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The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa
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South Africa urges dialogue to end Israel-Iran conflict

South Africa calls on the United States, Israel, and Iran to give the United Nations the opportunity and space to lead on the peaceful resolution of the matters of dispute

President Cyril Ramaphosa and the South African government have noted with a great deal of anxiety the entry by the United States of America into the Israel-Iran war. It was South Africa’s sincerest hope that President Donald Trump would use his influence and that of the US government to prevail…

National Football League (NFL)

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    • Nigeria secure historic double as first African flag football champions. Photo Credit: Khaled El-Fiqi/AP Content Services for the NFL (1)
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Nigeria secure historic double as first African flag football champions

As African champions, Nigeria’s men and women qualify directly to the IFAF Flag Football World Championships in 2026

Nigeria’s women’s and men’s teams have been crowned the inaugural IFAF African Flag Football champions as the sport marked a major milestone on its journey to a first Olympic Games appearance in Los Angeles 2028. The Nigerian men edged a thrilling final game, winning 13-12 to claim gold over hosts…

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
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Medal award ceremony for the 9th Nigerian company of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mission to The Gambia

This distinction honours their invaluable contribution, their sacrifices, their unwavering dedication and their constant commitment to peace, stability and security in the west coast region of The Gambia

The 9th Nigerian Company (NIGCOY 9) of the ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia was deployed as part of the mission on the 26th of June 2024. After completing the required period of service in the area of operation, its members were awarded the ECOWAS Peace Medal at a ceremony held on the…

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and partners strengthen Ghana’s capacity to monitor and report on women, peace and security commitments through the continental results framework

Over 40 participants, including government officials, civil society representatives, security sector personnel, and technical working group members, were trained on the application of the simplified CRF tool and questionnaire

The ECOWAS Commission, through its Directorate of Humanitarian and Social Affairs (DHSA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection of the Republic of Ghana, successfully hosted a three-day national capacity-building workshop on the Continental Results Framework (CRF) for Women, Peace and Security (WPS) from the 10th to…

CorpsAfrica

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    • Bellama Gado - CorpsAfrica Volunteer (Ghana)
    • Magombe Muzamiru - CorpsAfrica Exchange Volunteer from Uganda
    • Dr Patricia King'ori-Mugendi - Country Director CorpsAfrica Kenya
    • PS Fikirini Jacobs, Principal Secretary for Youth Affairs & Creative Economy (Media Briefing)
    • Dr Patricia King'ori-Mugendi - County Director CorpsAfrica Kenya
    • Hon. Salim Mvurya, Cabinet Secretary - Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy & Sports
    • Liz Fanning - CEO/Founder, CorpsAfrica
    • PS Fikirini Jacobs, Principal Secretary for Youth Affairs & Creative Economy
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    • CorpsAfrica Volunteers & Alumni attending the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, celebrating Pan-Africanism in the spirit of Ubuntu. Over 1,000 participants attended the biennial event including youths from 11 African countries (1)
    • CorpsAfrica Volunteers & Alumni attending the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, celebrating Pan-Africanism in the spirit of Ubuntu. Over 1,000 participants attended the biennial event including youths from 11 African countries (2)
    • CorpsAfrica Volunteers & Alumni attending the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, celebrating Pan-Africanism in the spirit of Ubuntu. Over 1,000 participants attended the biennial event including youths from 11 African countries (3)
    • CorpsAfrica Volunteers & Alumni attending the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, celebrating Pan-Africanism in the spirit of Ubuntu. Over 1,000 participants attended the biennial event including youths from 11 African countries (4)
    • CorpsAfrica Volunteers & Alumni attending the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, celebrating Pan-Africanism in the spirit of Ubuntu. Over 1,000 participants attended the biennial event including youths from 11 African countries (5)
    • CorpsAfrica Volunteers & Alumni attending the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, celebrating Pan-Africanism in the spirit of Ubuntu. Over 1,000 participants attended the biennial event including youths from 11 African countries (6)
    • CorpsAfrica Volunteers & Alumni attending the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, celebrating Pan-Africanism in the spirit of Ubuntu. Over 1,000 participants attended the biennial event including youths from 11 African countries (7)
    • Dr. Patricia King'ori-Mugendi, the CorpsAfrica Country Director/Kenya delivering her remarks at the Opening Ceremony of the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya, where stakeholders urged African Governments to institutionalize volunteerism as a national development strategy targeting youth empowerment and Community-Led Development
    • Liz Fanning, Founder & CEO CorpsAfrica, delivering her remarks at the Opening Ceremony of the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in 2011, CorpsAfrica is currently in 11 countries, namely Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Rwanda, Morocco, Senegal, Ethiopia, Uganda, The Gambia, and South Africa, with Côte d'Ivoire being the newest office , opened in April 2024
    • Bellama Gado, CorpsAfrica Exchange Volunteer from Ghana, speaking during the Opening Ceremony of the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya. Ms. Gado, will be starting her one-year exchange volunteer experience in Kenya as part of her volunteering and mutual learning, leadership skills and capacity building journey with CorpsAfrica
    • Magombe Muzamiru, CorpsAfrica Exchange Volunteer from Uganda, speaking during the Opening Ceremony of the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently serving in Meru County in Eastern Kenya working with the community in Nchoroiboro Village, to establish a sunflower oil extraction enterprise to provide access to affordable cooking oil with the by-products being used to create Bar soap, which is sold for just 130 shillings, a price that ensures every member of the community can access it
    • Hon. Salim Mvurya, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports, delivers his speech at the official opening of the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya, where he committed the Government's support in fast tracking the review of the Kenya National Volunteer Policy guidelines, currently under review, with the aim to create spaces for broader recognition and rewarding of voluntarism as a driver of civic engagement and social capital in Kenya
    • Prof. Nura Mohamed, Director General, Kenya School of Government (Left) with Hon. Salim Mvurya, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports, (Ctr) visiting the Exhibition stands showcasing community-Led impact projects by the various youth volunteers at the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 at the Kenya School of Government. On the right is Dr. Patricia King'ori-Mugendi, the CorpsAfrica Country Director/Kenya
    • Liz Fanning, Founder & CEO CorpsAfrica, speaks during the media briefing following the official opening of the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 at the Kenya School of Government in Nairobi, Kenya. Fanning urged governments and stakeholders not to view the continent's large youth population as a crisis but as Africa's greatest asset instead
    • Dr. Patricia King'ori-Mugendi, the CorpsAfrica Country Director/Kenya, speaks during the media briefing following the official opening of the CorpsAfrica All-Country Conference 2025 at the Kenya School of Government in Nairobi, Kenya, where she urged Africa to re-frame their perspective of volunteerism - not as unpaid work, but as transformative leadership and professional development that accelerates public and community service for the 21st century
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Pan-African Youth Take the Lead at CorpsAfrica's 2025 All-Country Conference in Nairobi

CorpsAfrica’s ACC 2025 is the organisation’s flagship biennial gathering, uniting diverse stakeholders to champion and accelerate youth-driven development across Africa

In a powerful convergence of hope, action, and purpose, more than 1,000 young change-makers, policymakers, philanthropists, and development partners from across Africa came together in Nairobi on Wednesday to mark the opening of CorpsAfrica’s (www.CorpsAfrica.org) 2025 All-Country Conference (ACC 2025). Download document (1): https://apo-opa.co/3ZIHAbQ Download document (2): https://apo-opa.co/3ZJ4Pm9 Under the theme ‘Leading…

International Sports Press Association (AIPS)

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Kirsty Coventry Unveils Collaborative & Inclusive International Olympic Committee (IOC) Leadership Vision at First Public Media Roundtable

Her presidency, set to begin officially on Olympic Day, 23 June 2025, will mark a historic moment as she becomes the first woman and first African to lead the IOC

In her first major media appearance since being elected President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Kirsty Coventry offered a strikingly human portrait of the leader she intends to be: humble, collaborative, and unwaveringly grounded in the values of sport, equity, and Olympism, as she addressed international media during an…

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Liberia
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Liberia Wins Bid to Host the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Youth & Sports Development Centre

Liberia’s selection as host of the EYSDC marks a significant achievement in its regional engagement and diplomacy

The Republic of Liberia is proud to announce through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that it has officially won the bid to host the ECOWAS Youth & Sports Development Centre (EYSDC), a key regional institution under the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The decision was made following a…

United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)

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    • An ongoing general court martial in Wau strives to bring much-needed justice to communities “Noone is above the law, irrespective of the uniform they wear,” says Major General Marech Chietak from South Sudan's National Prisons Service (Photo by Busang Maruping/UNMISS)
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United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)-supported General Court Martial launches in Wau

The Wau general court martial is expected to hear a total of 28 cases, 15 of which relate to serious crimes

A military court has officially begun in Wau, the capital of South Sudan's Western Bahr El Ghazal, to hear cases related to allegations of serious misconduct by uniformed personnel from the South Sudan’s Peoples Defense Forces (SSPDF). As judges and legal officers stood to take their oaths, marking the official opening…

United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
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Sudan: Türk warns of catastrophic surge in violence

The RSF have reportedly surrounded the city of El Obeid, currently held by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and allied groups, and may attack it in the coming days, as announced by the RSF commander

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned today of the disastrous consequences stemming from ongoing and escalating hostilities across the North Darfur and Kordofan regions in Sudan, where civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting have been reported in multiple areas. “The recent fighting and grave risk of further aggravation…

Amnesty International
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Central African Republic: Breakthrough as ex-combatants of rebel group are convicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity but trial tarnished by absence of four defendants

In the Ndélé 2 case, six defendants were found guilty of crimes against humanity, including murder, attempted murder, inhuman acts and persecution, and war crimes, and sentenced to between 18 and 25 years’ imprisonment

Reacting to the news that the Special Criminal Court has convicted six former combatants of the Popular Front for the Rebirth of the Central African Republic (Front populaire pour la renaissance de la Centrafrique) for crimes against humanity and war crimes, Alice Banens, Legal Adviser at Amnesty International, said: “The decision handed…