Fighters step up attacks in Mozambique gas region, beheadings reported - U.N.
The UN said there had been a sharp increase in violence in recent months, and the past weeks had been the most turbulent period since attacks began in October 2017
Amid hydropower boom, Laos streams ahead on latest Mekong dam
Faced with growing pressure from dams, pollution and sand mining, concerns are mounting about the health of the river and those whose livelihoods depend on it
Female genital mutilation will take centuries to eradicate, U.N. says
Although progress towards ending FGM is not moving fast enough attitudes are changing, new analysis shows
Aid to Houthi-controlled Yemen to be cut back over risk it can be diverted -sources
Donors and aid workers say they can no longer ensure that food for millions of people is reaching those who need it
OPINION: My erasure from a news agency photograph of climate activists at Davos went viral - this is why it matters
Across Africa, the climate crisis is happening to us now, and the stories Africans have to tell are urgent - but who is listening?
INTERVIEW-Better pay would end female genital mutilation - survivor
Jaha Dukureh has taken her fight against FGM across Africa and the U.S., where she was sent at 15 to a marry a man she'd never met
Palestinian and Israeli farmers pay the price as politicians bicker
The West Bank currently sends over two-thirds of its farming exports to Israel
Australia receives bushfire reprieve with floods, battens down for cyclone
A tropical low off the coast of Western Australia is forecast to develop into a category three cyclone that is set to make landfall at the weekend
Don't call me 'Greta': Young climate activists demand to be heard
"If you call me Greta of India, you are not covering my story. You are deleting a story," says 8-year-old climate campaigner Licypriya Kangujam
Gaza farmers return to their lands along volatile Israeli border
The border area has been a 'no-go' zone for Palestinians, but farmers are now returning to plant and harvest crops