The Burma government and a Thai company have agreed to pay compensation to farmers for damaging or taking their land while building the Asian Highway network link between Myawaddy and Kawkareik in Karen State. Saw Maw Htoo, Chairperson of the Karen National Union Kawkareik Township office, told K...

Nigeria is to investigate reports of rapes, child trafficking and other abuses in camps for people fleeing from the militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The country's National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) has formed a panel to investigate the abuses. A spokesperson for Nema told the BBC t...

Karen National Union chair Saw Mutu Say Poe called on the leaders to approve the draft ceasefire agreement text provisionally approved in March between government and ethnic negotiators. China and a UN envoy also pressed them to move quickly and sign. The leaders are meeting, under international ...