British diplomat, author and politician.
Nigel Farage’s by-election campaign in Clacton continues with Count Binface drawing attention as a satirical challenger amid a field of 34 candidates. Main parties have declined to contest, citing a media circus and a parliamentary standards inquiry into Farage’s undisclosed £5 million gift. The race is shaping up as a barometer for Brexit-era politics.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded more than 2,500 deaths in a Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak declared in May; the United Nations says infections are growing exponentially and have spread across an area larger than France. Vaccines for the Zaïre strain will be trialled and thousands of doses will go to frontline staff, but security, local hostility and funding shortfalls are hampering the response.