Child malnutrition costs Ghana more than $2 billion annually - experts
"In northern Ghana, 30 percent of children under five are stunted or chronically malnourished"
Tens of thousands flee South Sudan violence - U.N.
"Armed groups operating across different parts of South Sudan are looting villages, murdering civilians and forcibly recruiting young men and boys into their ranks"
Activists demand justice after Kenyan hacks off wife's hands in machete attack
Almost half of Kenyan women who have ever been married have been physically abused by their husbands
Sexual abuse plagues female workers on India's sugarcane fields
Female workers in western Maharashtra's sugarcane fields routinely face abuse and rape by landlords and middlemen who enslave them through debt bondage
Bodies found off coast of Libya as migrant toll climbs - IOM
A total of 4,027 migrants or refugees have perished worldwide so far this year, three-quarters of them in the Mediterranean
Blood Mica
Under Australia's hardline immigration policy, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea or on Nauru in the South Pacific.
Blood Mica
Under Australia's hardline immigration policy, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea or on Nauru in the South Pacific.
PNG court orders Australia to present an asylum seeker resettlement plan
Australia ordered to resettle nearly 900 asylum seekers held on Manus Island detention centre after PNG ruled the centre illegal
Rescuers say toxic gas dropped on Syrian town where Russian helicopter shot down
Both government and opposition forces have denied using chemical weapons during the five-year-old civil war