Terror & Security

Fighting in Gaza limits vaccine access in ‘dangerous’ polio red zones

Health workers will not send vaccine teams into outbreak hotspots unless their safety can be guaranteed

Ruwaida Amer 18 Oct 2024, 6:20pm
‘Mentally and physically, I am not the same... but this war is right’

More than 10,000 Israeli soldiers have been wounded in action. A remarkable rehabilitation programme is attempting to put them back together

Melanie Swan 4 Oct 2024, 10:13am
‘We have to get children back to school’: Education goes underground in Ukraine

Windowless, bunker-style classrooms have been hardened against radiation and built six-and-a-half metres below the ground

Gabriella Jozwiak 3 Oct 2024, 10:16am
Award-winning Cambodian journalist arrested amid ‘repressive’ crackdown on media freedoms

Sarah Newey 1 Oct 2024, 11:24am
‘People are hopeless here’: Sudan’s sick, starving and injured spill into camps across its borders

Tom Nicholson 1 Oct 2024, 8:06am
The world is going in the wrong direction – we need peace more than ever

Hanan Balkhy 23 Sep 2024, 7:07pm
Palestinians with ‘life-changing injuries’ will need rehabilitation for years to come, WHO warns

Lilia Sebouai 12 Sep 2024, 3:13pm

Almost 200 ecological activists murdered last year while protecting environment, says new report

Nicola Smith 10 Sep 2024, 4:07pm
Humanitarian crisis hits a vital lifeline in Gaza – donkeys

Lilia Sebouai 3 Sep 2024, 3:16pm
Almost 100,000 children vaccinated against polio in Gaza

Maeve Cullinan 2 Sep 2024, 5:33pm

Israel agrees to pause in fighting for Gaza polio vaccination campaign, WHO says

Maeve Cullinan 29 Aug 2024, 8:22pm
‘I watched extremists behead my neighbour’: Inside Mozambique’s ISIS terror battleground

Kang-Chun Cheng 23 Aug 2024, 8:40am
Putin has broken one of the most sacred rules of warfare - and the consequences could be dire

Becky Alexis-Martin 17 Aug 2024, 7:44am
Young children among 150 Rohingya killed in drone attack in Myanmar

Sarah Newey 13 Aug 2024, 12:01am

Terrorism

This is a coup for Mossad that opens a window for war

Paul Nuki 18 Sep 2024, 8:44pm
‘I watched extremists behead my neighbour’: Inside Mozambique’s ISIS terror battleground

Kang-Chun Cheng 23 Aug 2024, 8:40am
Churches burned and children ‘seized’ as militants target Christians in Mozambique

Peta Thornycroft 8 Mar 2024, 8:00am
Taliban bomb kills six in Pakistan polio vaccination mission

Ben Farmer 8 Jan 2024, 3:34pm

Migration

Niger’s military coup casts doubt on EU migration scheme, warn analysts

Ben Farmer 5 Aug 2023, 5:00pm
Niger unrest is the latest democratic domino to fall in a growing ‘coup belt’ of African nations

Ben Farmer 4 Aug 2023, 5:58pm
Ukraine war sparked fastest migration crisis since Second World War

Harriet Barber 14 Jun 2023, 3:00am

More stories

Famine officially declared in Sudan

Ben Farmer 1 Aug 2024, 2:01pm
Sword-wielding priests preaching a message of love draw tourists to the birthplace of Voodoo

Sam Bradpiece 26 Jul 2024, 7:00am
How Ukraine broke Putin’s Black Sea grain blockade – and what it means for Africa

Ben Farmer 23 Jul 2024, 7:00am
War crime fears in Sudan as refugee camps treat hundreds of shot children

Lilia Sebouai 22 Jul 2024, 11:44am
More than 170 schools and universities attacked in Myanmar since military coup

Nicola Smith 22 Jul 2024, 9:27am
Polio detected in Gaza may have been imported by aid workers

Maeve Cullinan 19 Jul 2024, 5:04pm
AI, cyber-attacks and amateur experiments threaten to upend global biosecurity, WHO warns

Lilia Sebouai 12 Jul 2024, 5:44pm
Palestinians dying as Israeli health ‘lockdown’ hits medical care across the West Bank

Nicola Smith 11 Jul 2024, 7:00am

Ukrainians return to shattered villages, to eke out lives in the shells of their homes

Ben Farmer 2 Jul 2024, 8:00am
From monster to minister: Is the past about to catch up with Liberia’s war criminals?

Adrian Blomfield 29 Jun 2024, 8:00am

Our politicians must unite for sick baby trapped in Gaza – her life depends on it

27 Jun 2024, 6:01pm
Famine risk rises across Sudan as conflict crisis deepens, says UN-backed report

Lilia Sebouai 27 Jun 2024, 2:57pm
‘There were men everywhere with guns – they shot my mum in front of me’

Mathew Charles 27 Jun 2024, 8:30am
Famine threat returns to Gaza as Israel ground offensive obstructs food aid deliveries

Lilia Sebouai 25 Jun 2024, 3:58pm