war over water’: as wells run dry, farmers struggle to survive in Bangladesh
The arid Barind region was transformed by aquifer wells but now the water system is collapsing under the pressure of the climate crisis and decades of extraction
A middle-aged Nigerian woman cuddles four small lapdogs
Nigeria
‘Now people stop to ask their names and even stroke them’: Nigerians embrace dogs as pets
As social attitudes shift and concern for animal rights grows, the dog meat tradition in many parts of Nigeria is increasingly being questioned
Zeynab Adan and her children stand infront of their shelter in an IDP camp in Mogadisu's Kahda district Somalia humanitarian crisis
Somalia
Drought and floods drove them from their homes. But hunger and poverty have followed them to a Mogadishu camp
A woman in a pink dress stands at a podium
It’s no surprise that an AI-faked presidential speech condemning foreign exploitation went viral – the world is suffering from a leadership vacuum
Kenneth Mohammed
Four African women by a billboard advertising the 4th African inter-parliamentary conference on family values and sovereignty
Sexual and reproductive rights
‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous
A man and boy sit on the porch f a simple concrete house in Nigeria.
Kidnapping
Gunshots at 9am. Then they rounded up the children: how Chibok-style school abductions are spreading in Nigeria
People use long poles to carry bodies wrapped in cloth
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rebel attacks in eastern DRC kill 30 people and hamper Ebola response
Six people including Denis Mukwege and Ellen Sirleaf in hard hats stand in a warehouse with blue racking
Global health
Hard hats, AI and a fake pandemic: the group of former world leaders practising to save the world
A group set up by Nelson Mandela known as the Elders met in Kenya to model a health emergency – and found much still needs to be done, as the subsequent Ebola outbreak has shown
A stall piled with local produce including potatoes, green. beans, tomatoes, pumpkin, types of sweet potato and fruit.
Ultra-processed foods
Just what the doctor ordered: how Brazil’s hospital staff are becoming foodies
Displaced Palestinians scramble on top of a truck, reaching for aid supplies in Gaza
Conflict
Hunger increasingly used as weapon of war as ‘food-related violence’ surges, analysis shows
A young African woman in a headdress and loose gown speaks into a mic at an outdoors rally
Calls for release of Sierra Leonean singer jailed in ‘crackdown on free speech’
A room full of blackened and melted debris and rows of empty metal shelves
Civil conflict
On Monday morning it was a busy South Sudan hospital. By Tuesday night it was a bombed-out shell
A young man stands with his arms folded next to rails of fashionable clothing.
Employment
‘A passion, but also a gamble’: why India’s gen Z are cashing in on the trend for secondhand fashion
DRCONGO-HEALTH-VIRUS-EBOLAA young girl washes her hands before entering Kyeshero Hospital at a checkpoint for hand washing and temperature screening for all visitors and patients entering Kyeshero Hospital, as part of Ebola prevention measures in Goma on May 18, 2026. A first case of Ebola virus infection has been reported in Goma, a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo controlled by the M23 armed group, with the WHO declaring an international health alert on May 17, 2026. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP via Getty Images)
Pandemic preparedness
Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts
Displaced people wait in line for food aid at a camp in Sudan.
More than 1ドルbn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens
A group of mainly women and children wait with empty bowls and pots outside near a tree.
Sudan civil war
Anger at ‘bloody unacceptable’ efforts to end Sudan’s war as conflict enters fourth year
Two women walk past a corrugated wall carrying Arabic writing and silhouettes of young people
Sudan is not lost. Here at last is a way to break the cycle of violence in our country
Abdalla Hamdok
Opinion
Five women wearing headscarves hold each other tightly.
The real danger of Islamophobia? It rarely announces itself as hatred yet shapes how millions think
Kenneth Mohammed
Halima Begum
Aid
The dinosaurs of international aid must adapt or die – their expensive era is over
Halima Begum
A man crouches over an axle, surrounded by piles of car parts while other men sit on chairs in groups.
I ran aid programmes for 25 years – getting my car fixed at an Islamabad market taught me why they don’t work
Mohammad Altaf Afridi
Susan Kihika stands behind a podium next to a man in judicial robes holding a Bible.
Online abuse is silencing women on a staggering scale – it’s a democratic crisis
Sharon Kechula
In pictures
A transgender woman in a bright red and green sari dances among drummers and onlookers outdoors.
‘It’s like a trans-Barbie world!’: the Indian festival where transgender women can celebrate without fear
The annual gathering at Koovagam is rooted in an ancient poem. Five trans attendees talk about what the event means to them in light of a controversial change to the country’s gender recognition law
An aerial view of Billings reservoir in São Paulo, showing the Jardim Apurá neighbourhood and Favela da Fumaça.
‘Good lord, what a smell’: can Brazil’s biggest city save a vital source of water from sewage, bacteria and organised crime?
Young trees shade a sandy pathway and area where small groups of people are sitting with waves visible in the background.
From barren shores to green oases: how a surfer looking for shade ended up transforming Costa Rica’s coastline
Photomontage of an egret, an oil refinery, a bus and two men by a motorbike filling jerrycans on a background of the Jamaican flag
The race for oil: will Jamaica be the next country to drill and what does that mean for its green pledges?
A large building surrounded by air vents which are sending plumes of steam into the air, with mountains in the background.
‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
Explainers
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?
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?
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.
‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam
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
Newsletters
A thick plume of black smoke rises over buildings
A massacre, an airstrike on children and a message from prison: our stories are not easy but they must be told
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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