Category Archives: Around Africa

News from around Africa

ECOWAS to partner with America’s GE on regional integration proj...

May 20, 2013 no comments

ABUJA, Nigeria, May 20, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – ECOWAS and America’s GE Corporation are to explore areas of cooperation, including in energy projects and infrastructure develo...

World Bank says regional integration is key to Africa’s future competi...

May 11, 2013 no comments

CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, – African Press Organization (APO) –Regional Integration Key to Africa’s Future Competitiveness. • Africa must increase competitiveness or jeopardize future growth, war...

New EU support for governance, justice and police in Somalia

May 7, 2013 no comments

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, May 7, 2013- African Press Organization (APO) – Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, today announced that the European Union will further support the justice s...

“Not ghosts, but human beings… persons with albinism”

May 3, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 3, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – “They are regarded as ghosts and not human beings who can be wiped off the global map. They are people living with albinism...

Changing politics in Zimbabwe – Youths are taking control

May 1, 2013 1 comment

BULAWAYO ,  (IPS) - As Zimbabwe’s young politicians increase their demands to be allowed to play a greater role in the running of the country, analysts say that this could signal a change in youth vo...

No reforms in Zimbabwe as Mugabe continues to intimidate and crackdown...

April 22, 2013 no comments

HARARE,  (IPS) - As Zimbabwe heads to the polls later this year, media analysts and journalists are concerned about increasing crackdowns on both the judiciary and the media. This comes as stalwarts ...

ECOWAS partners take bold steps to eliminate malaria

April 15, 2013 no comments

ABUJA, Nigeria, April 15, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ECOWAS and its partners have achieved another milestone in their stride towards the elimination of malaria in the region with the gr...

Quota System Vs Merit: Should Malawi students be selected to govt scho...

April 9, 2013 no comments

By the time Malawi won the fight against the rule of the colonial masters, Britain, education was a far fetched dream for the citizens. By then, many Malawians looked at labor as the major source of ...

Uhuru Kenyatta’s spokesman tells Newstime Africa: “The ICC...

April 3, 2013 no comments

Uhuru Kenyatta is innocent and the ICC case against him have no merits, because the foundation on which the case is built has collapsed since the pre-trial judge did not confirm the case against the ...

Rebel forces ransack news outlets in Central African Republic

March 27, 2013 no comments

NEW YORK, March 27, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – At least two news outlets were raided in the Central African Republic on Sunday when rebel groups ousted the president from power, ...

U.N. Security Council condemns recent attacks and the seizure of power...

March 26, 2013 no comments

NEW YORK, March 26, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The following press statement was issued today by Security Council President Vitaly Churkin ( Russian Federation): The members of t...

Exposed: Raila Odinga presided over “government to government” t...

March 21, 2013 no comments

President-Elect Uhuru Kenyatta, and his deputy William Ruto, have launched a legal battle to retain their declared victory by exposing compelling evidence of  the machinations of Raila Odinga in an a...

President Barack Obama is looking forward to welcoming Sierra Leone Pr...

March 19, 2013 no comments

Democracy took center stage last November when Sierra Leone conducted Africa’s most free and fair elections in over three decades.  This major event took place on the watch of one of the contin...

Jackie Appiah wins Best Actress Award in a Drama at the Africa Magic V...

March 17, 2013 no comments

One of Africa’s top actresses, the beautiful and extraordinarily talented Ghanaian born Jackie Appiah, has won the Best Actress Award in a Drama at the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA...

Raila Odinga warned not to conduct any government business in Kenya as...

March 15, 2013 1 comment

The defiant former Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga, has been told that he is no longer the country’s Prime Minister, and should cease to function as such and desist from engaging in any p...

Africa’s Information Highway: The African Development Bank Launches Op...

March 14, 2013 no comments

TUNIS, Tunisia, March 14, 2013 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched Open Data Platforms (www.afdb.org/statistics) for the following 20 African countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Cape V...