Somalia's Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it carried out a bomb attack on a plane that blew a huge hole in its fuselage earlier this month. In an emailed statement, al-Shabab said the attack was revenge for Western intelligence operations in Somalia. The Daallo Airlines Airbus 321 with ...

To address the shortage of 30,000 teachers in Basic Education Schools nationwide, the government will train 10,000 teachers a year starting in the next academic year, said U Win Maw Tun, deputy minister of Education. Research shows that 33,681 new teachers are needed throughout the country, inclu...