President Jacob Zuma will travel to Goa, in the Republic of India to attend the 8th BRICS Summit. South Africa is eager to once again meet with the like-minded BRICS partners to discuss issues of mutual concern aimed at achieving economic growth and prosperity. The 8th BRICS Summit theme is Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective ...
Bamako (AFP) - Four Malian soldiers were killed Thursday and several others injured in landmine explosions in the centre of the sprawling country, military sources said. Four Malian soldiers died between Diabaly and Nampala when their vehicles hit landmines, a senior army officer told AFP. Another officer stationed at Segou, one of the main ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN Security Council on Thursday decided to dispatch a UN envoy to Burundi after the government in Bujumbura broke off ties with UN rights monitors and kept up resistance to the deployment of a UN police force. UN envoy Jamal Benomar will travel to Bujumbura next week for the crisis talks. What we ne ...
On the last stop of her visit to three African states, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurated the new building of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, which has been named in honour of His Excellency, the late President Julius Nyerere. The inauguration took place in Addis Abeba on October 11th, 2016. In h ...
Lagos, September 26th 2016: The Africa Initiative for Governance ( ldquo;AIG rdquo;) has today issued a call for applications for its 2017 scholarships for a Masters Degree in Public Policy at the renowned Blavatnik School of Government, the UK rsquo;s first school of Government, at the University of Oxford. The call was issued by the AIG Chairm ...
Kigali (AFP) - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame urged world leaders to rid the world of potent greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air-conditioners, as he opened a high-level meeting in Kigali Thursday. Envoys from nearly 200 nations are in the Rwandan capital to thrash out an agreement to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which were int ...
The African Union Commission (AUC) began today the process of validating the Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Strategy and Master Plan 2017-2021 during a two-day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. The objective of the initiative is to develop an African Union strategic framework which will support the implementation of the Accelerated Industrial Deve ...
The Honourable St eacute;phane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement: ldquo;Following Ethiopia rsquo;s October 8 declaration of a six-month state of emergency, Canada urges Ethiopian security forces to exercise restraint and to respect all fundamental rights and freedoms. ldquo;Canada believes ...
The Honourable St eacute;phane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement: ldquo;Canada urges Burundi to resume cooperation with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Bujumbura and to cooperate fully with the Commission of Inquiry into the human rights situation i ...
In view of the continued escalation of the conflict in Syria, Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, held a round of telephone conversations today and yesterday with the main international and regional actors. She spoke to the United Nations 39; Special Envoy f ...
In less than a year, Holo Molo has lost more than a third of his livestock. The father of 14 living in the chronically drought-prone woreda of Elidar, Afar Region is just one of millions of Ethiopian livestock owners who have had their livelihoods uprooted as a result of drought aggravated by El Ni ntilde;o . Despite the significant dama ...
By John Kirby, Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson, Bureau of Public Affairs: The United States takes note of the Government of Ethiopia rsquo;s October 8 declaration of a State of Emergency in response to recent protests and violence in the Oromia and Amhara regions. We are troubled by the potential impact of the decisio ...
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