Can walking donor banks and drones help more patients survive?
The national blood deficit is most pressing in places like Turkana, where malaria, anaemia and violence make heavy demands on transfusion services – and doctors are pinning their hopes on innovation
Moving pictures
Travelling cinema takes stories of ‘departures and dreams’ to Senegal
Cinemovel is screening Oscar-nominated Io Capitano to packed houses around the country, highlighting the perils migrants face on the journey to Europe
‘We can’t hunt or fish’
The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolite remains, despite a court ruling, putting lives and the ecosystem at risk
‘People are begging us to feed their children’
Gaza refugees in Cairo find little help
With no centralised relief effort in Egypt, Palestinians are relying on grassroots charities for food, rent and clothing
Malaria
New types of mosquito bed nets could cut risk by up to half, trial finds
Clean energy’s dirty secret
The trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom
Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds
Increasing number of villages torched across Sudan shows conflict is intensifying - report
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