DR Congo troops kill 36 Burundi rebels in east - army
The Congolese army mounted a series of operations between April 6 and 8 in the eastern province of South Kivu aimed at regaining territory against Burundian rebel groups
Teenage brides trapped between Islamic State and its victors
Some women who willingly joined IS remain ardent supporters of its ideology and live in camps they fled to in eastern Syria which are under the control of the U.S.-backed forces
ICC judges reject prosecution request to open investigation in Afghanistan
ICC prosecutors spent a decade examining alleged war crimes by all parties in the conflict, including the possible role of U.S. personnel in relation to the detention of suspects
Ease poor people's access to loans to prevent slavery, say experts
Existing technologies that could help vulnerable people include using online behaviour to assess credit worthiness and digital IDs for those who don't have state-backed identity documents
Pakistan vegetable market bomb kills 18, half of them minority Hazaras
The attack comes after a lull of at least a year in attacks against Hazaras, though there have been isolated shootings.
Fighting shakes Tripoli as thousands flee homes
Fighting between the eastern force of General Khalifa Haftar and troops loyal to the Tripoli government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj has displaced 9,500 people in the capital
S.African township squalid and neglected despite 25 years of black rule
Governing African National Congress faces mounting public anger over its failure to improve lives of millions of poorest citizens, 25 years after end of white minority rule
Ethiopian farmers struggle to scratch a living in warming highlands
As the climate shifts and population grows, land in the Choke Mountain watershed is becoming degraded, causing problems here and further downstream on the Nile
Venezuela leadership issue still blocking IMF, World Bank aid
Venezuela is mired in a deep economic crisis marked by widespread food and medicine shortages and crippling inflation
Nightmares, guilt and awards: 5 years after the Chibok kidnap
The mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls on April 14, 2014, from their school in northeastern Nigeria sparked an global outcry and the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign