The Ministry of the Armed Forces of Senegal and the Ministry of Defense and Sports of Austria, with the support of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), organized, from 28 November to 02 December 2016, a training on Cross-cutting issues in peace operations . The objective of the training was to strengthen the ca ...

The African Union Mission to the United States, in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, held, On November 15, 2016, a farewell event and reception to honor U.S. Congressman Charles B. Rangel for his outstanding contribution to the enduring partnership between the United States and Africa during his 45 consecu ...

The African Union, through its African Union Leadership Academy (AULA) will convene the first ever leadership debate for candidates contesting for the position of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on 9 December 2016. The debate, to be held at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia will be conducted before a li ...

ZM: Zoleka Mandela On drug and alcohol abuse BBC: You rsquo;ve talked about your experience of being abused as a child, all those traumatic experiences of abuse that you went through as a child are probably what led you to be addicted to drugs, tell us about that hellip; ZM: I had a lot of self-blame and anger, more ...

Rabat (AFP) - Morocco has arrested eight men with alleged ties to the Islamic State jihadist group active in the cities of Fez and Tangiers, the interior ministry said on Friday. A rifle, ammunition and documents inciting towards jihad were seized during the operation on Thursday, it said in a statement. An initial investigation pointed tow ...

LUANDA (AFP) - In power for 37 years, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has been an authoritarian leader who maintained fierce control over Angola throughout its devastating civil war and recent oil boom. Though seldom seen in public, he has been a looming presence in daily life for as long as most Angolans can remember, exercising almost total ...

Luanda (AFP) - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled for 37 years, will stand down before next year's general election, state radio said Friday citing sources in the ruling MPLA party. The autocratic Dos Santos, 74, became president in 1979, making him Africa's second-longest serving leader -- one month short of Equatorial Gui ...

Luanda (AFP) - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, in power for 37 years, will stand down before next year's general election, state radio said Friday citing sources in the ruling MPLA party. National Radio of Angola said that Defence Minister Joao Lourenco would take over as MPLA leader, in news confirmed to AFP by Joao Pinto, a senior m ...

Luanda (AFP) - An Angolan court was on Friday shown automatic weapons allegedly used in a coup attempt against long-ruling President Jose Eduardo dos Santos in January. The 35 accused men, said to be former fighters from the UNITA opposition group, appeared in court dressed in brown uniform on the first day of their trial in Luanda. Two other ...

Africa rsquo;s top statisticians met in Grand Bassam, Cote d rsquo;Ivoire to discuss the status and challenges of producing economic statistics in Africa and to take stock of the various efforts underway in modernizing official statistics. Organized by the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collabora ...

Secretary General 39;s Message on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery: The Secretary General -- Message on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery - 2 December 2016 The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery calls upon us to remember victims around the world and to reflect on progress towa ...

The Africa Trade Facilitation Forum segment of the ongoing Africa Trade Week opened here today with a rallying call to urgently address trade facilitation gaps that impact on trade and the movement of goods in order to boost intra-African trade, deepen integration and transform African economies. ldquo;Time is running out, rdquo; was the r ...

There is a sense in which the British cemetery in Kabul is a monument to the human spirit. A triumph of hope over experience and as I stood there last Saturday on a chilly and foggy morning I felt the eerie pathos of the place. It was here in 1842 that the Victorian catastrophist William Elphinstone was driven from his cantonment with a ...

IOM reports that 350,573 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2016 through 30 November, arriving mostly in Greece and Italy, compared with 883,393 by this time in 2015. Some 171,751 people have arrived in Greece and 173,188 in Italy during 2016. Arrivals in Italy increased by 20.1 percent from 144,205 at this point last year. The ...

In Sierra Leone, 90% of households do not have electricity. Un-electrified, mainly rural, areas of Sierra Leone primarily use small diesel or petrol generators and kerosene to meet their energy needs. This costs far more than energy in urban areas which benefit from grid connection and subsidised tariffs. This also limits opportunities for rura ...

The Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Peter de Clercq, today made an urgent appeal for humanitarian assistance amid worsening drought conditions that have left hundreds of thousands of Somalis facing severe food and water shortages. He made the call during a briefing with the international community in Nairobi, highlighting the urgency of r ...

Cameroon is allowing conflict diamonds from the Central African Republic to cross over its borders and into the legal supply chain due to poor controls, smuggling and corruption, Partnership Africa Canada (www.PACweb.org) said in a report published today. The full report can be accessed at: http://bit.ly/fromconflicttoillicit The report ...

Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, Atul Khare, presented the new strategy on United Nations peace operations and the environment at Columbia University on 29 November. The Under-Secretary-General set out the Department 39;s vision for responsible missions that operate at maximum efficiency in their use of natural resources, and at ...

To mark its 10th anniversary, Al Jazeera is updating some of its most memorable documentaries to find out what happened next. This Thursday, as part of this Rewind series, Al Jazeera will re-broadcast excerpts from Sweet Dreams, its inspiring documentary about playwright Odile lsquo;Kiki rsquo; Katese, who brought together women f ...

Bamako (AFP) - Clashes between armed groups near the northern Malian city of Gao left at least one person dead and a dozen injured, and the local airport was closed after being hit in a jihadist attack, sources said. Fighting erupted Thursday between the towns of Tessit and Intillit among unidentified militias, an elected official who asked not ...