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...

As people around the world ushered in the New Year last week, refugees at a camp in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo joined in the celebrations, uncertain of what 2015 will bring them. And they put on a pretty good show with a Michael Jackson lookalike warming up the crowds of revellers at ...