Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is to ask the country's national assembly to extend a state of emergency in three northeastern states hit by fighters when it expires this week, the justice minister has said. Jonathan ordered troops into Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in May last year. Several ...

The Central African Republic is about to vote in a referendum on a new constitution. The aim is to prepare the way for parliamentary and presidential elections later this month which would lead the country out of chaos. One passerby on the streets of Bangui, capital of Central African Republic...

Closure of conflict camps tests CAR reconciliation In Fondo, a Bangui neighbourhood, the snakes are everywhere these days: hanging in the trees, crawling in the grass, and hiding in large piles of dust and rubble where people’s homes once stood. They began to arrive shortly after Guinot and hi...

MANDALAY — the vice-chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party said on Thursday that the party is planning to expel members of Parliament who they deem to be inactive and lacking empathy for their people. U Zaw Myint Maung, who is also chief minister of Mandalay and one of the NLD’...

ABUJA/DAKAR, 11 September 2015 (IRIN) - Families driven out of villages, farmers unable to tend crops, food stocks of entire communities raided: Boko Haram’s impact on the people of Western and Central Africa lingers long after the rape and slaughter. More than 5.5 million people living in conflict...

Children in northeast Nigeria continue to pay a heavy price for violence committed by the militant group FAR NORTH REGION, CAMEROON, April 14 (UNHCR) – Paul and his younger brother Adam resisted with all their strength when several armed men from the Boko Haram sect burst into their house in thei...

At least 60 migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia along with two Yemeni crew members drowned on May 31 in the worst such tragedy off the coast of Yemen this year, the UN has said. "The tragedy is the largest single loss of life of migrants and refugees attempting to reach Yemen via the Red Sea and t...

NAY PYI TAW, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Union Parliament Monday approved the formation of a five-member new Union Election Commission to handle affairs of the next general election five years later. Proposed by the president-elect U Htin Kyaw, the new union election commission is headed by U ...

The Department of Agriculture has plans to open a call centre aimed at quickly answering agricultural questions from farmers throughout Myanmar. While the Department of Agriculture’s main task is to provide educational support to rural farmers, problems arise when sending individual staff members...