Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin
Artwork created in Tahrir Squarefor Chinese president’s state visit to Egypt is painted over amid allegations it revived Afrocentric claims about Pharaohs’ origins
Nigeria
One green shoot at a time: the women restoring mangrove forests in the oil-ravaged Niger delta
In a region of Nigeria blighted by decades of pollution, Martha Agbani and her team are not just replanting trees but regaining ownership of their lost lands and livelihoods
Myanmar
‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces
Nepal
‘I do not know if the doctor survived’: young mothers recall ‘living hell’ of Nepal’s floods
Madagascar
Murdered for their eyes: people with albinism living in terror
Global health
US response to UN pandemic talks ‘severely weakens’ global planning, says leading health expert
Myanmar
Exile has not broken young Rohingya people. But survival cost us more than our homes
Ajas Khan
Africa
‘Africa hasn’t decolonised education enough’: how world’s youngest continent can unlock potential
DRC
‘We fled with nothing’: the people making perilous journeys to escape violence in DRC
India
Ethics and evil: the villagers reviving India’s debating traditions
‘In parks you only see dogs, never children’: can Bogotá adapt to its ageing population?
With a lower fertility rate than Tokyo and the number of pensioners rapidly rising, Colombia’s capital is being forced to change the way it thinks about growing old
Fifty billion trees by 2030: how Ethiopia is recruiting citizens across the country to plant, plant, plant
A spoonful of sugar: how South Africa’s weigh-and-pay shops are tackling ‘poverty tax’ head on
Tens of millions of people fail to get humanitarian aid as global system crumbles
A river goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining
$15m fund launched to create ‘unstoppable momentum’ to end FGM worldwide
‘Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate after Oxford museum agrees to return remains
Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups
‘I sleep with all my clothes on to protect my privacy’: a glimpse into life inside a child prison in France
We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us
Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians
Sudan
Curse of the Nile’s gold: how Sudan is losing its fertile fields and ability to produce food
Samira’s story: the Sudanese refugee who has known no peace since she was 10
UK
Ties with UAE prioritised over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told
RSF
Paramilitary leaders acquired £17.7m property portfolio in Dubai
Opinion
How misconceptions and woeful PR allowed Musk to shred USAID so easily
Jeremiah A Carew
Women's health
It’s not easy to show my scars. But I am proud to break the deadly silence around breast cancer in Nigeria
Gloria Chinyere Okwu
After 100 days of the deadliest Ebola outbreak, it can be stopped. Here’s how
Jean Kaseya and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The US government’s mislabelled map of Africa at a global Aids conference shows again a failure to understand the continent
Kenneth Ngure
In pictures
Women behind the lens
‘The women are moving towards the church, but it is not the final destination’
South African artist Puleng Mongale explores how her childhood church still connects her to the women of her family, not through religion but shared history and memory
