Africa

It starts with your mindset, Amb. Sezibera tells youth The Secretary General of the East African Community Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera has challenged students in the region to take advantage of the opportunities created through EAC integration to ...

AHF: Global AIDS Patients, Doctors Lobby Congress on PEPFAR Reauth-AIDS patients and doctors from South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Haiti and Vietnam will visit 50 congressional offices May 20-24

Several hundred families fleeing violence in northern Nigeria and taking refuge in the Diffa area of south-eastern Niger are being provided with emergency supplies and food aid by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Cross ...

'One Day One Dollar' business model helps give back to women in Africa, who helped inspire Lalabu

IOM is ramping up efforts to combat sexual and gender-based violence that affects tens of thousands of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The problem of SGBV, which was highlighted during a recent visit to the DRC by the UN ...

IOM has started training new facilitators among 22 selected commissioners and officials of the Sudan National Elections Commission on Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections at the Judiciary Training Centre in the Sudanese capital,...

Intelligent Energy is working with Etisalat Nigeria to test personal energy devices powered by Intelligent Energy's proven fuel cell technology, with an Etisalat user trial to commence this quarter.

Scytl acquires eParliament solution provider PressVote complementing its end-to-end election modernization platform providing parliaments with automation solutions for legislative and voting processes

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks at the Round Table Event on the Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda, as prepared for delivery, in Maputo, on 20 May: I am delighted to be with you. You have so much ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund today completed the second review of Guinea's economic performance under a program supported by the Extended Credit Facility . The completion of the review enables the disbursement of an amount ...

The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa has stressed the need for a candid intergenerational dialogue about what the pioneers of African feminism and the gender agenda are bequeathing to young women today so as to be able ...

Inception Media Group, LLC, a diversified media company specializing in the production, acquisition and distribution of entertainment content, announced it has acquired North American rights from Levity Entertainment Group to distribute African ...

offset by higher than expected recurrent spending and domestically-financed investment spending. The resulting fiscal deficit was 3.1 percent of GDP, in line with expectations. All quantitative targets and most structural measures contained in the ...

The Office of the Prosecutor concluded a two-day training of fifty police prosecutors at Kingtom Police Barracks on Saturday, held as part of the OTP's ongoing effort to build capacity in Sierra Leone's judicial sector. The training was led by ...

the 'Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region' - that was signed in February by 11 African nations to end conflict in DRC and bring peace to the Great Lakes region. The signatories are Angola,...

The founder of an initiative to give academically astute South African students, who would otherwise not have the opportunity, scholarships to some of the best private schools in the country, will be honored in New York City on Monday, June 3, 2013.

As conflict, natural disasters, epidemic outbreaks and chronic food insecurity continue to plague Sudan, millions of people have been forced to leave their homes, making them more vulnerable and in critical need of humanitarian assistance. The ...

Honda Aircraft Company today announced a number of achievements and significant milestones in the development of the HondaJet, the world's most advanced light jet, at the 2013 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Geneva, ...

The EACJ wound up its second month-long session Friday with the First Instance Division dismissing a case by a Tanzanian citizen seeking orders to restrain the East African Community Secretariat from carrying out activities geared towards the ...

ECOWAS and America's GE Corporation are to explore areas of cooperation, including in energy projects and infrastructure development to boost regional trade integration. This was a key outcome of a meeting between officials of the ECOWAS ...