MOGADISHU, Somalia, January 22, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The new Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (DSRSG), Mr. Raisedon Zenenga, arrived in Mogadishu today to assume his duties with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM). “I am very pleased to have this opportunity to... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, January 22, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, will be visiting Algeria from 27 January to 3 February 2015 to evaluate the Government’s ongoing plans for future education reform as it seeks to provide opportunities for... Read more

PARIS, France, January 22, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African Union (AU) should immediately publish the report of the AU Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan, said Amnesty International, Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, FIDH, and the South Sudan Law Society. Their joint call comes ahead of the... Read more

BERLIN, Germany, January 22, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A Federal Foreign Office spokesperson issued the following statement on 21 January on the unrest following parliamentary deliberations on a new electoral law in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Federal Foreign Office is monitoring the situation in the... Read more

NAIROBI, Kenya, January 22, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Burundian authorities imprisoned the director of the privately owned Radio Publique Africaine on Tuesday and charged him with complicity in murder, according to news reports. The arrest followed the station’s broadcast of an interview in which an unidentified guest said... Read more

MOGADISHU, Somalia, January 22, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, condemned recent violence in Defow, central Somalia. There have been reports of dozens of casualties, including women and children. The SRSG appealed for calm, underlining the need to... Read more

CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, January 22, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — CEOs representing some of Africa’s most attractive mining companies will gather in Cape Town, South Africa, 9 – 12 February 2015 for the annual Investing in African Mining Indaba™ (https://www.miningindaba.com/?utm_source=APO&utm_medium=pressrelease4&utm_campaign=MI15), the world’s preferred destination for deal-making in African mining. More... Read more

TOKYO, Japan, January 21, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — 1. On Tuesday, January 20, the Government of Japan decided to provide emergency relief goods worth 19 million yen (Tents, Blankets, etc.) to Republic of Malawi, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in response to the request from the... Read more

VATICAN, Holy See, January 21, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Pope launched an appeal for prayer for “the victims of the events of recent days in beloved Niger”, adding, “Let us invoke from the Lord the gift of reconciliation and peace, so that religious feeling is not transformed... Read more

ROME, Italy, January 21, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In Madagascar, the battle against an ongoing plague of locusts risks being lost as funds to continue operations to subdue widespread infestations of the crop-hungry insects run out, posing a serious food security challenge for 13 million people. Failure to... Read more