Nepalese girls take pictures to highlight taboos around periods
Pictures taken by teenage Nepalese girls aim to show stigma surrounding menstruation in the mountainous country
Tropical Cyclone Roanu wreaks devastation across South Asia
In mid-May, Tropical Cyclone Roanu swept across Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh, triggering strong winds, landslides and widespread flooding which submerged swathes of the sub-continent.
Young Nepali mason wants to rebuild her shattered community
After last year’s earthquake, Shrijana, 21, has trained to be a mason so she can help rebuild her community
Drought hits Somaliland’s most vulnerable
A severe drought intensified by El Niño has hit Somaliland and Puntland, Save the Children is providing emergency medical care to malnourished children in self-declared Somaliland’s Borama Hospital.
PICTURE FACTBOX: The plight of the Yazidis
Islamic State fighters, who have beheaded and crucified captives in Iraq in their drive to eradicate non-believers, have driven thousands of people of the Yazidi religious sect into the Sinjar mountain range in northern Iraq. Who are the Yazidis and what do they believe in? Here are some answers.
Swaziland: livelihoods threatened as El Nino drought digs in
Affected by a prolonged drought, 201,000 people of Swaziland's population of 1.2 million face food and livelihoods insecurity
Tribal festival of Maralal
Maralal, a town north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, holds an annual camel festival, bringing together members of the Samburu, Turkana and Pokot semi-nomadic cattle-herding tribes. The event aims to ease tensions between the tribes, which sometimes clash over cattle rustling and land disputes.
Burundi - masks of protest
Improvised masks are put to the test as protesters fill the streets of Burundi's capital
Darfur's hopeful 12-year-olds
The ongoing conflict that erupted in Sudan's western Darfur region 12 years has not discouraged displaced youngsters who have lived up to their entire lives in refugee camps from dreaming big