Mogadishu, 12 February, 2016 – A delegation from the African Union Commission has carried out an assessment on the state of the Somalia-based peacekeeping mission to identify areas that need urgent support from the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia. The delegation from the AU Commission’s Pe...

KIGALI, Rwanda — The number of Burundians fleeing political violence is expected to reach 500,000 this year, and the United Nations is seeking more land for refugee camps in neighboring countries, the U.N. refugee agency reported Tuesday. Hundreds have died in the East African nation since April ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The ethnic alliance bloc United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) will not join the fourth summit of ethnic armed organizations, which takes place at the headquarters of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) in Panghsang this week. Burma’s largest non-state armed group, the UW...

NAY PYI TAW — the second 21st Century Panglong Conference will be held in Nay Pyi Taw on February 28, the government has confirmed, after a meeting of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee in the capital on Monday. But it is not yet clear whether or not non-signatories of the so-called Nationw...

Over 11,000 rural households in Kayin (Karen) State are set to newly receive electricity thanks to a long-awaited solar panel program. Under the National Electrification Project (NEP), the World Bank and the Department of Rural Development are installing heavily subsidized solar panels, which we...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's army said Tuesday it had rescued at least a dozen kidnapped women and children held captive by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. In a statement military spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said the group was rescued as the army cleared Boko Haram camps on Mon...