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Breaking News from Africa

AFISMA Head of Mission praises African Forces serving in Mali and else...

April 15, 2013 1 comment

BAMAKO, Mali, April 15, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission and Head of the African-led International Su...

UN expert to assess human rights situation in Eritrea through neighbou...

April 12, 2013 1 comment

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 11, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Beedwantee Keetharuth, today regretted that the...

Tens of thousands continue to suffer the effects of violence in South ...

April 7, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 5, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ –Violence has forced thousands of people to abandon their homes in several remote areas over the past few months. The ICRC has rec...

Malawi makes strides in child labor elimination

April 3, 2013 no comments

In line with the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention on the elimination of the worst forms of Child Labor which Malawi is a signatory, the Malawi government has come up with a catalog o...

Project makes significant progress to save maize from the “viole...

March 25, 2013 no comments

Dar es Salaam-March 25, 2013. Thousands of farmers in western Kenya are successfully battling the invasion in their farms by a deadly parasitic weed called Striga, dubbed the violet vampire because o...

Chadian migrants expelled from Libya “Growing Concern,” says IOM

March 22, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 22, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – IOM is concerned about the wellbeing of undocumented Chadian migrants whom the Libyan authorities are returning to Chad ...

Governments can make water and sanitation for all Africans a reality b...

March 21, 2013 no comments

LONDON, United-Kingdom, March 21, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – Today, on the 20th anniversary of World Water Day, WaterAid (http://www.wateraid.org) is calling on international lea...

UN supports the development of a regional strategy against piracy in t...

March 21, 2013 no comments

COTONOU, Benin, March 21, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The Special Representatives of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for West Africa, Said Djinnit and Central Africa, Abou Mo...

Special Court for Sierra Leone – Appeal Judgement in Bangura, et. al....

March 19, 2013 no comments

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, March 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Judgement in the appeals of three former AFRC members will be delivered on Thursday, 21 March 2013 at 9:30 a.m. (Freetown ti...

Darfur civil society debates role in democratic governance

March 19, 2013 no comments

EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, March 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – At a workshop on 17 March in El Fasher, North Darfur, nearly 100 representatives of civic organizations in Darfur debated...

Malawian executed in Indonesia over drug trafficking

March 18, 2013 1 comment

The Indonesia government has resumed execution several years after nobody has been condemned to such death, a penalty, and the first to taste such a penalty is a Malawian drug trafficker. The 48 year...

AMISOM meets new head of Somali National Security Forces

March 18, 2013 no comments

MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The AMISOM Force Commander Lt Gen Andrew Gutti, has paid tribute to the outgoing Somali Chief of General Staff, Gen Abdulqadir S...

Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom State honours ECOWAS

March 16, 2013 no comments

ABUJA, Nigeria, March 15, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom State is building an International Conference Centre in Uyo the State capital, whose Main Hall will be named aft...

85 year-old man gets life sentence for defiling a minor in Nakurua Cou...

March 14, 2013 no comments

EIGHTY five year old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia by a Nakuru children’s court for defilement. Senior resident Magistrate Judicaster Nthuku sentenced Joseph Kamau Githu to ...

Global DHL CEO optimistic about Africa’s potential

March 14, 2013 no comments

LIVINGSTONE, Zambia, March 14, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO)  -   DHL Express posts EBIT of EUR 1.11 billion in 2012 -  Concedes infrastructure is the major area of focus for Africa t...

Deaths in DRC detention centers doubled in 2012, says UN report

March 13, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 13, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – A UN research into the human rights situation in detention centers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows that the...