africa

“Every one of these children is a ticking Ebola time bomb”0
- WORLD
- November 12, 2014
Brutal truth of epidemic in Liberian slum where footballer George Weah grew up as number of orphans ‘hits 12,000’ Gethin Chamberlain for MailOnline, 12 November 2014 Three-year-old Emmanuel Thompson appears first, peering through the doorway of the house in the Clara Town slum. Then tiny Mercy McGill trots out and soon there are 10 children
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No food, no money: conflict and chaos as South Sudan grapples with famine 0
- WORLD
- June 15, 2017
The rains are now falling, but on a country where people cannot work their fields because of fighting and where food prices are escalating beyond their reach Gethin Chamberlain for The Guardian, 15 July 2017 The tape measure wound around the arm of two-year old Apiu tells its own story. Under the traffic light system
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The deadly African gold rush fuelled by people smugglers’ promises 1
- AFRICA, DARFUR, FEATURES, WORLD
- January 17, 2018
Sudanese refugees in northern Chad are risking their lives to mine the precious ore in a desperate bid to secure a new life in Europe by Gethin Chamberlain in Farchana, 17 January 2018 Refugees from the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur, who are living in camps in neighbouring Chad, are being drawn into an African gold rush in
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EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, how American tyre giant Firestone forces families of dead Ebola victims to leave their homes on Liberian plantation 0
- WORLD
- November 21, 2014
Gethin Chamberlain, in Monrovia, for MailOnline, 21 November 2014 Tyre giant Firestone has ordered the children of workers who died from Ebola to leave their homes on its plantation in Liberia. The company – part of the Bridgestone group which last week announced sales for the first nine months of the year totalling £14.5 billion
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Why climate change is creating a new generation of child brides 0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- November 28, 2017
As global warming exacerbates drought and floods, farmers’ incomes plunge and girls as young as 13 are given away to stave off poverty Gethin Chamberlain for The Observer, 26 November 2017 It was the flood that ensured that Ntonya’s first year as a teenager would also be the first year of her married life. Up
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