Rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR) are regrouping and up to 20 people have been killed in recent attacks. Peace continues to elude the CAR two years after a UN peacekeeping mission there was launched. A cluster of people have gathered around a truck where helpers are distributing food t...

“Artistes for Refugees” - a livelihoods project funded by UNHCR was officially launched on 20 April with the arrival of Henry Ohanga (commonly known as Octoppizzo), a leading rap musician in the country and Victor Ndula, a respected illustration artist/journalist. The two artistes arrived in Kakuma ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has donated an ambulance to the Ministry of Health through the Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Nchelenge District in Luapula Province. Speaking when he handed over the ambulance, Head of UNHCR’s Kawambwa Field Office Hashim S...

The draft framework for political dialogue (FPD) is now almost completed according to reports coming from the FPD consultations in Rangoon, which ended on 10 July. Once the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) has been signed the ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) and government negotiating teams wi...

Many people, including women, have the impression that the fairer sex have equal rights in Myanmar, but in reality, they do not, said State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. “Women often boast that they have equal rights with men. But we know that that is not actually true,” she said at a busine...

Representatives of the ethnic armed groups’ negotiating team are due to meet for informal talks with their government counterparts in Rangoon next week. The Senior Delegation for Nationwide Ceasefire Negotiation – a body that was formed this month out of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team...

The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) will reserve two leading positions within the ethnic alliance for representatives of the Karen Nation Union (KNU) despite the Karen group walking out of the UNFC conference in Chiang Mai on Sunday. Speaking to DVB and other reporters at the end of t...