Nigerians Are Selling Unused Items Worth USD 526 million on MoboFree.com
LAGOS, Nigeria, August 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- MoboFree.com (http://www.mobofree.com), the leading African social marketplace, today announced that the total volume of items...
View ArticleStandard Bank report confirms strong growth in Africa’s rising middle class –...
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, August 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Africa has experienced substantial growth in its middle class over the past 14 years, according to a study by Standard...
View ArticleCanada Deplores Ongoing Violence in Libya
OTTAWA, Canada, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement:“Canada deplores in the strongest terms the ongoing...
View ArticleThe impact of Movitel on ICT in Mozambique
MAPUTO, Mozambique, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Arriving in Mozambique when the telecom infrastructure was very limited and only 35% of the population was accessible to the...
View ArticleUN Committee on the Rights of the Child to review Venezuela, Morocco, Fiji,...
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is meeting in Geneva from 1-19 September to review children's rights in the...
View ArticleSouth African human rights activist to address closing session of United...
PRETORIA, South-Africa, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The 65th Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference, titled “2015 and Beyond: Our Action Agenda,” will be held at United Nations...
View ArticleUNMISS condemns the detention of IGAD ceasefire monitors in Unity State
JUBA, South Sudan, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) condemns the detention of a team of six Intergovermental Authority on Development (IGAD)...
View ArticleOnly One Weeks Until APO Media Award Entry Deadline
DAKAR, Senegal, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Only one weeks remain in the “Call for Entry” for the 2014 APO Media Award (#APOMediaAward)...
View ArticleSealegs Signs Distribution and Manufacturing Deal with Brazil
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Sealegs International (http://www.sealegs.com), the world's leading manufacturer of patented amphibious craft, announces an...
View ArticleAfrican States: Reject Immunity for Leaders / 141 Groups in 40 Countries...
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- African countries should reject immunity for sitting leaders for grave crimes before the African Court for Justice and...
View ArticleEthiopia: South Sudanese refugees receive cholera vaccine
PARIS, France, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- A vaccine against cholera is being used on a large scale for the first time in Ethiopia by teams from the international medical...
View ArticleHead of UNAMID addresses launch of Doha Document security arrangements in El...
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, August 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The security arrangements for integrating about 1,350 former combatants from Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)– Sudan...
View ArticleUN COMMITS TO SURGE EBOLA RESPONSE IN SIERRA LEONE / WARNS THAT REDUCTION OF...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, August 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- After two days of intense meetings with senior government leaders and Ebola-response partners to take stock of the current...
View ArticleSouth Sudanese Opposition’s Detention of a Monitoring and Verification...
WASHINGTON, August 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Press Statement Jen Psaki Department Spokesperson Washington, DC August 25, 2014 The United States government strongly condemns the...
View ArticlePress briefing by UN aid chief in South Sudan
JUBA, South Sudan, August 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Media Advisory What: Journalists are invited to a press briefing with the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Mr. Toby...
View Article$75,000 Anzisha Prize for Young Entrepreneurs Announces 2014 Finalists
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, August 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- For the first time ever, African Leadership Academy and The MasterCard Foundation are delighted to have Anzisha Prize...
View ArticleMediterranean Migrant Deaths Multiply in Summer Sailing Season
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The series of tragedies last weekend in the Mediterranean marks one of the deadliest periods of 2014, with an estimated 230...
View ArticleEthiopia: Tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees receive cholera vaccine
PARIS, France, August 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- A vaccine against cholera is being used on a large scale for the first time in Ethiopia by teams from the international medical...
View ArticleEbola Epidemic confirmed in Democratic Republic of Congo : MSF sends...
KINSHASA, Dem. Rep. of Congo (DRC) August 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a response to the confirmed Ebola viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak in...
View ArticleStatement of Mr. Ali Al-Za’tari, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, on...
KHARTOUM, Sudan, August 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The United Nations welcomes the approval last week by representatives of the Governments of South Sudan and Sudan of an...
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