Sosa Henkoma was 10 when he was groomed by drug dealers in South London and then turned into what he describes as a 'child soldier' for #CountyLines drug gangs. I interviewed him and heard his extraordinary story for the The Guardian Today in Focus podcast . theguardian.com/news/audio/202…

Tremendous impact from our Left Behind series on Afghan colleagues abandoned by European missions after the fall of Kabul. Testament to the dedicated work of our team led by May Bulman and partners

Applications open for The Kim Wall Memorial Fund for journalists looking to follow forgotten/underreported stories...open til 17th December!

‘I’m not just covering the news – I’m living it’: Gaza’s citizen journalists chronicling life in war theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

I wrote about how influencers became the faces of greenwashing by fast fashion companies, and the influencers who preach 'sustainability' and a 'less is more' approach to fashion while promoting and profiting off of unsustainable brands

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‘Freaking out about young people’s support for Palestine is about more than social media. It’s about the closing of a window on an entire era of successfully managing public opinion on foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

BREAK: Lighthouse Reports just published evidence that Frontex and Malta actively cooperate with the Tariq Bin Zeyad Brigade (TBZ).  This Libyan militia is owned by Khalifa Haftar's son, who was found liable by a US court for war crimes and has confirmed ties to the Wagner group. 1/

Watch this heartbreaking beautiful film by Yousef D. Hammash channel4.com/news/inside-ga… via Channel 4 News

Investigative journalism at its best - so proud of my colleagues at The Guardian for their work investigating the unmarked graves of over a thousand people buried in secret across the EU.

Sosa Henkoma, who I interviewed for The Guardian today, survived being trafficked, stabbed and exploited whilst under the control of criminal gangs after the loss of his family. He has a lot to tell the world about redemption, forgiveness and hope. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

The clothes we wear have a direct link through to workers, many of them young women, who are being shot, attacked and intimidated for trying to fight for higher wages so their children won't starve. Thaslima and Redwan Ahmed 🏳️‍🌈 report for The Guardian Rights and Freedom series.

Today I am at Torkham, on the Afghan border with Pakistan, where 10s of thousands of Afghans have gathered, having been expelled from Pakistan. >2,000 families have crossed here in the past 24 hours. We’re seeing perhaps the largest forced expulsion in the world since the 1950s.

“Mothers are being persecuted for seeking justice for their sons murdered by the regime.”

From #MahsaYazdani to #MashallahKarami , parents seeking justice for their children killed by the regime’s forces are being detained and jailed. My report The Guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…

Grieving mother jailed for 13 years after calling for justice for her son, who was reportedly killed by security forces in #Iran . Reporting for our Rights and Freedom project by Deepa Parent theguardian.com/global-develop…

NEW from me: We pieced together what happened at Jabalia refugee camp, and confirmed using footage & visual forensics that Israel dropped at least 5 bombs, possibly JDAMs designed to level buildings. w Emma Graham-Harrison Elena Morresi
#Gaza #Israel #Jabaliacamp 🧵
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Congratulations Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara who have been nominated in the Press Gazette #BritishJournalismAwards Technology category, for their investigation for The Guardian Long Read into how Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking theguardian.com/news/2023/apr/…

I understand the interest in #titanicsub . Something to also think about:
The scene now at the tiny fishing harbour of El Lousa, #Tunisia . Boat capsized with 40 people. 11 drowned.
Bodies arriving into port.
Happening almost everyday.
Pictures to follow

'She didn't know how to make it stop': How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking. Deeply reported over two years by Mei-Ling McNamara and Katie McQue for The Guardian's Rights and Freedom reporting project and The Guardian Long Read.

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Really recommend this podcast by Annie Kelly and eliza about how women get trafficked into UK brothels, and how one of them managed to escape. It's really fascinating and explains why cases are so hard to prosecute

Trafficked: the trap – part one theguardian.com/news/audio/202…