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  • A south Asian child writes in the Hanifi script on a blackboard

    Culture
    From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages

    With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them
  • Aerial view of a low-rise town with wide roads sprawling for miles

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

    Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires
  • The prime minister walking and talking in a hospital with a black woman in a nurse's uniform with the health minister, Wes Streeting, in the background

    Aid
    UK cut health aid to vulnerable nations while hiring their nurses, research finds

    Royal College of Nursing says Labour has a duty to fix health ‘double whammy’ by raising aid and funding for UK nursing
  • cans of soft drinks in a fridge

    Global health
    Sugary drinks linked to millions of new diabetes and heart disease cases – study

    Tufts University analysis highlights rise in global health inequalities, with fastest growth in linked diseases in Africa
    • A green building with a spire stands on a cliff edge above a panorama of hills and mountains

      Ethiopia
      War crimes and rebel bishops: Christmas celebrations marred by bitter split in Ethiopia’s ancient church

    • The scene of devastation at the secondhand clothing market at Kantamanto in Accra, Ghana, on 2 January 2025 after an overnight fire.

      Ghana
      Massive cleanup under way after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets

    • A woman dressed in purple sits on an armchair

      Pakistan
      Shunned and shamed, Pakistan’s trans community finally gets help for TB

    • Tayo Aina sitting in front of some colourful buildings

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

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Explore

  • A woman wearing a floral skirt over pink petticoats and boots with crampons uses ice axes to climb a steep snowy mountainside

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

    From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave individuals that gave us hope
  • Battered shoes full of sand

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

  • A young Indian couple pose by a garden fence under the shade of a tree

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

  • Portrait of identical twin sisters Taiwo and Kehinde Lijadu wearing matching outfits

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

  • People sit in small groups in the shade of some trees with rocky outcrops in the background.

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

  • A man stands holding a coil of rope.

    A fisher of people: the Kashmiri man who has saved hundreds from drowning

  • ‘It is ambitious, but ambition builds the world’: can the Gambia’s bold plan to cut plastic pollution work?

  • For more than 50 years the BBC’s Somali service has been broadcasting an anti-colonial message – without realising it

    Mohammed Hirmoge

  • Cheap, smart and efficient: how giant rats are transforming the fight against TB

  • ‘I feel dizzy but I can’t stop’: global heating is already making kiln workers’ lives unbearable. And it will only get worse

  • Africa Foto Fair: ‘You don’t need to fly in somebody from outside to tell us about our own realities’

  • How AI monitoring is cutting stillbirths and neonatal deaths in a clinic in Malawi

  • ‘Protect us alive, not dead’: how women are starting to be heard on femicide in Ivory Coast

  • Light at the end of the tunnel: TB screening for Pakistan’s miners comes out of the clinic and on to the coalface

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Rights and freedom

  • In her family car in Ukraine, Natalia Kryvolapchuk goes forehead to forehead with her daughter Sonya, 6, whose vital cancer treatment was halted by war

    ‘It’s not our job to make photos that are easy to look at’: the female photographers exposing the cost of conflict in 2024

  • A man in a suit jacket and striped shirt stands in front of a window

    Syrian family left in limbo over Christmas as UK halts asylum claims

  • A bucket of grapes with a vine-cutting tool on top

    Champagne’s sordid secret: the homeless and hungry migrants picking grapes for France’s luxury winemakers

  • In an outdoor courtyard there are wheelbarrows loaded with belongings including suitcases and bedding. People stand around the edge of the courtyard

    Militia aligned with Sudanese army accused of executing men in Khartoum

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Sudan

  • 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

  • Newly arrived Sudanese refugees arrive at a relocation camp near Adre in Chad

    ‘We will make you have Arab babies’: fears of genocide amid rape and torture in Sudan’s Darfur

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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

  • 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

  • A guna makes fake wooden guns for the children of the island to play in the battle against the conquistadors.

    ‘In 10 years we may cease to exist’: rising seas and influx of tourists threaten to engulf Panama island

  • A man’s back can just been seen through thick forest.

    Brazil’s mysterious ‘man of the hole’ is dead. Should his land remain protected?

  • A picture of a man walking though dense tree cover

    ‘They knew that we were here’: following in the footsteps of the uncontacted Pardo River Kawahiva people

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Explainers

  • 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?

  • 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?

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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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