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  • A man in a white coat passes a probe over a woman's abdomen and looks at a screen.

    AI
    ‘I am happy to see how my baby is bouncing’: the AI transforming pregnancy scans in Africa

    While ultrasound services are normal practice in many countries, software being tested in Uganda will allow a scan without the need for specialists, providing an incentive for pregnant women to visit health services early on
  • A crowded train platform in Mumbai, India

    United Nations
    Global population predictions offer ‘hopeful sign’ for planet, UN says

    Projected high of 10.3bn people is lower and will come earlier than expected, analysis suggests
  • A windowless tiled room with a barred gate. The metal reinforcements for the derelict concrete walls can be seen

    Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

    The cruelties inflicted years ago at Nyayo are barely taught in schools. Now survivors want to help the nation remember
  • A woman wearing Indigenous dress stands on a viewpoint above a lake

    Indonesia
    In the footsteps of tigers: the all-women patrol team protecting Sumatra’s rainforest

    The Leuser ecosystem is the only place in the world where tigers, elephants, orangutans and rhinos coexist in the wild, and Indigenous female rangers are at the heart of its protection
    • A cleaner in Jaipur, India, squats to sweep leaves from a lawn.

      Opinion
      The Hindujas made UK headlines for mistreating their servants. In India no one batted an eye – here’s why

      Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi
    • Rows of small blue-capped glass bottles containing milk.

      Karachi
      Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

    • Screenshot of women celebrating

      Female genital mutilation
      Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM

      Josephine Kamara
    • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

      Burkina Faso
      ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso

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Explore

  • The floodlit football pitch of Las Madres Dragonas de Lavapiés in Madrid. The club plays under a mural that has the message: ‘Socially equally, totally free’.

    Levelling the playing field: the football clubs helping migrants make a new home in Spain

    Every year thousands arrive from South America and Africa, including many young asylum seekers who find hope and opportunity in the game
  • A beach surrounded by trees

    Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise

  • A group of Nigerian women singing together with two playing the drums

    ‘This goes beyond the church’: the Nigerian women in a sisterhood of millions

  • A teenaged African girl poses for a photo clasping hands with a bald European man in a dark suit

    From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century

  • An Indian woman squats down beside a big pile of clay and a mould, with stacks of finished bricks behind her

    Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns

  • K-Zungu at Sisso Records, Dar es Salaam

    ‘I am their voice now’: the Tanzanian rapper with a mission to spread pride in his own colour

  • Under threat of jail, microfinance pioneer vows to keep lending to poorest Bangladeshis

  • Where was African joy at Cannes or African humour at Sundance? The big film festivals need to look beyond stereotypes

    Oris Aigbokhaevbolo

  • ‘Africa has zero PR in the west’: the Nigerian influencer using sarcasm on the clueless

  • A sense of optimism and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is giving respect to unpaid carers

  • My embarrassing condition needs a simple operation – but in Nigeria few can afford it

    Michael Adebisi

  • ‘There is nowhere to fish any more’: life in the shadow of Nigeria’s biggest industrial complex

  • ‘We want to forge ahead’: grief and defiance as Dom Phillips’ widow journeys to site of his death

  • ‘A small respite in the face of horror’: Sudanese artists fleeing war find a safe haven

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Rights and freedom

  • Voters in Iran put their votes into red ballot boxes.

    ‘I feel betrayed by the west’: Iran’s freedom protesters react to their new president

  • A wall mural on a street in Kabul shows protesting women. The foremost woman has her arms raised, but her open mouth has been spraypainted black. Writing in Arabic reads: 'Afghan women will not be silent anymore'

    Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

  • Afghan women in Islamabad hold up posters and placards in a protest demanding to boycott meeting with Taliban in Doha.

    Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most

    Fawzia Koofi
  • A mural showing a woman in a blue headscarf looking away and holding up her hands defensively.,

    Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’

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A common condition

  • Elizabeth Odondi standing by a bridge in a garden

    I told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18

  • Portrait of a black woman sitting in a chair next to a computer with a screensaver reading: 'Brain Health Initiative Nigeria'

    ‘They wanted her to confess to witchcraft’: ending the chilling effects of dementia stigma in Nigeria

    • The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster team team distributes dry food rations. April 2023

      ‘There was no other option’: the aid packages feeding diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands

    • Sayed Ahmed with his arm around his wife Amena Khatun by the Rupsha River in Khulna, Bangladesh

      ‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’
      The deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh

    • A woman seen in silhouette with a cigarette in front of the Philip Morris International logo

      Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’

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In pictures

  • Gabriel Nzaji teaches internally displaced Congolese children the rules of chess rules as part of the Chess in the City initiative at Focus Congo site in Kibati

    Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures

    Chess players from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are introducing children traumatised by violence to the joys of playing the board game
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Southern frontlines

  • A collage of men in hard hats and oil rigs against a backdrop of a map of Mexico

    Mexico’s love affair with Pemex: will its bid to save the fallen oil giant block the shift to clean energy?

  • Illustration with composite of images of oil workers and sites in Argentina

    Argentina’s future lies in the balance as vast oilfields poised for extraction

  • Illustration with composite images from Ecuador including an Indigenous man, trains, forest and an oil can

    ‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence

  • Illustration of composite images from Brazil

    Pristine forests and grinding poverty: why shouldn’t Brazil’s Amapá state embrace oil wealth?

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Explainers

  • Families arrive on a beach in Mozambique carrying belongings wrapped in fabric bundles on their heads

    At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

  • A man in a balaclava holding a rifle looks back at the camera while walking along a dirt street

    What caused the civil war in Sudan and how has it become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?

  • Photo of the World Health Organization (WHO) logo displayed on screen with medical syringes and vaccine vials

    What is the pandemic accord and why have negotiations been so difficult?

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river

    Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?

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Multimedia

Multimedia

  • 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
  • Eyewitness: hell on high waters - video

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