International journalist (winner @pressgazette Awards @premioluchetta @PressAwardsuk). Travel/crime author. Documentary consultant. Lecturer @cityjournalism
London, England
Joined August 2011
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France releases infertile Asian tiger mosquitoes to fight dengue threat
It is hoped the factory-bred mosquitoes will be a long-term solution to the rapid spread of the disease-carrying insects
@ParryTom has the latest
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How measles unleashed a wave of suffering in Bangladesh.
An immunisation gap following the overthrow of an authoritarian government has been the catalyst for an unprecedented surge in cases.
Powerful reporting and pictures from @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley on a devastating (and entirely avoidable) outbreak that few are talking about.
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How the Jonestown massacre became a blueprint for radicalisation
The dangerous groupthink behind the world’s most notorious mass murder-suicide is stronger than ever
Latest Guyana dispatch by @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley
Free to read🔓
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‘We can’t become a narco-state’
South America's tiny state of Guyana could soon find itself caught in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s renewed war against drug smuggling
Dispatch by @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley
Free to read🔓
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Read and weep. This conflict needs to be wrapped up now….⬇️⬇️⬇️
Malnutrition surging in Gaza as snipers target ‘heads, legs and genitals’, says Oxford surgeon telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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‘Man-eating’ screw worm turns hospital into horror show
A long-forgotten parasite has made a comeback and is reasserting its dominance in Honduras
Words @ParryTom and photos by @SimonTownsley
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Interesting feature by @ParryTom on the funding crisis in international aid - some models more resilient than others, it seems
International aid sector looks to new business models as government funding dries up telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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‘Measles is back’: cases in the EU have jumped by ten-fold.
Cases of the Victorian-era disease in Europe surged by nearly 30,000 from 2023 to 2024.
@maeve_cullinan has the latest.
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The government’s decision to cut aid to unprecedentedly low levels is short-sighted and damaging. Increasing defence spending is right, but doing so at the expense of health and security risks to the UK, on the backs of the world’s poorest is, plain and simply, wrong.
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(1/4) Life in the shadow of a toxic mountain of plastic waste.
In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are children.
Dispatch by @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley - free to read 🔓
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🚨Dispatch: ‘They marry off girls because they are a burden’: The battle to save Bangladesh’s child brides
Reporting by @ParryTom and photos from @SimonTownsley in Bhola
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(1/5) An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives.
Increased levels of a simple chemical is having disastrous health effects for those in Bangladesh’s sprawling river deltas.
Dispatch by @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley
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Stunning reporting an images from Bangladesh by @ParryTom and @SimonTownsley
An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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The international community's failure on Sudan has shocked me to my core telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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How Russian interference threatens to derail malaria vaccines in Africa telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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The fact that the US elections is even a close call shows just how problematic fake news and echo chambers have become.
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Latest piece for @TelGlobalHealth on how private creditors including major banks based in London and New York account for more than half of Kenya's colossal current debt repayments, stifling spending on health/education. 32 of 54 African nations spend more on debt than healthcare
The real reason Africa is up to its neck in debt.
Across the continent, 32 out of 54 African countries spend more on debt than healthcare.
@ParryTom dissects the factors threatening developing country's finances.
Free to read 🔓
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"If you’re on a general shift and you’re not on a job, it should be at least eight stories a shift.”
Absolutely ridiculous expectation - bad for journalism and terrible for the mostly young journalists being asked to churn out content all day.
Regional press giant Reach has launched a drive to increase story counts across its titles, Holdthefrontpage reports. It reports on an email, sent by a senior Reach editor, suggests reporters should be writing EIGHT stories per shift holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2024/…
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Twenty years of progress in global health development is on the cusp of being undone by an unrelenting malnutrition crisis that is sweeping the globe, Bill Gates has warned.
@liliasebouai & @PaulNuki have more detail here: telegraph.co.uk/global-healt… @TelGlobalHealth
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Children disfigured as skin diseases tear through Gaza.
A lack of clean water and basic sanitation has led to outbreaks of painful infections.
Another good reason for a ceasefire telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
