Tag: africa

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced it is providing nearly $68 million for emergency food assistance, to reach approximately 2.5 million Sudanese as well as refugees from South Sudan and other neighboring states. This assistance will be delivered through the World Food Program, which will help address the complex emergency arising from conflict, […]

The members of the Security Council welcomed the arrival in Tripoli of members of the Presidency Council of the Government of National Accord on 30 March 2016, led by Prime Minister Fayez Serraj.   The members of the Security Council  noted  that this was an important step towards bringing stability to the country and bringing […]

MTN South Africa (www.MTN.co.za) launched its new promotional package featuring World Panel’s SunStream™ (www.World-Panel.com) which allows users to stream electricity from the sun directly into their mobile devices. The new bundle was announced at an event in Mthatha with executives from MTN and World Panel Inc. present.  The event was held outside the MTN store […]

The Secretary-General met today with H.E. Mr. François Hollande, President of the French Republic.   The Secretary-General and the President discussed the situation in Western Sahara. The Secretary-General and the President also exchanged views on the situation in Mali. The Secretary-General thanked France for its continued support to the implementation of the peace agreement in […]

With the number expected to increase until 2028, 3.4 billion people currently live in rural areas, with around 92% of the rural population located in developing countries. They are mainly concentrated in Asia and Africa. The situation is particularly fragile in sub-Saharan Africa, the only place where the number of poor has risen steadily in […]

Lab results confirm a new case of Ebola virus disease in Liberia—a 30-year-old woman who died yesterday afternoon while being transferred to a hospital in the capitol Monrovia. Liberia’s Ministry of Health, WHO and partner agencies immediately sent a team to the community outside Monrovia where the woman lived and the clinic where she was […]

INVITATION TO MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES Theme:               “Addressing the Impact of Drought, Floods and Declining Commodity Prices in Africa: What Coping Strategies and Capacity are required?” What:                  African Union Commission (AUC), African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) Ministerial Roundtable When:                 3RD April 2016, 09:00AM-12:30PM Where:                UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Conference Centre Addis Ababa, […]

INVITATION TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA WHEN:                      2 and 3 April 2016 WHERE:                    Conference Center of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia WHO:                         Jointly organised by the African Union Commission (AUC)  and the  United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) WHY:                         The sessions of RCM-Africa are an important […]

United States Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, launched the “Promoting Transparency and Accountability in Education” activity at the Northern Network for Education Development (NNED) headquarters in Tamale, Ghana on April 1, 2016. At the event, Ambassador Jackson and NNED Executive Committee Chair Rosemond Kumah signed a cooperative agreement for the 18-month, $648,000 USAID activity, […]

To promote better relations between the police and population in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), IOM has initiated a community policing program in Mbuji-Mayi, Kasai Oriental province, and Lubumbashi in Haut-Katanga province. The project is supported by the USA and Canada. In Mbuji-Mayi, 400 officers from the Community Policing Police and 50 from the […]