MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The crisis spawned by Boko Haram has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to a relatively little-known city in Nigeria that has finally become safe enough for them to wait out an end to the awful, deadly war. With villagers from the countryside pouring in, it is almost as th...

Number of refugees fleeing violence, abductions and torture in Burundi has passed 300,000, the United Nations says By Lin Taylor LONDON, Sept 23 - The number of refugees fleeing violence, abductions and torture in Burundi has passed 300,000, the United Nations said on Friday, raising fears nei...

Quadruple attentat suicide hier à Bodo dans le nord du Cameroun : 4 jeunes filles transformées en véritables bombes humaines ont pulvérisé le marché du village. Trente-deux personnes, dont des femmes et des enfants, sont mortes déchiquetées. « Le Cameroun est en guerre », s’exclame le bihebdomad...

The Amyotha Hluttaw passed the bill amending the Telecommunications Law as revised by the Bill Committee on Wednesday but took no action on calls to abolish the controversial section 66(d), said Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than. The committee’s revisions included making charges brought under section ...

The planned 2015 general elections will not be postponed, the Union Election Commission chairman U Tin Aye told news media on October 20. U Tin Aye said that according to the 2008 Constitution, parliament has a term of five years from the day of its first session. The first session of the curre...

The State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that there was no government that does not make mistakes, the important thing is to correct those mistakes. She was speaking at a peace talk with local people at Chaukkan village, Pakkokku Township, Magway Region on August 9. “No government is perfec...