Terrorism in West Africa is evolving into a more regional phenomenon. In order to hold back wider destabilization, international partners would be wise to emphasize regional cooperation in response. Take the latest attacks. In late November 2015, militants used grenades and assault rifles to take...

Who Belongs? Statelessness and Nationality in West Africa At least 10 million people around the world are stateless, according to estimates from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), but the real number may be much higher. Statelessness severely limits a person’s human rights...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has a adopted strategies to eradicate statelessness in the sub-region by 2024. During a 3-day ministerial conference that began on Monday in Gambia’s capital Banjul, experts from the bloc’s 15 member states resolved to finalize a plan of acti...

Haji Gada Muhammed sits on a cushion in a splendid white parahan tunban, a traditional Afghan long-shirt and loosely plaited trousers made of linen.

DSG/SM/1058-SC/12820-HR/5361 Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks to the open debate of the Security Council on sexual violence in conflict, in New York today: Let me begin by commending Uruguay and the Deputy Foreign Minister in particular for hosting this import...

Throughout the week, more than a hundred children from Brazil and Venezuela have soccer classes at a small school of Venezuelan coach Luis Madrid, located in Boa Vista (Roraima). On February, the training included a special visit from the technical committee of the América Fútbol Club de Minas, whic...

Yangon University has launched online programmes for graduate and post graduate studies leading to Master of Science in Computer Science (M.Sc) and Diploma in Computer Science (DCS). The programme is being offered at Computer Science Department under the university’s Centre for Human Resources Deve...

Bank account holders will be able to use their ATM cards as prepaid cards under the Yangon Payment Services (YPS) scheme, said Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein. The Yangon Regional Government is currently in the process of awarding the contract to implement YPS to one of two companies: Any...

ပှၤလၢအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ပာ်စ့စရီလၢစ့တၢးတဖၣ် သူ၀ဲအ၀ဲသ့ၣ် ATM ခးသ့ ဒ်ခးလၢတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ဆိအပှ့ၤအသိး လၢ၀့ၢ်တကူၣ်တၢ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ် အပှ့ၤတၢ်မၤန့ၢ်တၢ်တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအဖီလာ် Yangon Payment Services (YPS) scheme, အဂ့ၢ် ၀့ၢ်တကူၣ်ကိတိာ်ခိၣ်ကျၢၢ် အူမၠိ မ့သ့ စံး၀ဲလီၤ. ၀့ၢ်တကူၣ်ကီၢ်ဒိၣ်ပဒိၣ်အခဲအံၤ ဟ့ၣ်လီၤ၀ဲခီထရဲးဘၣ်ဖၢ လၢတၢ်ကမၤထွဲထီၣ်...

Depuis 2010, plus de 200 millions de francs ont été mis à la disposition des réfugiés. L’objectif du Hcr et de l’Ong Ofadec est de faciliter leur intégration locale et leur autonomisation financière. Le Hcr veut faciliter l’intégration locale des réfugiés d’une part et d’autre part les permettre ...