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An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities

The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.

© Mahaman Lamine

An Anopheles stephensi mosquito under a microscope in the lab of the parasitologist Mahaman Lamine in Niger.
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U.S. Restores Some Vaccine and Health Aid to Unicef, Gavi and World Food Programme

The amount is still far below what the U.S. spent previously on humanitarian and health aid, but resumes the flow of money for key efforts to fight malnutrition and disease.

© Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times

A camp for people displaced by violence and drought in Somalia’s southern Gedo region, seen in April.
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