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25th ACP-EU parliamentary meeting gathers in Brussels

June 14, 2013 no comments

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, June 14, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) will meet from 17 to 19 June in the European Parliament in Brussel...

Positive trends in Africa’s Aid for Trade, but more interventions need...

June 14, 2013 no comments

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, June 14, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) –Although Aid for Trade in Africa is starting to show results, interventions are urgently needed to overcome the short an...

Canada condemns Tripoli terror attack

June 12, 2013 no comments

OTTAWA, Canada, June 12, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement: “Canada condemns terrorism in all its forms. Today’s...

Four newspapers suspended in Republic of Congo

June 10, 2013 no comments

NEW YORK, June 10, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Authorities in the Republic of Congo should lift the suspensions against four weekly newspapers in connection with their articles critical ...

African Union celebrates Border Day

June 10, 2013 no comments

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, June 10, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO)  –The African Union celebrated today the African Day of Borders (Border Day), at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethi...

ECA Executive Secretary to receive recognition for visionary, exemplar...

June 7, 2013 no comments

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, June 7, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) –The Fascinating Africans Committed to Excellence (F.A.C.E.) list Awards has nominated Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secreta...

Chaka Khan selected for Apollo Legends Hall of Fame

June 4, 2013 1 comment

Come Monday, June 10, Apollo Theater will induct legendary R&B and Funk super star Chaka Khan into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame at its 8th annual Spring Gala Benefit Concert and Awards Ceremon...

Smallholder Farmers key to lifting over one billion people out of pove...

June 4, 2013 no comments

Backing and Enabling Smallholders Can Unleash New and Sustainable Agricultural Revolution

IOM launches mobile initiative to counter Tuberculosis in Western Ghan...

June 1, 2013 1 comment

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 31, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ –IOM Ghana and officials of the Ghana Health Service are this week launching a TB REACH project which aims to increase tuberculosis...

Reporter arrested after covering evictions in Ethiopia dam region

June 1, 2013 no comments

NEW YORK, May 31, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – Ethiopian authorities have detained since Friday a reporter who sought to interview people evicted from their homes in a region where...

Christian Aid response to High Level Panel report

June 1, 2013 no comments

Responding to news of today’s High Level Panel report on the global plan that should follow the Millennium Development Goals when they expire in 2015, Helen Dennis, Christian Aid’s Senior Adviser on ...

Malawi Police arrest couple for dumping toddler

May 29, 2013 no comments

A Malawian couple based in the country’s commercial city of Blantyre is in police custody for dramatically abandoning their eight month year-old son who was found by students at a certain priva...

EU considers the ‘Cocaine Route’ programme in Rome

May 27, 2013 no comments

ROME, Italy, May 27, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – Announcement for Editors-in-Chief, International Conference “Improving responses to organised crime and drug trafficking along the...

AfDB and its partners to focus on Africa’s future at annual meet...

May 27, 2013 no comments

The 48th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) opened today in Marrakech, Morocco

Youth forum stresses more space for youth participation

May 27, 2013 2 comments

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 27, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) –Young people from around Africa gathered in the historic Africa Hall for an intergenerational Youth Forum with selected H...

The African Union Commission and UNAMID sign a funding agreement for D...

May 27, 2013 no comments

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 27, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) –The Commission of the African Union (AU) and the Joint AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) today signed an Agreemen...