LIBREVILLE, Gabon, April 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ – 45 days to go until the first New York Forum AFRICA (http://www.ny-forum-africa.com) to be held in Libreville in Gabon, from 8-10 June 2012, and numerous personalities are responding to the call of a continent which from now on is one of the players in world growth. [...]

MASERU, Lesotho, April 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On April 9, 2012, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Lesotho.1 Background Despite the unfavorable external environment (owing to a significant fall in revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and floods in early 2011), Lesotho’s [...]

ARUSHA, Tanzania, April 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — EAC Partner States have been exhorted to take joint concrete steps in preventing and combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism activities in the region. The call was made by Burundi’s Minister for Public Security, Hon. Gabriel Nizigama, when opening a four-day high level workshop [...]

PARIS, France, April 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — France utterly condemns the most recent attacks in Abuja and Kaduna in Nigeria yesterday morning, which left at least 9 people dead according to the latest reports. The upsurge in terrorist attacks in Nigeria is a troubling development. In this context, France expresses its solidarity with [...]

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo, April 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The creation of an African-funded trust fund to support food security in the continent was discussed at FAO’s Regional Conference for Africa, held last week in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Complementing international resource mobilization, this African Trust Fund would raise resources in the [...]