ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 21, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- It starts with your mindset, Amb. Sezibera tells youth The Secretary General of the East African Community Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera has challenged students in the region to take advantage of the opportunities created through EAC integration to better their communities and their lives. “You will have to take charge. The opportunities are ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 21, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Several hundred families fleeing violence in northern Nigeria and taking refuge in the Diffa area of south-eastern Niger are being provided with emergency supplies and food aid by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Red Cross Society of Niger. Around 2,400 people in Bosso, Kablewa, Tchoukoujani and Diffa today ...

- Facility to Create Hundreds of Jobs, Produce Quality Product ARUA, Uganda, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pan African Tobacco Group (PTG) Founder Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa announced today that ground has been broken on the company's new $20 million tobacco processing and production operation in northern Uganda. The new warehouse and factory, located in Arua, will be operational in five months and will ...

NEW YORK, 21 May 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - Thank you for your warm welcome. It is a pleasure to be in Mozambique and to feel the excitement and optimism of this wonderful country. And it is an honour to be here at this prestigious institution. This is where your future is taking shape. This is where you are training young women and men to go out into the government, and out across the country, the ...

BRUSSELS, 21 May 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the Commission, announced today the appointment of Nataliya Apostolova as the new Head of EU Delegation to Libya. Ms Nataliya Apostolova is currently the EU's Deputy Head of Delegation to Egypt and has previously worked in the European ...

GENEVA, 20 May 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - From condensing the meat of whole cow to the size of a human fist, to preserving seabirds in sealskins, there are hundreds of ways in which traditional cultures can teach the wasteful developed world how to preserve and conserve one of our most-precious yet most-squandered resources: food. Each year, an estimated one third of all food produced—an astonishing 1.3 ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 20 May 2013 / - On 25th May 2013, Africa will celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Organisation of African Unity and the African Union under the theme Pan-Africanism and African renaissance. As the continent celebrates the 50th anniversary of the continental organisation, Mrs Rhoda Tumusiime, African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture has spelled out the AU's ...

TUNIS-BELVEDERE, Tunisia, 21 May 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) will host a workshop on infrastructure and diaspora bonds in Africa during AfDB's annual meetings in Morocco on May 29, 2013. One of the main objectives of the seminar to be at held at the Palmeraie Golf Palace in Marrakech, themed “Financing African Structural Change - Infrastructure and Diaspora ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, 21 May 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - Today, 21 May 2013, the Presidency of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision constituting two Trial Chambers for the two Kenyan cases. The decision of the Presidency was taken to ensure the proper administration of justice, taking into consideration each Judge's workload. According to the decision, Trial Chamber V(a) in charge ...

NEW YORK, May 21, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks at the Round Table Event on the Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda, as prepared for delivery, in Maputo, on 20 May: I am delighted to be with you. You have so much to be proud of. Twenty years of peace. Twenty years of progress. Twenty years of development. You are ...