MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The crisis spawned by Boko Haram has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to a relatively little-known city in Nigeria that has finally become safe enough for them to wait out an end to the awful, deadly war. With villagers from the countryside pouring in, it is almost as th...

Number of refugees fleeing violence, abductions and torture in Burundi has passed 300,000, the United Nations says By Lin Taylor LONDON, Sept 23 - The number of refugees fleeing violence, abductions and torture in Burundi has passed 300,000, the United Nations said on Friday, raising fears nei...

The State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that there was no government that does not make mistakes, the important thing is to correct those mistakes. She was speaking at a peace talk with local people at Chaukkan village, Pakkokku Township, Magway Region on August 9. “No government is perfec...

The planned 2015 general elections will not be postponed, the Union Election Commission chairman U Tin Aye told news media on October 20. U Tin Aye said that according to the 2008 Constitution, parliament has a term of five years from the day of its first session. The first session of the curre...