The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday donated sanitation equipment to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Damaturu, Yobe, to enhance their living condition. Mr Gabriel Idoko, the Head, UNHCR in Yobe, presented the materials to the displaced persons at Kukareta ...

New York, US - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing food to thousands of refugees who were recently displaced by the escalating Nigeria's terror group, Boko Haram violence and urged that it required some US$11 million to continue to meet those needs. WFP spokesperson Ms. Elis...

Officials in the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government need to speed up reforms to build a federal union, President U Win Myint said. He made the comment in a meeting with senior staff of government agencies, legislators and judicial officials last week to underscore the need...

The department of farmland management under Karen state government, has returned 232.4 acres of land that were confiscated in the past by by light infantry batallion (338) and (339), state prison authority, and former industrial zone 2, to its original owners on June 17. The returned land are from...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The government’s Peace Commission on Monday urged the ethnic bloc of nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) non-signatories the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) to cooperate with the government to achieve peace in the country. Peace Commission members and the UNFC’...

Rival armed groups in Central African Republic agreed on Sunday to a peace agreement requiring them to disarm and potentially face justice for war crimes committed during two years of conflict. The agreement signed between 10 armed groups and the Defence Ministry during a peace forum in the capit...

The UN Security Council urged central African countries to step up plans for a multinational force to fight Boko Haram, in its first overall response to the threat posed by the Nigerian jihadists. The council issued a 13-point statement strongly condemning attacks by Boko Haram, in particular t...

A project to build a technical school in South Dagon Township, Yangon Region, has been approved and its funding will be included in next year’s budget request, a regional legislator has said. U Aye Naing, who represents South Dagon in the Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house), said the vocational school w...