Assaga is an unlikely location for a refugee-cum-displaced people’s settlement. Niger’s main east-west highway runs through the heart of a sweeping expanse of desert that is the sprawling camp. Flimsy straw huts, some stitched together with plastic sheeting, dot the arid, dusty landscape on either s...

Final examinations for basic education schools will be held in the last week of March starting next year, Minister for Education U Myo Thein Gyi said at a curriculum meeting for Grade 6 at Kamayut Teachers Training College on Sunday. Until now, the exams have been held in the last week of Februar...

Le conflit inter-religieux opposant des milices chrétiennes et musulmanes a repris ces derniers jours à Bambari, dans l'Est de la Centrafrique, après le meurtre non élucidé de deux musulmans. Les heurts ont causé la mort d'au moins dix personnes. Les combats reprennent en Centrafrique. Ces dernie...