YANGON — the government’s Union Peace Commission has scheduled a meeting in Nay Pyi Taw this week to address the recent decision by the two largest ethnic signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement to suspend their involvement in state-led peace talks. In an unprecedented blow to the peace...

Incumbent Pyithu Hluttaw Deputy Speaker U T Khun Myat has been elected Thursday morning as the new speaker of the Lower House following the resignation of U Win Myint who is expected to become the country’s next president. The Pyithu Hluttaw has also elected U Tun Aung better known by his name as...

DAKAR, Jan 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Niger government has lifted a ban on refugee camps in the south of the country as record numbers flee Boko Haram attacks in neighbouring Nigeria. The government had banned the camps fearing Boko Haram fighters might use them as bases to launch atta...