The practice of breast-ironing
Images of survivors of “breast-ironing”, Cameroon’s tradition of forcibly flattening young girls’ breasts using a hot stone in the hopes of averting sexual advances and teen pregnancies.
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.
5 facts you didn't know about UN peacekeepers
There are 97,729 people serving in UN peacekeeping missions worldwide. Nearly 4% of them are women. Here are 5 facts you didn't know about UN peacekeepers
Canadian and Indian journalists won 2014 Kurt Schork Awards
Reuters News Manager Paul Ingrassia presented Kurt Schork Awards to the winners in London 31 October
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.
5 facts you need to know about violence against women in El Salvador
El Salvador's macho culture, which views women as child-bearers and mothers, along with a justice system that often fails to punish perpetrators of crimes against women, fuels widespread violence
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.