As climate damage mounts, poor nations press wealthy to pay up
Climate advocates say a request to include language about 'loss and damage' in the official text of the summit agreement has faced resistance from developed countries
Britain's foreign aid: Where does the money go?
Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak says foreign aid cuts will remain for the next three years. But aid groups argue the shortfall will have devastating effects in poorer countries
Slowdowns and shutdowns: Africans challenge internet restrictions
Telecommunications were interrupted in Sudan this week after the army seized power in a coup, the latest in a string of internet outages in African countries over the last year
Africa urged to wake up to growing state surveillance threat
From surveillance to censorship, a new report warns Africans to be aware of laws encroaching on their privacy rights
WHO to send in experts to prevent sexual abuse after Congo scandal
Following a joint investigation by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and The New Humanitarian, an inquiry found 83 aid workers were involved in sex abuse during the Ebola epidemic
WIDER IMAGE-'Our whole life depends on water': Climate change, pollution and dams threaten Iraq’s Marsh Arabs
Many Marsh Arabs, the wetlands' indigenous population, were displaced after Saddam Hussein drained the land. Now a cycle of water crises threatens their way of life
UK aid cuts spark fears over parasitic killer that stalks the poor
Efforts to halt visceral leishmaniasis - the deadliest parasitic disease after malaria - are threatened by cuts to UK aid funding, say health workers
Medics worked tirelessly during COVID-19. Now let's help them
Health workers fought for patients in an overwhelming pandemic, but the toll it took on them is largely hidden and unacknowledged
Cotton industry unprepared for climate change threat to crop and farmers
Even as demand rises, worsening heat, drought and flooding threaten the world's cotton supply, and the farmers that grow it
'We have history': Saving Kenya's last sacred forests
The Mijikenda people protect the forests along Kenya's coast, but pollution from quarrying could force the guardians to leave