RANGOON — Two ethnic armed groups representing the Mon and Karen people reached an agreement on Wednesday to maintain peace while they work to resolve a dispute over territory, according to leaders from both sides. Under Wednesday’s agreement, the Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State ...

RANGOON — The Burmese government has agreed to include in a nationwide ceasefire agreement a pledge for the country to be governed in a federal system, participants in a meeting between government negotiators and rebel leaders said Friday. The Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT), which ...

Myanmar President Thein Sein held a meeting with nearly 50 top politicians and ethnic leaders on Monday at his residence in Naypyidaw to discuss constitutional reform and press them to reach a nationwide cease-fire agreement next month, a leader of an opposition party said. Thein Sein met with 48...

YOLA, NIGERIA— The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern that Niger is forcing Nigerians away from Lake Chad and their livelihoods in the wake of a deadly battle with the Boko Haram extremist group. Thousands of Nigerians who worked in the fishing industry are being forced away from ...

Chika Mefor #BringBackOurGirls(BBOG) group member, Dr Allen Manessah has urged non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and public spirited Nigerians to help in the provision of food for Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) in the various camps in the North East. Speaking during an interview yes...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said the federal government is committed to relocating Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) back home. He said the creation of North-east development commission would address the plights of IDPs ...

Somalia's Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it carried out a bomb attack on a plane that blew a huge hole in its fuselage earlier this month. In an emailed statement, al-Shabab said the attack was revenge for Western intelligence operations in Somalia. The Daallo Airlines Airbus 321 with ...

The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Wa National Organization (WNO) have withdrawn from the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), a formerly seven-member coalition of ethnic armed groups that have yet to sign Burma’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. The KIO submitted to the UN...

The budget for school infrastructure projects has been cut so that teachers can have the pay increase that President U Win Myint promised shortly after he was sworn into office in March, Education Deputy Minister U Win Maw Tun said. “The cut was made according to the law. It is not because we don...