Winners of 2018 Kurt Schork Memorial Award Announced
The winners of an award to honour some of the most courageous yet least recognised journalists around the world were announced this week, alongside an award for news fixers.
Africa's rapid population growth puts poverty progress at risk, says Gates
Poverty in Africa is increasingly concentrated in a few countries, which also have among the fastest-growing populations in the world
No women, no progress, development experts warn
Inequality in development presents a "grave challenge to progress" and could fuel extremism
In South Sudan ghost town, peace deal not yet a reality
South Sudan had plunged into warfare in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan
U.N. decries "shameful" reprisals on rights activists in 38 countries
Women cooperating with the U.N. had reported threats of rape and being subject to online smear campaigns
Slamming the door: How Trump transformed U.S. refugee program
This year, with a record high 68.5 mln displaced people worldwide, the U.S. is on track to take in about 22,000 refugees, a quarter the number admitted in 2016
World hunger levels rise for third year running - U.N.
Hunger appears to be increasing in almost all of Africa and in South America, with 821 million people - one in nine - going hungry in 2017
Interpol rescues 85 child slaves from Sudan's streets and gold mines
Police found some children as young as ten handling dangerous chemicals in open-air gold mines while others were forced to beg
Rich nations must act to avoid 'refugee catastrophe' in East Africa - aid agencies
Donor funding to Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania has dropped by over 60 percent compared to the previous year
South Sudan soldiers sentenced to jail for murder, rape in 2016 hotel raid
The attack was one of the worst on aid workers in South Sudan's civil war