BANGUI, Central African Republic, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — We have just completed a three-day joint mission to…
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Nigeria’s ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has met with people close to Boko Haram in an attempt to broker the release of…
The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship with about 1,000 marines off the coast of Libya in case the US embassy must be evacuated, a US defense official said Tuesday. The USS Bataan was to be in the area “in a matter of days,” said…
A South African man has been arrested for allegedly holding captive and abusing his wife and five children for more than a decade, a media report said Tuesday. Afrikaans-language newspaper Beeld reported the children — who were tortured with an electric…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIAWHAT: Within the framework of…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — MEDIA ADVISORYWHAT: Town Hall meeting on Ending Child Marriage in…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Gender Unit of the African Union Mission in collaboration with…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM and UNHCR yesterday hosted a meeting with key stakeholders to…
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Invitation to Joint Government of Kenya-UNEP Press Briefing UN Secretary-General Ban…
KIGALI, Rwanda, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An African Union (AU) led Eastern Africa Regional Internet Exchange Point…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM will conduct a two-day diaspora engagement training for Lesotho government…
FORTY-THREE days after more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted in Chibok, Borno State by insurgent sect, Boko Haram, the Military…
India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday to crack down on militant groups while stressing his desire for closer economic ties, the foreign ministry said. Modi “underlined our concerns related…
A Christian Sudanese woman, sentenced to hang for apostasy in a case that sparked an international outcry, has given birth in jail, a Western diplomat said on Tuesday. “She gave birth to a girl today,” said the diplomat, who is familiar with the case…
Ukraine said Tuesday it had regained control of the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk after a day of punishing air strikes and fierce fighting with pro-Moscow separatist gunmen left dozens of people dead. Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately…
A suicide bomber killed 13 people at a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad Tuesday while violence elsewhere in Iraq left four dead, the latest in a protracted surge in bloodshed. The bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the mosque in the capital’s…
Nigeria’s ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has met with people close to Boko Haram in an attempt to broker the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, a source close to the talks told AFP. The meeting took place last weekend at Obasanjo’s farm…
JUBA, South Sudan, May 27, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) cordially invites…
Residents of Attagara and Kawuri villages in Gwoza and Bama local government areas of Borno State, respectively, repelled attacks on…
Birmingham City’s Hong Kong holding company said it received an undisclosed offer for a stake in the football club, sending its shares soaring, months after its owner Carson Yeung was jailed for money laundering. In a filing to the city’s stock exchange…