Download logoFilip Andersson “Peace is a process.” Hawa Aganas, a Civil Affairs Officer serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, lets slip an audible sigh and displays a smile which seems both wary…
RC Montemor won the national championship of the first rugby division, corresponding to the second national level, by beating Benfica 17-11 in the final on Saturday in Lisbon. The Alentejanos scored the first try through…
Download logoThe Government of Japan has released USD 1,500,000 to fund community stabilization activities in Nigeria’s North-East region. These funds will be utilized through an ongoing programme launched in 2016, implemented by the United Nations…
Irregular migration from the East and Horn of Africa to southern Africa, presents countries along this route with a new challenge: how to manage these flows while ensuring that the human rights of migrants are respected and…
Download logoWith regard to its activities in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) would like to clarify that we follow the UN position indicating that Libya cannot yet be considered a safe port. IOM in Libya…
In coordination with the Government of the Republic of Mozambique and international partners, the United States Government has to date delivered 125 metric tons of relief supplies via military aircraft to areas affected by Cyclone…
Tuesday, 2nd April 2019, on behalf of The Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd (the “Borrower”, or “MCB”) (www.MCB.mu), Standard Chartered Bank (“SCB”) and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited (“SMBCE”), together the coordinators (“Coordinators”) and active…
Frédéric Bontems, French Ambassador in Ethiopia and to the African Union, and Panos Navrozidis, Action Against Hunger Ethiopia country director, signed a funding support contract this morning for an emergency cash response for conflict internally…
Download logoOn 29 March, upon the request of the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe, the Government of Japan decided to provide emergency relief goods (tents, portable jerry cans, etc.) through Japan International Cooperation Agency…
Download logoShri Rakesh Malhotra, presently Consul General, Consulate General of India, Melbourne, has been appointed as the High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Cameroon. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly….
Writing to Pope Francis, FAO's Director-General has pointed to the need to safeguard the world's water resources so that they can benefit every person in every country. “Access to clean water and sanitation is essential…
Download logoThe European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a commitment of USD 15 million with the SPE Africa Industrialization I Fund (AIF I), a generalist private equity fund targeting primarily growth capital investments in SMEs…
Download logoA total of 37,720 Mozambicans have now received shelter aid—either tarpaulins to replace destroyed roofs, or full tents—in a concerted international response to devastation brought by Cyclone Idai, one of the worst natural disasters to…
Kenya kick off their 2019 Barthes Cup campaign on Thursday with a clash against Tunisia at 3:30pm at the KCB Sports Club Ruaraka. This match will be preceded by the early kick off pitting defending…
Download logoToday (April 1) the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, took a first-hand look at response efforts to save lives and protect health for the people in Beira, the city hardest…
A report presented today jointly by the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) finds that around 113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute…
13 March 2017… A group of Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia with eight sailors on board. Less than four days later the crew was safely back on land, thanks…
For the second time in less than a week, Dubai’s International Humanitarian City, IHC, has dispatched a cargo flight made available by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and…
Ministers and representatives of Governments unanimously adopted a political declaration today reaffirming support for the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which established that that reproductive health, individual rights and women’s…
Download logo On March 31, 2019, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to President Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia, the rotating presidency of the Council of Heads of Government of the Arab League (AL),…