On the 21 and 22 August, 2013, WFP with support from UNHCR launched the cash-transfers mixed with food distribution in Sag-nioniogo camp. This new way of distributing food and cash results from a cash feasibility study undertaken jointly by UNHCR and WFP during the Food Assessment done in April 2...

In an exclusive interview, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama spoke to DW about migration, corruption, and the current tension in the Niger Delta. Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama is scheduled to meet with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeyer on Wednesday. Among t...

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 ...

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 ...

Some language teachers teaching ethnic languages at government schools will be appointed as regular teaching assistants this year, according to the Department of Ethnic Literature and Culture. This was among the decisions made at last month’s meeting of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry...

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...