Failure to recognise Somaliland’s independence means aid that could save lives of people hit by drought and cholera is too slow to arrive, says foreign minister Patrick Wintour Wednesday 24 May 2017...
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'We've never seen this drought, this disease': Somali families bury their dead
Jason Burke reports from Baidoa in Somalia, where more than 6 million people need assistance after two years without rain There is no road to the hundred or so tin-roofed shacks scattered among...
'The Central African Republic must be built from scratch'
As François Hollande heads to CAR this week, he will find a country divided by religion and where violence among its people is horrifyingly normal Clár Ní Chonghaile in Bangui The Gbaya Ndombia...
Malawi floods devastation far worse than first thought
UN agencies scale up response to disaster that has displaced nearly a quarter of a million people, and threatens disease and malnutrition Nearly a quarter of a million people, more than originally...
Haiti earthquake: rebuilding the country with carpentry and prosthetics
Five years after the earthquake, diaspora Haitians share stories of setting up NGOs to support post-disaster development Katherine Purvis On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the...
Gorilla bean harvest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – in pictures
Protein-rich gorilla beans have been bred to target malnutrition in DRC's North and South Kivu provinces. They contain up to double the iron and 70% more zinc than regular beans, and are often used...
Agriculture's impact on malaria
Caspar van Vark unpicks the complex link between irrigation systems and mosquitoes in Africa. Read the full report on the Guardian.
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Synthetic anti-malarial compound is bad news for artemisia farmers
In the constant fight between microbes and people, attempts to rein in the malarial parasite have just taken an interesting turn. On Thursday the founder of Amyris Biotech triumphantly announced...
Bangladesh farmers caught in vicious cycle of flood and debt
Regular floods are destroying homes and livelihoods but also food crops, creating a generation of undernourished children Read the Full Report by Syed Zain Al-Mahmood in Dhaka
Malawi's food safety threatened by contaminated groundnuts
Fair trade NGO Twin is calling for urgent action after revealing 60% of groundnuts are not tested for potentially lethal aflatoxins Read the Full Story by Mark Tran
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Are environmental changes spreading Rift Valley and Lassa fevers?
Shifts in forest cover, agricultural practices, mining and reservoirs are thought to be affecting the transmission of diseases from animals to humans Read the Poverty Matters Blog
Mozambique farmers' market at heart of fight against hunger
Wapsala collective's self-sufficiency drive aims to ease the chronic malnutrition that affects 44% of the under-fives Simon Tisdall in Matimbine In England, it would be called a farmers' market. In...
Malnutrition: the scourge of Rwanda's children
More than 2.6 million children worldwide die each year from undernourishment. As a campaign to cut child mortality is launched, Jay Rayner in Rwanda reports on how, even in such a fertile country,...