Given repeated assurances from government officials and the dearth of media coverage, you would be forgiven characterised by inflation, shortage of jobs, the depreciation of the Burundian franc and a shortage of foreign “The sanctions have deprived the government of a major source of foreign currency,” he told IRIN. Knock-on effects Ndikumana said the lack of foreign currency had led to shortages of fuel, medicines,

A refugee from Udaung reported being told by a local administration officer that the new army camp at , “two groups of around 500 men each stormed up from the beach…but were easily driven off by police officers At 11 pm on the night of August 24, one BGP and one Army officer had visited the house of the village administrative officer and demanded that “bad people” sheltering in the village be handed over, but the administrative officer had replied, “Our village is next to your camp, how can those men be here?

Turkish senior officials have threatened that their military would cross the southern border to attack

staggering 87 per cent increase in Afghanistan’s opium production in 2017, as reported by the United Nations Office Even though this was not a formal fatwa, or religious ruling, stunned U.S. and UN officials reported Another rationalisation is that since the Taliban does not officially rule the country, it has neither U.S. officials have hailed it as an effective element of the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and South Corrupt government officials and pro-state elite have long participated in the opium economy on a greater

intentions grow, and as growing uncertainty over possible U.S. sanctions risk scaring away potential foreign But its restraint could be tested on non-nuclear matters: some of its senior military officials already As senior Iranian officials put it to Crisis Group, Tehran's ultimate decision regarding the JCPOA will

Officials said volunteers swarmed the cemetery and quickly got to work scrubbing. As of late Sunday afternoon, officials said there were still a few headstones in need of touching up

Biafra officially surrendered to Nigeria in January 1970.

A senior United Nations official said on Sunday she would raise the issue of persecution of Myanmar’s She said she would brief the UN secretary-general on the situation in Cox’s Bazar and that her office

State Counsellor and Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Aung Italian parliament on gender equality and sustainable development, and also met on Wednesday with Italian Foreign described as a possible “genocide” and set of “crimes against humanity” in Myanmar, where the Rohingya are officially Addressing the UK parliament in London in May 25, 2016, Bo said no human being deserves to be treated

Assad’s principal foreign ally, into backing away from him. Momentum is building in several court cases being prepared in Europe against Syrian officials. testified this month in German federal court in a criminal case that accuses six senior Syrian security officers A lawyer in Aleppo described seeing two bodies thrown out of a security office. When he and his friends returned a few days later to bury them, he said, they were stopped by security officers

display of denial, evasion and inaction by the authorities, who have repeatedly refused to launch an official display of denial, evasion and inaction by the authorities, who have repeatedly refused to launch an official

Then in April of this year, a link suddenly appeared on the Health Ministry’s official website, leading refused to accept international aid, often saying that Venezuela’s economic problems are caused by foreign have a people who are dying of hunger,” Luis Florido, a congressman who leads the National Assembly’s foreign Even when doctors are open to recording it for a patient, it is not necessarily the official cause of “If they accept the help, they accept that there is a humanitarian crisis here, and officially recognize