Myanmar's military junta has announced another six-month extension of its mandate to rule in preparation for elections it has said will be held this year, as the country enters its fifth year ...

The junta claimed last year that nearly 14 million people were eligible for military. . . Myanmar Now is proudly nonprofit and 100% independent. We rely on the support of readers to fund our ...

For Myanmar’s people, year four under military junta rule has only brought more death, displacement and despair, as their troubled homeland is torn further apart by a seemingly intractable civil ...

Some of Myanmar’s political parties have proposed that the regime expand its Conscription Law and to encourage resistance fighters to reintegrate into the state, according to the junta.

The contentious nature of junta rule in the Sahel demonstrates the challenges of strengthening self-determination in the Global South in the absence of steady development. The situation begs the ...

This has been a common practice since the 2021 coup, when the junta reinstated a legal requirement for households to report overnight guests to the authorities. The measure has helped the regime to ...

(AP Photo, File) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region against ...

The Spanish-language website also vanished at the start of President Trump’s first term. No time frame was set for restoring it. By Tim Balk As the White House underwent a dramatic remake on ...

Israel killed on Monday a Hamas leader in southern Lebanon's Sidon area, the Israeli military and a Hamas official said. Africacategory South Africa says US has not responded to attempts to ...

YANGON—Myanmar’s ruling junta said Tuesday it had deported to China more than 50,000 people suspected of involvement in online scam operations since October 2023, as it made a rare call to neighboring ...

Addressing a post-meeting press conference, Hasan said that a representative of Myanmar’s military junta had briefed the gathering about plans to hold an election this year, but that the rest of ...

indicated Ghana's willingness to improve its relationship with the junta-led countries in the region. The three countries created the alliance last July, underscoring their determination to chart ...