MAIDUGURI/YOLA, 17 November 2015 (IRIN) - Memuna* was four months pregnant when Boko Haram attacked her village on the outskirts of Bama, some 60 kilometres southeast of the Borno State capital of Maiduguri. Her husband was killed during the September 2014 raid. She was captured and thrown into a...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 100,000 people uprooted by violence and living in camps in northeast Nigeria are set to return home soon, but many fear for their safety and ability to rebuild their lives, aid agency staff said on Thursday. The Nigerian ...

With the crisis in the Horn of Africa continuing, UNCHR has noted an evolving displacement pattern during August with fewer Somalis displaced within Somalia or into Kenya or Ethiopia, but rising arrivals in Yemen. In Somalia, UNHCR’s Population Movement Tracking (PMT) partners have reported a sig...

Chit Min Tun — Voting will not take place in parts of Mon State’s Belin Township during the upcoming election, according to the Mon State Election Sub-Commission office. Earlier this month the Union Election Commission announced the list of townships where voting has been canceled. Baw Naw Khee Vil...

The Amyotha Hluttaw passed the bill amending the Telecommunications Law as revised by the Bill Committee on Wednesday but took no action on calls to abolish the controversial section 66(d), said Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than. The committee’s revisions included making charges brought under section ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The crisis spawned by Boko Haram has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to a relatively little-known city in Nigeria that has finally become safe enough for them to wait out an end to the awful, deadly war. With villagers from the countryside pouring in, it is almost as th...

Number of refugees fleeing violence, abductions and torture in Burundi has passed 300,000, the United Nations says By Lin Taylor LONDON, Sept 23 - The number of refugees fleeing violence, abductions and torture in Burundi has passed 300,000, the United Nations said on Friday, raising fears nei...

The State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that there was no government that does not make mistakes, the important thing is to correct those mistakes. She was speaking at a peace talk with local people at Chaukkan village, Pakkokku Township, Magway Region on August 9. “No government is perfec...

The planned 2015 general elections will not be postponed, the Union Election Commission chairman U Tin Aye told news media on October 20. U Tin Aye said that according to the 2008 Constitution, parliament has a term of five years from the day of its first session. The first session of the curre...