Once every week or two, a group of almost 20 volunteers parades through eastern Liberia's Bahn Refugee Camp, singing songs and carrying banners. They may look like a song and dance troupe, but they carry a simple message that could save lives. House by house, block by block, they knock on doors and...

The hot season is fast approaching in northern Niger and the sun burns into the flimsy roofs of the refugee tents, the plastic sheeting an incongruous blue against the few stems of green on trees and the dun colour of the sandy ground. Seventy-year-old Mohammed Islamta arranges his few meagre pos...

* Highway open to Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso - expert * Western govts worried by regional spread, wider attacks * Islamic State in Libya fears Western air strikes By Emma Farge DAKAR, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Groups of Islamic State fighters are quitting their bases in Libya fearing Western air...