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Isabel Choat

Isabel Choat is a commissioning editor for the Guardian's Global Development desk

July 2024

  • View of the glassy, serene lake.

    Swanning around the Austrian lakes: a trip to Carinthia

    Austria’s southernmost province has 200 pristine, swimmable lakes, adrenaline-fuelled activities – and saunas with a view

May 2024

  • Nasrin Sotoudeh and her husband Reza Khandan hold up a protest badge that reads: ‘I oppose the mandatory hijab.’

    ‘I am ready to return whenever they say’: Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran

    Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime

April 2024

  • A clear, turqouise-green swimming lake with the mountains in the background and a blue sky.

    A gentler side of the Dolomites: a summer break in Italy’s Adamello-Brenta natural park

    Its peaks are a big draw for adrenaline junkies, but this natural park’s newer attractions offer more inclusive family activities

March 2024

  • Estonia’s second city Tartu is a university town with a youthful spirit.

    Breaking the ice – Estonia comes in from the cold

    Tartu’s year as a European capital of culture shines a spotlight on this creative and youthful city and its love of street art, folklore and nature

January 2024

  • Bilan in the mud of Baidoa - they say they decided to go barefoot because the people they were interviewing were barefoot and they wanted to be the same… I’m not sure how many other journalists would have that kind of sensitivity. They are working hard on the story and are pretty much there in terms of info.

    Somalia to launch its first current affairs TV show led by women

  • The two women holding sophisticated looking rifles against the backdrop of the beautiful national park

    ‘I never dreamed I would carry a gun’: the Zambian women keeping poachers at bay

December 2023

  • Desmond Muyenga plays with an inflated surgical glove in the haematology ward where he is being treated for sickle cell, in Lusaka, Zambia.

    A common condition
    Strokes, terrible pain and early death: can Zambia help beat sickle cell by screening babies?

  • A cholera patient is rehydrated with salt and sugar solution at a clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe.

    We need resources to fight health impacts of climate crisis, Africans tell Cop28

November 2023

  • A woman and a child walk past destroyed buildings as they evacuate Gaza City amid increased military operations in the Gaza Strip on 8 November 2023. Follow Israel-Hamas war live.

    US launches airstrike in response to attacks on bases housing US troops as Syrian state media reports strikes in south by Israel – as it happened

  • A woman in an abbaya picks her way through wreckage on a bombed street while holding a small baby

    Pregnant in Gaza with no clinics: ‘I have no idea where I will give birth’

September 2023

  • Andrew Tate, handcuffed and escorted by police, outside a courthouse in Bucharest.

    ‘Eat your broccoli and don’t listen to Andrew Tate’: fighting misogyny is now part of everyday parenting

    Isabel Choat
    Pushing back against malignant influences has sadly become a common topic between parents and children, but the conversation needs to go on outside the home

May 2023

  • A young boy carrying a bundle on his head walks along a two-metre high mound of discarded clothing as cows pick through it

    Stop dumping your cast-offs on us, Ghanaian clothes traders tell EU

  • A woman speaks to women and men in traditional west African dress under a canopy

    ‘Suffocating intimidation’: female politicians in Sierra Leone on sexism and abuse

March 2023

  • The foreign secretary James Cleverly at the Islamic Call school.

    Behind the fanfare of James Cleverly’s visit to Sierra Leone, the need to restore aid is starkly apparent

  • Alex Mubiru, who has Aids and cancer, waits at home in Wakiso, to receive care from a Hospice Africa Uganda nurse, 31 January

    A common condition
    ‘It’s not just about dying’: Uganda’s pioneers of palliative care undaunted by huge challenges

November 2022

  • Hadi Jumaan and his team collect bodies from the frontline.

    ‘My mission is to die every day’: the dangerous dedication of Yemen’s body collector

  • Jamila Afghani

    ‘No darkness is for ever’: can an activist in exile persuade the Taliban to allow teaching on TV?

September 2022

  • A child in Mogadishu, Somalia, where malnutrition is escalating rapidly, as aid workers warn the Horn of Africa country is hurtling towards famine.

    ‘There’s a path towards death that people travel’: how hunger destroys lives and communities

    With malnutrition reaching record levels, we look at its devastating effects on the body and mind and the urgent need for aid to prevent the suffering

August 2022

  • Stuck in a reading rut? Try one of these recommendations.

    Page turners: the most exciting new fiction from Africa, Latin America and south Asia

    We asked 14 writers, editors and publishers to tell us their current favourites from around the world

July 2022

  • A woman holding a Noble Cup menstrual product, Addis Ababa

    ‘Customs officers thought they were car parts’: the woman bringing menstrual cups to Ethiopia

    Sara Eklund hopes the cups will help reduce stigma and shame in a country where a quarter of women lack access to period products
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