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Mark Townsend

Mark Townsend is a senior global development reporter at the Guardian. He is the author of No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made

June 2024

  • Two children walk along a dusty path carrying water containers

    Conflicts drive number of forcibly displaced people to record high

    Sharp rise, equivalent to population of London, means nearly 120 million have been driven from their homes
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    Bloodlines
    Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a bloody price for Europe’s insatiable appetite for cocaine

    For serious drug gangs, thousands of children coming from Morocco and Algeria offer an unlimited pool of cheap, disposable street sellers
  • Four boys stand on a hill silhouetted against a dark sky

    Bloodlines
    Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade

    Exclusive: Guardian investigation shows white powder trail linking hundreds of vulnerable African minors with ruthless gangs

May 2024

  • Starlink<br>ANKARA, TURKIYE - OCTOBER 31: In this photo illustration, logo of Starlink is displayed on mobile phone screen and photo of Elon Musk is displayed on computer screen in Ankara, Turkiye on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Starlink internet shutdown in Sudan will punish millions, Elon Musk warned

    With a widespread telecoms blackout already in place, emergency help and humanitarian aid at risk if satellite service withdrawn, say NGOs
  • A large group of people in a refugee camp.

    Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

    As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan
  • People standing next to dozens of candles with childish cutouts seen hanging from string

    Rights and freedom
    Hundreds of potentially trafficked children ‘abandoned by Home Office’

    Exclusive: 1,871 possible trafficking or modern slavery victims left open to exploitation after falling out of UK system, FoI data reveals

April 2024

  • A group of soldiers with weapons sit on the back of a pickup truck

    Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group

    Human Rights Watch demands investigation into killings in two villages just weeks after Russian troops fly in, amid intensifying conflict
  • Screenshots from a video shared by the Darfur Victim Support organisation showing the village of Al Takma burning.

    Rights and freedom
    Increasing number of villages torched across Sudan shows conflict is intensifying - report

    Satellite data indicates growing number of airstrikes on settlements, in a war that has already killed thousands

    • Europe live
      Europe: Sudan war ‘world’s worst child displacement crisis,’ Paris conference told – as it happened

    • UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

    • Disinformation on cholera led to Mozambique ferry disaster, officials say

March 2024

  • A man wearing a white robe over a grey suit gives a peace sign while standing in front of a ballot box

    Senegal’s anti-establishment candidate almost certain to become president

    Radical change candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye pulls off stunning election win after main rival Amadou Ba concedes defeat
  • People walk past an electoral billboard of candidate Amadou Ba of President Macky Sall's ruling coalition, in a street in Dakar

    Senegal heads to the polls overshadowed by deadly protests

    Country’s reputation as one of Africa’s model democracies under threat after weeks of violence

    • Rights and freedom
      ‘Here, there is no future’: ethnic cleansing and fresh atrocities drive exodus of thousands from Darfur

    • Rights and freedom
      Fears UK coastguards left children adrift on small boats before Channel tragedy

    • Rights and freedom
      RNLI-Border Force row reveals ‘chaos’ in maritime rescue before Channel tragedy

February 2024

  • Young men with their faces covered running down a street as black smoke billows from a bonfire

    Is democracy dying in Africa? Senegal’s slide into chaos bodes ill in a year of key elections

  • Héritier Luvumbu

    Rwanda’s sacking of footballer adds to fears over UK’s ‘immoral’ asylum seekers plan

  • This photo taken from video released by Russian Federal Penitentiary Service via SOTAVISION shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears via a video link from the Arctic penal colony in Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, where he is serving a 19-year sentence, in Kovrov, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2024. Shortly after Navalny's death was reported on Friday Feb. 16, 2024, the Russian SOTA social media channel shared images of the opposition politician reportedly in court yesterday. In the footage, Navalny is seen standing up and is laughing and joking with the judge via video link. (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service via SOTAVISION via AP)

    Ukraine war live
    Alexei Navalny death: dozens reportedly arrested in Russia protests as Biden blames Putin ‘and his thugs’ – as it happened

  • A man with wearing a mask with the Kökbayraq (East Turkestan) flag painted on it, with a hand painted over the mouth with China's flag on it.

    Rights and freedom
    China, Russia and Cambodia top list of regimes targeting critics in exile

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