Ten leading aid agencies have called for a "surge" in the humanitarian effort to help ten million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of west and central Africa.
A freelance shepherd from the Scottish Borders will cycle the entire Scottish coast this summer to raise money for international development agency Christian Aid.
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