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IFC to support Central Bank of Nigeria in strengthening sustainable ba...

May 15, 2013 no comments

ABUJA, Nigeria, May 15, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today signed an agreement with the Central Bank of Nigeria to support the implementation of sta...

Uganda and IMF team reach staff-level agreement on a new PSI program

May 15, 2013 no comments

KAMPALA, Uganda, May 15, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Kampala during April 29-May 14, 2013 for discussions with the Uganda...

Joyce Banda urges Malawians to take farming as a commercial business

May 11, 2013 no comments

Ahead of the 23rd World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, Malawi President Dr. Joyce Banda advised her nationals to take farming as serious business. She made the appeal befo...

IMF Concludes Article IV Mission to Guinea-Bissau

May 11, 2013 no comments

BISSAU, Guinea Bissau, – African Press Organization (APO) – An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Mauricio Villafuerte visited Guinea-Bissau during April 29 to May 9, 2013 to ...

UN express concern over Bungoma and Busia attacks

May 11, 2013 no comments

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 10, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator would like to convey his condolences to the families and the communities affected ...

War criminals will be booked no matter how long they run

May 11, 2013 no comments

A Coalition for Justice in Liberia (CJL) two days symposium geared toward training staffers on how to unearth and report gross human rights abuses, including war related massacres taking place around...

Canada works to improve business environment for African agriculture

May 11, 2013 no comments

CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, May 10, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO)– The Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of International Cooperation, attended the World Economic Forum on Africa, Grow...

Women missing after 10 years are free…makes chilling phone call to pol...

May 9, 2013 no comments

“Help me, I am Amanda Berry. I need police.  I’ve been kidnapped and…I’ve been missing for ten years; and am here, am free now,” the panic-stricken voice of Amanda Berry, as she pleads for help to a ...

China and Africa explore new opportunities to cooperate on health chal...

May 9, 2013 no comments

At first China-Africa health roundtable to be held in Africa, leaders gather in Botswana to promote South-South partnership on African health priorities

Climate Investment funds give North Africa and Middle East green light...

May 7, 2013 no comments

AfDB/World Bank-supported plan to generate more than a gigawatt of power

According to the U.N. – Nearly 260,000 people killed by famine i...

May 5, 2013 no comments

DOHA, May 2 2013 (Al Jazeera) - Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a U.N. report that admits the world body should have...

Stranded migrant numbers rise in Djibouti, stretch resources

May 3, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 3, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) –IOM’s Migrant Response Centre (MRC), at Obock in Djibouti, is struggling to cope with increased numbers of stranded migrants...

Member of Kriss Kross rap group dead at 34

May 3, 2013 no comments

Chris Kelly, a member of the famed American rap duo group of the early 90′s, Kriss Kross, died on Wednesday evening in Atlanta, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Newstime Africa. “I can’t sa...

African Development Bank Group approves a new Ten-Year Strategy

April 30, 2013 no comments

“This document reflects Africa’s vision for itself – a vision of transformation that is achievable”, said Donald Kaberuka

How cell phones are being used to address some of the causes of poor h...

April 28, 2013 1 comment

Doreen Namasala has been a community health worker for over a decade in rural Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeast Africa. With a population of roughly 15 million, an estimated 60 percent ...

African partners gather to discuss HIV viral load testing programmes i...

April 27, 2013 no comments

CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, April 26, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – More than 120 HIV clinicians, policy makers, and laboratory scientists gathered in Cape Town, South Africa from 18-2...