Press Releases, 20 April 2016 On Tuesday, a UNHCR team interviewed survivors of what could be one of the worst tragedies involving refugees and migrants in the last 12 months. If confirmed, as many as 500 people may have lost their lives when a large ship went down in the Mediterranean Sea at an ...

En Centrafrique, Abdoulaye Hissène, un important chef de l'ex-coalition Seleka a été arrêté hier, mardi 15 mars dans l'après-midi, avant que ses hommes ne prennent d'assaut le bâtiment où il était retenu pour le libérer. Abdoulaye Hissène n'aura passé que quelques heures dans une cellule de la se...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ivory Coast will ratify an international treaty on statelessness next week, a step that will make it easier for hundreds of thousands of Ivorian children now living in limbo to get access to education, healthcare and jobs, the U.N. refugee agency said. Preside...

OUAGADOUGOU (Xinhua) - Le Haut commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a procédé, vendredi à Ouagadougou, à la distribution de matériel aux réfugiés regroupé à Ouagadougou. Le Programme alimentaire mondiale (PAM) a, à son tour, annoncé l'envoi dans les prochains jours de 7 tonnes d...

L'armée nigériane donc confirmé, ce dimanche, l'arrestation de l'un des chefs d’Ansaru, un groupe armé islamiste. Khalid al-Barnawi, interpelé dans le centre du pays, faisait partie de la liste des terroristes les plus recherchés par les Etats-Unis. Le groupe Ansaru est moins actif que Boko Haram...

Speaking to hundreds of local and foreign business leaders at the opening of the 5th Euro money Myanmar Global Investment Forum in Nay Pyi Taw on September 13, Union Planning and Finance Minister, U Kyaw Win said Myanmar had only just begun to open up to the world. The country has learned from it...

Over 90 percent of Mon State’s incumbent ward and village tract administrative positions will open in coming elections that aim to bring local-level leadership in line with new legislation, according to an official. U Myint Than Win, Mon State government director, confirmed that the state governm...

Consistent with the Secretary-General’s commitment to transparency and zero tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) across the United Nations and in peacekeeping operations in particular, the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and UN Agencies op...

A bachelor’s degree in fishery will be launched in the coming academic year at Yangon University, an official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation told The Myanmar Times. “We decided to offer bachelor degree courses related to fishery for the next academic year. The Hluttaw a...

The Dawei Special Economic Zone management committee has invited two companies to submit closed tenders aimed at restarting the troubled project, its chairman told Mizzima on August 18. U Han Sein said Italian-Thai Development and a Japanese company had been invited to tender for seven SEZ proje...