Guardian Weekly

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

United Kingdom

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...