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  • A painting of a scary green virus fighting the planet Earth, portrayed with a face mask and about to punch the virus

    WHO
    World ‘unprepared’ for next pandemic as countries fail to agree on sharing information, tests and vaccines

    Finalisation of pact governing global response to disease outbreaks delayed as talks on how to share benefits stall
  • A photograph shows people in silhouette holding hands around a bonfire. The edges of the photo are blackened and burned.

    Women behind the lens
    ‘After state massacres, I began burning the prints as an act of mourning’

    Iranian visual journalist Parisa Azadi set her images alight in response to January’s violent repression by the regime, not to erase them, but to convey ‘rage, grief and refusal’
  • Mothers with children waiting at Kuoyo Sub-county hospital in Kisumu, Kenya.

    Healthcare
    Flaws in Kenya’s AI-driven health reforms driving up costs for the poorest

  • A middle-aged African man in a dark suit

    Human rights
    Zambia cancels world’s largest human rights and tech summit days before start

  • A woman and a baby

    Global health
    First malaria drug for babies is approved in ‘major public health milestone’

  • Uganda's coat of arms displayed on the Parliament building in Kampala

    Rights
    Uganda copying Russia and China with new bill designed to crush dissent, say critics

  • A woman wearing bright red walks through a blue door next to a sign that reades Maternal and child hospital, Chakmarkul, Tenaf, Cox's Bazar

    Cox's Bazar
    ‘Mothers won’t die, babies can survive’: new maternal hospital opens in world’s largest refugee camp

  • Ground crew unloading cargo from Kenyan startup Encomm Aviation's BAe ATP aircraft

    Aid
    BAE faces £120m lawsuit over decision to scrap support for aid aircraft

  • A woman cooks on a small fire outside sitting on the ground. A child sits next to her. Makeshift tents can be seen behind them

    Oil prices
    Calls for humanitarian corridor through strait of Hormuz as Iran war hits vital aid

  • Dubai skyline showing the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in the centre.

    RSF
    Sudan paramilitary leaders acquired £17.7m property portfolio in Dubai, investigation reveals

Explore

  • Djibouti's incumbent president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, presents himself as a man of the people in a roadside banner ahead of presidential elections.

    And the election winner is … the candidate who can afford Africa’s soaring nomination fees

    Presidential elections in Djibouti and Benin at the weekend highlighted how a costly electoral system is reshaping democracy
  • Raju Prasad, left, and his family at Anand Vihar railway station in Delhi as they head back to their village in Uttar Pradesh.

    India
    ‘I’ve not had proper food for days’: migrant workers leave India’s cities as Iran war fuel crisis deepens

  • An aerial view of a road in a city

    Housing
    Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis

  • A man holds up a burned rainbow flag at the front of a crowd in Dakar.

    LGBTQ+ rights
    ‘We fear the epidemic will return’: Senegal’s harsh anti-gay law puts decades of HIV progress in jeopardy

  • A man splashes water on his face

    Climate crisis
    ‘All we can do now is pray they continue’: Maasai welcome the first rains but know that drought is far from over

  • A girl sits on a bed in a small room almost filled with three beds

    They were hunted by the Taliban for helping the US. Now, Trump wants to send these families to the DRC

  • A smiling woman

    Family of ailing Iranian Nobel laureate say keeping her in jail is a death sentence

  • Parisa Nika Interviewees in Teheran, Iran

    ‘I should not have wished for war’: six ordinary Iranians on how the US-Israel conflict has changed them

  • a group of men on the deck of a vessel

    ‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

Sudan

  • A group of mainly women and children wait with empty bowls and pots outside near a tree.

    Sudan civil war
    Anger at ‘bloody unacceptable’ efforts to end Sudan’s war as conflict enters fourth year

  • Two women walk past a corrugated wall carrying Arabic writing and silhouettes of young people

    double quotation markSudan is not lost. Here at last is a way to break the cycle of violence in our country

    Abdalla Hamdok
  • Satellite views on El-Fasher after RSF fighters seized the cityepa12499545 A handout satellite image made available by Vantor shows fires and smoke around El Fasher Airport, Sudan, 26 October 2025 (issued 02 November 2025). Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters took over El Fasher and the surrounding villages in the Darfur region on 26 October 2025. EPA/SATELLITE IMAGE ©2025 VANTOR / HANDOUT -- MANDATORY CREDIT: Satellite image ©2025 Vantor -- THE WATERMARK MAY NOT BE REMOVED/CROPPED --HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    Sudan
    Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher

  • Women and children huddle together in the shade of a tree

    In pictures
    A rare chronicle of war, survival and devastation in Darfur

    Gallery24

Opinion

  • A man sits at a podium with the UN symbol on it. A woman and two men sit higher up at a desk behind him with screens in front of them

    double quotation markDon’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • A Rohingya man squats next to an LPG canister as others look on

    double quotation markIn the Rohingya refugee camps, we really want you to keep the gas running

    Ajas Khan
  • Yvette Cooper

    double quotation markSpending more on defence and less on aid does not mean walking away from our values and responsibilities – here’s why

    Yvette Cooper
  • Two women and a man holding a baby sit at a graveside in a cemetery. Other people can be seen walking around the cemetery.

    double quotation markIn Gaza, the joy of Eid has gone. Visiting relatives at the end of Ramadan is a procession through loss

    Ahmed Kamal Junina

In pictures

  • A woman carries a tray and bucket on her head as she walks across a stretch of empty ground, with the tents and grass huts of the Tawila displacement camp stretching into the distance behind her

    Sudan
    Hunger, bribery and ruin: Darfur after three years of Sudan’s civil war – in pictures

    As the civil war enters its fourth year, aid worker and photographer Jérome Tubiana captured images of daily life for approximately 600,000 people displaced by the fighting who have gathered at the town of Tawila
    Gallery20
  • A man in a long-sleeved shirt, baseball cap and jeans sits on a bench in front of a group of men with guns

    Could gold mining help Colombia’s armed groups to finally lay down their weapons?

  • People walking along a dark city street lit up only by car headlights. Barely any windows have lights on

    double quotation markCuba is running out of time. We need fuel now to save lives

    Francisco Pichón
  • Aerial view of roads bordering vast pools coloured lemon yellow and white

    Critical minerals are ‘oil of 21st century’ as demand fuels poverty and pollution in poorer countries

  • Illegally deforested hillside in Sierra Tarahumara's Papigochic Protected Area showing sparse regrowth

    Logging, murder and money: can Mexico’s ancient forests be saved from the cartels?

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

  • Map of Sudan and Sudanese refugees queuing for food

    Sudan
    ‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan

  • 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

  • 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

Newsletters

  • A middle-aged Arab woman speaking into a microphone at a protest with women in hijabs looking on

    Global dispatch newsletter
    So many Iraqi women have been killed for having a voice. Tomorrow, it could be one of us

    Newsletter
  • Composite of photographs of manfluencers from African countries.

    Global dispatch newsletter
    Beyond the UK and US manosphere lies a deeper, darker global problem

    Newsletter
  • A woman wearing a headscarf and face mask looks over the top of a protest poster, while around her other people hold posters in front of their faces.

    Her Stage
    A dispatch from solitary confinement in a Pakistani women’s prison

    Newsletter
  • A thick plume of black smoke rises over buildings

    Global dispatch newsletter
    A massacre, an airstrike on children and a message from prison: our stories are not easy but they must be told

    Newsletter

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