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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…

Read More ‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
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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…

Read More ‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza
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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
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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…

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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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