Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Search jobs
Sign in

Global development

17 April 2025

Supported by

About this content
  • Bowls of fruit and vegetables at a market stall

    Move over, Med diet – plantains and cassava can be as healthy as tomatoes and olive oil, say researchers

    Findings from Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region indicate traditional eating habits in rural Africa can boost the immune system and reduce inflammation

16 April 2025

  • African teenage boys dressed in robes sit in a circle on the floor of a room with books in Arabic script open in front of them

    ‘We feel like we’re back in Senegal’: the Sufis helping migrants in the Canaries

    Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system

15 April 2025

  • Red Crescent workers digging in sand

    The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline

  • At Amarah’s Al-Sadr hospital, medical staff, patients and their families struggle as busy wards overheat and tempers fray.

    Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures

  • A donkey hitched to a harness stands next to a pile of rubble on which can be seen a poster giving information on Safe Havens for Donkeys' free veterinary service

    ‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

  • Men carry bags of food in a distribution centre

    EU will struggle to fill gap left by USAID as European countries cut their budgets

14 April 2025

  • Activists carrying banners and Sudan flags march along a road. One banner reads 'Sanction UAE for funding Sudan genocide' while another says 'hands off Sudan'.

    Leaked UN experts report raises fresh concerns over UAE’s role in Sudan war

    As crucial London peace talks set to begin, report seen by the Guardian raises questions over ‘multiple’ flights into bases in Chad
  • A large crowd of Africans running across a desert-like landscape as black smoke billows from a compound in the background

    Sudan’s news blackout stokes fear and confusion after attack on Zamzam camp

    Families of those living in the vast displacement camp wait for news from Darfur amid reports of hundreds killed by paramilitary RSF

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging

    • The age of extinction
      ‘It looks like I’ve gone 10 rounds with a boxer’: when hay fever becomes debilitating – and potentially deadly

    • Rights and freedom
      ‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina

11 April 2025

  • A man writes on parchment while another man talks to him

    Ink, angels and hard graft: the artists keeping Ethiopia’s ancient illuminated manuscript craft alive

    In an Addis Ababa workshop, sacred texts are painstakingly crafted on goat skin using methods dating back to early Christianity – plus a bit of inspiration from Google Images
  • Bobi Wine wearing a shirt and military beret, holds his fist in a salute

    Bobi Wine to run for president in Uganda’s 2026 election ‘if I am still alive and not in jail’

    Exclusive: Opposition leader says he has ‘no choice’ but to challenge Yoweri Museveni’s regime, despite threats and previous attacks
  • A young African boy points to a child's drawings on a wall of pickup trucks mounted with guns

    Children of war: six orphans’ 1,000-mile journey across Sudan in search of safety

    After dysentery killed their mother and the civil war came to their home in Omdurman, Haroun and his young siblings were forced to set off on an epic quest to reach El Geneina

10 April 2025

  • A man in a cap and sunglasses stands on a beach

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

  • An African worker walks by pipes and chimneys that have steam bellowing out of them

    Opinion
    Africa is proof that investing in climate resilience works – and that it makes good business sense

    William Ruto and Patrick Verkooijen

9 April 2025

  • BRAZIL-UN-COP30-ENVIRONMENT-MINING-DEFORESTATION<br>Aerial view of solar panels next to houses in the village of Metuktire, in the Amazon rainforest of Mato Grosso state, Brazil, taken on March 22, 2025. Metuktire, home to Brazil's most influential indigenous leader, Cacique Raoni Metutkire, has been the heart of a decades-long successful fight against deforestation in a region devastated by illegal mining and other crimes against the rainforest. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP) (Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Solar panels and pristine forest: how one Amazon village is adapting to protect itself – in pictures

    Metuktire, in the Indigenous Capoto-Jarina territory in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, is a pocket of resistance against mining, which has devastated the landscape in nearby areas. The AFP photographer Pablo Porciúncula travelled deep into Mato Grosso state to see how it has staved off deforestation and continued to honour its traditional ways of life – while also facing the threats of miners and the climate crisis
  • A black and white photograph of Alwaleed Abdeen looking happy taken after his graduation

    ‘No one recognised him, even as he said his name’: last video of rescued man shows horror of Sudan torture camps

    Death of well-known Khartoum businessman Alwaleed Abdeen days after his release from an RSF camp prompts wave of mourning
  • A man in a yellow tshirt holds two containers and a height chart that is colour coded and divided into different sections according to height. The tallest section, about the height of a tall adult male, has the number four and a picture of four tablets; the next section down has the number three and three tablets and so on down the pole to child height and the lowest number of tablets.

    ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age-old tropical illnesses

    They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cut

8 April 2025

  • A man on a horse holds the halter of a second horse

    Steppes and the city: how smog has become part of Mongolians’ way of life – in pictures

    Harsh weather is normal in Mongolia but the climate crisis has made conditions even more extreme. As millions of animals die and age-old traditions become harder to maintain, nomadic herders are forced into towns, where coal-fired heating has led to a health crisis
About 25,354 results for Global development
1234...
Explore more on these topics