Africa

INVITATION / PRESS BREAKFAST ON RIO+20 Tuesday, 22 May 2012 09h00 - 11h00 UNDP Regional Service Centre, Johannesburg What: As governments prepare for the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Rio+20 , the United Nations ...

FAO is helping scientists and policymakers in Tanzania to evaluate how much carbon is stored in forests and forests soils, which will enable them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Forest soils contain a huge carbon stock. Deforestation, forest ...

The Business Call to Action , will host a panel discussion and reception featuring senior representatives from two of Kenya's leading companies, Equity Bank and Safaricom. The event will take place at Sarova Stanley, Wednesday, May 16 at 18:00. ...

An International Monetary Fund mission headed by Mr. Herve Joly visited Senegal May 2-15, 2012 to conduct the third review of the three-year arrangement under the Policy Support Instrument , approved in December 2010. Members of the mission met ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali and dozens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, extra-judicial executions or sexual violence including rape, Amnesty International said today. In a report CCC1'...

When U.S. surgical teams take their skills to the developing world, lives can be changed. Cleft palates and malformed limbs are corrected, blinding cataracts removed.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData's new company profile 'Mozambique - Africa's New Coal Exporter' to their offering.

CAMAC Energy Inc. today announced that it has signed Production Sharing Contracts with the government of The Republic of Kenya for previously awarded exploration Blocks L1B, located onshore in the Lamu Basin, and L16, located in the Lamu Basin ...

Speech by Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to the Germany-South Africa Binational Commission Deputy President Motlanthe, Minister Nkoana-Mashabane, Ministers Gordhan and Davies, Minister Pandor, Deputy Minister Martins, Ambassador Stofile, fellow ...

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Ms Lise Grande, said today that an estimated 12,000 South Sudanese will be airlifted from Khartoum to Juba and provided with humanitarian assistance when they arrive. 'This airlift is ...

Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the 'Gabon Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q2 2012' report to their offering.

Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report 'Oil and Chemicals Storage Industry Outlook in Middle East and Africa, 2012 - Capacity Analysis, Forecasts and Details of All Operating and Planned Storage ...

Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of IE Market Research Corp.'s new report '4Q11 South Africa Mobile Operator Forecast, 2012 - 2015: South Africa to have over 70 million mobile subscriber connections in 2015 with Vodacom ...

Thousands of people in Somaliland are getting more fresh meat in their diet as a result of an innovative UN World Food Programme initiative that provides parents with vouchers to help them afford nutritious food from local traders. Under the ...

The EU Foreign Ministers have agreed with Italy's call, voiced by Foreign Minister Terzi at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, for closer coordination with Libya at the European level on border security and immigration issues. The FAC agreed, ...

IOM has begun an airlift of some 12,000 stranded South Sudanese from Kosti, 300 km south of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, to Juba in South Sudan. On Monday, 14th May, the first two IOM-chartered flights arrived in Juba from Khartoum carrying a ...

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by a spate of freedom of information violations in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale in the past two weeks, including the forced closure of a radio station, arrests of 11 ...

The International Monetary Fund today released the May 2012 Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa . Ms. Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, Director of the IMF's African Department, commented on the report's main findings: 'Despite difficult external ...

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Agshin Mehdiyev : The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attacks on United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the ...

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General has been following the recent legislative elections in Algeria closely and, upon the request of the Government, has deployed a ...