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How Catherine Nakalembe, a NASA researcher is helping Africa to secure food for the future

Food security in Africa is a huge challenge the continent faces. Researchers like Ugandan Dr Catherine Nakalembe who works with…

Akorfa Searyoh Akorfa Searyoh

A drowning town: are Bentiu’s dykes high enough to save it from disaster?

Surrounded by towering mud ramparts, the 300,000 residents of Bentiu in South Sudan will spend today, like tomorrow, anxiously scanning the gathering…

Mark Townsend Mark Townsend

The island paradise held prisoner by heroin

Some 10% of the local population in the tropical island nation of Seychelles is dependent on heroin in what is…