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In January 2021, Malawi had its biggest surge in cases. I risked my life to capture the urgency of that time, when people were dying due to the oxygen shortage -
West’s response to effects of Covid and Ukraine war condemned as shortsighted ‘collective failure’ to invest in future human capital
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Staff use makeshift rafts and boats to transport patients and bring painkillers and medicines to those trapped at home -
Tensions run high amid youth unemployment, a cost of living crisis and a lack of trust in the country’s institutions
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In Makoko, one of the world’s largest floating slums, most people are illiterate and many children cannot afford to go to school. The charity, Chess in Slums Africa, uses the game to inspire children to come to class -
About one in 10 people in Poland is now Ukrainian. The welcome has been warm, but as war grinds on, some fear the ‘full’ sign must go up soon
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As food prices soar, Zimbabwe’s diaspora are opting for delivery services rather than money transfers to help hard-hit relatives -
Somalia’s first woman to head a media house explains how she beat the odds to become a journalist and why Bilan was set up -
Khaula Jamil explores the difficulties faced by Bengali-speakers in Pakistan, and how they are filtering down the generations
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With a de facto ban across much of Turkey, women are having to beg from hospital to hospital or seek private terminations – if they can afford it -
The case of one 20-year-old from Manila reveals the dangerous role of online sellers of illicit methods in a country where terminations are outlawed -
Canada has no legal restrictions on abortion but the US reversal of Roe v Wade has led to calls for pre-emptive action -
A rural community delivered 86 recommendations concerning violence against women at a coroner’s inquest in Ontario
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The disease is a leading killer of under fives across Africa. But trials for a new vaccine suggest an end to the death toll could be in sight -
Differences between the UK and India in treating the blood-clotting disease highlight a global medical apartheid -
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A World History of Women Photographers showcases the work of 300 women from around the world, from the 19th century to the present day. The collection will be published in English by Thames & Hudson on 14 July
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