Fields aflame and a ruined school: the Ian Parry photojournalism grant 2024 – in pictures
A look at the work of the recipients of this year’s Ian Parry photojournalism grant
‘We will make you have Arab babies’: fears of genocide amid rape and torture in Sudan’s Darfur
UN report indicates militia fighters are attempting to wipe out non-Arab ethnic groups in the region
The Week in Patriarchy
When Trump says he’s going to ‘protect’ women, we know he means ‘control’
Arwa Mahdawi
Rights we have taken for granted can, as we saw with the overturning of Roe v Wade, be suddenly yanked away
October 2024
Almost two dozen countries at high risk of acute hunger, UN report reveals
Sudan militia accused of mass killings and sexual violence as attacks escalate
Revealed: face of a Sudanese princess entombed in Egypt 2,500 years ago
Rights and freedom
Four in 10 deaths in war zones last year were women, UN report finds
Breakdown in global order causing progress to stall in Africa – report
The Guardian view on foreign powers in Sudan: struggling for advantage while civilians starve
Rights and freedom
Despair in Chad camps as violence and hunger in Sudan drive 25,000 across border in a week
Sudan’s civil war: how did it begin, what is the human cost, and what is happening now?
Sudan’s humanitarian crisis won’t be sidelined
Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody cares
Jonathan Freedland
Sudan’s forgotten war is bloody and horrifying – but US bombs aren’t the way to stop it
Simon Jenkins
Rights and freedom
‘In El Fasher you face only death’: Sudan city empties as paramilitaries close in
September 2024
In a tumultuous world, we rely on the United Nations more than ever – but it is failing
Jamal Benomar
There should be leadership but instead we see grandiose initiatives and a reluctance to address fundamental flaws, says former UN under secretary general Jamal Benomar
The Observer view on Sudan: decisive action is needed to avert catastrophe, but where is the will?
Despite UN speeches, the international community is largely absent as the African nation lurches towards catastrophe
Sudan’s army launches push to retake ground in capital
US announces $424m in Sudan aid amid pleas to stop ‘senseless’ war
With more than a million lives at risk in Sudan, the UN must make a decisive intervention. If not now, when?
