UN hostages freed in South Sudan

A South Sudanese militia has released 280 child soldiers as the first step in a process to free 3,000, the UN's children agency says.

Another 234 women and children are rescued from Boko Haram Islamist militants in north-eastern Nigeria, the country's military announces.

Cameroon says 27 hostages, including 10 Chinese workers and a politician's wife, held by suspected Boko Haram militants have been freed.

Mali's security forces storm a hotel in the central town of Sevare, ending a deadly siege and freeing several hostages.

Women and children who have been held by Boko Haram militants say that some of their group was stoned to death as the Nigerian army approached to rescue them.

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A South Korean trade official who was kidnapped three days ago in the Libyan capital Tripoli has been freed, officials say.

The mother facing the death penalty in Sudan for abandoning her religious faith is to be freed in a few days, a senior Sudanese official says.

Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim, whose death sentence for marrying a Christian was overturned, is freed from jail again.