Near East and North Africa : FAO’s workplan in the region
1 March 2014Governments from the Near East and North Africa today wrapped up a five day meeting on regional food security challenges pledging enhanced (…)
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Nigeria: unity in diversity in response to challenges
1 March 2014Good and inclusive governance is essential to ensuring minority rights, equality and peaceful coexistence for all of Nigeria’s citizens, the (…)
Guinea-Bissau : European Union and World Food Program agreement
1 March 2014On 26 February 2014, in Bissau, Ambassador Joaquín González-Ducay, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, (…)
Puntland : IOM Helps Cyclone-Affected Population to Fight Malaria
28 February 2014Following a malaria outbreak in a cyclone-affected area of Puntland, Somalia, IOM, in coordination with the Puntland health authorities and UN (…)
Central African Republic : IOM Releases Updated Profiles of Displacement Sites
28 February 2014IOM has released updated profiles of 54 displacement sites in Bangui, CAR. GENEVA, Switzerland, February 28, 2014/African Press Organization (…)
Valerie Amos statement on South Sudan
28 February 2014GENEVA, Switzerland, February 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO) I am deeply concerned by the grave humanitarian situation in South (…)
UN rights expert urges Mauritania to turn pledges into deeds
28 February 2014The United Nations Special Rapporteur on slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, today hailed Mauritania’s commitment and progress in the fight against (…)
Nine Ethiopian Migrants Die at Sea, Eight Others Missing
28 February 2014At least nine Ethiopian migrants drowned after a boat ferrying them capsized in the Gulf of Aden, north of Obock City in Djibouti, the night of (…)
IOM, UNHCR Begin Return Intention Survey in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp
26 February 2014IOM, in partnership with UNHCR, has begun a comprehensive four-month return intention survey of Somali refugees living in the Dadaab refugee (…)
MSF : Medical Care Under Fire in South Sudan
26 February 2014As entire towns in South Sudan suffer devastating attacks, medical care has also come under fire, with patients shot in their beds, wards burned (…)
First African Blogger Awards now open for entries
26 February 2014Entries to the 2014 African Blogger Awards , the continent’s very first awards programme that measures online and social influencers’ reach and (…)
Uganda: FIDH firmly condemns the “Anti-homosexuality” law
26 February 2014FIDH firmly condemns the “Anti-homosexuality” law promulgated yesterday by President Museveni as it blatantly violates a wide range of human (…)