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MPs back new bill for medical graduates, designed to limit brain drain to countries including the UK and 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 destroyed
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Torrential rain, coming on top of the country’s worst drought in four decades, has forced 250,000 people to leave their homes -
Murder of Ralikonelo ‘Leqhashasha’ Joki prompts crackdown in southern African nation amid warnings of threat to media freedom
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The west African country, a leading cotton producer, is moving into processing finished goods, seen as a route to prosperity -
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease
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CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere convicted over tweet in 2021 as Zanu-PF accused of curbing free speech -
Almost 12% of Nepali migrant workers who die abroad, mainly in the Gulf and Malaysia, take their own lives -
She lost both her parents to Aids as a teenager in Zimbabwe. Nearly three decades later, the medical researcher leads a mission to find a vaccine -
Risk of unrest rises amid fourth dry year, poor grain harvest, weak economy and likely food subsidy cuts
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The scant progress for human rights is in peril ahead of polls as president’s ‘family values’ rhetoric stokes culture war -
Britain vowed to protect citizens of its former colony, but the Guardian has spoken to people stuck in temporary accommodation not knowing if they will be granted asylum -
Annie McAdams represents clients who claim Meta’s products connect vulnerable people with sex buyers
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Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer -
With resources stretched, a computer questionnaire is helping to screen people at risk from depression and alcohol abuse -
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The category-5 storm brought 160mph winds and torrential rain to parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday, leaving at least five dead and causing half a million people to be evacuated
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