Despite being best known for making pop music, Akon‘s decided to give filling dancefloors a break in favour of bringing solar energy to people living in rural Africa.
The singer has decided to seriously diversify and set up charity Akon...
Arrested at 15, then held in Guantanamo for over a decade
In his first interview since release, Khadr says he wants to move on
Uses interview to recall his Guantanamo experience
In his first full-length interview since being released...
The 40th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Islamic Development Bank Takes Place in Maputo
MAPUTO, Mozambique, June 4, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali, President of the Islamic Development Bank Group (http://www.isdb.org), has...
'Living with Ebola' wins Best Doc at Africa Media Awards
Dear colleagues,
I'm happy to share the news that Insight TWI's film 'Living with Ebola' won Best Documentary at the Mohamed Amin Africa Media Awards last week.
The film aired in November as a special first episode of our...
Swiss police just arrested 7 FIFA executives, giving hope to billions of people around the world who love football and hate corruption. But unless we move fast Sepp Blatter will get away with it, and begin his fifth term...
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DAKAR, Senegal, May 28, 2015/ -- APO (African Press Organization) (http://www.apo-opa.com), the sole press release newswire in Africa...
The campaign to secure the release of Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed, Mohamed Fahmy and Abdullah Elshamy has won a major PR Award. The SABRE Awards EMEA, organized by leading PR publication The Holmes Report, gave the #FreeAJStaff campaign a...
May 13, 2015, 06:00 pm
By Alemayehu G. Mariam
President Obama visited Ghana in 2009 and told Parliament, “History is on the side of brave Africans.” He warned Africa’s strongmen, “History is not with those who use coups or change Constitutions...
• Latest studies estimate there are 2.9 million drug users in Afghanistan, the highest per capita in the world
• Exclusive access to a U.S.-funded clandestine drug court
• Interview with high-profile drug smuggler
In an eye-opening investigation that spanned several months,...
CPJ releases annual assessment of press freedom worldwide
New York, April 27, 2015-Terrorist groups and the governments who purport to fight them have made recent years the most dangerous period to be a journalist, the Committee to Protect Journalists found...