APO International

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of €2 million from the Government of Italy that will help tackle climate change-induced vulnerabilities and strengthen food and nutritional security for up to 10,000 people including smallholder farmers, youth and women from selected farmers organizations in Tete province, in central Mozambique. The contribution, which was allocated through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) comes at a critical time […]

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) on 14th December 2023 approved a new five-year Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Kenya. The 2024-2028 CSP focuses on boosting private sector-driven growth through infrastructure development, strategic reforms, and human capital development. The Bank's country office said these priority areas will complement each other and build on what has already been achieved with the Bank’s assistance while continuing to support […]

In the midst of 5,400 square kilometres of greyish, brown water and decaying trees, stands an ‘island.’ It’s tiny in comparison to the vast body of water that surrounds it – perhaps a little over three square kilometers – but the important thing is that it’s the last refuge for some 300,000 residents of Bentiu, the capital of Unity state in South Sudan. The island is not a natural formation: It is […]

President Isaias Afwerki and his delegation that is on working visit to Italy visited production facilities and research center in various part of Italy on 4 and 5 February. During their visit to the cities of Perugia and Norcia in the Umbria region, the delegation explored Gruppo Grifo Agroalimentare, a company specializing in dairy products, and L’Artigiano dei Salumi Salvatori, renowned for its pork meat processing. The tour highlighted Italy’s […]

From September 18 to 22, 2023, Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI), in collaboration with Music Crossroads Zimbabwe (the local arm of JMI), hosted the 78th JMI Global Music Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe. The JMI Global is the annual coming together of the youth-music movement that is Jeunessees Musicales. It brought together 100+ international delegates from over 50 countries, marking an important milestone between the JMI, EU and our African partners, strengthening […]

The European Union has deployed an Election Follow-up Mission (EFM) to Zambia to assess the progress made in the electoral reform process and the implementation status of the 2021 EU Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) recommendations. The EU EFM is headed by Maria Arena, a Member of the European Parliament and Chief Observer of the 2021 EU EOM. The EU EFM has met with various interlocutors in the electoral process, […]

The Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa, has tasked the Minister of State for Trade Industry and Cooperatives (Industry), Hon. David Bahati, to honour his earlier pledge and table the Consumer Protection Bill. The Bill aims at setting standards for the quality, safety, and reliability of goods and also provides remedies in case of non-compliance with those standards as well as prohibiting unfair trade practices. Tayebwa recalled that it was after the […]

HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani met, in his office on Tuesday, with HE Speaker of the House of Representatives of the sisterly State of Libya Aguila Saleh. The meeting discussed cooperation relations between the two brotherly countries and ways to support and develop them. During the meeting, HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs affirmed the State of […]

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has activated more robust delivery mechanisms to its operations in Ethiopia since late 2023, a significant step in assuring the delivery of critical food assistance to the hungriest populations affected by drought, flooding, and conflict. WFP is now working at pace to deliver food assistance to up to 3 million in Ethiopia in the coming weeks. “WFP is extremely concerned about the deteriorating […]