Photos: Community unites in Senegal’s Dakar to clean dilapidated school
Volunteers and students prepare safer, cleaner classrooms in advance of the academic year in Senegal’s capital.
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Moroccan parties mobilise in markets and online for parliamentary elections
Moroccan parties are pushing campaigns before the September 23 vote to secure 395 parliamentary seats.
Postponing the future: War and inflation redraw marriage terms in Iran
Iran’s cost of living crisis is affecting the dreams and everyday life choices of young Iranians.
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Displaced Syrians dig through hills of garbage to make a living
Displaced Syrians are digging through mountains of burning garbage searching for recyclable materials to make a living.
Published On 16 Sep 2026
Private schools become a costly choice for struggling parents in Gaza
Gaza families face difficult choices: send children to schools in tents with few resources to pay for private school.
![The new school year has not yet officially begun in Gaza. According to the Ministry of Education, classes are scheduled to start on September 19 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/ Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/B09A9064-copy-1789372825.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Climate hazards disrupted school for 1 in 10 students in 2025: UNICEF
More than 171 million students affected globally with girls disproportionately impacted.
Back to work, not school: Yemen’s crisis forces children to drop out
Struggling families in Yemen are forced to choose between education and survival amid mounting economic challenges.
Sudan’s healthcare system on brink of collapse, MSF warns
More than a third of Sudan’s health facilities are nonoperational as aid cuts deepen crisis, medical charity says.
‘Life became too hard’: Egypt’s vanishing wrestlers and a sport in crisis
Two wrestlers have become the latest to flee while abroad, drawing a wave of sympathy as well as legal threats.
Seven mouths, one meal: Feeding a family through Gaza’s food crisis
Families across Gaza struggle to secure food as community kitchens operate irregularly and prices rise.
WHO chief warns Ebola response must ramp up to stem DRC outbreak
Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap.
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