Mogadishu, 19 July 2014 - The Somali Ministry of Women and Human Rights with the support from the UN has today convened a review meeting to collectively discuss the progress made and challenges encountered in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) in Somalia. The Declaration ...

Cameroon's President Paul Biya has appealed for international military help to fight Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which this week threatened to step up its cross-border raids into the country from Nigeria. The Nigerian group is part of a "global" movement that has attacked Mali, the Centra...

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...

LONDON, United Kingdom — When Cynthia Maung saw the suffering of fellow refugees who had fled Burma’s crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising in the late 1980s and sought sanctuary in neighboring Thailand, she knew she had to do something about it. Dr. Cynthia, as she is widely known, decided to ra...

LAIZA, Kachin State — An alliance of ethnic armed groups wrapping up a meeting in Laiza said they had agreed to make troop repositioning and joint monitoring of a future national ceasefire agreement a priority in their negotiations with the government. The National Ceasefire Coordination Team (NC...

Mogadishu, Somalia 27th June, 2015: The AMISOM Chief of Staff (CoS) Ambassador Epiphanie Kabushemeye on Saturday visited AMISOM soldiers admitted at the AMISOM Level 2 Hospital in Mogadishu. She also delivered a get well message from the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the AU Commission...

The market in Mole refugee camp was buzzing on a recent Saturday morning, with stalls selling everything from fish, goat meat, cassava and vegetables to clothes, cosmetics, household items and electronic equipment. Just two months earlier, the place had been half empty. That all changed when the Wor...

The Karen Department of Health and Welfare (KDHW) under the Karen National Union (KNU) has set down future plans to upgrade the health system within the year during its year-end meeting, which was held at the Thai-Myanmar border on February 12-15. P’doh Saw Eh Ka Lu Shwe Oo, head of the KDHW, tol...