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‘A donkey cart out of El Fasher costs more than a new car’: how 500 days under siege is tearing the city apart
BySarra Majdoub September 27, 2025

The ongoing attacks on North Darfur’s capital has left its people facing starvation, blockade and bombardment, with scant hope of reliefSpecial report: ‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El FasherFor …

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When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate
ByShams Ali* September 25, 2025

A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like meI was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was a…

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When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate
ByShams Ali* September 25, 2025

A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like meI was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was a…

Read More When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate
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‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
ByMark Townsend, video by Elena Morresi September 24, 2025

For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe the city will soon fall and the endgame has begunNot …

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Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen
By September 23, 2025

While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby were among the firstWhen she woke on that Sunday morning, Fati…

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‘Other countries would have preserved it’: Yemenis mourn the demolition of historic mud-brick palaces
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian September 19, 2025

In the city of Tarim, colourful mansions built by the city’s merchants are being knocked down as the war-torn nation cannot afford to maintain themWords and photographs by Saeed al-Batati in TarimWhen the bulldozers moved into Abdul Rahman Bin Sheikh a…

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Airstrikes, banditry, drones and a ban on girls’ education: four teachers on educating students amid conflict
ByGuardian staff September 16, 2025

Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what drives them onMohamad El Dirany, 24 Continue reading…

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In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children | Elham Al-Oqabi
ByElham Al-Oqabi September 3, 2025

As a mother living in Sana’a, I’ve seen how war devastates hopes, dreams and futures, and I share the desperation of Gaza’s mothers“Mom, why are they bombing us?” my oldest daughter asked me in 2019, as the Saudi coalition committed crimes with US weap…

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In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children | Elham Al-Oqabi
ByElham Al-Oqabi September 3, 2025

As a mother living in Sana’a, I’ve seen how war devastates hopes, dreams and futures, and I share the desperation of Gaza’s mothers“Mom, why are they bombing us?” my oldest daughter asked me in 2019, as the Saudi coalition committed crimes with US weap…

Read More In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children | Elham Al-Oqabi
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Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists
ByAseel Mousa September 1, 2025

Six Palestinian media workers, four of them Al Jazeera journalists, were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their tent by Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on 10 August. Here, some of their families pay tribute Journalist Continue reading…

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