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Tracy McVeigh

Tracy McVeigh is the editor of the Guardian's global development desk, and editor of foundations and philanthropic projects

July 2025

  • A layer of smog hanging over Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia

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

    Podcast24:48
  • Portrait of Winnie Byanyima

    UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths

April 2025

  • Bobi Wine wearing a shirt and military beret, holds his fist in a salute

    Bobi Wine to run for president in Uganda’s 2026 election ‘if I am still alive and not in jail’

    Exclusive: Opposition leader says he has ‘no choice’ but to challenge Yoweri Museveni’s regime, despite threats and previous attacks
  • A person in a wooly hat and face mask walks through steam from a vent on a snowy city street

    ‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest capital

    In Ulaanbaatar, coal fires heat almost every home. But as extreme weather drives families off the Mongolian steppes into the city the air is becoming more deadly
  • Fatou Samba at her beachside home in Bargny, Senegal.

    ‘Barcelona or death’: mothers watch and wait as Senegal’s men risk all to reach Europe

    For many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the country’s new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay?

January 2025

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

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

  • Tracy McVeigh learning how to fly-fish with Robin Elwes at Syon Park, west London, on the Thames.

    How I learned to fly-fish on the banks of the Thames

December 2024

  • The demonstrators demanded a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner swap agreement.

    Middle East crisis live
    Demonstrators arrested outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home – as it happened

  • Composite image of medical staff at the MSF Mowasah hospital in Amman, JordanAmman, Jordan Xmas appeal for Tracy

    Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
    ‘Bullets can make a real mess of bones’: the hospital where the war wounded have their lives put together again

August 2024

  • A poster of a veiled older Asian woman with holes in her face

    Sheikh Hasina: child of the revolution who eroded Bangladesh’s democracy

    The sudden downfall of the world’s longest-serving female leader has ended one of South Asia’s most enduring political dynasties. But will Hasina’s legacy be huge development gains or rights abuses and alleged killings?

June 2023

  • Posters of murdered and missing women and children on display at a vigil for Andrea Bharatt.

    ‘It’s a forever pain, an unfathomable pain​’: families remember Trinidad’s femicide victims​

  • Composite of portraits of Andrea Barratt and Ashanti Riley

    The Caribbean island of Trinidad grapples with a ‘national crisis’ of violence

March 2023

  • Children endure the harsh conditions at a camp for displaced people in Baidoa, Somalia.

    Drought caused 43,000 ‘excess deaths’ in Somalia last year, half of them young children

  • President Chakwera visiting flood victims in Blantyre, Malawi.

    Malawi president declares half of country damaged by cyclone

December 2022

  • Farhia Nur, 25, and her son have spent the last six months at the Xaaxaar IDP camp in the Galmudug region of Galkayo, Somalia.

    Fear of the F-word: Somalia avoids famine declaration as hunger spreads

  • A woman and man smile as they carry blue and white balloons along a path in a park

    Crisis Somalia
    A glimpse of life beyond Mogadishu’s security zone – in pictures

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  • Zandile Ndhlovu, South Africa’s first black female freediving instructor, is changing perceptions of the ocean.

    South Africa’s ‘black mermaid’ on Disney, diversity and reclaiming the ocean for children of colour

  • The Degaan IDP camp in the Galmudug region of Galkayo, Somalia, in November 2022. About 130,000 people are living in temporary camps in the area.

    Crisis Somalia
    ‘We’re left to die of snake bites, hunger, disease’: Somalia’s people of the drought – a picture essay

October 2022

  • Grim-faced Somali man pictured in front of flags

    UK’s lost leadership role hurts Somalia’s fight against famine, says drought envoy

    Britain is no longer the key humanitarian player and ‘great ally’ it once was, says envoy trying to get support for Somalia’s drought

September 2022

  • Trial continues for Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga<br>epa10213324 Zimbabwean author, activist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga (C) arrives for her trial at the Harare Magistrates Courts in Harare, Zimbabwe, 29 September 2022. The author is standing trial over charges including public incitement to violence and breach of peace, after she joined a peaceful anti-government demonstration in July 2020, demanding social reforms and the release of imprisoned journalists. EPA/AARON UFUMELI

    Tsitsi Dangarembga on Zimbabwe: ‘Every time we say it can’t get any worse, it does’

    After her peaceful activism led to a conviction for promoting violence, Zimbabwe’s most distinguished novelist contemplates the possibility of a life in exile
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