Category: APO-OPA

    Puntland government releases Journalist on bail, Television Networks still under Suspension   MOGADISHU, Somalia, November 18, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and the Media Association of Puntland (MAP) and the Somali journalists in Nairobi welcome the release of the Somali Chanel reporter from custody by the […]

Video News Release / Africa going backwards on continent’s biggest child killer (WaterAid) / New report release today LONDON, United-Kingdom, November 18, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A new report Off-track, off-target, released today by the international charity WaterAid (http://www.wateraid.org), shows that there are more people in the world today lacking adequate sanitation services than […]

    African Union Commission Chairperson receives credentials of the Permanent Observer of Ecuador to the AU   ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 18, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr. Jean Ping, received in his office at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa on Thursday, 17 November 2011, […]

    African Union Signs MoU with International Red Cross/Red Crescent   ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 18, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African Union Commission has signed a cooperation agreement with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).   A Memorandum of Under-standing to that effect was signed on Thursday, […]

    Italy / Mozambique: updated investment handbook   MAPUTO, Mozambique, November 18, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Mozambique”, in collaboration with the state budget support programme funded by the Cooperation, the Embassy of Italy has published its second edition. Apart from its more refined graphics, the second edition maintains the operational approach of the […]

    “Stop flushing your rights away, invest in sanitation,” says UN expert on World Toilet Day   GENEVA, Switzerland, November 18, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — United Nations expert on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation Catarina de Albuquerque today called on States to devote more resources to sanitation, to use […]

    ICC / ‘In the Courtroom’ programme – Summary of the proceedings (07-11 November 2011) in the case of The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui   THE HAGUE, Netherland, November 17, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ICC / ‘In the Courtroom’ programme – Summary of the proceedings (07-11 November 2011) in […]

    The AU Commission, OHCHR and the UNESCO commemorates the “International Day for Tolerance”   ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 17, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Department of the Political Affairs of the AU Commission, in collaboration with UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and […]

  The Lord’s Resistance Army: End Game?   BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, November 17, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Insufficient political will has thwarted regional efforts to stop the murderous Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) but vigorous diplomacy led by the African Union (AU), an immediate military push and complementary civilian initiatives could end the misery […]

    UNESCO presented Egypt’s media assessment study at seminar on editorial independence in Cairo   CAIRO, Egypt, November 17, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — More than 150 representatives of the Egyptian media community and civil society gathered on 13 November in the Al-Ahram Press Foundation for an international seminar on the future of Egypt’s […]