The north-east of Nigeria, long plagued by conflict between the government and Boko Haram militants, will receive $2bn in aid from the World Bank, according to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Speaking in Washington, after talks with officials from the World Bank, Buhari said priority ust be given to rebuilding infrastructure and helping those displaced by the conflict.

In a statement published earlier today, Mr Buhari urged the World Bank to send a team to Nigeria to assess how to spend the funds.

A ship carrying humanitarian and food aid to Yemen reached the port of Aden on Tuesday, reports Reuters.

The ship contained UN food aid to feed approximately 180,000 people for a month and had been anchored off the coast of Aden since June 26 said the World Food Bank.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the World Food Bank, said,

The former leader of Chad has been placed on trial in Senegal for crimes against humanity.

Hissene Habre, who led Chad between 1982 and 1990, will be tried by the Senegalese courts of  Extraordinary African Chambers. The court was established by the African Union to hear the specific case.

The trials are the first time a case under universal jurisdiction has taken place in Africa.

It is also the first time the courts of one country are prosecuting the former ruler of another in Africa, said, Human Rights Watch.

The Cuban flag flies in Washington DC officially for the first time in over 50 years, as the two nations restored diplomatic ties, with the opening of their respective embassies.

A ceremony in the US capital, attended by the Cuban Foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez, saw over 500 people cheer, as the flag was raised, including by chanting former Cuban leader Fidel Castro's name.

White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said the new diplomatic ties were "yet another demonstration that we don't have to be imprisoned by the past."

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that agreed on sanctions relief for Iran provide the terms of its nuclear agreement with world powers were implemented.

The unanimously passed resolution allows UN sanctions to be re-imposed if Iran breaches the deal in the next 10 years and also prevents any veto powers from stopping the reinstatement of any sanctions, reports Reuters.

A Colombian army officer who was detained by the FARC militants was handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, on Sunday.

Colombia’s president Juan Manual Santos confirmed that the FARC militants had handed over the soldier.

Britain’s premier David Cameron pledged to increase support in the fight against Islamic State militants by looking to gain parliamentary approval to join US led airstrikes.

Speaking to US TV broadcasters, NBC, Mr Cameron said,

“I want Britain to do more. I’ll always have to take my parliament with me. We are talking and discussing at the moment, including with the opposition parties in Britain, what more we can do. But be in no doubt we are committed to working with you to destroy the caliphate in both countries.”

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the country's policy towards the US, Syria and other countries will not change, despite the nuclear deal signed earlier this week.

During a speech in Tehran, marking the Islamic festival of Eid-ul-Fitr, the ayatollah said Iran still had sharp differences with the US, especially over the Middle East, and pledged continue to back Syria, Iraq, the Palestinians and "oppressed people" in Yemen and Bahrain, he said.

"Whether the [nuclear] deal is approved or disapproved, we will never stop supporting our friends in the region and the people of Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain and Lebanon," Ayatollah Khamenei said. "Even after this deal our policy towards the arrogant US will not change."

The leader of Saudi Arabia, King Salman, held rare talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, the firsttime in four years the Saudi monarchy acknowledged talks with the Palestinian group.

Mr Meshaal, who was on pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, "praised the positive stance of the kingdom's leadership towards the Palestinian cause", Saudi Arabia's SPA state news agency reported.

The Hamas chief currently lives in exile in Qatar, after he left his previous base in Damascus, when Hamas decided to support rebels against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) were asked by judges to review their decision not to investigate the raid on a humanitarian flotilla destined for Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 2010, reports Reuters.

The ICC judges sought the review in a ruling published on Thursday.

Last year, the chief prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda said that Israel will not face prosecution for the attack on the flotilla, which left nine activists dead, despite a “reasonable basis” that war crimes were committed.