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GENEVA, Switzerland, March 1, 2017/APO/ -- Defence and security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo used excessive, disproportionate and at times lethal force to prevent and contain demonstrations in December 2016, a UN report…

LAGOS, Nigeria, March 1, 2017/APO/ --2016 saw a near-threefold rise in mobile malware detections compared to 2015 – with a total of 8.5 million malicious installations identified. This means that, in the space of just one year, a…

PRETORIA, South Africa, March 1, 2017/APO/ -- President Jacob Zuma has committed government to immediately review and enhance its programmes and strategies that are aimed at fighting crime and drug abuse in order to ensure safer and…

Dear consumers:Can we truly tell whether the staff at eateries we dine in or order from wash their hands after toilet trips at work? Study says a great number do not. And as a result, contaminated hands is one of the contributing…

LAGOS, Nigeria, February 24, 2017/APO/ -- MainData Nigeria (MDXi) and the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) have announced a partnership aimed at expanding the peering of Internet Transit traffic within Nigeria. The partnership…

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 28, 2017United Nations human rights expert Rosa Kornfeld-Matte will carry out her first official visit to Namibia from 2 to 13 March 2017 to assess the human rights situation of older persons in the…

LAGOS, Nigeria, February 27, 2017/APO/ -- Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook is in Nigeria today, to speak at Social Media Week in Lagos about the future of media, and to meet with Nigerian entrepreneurs and content creators.…

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 28, 2017/APO/ -- The 54th meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) began today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marking its yearly regional focus on…

DAKAR, Senegal, February 28, 2017Syngenta’s Seedcare program for smallholder farmers in Senegal has led to impressive yield increases for pearl millet (1.2 t/ha, +40%), sorghum (1.1 t/ha, +86%), maize (2.7 t/ha, +101%), irrigated rice…

By Godfrey Olukya 28-2-2017Ethiopia, Kenya, Egypt, Uganda, Nigeria and Burkina Faso have along with 2 international development partners launched a continental project called "Africa sustainable livestock (ASL)" meant to help in…

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the investment of $45.9 million to create and construct five “Youth Opportunity Hubs,” a first-of-its-kind effort to knit together community-based providers and build…

Washington, DC – The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition of 34,000 churches comprised of 15 denominations and 15.7 million African Americans, is well aware of the political transformation that is taking…

Washington, DC – The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition of 34,000 churches comprised of 15 denominations and 15.7 million African Americans, is appalled at the way that Ms. Omarosa Manigault was treated…

By Godfrey Olukya 22-2-2017Uganda's minister minister of state for defense Charles Okello Engola has said today says that the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) are in Equatorial Guinea, upon a request of that country’s president to…

By Godfrey OIukya 21-2-2017Officials from the east African community (EAC) secretariat are extremely worried over the fast eroding of cultures and morals of east Africans.They say that most of the cultures and morals are…

President Trump has focused on jumpstarting job creation and saving taxpayers money, by withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and clearing roadblocks delaying the Keystone Pipeline's construction. Along with…

26 countries will be represented at the Summit to date, including 16 African countries LONDON, United Kingdom, February 20, 2017/ -- H.E. Patrick Sendolo, Minister for Energy, Land and Mines, Liberia, H.E. Hon Irene Muloni, Minister of…

Dear friends: To Gambians home and abroad, today could not have come soon enough-celebrating a true national freedom from dictatorship and colonial terrorists.Please join us in ushering a new and futuristic era of independence,…

NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that New York City, collectively with a coalition of other municipalities across the nation have filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to…

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the indictments of SASHA CORDOBA and KEVIN DESORMEAU, both 33, for making false statements about a 2014 arrest in Washington Heights in court documents and in court…

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today warned New York tax preparers and human resources professionals of new scams aimed at stealing confidential client and employee information after the New York State Tax Department identified at least 37…

Washington, DC – The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition of 34,000 churches comprised of 15 denominations and 15.7 million African Americans, with over 800 local churches in the District of Columbia…

YESTERDAY, the first ever package of cultural legislation since the establishment of the Department of Cultural Affairs in 1976, as well as the largest set of reforms to the Percent for Art program since it was initiated 1982, was signed…

(New York, NY) – New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today assessed $3.2 million in fines against K.S. Contracting Corporation and its owner, Paresh Shah, for cheating dozens of workers out of the prevailing wages and benefits…

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the trial conviction of PEDRO HERNANDEZ, 56, for kidnapping and murdering six-year-old Etan Patz, who disappeared while walking to a school bus stop in 1979. The defendant…

(New York, NY) -- Today, in response to nationwide raids carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), State Senators José M. Serrano (D-Manhattan/Bronx) and Brad Hoylman (D, WF-Manhattan) announced they have…

Photo Caption: NYC Council Member Daniel Dromm (center) feeds a lion a red envelope while Mayor's Community Affairs Unit Queens Borough Director Nick Gulotta (first from left), Asian Community United Society President Warren Chan…

By Godfrey Olukya 13-2-2017Dangote Rice, a subsidiary of Dangote Group is set to launch a 25,000 hectares out growers rice scheme in Sokoto Nigeria's Sokoto state as one of the efforts to make the country self reliant in…

Repatriation Ceremony Follows Recovery of Artifact Stolen in 1988 and Smuggled Abroad Ceremony Pictured (from l-r): Consul General of Greece in New York, Dr. Konstantinos Koutras, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.,…

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