A young African woman in a headdress and loose gown speaks into a mic at an outdoors rally
Women in prison
Calls for release of Sierra Leonean singer jailed in ‘crackdown on free speech’
Women harvest wheat in a field
Free up fertiliser supplies to avert global food crisis, Yvette Cooper urges
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)
Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts
A man hands a cement block to another man who is building the walls of a house. Palm trees can be seen behind them.
‘It fails under testing, but it’s what we have’: ban forces Palestinians to make their own cement from rubble
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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
Ebola outbreak kills 65 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Marlboro maker accused of ‘exploiting’ young people with new global ad campaign
‘A passion, but also a gamble’: why India’s gen Z are cashing in on the trend for secondhand fashion
On Monday morning it was a busy South Sudan hospital. By Tuesday night it was a bombed-out shell
‘It’s like a trans-Barbie world!’: the Indian festival where transgender women can celebrate without fear
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘We are treading heavily on the Earth’: Ailton Krenak on consumerism, shock tactics and how to sleep in a hammock
‘It’s like we went bankrupt overnight’: poorest Somalis suffer as piles of worthless shillings mount up
Rights and freedom
Nobel laureate’s smuggled memoir details beatings and neglect in Iranian prisons
The Guardian view on the WHO pandemic treaty: the west’s fantasy negotiations have put the world at risk
Cape Verde bets on tech to reverse postcolonial brain drain
Guardian reporter and colleagues detained and beaten by Somali police
Women in prison
Woman jailed in Somalia for peaceful protest ‘stripped, kicked and beaten’
Rights and freedom
‘They have built a machine that pulls out their mother tongue’: why Tibet’s children ‘think they are Chinese’
Cut borrowing costs for poorer countries to free up 900ドルbn for development – report
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