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Global development

8 October 2024

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  • People walk amid wood and other debris strewn across the ground next to some collapsed huts

    Myanmar military kills dozens in heaviest airstrikes since 2021 coup

    Ten children reportedly among those killed during intense aerial campaigns last month
  • Delegates stand at the opening of the 54rd UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 September 2023

    Rights and freedom
    ‘A slap in the face to victims of abuse’: UN urged to reject Saudi Arabia’s bid to join Human Rights Council

    Riyadh accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, jailing women’s rights advocates and murdering critics
  • An African man in a bow tie and suit sits at a grand piano with his eyes closed as an audience listens

    Musical journey: lessons begin after piano finally arrives in Ethiopia

    Getting a piano to a remote school in Africa was no easy task, but concert pianist Girma Yifrashewa knows its value

7 October 2024

  • Mingas_Image_p46 Rebuilding a thatched house in the páramo (2011, October). Mingas+Solidarity by Tristan Partridge (Pazmaen Press, Sept. 2024) Rebuilding a thatched house in the páramo / Reconstruyendo una casita con techo de paja en el páramo.

    When work becomes a party: capturing the joy of collective effort in an Indigenous community in Ecuador

    Tristan Partridge, a photographer and social anthropologist, spent a decade documenting the working lives of the Kichwa-Panzaleo people of San Isidro for a new book
  • Joy Eseoghene Odiete, known as Jodie, with some other mums and special-needs children.

    ‘I don’t want to hide my son’: the Nigerian singer helping mothers find pride in their children with special needs

    When musician Joy Eseoghene Odiete’s baby was born with cerebral palsy, she felt abandoned. Now, her foundation inspires and encourages others in a similar position
  • A black man in a black suit, tie and sunglasses, and with a serious demeanour, stands at a gate on the outskirts of an airport

    Forced into exile: the Chagossians scattered in Mauritius and Britain

    Decades after it forced out the inhabitants, the UK is relinquishing sovereignty over the remote Chagos Islands. After years of protest over a displacement described as a crime against humanity, the UK will cede the islands to Mauritius. Here are some of the exiled Chagossians in Mauritius and Britain, photographed over several years by Morgan Fache

5 October 2024

  • Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied

    Arab spring dreams in ruins as Tunisia goes to polls against backdrop of repression

    Critics of incumbent Kais Saied say he has increasingly bent the country’s institutions to his will

4 October 2024

  • A crowd of people stand on the shore with an orange boat seen raised out the water.

    At least 78 dead and dozens missing after ferry disaster in DR Congo

  • An Indian man with a fishing net by the sea, with a power plant in the distance behind him

    The Fisherman and the Banker: film charts Indian fishers’ fight with a giant

3 October 2024

  • A pharmacist holds a vial of lenacapavir in his hand

    Fair Access
    ‘Gamechanger’ HIV prevention drug to be made available cheaply in 120 countries

  • A mural depicting a man with his hands in a coffee bag and a woman with one hand on a boy's shoulder and another balancing a basket of coffee beans on her head

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘It used to be a farm – now it’s a mall’: how El Salvador’s crisis-hit coffee producers are trying to adapt

  • Susana Muhamad Rozo 001 in Bogota, Colombia, June 2022

    The age of extinction
    How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil

  • A smiling South African woman stands before a field of cabbages and other crops

    Africa’s small-scale revolution against big agriculture: five farmers talk greener, better food

2 October 2024

  • People wait for a food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycée Marie Jeanne in Port-au-Prince on 30 September 2024

    Gang violence leaves Haiti facing ‘worst hunger emergency in the western hemisphere’

    Half the country’s population now struggling to find food as lawlessness and inflation cause ‘full-blown crisis’, say aid agencies
  • A young woman with her back to us

    Her Stage newsletter
    I was forced to have sex or I would not eat. Then I found a way to escape my traffickers

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    I was 19 when I was tricked into travelling to Ivory Coast and sexually exploited, but now the police are helping me return to Nigeria

    • Rights and freedom
      Saudi fitness instructor stabbed in face while jailed over women’s rights posts

    • Women behind the lens
      Women behind the lens: ‘I felt as if I was part of the family, like I had many grandmothers’

    • Rights and freedom
      ‘In El Fasher you face only death’: Sudan city empties as paramilitaries close in

1 October 2024

  • Aerial image of a construction site in a forest clearing

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    From pristine forest to prison fortress: why Ecuador is sacrificing fragile ecosystems to build jails

  • Halima Begum

    Opinion
    The best fashion statement you can make this season? Buy pre-loved

    Halima Begum
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