8th April 2016

The National Salvation government, one of Libya’s self-established rival governing bodies, stepped down.
The Islamic State has doubled the number of fighters in Libya over the last year and a half.
Senegal resettled two Libyan detainees held at Guantánamo.
Gun battles broke out early this week in the Republic of Congo after the re-election of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, leaving 17 dead.
The more than 30,000 people displaced by fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been cut off from aid.
A series of Nigerian military operations have rescued women and girls held captive by Boko Haram, but these survivors have lost their homes and remain under suspicious scrutiny.
Boko Haram often turns female captives into terrorists.
Long read: How jogging in Burundi became an act of war.
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir told the BBC he will step down in 2020.
Armed South Sudanese rebels have taken up positions in the capital.
Russia is blocking the release of a UN report on the multi-million dollar profits made off gold mining by pro-government militias in Darfur.
Syrian state television reports that the Islamic State kidnapped 300 cement workers in a town northeast of Damascus.
Interactive: Palmyra after the Islamic State.
A mass grave was uncovered outside of Palmyra.
Video: Channel 4 news surveys the consequences of the Islamic State’s long occupation of Palmyra.
A sniper killed the last doctor in the Syrian town of Zabadani, besieged by government forces and by Hezbollah.
Bashar al-Assad, buoyed by the army’s victories, is not interested in compromise.
Video: a year-by-year look at the destruction of Homs.
Despite Russia’s claims that it focused on Islamic State targets during its air campaign in Syria, a report by the Atlantic Council shows that the campaigncaused little damage to the group but rather sought to support the Syrian government.
Rebel fighters downed a Syrian jet near Aleppo with a surface-to-air missile.
Abu Firas, one of Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusra Front’s leaders and founding members, was killed in a Syrian or Russian air strike.
The Panama Papers leak shows that the Mossack Fonseca firm ignored sanctions and corruption allegations and maintained links to Rami Makhlouf, Bashar al-Assad’s cousin and financier.
Long read: Investigative journalism persists in the Middle East.
US bombs were used last month in a Saudi airstrike on a Yemeni market that killed 119 people.
Palestine is seeking a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
Turkey and Israel are expected to normalize ties soon.
Fallujah is starving, besieged by the government, by Shi’a militias and trapped by the Islamic State.
Iraqi women, lone women especially, are vulnerable inside displaced persons camps.
Local Afghan officials say American airstrikes in Paktika province killed 17 civilians.
The NATO training mission in Afghanistan is slowed by fighting.
The killing of a student activist in Bangladesh is the latest in a long string of secular bloggers and writers fatally attacked there over the last few years.
More than 50 were killed after violence broke out over the weekend in the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh. This was the worst violence between the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces since their war ended 1994. A ceasefire has been announced.
Long read: Why everything about the way we report on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is wrong.
Video: How does terrorism sway politics?
Belgium released new footage of the Brussels airport bombing suspect.
Explainer: What does nuclear terrorism mean?
Fishermen operating in the midst of the South China Sea territorial dispute tell their stories.
Cuba joined the global ban on cluster munitions.
The world is re-arming –– looking at new global data on military expenditure from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Executions worldwide are at a 25-year high.

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