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  • Children in northern Kenya dig a hole in a river bed to retrieve water. A Rwandan scientist has found a cheap way to make it safe to drink.

    Britain’s ‘brutal’ cuts to overseas aid put African science projects in peril

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    'I thought he'd want a divorce when he knew': living with HIV in Ivory Coast

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    'I used to see them as a bunch of rioters': Brazil's radical farmers

  • The Vine Heritage Home Foundation is currently home to 116 babies that have been rescued from tribal communities that kill twins at birth.

    'They ensure each twin baby dies': the secret killings in central Nigeria

  • Women sell vegetables and other food in a market on World Food Day in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. The U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization is marking World Food Day on Tuesday, a day dedicated to highlighting the importance of global food security. The FAO said hunger is declining in Asia and Latin America but is rising in Africa. One in eight people around the world goes to bed hungry every night. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

    ‘We are brought up to think suffering this violence is OK’: domestic abuse in Nigeria

  • Mohamad Al Jounde holds up the International Children’s Peace Prize, given to him by Malala Yousafzai (left).

    ‘I knew people who had harder lives than me’ - the Syrian refugee child who started a school

  • 'Aren't men just cleverer than women?': building a feminist city in the Philippines

  • Hairdressing, sewing, cooking – is this really how we're going to empower women?

  • Warm and cuddly global goals? The international community must get real

    Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

  • My mum had HIV and we never even spoke about it – a silence born of stigma

    Charles Pensulo

Ideas

  • Syria. The Old City of Homs has been destroyed by years of conflict.<br>A man scvanages for anything of value he can find, in the destroyed neighbourhood of Khalidiya, the Old City of Homs, Syria. Homs has been witness to some of the worst fighting of the Syrian conflict and the Old City district now lies in ruins. The area is largely uninhabitable however a few people are attempting to return. The fighting stopped in Homs during April 2014 and since then a small number of residents have returned to the area. UNHCR is providing humanitarian aid to the majority of people in Homs with food, core relief items, shelter, protection services, health, education and psycho-social support. One of the biggest challenges facing the returnees is the rebuilding of their homes in old Homs and Hamediyeh, a project supported by UNHCR.

    Male rape and sexual torture in the Syrian war: ‘It is everywhere’

    Sarah Chynoweth
  • South American Indian protest in front of the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia<br>epa04231630 A South American Indian participates in a demonstration in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia, Brazil, 29 May 2014, where a group of about 500 natives from diverse ethnic groups gathered requested a hearing with Brazilian Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo on the demarcation of the indigenous lands in Brazil. According to the Indian Missionary Council (CIMI), the main demand is that the government proceeds with the demarcation and paralyzed procedures to withdraw the draft of the amended ordinance. The Indians also opposed a dialogue negotiation with farmers. EPA/FERNANDO BIZERRA JR.

    Bigotry against indigenous people means we're missing a trick on climate change

    Prakash Kashwan
  • Tropical forest meets the Caribbean Sea at the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge in Limon Province, Costa Rica.<br>BY53A3 Tropical forest meets the Caribbean Sea at the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge in Limon Province, Costa Rica.

    Want to avert the apocalypse? Take lessons from Costa Rica

    Jason Hickel
  • Humanoid robots work side by side with employees in the assembly line at a factory in Kazo, north of Tokyo, Japan.

    The future of jobs: is decent work for all a pipe dream?

    Tim Jackson

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