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  • Bowls of fruit and vegetables at a market stall

    Non-communicable diseases
    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
  • 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

    Migration
    ‘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
  • 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'.

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

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

    The country’s average temperature has risen by 0.48C a decade from 2000. Last August, photographer Susan Schulman visited Baghdad and Amarah, to capture the impact of extreme weather on everyday lives
    • 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

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

    • A large crowd of Africans running across a desert-like landscape as black smoke billows from a compound in the background

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

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

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

    • A young African boy points to a child's drawings on a wall of pickup trucks mounted with guns

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

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Explore

  • A woman holds up a book while another woman screams into it. They are surrounded by women with pro-choice placards.

    A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

    Last week, anti-choice campaigners emboldened by current US politics met in New York at the same time as UN delegates gathered to address the widespread inequalities women face. The battle to protect rights has never felt more urgent
  • A man and a woman in white coats in a medical lab

    ‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa

  • Two people sort through piles of discarded clothes in the Atacama desert

    Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

  • Lots of figures drawn in bold white lines, showing the terrorof people fleeing attack and carrying their children, goods and animals

    ‘Making art made me feel free’: the prison paintings of Myanmar’s Htein Lin

  • A huge number of South Asians are seen walking along between shacks, vehicles and temporary lighting and electricity poles

    The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees

  • A young woman and man in military uniforms standing among trees and shrubs

    ‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war

  • How Karachi’s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan

  • ‘We can talk through our art’: the Malian festival uniting the Sahel’s people

  • Snakes, ‘border madness’ and solo trips: five Nigerian female travellers on their top tips and trickiest moments

  • ‘It’s back to drug rationing’: the end of HIV was in sight. Then came the cuts

  • ‘Shifting the shame’: the young gang-rape survivor spreading awareness on sexual violence

  • Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma

  • ‘If you don’t get early years right, children are unlikely to catch up’: why South Africa is trying to reboot its school system

  • How not to be deported: India’s nurses seeking work abroad learn how to migrate safely

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Rights and freedom

  • A hand holding a card with a prayer in Spanish and a photo of a priest

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

  • A woman dressed in black holds a screaming baby who has feeding tubes attached to her

    Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics

  • A woman in a full black chador-like veil holding a baby, enters a mud-walled compound with a man following holding a box

    ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies

  • Men on a fishing boat at sea at night

    An unexplained death, ‘abuse and slavery’: Indonesian fishers reveal life on long haul vessels

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Sudan

  • Awadin Mohammed, 10, lies on a hospital bed

    Atrocities mount daily. Promised aid does not arrive. Why has the west turned its back on Sudan?

  • A wrecked office with smashed furniture and debris strewn on the ground

    New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

  • A bloodied and torn mattress in front of what appear to be graves with a breeze block at each end

    ‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

  • A woman with a covered head and mouth looks directly at the camera. Behind her another woman sits on a bed comforting a small child, while another woman sits beside her, looking towards the camera.

    Young, old, refugees and returnees: thousands fleeing violence cross border into South Sudan

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Opinion

  • In this Feb. 9, 2018 photo, a Displaced woman holds her baby at a camp, Abyan, Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

    The world is missing out on the real Yemen: we are not just war, we are culture, beauty and love

    Nada Al-Saqaf
  • A woman sits along the broken steps of a partially-collapsed building destroyed by bombardment during the May 2021 confliict between Hamas and Israel, next to a graffiti mural depicting a girl with an English caption below reading "I've dream", in Gaza City on 12 August 2021.

    Trump is tearing up US women’s rights. The message from your sisters in the Arab world? Don’t give up: resistance works

    Hibaaq Osman
  • A man reads a newspaper reporting the impact of the US government aid freeze on Kenya and the rest of Africa.

    Those of us who rely on aid must accept the new reality and shape our own destiny

    Janet Mawiyoo
  • Three women in saris with goods balanced on their head waiting to cross a road as a truck and tuktuk speed past them

    If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
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In pictures

  • A middle-aged Indian woman in salwar kamise poses in a hallway with three smaller embroidered figures of women stitched into the photograph

    Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’

    One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditional needlework to embellish portraits of themselves
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Southern frontlines

  • Three men stand in a clearing next to some freshly-felled and split tree trunks.

    Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging

  • 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)

    Solar panels and pristine forest: how one Amazon village is adapting to protect itself – in pictures

  • A woman holds a sign with a photograph of a Mapuche woman with 'Where is Julia Chuñil' written above it in Spanish, among a crowd of people

    Silence surrounds the disappearance of Chilean grandmother Julia Chuñil. What really happened?

  • An aerial view of a broken road bridge over a river. Many people are standing and walking on the road and on the ground beneath

    How hurricanes Otis and John exposed Acapulco’s big divide and left residents ‘scared for our lives’

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Explainers

  • Members of the Mandalay People's Defence Forces (MDY-PDF) training at a camp in an undisclosed location in Myanmar's northern Shan State.

    Myanmar civil war: a quick guide to the conflict

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

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

  • A staff member sanitises a bed at the MSF cholera treatment unit in Gurei, Juba, South Sudan.

    Dirty water and endless wars: why cholera outbreaks are on the rise again

  • Flowers next to a homemade sign saying RIP USAid, 1961-2025 laid outside the door of the USAid building

    Explainer
    How will Trump and Musk’s freeze on USAid affect millions around the world?

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Multimedia

Multimedia

  • Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic
  • Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips on a boat
  • Shireen Abu Akleh
  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary
  • Still image from documentary, The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan
  • Chris is a reproductive health advocate in the Phillippines

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