Two years after the 2014 census was conducted, government officials are just getting around to explaining the point of all those questions that members of the public were made to answer. On August 31 and September 1, officials from the Ministry of Immigration and Population met with Karen State l...

The structural integrity of residential and commercial buildings is constantly in focus due to the frequent earthquakes in Yangon and the Yangon City Devleopment Committee is conducting regular inspections of the buildings in order to ensure their strength. Daw Hnin Ei Win, head of the Buildings ...

Hon. Sani Zorro, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) has disclosed Nigeria’s government plan to issue United Nations passport to people at risk of being stateless. Zorro made this known during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sat...

(BANGUI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - At least 22 people were killed in a string of raids on villages in Central African Republic this week, a local official and state radio said on Friday, as an escalation of violence threatened to derail a visit by the pope and crucial elections. Pope Francis has already...

1 July – 31 December 2016 By Mohamed Ibn Chambas Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNOWAS New York, 13 January 2017 Monsieur le Président, Distingués membres du Conseil, 1. C’est un honneur pour moi de me retrouver devant cette auguste assemblée, pou...

A suicide bomber belonging to Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram killed at least 11 people when he blew himself up close to a mosque in Cameroon near the Nigerian border, military sources and local officials said on Thursday. The attack occurred late on Wednesday and followed the breaking of the ...

NIAMEY Dec 17 (Reuters) - Gendarmes in Niger have arrested at least four senior military officers in a troubling sign of potential unrest in the West African nation just two months before elections, military sources and family members of those detained said on Thursday. The arrests were made on T...

The unrest started with the March 2 killing of two young Muslims by unidentified assailants At least ten people have been killed in clashes between rival militia groups in Central African Republic which began with the March 2 killing of two young Muslims by unidentified assailants, police told A...