The share of Great Britain’s electricity generated by burning fossil fuels plummeted to unprecedented lows this month, ahead of plans to begin running a “zero-carbon…
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Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown
Harrowing first-hand accounts of women being dragged from the streets of Iran and detained by security services have emerged as human rights groups say country’s…
View More Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdownNigerian woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in Chibok
Nigerian troops have rescued a pregnant woman and her three children 10 years after she was abducted by Boko Haram militants when she was a…
View More Nigerian woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in ChibokNew types of mosquito bed nets could cut malaria risk by up to half, trial finds
Two new types of mosquito bed nets have been found to reduce cases of malaria by up to a half, raising hopes of combating the…
View More New types of mosquito bed nets could cut malaria risk by up to half, trial finds‘People are begging us to feed their children’: Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help
The last thing Rania sold was her jewellery. In the weeks after her family first woke up to heavy shelling in northern Gaza, they lost…
View More ‘People are begging us to feed their children’: Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help‘Pregnancy is not a disease’: why do so many women die giving birth in one of Africa’s richest countries?
Despite having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria also loses more women to death in childbirth than most other countries in the world. In 2020,…
View More ‘Pregnancy is not a disease’: why do so many women die giving birth in one of Africa’s richest countries?‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’: women left terrified as Haiti’s maternity services collapse
The worst fears of midwives at Heartline Haiti were realised last week. As they prepared the maternity clinic for patients that evening, armed men laid…
View More ‘It is simply best not to get pregnant’: women left terrified as Haiti’s maternity services collapse‘We searched for ladies over 70’: on the trail of Jordan’s forgotten folk music
In the Jordanian town of Tafilah, a six-year-old boy softly hummed a song. His family were astonished, and his 82-year-old great-grandmother, Jawaher Al Ahmad, overheard…
View More ‘We searched for ladies over 70’: on the trail of Jordan’s forgotten folk musicRwanda-backed rebels are choking the Congolese people, yet this is one conflict the world can easily end
The M23 militia group attacked the town of Saké in North Kivu last month, wounding eight UN peacekeepers and sending much of its population fleeing…
View More Rwanda-backed rebels are choking the Congolese people, yet this is one conflict the world can easily end‘My cast and crew’s safety kept me up at night’: why a queer Ghanaian film may never be screened
Arare Ghanian film featuring a queer main character could not have been released at a worse time for its director and cast. Joewackle J Kusi…
View More ‘My cast and crew’s safety kept me up at night’: why a queer Ghanaian film may never be screened