GENEVA, Switzerland, January 27, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM yesterday began a series of 12 flights to help 165 very vulnerable people stranded in Khartoum, together with 226 family members and escorts, to return home to South Sudan. The airlift, which is scheduled to continue for a week, will include 11 charter flights and [...]

PARIS, France, January 27, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A week after being found guilty of participating in a terrorist organization and preparing a terrorist attack, the Ethiopian journalists Reyot Alemu, columnist for the Amharic-language weekly Fitih, and Woubeshet Taye, deputy editor of Awramba Times – which has now closed own – were each sentenced [...]

NEW YORK, January 27, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following Security Council press statement was issued on 25 January by Council President Baso Sangqu (South Africa): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the multiple terrorist attacks that occurred in Kano, Nigeria, in recent days, causing numerous deaths and injuries. [...]

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, January 27, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Summary of the weekly press conference of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire, Bert Koenders, will give a presentation on Thursday 26 January 2012 on the situation in Côte d’Ivoire to the UN [...]