Ben Farmer

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Africa Correspondent, The Telegraph

Cape Town, Islamabad, Kabul

Africa, Military, Politics, Southeast Asia, World

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Covers: international affairs, military, defence, afghanistan, pakistan, health,

Africa correspondent for @TelGlobalHealth and @Telegraph. Formerly Islamabad, Kabul and defence correspondent. RT = hmm, aah or haha

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A Professor's Killing Sends a Chill Through a Campus in Pakistan

BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan - Prof. Khalid Hameed's devotion to teaching often led him to arrive early for work, and…

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Cast out by HIV: How hundreds of children have been infected

More than 800 children in Pakistan face a potential death sentence after being infected with HIV. This articl…

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Pakistan's Tribal Areas Are Still Waiting for Justice as Army Tightens Grip

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - With the Pakistani military's crackdown on protesters in the northwestern tribal belt in…

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Why Pakistan lets Arab bigwigs set falcons on rare birds

THE ASIAN houbara is an unlikely diplomatic asset. An elusive, desert-dwelling bird, its expression suggests …

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Afghans worry about the return of Shia fighters from Syria's civil war

ALIREZA QANBARI has still not told his parents the truth about what he did when he left Afghanistan for Iran.…

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Women in Afghanistan fear a return to oppression as they are left out of peace talks with Taliban

The Taliban extinguished Kamila Sidiqi's hopes of becoming a teacher the day she graduated from training coll…

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Village of widows: the volleyball playing town devastated by a suicide bombing

The hard rural life in Shah Hassan Khel affords few moments of escape, but the village could once always rejo…

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America and the Taliban are edging towards a deal

COULD THERE be a ray of hope for Afghanistan? After 17 years of fighting, America and the Taliban may be read…

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The 'tanker mafia' using illegal hydrants to sell drinking water on the black market in parched K...

The dripping scaffold of industrial piping looked anything but temporary and was barely hidden from the stree…

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Fake vaccine video almost stalls drive to rid Pakistan of polio

As health workers last week picked their way through the grimy lanes of one of Karachi's poorest slums, the v…

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Kabul: survival in a suburban war zone

Goodbye to Kabul after five years as Afghanistan correspondent

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Attaboy

A profile of Atta Mohammad Noor, one of the most important power brokers in Afghanistan.

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Helmand's most senior policewoman: 'My brother tried to kill me three times' - Telegraph

The challenges of being a policewoman in Helmand, one of Afghanistan's most conservative and violent province…

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The big retrograde

The Americans are attempting what they are calling the greatest feat of military transport in modern times, a…

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Kabul-Kandahar highway is a symbol of what's gone wrong in Afghanistan - Telegraph

A trip down the Kabul to Kandahar highway to look at the security problems on the most important highway in A…

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Afghanistan launches first professional football league - Telegraph

Afghanistan embraces a new national football league

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Our enemy is not only the Taliban: we're fighting time - Telegraph

With the 82nd Airborne Division in Ghazni province as they undertake the last big Nato offensive of the Afgha…

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Libya: perilous voyage to help besieged rebels in Misurata - Telegraph

A two day trip by fishing boat to reach the besieged Libyan city of Misurata

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