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The world’s surprise boomtown: Baghdad

Iraq’s population has grown by 20m since America’s invasion

A new frontier for skyscrapers

Why African governments are building higher

A terrifying synthetic-drug surge in Africa

The new drugs are cheap, addictive and hard to police

A high-risk mega-dam in Ethiopia

It could power the region or plunge it into conflict

Israel gambles on decapitating Hamas in Qatar, shocking...

Airstrikes on Doha expand the Middle East wars further

America can’t or won’t protect its friends in the Gulf

Israel’s strike on Qatar has embarrassed Donald Trump and angered the region

Ebola returns to Congo

Experts are racing to contain the spread of the deadly virus

Africa’s deadly ferries

Better rules and enforcement would help

What it takes to evacuate an injured child from Gaza

Logistics, permissions and geopolitics all slow down the process

The crisis of South Africa’s missing dads 

Less than one-third of black South African children live with their biological f...

Arab states respond to Israel’s Doha strikes with angry...

But they want Donald Trump to choose: them or Israel

Israel goes to the brink in Gaza city

A futile push in the territory will deepen its isolation

Morocco is practising a strange sort of colonialism

It is enriching Western Sahara in an effort to keep it under control

Palestine is unrecognisable on the ground

The UN stands up a state that is disappearing from view

Analysing Africa newsletter: Life, death and poverty in...

John McDermott, our chief Africa correspondent, witnesses an unusual ritual

Syria’s new leader makes a star turn in New York

But his problems at home may undermine his relations with America

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