(Adds U.N. monitoring group recommendations, diplomats, paragraphs 7-9) By John Irish PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Somalia's president said on Friday that nobody close to him had been involved in the unauthorised diversion of government weapons to Islamist militants and denied that a man U.N inve...

Somalis living in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp are asking the government to reconsider its decision to close it. The Kenyan government has given the UN three months to move the camp into Somalia. The move comes only days after fighters of al-Shabab, the Somali-based armed group, killed 148 peop...

SHIRE, Ethiopia, Feb 2 (UNHCR) – Improving conditions for refugees in camps and expanding programmes for legal pathways outside Ethiopia were both key to reducing the numbers who attempt perilous journeys to reach safety, Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said as he met Eritrean...

The pain of separation proved too much for one young boy from Central African Republic, who died last week after going on hunger strike, desperate to escape a virtual prison and reunite with his parents. Youssoufa was one of the latest victims of the bitter inter-communal violence and terror that ha...

A seminar on internal peace and constitutional amendment will be organised next month by ethnic political alliances in Thailand’s Mae Sot, located across the border at Myawaddy. Seminar organisers include the United Nationalities Federal Council, the United Nationalities Alliance, the National Le...

The African Union has said it will no longer recognise The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh as the country's leader from next Thursday, when his term ends. The bloc warns of "serious consequences" if Mr Jammeh's refusal to give up power causes a crisis. Adama Barrow, who won the recent presiden...

A few elites will benefit from reviving Dawei SEZ, but what about the rest? Civil society organizations demand authorities to halt the controversial Dawei project and rethink. CIVIL society organizations have demanded the authorities to reconsider the plans to revive the controversial Dawei Speci...

In an exercise coordinated by the Brazilian Army and with the support of UNHCR, about 870 people were transferred to Latife Salomão and Santa Tereza hostels in Boa Vista.

Despite statements from the government-established Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) and the armed resistance movements’ Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) that there won’t be any Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signing on 1 August as planned earlier, both sides appear to be ready to offer ...

Schools in Yangon have been instructed not to accept the enrolment of students from other townships during the coming school year, according to U Ko Lay Win, director general of the Department of Basic Education. He said the same instruction was issued during last year’s enrolment but was not fol...