23 December 2013 – Urgent national and international action is crucial to prevent the Central African Republic (CAR) from plunging…
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23 December 2013 – Three Rome-based United Nations agencies are teaming up on a $2.7 million project to tackle the…
African Union troops early on Monday fired on demonstrators protesting against the president of the strife-torn Central African Republic, killing at least one person, according to AFP reporters on the scene. Several hundred Christian demonstrators crowded…
Former Seleka rebels and their Muslim supporters blocked a route near Bangui’s airport to protest against French troops conducting a disarmament operation, accusing them of killing three fighters in clashes on Sunday. Dozens of protesters could be seen…
BERN, Switzerland, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In view of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Central African…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Several tens of thousands of displaced people continue to take refuge…
WASHINGTON, December 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In recent weeks, government affiliated armed groups and independent militias have committed…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A group of United Nations human rights experts* today urged all…
NEW YORK, December 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict,…
WASHINGTON, December 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — TestimonySenate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on African AffairsWashington, DCDecember 17, 2013Thank you…
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, whose career has in large part been built on advocating for the US to muster all military and diplomatic force to stop what she famously called “The Problem from Hell” in her Pulitzer prize winning…
19 December 2013 – A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today urged all parties in the Central…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, December 16, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU),…
17 December 2013 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it has deployed additional emergency teams in the Central…
16 December 2013 – The Central African Republic (CAR), wracked by conflict that has killed thousands of people and driven…
It was supposed to be a regular shopping trip to a Kenyan mall until Faith Wambua found herself playing dead for bullet-spraying militants, in an ordeal that capped a year of Islamist violence across the continent affecting countless ordinary Africans…
South African peace icon Desmond Tutu said on Saturday he was not invited to the burial of his friend Nelson Mandela, amid allegations he was snubbed for political reasons. “Much as I would have loved to attend the service to say a final farewell to…
OTTAWA, Canada, December 14, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Lois Brown, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development and…
WASHINGTON, December 13, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United States welcomes today’s signing of declarations ending the M23 rebellion…