The Department of Population launched a website with redatam database and micro census data at M Gallery Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw. The website offers details of census together with maps and images. Those latest data on the website are different in design and format from those previously created by t...

GENEVA, Sept 15 (UNHCR) – Reiterating its call for a robust and coherent European response to the current refugee crisis, the UN refugee agency today expressed deep disappointment that European Union member states failed to reach agreement over a wider relocation plan of up to 120,000 people. "Ye...

Innocent Idibia, also known as 2Baba, is visiting Borno State, to support the work of UNHCR in the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugee returnees. His visit is part of a partnership that is being built with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency to...

THE 54-year-old Biluchaung Hydropower Station in Kayah State is back in operation, restoring its original strength of generating 168 megawatts following completion of its all-round rehabilitation project. Myanmar has a total of 5,235 megawatts of electricity from hydropower plants, natural gas-f...

Lake Albert has become ground zero for thousands of Congolese families escaping fierce fighting into Uganda.

At least 115 children have been killed and 172 injured in Yemen since the conflict began last month, according to the UN's agency for the welfare of children. A spokesman from UNICEF said on Friday at least 64 children who had died between March 26 and April 20 had been killed by the strikes.

(Corrects to final paragraph to show Amadou has yet to return to Niger) By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY Nov 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Niger's capital on Sunday to denounce what they say are irregularities in voter lists ahead of presidential elections in ea...