Burma’s Lower House of Parliament on Tuesday approved amendments to the National Education Law, which will be resubmitted to the Upper House with changes that activists view as regressive. The National Education Law, passed late last year, has come under intense criticism and sparked a powerful s...

Union Election Commission (UEC) will release the lists of candidates who will compete in the upcoming by-election scheduled on November 3, on August 6, said the UEC’s member Myint Naing. There are 69 candidates from 24 political parties, including seven independent candidates, according the UEC. ...

The terror sect, Boko Haram, is asking for a ransom of nearly $50million from the Federal Government for the release of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the insurgents two years ago, according to The Sunday Telegraph of London. The paper said it gathered from sources close to th...

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The Sudanese Council of Ministers passed a bill amending the Sudanese Nationality Act on Sunday.