YANGON — Myanmar is planning to double its electric power capacity by 2021 by building natural gas-fired power plants, two senior officials told Reuters on Wednesday, in an ambitious move to tackle chronic power shortages in the energy-starved country. With only one-third of the country’s 60 mill...

“Without true passion for your work, passion to give of yourself and go out and do your best every day even in difficult circumstances, you cannot be a good teacher,” said Ms Aisha Kadiri, a master trainer working with teachers involved with internally displaced learners in parts of Nigeria where ed...

Mogadishu-30 March 2017-UNHCR Somalia has announced that over 187,000 people have been displaced in Somalia in March alone owing to the ongoing drought. According to an UNHCR’s Protection & Return Monitoring Network (PRMN) interim report released today, more than 444,000 people have been displaced s...

4 May 2017 – Children in north-east Nigeria continue to be brutalized as a result of Boko Haram’s insurgency in the region and the ensuing conflict, a first-of-its-kind United Nations report has concluded. “With tactics including widespread recruitment and use, abductions, sexual violence, attack...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working with governments and humanitarian partners in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to provide relief to the survivors of the Tropical Cyclone Idai, which struck the east coast of southern Africa on 14 and 15 March.

We must remove unelected representatives from legislatures and national reconciliation will make step by step through negotiations, said State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi during a speech titled “Democratic Transition in Myanmar: Challenges and Way Forward” delivered at the 43rd Singapore Lecture he...

Karen Police burned confiscated methamphetamine tablets and opium in its attempts to fight illicit drug use. The Karen National Police Force (KNPF) under the Interior Department of the Karen National Union in Doo Pla Ya District, destroyed thousands of methamphetamine tablets (Ya Ma) and opium in an...

The UK’s Government Department for International Development (DFID) have made an investment of over $1.9 million in a new project they are calling “Shwe Lan”, they plan to transform lending to Micro, Small and Medium Size Enterprises (MSMEs) in Myanmar. The DaNa Facility, a DFID-funded program is...

Central Bank of Myanmar, which has a great market potential in the banking sector, will grant banking licenses to new foreign banks allowing them to provide services in the domestic market. “We are considering allowing more foreign banks. We have plans to start granting license to the most suitab...

Survivors in Mozambique are still trying to rebuild their lives. More assistance is needed to help them recover, and to support other countries affected by climate change.