NAIROBI, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Burundi's government refused on Thursday to cooperate with a U.N. inquiry into months of political violence, saying accusations of abuses by its officials were part of a political plot. The United Nations announced the inquiry this week to identify perpetrators in the ...

Diffa, Niger - As Nigerian forces have progressed against Boko Haram, the cornered terror group has been carrying out more attacks in neighbouring countries. In Niger's Diffa region on the northeastern border of Nigeria, more than 280,000 people have been displaced. Most of the displaced, do not...

PYTHIO VILLAGE, Greece – As dawn breaks over Greece’s north-eastern Evros region, a group of three families with adults and children tramp through Pythio and Thourio, small villages on a country backroad. “We’ve been travelling for three days directly from Kobani,” [on the Syrian border with Turk...

Prominent opposition political leaders will travel to Thailand later this week for talks with armed ethnic groups on the peace process and political liberalisation, 88 Generation leader Min Ko Naing says. Min Ko Naing said the meeting, which will be the largest to date between opposition politica...

Since July 2012, U.S. companies have cumulatively invested $612 million in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Among the leading corporations hoping to carve out market share in the Southeast Asian country of 60 million, which kicked off political reforms in 2011: Coca-Cola (KO), General Electric (GE...

Hpa-An governor Saw Aung Maung Aye told KIC that “two places of pilot project in KNU Brigade (7) called Maw Po Kay and Mae Ta Ray are not yet possible to resettle because of no water, electricity (or) fire, road and land for working.” The area is 200-100 feet wide, wooden house and zinc roof. To ...

Myanmar pomelos are receiving increased international interest, and demand is raising from several countries, including China which presents huge market potential for Myanmar, despite this fact local farmers aren’t producing enough to meet the demand. “China wants to buy as much as two container...

Acculée, la junte malienne fait des concessions. Alors que les rebelles touaregs se sont emparés en trois jours de Kidal, Gao et Tombouctou, Amadou Haya Sanogo, le chef des putschistes, a annoncé le retour à l'ordre constitutionnel comme l'exigeait la Cedeao. En attendant une nouvelle réunion de l'o...