This Week’s News

• Lakhdar Brahimi to become next UN Syrian envoy, as key districts in the second city of Aleppo fall under government control
• Sudanese IDP camps are pledged more aid as the situation, food and basic commodities become scarce
• Oxfam declares Eastern DR Congo in a “catastrophe” as rebels move in on refugee camps
• UK is to provide a further £5m in non lethal aid in support of the Syrian rebel opposition according to Foreign Secretary William Hague
• Nepal places restrictions on women under 30 migrating to the Middle East for work, fearing exploitation