The Burmese military, notorious over the past five decades for its use of child soldiers, erected an eye-catching billboard in downtown Rangoon this week indicating a desire to clean up its image—and perhaps its practices. In a first for Burma’s armed forces, a billboard promoting a “No Child Sol...

A Do-It-Yourself contraceptive injection was launched for the first time in Myanmar by the Ministry of Health and Sports and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at Nay Pyi Taw. According to the UNFPA, the initiative targets women living in remote and conflict affected zones, including ethn...

The new Yangon Bus Service (YBS) replaced the former capital’s notorious old bus system—the Rangoon Motor Vehicles Supervisory Committee also known as Ma Hta Tha—with 69 bus lines. The regional government announced last week that the new public transit would serve the city’s commuters from 5 a.m....

The UNHCR-led Somalia Return Consortium publishes its first review of support to IDP returns in Somalia. The report titled ‘Towards Durable Solutions – Achievements and challenges in supporting voluntary returns of IDPs in Somalia’ consolidates and analyses data gathered since 2012 when the Consorti...