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  • A smiling South African woman stands before a field of cabbages and other crops

    Farming
    Africa’s small-scale revolution against big agriculture: five farmers talk greener, better food

    Devotees of agroecology tell the Guardian about their rejection of chemicals and fertilisers to create diverse and thriving crops
  • People wait for a food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycée Marie Jeanne in Port-au-Prince on 30 September 2024

    Hunger crisis
    Gang violence leaves Haiti facing ‘worst hunger emergency in the western hemisphere’

    Half the country’s population now struggling to find food as lawlessness and inflation cause ‘full-blown crisis’, say aid agencies
  • A young woman with her back to us

    I was forced to have sex or I would not eat. Then I found a way to escape my traffickers

    Gift*
    I was 19 when I was tricked into travelling to Ivory Coast and sexually exploited, but now the police are helping me return to Nigeria
  • People on a road west of El Fasher who have fled the city.

    South Sudan
    ‘In El Fasher you face only death’: Sudan city empties as paramilitaries close in

    Hungry people run risk of shelling, bandits and militias on roads out as Rapid Support Forces try to take city
    • A group of five Iranian women sitting on the floor, with tea and smoking through water pipes. The sea can be seen through the door and windows beyond.

      Photography
      Women behind the lens: ‘I felt as if I was part of the family, like I had many grandmothers’

    • A blonde woman lying down in a lime-green dress and platform shoes

      Opinion
      The best fashion statement you can make this season? Buy pre-loved

    • Juliana Loshiro talking to her students

      Yaakunte
      Growing a ‘word forest’: the Kenyan teacher trying to save her language from extinction

    • A shot looking upwards at a woman climbing a sheer wall of ice. She smiles at the camera and holds up an ice pick, while the wind blows her skirt, which has red and pink flowers on it and frilly bright pink petticoats underneath.

      Mountain climbing
      ‘I’ve never worn trousers up a mountain and I never will’: a Bolivian cholita climber on sexism and her next summit

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Explore

  • A young black African man wearing sunglasses and a cap performs on stage

    ‘There’s never been a greater time to be a Nigerian artist’: but is there room for the next Burna Boy?

    Stars such as Wizkid, Davido, Rema and Burna Boy have achieved wide international acclaim. But the surge of interest from big record labels is making it tougher for aspiring artists to break through
  • A woman with a parasol walks past a VW Beetle parked in residential neighbourhood of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Ethiopia’s Beetle mania: how an entire country fell in love with Volkswagen’s quirky classic

  • The market at McLeod Ganj.

    Tourist boom threatens to swamp Indian mountain town where Dalai Lama took refuge

  • Two mud-brick buildings with blue doors

    ‘There’s a lot to be built still’: the architect Mariam Issoufou on excavating the past to build Africa’s future

  • A woman stands in a refugee camp

    Gaza is hell for aid workers – and it is doubly difficult if you are a woman

    Buthaina Subeh
  • Composite image of female film-makers Priscila Tapajowara, Fiona Tande and Rita Banerji

    ‘Always outsiders, always men, always white’: how women are changing the narrative of wildlife film-making

  • Out of the ruins: film inspired by slum clearance in Nigeria opens in Toronto

  • The gardener of Gaza: sowing hope by growing vegetables amid the rubble

  • ‘Not a soul is left in my village’: the displaced Lebanese caught in crossfire on Israeli border

  • ‘I wasn’t sure I’d make it’: how a new mother’s brush with TB could mean better treatment for pregnant women

  • ‘A revolution is building’: can young people force change across Africa?

  • Televisions, fridges and water pumps: why solar power means a brighter future for Gujarat’s salt farmers

  • Feast your eyes: the Ugandan artist serving up a potent mix of food, art and family

  • ‘What’s more important, my dream or the women of Afghanistan?’: breakdancer Manizha Talash on her Olympic protest

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Rights and freedom

  • An Arab woman with her head uncovered walking down a street in a T-shirt and dungarees while listening to earphones

    Saudi fitness instructor stabbed in face while jailed over women’s rights posts

  • An older woman wearing black rimmed glasses and a black top speaks into a microphone while standing next to a smiling middle-aged woman in a white headscarf also wearing black rimmed-glasses.

    Meryl Streep: ‘A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan’

  • A woman walks past two people sitting on a bench, one under blankets

    Ukrainians face growing homelessness crisis at home and abroad, report finds

  • A young child receives a vaccine shot while their sibling waits behind them. The healthcare workers are covered head to toe in burkas.

    Afghanistan risks polio outbreak as Taliban restricts women from delivering vaccines

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Sudan

  • SUDAN-CONFLICT-POLITICS<br>Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on Army Day in Gadaref on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Sudan needs an exceptional humanitarian endeavour to end its horrific civil war

    Mukesh Kapila
  • A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp

    Sudan peace talks
    Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

  • Recurring Floods In South Sudan Displace Refugees And Host Communities<br>BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN - NOVEMBER 28: A group of women walk along a dyke protecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and their host community, from further flooding on November 28, 2023 in Bentiu, South Sudan. Climate change has divided South Sudan into land that is experiencing unprecedented flooding or drought, with record flooding creating widespread displacement, the destruction of livelihoods and the loss of arable land which all contribute to rising hunger and cases of malnutrition. The ongoing war in Sudan has caused displacement of over 3.3 million people, some redirected refugees travelling back to South Sudan. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

    Climate crisis
    A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?

  • Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.

    Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

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A common condition

  • A medical worker guides a patient as they walk in a hospital ward

    As a cancer care expert, my fears over my own diagnosis run deeper than just curing the disease

    Jeff Dunn
  • 2024 оны нэгдүгээр сарын 4. Хавдарын үндэсний төв. ГЭРЭЛ ЗУРГИЙГ Б.БЯМБА-ОЧИР/MPA Image from an interview at the National Cancer Center, Mongolia

    Mongolia’s ambitious programme to tackle cancer death rates reaches 40% of population

  • Sad young African man thinking and looking depressed

    Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum

  • 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

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In pictures

  • A man wearing blue PPE overalls walks between barriers made of orange netting and wood past roughly constructed buildings made of wood with tin roofs.

    Inside the camp on the frontline of the DRC’s mpox epidemic – in pictures

    With more than 16,000 cases recorded so far this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is at the centre of the mpox epidemic that led the World Health Organization to declare it a global public health emergency. Photographer Moses Sawasawa visited Goma to report on the outbreak
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Southern frontlines

  • A mural depicting a man with his hands in a coffee bag and a woman with one hand on a boy's shoulder and another balancing a basket of coffee beans on her head

    ‘It used to be a farm – now it’s a mall’: how El Salvador’s crisis-hit coffee producers are trying to adapt

  • Members of a fire brigade work to extinguish a fire rising in Amazon rainforest in Brazil, on 8 August 2024.

    ‘The Earth is crying out for help’: as fires decimate South America, smoke shrouds its skies

  • Aerial image of a construction site in a forest clearing

    From pristine forest to prison fortress: why Ecuador is sacrificing fragile ecosystems to build jails

  • Lago Colhue Huapi 1 Lake Colhue Huapi 9 Nov 2023,

    ‘We used to sail and fish and play’: how did an Argentinian lake the size of New York City disappear?

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Explainers

  • This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue)

    What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

  • 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?

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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

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