African leaders began talks on Thursday to tackle the sectarian violence wracking the Central African Republic, with the pressure piling on the country’s embattled president. Rebel-turned-president Michel Djotodia was summoned to Chad’s capital NDjamena…
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PARIS, France, January 9, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — 752 deaths in Bangui and more than one thousand across the…
NEW YORK, January 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Members Also Hear from Country’s Permanent Representative, Delegations of Chad, African…
The Director of Defence Information in Nigeria, Chris Olukolade (Major General) has said that the Nigerian Defence Ministry is involved…
WASHINGTON, January 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Media NoteOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCJanuary 7, 2014U.S. Special Envoy to the…
7 January 2014 – The United Nations today resumed food aid for some 100,000 displaced people in Bangui, capital of…
6 January 2014 – The worsening strife in the Central African Republic (CAR) with its Muslim-Christian overtones risks escalating into…
The Nigerian Government through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has evacuated 1,277 Nigerians who were stranded in the raging…
The Nigerian Government through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has evacuated 1,277 Nigerians who were stranded in the raging…
Thousands of African asylum seekers demonstrated outside Western embassies in Tel Aviv on Monday in a second day of mass protests against Israel’s immigration policies. The migrants, primarily from Eritrea and Sudan, marched from downtown Tel Aviv to…
Nigeria is repatriating over 1,600 citizens who have sought refuge in its embassy in Bangui, fleeing violence wracking the Central African Republic, an army spokesman said Sunday. “The Federal Government has … arranged several chartered flights to…
3 January 2014 – The humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic remains dire with insecurity hampering the delivery of…
Follow @{0}More West African countries were seen to be highly corrupt in 2013DAKAR, 3 January 2014 (IRIN) – Poor public…
The Washington Fellowship is the flagship program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative. President Obama launched YALI in 2010 to support young African…
31 December 2013 – United Nations agencies today warned of possible famine and severe malnutrition in the Central African Republic…
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announces the top three player for the 2013 African Player of the year. The…
30 December 2013 – Attacks against children in the Central African Republic (CAR) have sunk to a “vicious new low,”…
29 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned a “cowardly” attack on a convoy of the African Union-United…
Several thousand African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally via Egypt staged a peaceful protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday, police said. The demonstrators denounced the refusal of the authorities to grant them refugee status, as well as holding…
Nigerian Adiat Disu wanted to combine her background in technology and marketing with her love for fashion and African designs. Adirée, thecommunications and brand strategycompany she founded to connect designers from Africa with an international audience…