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Burkina Faso's president will meet again with members of Guinea's military government and its political opponents as part of regional mediation to end the crisis.The two sides remain divided over the composition of a transitional authority. Nigerian President...
Tags: Guinea, Keletigui Toure, Captain Camara, military government, Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
Agricultural Minister Abdourahmane Sano resigned on Monday, saying he could no longer show solidarity with the government. And the president of West Africa's economic bloc, Ecowas, warned that the country was in danger of slipping into another dictatorship.
Tags: Guinea, China, West African, Chinese, military government, mineral sectors
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with the ruling junta in order to get the West to lift economic sanctions imposed on the country, as long as three conditions are met, a key spokesman said Friday. "Daw (Madame) Aung San...
Tags: US Burma, Myanmar&rsquo, Aung San Suu Kyi, U.S, Burmese, Kurt Campbell, military government
Myanmar's military government has denied that it is secretly building a nuclear reactor, a US politician said here on his return after meeting members of the reclusive Southeast Asian regime during a visit there. ''It was communicated to me early on that...
Tags: Myanmar/Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mr. Jim Webb, Mr Jim Webb, Jim Webb, John Yettaw, U.S, senator jim, military government, welcomed release
Military ruler Frank Bainimarama took power in a 2006 coup to oust what he called a nationalist government that he accused of imposing "racist" policies against Fiji's large ethnic Indian minority. The Vanua Tako Lavo Party seeks control of Fiji by and...
Tags: Fiji News Media, Pacific Islands, South Pacific, pacific nation, military government
Citing further steps to be taken, Mr. Ban reiterated his call for the release of the hundreds of political prisoners still in detention, including opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the resumption of dialogue between...
Tags: Myanmar, political prisoners, Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, general ban, military government, positive signalled, political detainees, send positive
Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was expected to stop shunning food deliveries after the junta approved several requests, including the right to receive regular mail deliveries and certain foreign news publications, her lawyer said Friday.
Tags: myanmar, human rights, Myanmar Blasts, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ibrahim Gambari, myanmar junta, political process, special envoy, tangible steps, military government
Myanmar— Four members of Myanmar's main pro-democracy party who campaigned against a constitution proposed by the military government have been jailed for one year. Nyan Win, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy, said Friday that a court...
Tags: burma, Myanmar, Nyan Win, Burma Imprisons, National League for Democracy, democracy party, Aung San Suu Kyi, military government
It's business as usual," said one official at an aid agency in Yangon, who asked not to be named. Cumbersome regulations were blocking more vehicles and boats being used to distribute vital aid and even access to satellite communications was being made...
Tags: Burma, aid workers, cyclone survivors, Cyclone Nargis, Young Burmese, aid group, international aid, military government
A large "Happy World" sign hangs above a dilapidated food market in Rangoon, Burma, but on the streets shoppers are far from content. A month after Cyclone Nargis scythed a path of destruction through Burma's former capital and Irrawaddy Delta, leaving...
Tags: Burma, Myanmar, cyclone nargis, military government, Young Burmese, criminal neglect, cyclone survivors, Khin Mar Htwe, U.S, reopened schools