Bukavu, DR Congo | AFP |  At least 20 people were killed in a gold mine collapse in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local minister said on Sunday. The deaths occurred overnight at a mine in South Kivu region in the east of the country, the province’s mines …

The Democratic Party’s Secretary General Mathias Nsubuga Birekeraawo died Sunday evening, after a reported stroke. DP President Norbert Mao confirmed the death of the veteran Ugandan politician. ” With deep sorrow I announce the death of Hon. Mathias Nsubuga, Secretary General of the Democratic Party. We have lost a most clean …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | Security forces patrolled the tense streets of Kinshasa on Sunday after the suspension of last-ditch talks to find a peaceful way out of the nation’s political crisis sparked by the end of President Joseph Kabila’s mandate. Negotiations to agree a way forward for the …

Joseph Kabila: DR Congo’s young, enigmatic leader Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP |  Still relatively young after 16 years leading the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila is a secretive president at the centre of a political crisis in his vast, conflict-ravaged nation. Tuesday marks the end of the second …

JOB OPENING HIV/AIDS Specialist- Manila The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation. UNICEF is …

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Banjul, Gambia | AFP |  Longtime Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who initially conceded defeat in a December 1 presidential poll, has lodged a Supreme Court case to challenge the result, despite pressure from the international community for him to cede power peacefully. The opposition in the small West African country, …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The UN has stopped The Gambia’s controversial army chief from visiting troops serving as peacekeepers in Darfur, as international pressure grows on the country’s top brass to accept incoming president-elect Adama Barrow. Gambian security forces seized the country’s Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday, drawing international …

JOB OPENING Posting Title: Social Affairs Officer (Gender) Job Code Title: SOCIAL AFFAIRS OFFICER Department/Office: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR WESTERN ASIA Duty Station: BEIRUT Posting Period: 16 December 2016 – 13 February 2017 Job Opening Number: 16-Social Affairs-ESCWA-71359-R-Beirut (G) Staffing Exercise N/A APPLY HERE Share on: WhatsApp

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | AFP |  Monday nights feel like Saturdays in Rio’s Little Africa neighborhood when the sun sets and the samba starts to play. Surrounded by a mostly young crowd, seven musicians sit around a table with the small four-string guitar called a cavaquinho, the cuica drum …