STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the…
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GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — By Antoine Mbao Bogo, president of the Central African Republic Red…
A top UN rights envoy in South Sudan said child soldiers are fighting in the more than month-long conflict, with mass killings reported to have taken place. “The reports that we have come across involve mass killings, extrajudicial killings, widespread…
The EU food safety watchdog warned Friday that exposure levels to Bisphenol A (BPA), already implicated as a health concern for babies, should be cut by a factor of 10. The European Food Safety Authority said a review of recent studies showed “exposure…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said gays need not fear persecution at the Winter Olympic Games, but stood by a controversial ban on promoting homosexuality to children. “We don’t have a ban on non-traditional sexual relations between people…
Two Pussy Riot members on Friday vowed no let-up in their campaign against human rights abuses inside Vladimir Putin’s Russia as they made their first overseas trip since being released from jail. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who were…
President Barack Obama will Friday announce plans to stop the National Security Agency hoarding hundreds of millions of telephone call records, among reforms to US surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden. A senior US official, speaking ahead…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni views gays as “sick” but does not believe they should be jailed or executed and will block a push by parliament to impose tough penalties, his spokesman said on Friday. “He does not approve of homosexuality but he believes…
Europe’s main stock markets rose on Friday, with London making gains as strong retail sales data offset a profit warning from Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies gained 0.25 percent to stand at 6,832.75 points in…
A British diplomat has fallen to his death from the top floor of a Romanian hotel, in what media said on Friday was an apparent suicide. Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed the man was a member of the diplomatic staff at its embassy in Romania but did…
The Director of Weights and Measures in the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Oluyinka Joseph Sikuade has said…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Director of Operations,…
Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has denied vehemently his alleged involvement in the disruption of a meeting organised…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today, January 16, 2014 arraigned a Bureau de Change operator, Auwal Ibrahim before Justice…
It was drama today, January 16, 2014 at the Federal High Court Lokoja, Kogi State as Justice I. E Ekwo…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on January 13, 2014 arraigned the trio of Vitalis Anopue, Chigbu Paul and…
The Secretary to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Emmanuel Adegboyega Aremo has urged Nigerian youths to embrace positive…
The Executive Chairman, Delta State Sports Commission, Amaju Patrick, rated Nigeria’s performance in Football and Athletics high, saying that some…
The Speakers of House of Assemblies of Commonwealth countries have been called upon to provide forum where some of the…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has called on leaders elected by the African people to individually and collectively pledge…