Technology
Africa’s ‘unprecedented’ Ebola outbreak could reach UK, says top health official
Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to in...
Africa
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The pest I’ll never forget: the rats stood six or seven deep on the lawn beside my dormitory
All it took was one or two careless teenage girls giving the vermin a taste of their snacks and they became th...
Politics
UK poised to miss reduced aid spending target of 0.3% of national income
Calculations from the Center for Global Development say spending next year is likely to be £410m less than ant...
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‘We built this land’: descendants of enslaved people are reclaiming their history across South Africa’s vineyards
Slavery was integral to the country’s wine industry, now a handful of wineries are addressing its legacy and r...
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The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage
Lana Nusseibeh has been the face of a disastrous Emirates policy that has prolonged war and death. It is a sca...
Technology
Forget the Live Aid image, Africa is only a broken continent in the minds of the west
Innovators and business leaders are driving progress across the continent, but the ‘visibility gap’ prevents t...
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Economic growth and democratic decline: the ‘cotton king’ who reshaped Benin
Patrice Talon has transformed the west African country’s economy and infrastructure at the expense of politica...
Technology
I have seen with pride how British overseas aid saves children’s lives. That is why I say cuts should be reversed
I understand the pressure on the public purse, but I have also seen the effect of our spending on the ground,...
Technology
Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?
As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology re...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did...
Science
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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British woman who was kidnapped in Malawi rescued by police after shootout
Four of Nurat Osman’s alleged abductors were killed during rescue after she was taken from outside her home la...