South Sudan: Attacks on MSF health facilities obstruct aid efforts
17 January 2014Thousands of people are at risk of being left without desperately needed medical care after the international medical organisation Médecins Sans (…)
News from Africa
African Press Organization
Articles
Gambian journalists charged with giving false information
16 January 2014Gambian authorities should drop the charges against two journalists who have been held since Monday on accusations of giving false information, (…)
South Sudan: MSF condemns the looting of its facilities in Bentiu
13 January 2014The international organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the looting of its facilities yesterday in Bentiu, capital of (…)
Central African Republic: UN Special Representative urges calm following the resignations of the Head of State and the Prime minister of the transition
13 January 2014BANGUI, Central African Republic, January 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO) As was done by the Secretary-General, the Special (…)
$61 million needed to protect and rebuild food security and livelihoods of South Sudanese
13 January 2014The recent violence in South Sudan is threatening to increase hunger and human suffering considerably, unravelling modest gains made in food (…)
Central African Republic: Wounded continue pouring into Bangui hospital
13 January 2014GENEVA, Switzerland, January 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Over the past two days, some 60 wounded people have been admitted to the (…)
Ceremony for the donation of light equipment to the Seychelles Coast Guard
11 January 2014On Thursday 09 January 2013, Guy Samzun, Chargé d’affaires of the EU Delegation to Mauritius, for the Seychelles and the Union of Comoros, and (…)
Senegal nears first victory in war on tsetse fly
11 January 2014A campaign against the tsetse fly, a pest that transmits a disease that devastates livestock, in the Niayes area near the capital Dakar has (…)
IOM Provides Livestock to Vulnerable Rwandan Returnees
11 January 2014Vulnerable Rwandan returnees from neighbouring countries have received a consignment of livestock from IOM to boost their livelihoods and help (…)
South Sudan Returnees Caught Up in Conflict Airlifted to Safety
11 January 2014IOM has begun an airlift of some 600 South Sudanese returnees out of Malakal, Upper Nile State, where they had become stranded on their way home (…)
Ethiopian Returnees from Saudi Arabia Top 151,000
11 January 2014Two months after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) started its crackdown on irregular migration, the operation to repatriate Ethiopian irregular (…)
IOM Begins Airlift of Stranded Migrants from Central African Republic
11 January 2014IOM will today (11/1/2014) start an airlift to evacuate stranded foreign nationals from the Central African Republic (CAR), following appeals from (…)