The meeting, the second in 11 days, is in response to the January 19, 2013 extra-ordinary summit of regional Heads of State and Government towards an accelerated deployment of AFISMA, within the context of the UN Security Council Resolution 2085 of December 2012
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In a statement on the issue, LC2 Media said the position of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria on the issue of broadcast rights for the AFCON was not in tandem with the reality on ground
Unidentified men shot dead Ikechukwu Udendu, editor of Anambra News, a monthly newspaper in southeastern Anambra State, while he was returning home at night from a commercial printing house in the city of Onitsha, news reports said
The Critical Maritime Routes in the Gulf of Guinea Programme will help governments across West and Central Africa to improve safety of the main shipping routes by providing training for coastguards and establishing a network to share information between countries and agencies across the region
A group of seven armed men attacked the cargo boat on December 23, 2012 as it headed for Port Harcourt, Rivers State
In the framework of the European Union’s existing Financing Agreement with Ghana, the amount of 10M€ equivalent to 25,000,000 GHS released to the treasury for onward transmission to the Ministry of Health will support the implementation of the MDG Accelerated Framework and Country Action Plan developed to combat maternal mortality
He, however, added that the SSS warned the journalists that they could be summoned again as investigations continue
On Thursday the ICC unsealed an arrest warrant it had issued for Gbagbo in February of this year, on four counts of crimes against humanity during post-election violence in 2010 – murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, and other inhumane acts and persecution
In a Communiqué at the end of their one-day Extra-ordinary summit on Mali, the regional leaders urged the UN Security Council to examine the Concept with a view to authorizing the deployment of the international military force in Mali in conformity with Chapter 7 of the UN Charter
UNOCHA reported that 363 people were dead, 18,200 people were injured, approximately 2.16 million people were evacuated to the shelters, and 618,089 houses were destroyed
The position of the Canadian Government was made known by its Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, in a statement on Monday
Although preventable and treatable, malaria kills a child in Africa every 60 seconds and costs the continent an estimated minimum of $12 billion in lost productivity and healthcare costs each year
Bharti Airtel had become the fifth largest mobile operator in the world following its acquisition of Zain Group’s mobile operations across 15 African nations in June 2010
Heavy rains that began in August 2012 and continued in September have led to the worst flooding in Nigeria in more than 40 years
“Weeds are perhaps the most important constraint in rice production, so this is a valuable resource for all those involved in research, training and management of rice weeds in sub-Saharan Africa, where total rice production losses attributable to weeds are estimated at US$ 1.5 billion,” said Dr Jonne Rodenburg, AfricaRice Weed Scientist