Africa
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With acute malnutrition affecting more than 10% of people in Burkina Faso, an innovative startup is mass-producing dried shea caterpillars high in protein
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Budget minister’s warning on poll funds comes after death of key opposition figure and amid fears over fragile political deal
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International media is dominated by the Trump administration, but those of us outside the US need an outlook that really reflects today’s global realities
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Press team stop Gambian journalists asking about some of foreign secretary’s writing on Africa
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Human Rights Watch report calls on UK and other aid donors funding ambitious education programme to put pressure on government to halt abuses
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Nursery providers in Nairobi are helping to train childminders, while in Bogotá and São Paulo they are using wealthier communities to subsidise fees
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Foreign secretary criticised for diverting new £700m ‘empowerment fund’ away from countries in Africa and Middle East
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Mass walkout over reneged 2013 deal on boosting pay and staffing has left patients untreated and medical union leaders in jail
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A dispute over Nubian lands that are to be sold off to investors exposes tension between government development plans and rights of the ethnic group
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The Nigerian city has recorded the world’s worst levels of PM10 air pollution. But although the results are lethal, the problem is not taken seriously here
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A state crackdown has silenced ethnic Oromo people in Ethiopia, but grievances over land and rights, and a lack of political options, could reignite protests
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Campaigners say tens of millions in urgent need in Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia are in hands of an overwhelmed, outdated humanitarian network
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As he prepares to leave Africa for Afghanistan, the UN assistant secretary general dismisses the idea of donor fatigue, arguing aid is the ‘smart thing to do’
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Each day, thousands of women carry heavy bundles across the Morocco–Melilla border. Fernando del Berro documented their journeys
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As ministers end Dubs scheme, young Sudanese who now have little hope of entering UK give their reactions
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Opposition members scuffle with guards after president is condemned as a ‘scoundrel’ and ‘rotten to the core’
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Scuffles break out in South African parliament on Thursday between parliament staff and the Economic Freedom Fighters
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Diplomats hope for reconciliation between the UN-backed government of national accord and the military commander of Libya’s eastern government
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Politicians meet in compound in capital to vote in process hailed by some as important step towards democracy
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How Aisha Bakari Gombi, ‘queen hunter’ in the fight against the world’s deadliest terror group, became a heroine in north Nigeria
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Last year, almost half a million people arrived in Uganda, escaping conflict in South Sudan. More than 270,000 found shelter in Bidi Bidi camp
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Kinshasa’s fashionable sapeurs have been joined by growing cadre of sapeuses who dress to impress
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