The government and some ethnic armed groups will ink the nationwide ceasefire accord on 15 October, said a senior adviser from Myanmar Peace Centre during a press conference on Sunday. The exact date for the signing of the truce deal was set at a meeting between the government’s Union Peace-Maki...

ဒဝဲၢ်မုၢ်ကျိၤဝဲၤကွာ်လီၢ်ကဝီၤလီၤဆီပၢဆှၢရဲၣ်ကျဲၤတၢ်ကမံးတံာ်ကွဲမုာ်ဝဲခီပနံာ်ခံဖျၢၣ်လၢကတီၣ်ဖျါထီၣ်ဝဲစ့လၢကဟ့ၣ်လီၤဝဲလၢတၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤအဂီၢ်ဒ်သိးကစးထီၣ်က့ၤဝဲတၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤကသ့အဂီၢ်,ကမံးတံာ်အပှၤပၢၤလီၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤစံးဘၣ်မံၣ်စံၣ်မၣ်တၢ် ကစီၣ်ဖဲလါအီကူး(၁၈)သီအနံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. အူဟဲစ့ၣ်စံးဝဲ,တၢ်ကွဲမုာ်ဝဲအံၣ်တလံၣ်-ကီၢ်ကၠီၣ်တဲၣ်တၢ...

There are around 127,000 Syrian refugees registered with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and more than 50,000 African and Iraqi refugees in Egypt, says UNHCR Senior External Relations and Communications Officer Ragnhild Ek. Most of Syrian refugees are concentrated in Greater Ca...

The United Nations’ refugee agency announced on Saturday that the number of Syrians who have fled their war-torn country and came to Lebanon has reached 779,000.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released photos apparently showing a rocket-making factory in north-eastern Nigeria. The group has used rocket-propelled grenades in the past and many Nigerians have been asking where the weapons have been coming from. The photos seem to indicate that mem...

Internationally funded African Union troops in Somalia have gang-raped women and girls as young as 12 and traded food aid for sex, Human Rights Watch, the US-based rights group, says. The 22,000 AU force, called AMISOM, with soldiers drawn from six nations, have been fighting alongside government...

With each doll she makes, Kituza finds healing from the brutal assault she survived in her home country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo