GENEVA, Switzerland, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A group of United Nations Special Rapporteurs today urged the Government…
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The arraignment of the former Bayelsa State governor, Timipre Marlin Sylva and six others before a Federal High Court sitting…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Fisayo Ajibola before Justice O.A Ipaye of a Lagos High Court,Ikeja,…
The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), FADAMA and RUFIN have in the Conference Hall of NAPEP signed a Memorandum of…
Henry Akpan has taken over at the Federal Ministry of Youth Development as the new Permanent Secretary following the re-deployment…
Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan has identified the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) as an important institution in the…
BEIJING, China, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei announces at the regular press conference:At…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM South Sudan released the findings of its recent Migrant Health…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Two weeks after a tropical cyclone struck the northeast coast of…
Three internet fraudsters who are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 4-count charge that…
The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson on Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia showcased the investment potentials of the State…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Government of Ethiopia…
LIBREVILLE, Gabon, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The New York Forum AFRICA (NYFA) (http://www.ny-forum-africa.com) will again be held…
Prominent Egyptian youth leader Ahmed Duma was arrested on Tuesday for participating in a protest, his wife told AFP, the third pro-democracy activist to be detained within a week. Egyptian authorities have widened their crackdown on protesters since…
Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm, renowned for his revolutionary poetry and for his harsh criticism of political leaders, died on Tuesday at the age of 84, a publisher said. “Ahmed Fouad Negm passed away. He was 84,” Mohammed Hashem told AFP. Negm spent…
Enforcing Sharia Law in Northern Nigeria
WASHINGTON, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Defense Department continues to work with nations in North Africa to…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The future of Senegalese football was at the core of the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara…
TUNIS, Tunisia, December 3, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — At the request of the Tunisian authorities, a mission from the…