DIY artificial reefs are boosting fish numbers in Yemen. But there’s a catch
Fishers have revived a traditional practice of building ‘scrap’ reefs to attract fish but are using plastic and tyres instead of rocks and branches, and not everyone is happy
Guatemala
Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire
As their families await justice, Jayro Bustamante’s movie, Rita, highlights the bravery of victims of 2017 blaze, and the authorities’ failure to protect them
FGM
‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM
Art and counselling are helping women and girls in Kenya to process anger and forgive family members, who are often the ones who subjected them to genital mutilation
Transnational repression
UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile
Saudis living in the UK claim Riyadh is targeting them for speaking out on human rights and jailing of female activists
Child protection
Children missing from Home Office hotels likely to have been trafficked, report finds
Transnational repression
Iranian TV presenter stabbed in London moves abroad for safety
Bangladesh
Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper
MPs in the Gambia vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation
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I told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18
‘They wanted her to confess to witchcraft’: ending the chilling effects of dementia stigma in Nigeria
‘There was no other option’: the aid packages feeding diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands
‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’
The deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh
Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’
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In pictures
Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures
Chess players from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are introducing children traumatised by violence to the joys of playing the board game
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