Ghana won’t have press freedom without accountability
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — Three bullets, fired at close range by two assassins on a black and blue…
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West Africa
East Africa
With broken institutions and a reeling opposition, what’s next for Kenya?
An opposition supporter in Nairobi’s Mathare area. Siegfried Modola/Reuters Dominic Burbidge, University of Oxford I remember walking through the rubble…
334,112 total views, 659 views today
Southern Africa
Malawi: UN experts urge action over albinism ‘atrocities’ in run-up to elections
GENEVA, 08 February 2019 – PRN Africa — The Government of Malawi must take immediate action to protect people with…
24,398 total views, 796 views today
Central Africa
Secretary-General Appoints Mankeur Ndiaye of Senegal Special Representative for Central African Republic
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Mankeur Ndiaye of Senegal…
19,216 total views, 793 views today
North Africa
UN chief bypasses Morocco on North Africa trip
United Nations, United States, Feb 26, 2016 (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits North Africa next week to draw…
1,146,340 total views, 547 views today
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‘Maintain calm’ and ‘exercise patience’ UN envoy urges, as Nigeria heads to polls
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — In a statement on Friday, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, who is also the Secretary-General’s Special…
4,505 total views, 537 views today
‘Urgent need’ to stop Mali violence with ‘effective’ military response: UN expert
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — Alioune Tine noted that central and northern areas, where conditions are continuing to worsen,…
4,509 total views, 286 views today
Trouble brewing off South Africa’s coast This country is blessed with some of the best renewable energy resources in the world; it's time to back renewable energy
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, February 8, 2019 — In response to the announcement that French oil giant Total has just made…
29,092 total views, 1,200 views today
Call for Applications – the AfDB Next African Global IT Leaders Program 2019 Spring Admissions
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire – PRN Africa — The African Development Institute of the African Development Bank is implementing the next…
23,579 total views, 987 views today
Ugandan authorities arrest BBC journalists investigating black market drug sales
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Ugandan authorities to immediately release a…
187,488 total views, 6,217 views today
East End Lions Football Club Chairman Anthony Navo calls for calm as he sends best wishes to the Club for victory
Victory For East End Lions – The Chairman of East End Lions Football Club in Sierra Leone, Ambassador Anthony Navo,…
25,065 total views, 294 views today
Africa’s most powerful Media Mogul Ambassador Anthony Navo receives another prestigious accolade as ‘Most Influential Young Sierra Leonean 2018’
Ambassador Anthony Navo, who happens to be the President of Africa’s most advanced and influential media entity – Africa Young…
163,667 total views, 92 views today
‘What is good for Africa is good for the world’ says UN chief on International Day
NEW YORK, – PRN Africa — “Peace and sustainable development are two sides of the same coin – one cannot…
39,018 total views, 257 views today
At current rates of reduction, it will take over 100 years to end child marriage in West and Central Africa
DAKAR, Senegal -PRN Africa — Unless progress is seriously accelerated, it will take over 100 years to end child marriage…
63,351 total views, 85 views today
Ebola outbreak puts DR Congo on an ‘epidemiological knife-edge’
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains on an “epidemiological knife-edge” regarding the…
258,413 total views, 90 views today
Korea announces $5-billion financial package for Africa at African Development Bank Annual Meetings
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, 23 May 2018 – PRN Africa — The Government of Korea and the African Development Bank have…
89,290 total views, 802 views today
Democracy in peril: Burundi’s referendum will cement Nkurunziza’s grip on power
Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs, Uppsala University; Angela Muvumba Sellström, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) – USPC, and Jesper Bjarnesen,…
22,251 total views, 91 views today