The Nigerian military reported fresh fighting with Boko Haram insurgents on Monday, a day after the group seized an army barracks in northeastern Borno state and attacked the state capital, Maiduguri. Defense spokesman General Chris Olukolade told VOA that an "operation involving air and land ass...

More than 6,400 acres of confiscated land in Ayeyawady Region has been returned to its rightful owners with Vice President U Henry Van Thio calling on authorities in regions and states to speed up work in order to release remaining lands, state media reported yesterday. Speaking on the occasion i...

FOR too long Europe has closed its eyes to Syria’s foul and bloody civil war, and tried to keep the suffering multitudes out. Suddenly the continent’s gates have been pushed open by two political forces. One is moral conscience, belatedly wakened by the image of a drowned Syrian child on a Turkish b...

The Karen National Union (KNU) said its return to the peace process depends on the results of the informal meetings between the government and other armed ethnic groups. It said in a statement over the weekend that it will look at how the informal meetings address the stumbling blocks in the peac...

Hundreds of Chadian ground troops entered northeastern Nigeria Tuesday as part of a growing regional offensive against Boko Haram insurgents. Witnesses said Chadian soldiers and vehicles crossed a bridge from Cameroon into the Nigerian town of Gambaru. Another Chadian force of at least 300 soldie...

Myanmar will launch an insurance policy covering livestock insurance for the first time in 30 years. “We estimate livestock insurance will be launched by year-end,” Daw Sandar Oo, managing director of Myanma Insurance, told The Myanmar Times. State-owned Myanma Insurance, the Department of Lives...

Officials said Turkey and UN refugee agency will cooperate to deliver 12 mobile clinics, 10 ambulances and 10 vaccination units. The Turkish Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency and UNHCR signed an agreement Tuesday to provide humanitarian services to needy Syrian refugee...