Pakistan IDPs Reluctant to Return

Nearly four years ago as skirmishes between troops and Taliban militants drove thousands out of the North Waziristan (NW) Agency on the Pakistan-Afghan border, Kalim Ullah, 40, was among those who left.

Nigerian Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission Recruits 2700 Volunteers

The lull in the fight against corruption is again being reversed by Nigeria’s second anti-corruption agency, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), which has recruited 2,700 National Anti-Corruption Volunteer...

European Union And Russia Agree Terms for Moscow’s Eventual World Trade Organisation Accession

The European Union (EU)’s Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht have announced that the last remaining bilateral issues for the EU in Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organisation have been resolved.

East African Community Defence Forces in Rwanda for Command Post Exercise

More than 300 officers from the five member states of the East African Community (EAC) Defence Forces are in Rwanda to take part in a week-long joint Command post exercise, codenamed ‘Ushirikiano Imara’ (loosely translated as “Firm Cooperation”),...

Central Bank of Nigeria Urges ECOWAS Member States to Reform the Banking Sector in Their Countries

A regional conference jointly organized by the West African Institute for Financial Growth and Management (WAIFEM) and ECOWAS opened on Monday in Abuja in which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has urged member states to reform the banking sector in...

Organization of American States Donates Firearms Marking Machine to the Government of Barbados

The Organization of American States (OAS) has donated a firearms marking machine to the Government of Barbados to be used by its Ministry of National Security with the objective of improving controls against the illicit trafficking in this type of weapon.

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Visiting Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has rolled out the red carpet this morning for visiting Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

East African Community Makes Progress in Harmonizing Laws for Common Market

Experts from the East African Community (EAC) have registered substantial progress in identifying areas requiring harmonization in immigration, employment and labor laws, all of which are key for the implementation of the EAC Common Market.

International Committee of the Red Cross Emergency Aid Reaches Besieged Sirte

Despite the humanitarian situation worsening in Sirte, the theatre of a violent battle between rebels and remnants of Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, emergency supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been able to reach people...