Swiss Government Funds Reintegration Project for Chadian Migrants Returning from Libya
8 January 2013IOM and The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) yesterday signed a two-year community stabilization project to support the (…)
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Malawian journalist assaulted during radio interview
8 January 2013Malawian authorities must immediately investigate and bring all appropriate charges in connection with the reported assault of a radio journalist (…)
In South Sudan, two journalists detained in Wau
8 January 2013Authorities in South Sudan have been holding two state broadcast journalists without charge since Tuesday, according to local journalists and (…)
Nigerian journalists freed, but equipment still held
8 January 2013The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) to return laptops and cell phones confiscated from two (…)
’A Burgeoning Platform for Africa-China Trade’
30 December 2012Trade between China and Africa has displayed sustainable growth despite the ongoing global financial crisis. According to Chinese customs data, (…)
New boat tragedy in the Gulf of Aden
27 December 2012“The plight and suffering of Somali boat people must stop”, says the UN Independent Expert on the situation of Human Rights in Somalia, Shamsul (…)
IMF and World Bank Announce US$176 million Debt Relief for the Union of the Comoros
22 December 2012The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) have decided to support US$176 million in (…)
The crisis in Mali: UN Resolution passed
21 December 2012The United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing the deployment of an African-led International Support (…)
Armed intervention in Mali risks worsening the crisis
21 December 2012The UN Security Council’s approval of armed intervention into Mali risks worsening the human rights and humanitarian crisis in the north, Amnesty (…)
Madagascar: “Poverty and impunity have increased contemporary forms of slavery” warns UN Expert
21 December 2012The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, today called on the Government of Madagascar to take (…)
The EU´s support for Integration of the Maghreb countries
21 December 2012In further response to the transformation of the countries of the Southern Mediterranean, the High Representative and the European Commission (…)
EU to support a pioneering renewable energy and water plant in Djibouti
21 December 2012The European Union will support a project to build a desalination plant which will use renewable energy to provide water to 200,000 inhabitants, (…)