A boat carrying at least 10 foreign nationals has washed ashore in central Somalia in a region controlled by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group, witness tell Al Jazeera. All on board the stricken boat - which came ashore near the town of El Dheer in Galgaduud region - were led away by masked fig...

Myanmar’s peace process will continue to the next stages of political dialogue, advisers to the government said yesterday, even though only a minority of armed ethnic groups have agreed so far to sign what was intended to be a nationwide ceasefire accord. Speaking to The Myanmar Times, they insis...

Batouri, 29 November 2016 - "I still do not know why the war is going on in our country, the Central African Republic," says Haman, a refugee from CAR living in the Ketté area, Eastern Cameroon. Haman lives in the little town of Boubara with his wife and five sons. Haman is originally from the a...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that terrorism does not respect territorial boundaries as he condemned Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort in Cote D’Ivoire. In a telephone call to President Alassane Ouattara after the attack, President Buhari in a statement by his special adv...

Negotiators on both sides of the peace process have insisted that trust and commitment remain strong, despite recent talks in Yangon failing to result in a finalized draft nationwide ceasefire and recent clashes between ethnic and Tatmadaw soldiers. The September 22-26 talks were the sixth held b...

The Karen National Union (KNU) has announced that it is not yet ready to sign a nationwide ceasefire agreement on Union Day. Saw Mahn Mahn, joint-secretary of the KNU, one of the major rebel forces in Burma, told DVBthat in a four-day meeting from 3 to 7 February, the group’s central committee dr...