Children in northeast Nigeria continue to pay a heavy price for violence committed by the militant group FAR NORTH REGION, CAMEROON, April 14 (UNHCR) – Paul and his younger brother Adam resisted with all their strength when several armed men from the Boko Haram sect burst into their house in thei...

At least 60 migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia along with two Yemeni crew members drowned on May 31 in the worst such tragedy off the coast of Yemen this year, the UN has said. "The tragedy is the largest single loss of life of migrants and refugees attempting to reach Yemen via the Red Sea and t...

NAY PYI TAW, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Union Parliament Monday approved the formation of a five-member new Union Election Commission to handle affairs of the next general election five years later. Proposed by the president-elect U Htin Kyaw, the new union election commission is headed by U ...

The Department of Agriculture has plans to open a call centre aimed at quickly answering agricultural questions from farmers throughout Myanmar. While the Department of Agriculture’s main task is to provide educational support to rural farmers, problems arise when sending individual staff members...