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  • Somali pirates begin hijacking ships again after Houthi attacks creates security vacuum

    Despite big anti-piracy efforts, Somalia’s huge coastline, lack of development and extreme poverty mean such attacks remain worthwhile

    Ben Farmer 16 Mar 2024, 2:21pm
    An armed Somali pirate along the coastline while a Greek cargo ship in the distance is held by pirates
  • Battle Lines: The war on Ecuador’s gangs, famine in Sudan, captivity in Hamas’ tunnels

    Join The Telegraph’s top journalists as they analyse the top defence, security & foreign affairs stories and tell you what you need to know

    Venetia Rainey 15 Mar 2024, 7:00am
    Officers from the Ecuadorean National Police escort a man detained on suspicion of belonging to a criminal gang during a joint operation with members of the Armed Forces on one of the main avenues of Guayaquil, Ecuador on January 15, 2024. Ecuador's security forces on Sunday took back control of several prisons that had fallen into the hands of gang members, after securing the release of more than 200 officials held hostage inside the jails. The country's simmering security crisis erupted last week as the government and powerful narco gangs declared all-out war on each other, after the prison escape of dangerous drug lord Jose Adolfo Macias, known by the alias "Fito."
  • Import ban on game hunting trophies will backfire, African nations warn Britain

    Legislation would increase poaching, harm conservation and cause the loss of habitat, affected countries claim

    Ben Farmer 13 Mar 2024, 4:30pm
    Carefully managed hunting gives a financial incentive to protect wildlife, the southern African nations claim
  • South Africa’s alcohol addiction and the disabled newborns paying the price

    Mothers-to-be are drinking during pregnancy, unaware of the implications for their unborn children

    Maeve Cullinan 12 Mar 2024, 3:31pm
    Venique Swartz with her one year old baby Nashrique, at their home in Avian Park.
  • Troops in Nigeria sent to free 300 kidnapped schoolchildren

    Armed attackers riding motorbikes rounded up students during the West African nation’s second mass abduction in the past week

    Ben Farmer 8 Mar 2024, 3:06pm
    The Nigerian army has been brought in as Africa's most populous country battles a tide of mass abductions
  • Churches burned and children ‘seized’ as militants target Christians in Mozambique

    At least 80,000 people have been driven from their homes as ‘a massive escalation in insurgent violence’ returns to the Cabo Delgado region

    Peta Thornycroft 8 Mar 2024, 8:00am
    Mozambique army soldiers take a ride on a motorbike in the streets of Palma, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
  • Tourist shot in Cape Town sues Google for ‘sending him into violent township’

    Walter Fischel was attacked after his satnav suggested a shortcut through Nyanga, the one-time ‘murder capital’ of South Africa

    Ben Farmer 4 Mar 2024, 4:23pm
    Walter Fischel is one of several tourists to be  targeted in Cape Town
  • How South Africa’s ‘pit toilets’ became a damning symbol of the nation’s inequality

    Ten years after the death of a boy who drowned in a latrine, the poor are still forced to use inadequate sanitation

    Ben Farmer 28 Feb 2024, 1:08pm
    Poor housing settlement outside Bloemfontein
  • Pakistani woman saved from angry mob who mistook writing on dress for Koran verses

    Unnamed victim was accused of blasphemy as hundreds surrounded her in restaurant

    Ben Farmer 26 Feb 2024, 5:08pm
    Even after she was cleared of blasphemy the woman made a statement apologising for her 'mistake'
  • Ukraine is outmanned and outgunned… but that doesn’t mean Russia will prevail

    There’s a dark mood in Kyiv as the war enters its third year, but despite its creeping gains, Moscow is still showing a technical weakness

    Ben Farmer 21 Feb 2024, 8:00pm
    A severely wounded Ukrainian serviceman is removed from the Avdiivka battlefield as the war continues
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  • This polio doctor believed he had a ‘sacred’ duty to vaccinate children – he paid the ultimate price

    Dr Abdur Rehman is the latest in a long line of polio health workers shot dead by gunmen in Pakistan

    Ben Farmer 21 Feb 2024, 12:34pm
    Dr Abdur Rehman
  • ‘Kuwaiti death ship’ transporting 19,000 cows to Iraq stinks up Cape Town

    The NSPCA, which campaigns against the transport of live animals, says three animals were found dead and another five had to be put down

    Ben Farmer 20 Feb 2024, 8:07pm
    Animal rights activists protest following the docking of the livestock carrier ship Al Kuwait in Cape Town
  • I’m living like a prisoner in the Soviet gulags, Alexei Navalny told friends

    Putin critic covered topics ranging from Yeltsin’s failure to reform Russian prison system to Indian food in string of revealing letters

    Ben Farmer 20 Feb 2024, 6:16pm
    Alexei Navalny appeared on video link from a penal colony at a Moscow appeal court hearing in May 2022
  • Putin sells African leaders ‘regime survival packages’ to win influence, think tank says

    Report claims Russia is using rebranded Wagner corps to build a network of friendly states and win access to gold and minerals

    Ben Farmer 20 Feb 2024, 3:37pm
    A mercenary from the Wagner group with local troops in the Central African Republic in 2022
  • ‘What kind of man cries?’: The country with the highest suicide rate in the world

    Mental illness is described as a ‘white man’s disease’ in Lesotho – it’s a mindset with deadly consequences

    Ben Farmer 20 Feb 2024, 12:40pm
  • Putin must pay for ‘murder’ of Navalny, say world leaders

    Joe Biden among figures to speak out against Russian regime they hold responsible for death of opposition leader in prison

    Ben Farmer 16 Feb 2024, 9:18pm
    Alexei Navalny smiles in the last known picture of him taken one day before his death
  • Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader to Putin, dies in prison

    Jailed Russian opposition leader had been serving his sentence in Siberia

    Tim Sigsworth 16 Feb 2024, 11:31am
    video: Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader to Putin, dies in prison
  • Pakistan army chief hails election success despite unrest and vote-rigging allegations

    The military’s favoured party failed to win a majority amid a swell of support for jailed Imran Khan

    Ben Farmer 10 Feb 2024, 2:28pm
    Gen. Asim Munir
  • Pakistan in turmoil as Imran Khan claims election victory, despite being in jail

    Strong showing by former PM's party defies the country’s military, which has been accused of rigging the vote to keep him out of power

    Ben Farmer 9 Feb 2024, 8:05pm
    Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan arrives at Lahore High court to sign surety bonds for bail in various cases. The former prime ministerwas sentenced to 10 years in prison on January 30, less than two weeks before an election his party has
  • Nawaz Sharif denies deal with Pakistan’s military amid election vote-rigging claims

    The former prime minister's party is expected to win the most seats, but supporters of Imran Khan could deny him an outright majority

    Ben Farmer 8 Feb 2024, 3:39pm
    Nawaz Sharif waves to supporters in Lahore on Thursday
  • Pakistan poll farce as military plumps for old enemy Nawaz Sharif again

    Former PM appears to expect coronation rather than close fight as his main rival Imran Khan lies buried under criminal convictions

    Ben Farmer 7 Feb 2024, 6:02pm
    In Nawaz Sharif's final speech he said: 'I will bring back this happiness to Pakistan'
  • The secret rewilding project that could save the white rhino

    Poachers have driven the species to the edge of extinction – but an ambitious programme hopes to permanently secure its future

    Ben Farmer 5 Feb 2024, 1:52pm
    Conservation NGO African Parks has purchased the worldâ  s largest captive rhino breeding operation in an attempt to re-wild 2000 rhino to safe areas across Africa. Some of the 2000 strong herd at a rhino farm outside Johannesburg
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