The successful prosecution of Chadian dictator Hissene Habre has galvanized the movement for a permanent forum for justice in Africa, but several legal roadblocks stand in the way, according to experts.

A special African Union-backed court in Senegal sentenced Habre to life in jail Monday for war crimes, crimes against humanity, rape, and sexual slavery, an unprecedented conviction that comes more than a quarter century after he left office.

Nigeria has been hit by growing unrest in the country's oil-producing south by a new militant group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers.

Here is what is known about them:

The tightening siege of Fallujah is trapping jihadists in the city and Iraqi fighters predict that the Islamic State group could make a longer and bloodier last stand than usual.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken of reviving a long-dormant Arab peace initiative with the Palestinians, amid questions over whether he is sincere or trying to fend off international critics.

With 13,000 people rescued in one week and hundreds presumed drowned, what do we know about migrant flows across the Mediterranean to Italy?

- Is there a surge in the number of boat migrants compared to 2015?

In a city whose windows have been blasted from their frames, remaining residents of Syria's war-torn Aleppo go about their daily lives behind gaping holes covered with plastic.

For inhabitants of the battle-scarred and divided city, glass windows have become more of a liability than a luxury.

Two veiled women work the land while a man collects eggs in a bucolic Bosnian village -- now notorious for exporting fighters to Syria.

"This is how we finance terrorism," joked 50-year old Izet Hadzic as he opened his henhouse in Osve, which overlooks a peaceful valley in the Balkan country's north.

Two months after his dramatic arrival in Libya's capital, Fayez al-Sarraj's unity government has won international support but had little impact inside a divided country plagued by jihadists, analysts say.

The head of the Government of National Accord sailed into Tripoli under naval escort on March 30 in defiance of a militia alliance that has been in control of the capital since August 2014, after it refused to let him fly in.

Engaged in a fierce tug of war with unions and some of his own party over labor reforms, France's embattled Prime Minister Manuel Valls has staked his political career on staring down the crisis.

France is in the grip of one of its worst industrial disputes in the past 20 years, with a wave of protests and strikes over controversial government reforms to labor laws.

Clashes have erupted between protesters and police, and union activists have stepped up blockades on refineries and transport that threaten to paralyze the country ahead of the Euro 2016 football championships that kick off in France on June 10.