Syrians streamed back into the ruins of the Old City of Homs on Saturday, picking through the remains of their homes and trying to come to terms with the destruction. Thousands of people walked through the devastated streets of their former neighbourhoods…
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Saudi Arabia has announced 13 more deaths from the MERS coronavirus, as the World Health Organisation prepared for an emergency meeting over worries about the spread of the disease. The Middle East Respiratory System coronavirus has now killed 139 people…
KAMPALA, Uganda, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The International Monetary Fund’s Regional Technical Assistance Center for East Africa…
MAPUTO, Mozambique, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed today…
Michelle Obama expresses heartbreak over the mass kidnapping of Nigerian school girls, calling them “unconscionable.”
The Defence Headquarters has faulted the allegation by Amnesty International that the military authority was informed of the impending attack…
The Lagos State Government has warned residents against carrying out jungle justice or meting out instant punishment in form of…
VATICAN, Holy See, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Yesterday, in a statement to journalists, the director of the…
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Media NoteOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCMay 9, 2014The Department of State, Bureau…
ROME, Italy, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The latest IPC food security analysis carried out in South sudan…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister for Africa welcomes agreement but expresses grave concerns over human…
JUBA, South Sudan, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — “Given the enormous, immediate and medium-term humanitarian consequences of the…
NEW YORK, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Secretary-General welcomes the signing in Addis Ababa today, by President…
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Press StatementJohn KerrySecretary of StateWashington, DCMay 9, 2014Today’s agreement to immediately stop…
RABAT, Morocco, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),…
KHARTOUM, Sudan, May 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Edward Gemayel…
Vote counting in South Africa’s election that returned Nelson Mandela’s ANC to power wrapped up on Saturday, while the army was deployed overnight to quell violence in a Johannesburg township over alleged voter fraud. Completed results showed the African…
The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria was an “unconscionable act” of terror against the education of girls, US First Lady Michelle Obama said Saturday. Speaking in her husband’s place during President Barack Obama’s weekly Saturday morning address…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said Saturday that a planned separatist referendum in eastern Ukraine is “illegal,” during a meeting in Germany. The two European leaders also warned Moscow of “consequences” if…
Several Red Cross members whom rebels said they had detained in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk have been released, an official from the organisation in Kiev told AFP Saturday. “An emergency response team from the local Red Cross and one member…