Patricia R. Blanco
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- Jul 21, 2026
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Africa becomes the global epicenter of hunger for the first time (opens the original)
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Africa has become, for the first time, the continent with the largest number of people suffering from hunger, even though the share of its population affected fell slightly in 2025. Rapid population growth in Africa pushed the continent past Asia in absolute numbers, although the prevalence of hunger in Africa fell from 20.3% to 20%, according to the findings of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI) report, published Tuesday and produced by the United Nations Food and
UN takes ‘historic’ step and declares neglected tropical diseases a human rights issue (opens the original)
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For two decades, Blandine Madom has lived with lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic disease better known as elephantiasis, which causes severe swelling of the limbs. When EL PAÍS met her last February in a Baka settlement in southern Cameroon, her legs were badly swollen from the condition, one of the roughly 20 illnesses classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as neglected tropical diseases. In the same community — one of the most isolated in the region and with very limited access to he
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