Somaliland’s population was scattered across the globe by a civil war in the late 1980s. During summer the population of its capital swells with diaspora visitors. Words and photographs by Kate Stanworth

Trees, graveyards and everyday life are being encroached upon by rising sea levels on the Solomon Islands. Local people are trying to adapt

Photographer Ozzie Hoppe hitchhiked through India with truck drivers to document the daily lives of those working in the second largest source of employment in India

More than 180,000 people were rescued from the Mediterranean and taken to Italy in 2016. Photographer Cesar Dezfuli captures the daily lives of migrants in the town of Biella

Either side of the Azerbaijan-Armenia border, people live in the midst of a long-standing conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Local residents and professional photographers document their daily lives

In El Salvador, one of six countries where abortion is banned under any circumstances, women have been told to avoid pregnancy due to the Zika virus. With support from the International Women’s Media Foundation, photographer Nadia Shira Cohen captures their stories in her series Yo no di a Luz

A group of Syrian teenagers have been practicing parkour in the rebel-held town of Inkhil, amid the damaged buildings and rubble. They say it helps distract them from the atmosphere of war

Around 13,000 people live off the tailings of the PT Freeport Indonesia goldmine in Papua. Photographer Vembri Waluyas visited the settlement on the Ajkwa river to document their lives

Once thought to be on the brink of extinction, photographer Katherine Needles finds Peru’s Amahuaca people flourishing on ancestral lands, their culture bound by community and kinship

Cancer is the third highest cause of death in Kenya and those who suffer from it often cannot afford treatment. On World Health Day, Georgina Goodwin’s photography tells the stories of six patients

As a growing number of white people train as sangomas – shamans or traditional health practitioners – Corinna Kern documented details of the lengthy and arduous initiation ceremony

The all-women Arslankoy Theatre Group performs plays about domestic violence and education in small villages in Turkey. Tara Todras-Whitehill spent time with the players in 2013, photographing their lives on and off the stage

Fulvio Bugani travelled to one of the few still-inhabited villages in the Greater Caucasus mountains and documented the lives of the Tusheti, defined by tradition and ancient customs

Each day, thousands of women carry heavy bundles across the Morocco–Melilla border. Fernando del Berro documented their journeys

Facing deforestation on their lands and marginalisation by foreigners, the Asmat people of West Papua, Indonesia, often suffer a crisis of identity

At the Alasitas festival this week Bolivians offer up models of their desires to Ekeko, the Andean god of abundance. Photographer Eduardo Leal captures some of the most popular

The Raute are hunter gatherers, only 156 now survive and are resisting attempts to move into permanent settlements. Jan Møller Hansen spent three days travelling from Kathmandu to reach a remote forest to document their lives

Hundreds were evacuated as flames raged across Chile’s port city on 2 January. The fires hit poorer communities in wooden houses worst and left many without homes

The Njuri-Ncheke elders of the Ameru community in Kenya are responsible for passing on knowledge across generations. Here they explain why they are joining the fight against FGM

Reuters photographer Ammar Abdullah captures rare quiet nights in the province of Idlib in north-west Syria before the announcement of a ceasefire between the Assad government and rebels