'We risk losing a whole generation', aid groups warn amid Sahel education crisis
Almost 2,000 schools have been closed in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, as heightened security fears and poverty have left more than 400,000 children without education
Congo Ebola centre set on fire after armed attack
On Sunday unidentified assailants set fire to another treatment centre in the nearby town of Katwa, killing a nurse
Last child asylum seeker removed from Australia's Pacific detention centre
Under Canberra's hardline immigration policy, asylum seekers trying to reach Australia by sea are intercepted and sent for processing to camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru
Islamic State supporters and victims flee the ruins of its 'caliphate'
Women from Iraq, Syria, Russia, Azerbaijan and Poland, an Indonesian boy and enslaved, traumatised Yazidi girls were among those to emerge over the past 48 hours
Scientists warn global warming could decimate fish supplies and fuel migration
Fisheries provide about 260 million full-time and part-time jobs globally with seafood products a critical export for developing nations
Bulgarian sentenced to jail in case of 71 migrants dying in truck
The migrants, including eight women and four children, suffocated in a lorry and were found dead beside an Austrian motorway
Somali refugee's fight against 'silent killer' of FGM inspires film
Ifrah Ahmed hopes the film will spur a global movement against FGM on the scale of the HIV/AIDS campaign.
Some 40,000 civilians have left last IS bastion
The figure comprises people displaced from Hajin and adjacent Baghouz, which they have completely surrounded
Wildfires rage across Britain after hottest winter day on record
Britain recorded its warmest winter day on Tuesday with a temperature of 21.2 Celsius at Kew Gardens in London
Hands off! Kenyan slum dwellers unite to protect city dam
Residents from Kibera's slum are farming cleared land on the edge of the Nairobi dam, but developers are a constant threat