It was 8pm. Silence reigned in our area of Nasr City outside Cairo when a 50-something woman speaking a non-Egyptian dialect broke the silence and knocked on our door. “I need a job,” she said. The fair-skinned, black-clad, heavily wrinkled woman turned out to be a Syrian refugee seeking assistan...

Armed ethnic groups declaring theyintend to sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement on October 15 will be taken off the government’s blacklist of unlawful organisations in advance, according to an adviser to the Myanmar Peace Center. The Unlawful Associations Act has been a key and selective tool...

(Adds government, U.N. comment) By Aaron Ross KINSHASA Nov 30 (Reuters) - Seven people hacked to death in a hospital were among at least 30 people killed in fighting at the weekend between the army, backed by U.N. troops, and Islamist Ugandan rebels in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, l...