The Tanintharyi Region government has drafted a master development plan with the help of Japan, said Tanintharyi Region Chief Minister Dr Le Le Maw on September 8. The master plan will prioritize the marine, education and mining sectors. “I have requested that Japanese people draw the maste...

The Munich Security Conference is convening a meeting in Ethiopia to discuss the fight against extremism, crisis prevention and democracy in Africa. This is the first conference of its kind on the African continent. Around 60 senior leaders from Africa, Europe and the US are gathering in the E...

Achievements were presented at the consultative conference in Abidjan ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE, 2 October 2015 (UNHCR) – The consultative conference on citizenship and statelessness in West Africa ended this week after two days of fruitful exchanges in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on 28-30 September. Th...

DAKAR – West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said on Monday. Stateless people, sometimes referred ...