SHIRE, Ethiopia, Feb 2 (UNHCR) – Improving conditions for refugees in camps and expanding programmes for legal pathways outside Ethiopia were both key to reducing the numbers who attempt perilous journeys to reach safety, Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said as he met Eritrean...

The pain of separation proved too much for one young boy from Central African Republic, who died last week after going on hunger strike, desperate to escape a virtual prison and reunite with his parents. Youssoufa was one of the latest victims of the bitter inter-communal violence and terror that ha...

The African Union has said it will no longer recognise The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh as the country's leader from next Thursday, when his term ends. The bloc warns of "serious consequences" if Mr Jammeh's refusal to give up power causes a crisis. Adama Barrow, who won the recent presiden...

A seminar on internal peace and constitutional amendment will be organised next month by ethnic political alliances in Thailand’s Mae Sot, located across the border at Myawaddy. Seminar organisers include the United Nationalities Federal Council, the United Nationalities Alliance, the National Le...

Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram is finally swinging in the government’s favour, but it’s going to take much longer for food production to recover in the country’s northeast. The same is true in neighbouring Cameroon, which has also felt the impact of the violence. According to the Famine Early W...

MAROUA, Cameroon — The American and African forces sent to Cameroon to fight Boko Haram have, on several occasions, located clusters of the schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant group two years ago, United States officials say. Rescue operations have not been carried out, the officials said, beca...

A few elites will benefit from reviving Dawei SEZ, but what about the rest? Civil society organizations demand authorities to halt the controversial Dawei project and rethink. CIVIL society organizations have demanded the authorities to reconsider the plans to revive the controversial Dawei Speci...

In an exercise coordinated by the Brazilian Army and with the support of UNHCR, about 870 people were transferred to Latife Salomão and Santa Tereza hostels in Boa Vista.

Despite statements from the government-established Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) and the armed resistance movements’ Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) that there won’t be any Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signing on 1 August as planned earlier, both sides appear to be ready to offer ...

Schools in Yangon have been instructed not to accept the enrolment of students from other townships during the coming school year, according to U Ko Lay Win, director general of the Department of Basic Education. He said the same instruction was issued during last year’s enrolment but was not fol...