23 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called a crisis meeting of his top advisers on the deteriorating situation in…
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23 December 2013 – Urgent national and international action is crucial to prevent the Central African Republic (CAR) from plunging…
23 December 2013 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up to…
23 December 2013 – Three Rome-based United Nations agencies are teaming up on a $2.7 million project to tackle the…
22 December 2013 – Amid escalating tensions and deadly clashes between military factions in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission…
21 December 2013 – The top United Nations official in Somalia congratulated Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, who was appointed…
Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Hisham Qandil, who was prime minister under deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, the interior ministry said. The ministry said he was arrested in the desert outside Cairo with a “smuggler attempting to escape…
A mass grave has been found in South Sudan, the United Nations said Tuesday, amid fresh reports of brutal ethnic killings and ongoing battles that threaten to tip the young nation into civil war. UN rights chief Navi Pillay said a mass grave had been…
A military offensive in northeast Nigeria that killed more than 50 Islamist rebels has destroyed four villages and left corpses scattered in bushes, with some civilians among the dead, witnesses said Tuesday. The defence ministry has said the operation…
Angry Egyptians standing on piles of debris and shattered glass pointed the finger of blame at the Muslim Brotherhood after a car bomb ripped through Mansoura’s police headquarters on Tuesday. “The people want the execution of the Muslim Brotherhood…
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December 23, 2013 VICE PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO WITH THE EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA, MR. ASHRAF SALAMA DURING A COURTESY CALL…
December 23, 2013 AFENIFERE DELEGATION LED BY CHIEF RENSEN FASHORANTI AND GOV OLUSEGUN MIMIKO ARRIVING PRESIDENTIAL VILLA ABUJA FOR A…
Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese factory owner in Nigeria’s second city of Kano on Monday in an attack that left two employees wounded by gunfire, police and witnesses said. Kano, the largest city in the mainly Muslim north, has been attacked repeatedly…
Nigeria’s troops have killed over 50 Islamists and destroyed more than 20 vehicles during a massive hunt for fleeing Boko Haram insurgents who attacked an army barracks in a restive northeastern town, a spokesman said Monday. Boko Haram gunmen stormed…
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Monday he had ordered a probe into a rash of allegations, including the creation of a political hit squad, levelled against him by former leader Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo, who served as president from 1999…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has expressed shock at the killing of the Chairman of the Board of the…
Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof Modupe Adelabu (2nd right) cutting the tape to inaugurate the nineteen Hilux Ford Patrol vehicles…
VICTORIA, Mahe, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On December 19, 2013, the Executive Board of the International Monetary…
LUSAKA, Zambia, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On December 11, 2013, the Executive Board of the International Monetary…