Kurdish merchants, Turkish goods take back Mosul food trade
Months after Iraq's government and its allies started an offensive against IS, Kurdish merchants are pushing on behind them, bringing their Turkish produce back along reinvigorated trade routes
South Sudan imposes curfew across Wau state after killings
UN said thousands of resident took shelter in a civilian encampment protected by its peacekeepers, and another run by the Catholic church
Migrants traded in "slave markets" in Libya, U.N. agency says
Migrants are traded for between $200 and $500
Babies starve as war grinds on in Mosul
Residents who have managed to escape say there is almost nothing to eat but flour mixed with water and boiled wheat grain
Fire ravages migrant camp in France, several wounded in fight
Grande-Synthe has been home to one of the largest groups of Britain-bound migrants on the French coast since the closure of a sprawling shanty town outside Calais
Myanmar reiterates no ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, even as investigations go on
Military operation aimed at the minority has forced 75,000 people to flee to Bangladesh
Militiamen raid South Sudan's Wau, at least 16 dead -witnesses, U.N.
"It is an ethnic crackdown and it is been backed by cattle herders and armed civilian men from the Dinka tribe ... I am now hiding"
For survivors of past Syrian gassing, new attack brings back horror and despair
"This despair will not leave us"
Professors clear debris at Mosul University, wrecked by IS
"The university is my home"
Nigeria's military frees 593 people cleared of Boko Haram ties
Attacks or attempted attacks bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram in crowded areas have escalated since the end of the rainy season