EXPERT VIEWS - With crises set to worsen, what are aid groups' priorities for 2017?
After a year of record humanitarian needs, 2017 looks set to be even more challenging for aid agencies
Asylum seekers riot at Papua New Guinea detention camp
Total of 872 asylum seekers are held on Manus despite Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruling that their detention was illegal
U.N. council fails to impose arms embargo on South Sudan
"This resolution would not have been a panacea"
Hunger as a weapon of war
Imagine having capacity to help innocent people but being prevented from doing so – blocked by combatants who use denial of food and other aid as weapons of war
FEATURE-Songs and sanctions help regreen Sudan's desert villages
Droughts have turned farms to dust in North Kordofan state, but villagers are fighting back by planting trees
Lawmakers urge UK govt to help end 'horrendous crisis' in South Sudan
Men and boys have been castrated in fighting and women are hiding under water with their babies to escape from militias
South Sudan at a crossroads
The suffering of the South Sudanese people cannot continue simply due to a lack of political will to change the status quo
POLL-Lake Chad most neglected crisis in 2016 despite hunger on "epic scale"
For out and out human suffering and almost zero media coverage, the food crisis sparked by Boko Haram in Nigeria and Niger was the pits, but Yemen shames us all
U.N. likely to vote Friday on South Sudan arms embargo
Political rivalry between South Sudan President Salva Kiir and Marchar, his former deputy, led in 2013 to civil war
U.N. chief fears genocide about to start in South Sudan
"If we fail to act, South Sudan will be on a trajectory towards mass atrocities"