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Migrants queue before being smuggled from Obock, Djibouti to Yemen

Horn migrants risk new dangerous routes to reach Europe

The shipwreck that claimed the lives of more than 350 mainly Eritrean asylum seekers off the Italian island of Lampedusa last month has focused Europe’s obsession with irregular migration on the area of the Mediterranean separating southern Italy and Malta from North Africa. But this treacherous stretch of sea represents only the final leg of a lengthy journey filled with hazards.

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Egypt: Closure of tunnels further isolates Gaza residents

The shift of power in Egypt over the past few months has led not just to border closures for those wanting to cross into the country from Gaza, but also to a sharp reduction in the transport of basic goods, as well as fishing rights, further isolating residents of the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Science

Tracking Vaccine Scares

accine scares have emerged as a major challenge to global efforts to eliminate preventable diseases, with rumours and conspiracy theories proliferating faster than health authorities can respond to them. Now researchers, led by Heidi Larson of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, are developing a tool to identify the first signs of these negative reports.

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Smart Science in the Fight Against Malaria

Malaria continues to be one of the world’s deadliest diseases, annually infecting more than 200 million people and killing more than 660,000, most of them African children. Here are five recent developments that have the potential to bring the disease closer to eradication.

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Detainees in Mali from Timbuktu and the surrounding areas

Mali: Torture and Prisoner Abuse

Hundreds of northern Malians have been detained by the Malian army since the French military intervention to oust Islamist groups began in January, with many prisoners complaining of suffering torture and abuse and their ill-treatment allegedly proving fatal on two occasions.

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