Suspected jihadists massacred more than 40 civilians in northern Mali and killed 12 troops in an ambush in neighbouring Burkina Faso, officials said Monday, highlighting the security crisis gripping the two fragile states.

Suspected jihadists kill 40 villagers in Mali, 12 troops in Burkina

One hundred kidnapped villagers, mostly women and their infants, in northwest Nigeria were freed Tuesday, police said, following negotiations with their abductors who had held them hostage for 42 days.

100 kidnapped women and children freed in Nigeria

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the lockdown, there was a mass exodus of people leaving the cities to head towards there villages. Now, the reports have emerged that these migrant workers are not allowed to enter their villages as people and the health workers in villages fear that they may be carrying the disease.

Migrants returning home forced to stay in schools and farms outside villages 

Local people held week-long traditional folk activities to celebrate the 13th day of the 12th month of the Tibetan calender that fell on Jan. 8 this year in Xinlong County of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Villagers hold celebrations to warm up Tibetan New Year in southwest China

Four elephants were found dead Friday in central Sri Lanka, with police suspecting the animals were poisoned by angry villagers. Nearly 200 elephants are killed every year on the island, many by farmers after the animals stray onto their land.

Four Sri Lankan elephants found dead of suspected poisoning

Violent protests erupted after video footage emerged of an attack on four dalit villagers taking a dead cow to be skinned

Thousands protest attack on low-caste Dalits in western India

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