Female agricultural producers will now be eligible for loans from KBZ Bank. KBZ Bank and NGO ActionAid announced on February 15 that they are launching a new partnership which will improve access to finance for female farmers and traders. Women agricultural producers in Pakokku, Magwe Region, wil...

YANGON—the government has agreed to meet the Northern Alliance, a coalition of four ethnic armed groups, as a single entity for peace talks, according to U Hsan Awng of the Peace-talk Creation Group (PCG), a Kachin-based organization that helps to broker meetings between the government, Myanmar Army...

Myanmar’s president-elect Htin Kyaw on Thursday submitted a proposal to parliament to reduce the number of government ministries to 21 from 36 and create a new ethnic affairs ministry in keeping with Aung San Suu Kyi’s pledge to make government leaner and more inclusive. The only new ministry will ...

VOA News October 21, 2014 11:53 AM Talks to free more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Nigerian militants last April did not begin as projected on Tuesday, although there are signs the militants and Nigeria's government are preparing for the talks in Chad. A prominent Nigerian newspaper, Thi...

As the Karen National Union prepares to elect a new leadership body this week, displaced Karen families joined a local environmental group in lobbying for the next chairperson to reject hydropower proposals. On March 14, International Day of Action for Rivers, Karen Rivers Watch held a demonstrat...

In a press release distributed by the United States Embassy in Yangon on 18 November, the US government pledged to provide USD $25 million to Myanmar to “address the dire humanitarian situation faced bydisplaced communities in Rakhine State, Kachin State, and [Myanmar’s] Southeast region.” This anno...

UNICEF and partners working with Senegalese authorities on emergency plans to support displaced children in host communities DAKAR, 19 January 2017 – As the Gambia faces an uncertain political transition, the situation raises concerns for the nearly 26,000 people – half of them children – who hav...