DRC receives first donation of 100,000 mpox vaccines to contain outbreak
Jab not yet approved for children, who make up most cases, while officials warn millions more doses will be required The first donation of mpox...
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Stray bullets and closed schools: Rio’s kids suffer as police crack down on gangs
Thousands of schoolchildren in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas miss classes and risk violence as Brazil’s police battle drug gangs Textbooks and marker pens are not...
Africa to finally receive first batch of vaccines for deadly mpox virus
The continent will belatedly get 10,000 shots amid criticism of delays to the process caused by WHO red tape Africa’s first batch of mpox vaccines...
How west Africa’s online fraudsters moved into sextortion
With ‘hustle kingdoms’ teaching young people the tricks of the trade, there has been a surge in blackmailing crimes National Crime Agency threatens extraditions over...
‘A revolution is building’: can young people force change across Africa?
Africa has the youngest population of any continent, and recent protests in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda suggest growing youth disillusionment. Will they be able to...
Global health charities warn of ‘huge and terrible’ threat to abortion rights if Trump returns
‘Global gag rule’ and funding cuts will be ‘on different scale’ if Republicans win again, family-planning providers say Providers of women’s healthcare around the world...
Marina Hyde on the ‘brave’ inciters of Britain’s race riots; lightning struck my plane and I plunged 3,000m; the delights of the dead hang – podcast
Where are you Tommy and Elon? Marina Hyde finds that those provoking the race riots are far, far away; the dead hang delight – how...
Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp
UN-backed early warning network confirms people in the Darfur city of El Fasher are starving to death Famine has been declared in a Sudanese displacement...
Somalia arrests another journalist as press clampdown intensifies
Detention of reporters for covering sensitive news is having a ‘chilling’ effect on free media in Somalia, say rights groups The arrest of a journalist...
Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment
Prof Linda-Gail Bekker receives ovation at Aids summit after presenting trial results of ‘miracle’ drug lenacapavir When the doctor behind the trial of a new...
