The President-elect of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, tells the BBC he is confident he will be sworn in next week and his rival, President Yahya Jammeh, will accept defeat.

12 April 2017 – The use of children, particularly girls, by the Boko Haram terrorist group in violent attacks in the Lake Chad region has seen an “alarming” surge in 2017, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported. According to the UNICEF report, Silent Shame: Bringing out the voic...

It was more than telling that when asked about directions to reach to "Syrian Street" in the heart of 6th of October City area, a young Syrian gave directions in a perfect Syrian accent. "You will find Syrian Street in front of Al-Hosary Mosque," he said. It is not a coincidence, as Al-Hosary Mosqu...

HUMANITARIAN and development partners in Zambia will require over US$74 million in 2018 to adequately respond to the needs of Congolese refugees and local communities. Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo said Government needs additional resources to implement its refugee programmes to comple...

The DaNa Facility, a UK Government Department for International Development (DFID) funded programme, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), have announced a joint investment of over $2.4 million in an innovative project aimed to change global rubber production. The project, focused on supporti...

PATHEIN—a coastal road stretching 274 kilometers (170 miles) from Rakhine State’s Thandwe to Gaw Yin Gyi Island in Irrawaddy Region’s Ngapudaw Township will be built at a cost of around 300 billion kyats ($187million), according to Irrawaddy Region Minister for Finance and Planning U Htay Win. At...

The UK’s Government Department for International Development (DFID) have made an investment of over $1.9 million in a new project they are calling “Shwe Lan”, they plan to transform lending to Micro, Small and Medium Size Enterprises (MSMEs) in Myanmar. The DaNa Facility, a DFID-funded program is...

Martha Kow-Donkor knows exactly how it feels to be a refugee. At the height of a major civil war in the early 90s, she fled her native Liberia for Tabou, Côte d'Ivoire. For close to eight years she lived in exile before spontaneously returning back home to Liberia in 1998. “My passion for hu...

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أكد الممثل الإقليمى للمفوضية السامية لشئون اللاجئين فى القاهرة السفير محمد الديرى أن المنطقة العربية تستضيف أكبر عدد من اللاجئين فى العالم حيث يوجد 4 ملايين لاجئ فلسطينى بالإضافة إلى وجود 400 ألف لاجئ عراقى حتى نهاية عام 2013 متبقين من ملايين اللاجئين العراقيين بعد أزمة العراق 2003 . وقال الديرى...