The British government is to invest £50m in an attempt to end female genital mutilation by 2030, claiming it is the single biggest investment to tackle the issue by an international donor. The money, announced on Friday, will go to grassroots progra...
Cuba has begun withdrawing 8,300 doctors working in some of the poorest regions of Brazil, prompting fears that indigenous villages, small towns and isolated rural communities could soon be left without medical care. The move came after Brazil’s far...
She was snatched from the streets of Hyderabad last year in broad daylight, three strangers tugging her hair and grabbing her tightly by the throat, she says. They locked her in a compound 45 miles away, ringed with electric fencing. Repeatedly but...
An investigation has been launched following reports that four unarmed men were shot dead at close range by peacekeeping troops in Somalia. Burundian troops serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) are alleged to have opened fire...
In my first year at university in Nigeria, my roommate Kathy found out she had become pregnant by accident. She was 18, a promising student with her whole life ahead of her. But she wasn’t ready to become a mum and feared her family’s reaction. She...
In a quiet corner of Kabul, a dozen young women welcome their friend back from the summit of Afghanistan’s highest mountain. Like many Afghan women, Hanifa Yousoufi had always been made to believe, growing up, that she shouldn’t go to school or play...
Aid funding of £12m will be used to help thousands of impoverished war veterans who served with the British military across the Commonwealth, Penny Mordaunt has announced. The minister for international development said the cash would be used to pro...
Think of your favourite gadgets and appliances, and it’s likely some of them started life in a rundown, mosquito-infested dormitory complex an hour’s drive from Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. In each block there is a makeshift kitchen, a small, g...