The Security Council decided to visit the Lake Chad region because there was a flagrant gap between the many challenges that had accumulated in that region and the international community’s response, which was both piecemeal and insufficient. I believe this important mission offers three main les...

(Refiles to correct date) * Early victims, with fake papers, traced to restaurant * Experts stymied at first by unexplained deaths in December * Technicians ran yellow fever test by chance * Health officials rue missed early opportunities, cost By Ed Cropley LUANDA, June 10 (Reuter...

President Muhammadu Buhari will begin a week-long official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar from Monday. Buhari, according to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, will be accompanied by a high-powered Federal Government delegation, including the Minister of Stat...

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 9 October 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. High Commissioner António Guterres is scheduled to begin a two and a half-day mission to Greece tomorro...

A joint delegation representing the Burma Army, ethnic Karen rebels and the government-affiliated Myanmar Peace Center arrived in Colombia this week to study the country’s peace process. The delegation from Burma included senior Burmese military officials Lt-Gen Ye Aung and Maj-Gen Tun Tun Naug; ...