An international non-governmental organisation has started an electronic cash transfer programme to facilitate the payment of pensions to over 1100 senior citizens in Mandalay, an executive of the group said. HelpAge International’s electronic cash transfer (ECT) pilot programme, funded by the Li...

The World Food Programme marks international refugee day with a visit to the Mantapala refugee settlement in Zambia “We came to Zambia because we were afraid of dying,” says Mulumbwa, 25. “People were being killed and beheaded. By the time we arrived, we were exhausted. My children were very unwe...

Conflict is normally cited by displaced Somalis as the main reason for flight, but in recent weeks we have seen an increase in IDPs and refugees also citing difficulty in providing for themselves. Over the past seven weeks we have registered some 6,000 Somalis who have cited such difficulties - usua...

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, Nigeria, March 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A would-be female suicide bomber arrested in Cameroon was not one of the 219 schoolgirls missing from Chibok in northeast Nigeria but she had also been abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, officials s...