MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Two bombs exploded at dawn Monday at Nigeria's northeastern University of Maiduguri, killing at least five people, witnesses and police said. The first blast ripped through the mosque where professors were saying dawn prayers and at least one is among victims, according to a ...

Anti-Corruption Commission and the United Nations Development Programme-UNDP jointly conducted a workshop yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw in preparation for forming of Corruption Prevention Unit-CPU at 13 ministries. The workshop was opened with opening remarks by U Aung Kyi, Chairman of the Anti-Corrup...

May 15, 2017 1:47 PM Anne Look / Moki Edwin Kindzeka MINAWAO, CAMEROON — Food shortages in northern Cameroon are raising tensions between local communities and Nigerian refugees displaced by the Boko Haram conflict. As a quarrel erupted between hawkers at the food market near the Minawao refu...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling on the Greek Government to urgently improve conditions and expand reception capacity, following a recent rise in arrivals at Evros via the land border with Turkey. Hundreds of people are at present being held in police detention facilities. Some 2,900 peop...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. By: William Spindler | 20 September 2016 On Monday evening, a fire broke out at the Moria reception centre on th...