For nearly 20 years, local women photojournalists trained and employed by Global Press documented life in places rarely seen in global media. From moments of everyday resilience to intimate portrayals ...

KATHMANDU, NEPAL — Babulal Tamang called his wife in April from a prison in Saudi Arabia with news that shook her to her core: He had been sentenced to death after a drug-trafficking conviction. The ...

MUMBAI, INDIA — Hindi is the most widely spoken language in India, with most of its speakers concentrated in the northern regions. But this year, states in southern and western India have consistently ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Zimbabwe’s tobacco sector was once on the brink of collapse. Now, it’s booming again. Last year alone, it earned the country close to US$1 billion in revenue. But though the crop is ...

KYIV, UKRAINE — In April 2024, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine voted to retain Judge Pavlo Kovalenko. This was in spite of a recommendation from the Public Integrity Council, ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — With the price of gold up globally, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in April put the gold coins it stopped minting a year earlier back on the market. But interested investors had to ...

The Dharavi neighborhood in Mumbai — Asia’s largest informal settlement — is located on prime real estate. Many people who live there now are under pressure to relocate to an area near a toxic ...

MBARARA, UGANDA — The first time Robert stepped onto the campus of Mbarara University of Science and Technology, he believed he was entering the halls of a prestigious institution that had trained ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — It’s been months since lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe, the country’s oldest and most prestigious university, stepped aside. Their salaries, eroded by inflation and currency ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement, is attempting to block potential political candidates from running as independents. In April, it introduced a requirement for ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, was approaching a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. He had little reason to question what was in his truck’s sealed container — he’d ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Blessing Mucharambei’s uncle was just having lunch when he stood up, then collapsed. “[He] started bleeding from the nose,” she says, “and died on the spot.” As far as his family ...