Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram is finally swinging in the government’s favour, but it’s going to take much longer for food production to recover in the country’s northeast. The same is true in neighbouring Cameroon, which has also felt the impact of the violence. According to the Famine Early W...

World | Wed Nov 4, 2015 12:26pm EST Related: WORLD, GREECE, MIGRANT CRISIS Greece carries out first relocation of refugees to Luxembourg ATHENS | BY MICHELE KAMBAS Greece relocated six asylum-seeking families to Luxembourg on Wednesday, the first such transfer from its soil under an European Un...

Anayo Okolie The United States Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism has released its Country Reports on Terrorism for 2015 with an affirmation that the Boko Haram terrorist sect had lost considerable capacity to hold territory, though it continued to launch uncoordinated at...

GENEVA, Sept 18 (UNHCR) – Following yesterday's mayhem on the Serbian border with Croatia, which has closed some entry points, the UN refugee agency today issued a stark warning that time was running out for Europe to resolve the current refugee crisis. UNHCR blamed the continuing absence of a co...

By Magdalena Mis LONDON, June 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The poor's lack of access to sanitation threatens to undermine the health benefits they have gained from access to clean water, the United Nations said on Tuesday. More than 90 percent of the world population has access to clean w...

At least 16,000 foreign nationals are stranded in Yemen, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said, adding that it has evacuated 143 people, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded for the resumption of peace talks in the war-torn country. The IOM said on Sunday it had flown...

Since November, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has evacuated over 1,000 highly vulnerable refugees out of Libya and is looking for durable solutions for them in third countries. On Tuesday, a flight departed from Tripoli bound for, Niamey, Niger, carrying 128 refugees and on Wednesday, a second plane...

Skirmishes have broken out between the Tatmadaw and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the KNU Brigade 5 area in the Karen (Kayin) State, Major Saw Ka Leh Doh from the KNU Brigade 5 said to KIC News on September 9. “Skirmishes are still breaking out sporadically. A skirmish broke out i...