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Plain rice and little else: life for 120,000 refugees inside Mauritania’s vast camp on Mali’s border
ByEromo Egbejule in the Mbera refugee camp October 24, 2025

Over a quarter of a million refugees live in Mbera and nearby villages, and more than half are under 18. But aid cuts mean providing essentials has become even harderSeveral mornings a week, Mohamed ‘Momo’ Ag Malha walks at least 7 miles (11km) around …

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‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom
ByTom Levitt October 23, 2025

After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunitedZeynure Hasan was at home in Istanbul in July 2021 when her husb…

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At 12 an Israeli missile ‘ripped off’ her face. Now Mazyouna is safe in the US – but not all the scars have healed
ByThaslima Begum October 16, 2025

The young teenager’s treatment is a rare story of hope from the two-year war in Gaza. With the ceasefire now in effect, she hopes to see her father againIn June 2024, an Israeli missile struck 13-year-old Mazyouna Damoo’s apartment in Nuseirat refugee …

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Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report
ByMark Townsend October 15, 2025

The city – the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the west of the country – has withstood more than 500 days of attacks by paramilitary RSFThe besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has been declared “uninhabitable” with new data indicating most homes are…

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‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
ByKaamil Ahmed in Metche October 8, 2025

As the war in Sudan pushes more people across the border, malnutrition is on the rise in Chad’s remote settlements where 86% of the refugees are women and childrenFor hours, jolting along the waterlogged dirt track to the hospital, 18-year-old Makka Ib…

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‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
ByKaamil Ahmed in Metche October 8, 2025

As the war in Sudan pushes more people across the border, malnutrition is on the rise in Chad’s remote settlements where 86% of the refugees are women and childrenFor hours, jolting along the waterlogged dirt track to the hospital, 18-year-old Makka Ib…

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‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza
ByNour Ziad al-Batsh October 1, 2025

The World Health Organization has warned that more than 40% of pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are malnourished. Here, Nour Ziad al-Batsh, who is expecting her third child in March, describes her daily struggle to find food and healthcareThis pregnanc…

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‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza
ByNour Ziad al-Batsh October 1, 2025

The World Health Organization has warned that more than 40% of pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are malnourished. Here, Nour Ziad al-Batsh, who is expecting her third child in March, describes her daily struggle to find food and healthcareThis pregnanc…

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Why Britain must not get taken in by Dubai’s skin-deep glitz | Letters
ByGuardian staff September 28, 2025

Readers responding to Jonathan Liew’s article on Reform UK’s admiration for the emirateJonathan Liew is to be congratulated for his incisive views about Dubai and its attraction for the right (The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of D…

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Why Britain must not get taken in by Dubai’s skin-deep glitz | Letters
ByGuardian staff September 28, 2025

Readers responding to Jonathan Liew’s article on Reform UK’s admiration for the emirateJonathan Liew is to be congratulated for his incisive views about Dubai and its attraction for the right (The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of D…

Read More Why Britain must not get taken in by Dubai’s skin-deep glitz | Letters