MINAWAO, CAMEROON — Boko Haram fighters have kidnapped and conscripted thousands of young men and women since 2013. Soldiers from a regional force — composed of fighters from Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon — continue to liberate captives by the hundreds during an operation to flush the terror...

WHAT initially started in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, as a mere skirmish between the police and members of a radicalised group, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram (Western education is forbidden), in July, 2009, when its then leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was...

ELEVEN villages from Myanmar’s southern coastal region of Tanintharyi will conduct regional based tourism enterprises, according to the office of the Department of Hotels and Tourism. The project, which has currently been submitted to union level government, will be implemented during the current...

Filippo Grandi says Niger sets a strong example through its hospitality for people fleeing conflict in Mali and Nigeria. By: Louise Donovan | 13 December 2016 DIFFA, Niger – Despite facing high levels of poverty and other development challenges of its own, Niger is playing a key role in sh...

As thousands of refugees flee an Islamist reign of terror in northern Mali, and with military intervention looming, the UN’s top relief coordinator for West Africa, Valentin Topsoba, speaks to Douglas Herbert about an impending humanitarian disaster. Can he persuade Western governments to provide ur...