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- Special Report
- Conflict
- 28 March 2019
Niger, part 1: At the centre of a brewing militant storm

Fleeing from ‘constant fear’
- Opinion
- Conflict
- 26 February 2019
Reporter’s Diary: Still on the trail of Boko Haram

How fear is shaping an entire generation
- News feature
- Migration
- 15 November 2018
Eritrea-Ethiopia peace leads to a refugee surge

An influx of Eritreans is placing new strain on a country that already has almost four million refugees and displaced people to contend with
- News
- Health
- 12 March 2002
One step nearer to cure for river blindness

It is bacteria inside parasitic worms, and not the worms themselves, that cause river blindness, according to the latest research published by British-based Nature magazine...
- Feature
- Aid and Policy
- 9 April 2019
Roundtable: Going local

‘If you’re not ready to change, then we haven't come very far’
- Analysis
- Conflict
- 14 February 2019
Power shift creates new tensions and Tigrayan fears in Ethiopia

“Shaking up Ethiopia's government risks exacerbating several long-simmering ethnic rivalries”
- Feature
- Migration
- 9 April 2018
As conflict spreads, chronic displacement becomes a powderkeg in Afghanistan

Aid is in short supply for thousands of families forced to etch new homes into once-barren land
- Feature
- Aid and Policy
- 21 February 2018
Somalia’s climate change refugees

Forced off their land by drought, rural families face a precarious existence in Mogadishu
- News
- Politics and Economics
- 17 March 2010
Timeline - A turbulent political history

Madagascar's history is marked by a struggle for political control. By 1700, France and England had attempted to establish settlements, while the rulers of the...
- News
- Health
- 7 June 1999
Kabila allies meet in Harare

A one-day summit meeting of the military allies of the Kinshasa government opened in Harare on Monday without the attendance of Democratic Republic of Congo...
- News feature
- Health
- 14 March 2019
In Madagascar, 1,100 measles deaths are more about money than ‘vaccine hesitancy’

Low immunisation rates that have claimed hundreds of children’s lives this year are driven by financial shortfalls and logistical hurdles.
- Analysis
- Conflict
- 5 March 2019
The blame game over Syria’s winter fuel crisis

Sanctions, economic warfare, or government corruption: what is really causing the shortages?
- News feature
- Conflict
- 30 January 2019
In Syria’s Aleppo, a slow rebuild begins

Despite limited help, some locals are reconstructing their homes and businesses.
- News
- Human Rights
- 31 October 2013
Armed groups in eastern DRC

The apparent imminent demise of the 18-month-old M23 rebellion is unlikely, on its own, to deliver peace to the east of the Democratic Republic of...
- Feature
- Human Rights
- 1 September 2004
Definitions of sexual and gender-based violence

Gender-based violence The term “gender-based violence” refers to violence that targets individuals or groups on the basis of their gender. The United Nations’ Office of...
- News
- Aid and Policy
- 11 April 2019
Amid criticism of the government response to Cyclone Idai, Zimbabweans pitch in and self-help

‘This is what people do to help people’