ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, February 5, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, is following with concern the latest developments in Burkina Faso. The Chairperson of the Commission expresses the AU’s strong condemnation of any act likely to undermine... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 4, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its concluding observations on the States it examined during its 68th session from 12-30 January: Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Turkmenistan, Sweden, Mauritius, Gambia, Tanzania, Jamaica, Uruguay, Colombia, Iraq and Switzerland... Read more

LIBREVILLE, Gabon, February 4, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The 4th edition of the New York Forum AFRICA (NYFA) (http://www.ny-forum-africa.com), the world’s leading pan-African business summit, will now take place on August 29-31 2015 in Libreville, Gabon under the High Patronage of His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of... Read more

BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, February 4, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Development Cooperation Alexander De Croo releases 1.5 million to UNICEF for the support of local health facilities in Guinea. With this money, the UN organization will support health prevention and community health... Read more

WASHINGTON, February 4, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — GeoPoll (http://www.geopoll.com), the world’s largest real-time mobile survey platform, is announcing a strategic partnership with Control Union, global leader in agricultural certifications, food safety, and sustainability. Partnering allows Control Union to tap into GeoPoll’s multimodal mobile platform and database of 200... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 4, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — While meeting with Gabon head of state Ali Bongo Ondimba, the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Mr. Tadateru Konoé, today called on African governments to provide greater support to National Societies so... Read more

NEW YORK, February 3, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Secretary-General takes note of the outcome of the last round of negotiations between President Salva Kiir and former Vice-President Dr. Riek Machar, as reflected in the agreement they signed in Addis-Ababa on 2 February 2015. He regrets that neither... Read more

BERLIN, Germany, February 3, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A Federal Foreign Office spokesperson issued the following statement in Berlin today (3 February) on the confirmation of the death sentences against 183 defendants in Egypt: The German Government is deeply concerned about the verdict by an Egyptian court of... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 3, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The urgent need to boost Africa’s resilience to natural hazards like the devastating floods which recently hit southern Africa is high on the agenda of meetings of ministers responsible for meteorological services and their directors. The African Ministerial Conference on... Read more

HARARE, Zimbabwe, February 3, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Zimbabwe government has used violence, harassment, and the deliberate restriction of humanitarian aid to coerce an estimated 20,000 flood victims to resettle on tiny land plots where the government plans to establish a sugar cane plantation, Human Rights Watch... Read more