NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed landmark legislation Tuesday banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21, making New York...
ABUJA - Prof. Amos Claudius Sawyer, former President of Liberia's Interim Government of National Unity is leading a 100-strong ECOWAS Observation Mission (EOM) to Mali's 24th...
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- United Nations Special Rapporteur Gulnara Shahinian will visit Ghana from 22 to 29 November 2013, to assess...
WASHINGTON - In honor of Gender Day” at the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-19), the United States is...
JUBA - The AU- UN Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, urged tribal leaders in South Darfur to embrace the principle of resolving...
WARSAW - Africa faces huge financial challenges in adapting to climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) that spells out...
ABUJA - The ECOWAS Commission will present Mali with about half a million US dollars in food aid within the next few weeks to support populations...
ABUJA - ECOWAS is to deploy twenty (20) members of its Emergency Response Team (EERT) to Mali within the framework of a regional Humanitarian Assistance for...
GENEVA - Azerbaijan, Nicaragua and Nigeria are among the countries the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) plans to visit in 2014, the rights...
ADDIS ABABA - The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, is shocked and saddened by the acts of violence...
