The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.
Editor’s Notes
Global report • Headlines from the last seven days
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Reader’s eyewitness
SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
Is democracy in Africa on its last legs? • Senegal’s slide into chaos bodes badly in a year of key elections for the continent, the future of which lies with a younger generation that seems disillusioned by the apparent failures of elected leaders and stagnant economies
AFRICA’S ELECTIONS TO WATCH • Three bellwether polls for the continent
Young at heart • Two-f if ths of all Africans are aged under 15. School funding is the key to their futures
Spotlight • Peace talks raise hopes as time runs down for Rafah
No safe place • One family’s attempt to f lee Rafah
The day Britain’s democracy failed • As MPs gathered to debate a ceasefire in Gaza, the Commons descended into chaos, with accusations of bad faith and bias
Eyewitness China
As Ukraine burns, Russia is thriving • Kyiv needs $500bn to get the country back on its feet. But Moscow has so little debt that even sanctions have not done much damage … yet
‘Long farewell’ • Nato accession marks change of national identity
Is a behemoth of global beef losing its taste for meat?
Flour power • Insects on the nation’s menu at last
The threat of AI in a year of elections • Governments and tech firms are at odds over how best to police an information ecosystem at serious risk of disruption
‘Fire sale’ • Historic hotels put on market as debts mount
The school helping girls to heal after Boko Haram atrocities
Gift of the jab Could the TB vaccine help fight Alzheimer’s? • Studies suggest the BCG shot, discovered a century ago, may provide an effective way to protect people from developing dementia
Down, not out Nikki Haley presses on for Republicans not ready to crown Trump • Despite a stinging loss in her home state of South Carolina, the presidential hopeful is refusing to quit the race
Alabama IVF ruling sparks off infertility scramble
THE NEW SCIENCE OF HISTORY • How technology is opening up a new realm of knowledge about the old world
War of the words • Diversity of language is an essential human good – yet so many of them are being hounded out of existence. As a matter of justice, the powerful must stop imposing their languages on the powerless
Jonathan Freedland • Paris talks offer a sliver of hope disaster can be averted in Rafah
Sirin Kale • Police repeatedly fail victims by not taking stalking seriously
Charlotte Higgins • Art shows the surreal reality of wartime in a way the news never can
The GuardianView • Millions are suffering as the world ignores the spiralling conflict in Sudan
Opinion Letters
Take the rap • Riotous Belfast trio Kneecap are uniting Northern Ireland’s young people while also reviving their native language. Miranda Sawyer met them
Ocean drive Undersea legends of the Faroes • A new tunnel featuring audiovisual artworks connects residents of the North Atlantic islands to their heritage as well as their destinations
Statues of liability • At the ancient citadel of Spandau in Berlin, German history is redefined with a near-secret exhibition of rejected sculptures, from Kant and Lenin to Hitler
Reviews
Steady as he goes • A biography of the Labour leader mirrors its unflashy subject, but offers intriguing clues as to...