Musicians fleeing conflict in Mali keep their culture alive in a remote corner of Mauritania. Bluesy riffs from guitars and lutes, mingled with the wail of plaintive voices, carry over the desert. This is the sound of exile for Malians living in southern Mauritania. Musicians in Mberra refugee...

The Ministry of Health and Sports has revealed plans to open Sports Colleges in both Monywa, Sagaing Region, and Loikaw, Kayah State. “Sport Colleges in Yangon, Mandalay, Mawlamyine and Taunggyi have been opened to nurture a new generation of athletes for Myanmar’s Sports Federation. Plans are...

The National Emergency Management Agency is set to build a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Revealing this to LEADERSHIP yesterday, the zonal coordinator of NEMA in the FCT, Ishaya Chonoko noted that the enormous challenges of recognising the re...

The North-west Zonal office, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA on Thursday said it recorded a total of 44, 398 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in 2014. The agency’s Zonal Coordinator, Malam Musa Ilallah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna that the victims were displaced ...

Bangui, Central African Republic | AFP | Thursday 3/31/2016 - 13:36 GMT Voters in the Central African Republic went to the polls Thursday for the second round of the country's parliamentary election, a day after the new president was sworn in. At his inauguration Wednesday, President Faustin-A...

Erratic rainfall and decreased agricultural production in the Sahel in 2012 resulted in a food security and malnutrition crisis that depleted household food stocks, resources, and livelihoods assets, exacerbating preexisting levels of acute malnutrition in Niger. As of May 2014, approximately 1 mill...

Vote counting is under way in Niger following Sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections. President Mahamadou Issoufou is hoping to secure a second term in the impoverished West African nation. His main rival, Hama Amadou, is currently behind bars accused of trafficking babies, a charge...

By Caleb Ayansina Abuja—The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi has said that there were currently 981,416 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country. “There are currently 981, 416 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country,” h...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, May 4 (UNHCR) – Taking a sheaf of palm fronds in her hand, Tuareg artisan Bintou starts to weave a decorative mat to be fixed on a newly designed desk lamp that may one day light up homes in Europe and elsewhere. An accomplished leather worker back home in Mali, she is ...