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Those in emergency accommodation struggling to meet basic needs as government fails to pay agreed increase in support
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Home workers in Sindh province are celebrating new social security benefits, after being denied lockdown funding -
There is reason to hope the president-elect will pivot from long-standing US policy of backing continent’s strongman leaders
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Covid could be ‘the straw that breaks the camel’s back’ health workers warn
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The city’s railway is a hit with passengers, but critics say worker deaths and huge debt are too high a price to pay -
Black people in the north African country suffer hardship and disadvantage, and many still carry the label of ‘liberated’ slaves -
Indonesia’s Citarum is relied upon by millions, but decades of pollution have choked it with chemicals and rubbish
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Two women took Harare authorities to court to force them to reopen 42 maternity clinics -
There is a huge mental health treatment gap across Africa, but in one Nigerian hospital, music therapy is having a positive impact -
Hilsa fishermen must borrow to buy equipment but have to sell their catch at a low price to moneylenders – creating a generational debt trap
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Despite government measures, thousands left struggling during Covid outbreak as companies withhold salaries and benefits, research shows -
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds evidence that Chinese PPE factories supplying UK government are breaking UN sanctions -
A look inside the hlcarpenter's three-month investigation into Chinese factories exporting PPE to countries including the US, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Myanmar
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Children as young as five still exposed to hazardous work in countries including Ghana and Ivory Coast, report reveals
Europe's refugee crisis
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Man with right to asylum in Germany allegedly stripped of papers and expelled in ‘refugee pushback’ while searching for 11-year-old brother -
Evidence including footage of Frontex ship making waves near a migrant dinghy appears to contradict agency’s denial of involvement in pushbacks -
More than 7,500 people living in tents on squalid settlement, with two other camps on Lesbos set to close
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In an area that is infamous for high drug use, a group of men use their own experience of addiction to help children strive for new goals
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