In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.

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In desperate villages in southwestern Uganda, not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but the death toll is accelerating.

Putin’s move has to be considered a test, and the West needs to think about how to counter it.

There is a growing mountain of imperfect but troubling evidence that pesticides and other chemicals may be behind the exploding rates of the disease.