APO International

On 29 January, in Rome (Italy), His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the President of the Republic, met with Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The meeting focused on ways to strengthen bilateral relations between our country and this international financial institution. This meeting takes place on the sidelines of the Italy-Africa Summit, which began this morning in Rome with the participation […]

Premier Alan Winde visited a mobile disaster management incident command centre near Wolseley yesterday, 29 January, where he received a briefing on efforts to bring a series of wildfires in the Cape Winelands district and surrounds under control. The fires have been raging for more than a week. High temperatures and strong winds are fueling the flames. Fire teams in the Breede Valley and Witzenberg areas were given a slight […]

The Embassies of Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States strongly condemn the series of armed attacks on January 27 and 28 on a United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) base and on UNISFA personnel that led to the deaths of two peacekeepers, injuries to several other UNISFA personnel, and wider civilian casualties.  We understand that the two peacekeepers killed were from Ghana and Pakistan.  We express […]

His Excellency the President of the Republic, Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, received on Monday morning upon his arrival at the Italian Senate Palace in Rome, to participate in the Italian-African Summit, by the Italian Prime Minister, Mrs. Giorgia Maloney. The summit, which kicked off today in the presence of His Excellency, aims to launch a new phase of cooperation with African countries, especially in the field of energy, […]

Rugby World Cup 2023 (www.WorldRugby.org) in France was the most viewed rugby event of all time, further cementing its record-breaking legacy. RWC France 2023 achieved 1.33 billion viewing hours (VH) across all programming on linear&non-linear broadcast making it the most viewed rugby event of all time France 2023 achieved 30 per cent more viewership than England 2015 and 19 per cent more than Japan 2019 despite general decline in linear TV […]

The Indonesian Ambassador to Sudan, Sunarko, along with the staff of the Indonesian Embassy in Khartoum, attended a dynamic meeting on Friday (26/1) with a group of Sudanese entrepreneurs affiliated with the Port Sudan International Club. The meeting was directly attended by Mr. Abdalla, the General Manager of Bank Al-Balad Sudan, along with prominent figures from the business community in Port Sudan. The discussion focused on the progress and follow-up […]

In South Sudan, 19 of the 20 neglected tropical diseases are endemic, posing a huge health threat. More than 12 million people are at risk of infection from these diseases that can cause severe pain, disabilities and deformities among other devastating impacts. The country, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners, has made efforts over the recent years to tackle the threat of neglected tropical diseases by […]

​On January 29, 2024, the Charge d'Affaires ad Interim of The Indonesian Embassy in Tripoli (KBRI Tripoli), Mr. Dede Rifai, led a virtual meeting to prepare Indonesia's participation in the Tripoli International Fair, scheduled to be held in Tripoli, Libya from May 15 to 21, 2024. The virtual meeting was attended by representatives from the Indonesian Ministry of Trade, the Libya General Union of Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the […]

In response to a deadly Hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a mass vaccination campaign in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to safeguard women and girls of reproductive age, who are at greatest risk of death from the disease. Since April 2023, 501 cases of Hepatitis E have been treated at the MSF hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei state, and 21 […]