More than a month has elapsed since the 6th Union Peacemaking Work Committee-Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team or UPWC-NCCT negotiations, yet no follow-up meeting has been called so far, reports the Shan Herald Agency for News. According to the Myanmar Peace Center or MPC that is currently v...

UNHCR is deeply concerned about the latest reports of deaths at sea on the Mediterranean this weekend. According to the Italian Coast Guard, eight corpses have been recovered so far and at least 52 people are feared missing from two incidents involving large numbers of people on flimsy dinghies off...

Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria suffer disproportionately from different problems such as malnutrition, sickness, insecurity in the camps, lack of access to education, idles among others. The vulnerability of displaced persons is a major reason why sustainable strategies for rehabilitation m...

The United Nations Assistant High Commissioner (Protection), Mr. Volker Türk, concluded on Wednesday a two-day visit to Myanmar, during which he called for unrestricted humanitarian access for communities in need, and for the voluntary return of refugees in safety and dignity.

Au moins 185 personnes ont été enlevées et une trentaine tuées, dimanche 14 décembre, par Boko Haram lors d'un raid contre le village de Gumsuri, situé dans l'Etat de Borno dans le nord-est du Nigeria, ont déclaré jeudi 18 décembre des responsables et le chef d'une milice locale. Les islamistes ont ...

By Tara Fischer in Darfur and Mohamed El Fatih El Naiem in Khartoum | 26 October 2017 Twenty-five Sudanese refugee leaders are returning to their home villages for the first time this week on go-and-see visits organised by UNHCR and its government counterparts in Chad and Sudan. This follows...

Mon State attracted 109,560 foreign tourists from January to July 2016, according to Mon State’s Hotel and Tourism Department (Mawlamyine Branch). Of those travelers, 70,459 visited Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, commonly known as the Golden Rock, in Mon State’s Kyaikhto Township. “We are still working to at...