The Northern States Governors’ Forum on Monday, said terror activities in the country will soon be a thing of the past, especially as the military under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is doing its best to put an end to insurgency in the North. The forum described the recent bom...

A national staff member of the UN Refugee Agency in the Central African Republic was killed on 1 May 2014 in Bangui. The UNHCR employee was abducted in the morning from the PK16 district of the CAR’s capital and his body was recovered in the afternoon of the same day. UNHCR mourns the death of t...

Karen National Union chair Saw Mutu Say Poe called on the leaders to approve the draft ceasefire agreement text provisionally approved in March between government and ethnic negotiators. China and a UN envoy also pressed them to move quickly and sign. The leaders are meeting, under international ...

Yangon (dpa) – Four ethnic rebel groups and a student militia in Myanmar said on Tuesday that they were prepared to sign a national ceasefire agreement after four years of negotiations. They were the first to respond to a letter sent by President Thein Sein last week to 15 armed groups, urging th...

Myanmar is planning to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Japanese government to send Myanmar workers to Japan, according to the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population on February 13. “Japan and Myanmar have similar lifestyles. So, they are like Myanmar. To my knowledge, Ja...