Boko Haram may have abducted children and young women in Cameroon for sex exploitation and suicide bombing. Internally displaced persons were also vulnerable to human trafficking by militant groups. Yazan Imra, 18, was abducted from the Nigeria- Cameroon border town of Gambarou and taken to ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 28 August 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean this year has now exceeded 300,000, inc...

N'Djamena (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people joined a march in N'Djamena on Saturday in support of Chadian troops heading to Nigeria and Cameroon to fight the Islamist group Boko Haram. Marching some five kilometres (three miles) through Chad's capital, demonstrators waved the national flag and ...

Ethnic representatives (from left) La Ja and Naw Zipporah Sein with the Myanmar Peace Center’s Hla Maung Shwe hold a press briefing following talks in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Wednesday. The ethnic armed groups’ new negotiating bloc will meet with the government’s Union Peacemaking Work Committee...

Yangon, 4 Aug — Peace negotiating teams from the government and ethnic armed groups will conclude mediation on 6 August in Yangon over three points left pending after the previous round of talks, a senior adviser at the Myanmar Peace Centre said Tuesday. With the talks over a draft National Ceas...

Eighty nine companies from 17 countries are investing in Thilawa Special Economic Zone, and construction of Zone-B infrastructure will be completed this year, according to a Cost of Doing Business in Myanmar report. Thilawa SEZ is located on 2,400 hectares of land, 14 miles southeast of Yangon c...

The Mon State government will issue licences for salt farming through the Salt Industry Department, an official said. U Khin Soe of the department said the date of the licence release will be decided at a meeting of the department today. “Applicants have to bring their land ownership documen...

A few elites will benefit from reviving Dawei SEZ, but what about the rest? Civil society organizations demand authorities to halt the controversial Dawei project and rethink. CIVIL society organizations have demanded the authorities to reconsider the plans to revive the controversial Dawei Speci...

The stream of refugees and migrants crossing from Venezuela to Brazil has increased exponentially over the last five years, with almost 200,000 arriving since the start of 2017. Of these, more than 100,000 have since moved on, leaving the current total in the country at some 98,000 with an average o...

Thailand’s military regime has given Dawei development the go-ahead, saying the project will help to smooth investment between Thailand and Burma (officially known as Myanmar). The National Council for Peace and Order has agreed that development of the project should proceed as scheduled, said P...