‘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...
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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...
Africa to overtake Asia with highest number of hungry people by 2030, says UN
Annual report says climate crisis, conflict and economic shocks leave the global food system ‘disastrously vulnerable’ Africa will overtake Asia as the continent with the...
Most new HIV infections occurred outside sub-Saharan Africa for first time – UN report
African countries hailed for achievements, but UNAids says cases on the rise in other areas of the world The majority of new HIV infections last...
Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future
At the lawless triple border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, drug trafficking, illegal logging and gangs jeopardise the ecological and social fabric of the rainforest...
MPs in the Gambia vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation
Campaigners applaud decision not to repeal law in west African country with one of the highest rates of FGM MPs in the Gambia voted on...
