Emma Batha

Respiratory consultant Binita Kane was working on the frontlines of the pandemic in Britain when her 10-year-old daughter Jasmin developed long COVID in 2021.

Tens of thousands of children in Britain - and millions worldwide - have long COVID, impacting their health, education and futures.

As a lively 11-year-old, Louise's son loved riding his bike, building outdoor dens, and swimming in the sea near his home on England's south coast. But then COVID struck.

He has since spent most of the last three years housebound with long COVID, needing a stairlift and wheelchair to get around when not bedridden.

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees working with aid agencies in Bidibidi camp in northern Uganda lost their jobs overnight after U.S. President Donald Trump froze government aid funding, paralysing humanitarian programmes.

Yesua Aliki, 28, a refugee advocate in Bidibidi - one of the world's biggest camps - warned that the stoppage would lead to a big rise in malnutrition and more deaths.

Long COVID is costing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity and increased health and social welfare costs, economists say.

Five years on from the start of the COVID-19 crisis, millions of people are struggling with debilitating health problems that have decimated their lives and livelihoods.

As COVID-19 raged around the world five years ago, London community nurse Beverly Summers found herself on the frontline of the pandemic, caring for patients in their homes as hospitals rapidly ran out of beds.

Passionate about her job, she did back-to-back shifts for eight weeks, but then caught the virus herself.

Context spoke to Lotfullah Najafizada, CEO of Amu TV about how dangerous it is to be a journalist in Afghanistan.

From Gaza to Ukraine, more than 180 million people are caught up in humanitarian emergencies, but while a handful make headlines, many crises fly under the radar.

Here are the 10 that attracted the least media attention last year, according to research by aid agency CARE.

President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will embolden anti-abortion activists who want to further restrict access, reproductive rights experts say.

Abortion is a deeply divisive issue in the United States where a 2022 Supreme Court ruling in 2022 upended reproductive rights across the country.

Scattered in their millions across the world, Syrians have been watching the seismic change taking place in their homeland with disbelief and joy but also anxiously wondering how the ripples from the radical shift will affect their futures.

After rebels took control of the capital Damascus on Sunday, European countries paused processing asylum claims by Syrians and a number of politicians are already talking of repatriations and deportations.

Nearly 300 British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long COVID are suing the health service for compensation, saying they were not given proper protection during the pandemic.

They say their lives have been devastated by a host of severe health complications. Most cannot return to work and many are housebound.