Kigali (AFP) - World envoys were Friday putting the final touches to a deal in Rwanda to phase out potent greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners, a major step in curbing global warming. Tough negotiations have seen major developing nations such as India put up a fight over the timeline to phase out the use of hydrofluorocarb ...
The Secretary-General welcomes the reported release of 21 Chibok schoolgirls, following more than two years of captivity. He remains deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of the remaining schoolgirls and other victims of abduction by Boko Haram, who are still in captivity. The Secretary-General urges the international community to ...
On 13 October the members of the Security Council were briefed by Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on conflict prevention, including in Burundi, Jamal Benomar, on the status of the implementation of resolution 2303 (2016). The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern over the political situation and the lack of p ...
The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will undertake its first official visit to Canada from 17 to 21 October 2016 to study the human rights situation of people of African descent in the country, at the invitation of the Government. ldquo;We will gather information on any forms of racism, racial discrimina ...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Fran ccedil;ois Lounc eacute;ny Fall of Guinea as his Acting Special Representative for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA). Mr. Fall succeeds Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal, who will conclude his appointment on ...
UNCTAD is set to support Central African countries cut the costs of their cross-border trade, after signing a three-year euro;380,000 ($420,000) deal with the European Union in Brussels on Friday. The grant enables UNCTAD to help countries comply with various trade regulations, including the Trade Facilitation Agreement, a World Trade Organ ...
Over 38,800 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are sheltering at the UN protection of civilian (PoC) sites in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, according to a recently completed biometric registration exercise. While the majority of these IDPs have been sheltering at the UN base, known as UN House, since the crisis erupted in December 2013 ...
To mark the ninth Global Handwashing Day, hundreds of thousands of children across South Sudan today washed their hands with soap and clean water to promote handwashing as an effective method for preventing diseases. The day this year is marked under the theme lsquo;Handwashing with soap keeps Cholera away from you and your family, ...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Director for Africa, Neil Wigan had calls on the Prime Minister, the Minister for Commonwealth and Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs, the Secretary General at the Presidency and several other key interlocutors covering Prosperity, Security and assistance to refugees and displaced persons in Cameroon ...
A euro;380,000 EU grant has been signed with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) after ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly committees met in the European Parliament premises today. The funded action aims at improving coordination and implementation of trade facilitation reforms in Central Africa countries. Th ...
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa is pleased to announce that the 2018 Diversity Visa (DV) Program registration opened October 4, 2016 and will close Monday, November 7, 2016. Each year the United States administers the Diversity Visa Immigrant Program from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States. For the 2018 ye ...
The Hague (AFP) - Rights organisations Friday condemned a vote by Burundian lawmakers to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, warning the government was trying to hide abuses from the eyes of the world. If Burundi quits the tribunal it would be a significant escalation of the regime's policy to isolate itself, said Dimitris Christop ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN Security Council on Friday expressed deep concern over Burundi's refusal to allow the deployment of a UN police force, a day after it decided to send an envoy to Bujumbura for crisis talks. Council members said in a unanimous statement that they regret the Bujumbura government's decision to break o ...
Abidjan (AFP) - Ivory Coast's main opposition coalition called Friday on voters to boycott a referendum on the adoption of a new constitution that changes contentious rules on presidential eligibility. Current rules require both parents of presidential candidates to have been born in Ivory Coast. It was one of the factors that triggered violent ...
ldquo;In the US, black women are being killed by police at a rate of one a month, rdquo; says presenter Femi Oke in The Lives of Black Women, an upcoming Faultlines documentary on Al Jazeera. ldquo;One in four are unarmed. Their stories have often gone untold. rdquo; In The Lives of Black Women, the former Nigerian ...
Dakar (AFP) - The brother of Senegal's president resigned Friday as a director of an oil firm with significant operations in the west African country following corruption allegations by opposition groups. Aliou Sall, younger brother of President Macky Sall, is accused of helping commodities firm Timis Corporation unfairly secure favourable condi ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a show of further commitment to collaborate between business communities in the United States and Africa, has recently named Aliko Dangote, Africa rsquo;s most successful businessman, as the co-chair of its U.S. - Africa Business Centre. Mr. Dangote will serve alongside Jay Ireland, president and CEO of GE ...
El-Jadida (Morocco) (AFP) - The equestrian art of tbourida, inspired by the historical charges of the feared cavalrymen of Morocco, fascinated Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix two centuries ago and still draws enthusiastic crowds today. At this week's Salon du Cheval show in El-Jadida, western Morocco, thousands have been enthralled by the sp ...
Berlin (AFP) - Indigenous Namibians lashed out Friday at Germany for refusing to pay reparations for the genocide of their people a century ago, calling it a phenomenal insult to victims' descendents. Germany has been in negotiations with its former colony Namibia over a joint declaration on the massacre of the Nama and Herero people in 1904 a ...
Kigali (AFP) - Hopes were high Friday that world envoys meeting in Rwanda will agree to phase out potent gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners that are one of the biggest contributors to global warming. While delegates expressed optimism that a deal was in reach, there was still horse-trading to be done, especially on the timetable on ...
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