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Mohammad Sadiq Akif is the spokesperson for the Ta

Mohammad Sadiq Akif is the spokesperson for the Taliban’s ministry of vice and virtue. He says the orders for women to cover themselves have come from God. Female journalists have been ordered to cover their faces on television. More from the story at the link in my bio.

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World Refugee Day - 100 million people have been f

World Refugee Day - 100 million people have been forced to flee their homes. 41% of them are children. Nearly half of those children remain out of school.

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My first thought was ‘How am I going to work in

My first thought was ‘How am I going to work in that environment?’ In the end we spent 7 hours with the 1,000 or so drug addicts under the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge in Kabul, Afghanistan. Story link is in my bio. .

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“What crime are we convicted of? It's a crime to

“What crime are we convicted of? It's a crime to be a woman, it's a crime to be a girl,” says newsreader Sohaila Yousofi, who has been forced to wear a mask under Afghanistan's Taliban regime. Reporting from Afghanistan for the Telegraph. Link in bio .

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Eunice Mweeta, aged 30, was diagnosed with Female

Eunice Mweeta, aged 30, was diagnosed with Female Genital Schistosomiasis in May. She thinks she contracted it in this river. Check the link in my bio for the latest reporting from The Telegraph Global Health Security team .

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Kabul, Afghanistan- Five-year-old Fawzia from Hera

Kabul, Afghanistan- Five-year-old Fawzia from Herat province who has suspected tuberculosis and meningitis, at the Indira Ghandi Children's Hospital.

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It’s World Environment Day and I can’t help bu

It’s World Environment Day and I can’t help but think of Madagascar. The Menarandra River is now called the ‘river of sand’ by people who depended on it for fishing, irrigation, drinking, and transportation .

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Aid is running out in Afghanistan. I was taken aba

Aid is running out in Afghanistan. I was taken aback by the levels of malnutrition. Check the link in my bio for today’s story from Ben Farmer and I in @telegraph

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I met this baby and his caregivers at the City Spe

I met this baby and his caregivers at the City Special Children’s Home #1 in Odesa, Ukraine. The port city is critical for agricultural exports, and for three months, shipments have been blocked.

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Salaman was 10 years old when I met him in DR Cong

Salaman was 10 years old when I met him in DR Congo, in April 2021. He was staying in an abandoned church along with hundreds of people who had been forced from their homes.

The UN has announced that 100 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes as of this month. This is up 10 million just since the start of this year, mostly due to the war in Ukraine.

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I’m pleased that the work from Ukraine is resona

I’m pleased that the work from Ukraine is resonating with people. I shared the stories with @keanewzealand - link in my bio. Image is Adele after she was evacuated from Mariupol, March 2022.

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Sita Sumar, 34, shared her story of receiving a me

Sita Sumar, 34, shared her story of receiving a medical abortion in her Nepal village. She stresses how important it was for her to be able to take back control of her life. “It was very important to me that I could manage this on my own,” she says.
More from this story at the link in my bio.

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Irina showed me photos of her son Eduard as a litt

Irina showed me photos of her son Eduard as a little boy. I met her in the morgue in Mikolayiv Ukraine. I shared her story on the Coffee Eggs and Inspiration podcast - link in my bio.

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In South Sudan baby Juma is kept in isolation to p

In South Sudan baby Juma is kept in isolation to protect him from infection. He was three days old and just 1.6 kg. This image, from January 2020, is featured in the Humanity exhibition today in Zurich.

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The bombardment of Mariupol Ukraine continues toda

The bombardment of Mariupol Ukraine continues today - on his YouTube channel, Craig Fenton gave me the opportunity to share the story of meeting Nadia. The link is in my bio.

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The children of 'Generation Zika' are now 6 years

The children of 'Generation Zika' are now 6 years old and Zika is still high on the list of pathogens which could spark the next pandemic. Pictured here: Thuana Regina and her daughter Thaisa Vitoria, 2018 in Recife, Brazil.

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Ukraine’s prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova h

Ukraine’s prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova has been tasked with documenting war crimes. Photographing her was a fitting end to my 4-week assignment for The Telegraph.
Link to the story is in my bio

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Father Andrii Pinchu wearing the body armour he us

Father Andrii Pinchu wearing the body armour he uses when transporting refugees to the makeshift shelter he runs from a school in Volosky near Dnipro.
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She and her children’s father are on the front l

She and her children’s father are on the front line. Link in bio to the latest front page. Link in bio to today’s article in The Telegraph.

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Olga kept a diary while she and her family struggl

Olga kept a diary while she and her family struggled to survive in Mariupol. She shared it with us. Link in bio to today’s article in The Telegraph.

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