Victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo will tell a high-level UN panel about their experiences as part of efforts to improve treatment and support.

Up to 40,000 Nigerian girls are being forced to work as prostitutes in Mali "slave camps", Nigerian officials say.

Gunmen have seized 15 children who were on their way to their international school in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Abia, say police.

At least seven people have been killed and 100 are missing after an overnight landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, officials have said.