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ON THE GROUND: As part of Fairtrade Fortnight, Kenyan tea farmers supplying the UK tell Nick Ferris that extreme weather is bringing new health problems – which they are struggling to deal with as declining production impacts their income

About 150,000 workers took the Trump administration’s resignation deal. The mass resignation is in stark contrast to white-collar employees who are “job-hugging."

IN FOCUS: The slashing of foreign aid and closure of HIV programmes earlier this year is continuing to impact people living with HIV, writes Nick Ferris in Nairobi, causing serious damage to long-term efforts to end stigma around HIV and its treatment

The World Health Organisation says 57 cases have been reported since the outbreak was declared on September 4

Mobile clinics in rural Malawi that provided pregnancy checks as well as vaccinations and TB tests have been lost

Gates is putting his money where his mouth is: He said he will give away “virtually all of my wealth”—some $100 billion—which will be deployed to cure diseases in the poorest countries.

Philippine NGO the Centre for Disaster Preparedness tells The Independent how its programmes to help people prepare for storms have been devastated by the closure of the United States Agency for International Development

Groups of lawyers battling to get clients’ jobs back, avoid prosecutions or recoup money that has been illegally blocked

An Australian pastor known for helping kids on the street is one of three faith envoys chosen to spread the word about helping children in famine and war.

A committee advances bills that would mark the first top-to-bottom State Department reauthorization in more than two decades.

WORLD OF TROUBLE: People fleeing the rising waters around Lake Tanganyika in Burundi are fighting for space and humanitarian care with refugees escaping civil war. Donald Trump’s slashing of international aid money has made a dangerous situation even more perilous. World affairs editor Sam Kiley investigates