African Partners Gather to Discuss HIV Viral Load Testing Programmes in Africa
27 April 2013More than 120 HIV clinicians, policy makers, and laboratory scientists gathered in Cape Town, South Africa from 18-20 April 2013 at the invitation (…)
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Sudanese churches an important voice in rebuilding nation
26 April 2013In his meeting with the Sudanese minister Alfatih T. Abdallah, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit stressed (…)
The African Union hails a new positive step in the relations between Sudan and South Sudan
26 April 2013The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, welcomes the successful conclusion of the first meeting of (…)
Democratic Republic of the Congo: In east of country, suffering such as rarely seen
26 April 2013’The violence and suffering inflicted on people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have reached a level rarely seen in two decades,’ (…)
Sheila B. Keetharuth to gather first-hand information from Eritrean refugees
25 April 2013The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, will carry out an official visit to Ethiopia (…)
New UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa first visit
25 April 2013The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Mary Robinson, will make her first visit to the region in this (…)
Online Mapping System Helps Fight Malaria by Tracking Mosquito Resistance to Insecticides
25 April 2013The first online mapping tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria was launched today. The interactive website, called (…)
Innovation Prize for Africa Announces 2013 Finalists
25 April 2013Ten African innovators have developed practical solutions to some of the continent’s most intractable problems. Chosen from more than 900 (…)
Niger: MSF warns of impending threat from deadly combination of malaria and malnutrition
24 April 2013Increasing numbers of children are being treated for malaria and malnutrition in southern Niger by the international medical organisation Médecins (…)
Commissioner Piebalgs signs project to build solar plant in Burkina Faso
23 April 2013European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, has met today Lamoussa Salif Kaboré, Minister for Energy of Burkina Faso, to sign the (…)
Ethiopia transfers journalist Woubshet Taye to remote prison
23 April 2013The Committee to Protect Journalists protests Ethiopian authorities’ transfer of independent newspaper editor Woubshet Taye to a remote prison (…)
Report of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on the Situation in Madagascar
23 April 2013The present report takes stock of the implementation of the different components of the Roadmap signed in Antananarivo, on 17 September 2011, by (…)