The killing of veteran journalist Abdisalan Sheik Hassan in December 2011 was the beginning of the latest spate of targeted killings of journalists.

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Organized by the World Bank in collaboration with the African Union Commission and ECA’s African Climate Policy Centre, the workshop has brought together some 60 participants representing Regional Economic Communities, River Basin organizations, Power Pools and a broad range of stakeholders.

“Operation Free Shabelle” started yesterday with the objective of bringing security to the 400,000 people of the Afgoye corridor, and area north-west of Mogadishu with the largest concentration of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the world.

“Technical cooperation for development is new for Brazil, but since the second term of former President Lula aid development has become a pivotal tool for Brazil’s foreign policy” says Minister Marco Farani is the Director of the Brazilian Agency of Cooperation. In this interview released to Sud Quotidien (Senegal), Les Echos (Mali), A Semana (Cape Verde), L’Autre Quotidien (Benin), @Verdade (Mozambique) and Afronline.org (Italy), Minister Farani explains the challenges that Brazil has to face in Africa.

This new investment was announced at the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum

Challenges met by the Panel of Experts on the Sudan throughout 2011 essentially show the inefficiency of the sanctions regime established by the United Nations Security Council, says Claudio Gramizzi

The plans to establish the Criminal Court of the Continent comes at a time when many African ICC state parties, more so Kenya have been championing complete withdrawal from the Rome Statute that founded the ICC

The purpose of the meeting was to follow-up on the theme of the Summit – Boosting Intra-African trade – and review ways and means of enhancing and maximizing the effectiveness of WB support for the AU and Africa, in that respect.