24 March 2014 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns today that despite notable recent economic progress,…
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24 March 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it was shocked and saddened by the deaths of…
24 March 2014 – The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region is providing protection to thousands of…
London shares ended slightly lower on Monday, with mining stocks weighing on the benchmark FTSE index after fresh data provided further evidence of a cooling Chinese economy. The FTSE closed 36.78 points — or 0.56 percent — down at 6,520.39 points…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Kay,…
NEW YORK, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — [AS DELIVERED] Your Excellency, Chairperson of the Peace and Security Council,…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (http://ltwp.co.ke) meant to add an…
MAPUTO, Mozambique, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Mozambique’s discovery of the 4th largest gas reserves in the world,…
Back in December, news got out about Google’s big push to enter the field of robotics: former Android boss Andy Rubin was promoted to head the robotics division, while the company scooped up bunches of robotics companies in the United States and Asia…
IBM’s Big Data analytics to help crack the code of the tuberculosis genome and uncover new diagnosis and treatment approaches IBM Corporation logo. (PRNewsFoto/IBM Corporation) DURBAN, South Africa, March 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — On World Tuberculosis…
Gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack on a farming community in central Nigeria in the latest deadly violence to rip through the region, police said on Monday. A further 10 people were injured in the shooting in the village of Gbajimba on Sunday…
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack on a key military barracks in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, in a new video obtained on Monday by AFP that warns of further bloodshed, including against civilians. “We carried out the attacks…
TUNIS, Tunisia, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Despite important economic progress and agricultural successes, Africa remains the world’s…
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is…
KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Mr. Ali…
Syrian rebels seized the Kasab village and border crossing with Turkey Monday, an NGO said, as the regime launched fresh air strikes in a bid to halt the opposition advance. The air raids come a day after a Syrian warplane was shot down by Ankara’…
A 15-year-old boy was on Monday charged with the murder of Shereka Fab-Ann Marsh, also 15, who was shot in the neck at a house in east London, Scotland Yard announced. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will appear at Stratford Magistrates…
Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial entered its fourth week on Monday with more testimony on gunshots and a woman’s terrified screams on the night the star Paralympian shot dead his glamorous girlfriend. Anette Stipp, a neighbour and one of the prosecution…
Defence Ministry Report The Director of Defence Information of the Counter Terrorism Campaign, Chris Olukolade has revealed that the…
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — CONCLUSIONS1. The International Contact Group on the Central…