Deux ans après leur kidnapping, 219 des 276 lycéennes enlevées à Chibok dans l'Etat de Borno au Nigéria, seraient toujours en vie selon une vidéo du groupe Boko Haram diffusée mercredi par la chaîne américaine d'information CNN. Voici le portrait de cinq filles toujours portées disparues. Le s...

The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) will reserve two leading positions within the ethnic alliance for representatives of the Karen Nation Union (KNU) despite the Karen group walking out of the UNFC conference in Chiang Mai on Sunday. Speaking to DVB and other reporters at the end of t...

Rebecca* is nervous; she clenches her fists and her eyes dart around, keeping an eye out for someone, something. She sits out in the open on a chair and, in a trembling voice, tells about her recent rape in M'Poko, a site sheltering tens of thousands of people displaced by months of violence in Bang...

Central African Republic's economy grew by 4.9 percent last year, the biggest growth since 2000 as the country tried to emerge from years of conflict, the deputy governor of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) said on Tuesday. In an interview on national radio, Mahamat Tahir Ahmed said incr...

A clash broke out yesterday between the Myanmar Army and the Karen National Liberation Army in territory held by the KNLA near the site of the planned Hatgyi Dam project in the Mae Tha Wor area, according to Karen sources. The KNLA reported that two Myanmar Army soldiers were wounded when a landm...