Ben Farmer
@benfarmerdt.bsky.social
Africa correspondent with @telglobalhealth.bsky.social and @telegraphnews.bsky.social. Currently in Cape Town. [email protected]. Previous postings in London, Kabul, Islamabad.
The US has now signed 14 global health funding deals in its 'America First' revamp of international aid, including some that seem more openly transactional than before. Dozens more under negotiation. Copper for HIV drugs: Inside Trump's new aid trade www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Copper for HIV drugs: Inside Trump’s new aid trade
At least 14 new country-to-country deals have been signed in an ‘America First’ reboot of Washington’s huge international aid spending
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January 12, 2026 at 7:18 AM
The US has now signed 14 global health funding deals in its 'America First' revamp of international aid, including some that seem more openly transactional than before. Dozens more under negotiation. Copper for HIV drugs: Inside Trump's new aid trade www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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...
I was raped by Sudanese rebels in front of my mother
Rapid Support Forces militia accused of using sexual violence as weapon of war to torture and humiliate women
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November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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...
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🔴 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 ⬇️
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Now, The Telegraph has received a voice message from a survivor telling harrowing story of survival ⬇️
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November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🔴 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/
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/
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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
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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
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November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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
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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
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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...
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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
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Hundreds killed as paramilitary rebels turn El Fasher hospital into ‘human slaughterhouse’
WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 460 patients and companions were killed at the Saudi Maternity Hospital
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October 30, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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
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Visible from space, Sudan’s bloodied sands expose a massacre in El Fasher www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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
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October 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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
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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...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
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US pushes for truce to end Sudan bloodshed
Britain joins calls for ‘humanitarian pause’ as rebels move in on besieged city of El Fasher
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Britain joins calls for ‘humanitarian pause’ as rebels move in on besieged city of El Fasher
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September 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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
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Britain joins calls for ‘humanitarian pause’ as rebels move in on besieged city of El Fasher
@benfarmerdt.bsky.social reports
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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...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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...
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September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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...
Niger claims rare Mars meteorite was ‘trafficked’ out of Africa
The incredibly rare 24.5kg meteorite sold for £3.2m at a New York auction in July
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August 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
Somalia gripped by fears of militant Islamic uprising
With Al-Shabaab 25 miles outside of Mogadishu a weak government consumed by infighting and corruption tells citizens capital will not fall
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August 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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...
South Africa’s vulnerable HIV patients go without medication after US aid cuts, health experts fear
Campaigners warn that large numbers of patients believed to have stopped treatment could signal rising infections and deaths
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August 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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...
Kenya may have become an organ trafficking hub, government taskforce admits
Investigation is latest to spotlight an international black market matching those desperate enough to sell organs with wealthy recipients
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August 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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...
The corner of Nigeria enforcing ‘sit-at-home strikes’ with deadly effect
Deserted streets as Biafran separatist group compels Monday lockdowns with shootings and arson
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July 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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...
Lesotho mothers fear passing HIV to their babies as US aid cuts halt testing
A programme preventing mother-to-child transmission has become a casualty of Donald Trump’s decision to sharply cut back Pepfar
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July 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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...
Inside Kenya’s deadly crackdown on protesters
Young activists are killed, beaten and brutalised over ‘Gen Z’ revolt but vow not to back down in fight for democracy
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July 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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...
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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
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Could the answer to the male fertility crisis be lurking in your cat’s litter tray?
Discovery that the world’s most successful parasite can ‘decapitate’ sperm offers a new path to understanding rising infertility among men
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June 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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
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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
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UN drastically scales back aid plans after ‘deepest funding cuts ever’
Agency said it has been forced to ‘hyper-prioritise’ humanitarian projects after savage donor cuts
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June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
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