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  • An African man, in a cage, being put in handcuffs by a uniformed officer.

    Dr Kizza Besigye
    Lawyer for Ugandan opposition politician ‘arrested and tortured’

    Eron Kiiza, who was representing regime opponent Dr Kizza Besigye, was assaulted and sentenced to nine months’ jail, say colleagues
  • Man in military fatigues is removed from a meeting room full of smartly dressed people.

    Israel-Gaza war
    ‘I realised we’re such hypocrites’: how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over Gaza

    As images of the war flooded social media and news reports, disillusioned ex-military personnel increased their efforts to pressurise the administration to stop arming Israel
  • The flag of Ambazonia, the anglophone breakaway state in north-west and south-west Cameroon.

    Cameroon
    ‘The fight is existential’: Cameroon’s anglophone leaders lead a revolution from behind bars

    Julius Ayuk Tabe and other ‘Ambazonian’ activists speak from a prison where they still call for an independent state
  • A composite showing Tsitsi Dangarembga from Zimbabwe, Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Mubanga Kalimamukwento from Zambi

    Literature
    Africa has no shortage of celebrated writers – so why is it so hard for African readers to get hold of their books?

    Across the continent books can be expensive and libraries scarce. But growing numbers of tech innovators and independent publishers are working to make African literature available and affordable
    • Medical workers in gowns remove their latex gloves outside a house made of red mud bricks, watched by a group of people.

      Marburg virus disease
      Suspected outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease kills eight in Tanzania

    • Protesters stand in front of a window in which the Apple logo can be seen. They carry a sheet on which 'Hands Off Congo' is written in green paint.

      Democratic Republic of the Congo
      Halt illegal imports of conflict minerals from DRC, campaigners urge EU

    • A wounded and shirtless man lies down with medical equipment around him. Two other people stand next to him, one wearing a blue press vest

      Under Fire
      ‘Fadi is fighting for his life’: Israel blocks evacuation of cameraman shot in Gaza

    • A farmer bends down in the middle of a field of rice

      Food security
      Nobel prize winners call for urgent ‘moonshot’ effort to avert global hunger catastrophe

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Explore

  • A group of older people in swimming caps in a swimming pool

    ‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City

    A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods
  • Tayo Aina sitting in front of some colourful buildings

    Getting creative: African YouTubers and TikTokers search for ways to make it pay

  • People take photographs of themselves in front of a statue of Pharaoh Rameses II in the main hall of the museum

    Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025

  • Thelma Cabrera standing in a crop field of cane

    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part two

  • Composite of portraits of three female African politicians

    Fighting for change: why the road to parliament is still rocky for women across Africa

  • Two men sit at a table, which has a banner on front saying 'Ministry of National Security' and a screen behind saying 'Government of the Republic of Trinidad archipelago/Ministry of National Security.

    Trinidad and Tobago’s streets are a bloodbath. Yet all our politicians offer are platitudes

    Kenneth Mohammed

  • Threadbare facilities, high mortality, cats in the corridors: the realities of life for new Rohingya mothers in Cox’s Bazar

  • In Gaza we were the happiest family I could imagine. Then came the worst days of my life

    Fadwa al-Masry

  • ‘Left at the mercy of jihadists’: Niger’s junta fails to curb surge in violence

  • Despite oppression and far-right gains, feminists still dare to dream

    Faye Macheke

  • Lonely graves, scattered bones: the stark reality of one of the most overlooked and fastest-growing migration routes

  • Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity

  • ‘This is incredible’: a new generation of music lovers discovers the 70s sounds of the Lijadu Sisters

  • ‘Each step we take is an escape’: the intrepid hikers exploring war-torn Yemen

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Rights and freedom

  • Sam Pordale in a black top by an orange wall

    Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban

  • A young woman wearing a headscarf is seen in silhouette against a net-curtained window.

    The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage

  • A family sit on the ground beside their belongings on a horse cart

    ‘If you are black, you are finished’: the ethnically targeted violence raging in Sudan

  • A long line of people sitting on the sand in the desert beside a border wall

    Libya expels 600 Nigeriens in ‘dangerous and traumatising’ desert journey

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Sudan

  • A woman stirs a huge pot while others look on

    ‘Deeply inspiring and humbling’: how neighbourhoods in Sudan are coming together to fill gaps left by foreign aid

  • Starbursts of thick brown smoke and projectiles explode in midairThe Galix System features up to 24 mortar-like launchers for decoys and less-lethal ammunition. Three variants of the control system are available. Lacroix Defense Vehicle Survivability Galix AOS Passive Countermeasures For light vehicles, - an autonomous GALIX system with a manual launch option. For combat vehicles - when a threat emerges unexpectedly, a fully automated variant of the system comprising a variety of sensors, including laser warning sensors, will take action . For "group protection" - launchers may also be utilized to provide protection to vehicules operating nearby.

    French military systems in Sudan may break UN arms embargo, says Amnesty

  • Sudanese refugees displaced by the civil war receive food and water from aid agencies at a camp in eastern Chad.

    UK aid budget to Sudan set to double amid famine fears

  • Women hugging each other

    Women’s rights groups fear FGM is rife among Sudanese refugees in Chad

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A common condition

  • A twisted worm, stained purple, on a slide

    Growth the size of a melon: a scrotum-swelling disease threatening thousands

  • A doctor places a stethoscope on the back of a small boy

    Millions of teenagers in Africa have undiagnosed asthma – study

  • A woman wearing a face mask and a white laboratory coat holds up two pipettes as another researcher looks on

    Healthier rice variety could counter rise in diabetes, Philippine scientists say

  • A man seen from above, eating a bowl of instant noodles at a rough table covered with sackcloth

    Time for a noodle tax? Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action

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In pictures

  • A group of smiling female graduates in Juba, South Sudan

    Women behind the lens: six of the most striking images from 2024

    Our favourite photographs from around the world taken by women and capturing moments of contemplation, celebration and imagination
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Southern frontlines

  • A fistful of recently harvested vanilla crops in Bahía Solano, El Valle. They are harvested when they look ripe and green, and are then left to dry and mature over three to four months.

    ‘What joy! What damn joy!’: vanilla boom transforms fortunes of Colombia’s farmers

  • People milling about as seven long thin boats pulled up on a sandy riverbank are loaded up

    ‘We are crying for rain’: Suriname’s villages go hungry as drought bites

  • Aerial view of a low-rise town with wide roads sprawling for miles

    From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again

  • Protesters whose faces are in shadow hold up placards with a skull and crossbones and the Spanish words for 'metal mining' in a march in darkness

    ‘Live sick or flee’: pollution fears for El Salvador’s rivers as mining ban lifted

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Explainers

  • A masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

    Are we ready for another pandemic?

  • In this Feb. 1, 2016 photo, a technician from the British biotec company Oxitec, inspects the pupae of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a vector for transmitting the Zika virus, in Campinas, Brazil. The company said tests begun last April as part of a dengue-fighting program in the small southeastern city of Piracicaba suggested the release of the GM males reduced the wild Aedes larvae population in the target neighborhood by more than 80 percent. Brazil is in the midst of a Zika outbreak and authorities say they have also detected a spike in cases of microcephaly in newborn children, but the link between Zika and microcephaly is as yet unproven. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

    What is gene drive and how could it help in the fight against malaria?

  • A pest control worker fumigates a street with insecticides in Jakarta in May 2024 to try to wipe out the mosquitoes that spread dengue fever.

    Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world’s largest outbreak?

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

    Sudan’s civil war: how did it begin, what is the human cost, and what is happening now?

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Multimedia

Multimedia

  • Smoke rises after Israeli attacks during the sunset in Gaza City, with yellow sound wave form graphic
  • 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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