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Ben Farmer

@benfarmerdt

Africa correspondent for @TelGlobalHealth and @Telegraph. Formerly Islamabad, Kabul and defence correspondent. Also at the other place.
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Update on the British pensioner killed in hit and run by Kenyan president’s motorcade. Edgar Riches was a tireless fundraiser for a Catholic aid charity, and had helped bring in hundreds of thousands of pounds. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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Scientists trapped in a remote Antarctic research station have called for urgent help after a colleague was accused of sexual assault and threatening to kill a team member. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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Was recently bequeathed my great-grandfather’s merchant navy sea chest. Late C19, oak, brass fittings; lovely bit of kit. Imagine my surprise when I found it lined with a copy of the Telegraph dated 28 July 1974, with an advert announcing record profits for British Steel😳

Was recently bequeathed my great-grandfather’s merchant navy sea chest. Late C19, oak, brass fittings; lovely bit of kit.

Imagine my surprise when I found it lined with a copy of the Telegraph dated 28 July 1974, with an advert announcing  record profits for British Steel😳
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Two years into Sudan’s civil war, thousands continue to flee genocide, rape and famine. Powerful dispatch from ⁦Ben Farmer⁩ and ⁦Simon Townsley⁩ on the Chad-Sudan border telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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UN's food and refugee agencies are warning of deep cuts to services as funding plummets from donors like US. We've been in Chad to see effect on refugees from Sudan's war. Pics by Simon Townsley telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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My latest piece with Ben Farmer for the The Telegraph on how piracy in #Somalia, fueled for decades by illegal fishing is being made worse by the Red Sea crisis, including commentary from Jethro Norman & #Puntland’s Minister for Fisheries, Abdirizak Hagaa telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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Interesting read on what lunch was like between Trump and Ramaphosa after 'white genocide' ambush. After the oval office theatre, it was apparently very cordial. businesslive.co.za/bd/life/2025-0…

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Credit card company Coign claims to have launched the first fully AI-generated national television commercial, at least in the financial services industry. Would you have known this wasn't actually filmed? I don't think I would. youtube.com/watch?v=22-SRw…

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Trump to slash funding for flagship US HIV programme by 40pc Details from the US president’s 2026 budget request reveal deep cuts to global health spending Ben Farmer has the latest - free to read🔓 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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🇺🇦 New episode of Ukraine: The Latest Francis Dearnley and Dom Nicholls are joined by Ben Farmer to give their opinions on the latest updates in Ukraine as Russia launches a combined missile and drone attack against Kremenchuk 🎧 Listen 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/0…

🇺🇦 New episode of Ukraine: The Latest

<a href="/FrancisDearnley/">Francis Dearnley</a> and <a href="/DomNicholls/">Dom Nicholls</a> are joined by <a href="/benfarmerDT/">Ben Farmer</a> to give their opinions on the latest updates in Ukraine as Russia launches a combined missile and drone attack against Kremenchuk

🎧 Listen 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/0…
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UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs forced to “hyper-prioritise” and scale back after being given barely eighth of money requested amid brutal aid cuts telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…