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Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:38 AM

Internal conflicts in the Sahel region, a rapidly growing population and poor infrastructure are likely to cause hunger crisis despite good rainfall and better than average harvests, a senior U.N official tells Thomson Reuters Foundation

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:50 PM

Spanish photojournalist Gervasio Sanchez reacts as Monica G. Prieto, wife of abducted Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa, is seen on a screen next to the photos of her husband (L) and Spanish photojournalist Ricardo Garcia-Vilanova, who is also abducted, during a news conference in Madrid December 10, 2013. Fighters linked to al Qaeda abducted the Spanish journalist and photographer in a rebel-held Syrian province in September, their families said on Tuesday. Journalist Espinosa and photographer Garcia-Vilanova were taken by rebel group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on September 16 at a checkpoint in Raqqa province, which fell to militant Islamist brigades in March, the journalists' families said. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS MEDIA)

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:30 PM

Spanish photojournalist Gervasio Sanchez, spokesman for the families of abducted Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa and photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, attends a news conference in Madrid December 10, 2013. Fighters linked to al Qaeda abducted Espinosa, who works for El Mundo newspaper, and freelance photographer Vilanova in a rebel-held eastern Syrian city in September, their families said on Tuesday. The incident had not been reported until now because of negotiations with the rebels holding the men. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS MEDIA HEADSHOT)

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:51 PM

El Mundo's newspaper director Pedro J. Ramirez gestures during a news conference in Madrid December 10, 2013. Fighters linked to al Qaeda abducted Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa, who works for El Mundo newspaper, and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova in a rebel-held eastern Syrian city in September, their families said on Tuesday. The incident had not been reported until now because of negotiations with the rebels holding the men. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS MEDIA HEADSHOT)

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:56 PM

REFILE - CORRECTING NAME OF MAN AT THE PODIUM Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland (L), speaks next to Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo December 10, 2013. The Hague-based global chemical weapons watchdog working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria's civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize in October. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (NORWAY - Tags: HEALTH CONFLICT SOCIETY)

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:22 PM

Geir Lundestad (L), director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, speaks next to Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo December 10, 2013. The Hague-based global chemical weapons watchdog working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria's civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize in October. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (NORWAY - Tags: HEALTH CONFLICT SOCIETY)

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:17 PM

King Harald and his wife Queen Sonja of Norway arrive for the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo December 10, 2013. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a Hague-based global chemical weapons watchdog, working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria's civil war, won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize in October. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (NORWAY - Tags: HEALTH CONFLICT SOCIETY ROYALS ENTERTAINMENT)