As the donor conference for the Central African Republic (CAR) takes place in Brussels on 17 November, the post-election status quo is increasingly fragile. The stalemate blocking negotiations on the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of armed groups has raised tensions which could ...

A water treatment and quality monitoring facility for textile factories in Mandalay will be the first project Japan will fund under its environmental cooperation agreement with Myanmar, officials told The Myanmar Times. The experimental project will be built in Wundwin township, where there are a...

UNHCR Burkina Faso received a Japanese Mission from the 10 to 14 November, 2012. The visit, which was spearheaded by Mr. Takeshi Moriyama, Senior Donor Relations Officer in Geneva (who also took part in the visit) included: o Ms. Satoko Toku, First Secretary of the Political Affairs Division of t...

The Karen Health and Welfare Department, a health service provider under the Karen National Union is planning that its teaching hospital, near Kawkariek will be set up and running by January, 2017. The teaching hospital, called Taw Nor [Daw Na], was planned to open on the first of January, but it...