Suicide bombers have attacked a fish market and refugee camp in the town of Baga Sola in western Chad, killing more than 30 people, officials say. More than 50 people are being treated at the hospital in the town, which is on the shores of Lake Chad. The camp on the town's outskirts is home to ten...

Chad has declared a state of emergency in the Lake Chad region after attacks by Boko Haram militants from Nigeria. The decision came after at least two people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram suicide bomb attack. Ministers say sweeping powers to control people's movements are needed becau...

The hot season is fast approaching in northern Niger and the sun burns into the flimsy roofs of the refugee tents, the plastic sheeting an incongruous blue against the few stems of green on trees and the dun colour of the sandy ground. Seventy-year-old Mohammed Islamta arranges his few meagre pos...

Alors que depuis huit mois, la secte Boko Haram attaque les frontières nord du Cameroun, le pays s’emploie à préserver son unité et sa solidarité. La communauté musulmane est la première à dénoncer les agissements de la secte jihadiste et veut éviter tout amalgame. Samedi 7 février au Palais des ...

BAD SCHALLERBACH, Austria – When they go shopping in the small Austrian town of Bad Schallerbach, Martina Schamberger introduces Nawras Ahmadook as her son. The arguments they have in the grocery store are typical of those between a parent and child. Nawras heads straight for the junk food, and Mar...

The peace process is in trouble and a new way forward is needed to end the stalemates and posturing that have hampered negotiations. IT IS just over two years since the Union Solidarity and Development Party government and eight ethnic armed groups signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, as pa...

As the Nigerian government continues to open up areas formerly controlled by Boko Haram and to facilitate the return of thousands of people to their home areas in the north-east, the scale of the damage is becoming more and more apparent and new humanitarian challenges are emerging. The governmen...

From food to furniture, clothing to haircuts, the bustling market in the settlement of Meri in the rural northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a colourful example of refugees’ resourcefulness and how they can contribute to the local economy.

Despite statements from the government-established Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) and the armed resistance movements’ Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) that there won’t be any Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signing on 1 August as planned earlier, both sides appear to be ready to offer ...

The conclusion of Myanmar’s ceasefire agreement, currently under negotiation between the Union government’s Union Peace-making Work Committee and the armed ethnic groups’ Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team, may be delayed, Naing Han Thar, leader of the NCCT told Mizzima on September 23. Speak...