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  • Three African teenagers stand in a theatre auditorium

    ‘We’re a singing nation’
    South African opera takes lead role on world stage

    Five South Africans are competing in the prestigious Operalia, being held in Africa for the first time. Now, thanks to Cape Town’s Foundation Studio, talented youngsters from the townships are becoming part of the art form’s evolution
  • Men and boys wait in a line with jerry cans and other containers

    Lack of clean drinking water for 95% of people in Gaza threatens health crisis

    Polluted water supplies and salty groundwater are making people ill, with UN warning of threat of child deaths from dehydration
  • A still from Chaityabhumi shows a crowd gathered at a rally with a backdrop of Bhimrao Ambedkar.

    From ‘untouchable’ to architect of India’s constitution
    New film tells story of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

    Documentary looks at lasting popularity of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, one of the founders of modern India, who championed the rights of Dalits
  • Palestinians use a donkey-drawn cart as a means of transportation

    Gaza diary part 15
    ‘I am completely numb. I don’t have the energy to be hopeful’

    Ziad, a 35-year-old Palestinian, recounts another day in Gaza: a new month – but what will it bring? And will the real challenge come when the situation ends?
    • King Charles III sitting in an ornate armchair with British and Kenya flags in the background

      King Charles’s ‘deep regret’ for colonial atrocities was a ‘miss’, Kenyans say

    • An Arab man in a suit, surrounded by other men in suits, addresses a conference

      Pain and suffering take time to heal, as the Iraqi people know only too well

      Mohammed Shia al-Sudani
    • Mahsa Yazdani with her son, Mohammad Javad Zahedi

      Iranian mother jailed for 13 years after denouncing death of son shot at protest

    • Three islands of San Bernardo are seen here: foreground is Murcura, then behind, very small, Santa Cruz island then last is Tintipan island.

      ‘All we can do now is run away’
      Is time up for the sinking Colombian islands of San Bernardo?

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Explore

  • Nhial Deng, who last month won a UN global student prize worth $100,000, will use half of the cash to build a library at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

    ‘There are no better experts on refugees than refugees’: Nhial Deng on why politicians need to listen

    At 11, the South Sudanese refugee was forced to flee his Ethiopian village and spent several years in Kakuma camp in Kenya. His work helping others there won UN recognition and a prestigious award – now he’s planning to fund a library
  • African children playing outside in an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya

    US Aids fund: What is the Pepfar fight and what does it mean for Africa?

  • A female cricketer swinging her bat at a ball

    Are women getting angrier? Maybe they’re just giving themselves permission to show it

    Pragya Agarwal
  • Sindhi Chhokri (Urooj Fatima), 22, and Toxic Sufi (Mohammad Kapri), 18, who perform as the Pahnji Gang.

    Resistance rappers: the Pahnji Gang raging against the machine in Pakistan

  • Rescue teams and members of Libyan Red Crescent search for dead bodies at a beach, in the aftermath of the floods in Derna.

    ‘Towns were erased’: Libyan reporters on the ‘horrifying, harrowing’ aftermath of floods

  • Inmates at El Buen Pastor women’s prison in Bogota, Colombia.

    I spent nine years in a Colombian women’s prison. This is what I learned

    Claudia Cardona

  • ‘I want to see the first African woman in space’: the Kenyan stargazer bringing astronomy to the people

  • ‘They don’t want to give power to girls’: the women shaking up Colombia’s graffiti scene

  • Grubby, cruel and cheap: Suella Braverman stoops low with her bogus refugee figures

    Peter Beaumont

  • From garrison town to goldrush city: life in Africa’s youngest capital

  • ‘As important as oxygen’
    Lebanon refugee children return to learning

  • ‘It’s a forever pain, an unfathomable pain​’
    Families remember Trinidad’s femicide victims​

  • Disappeared in the desert
    Bodies lie in the sand in Niger while Europe pours millions into blocking migration route

  • ‘We felt that we are one’
    How Turkish musicians welcomed Syrian refugees

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Rights and freedom

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  • Police officers with detained Afghan immigrants crowded into a van in Quetta, Pakistan.

    Pakistan starts mass deportation of undocumented Afghans

  • A woman in a headscarf

    Iran arrests lawyer at funeral of girl who died after metro incident

  • Ikram Nurmehmet is under arrest in China.

    Trial of Uyghur film-maker to begin in China this week

  • Two pairs of hands, one on either side of a tangle of green ribbon.

    ‘Women need to know it is no longer a crime’: Mexico’s abortion companions – in pictures

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A common condition

  • The London skyline seen through smog

    Colombia and Mali leading efforts to improve air quality, new ranking finds

  • A glucose test being conducted

    Global survey finds diabetes goes undiagnosed in 40% of cases

    • Young cancer patients take part in a painting competition in a hospital in Chandigarh, northern India.

      ‘No child should die’
      The US hospital leading a global fight against childhood cancer

    • Buns in plastic packaging hang from a snack stall by the side of a road in Dhaka.

      Snack attack
      How the west exported unhealthy eating to Africa and Asia

    • A group of South African women gather around a table with a blood pressure monitor on it.

      ‘We need to act on the scale we did for HIV’
      South Africa struggles to avert a diabetes ‘car crash’

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In pictures

  • La desaparición y muerte masivaBeekeepers and scientists in protective clothing inspect beehives with bees flying all around.

    Women behind the lens: the female beekeepers who hold ‘the keys to a better world’

    Photographer Gabriela Portilho found inspiration in a trailblazing group of women who improved their own lives while caring for the environment
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Women's rights & gender equality

  • A march for the Sisters Not Strangers movement, a coalition of groups representing refugee and asylum-seeking women to end destitution and reject inhumane policies.

    I never thought, 30 years after I fled Rwanda, life would be worse for female refugees

    Alphonsine Kabagabo
  • Asel Nogoibaeva in the hospital bed. She was viciously attacked by her ex-husband in Kyrgyzstan, despite reporting death threats to the police and his conviction for raping her.

    ‘Why must we be silent?’: horrific attack in Kyrgyzstan puts focus on violence against women

  • Protest for approval of law to remove statute of limitations for sexual crimes against minors<br>epa10896401 A sign reads 'Justice cannot wait' as women participate in a protest calling for parliament to approve laws against sexual crimes in La Paz, Bolivia, 02 October 2023. Dozens of activists mobilized this 02 October in La Paz to call for the Bolivian Parliament to approve a bill that would remove the statute of limitations for sexual crimes against minors, which was rejected by the Legislature a few days ago. EPA/LUIS GANDARILLAS

    Threats against rape victim, 10, lay bare Bolivia’s culture of sexual violence

  • An enclosed yard with high walls

    Revealed: allegations of abuse and captivity without pay at UAE’s lucrative recruitment agencies

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Crisis Nigeria

  • Friday Sani, left, with his daughters Rejoice, second left, and Victory, second right, who were among 39 students kidnapped from their college.

    How risk of kidnap became the cost of an education in Nigeria

  • Workers at Nigeria’s first refinery, built in 1965 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in September 2015

    A wealth of sorrow: why Nigeria’s abundant oil reserves are really a curse

  • People receive the Covid vaccine at a health centre in Lagos, Nigeria.

    Nigeria unlikely to reach ‘impossible’ 40% Covid vaccine target

  • A demonstrator with the Nigerian national flag where someone has written "Ends SARS Now"

    ‘The lights went out and the shooting started’: #EndSars protesters find no justice one year on

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