Association of Accountancy Bodies of West Africa (ABWA), the umbrella body for accounting professional bodies in the West Africa sub-region is to soon commence tracking exercise to ascertain the level of compliances with international financial reporting standard by member-institutes.
The attention of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority has been drawn to a story captioned "World Bank Projects Collapse in Lagos" in This Day Newspaper of Monday, November 23, 2009.
A delegation led by the Assistant Secretary-General of UN Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Edmond Mulet, arrived today in El Fasher, North Darfur, in a follow-up to his visit two years ago, when the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was first established.
The ongoing UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is an important global event that will be a turning point in the fight to prevent climate disaster.
President Paul Kagame yesterday met Janamitra Devan, the Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and discussed how the institution can enhance investment and private sector development in the country.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has stressed that the continent's oil and gas potential is steadily growing, according to a communiqué by the African Union (AU).
Chief Mediator Kofi Annan yesterday expressed his displeasure at Parliament's failure to pass the Imanyara Bill which seeks to establish a special local tribunal to deal with post election violence suspects.
Less developed economies and Africa in particular would from today at the commencement of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark seek financial compensation, technology transfer and capacity building from developed economies to mitigate climate change.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke out against the second deadly attack in as many days on peacekeepers serving with the joint African Union-United Nations mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur, issuing a call for the perpetrators to be brought to justice immediately.
Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has blamed bad policies for the worsening impact of climate change in Kenya.
A legally binding global agreement on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions will take years to develop and adopt, delegates at the Copenhagen climate change conference said, citing huge differences among key players.
The Copenhagen summit is unlikely to produce a legally binding agreement on tackling climate change, a Kenyan MP said Tuesday.
SA YESTERDAY pledged to curb its carbon emissions growth by 42% by 2025, but said the reduction would be conditional on financial and technological support from developed countries.
As the UN's Climate Change Summit continues in Copenhagen, Africa must take a firm stand by seeking financial compensation, technology transfer and capacity building from developed economies to mitigate climate change.
"The Secretary-General placed on record his strong condemnation of the 5 December attack the second in two days, on troops from the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).
Somali civil society groups have held meeting in the Kenyan port of Mombassa and said that AMSIOM troops did not bring any solution for the Somalia, officials said on Tuesday.
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today paid tribute to Jean Serge Essous, a Congolese musician who served as one of the agency's Artists for Peace.
President Jacob Zuma has been commended for attending the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen and taking with him South Africa's contribution towards the global effort to reduce emissions.
Local entrepreneurs were last week equipped with skills in exploring the United Nations Global Marketplace (UNGM) at the second general supplies Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) workshop that was held at Boipuso Hall.
International Telecommunication Union has said it wants negotiators at the Copenhagen talks to recognize the role information communication and technology will play to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The newly-appointed Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), Lieutenant General Sikander Afzal arrived in the country on 4 December 2009 to assume responsibility for a force of approximately 10,000 multinational troops.
UNAIDS has launched a new framework for strategic partnerships with faith-based organizations (FBOs), acknowledging the impact they can have in delivering HIV programmes.
The 15th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dubbed COP 15, opens today in Copenhagen, Denmark, amidst uncertainties of what the likely outcome will be. The general expectation is that at the end of the ten-day conference, the international community will decisively commit themselves to galvanise global and concerted action to mitigate ...
The World Bank Country Director to Ghana, Ishak Diwan has blamed the lack of consensus on spending decisions for some of the poor quality spending that took place under the NPP government, and cautioned that if clear principles on how to spend future oil revenues are not established now, and consensus built around them, it is possible that Ghana will miss the opportunity of unleashing the economic ...
Antonio Hill, Oxfam International Climate Advisor said, “Like ants in a room full of elephants poor countries are at risk of been squeezed out of the climate talks in Copenhagen. As the talks ramp up and the big players put forward their proposals for the deal it is vitally important that vulnerable countries are part of the debate.”
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