By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Dec 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Failing to improve the lives of girls and women trapped in poverty and domestic drudgery in northeast Nigeria could drive them into the ranks of extremist groups, analysts said on Monday. Many girls and women have been abducted by ...

UNHCR facilitates their transportation back to their country OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO, 23 December 2014 (UNHCR) – In Burkina Faso’s refugee camps, Malian families who voluntarily decide to return to northern Mali now receive assistance for their departure from UNHCR. Since the beginning of the c...

The Karen National Union (KNU) is ready to sign a nationwide ceasefire agreement, according to one of its most prominent central executive committee members, Mahn Nyein Maung, who spoke to DVB in an interview on Monday. “The KNU is looking to find solutions to all political issues through a natio...

The Government of the Republic of Zambia, Embassy of Japan, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a landmark joint initiative to strengthen resilience and improve livelihoods for host communities and refugees in Zambia’s ...

The Government of the Republic of Zambia, UN agencies and other partners require over US$74.2 million in 2018 to address critical needs of Congolese refugees in Zambia.

RANGOON — The Burmese government has agreed to include in a nationwide ceasefire agreement a pledge for the country to be governed in a federal system, participants in a meeting between government negotiators and rebel leaders said Friday. The Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT), which ...