The second round of nationwide ceasefire talks between Myanmar government and 17 ethnic armed groups scheduled for late this month has been put off until next month, the Kayin National Union (KNU) was quoted by local 7-Day Daily as saying on Monday. The second round of talks between the governme...

* IMF's Lagarde holds talks with President Buhari on Tuesday * Africa's biggest economy hit by a plunge in oil price * Lagarde will also visit neighbouring Cameroon * IMF chief to meet finmins of the six CEMAC states By Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muh...

The Al-Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group in Somalia has warned Kenya to pull its troops out of Somalia days after its fighters overran a Kenyan military base in southwestern Somalia in a complex attack, killing tens of soldiers. Al Shabaab claimed it killed more than 100 soldiers during the attack in El...

GORE, Chad, 11 April (UNHCR) – Asia* and her family had no time to pack their belongings. "I had to spend most of my cash, 10,000 FCFA (about USD 20), to get to Chad. We had nothing when we arrived and I had to feed my children," she says. Since early 2013, an estimated 23,000 refugees from the C...

"I cannot stop comparing what life was before and what it has now become. Before the conflict, my biggest worry was studying and getting good marks. All of a sudden I found myself in a camp for displaced people queuing for water and food." Our colleague Rocco recently met Rodha sitting with her m...

The Belt and Road Initiative puts Myanmar’s natural capital and the lives and livelihoods of 24 million people - half of the country’s population - at risk, according to a report from World Wide Fund for Nature in Myanmar. Road projects proposed as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative would ...

Three armed ethnic groups threatened to pull out of Myanmar’s draft nationwide cease-fire agreement on Tuesday in light of continued military offensives by government troops, complicating a fragile peace deal that if finalized could end decades of civil war in the country. The Myanmar National De...

‘These refugees have lost almost everything. We need to help them. Even if that means we’ll have to learn to live with less,’ says mayor of Medyka, a primary crossing point for refugees. Marek Iwasieczko has been averaging just four hours sleep a night since the bombs started falling on Ukraine. ...

Asked recently what she is most pleased with after nine months in government, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had a simple response: “The fact that the ministers are not corrupt.” In a December 8 interview with Channel NewsAsia, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi did concede that some of the junior offic...