Washington (AFP) - Fraudsters posing as consular officers operated a fake American embassy in the Ghanaian capital Accra for about a decade and printed counterfeit visas, a US official said Monday. US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said no one was believed to have entered the United States with one of the fake visas, which were reproducti ...
The Chair of the European Parliament rsquo;s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), Elena Valenciano (S D, ES), made the following statement: ldquo;On 30 November Ethiopian security forces detained the chairman of the Ethiopian opposition party lsquo;Oromo Federalist Congress rsquo; (OFC), Professor Merera Gudina, shortly after his a ...
Rome (AFP) - Over 1,300 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean over the past 48 hours with 16 bodies recovered, the Italian coastguard said Monday. On Sunday, the Italian coast guard ship Diciotti discovered 11 bodies on a boat which had run into difficulty, while a commercial vessel intervening at another boat found three dead. Th ...
Libreville (AFP) - Two political activists called on Monday for the 'boycott and sabotage' of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations if it is not moved from Gabon to a more stable country . Last month organisers The African Football Confederation (CAF) denied persistent rumours that the Jan 14-Feb 5 event would switch from Gabon whose President Ali B ...
Antananarivo (AFP) - Relatives of missing MH370 passengers launched their own campaign to search for crash debris in Madagascar on Monday, hoping to solve the mystery of how the plane disappeared in 2014. Families from Malaysia, China and France gathered in the capital Antananarivo as frustration grows over the failure to find the plane and as s ...
A powerful new film featuring UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham was released today to illustrate the brutal reality that physical and psychological abuse can mark children forever. During the new 60-second UNICEF film, scenes of violence against children appear as animated tattoos on David Beckham rsquo;s body. While Beckham rsquo;s o ...
On December 2, 2016 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Dmitry Kuptel, met with the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union Commission, Elham Ibrahim. During the meeting, the sides discussed current state and prospects for cooperat ...
The African Development Bank Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Atsuko Toda as Director for Agricultural Finance and Rural Development with effect from 1st December 2016. Ms. Atsuko Toda, Japanese, is an experienced manager and expert in the field of rural and agricultural finance, with extensive experience in rural deve ...
Event: Financial contribution signing ceremony between Italy and UNICEF Date and Time: Wednesday 7 December 2016 at 09:00 am Venue: Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (inside the Embassy of Italy compound in Addis Ababa) Participants: H.E. Giuseppe Mistretta, Ambassador of Italy to ...
As part of ongoing concerted efforts to facilitate the growth and development of African Union (AU) police and policing within the framework of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and the African Governance Architecture (AGA), the Commission of the African Union (AU), the African Union Commission (AUC) organized the Second Confer ...
The world is facing a state of humanitarian crisis not seen since the Second World War: more than 128 million people are affected by conflict, displacement, natural disasters and profound vulnerability. Through strategic and coordinated action, aid organizations around the world aim to deliver urgent relief, protection and support to nearly 93 ...
President Jacob Zuma will host President Edgar Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia for a State Visit to South Africa from 07 to 09 December 2016. The visit is aimed at deepening and strengthening of the already existing good political, economic and social relations underpinned by strong historical ties dating back from the years of th ...
Researchers, policy-makers and development partners converge in Abuja, Nigeria, for the 11th African Economic Conference (AEC) from December 5-7, 2016, to share ideas on topical African development issues including how to end hunger and ensure food security in Africa. About 300 participants are expected to attend the annual event ...
The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) together with the National Consumer Commission (NCC), the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS), City of Cape Town and National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) will lead a safe paraffin appliance awareness campaign that will be hosted on Thursday, 8 December 2016 in Masip ...
Agencies of the UN System, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of Central Africa and their development partners such as the African Development bank (AfDB) will concert from 6 to 7 December 2016 in Libreville ndash; Gabon, to draw parallels between the African Union rsquo;s Agenda 2063 and the UN rsquo;s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG ...
Abuja, Nigeria, December 2, 2016 ndash; Researchers, policy-makers and development partners converge in Abuja, Nigeria, for the 11th African Economic Conference (AEC) from December 5-7, 2016, to share ideas on topical African development issues including how to end hunger and ensure food security in Africa. About 300 participa ...
LAGOS, Nigeria, 5 December, 2016,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a leading pan-African multilateral development finance institution and project developer, has this week signed a MoU with Moroccan bank Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) to increase collaboration on financing vital infrastructure projects in North and ...
On December 1, 2016, President Xi Jinping held talks at the Great Hall of the People with President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone. The two heads of state decided to upgrade China-Sierra Leone relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and take the implementation of outcomes of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on Chin ...
More than 40 famous Malian artists will be present at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 7 December (Room XI, 12:30 pm) to join the International Coalition of Artists for the General History of Africa, an initiative to promote the work done by UNESCO since 1964 to rewrite an African history free from prejudice. Barack Adama of Sexion d 39; ...
A cheque of Malagasy Ariary 119 million (equivalent to US$37,530) was handed over by Ambassador of India to President of the Senate Government of Madagascar on 28 November 2016 at an event held at Senate of Madagascar for the supply of office equipment to the Senate. The Senate of Madagascar has thanked the Government of India for the assistanc ...
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