Red Cross fills UN void in Myanmar's violence-torn region
Aid workers worry many Rohingya had been left without food since mid-July
Nigeria's Buhari urges calm after herdsmen kill 19 in central Plateau state
Fighting between semi-nomadic cattle herders and more settled communities over land use claims hundreds of lives a year
Red Cross says staff member killed in South Sudan ambush
"We are shaken and distraught by the killing of our colleague who was travelling in a convoy of vehicles which were clearly marked with the Red Cross emblem"
Hurricane Irma thrives on fateful mix of 'ideal' conditions
"This storm is in the Goldilocks environment for a major hurricane. It's bad luck for whoever is in its path, but that's what going on here"
Hurricane Irma strengthens, tears into Cuba's northern coast
"We are running out of time. If you are in an evacuation zone, you need to go now. This is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen"
Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Cuba as Category 5
Cuba at a standstill, awaiting punishing storm
U.N. beefs up guards as it scales up presence in Libya
Security in Tripoli and other parts of western Libya is fragile and armed groups that are largely unaccountable hold power on the ground
Pope's peace appeal boosted by Colombia rebel's forgiveness plea
The pontiff has urged forgiveness and reconciliation during a five-day trip to Colombia in the hope of healing wounds left by the conflict
"Ghost boats" drop Tunisian migrants onto sunny Italian tourist beaches
Some 3,000 migrants, mostly men, have come from Tunisia in the past two months
UN rights chief says EU deal on Libya migrants falls short
The EU has long struggled to reach a coherent answer to the influx of migrants fleeing war, poverty and political upheaval in the Middle East and Africa