Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Wednesday 4/13/2016 - 03:22 GMT by Aminu ABUBAKAR When Boko Haram Islamists raided a remote village on Nigeria's northeastern border with Niger last year, frightened and confused residents fled into the bush to escape the marauding attackers. But the locals got lost an...

The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR's Turkey Representative Carol Batchelor has called on nations to open their borders and ease visa requirements to accommodate Syrian shelter-seekers, warning of a lost generation should they fail. Refugee protection is an international responsibility, Batch...

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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...

NAYPYIDAW — Burma’s Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement is taking steps to open workplace nursery schools across the country for the convenience of working parents. Minister Dr. Win Myat Aye announced the initiative to the press on Tuesday. “If we don’t have a sufficient budget, ...

The Karen Health and Welfare Department, a health service provider under the Karen National Union is planning that its teaching hospital, near Kawkariek will be set up and running by January, 2017. The teaching hospital, called Taw Nor [Daw Na], was planned to open on the first of January, but it...

The government is planning to build new drug rehabilitation centres and refurbish existing ones in the coming year, a senior welfare official says. U Tun Zaw, director of the Department of Rehabilitation under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, said that under new regulation...