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Coming rainy season threatens 80,000 living in ‘heartbreaking’ conditions in vulnerable border region after fleeing war at homeTens of thousands of Sudanese refugees, many of them children, who have crossed the border into Chad risk a “major humanitari…
Army brought in to forcibly relocate refugees from the capital, despite pleas from human rights organisationsHundreds of refugees and asylum seekers in Malawi have been forcibly relocated from the capital, Lilongwe, to an overcrowded government camp.Ov…
Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make their children workSome of the world’s leading tea manufacturers, including Tetley and Lipton, are examining working conditions on the planta…
MPs back new bill for medical graduates, designed to limit brain drain to countries including the UK and USA new bill to impose five years’ mandatory service on Nigeria’s medical graduates in an effort to stop the exodus of doctors to the UK and the US…
UNHCR says Myanmar government has refused to allow it to distribute health supplies in Sittwe, where an estimated 90% of Rohingya homes have been destroyedUN staff say they have been denied access to help thousands of Rohingya living in displacement ca…
Torrential rain, coming on top of the country’s worst drought in four decades, has forced 250,000 people to leave their homesJamal Ali Abdi has seen flooding in Beledweyne before but never on the scale witnessed earlier this month when the Shabelle Riv…
Murder of Ralikonelo ‘Leqhashasha’ Joki prompts crackdown in southern African nation amid warnings of threat to media freedomLesotho has imposed anationwide curfew after the killing of a prominent radio presenter in the capital, Maseru, this week.Ralik…
Indian drug company to make cheaper generic version of CAB-LA, potentially protecting millions of people in Africa from the virusAn affordable version of a groundbreaking HIV-prevention drug will be made in South Africa for the first time, potentially …
Since fighting erupted last month, dozens of people have vanished, but communities are organising to find and bring them homeKamal Ali Osman sent a text message to his family saying he was being stopped by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the militia gr…
International academics join effort to highlight crackdown on freedom after jailing of opposition leader, Rached Ghannouchi European powers must stand by pro-democracy Tunisians resisting a fierce onslaught designed to take the country back to the da…