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• South Africa’s coal-fired power stations carry heavy health costs

  9 Sep 2014: In the settlement of Masakhane near the Duvha plant, residents wear masks to avoid breathing in the coal dust

• Food crisis prompts South Sudan reggae band to sing songs of farming

  29 Aug 2014: The Jay Family have a fertile message for their compatriots to stave off hunger and resolve conflicts

• Kenya passes law to step up fight against human trafficking

  29 Aug 2014: Bill will provide better support for victims and campaigners say it will make securing convictions easier

• Yemen fuel subsidy cut drives poorest deeper into poverty

  26 Aug 2014: Sharp rise in prices, which could lead to a further 500,000 Yeminis living below the breadline, has sparked fierce protests

• Pacific Islands inch towards gender equality with female appointments

  16 Aug 2014: Three women take helm at regional body, heralding gradual progress towards closing gender gap in male-dominated region

• South Sudan heads towards famine amid ‘descent into lawlessness’

  15 Aug 2014: Andrew Green: Urgent need for peace ignored as another deadline for a deal passes and splinter groups of rebels threaten to spread conflict

• Quarantined Ebola regions set to receive emergency food drops

  15 Aug 2014: World Bank, UN and WHO assessing how to make deliveries as threat of health crisis from malnutrition deepens

• Libya insecurity forces aid workers to leave

  10 Aug 2014: NGOs exit as violence intensifies, leaving Libya straining under weight of supporting migrants and internally displaced people

• Sand mining: the deadly occupation attracting Kenya’s youngsters

  7 Aug 2014: Sand is essential to Kenya’s construction boom. Harvesting it is a quick way to earn money, but it’s risky – and can be fatal

• Ebola risk unheeded as Guinea's villagers keep on eating fruit bats

  4 Aug 2014: Health workers struggle to separate myth from reality of Ebola as residents say abandoning tradition is out of the question

• Flying cars – landing at a humanitarian crisis near you soon?

  29 Jul 2014:

  Relief agencies go back to the future with $100,000 vehicles designed to carry vaccines and stretchers in conflict zones

• Community control of forests could help combat climate change

  25 Jul 2014: Deforestation rates significantly lower in areas formally managed by local communities, data shows

• China's red furniture craze fuelling illegal logging in Guinea-Bissau

  23 Jul 2014: Appetite for African rosewood has driven a surge in illegal deforestation that threatens to destabilise local communities

• India's snakebite victims could be offered lifesaving low-cost nasal spray

  18 Jul 2014:

  Nasally administered antidote to snake venom to be trialled in India, where the number of fatalities is the highest in the world

• Child brides: crackdown on marriages to appease gods and settle debts

  18 Jul 2014:

  International Girl Summit kicks off in London next week with ambitious aim of ending child marriage within a generation

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