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  • The Voice Nigeria singer Ifunanya Nwangene

    Global health
    Death of Nigerian singer after snakebite highlights crisis of ‘preventable’ fatalities

    Ifunanya Nwangene died in hospital after being bitten in her Abuja home, raising questions about the availability of effective antivenoms
  • An old man looking like an orange waxwork holds up paper with a signature while people stand around him applauding

    Human rights
    Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says

    Rights group says growing authoritarianism and abuses in US, Russia and China threaten global rules-based order
  • A sad-looking Indian girl sits in a yellow sari with her legs tucked up beneath her, while younger girls and an older woman watch her

    Women behind the lens
    ‘I met 14-year-old Arti a day before her wedding. Her suicide six years later hit home’

  • Three women in colourful saris walk past a black and white mural of a child.

    I’m married, Pakistani – and I don’t want children. That doesn’t make me broken

    Fizza Abbas
  • A clinic corridor largely empty but for what appears to be broken-up equipment and a mop and bucket. A mountain can be seen through the window

    Aid cuts
    Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds

  • Two jars, one full of round pink and white rock-like sweets, the other with cigarettes.

    Ultra-processed foods
    Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study

  • Congolese people displaced during renewed clashes between AFC/M23 and FARDC walk back to their homes from Sange in LuvungiCongolese people displaced during renewed clashes between Alliance Fleuve Congo AFC/M23 and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), walk back to their homes from Sange, in Luvungi, a settlement north of Uvira, South Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, December 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

    Refugees
    ‘You take what you can and run’: families describe harrowing journey to escape fighting in DRC

  • A woman on her knees in the street at night holds out her arms and looks up

    Women in prison
    ‘I was overwhelmed, it was a miracle’: the jailed mothers getting a second chance in Colombia

  • A group of mainly female construction workers pose for the camera in hard hats on a building site

    Youth
    This is Africa’s most consequential decade: nothing will ever be the same again

    Monica Geingos
  • A hand holds a phone displaying the Telegram logo in front of a sign also displaying the Telegram logo

    Social media
    Millions created deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse

Explore

  • People stand on rocks by the sea with Mumbai's coastal road in the distance with the high-rise blocks of the city behind.

    Cities and development
    ‘Exclusively for the elite’: why Mumbai’s new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor

    With 64% of the city’s residents relying on buses and trains so overloaded that up to 10 passengers die a day, anger is rising over a taxpayer-funded road most will never use
  • A group of about 20 South Asian women, most wearing orange tabards over their saris, standing on a garment factory shop floor

    Employment rights
    Justice for Jeyasre: how a brutal murder led to a better deal for garment workers in India

  • A group of women pose in front of a large office window overlooking Bogatá

    Reproductive rights
    ‘It’s not the 90s any more’: the all-women team reinventing abortion advice for the TikTok age

  • A young woman smiles as she looks at her phone

    ‘You feel obligated’: African workers on the pain – and pride – of the ‘black tax’

  • A building as long as two football pitches made with ventilated clay bricks over a portico running its full length. In the open space in front of it are piles of metal rods and other building equipment architecture

    Cities
    Historic market in Kinshasa ready to reopen to a million shoppers a day after five-year makeover

  • View of a fenced off area ready for development in Kinshasa. The last standing baobab tree in the city is within the area.

    DRC
    ‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved?

  • Naushaba Roonjho, in a pink sari.

    Education for women and girls
    ‘I wasn’t allowed to study, but I will make sure no girl in this village hears those same words’

Rights and freedom

  • A jet of water directed from a ship at a fire on another ship that has flames leaping 20 metres into the air

    ‘It’s a miracle we survived’: the civilian crew trapped on a ship in Ukraine as bombs rained down

  • Abdullah Köker, the father of Şebnem Köker, who fell to her death from a hotel room window, sits on the sofa in his living room in the Turkish city of Izmir

    ‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths?

  • A crowded room of Afghan women, some with children, with all covering their faces

    Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages

  • People gather on and near a road where fires have been lit, which are giving off large plumes of smoke.

    Iran accused of ‘campaign of revenge’ as doctors arrested for treating protesters

Sudan

  • An African man in a navy three-piece suit looking at the camera with three others just silhoutetted to hide their identity

    Emergency Response Rooms network
    ‘You sneak in and hope you make it back’: the Sudanese volunteers risking it all to bring care to millions

  • Composite image of the Waldorf Hilton in Aldwych, central London, left; the flats in north London where Zeuz Global was once registered; and One Aldwych hotel.

    Rapid Support Forces
    Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’

  • Satellite image of Mewashei (livestock) market, El Fasher, Sudan, from 17 November 2025, showing no activity.

    RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show

  • Hands Off Sudan March LondonSudan solidarity activists hold a large sign criticising the UAE's role in Sudan during a Hands Off Sudan rally outside the US embassy on 9th November 2024 in London, United Kingdom. The activists highlighted the civil war in Sudan, and the West's role in and apathy towards it, which has resulted in atrocities, the displacement of millions and the world's biggest humanitarian crisis. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

    Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide

Opinion

  • Protestors carrying flags, some filming or throwing things face a wall of smoke.

    Violence, death and stolen land: people need to know the true cost of an avocado

    Claudia Ignacio Álvarez
  • Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, meets US secretary of state Marco Rubio last September in Washington.

    Trinidad and Tobago went all in with the US – it will prove a costly misjudgment

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • Balloons for sale on the street as people celebrate Christmas in Lagos last month.

    Nigeria’s great ‘reset’ is a gamble: great in theory but people are bracing for the impact in their pockets

    Cheta Nwanze
  • A illustration in black red, green and gold colours showing a woman in profile, her piled up hair created by a map of Africa; gold scales of justice; a broken chain; and two raised clenched fists.

    In the Caribbean and Africa a reparations movement is growing: so why is Britain pretending otherwise?

    Kenneth Mohammed

In pictures

  • A woman in her seventies holds a ballerina-like pose wearing a blue tulle skirt and a red flower in her hair.

    Photography
    Women behind the lens: six of our most striking images from 2025

    A few of our favourite photographs taken by women from the global south and capturing moments of everyday life and art
    Gallery6

Southern frontlines

  • A woman and a man holding a small child stand outside a home made of blue corrugated panels.

    Landslides on one side, floods on the other: the Costa Rican village desperate to escape the climate crisis

  • A sad-looking Indigenous woman in a crowd holds a placard with the picture and name of Berta Cáceres

    ‘Justice is optional’: why Trump’s pardon of Honduran ex-president scares nature defenders

  • A nighttime shot of a hill, the top of which is engulfed in flame and smoke. In the foreground houses can be seen, lit up brightly.

    ‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop

  • A group of people dressed in white with white hats

    They survived conquistadors and settlers. Now the Arhuaco are facing an even greater threat

Explainers

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • A woman on a street walks past a black and white mural of a woman covering her face with her arms, with the words 'Stop killing women' written across them in red

    What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it?

  • African child holding a UK aid flag in DRC

    How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?

Multimedia

  1. RSF fighters overran the camp on 11 April. The true extent of the death toll is not yet known, but is suspected to be in the thousands.

    ‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam

  2. People in Gaza collecting aid overlaid with a chart showing aid announcement timings

    Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

  3. A layer of smog hanging over Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia
    Today in Focus

    Ulaanbaatar: a warning from the coldest capital on Earth - podcast

    Podcast

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