The government is planning to build new drug rehabilitation centres and refurbish existing ones in the coming year, a senior welfare official says. U Tun Zaw, director of the Department of Rehabilitation under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, said that under new regulation...

Boko Haram have rejected claims by the military that it had been routed by a four-nation offensive in a video released online yesterday, which does not show the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. The unidentified speaker calls Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, who have been battling the militants,...