Terrible reports of sexual violence during the fall of El Fasher in Sudan. A theme of the whole war. With @liliasebouai.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/19a0f00...

🔴 There is mounting evidence the Sudanese city of El Fasher is at the centre of one of this century’s worst ethnic massacres. Now, The Telegraph has received a voice message from a survivor telling harrowing story of survival ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/sudan-pay-genocide/

African nations eye sin taxes and debt restructuring to replace lost funding Ten months after Donald Trump slashed America’s lavish overseas aid, former recipients are scrambling for new ways to fill the gaps @benfarmerdt.bsky.social has the latest www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Marathon of death to escape El Fasher 'kill box'. Ali Ibrahim fled with 140 others as Sudanese city overrun. Nine hours later only 82 of them made it to Tawila. Surviving the gauntlet meant not stopping for anyone. With @liliasebouai www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Reports from the fall of El Fasher in Sudan just get worse. Some 460 murdered in a maternity hospital as RSF overran the city. A video filmed by RSF fighters shows gunmen in a ransacked hospital ward strewn with scores of bodies. By @liliasebouai www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Visible from space, Sudan’s bloodied sands expose a massacre in El Fasher www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

World's oldest president wins another term in power at the age of 92 after promising that "the best is yet to come". Paul Biya will be nearly 100 at the end of his eighth term www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

African leaders to push for debt relief at next month's G20 in Johannesburg, but likely to be low down the agenda for many attendees www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Another tainted cough syrup tragedy in India. Fourteen young children dead. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

What happened when 1.5 million tonnes of highly acidic waste escaped from a Chinese mine and flowed into Zambian rivers www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

US pushes for truce to end Sudan bloodshed Britain joins calls for ‘humanitarian pause’ as rebels move in on besieged city of El Fasher @benfarmerdt.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Abandoned in cold storage, the bodies of at least 20 Colombian mercenaries lie unclaimed in a Sudanese mortuary more than 6,000 miles from home. A footnote in a new golden age of guns for hire. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

A starvation cult accused of being responsible for the deaths of over 400 people is still active, officials fear, as new graves suggest acolytes escaped a police round-up two years ago. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Botswana has declared a public health emergency with hospitals and clinics running short of essential supplies as a diamond downturn saps the mining nation’s finances. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

An incredibly rare Mars rock meteorite was sold at auction in New York last month for £3.2m. Now Niger is asking if it was trafficked out of the country. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

As al-Shabaab make sweeping gains across Somalia, in the capital many ask if they are next. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Large numbers of vulnerable HIV patients in South Africa are feared to have dropped off medication, in what campaigners warn could be a harbinger of rising infections and deaths after American aid cuts. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Kenya may have become a hub for organ trafficking, a health taskforce has warned. Records show dozens of Azeri men donated kidneys at the country's top transplant hospital and dozens of Israelis flew there to be recipients. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Bustling cities in south east Nigeria are each Monday deserted due to a long-running stay at home protest said to have killed 700 people. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Mothers in Lesotho now no longer know if they might pass HIV on to their babies. HIV tests for expectant mothers have stopped under US aid cuts. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Hours before Boniface Mwangi was arrested at the weekend to face terrorism charges for his role in Kenya's 'Gen Z' protests, he told the @telegraphnews.bsky.social about popular anger with the government. With David Ochami. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

It turns out the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm. For @telglobalhealth.bsky.social I wrote about the implications of this discovery for our understanding of the male infertility crisis. With thanks to @zahadyv.bsky.social and Bill Sullivan www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs forced to “hyper-prioritise” and scale back after being given barely eighth of money requested amid brutal aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

G20 health experts meeting in Johannesburg to discuss pandemic preparedness. But who has not turned up? America.

US aid cuts threaten South Africa's status as a powerhouse of research into HIV and TB www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

How Russia is enticing Africans into its invasion of Ukraine. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Cyril Ramaphosa in a high-stakes meeting on Wednesday with Donald Trump. Yet however well it goes (and it could go badly) no one expects a reprieve for South Africa's Pepfar HIV funding or aid. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Four years after the WHO set up its mRNA vaccine hub in South Africa, the start-up is on its way to transforming the vaccine landscape in Africa, even after being given the cold shoulder by pharma giants. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

As UN's food and refugee agencies warn of dire cuts to services as funding plummets from donors like US, we've been in Chad to see effect on refugees from Sudan's war. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Innovative paint cools sweltering shacks in Cape Town’s biggest township. Coating used on chicken coops promises to slash indoor temperatures and help millions of people get a good night’s sleep. @benfarmerdt.bsky.social reports. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Great read by @sneweyy on the hundreds of scam centres that have sprung up in the Mekong region of SE Asia over the last 5-6 yrs. The scale is incredible, with 300,000 trapped inside. And their boom is a side effect of the Covid lockdowns, no less😱 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Aid cuts by Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer could trigger a resurgence in HIV cases, with up to 10.8 million more people infected globally, new modelling estimates www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Scientists trapped in a remote Antarctic research station have called for urgent help after a colleague was accused of assault and threatening to kill a team member. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Lesotho: Inside the country Trump says ‘nobody has ever heard of’ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Update on the British man killed in hit-and-run by Kenyan president’s motorcade. Edgar Riches was a tireless fundraiser for a Catholic aid charity, and had helped bring in hundreds of thousands of pounds. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

As M23 rebel group advances in eastern DRC, tens of thousands have swum a crocodile-infested river to flee into neighbouring Burundi, which is now in the grip of a refugee crisis. With @simontownsley.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Lenacapavir, the miracle new HIV protective jab may work well for more than a year, Lancet study suggests www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Very powerful reporting from Sudan's forgotten famine in the Nuba mountains. By @liliasebouai.bsky.social and @simontownsley.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

US aid freeze could set back Africa’s fight against HIV by years, researchers warn telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Uganda has managed to get a Sudan strain Ebola vaccine trial underway only four days after a case was first spotted www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

'That’s a big one’: Trump orders US to leave the WHO Lack of US funding and expertise would undermine global health security and raise the risk of pandemics, experts say @benfarmerdt.bsky.social reports www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Antibiotic ‘more than halves’ TB risk for vulnerable children, say scientists. UK-funded trial conducted found levofloxacin substantially reduced the risk of children developing multi drug-resistant tuberculosis. @benfarmerdt.bsky.social reports. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Mystery DRC outbreak officially identified as malaria www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

I've always preferred dogs... Why cats are the new pigs – and could spark the next pandemic Scientists say that, like pigs, they are a ‘mixing vessel’ that could enable H5N1 bird flu to mutate and spread to humans www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...