APO International

 Reliable food security statistics are essential for informed decisions on food access, quality, and affordability. Recognizing this, a regional collaboration between the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and Statistics Norway, funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), has supported eight African nations in strengthening their food and nutritional security through enhanced capacity building in processing and analysis of from Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCES) […]

 Cabinet Secretary for Health Dr. Deborah Barasa met with the leadership of the Kenya Health Professionals Oversight Authority led by the CEO Dr. Jackson Kioko, to discuss advancing KHPOA’s operational functions.  As a corporate body within the Ministry of Health, KHPOA aims to provide effective oversight in regulating healthcare services, training, and professional practice. The Authority is essential for standardizing previously unregulated health professionals to enhance healthcare quality across Kenya. […]

 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urgently appealing for $10.6 million to address the most pressing needs of 228,000 forcibly displaced people and their host communities across West and Central Africa, where devastating climate-induced torrential rains and floods have wreaked havoc and impacted over 5.1 million people. In Chad, some 1.9 million people have been affected. Niger (1.4 million) and Nigeria (1.2 million) have also been severely impacted, as well as Cameroon […]

 Stellantis Middle East&Africa (MEA) (www.Stellantis.com) is endorsing “La Croisière Verte”, a remarkable 14,000-kilometer journey across Africa in four fully-electric Citroën AMIs, organized by entrepreneur and former rally driver Éric Vigouroux. This event celebrates 100 years since André Citroën’s legendary “Croisière Noire”, capturing the same adventurous spirit, now routed towards sustainable mobility. To honor this centenary, Éric Vigouroux has taken up the challenge of retracing this iconic route with electric vehicles […]

 The Republic of Congo’s (RoC) Ministry of Hydrocarbons will hold a press conference during African Energy Week: Invest in African Energy (AEW) on November 4 in Cape Town to announce the inaugural Congo Energy&Investment Forum (CIEF), scheduled for March 25-26, 2025 in Brazzaville. This high-profile event will position the RoC as a prominent player in Africa’s energy landscape, showcasing extensive investment opportunities across its energy sector.  Under the leadership of […]

 The ECOWAS Commission has awarded a grant of $1,033,991 to twenty-five (25) regional cen-ters, including nine (9) focused on agricultural innovation, six (6) dedicated to agronomic re-search, and ten (10) specializing in vocational training in agroecology and organic agriculture. This funding initiative is designed to train 3,142 young people, enhancing their skills by com-plementing theoretical knowledge with practical expertise, while promoting innovation and capacity-building in the agroforestry, livestock, and fisheries […]

 Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, William J. Burns. The meeting was attended by Head of the General Intelligence Service, Hassan Rashad. The meeting addressed the latest developments pertinent to joint efforts to achieve de-escalation in the Gaza Strip, ways to advance negotiations towards a ceasefire and the exchange of captives, and immediate and complete access to humanitarian aid was emphasized […]

 South Africa welcomes the convening and the outcome of the Sixth Conference of States Parties (CSP) to the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty) held from 24 to 25 October 2024 at the Headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. States Parties to the Treaty reaffirmed their commitment to the Pelindaba Treaty and noted with concern recent events and actions that have negatively affected the operations […]

 The West Africa Energy Cooperation Summit (WA-ECS) is set to tackle project development bottlenecks across the ECOWAS region and drive sustainable energy development across West Africa from 3-5 December 2024, in Lomé, Togo. The response from the private sector, who are actively looking for energy projects, but often frustrated by the pace of development, tells us this meeting is long overdue. Under the distinguished patronage of the President of the Togolese […]