African Intergovernmental Organizations

Zimbabwe: South Africa Farming Union Insists Land Grab Victims Be Protected

South Africa's main agriculture and farming union has expressed concern about the bilateral investment treaty agreed with Zimbabwe, which is set to exclude South African owned farms that were expropriated by the Robert Mugabe...

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Gambia: The Answer to Isolation is Expanded Democratisation, Term Limit and Respect for Human Rights

It is becoming increasingly clear that The Witch Hunt in the Gambia, the disappearance of Chief Manneh, the rigorous pursuit of libel as a crime which led to the incarceration of journalists for expression of opinions and the...

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Gambia: Food Safety Seminar for the Media and Consumer Groups

A one day sensitization and information sharing seminar for the Media and Consumer Interest Groups, organized by the West Africa Quality Programme (WAQP), in collaboration with the National Codex / Sanitary and Phytosanitary...

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Zimbabwe: MDC-T Launches Attack on MDC-M for Delaying Talks

The mainstream MDC on Friday launched a stinging attack on negotiators from the MDC-M, branding their counterparts as 'mischievious and insincere' for delaying talks to resolve the outstanding issues in the unity government.

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GLOBAL: Children's rights not yet a reality

Source: IRIN Children's rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to education, healthcare and...

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Africa: NEPAD And Agra - Partnering for Action On Africa's Farms

African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government....

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Women Are Citizens With Indivisible Rights - President Jammeh

The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, has said that women are first and foremost human beings with God-given rights, citizens with indivisible rights, guarantee the survival of the...

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Nigeria: Bakassi - Take Cameroon to UN, AU, Representatives Urge FG

Worried by the recent attacks on Nigerians in the Bakassi Peninsula by Cameroonian gendarmes, the House of Representatives Thursday advised the federal government to formally report to the United Nations Organization (UN), the...

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Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Parties to Hold Secret Weekend Talks

A top official from the mainstream MDC on Thursday said there were doubts Robert Mugabe would implement the Global Political Agreement, even if party negotiators manage to strike a deal. Negotiators from the three parties are...

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Africa: Leaders Tackle Plight of Their Victims

Kampala — Five heads of state, ministers and delegates from across the African continent met in Kampala last week for a special summit to deal with forced displacement in Africa. The focus of the conference was especially on...

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