The policy and law will give farmers a better chance of securing the return of their land, he said. The government released a draft of its national land-use policy in October 2014. It is likely to be approved by cabinet in the first half of this year and will be followed by a land-use law, which ...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said ...

West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, Reuters reports human rights experts as saying on Monday. Stateless people, sometim...

Officials from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), along with the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR), have adopted the world’s first action plan to eradicate statelessness. Stateless people do not have citizenship in any country and often do not have access to work, education or heal...

La communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) a adopté officiellement le mardi 9 mai, lors d’une conférence ministérielle à Banjul, en Gambie, un plan d’élimination du phénomène de privation de nationalité, appelé apatride. « L’Afrique de l’Ouest se pose en leader de la...

The Karen National Union (KNU) met with officials from the Karen State Government to discuss cooperation on solving ongoing and future land issues on 6 December at the Karen State Government office. Karen State Government officials including the Security and Border Affairs Minister Colonel Aung L...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is launching today an innovative action plan to expand employment opportunities for refugees. The document not only identifies the challenges, opportunities and best practices in the integratio...

France's foreign minister said an African Union-led plan was the only viable way to end fighting among rival factions in the Central African Republic, pushing back Monday against an alternative peace process steered by Russia. "There is no alternative that is either desirable or is likely to succeed...

A new bridge has been constructed in Mawlamyinegyun Township, labutta district, ayeyawady Region, under the government’s rural development plan. With the use of a Ks48 million budget, the Township Rural development department is organizing the construction of a new RC concrete bridge named Panmau...

More than 3000 acres of farmlands that were confiscated for the Mandalay international airport project at Tada-U Township were returned to their farmer-owners. Vice President U Henry Van Thio gave temporary land use certificate, commonly referred to as Form 3, to farmers who were original owners ...