Abidjan (AFP) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is hoping voters will shore up his parliamentary majority Sunday to help keep the world's top cocoa producer in the fast economic lane. The weeklong election campaign was peaceful, but the authorities have ordered some 30,000 security forces into the street in the wake of scattered incident ...
International experts, ambassadors, high officials and entrepreneurs gathered today in Dakar for the launch of ldquo;16 infrastructure projects for African integration rdquo;. This document is an investors rsquo; guidebook produced by the Economic Commission for Africa and the NEPAD Agency at the request of President Macky Sall, Chairman o ...
The 2nd Africa Mining Summit came to a close today in Dar es Salam. The Africa Mining Summit was comprised of a two-day conference including extensive presentations and panel discussions on all aspects related to the continent rsquo;s ongoing mining and mineral resource development efforts, an exhibition, a matchmaking 1-2-1 sessions ...
Cancun, Mexico: Marine debris, typically dangerous pollutant plastic harms more than 800 animal species and at the same time causing serious economic problems to many countries around the world, according to a United Nations report launched at the UN biodiversity conference, taking place in Mexico. The report, Marine Debris: Under ...
Libreville (AFP) - The European Union, one of Gabon's top donors, said Friday it wants to step up election reform talks with the country after an EU report this week called into question its last presidential vote. An EU statement said a delegation had met with Prime Minister Emmanuel Issoze Ngondete on Thursday to discuss a just-released report ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - African countries are reviving a bid at the United Nations to block the appointment of the first-ever UN expert tasked with investigating violence and discrimination against LGBT minorities. Burkina Faso on Thursday circulated a letter to the UN General Assembly on behalf of African countries urging support ...
Dakar (AFP) - British amateur swimmer Ben Hooper has abandoned his attempt to cross the Atlantic, he said in a Facebook post Friday, after his support boat was damaged in a storm. Hooper had hoped to cross the ocean after leaving from Senegal on November 13, but lasted just 33 days at sea during which he was stung by a highly poisonous Portugues ...
Tunis (AFP) - Tunisia's prime minister said Friday that his government would seek to amend a controversial law that allows men who rape underage girls to avoid punishment by marrying their victims. Youssef Chahed's comments come two weeks after a Tunisian court approved the marriage of a 13-year-old girl to a relative who made her pregnant, unde ...
The Secretary-General is following developments regarding the formation of a new Government in Guinea-Bissau closely, notably the decisions taken by President Jos eacute; M aacute;rio Vaz in this regard on 12 December 2016 and the statement by the Partido Africano da Independ ecirc;ncia da Guin eacute; e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) of 13 December 2016, ...
Central Africa rsquo;s transport interconnection problems are not a result of lack of expertise across countries but rather a manifestation of difficulties with inter-state coordination. And this considerably slows down efforts within the sub-region to achieve structural transformation ndash; a process that cannot occur without fluidity in the ...
Handing over 28 motor vehicles for the Social Cash Transfer Programme in Lusaka today, Bruce Lawson-McDowall, Head of UK rsquo;s Department for International Development Zambia, said: The Cooperating Partners consider Social Protection as a cost efficient way to invest in the livelihoods of the most vulnerable households in the country and ...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today in Cameroon launched a multi-million dollar inter-agency appeal to help almost half-a-million people in Niger, Chad and Cameroon affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, including more than 183,000 Nigerian refugees. The 36 partners (UN agencies and NGOs) of the 2017 Nigeria Regional Refu ...
In cooperation with the Government of Malawi, the United Nations Children rsquo;s Fund ( UNICEF ) will establish an air corridor and use unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), known as drones, for humanitarian purposes, the agency announced today. ldquo;Malawi has over the past years faced serious droughts and flooding, rdquo; stated Malawi rsqu ...
After several years of resilience following the global financial crisis, economic growth in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) has declined sharply since 2012 and significantly reduced their chances of graduating out of a LDC status. According to Least Developed Countries Report 2016: The path to graduation and beyond: Making the most ...
In response to reports that the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have ordered internet firms to block access to social media sites on 18 December, Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International rsquo;s Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said: ldquo;The social media shutdown on the eve of the end ...
Baghdad (AFP) - Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Islamic State group's caliphate to a rump and decimated its fighters in 2016 but the organisation remains a potent threat. The jihadists have squandered close to half of the land they controlled in 2014 and many of their losses came this year, which saw major opera ...
Nairobi (AFP) - It was one of the most momentous events in the battle against poaching: 11 giant pyres of elephant tusks going up in flames in Kenya as the world looked on. The largest-ever destruction of ivory, which took place in April, was the pinnacle of efforts to jolt mankind into stopping the slaughter of wildlife, while sending a powerfu ...
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