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British pensioner killed by Kenyan president’s convoy was former banker who set up schools in Africa

Mar 14, 2025 | msn.com | Max Stephens |Ben Farmer |Adrian Blomfield

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The USAID controversy explained

Feb 14, 2025 | msn.com | Ben Farmer |Sarah Newey

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How Trump’s ‘salty’ envoy may have forced Israel’s hand in accepting hostage deal

Jan 14, 2025 | yahoo.com | Ben Farmer

The call last week from Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy was reportedly blunt and short on diplomatic nicety. Steven Witkoff is said to have told aides to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, that he was headed to Israel on Saturday afternoon. When informed that would be in the middle of the sabbath, but the prime minister could meet in the evening, his reply was apparently “salty” and clear, according to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.
Assad’s wife given ’50/50 chance’ of survival as leukaemia returns

Dec 25, 2024 | afr.com | Ben Farmer

Dec 26, 2024 – 1.30pm or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Asma al-Assad, the British wife of the ousted Syrian dictator, is severely ill with leukaemia and has been isolated by doctors who have given her a “50/50” chance of survival, The Telegraph understands.
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Dec 25, 2024 | stuff.co.nz | Ben Farmer
Victims of world’s only famine eat peanut shells to survive

Dec 11, 2024 | aol.co.uk | Ben Farmer

World Food ProgramThe coarse paste of crushed peanut shells called ombaz is normally considered waste, and only fit to feed cattle. But for many in Sudan’s Zamzam camp it is now all they have to stave off hunger pangs. Food shortages are so severe that this residue left after oil has been pressed from the shells has become a staple food for survival. Others are eating grass.
Illegal gold miner in South Africa: ‘We risk our lives to make ends meet’

Dec 7, 2024 | aol.co.uk | Ben Farmer

Ayanda Ndabeni and his associates were more than a mile underground, in the darkness of decrepit abandoned mine tunnels, when the police cut off their lifeline to the surface. Determined to flush out hundreds of illegal miners trespassing in the disused gold mine, officers began stopping food and water going into the shafts and waited to starve the prospectors out. At a stroke, Mr Ndabeni and his colleagues were cut off from supplies, leaving them with dwindling food, water and batteries.
Stuff

Nov 30, 2024 | stuff.co.nz | Ben Farmer |Fared Al Mahlool
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Nov 29, 2024 | stuff.co.nz | Ben Farmer |Fared Al Mahlool
‘Moderate’ jihadist leader storms Syria - but tells troops not to frighten children

Nov 29, 2024 | yahoo.com | Ben Farmer

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani says his days with al-Qaeda are overAs Syrian rebels bore down on the city of Aleppo, their communication channels published photos of a bearded man in military clothing directing the offensive. For the man sitting with subordinates at banks of telephones, the surprise push apparently marked the most electrifying chapter yet in a career as one of the Syrian civil war’s most significant, but also most disputed and enigmatic leaders.