By Isseu Diouf Campbell South African New Yorkers celebrated 21 years of freedom at their 3rd Annual picnic held at Riverside Park in Washington Heights on April 21, 2015. Even though the ambiance was festive, the group held a minute of silence … Read More
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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu is hopeful that Saturday’s African Union (AU) summit, held in Livingstone, southern Zambia, will help in securing Africa a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. President Lungu, who spoke Friday ahead … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has slammed the executors of Nelson Mandela’s estate for associating themselves with “racist and colonialist” view that civil laws are superior to customary laws. This was after Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, … Read More
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Oraganisation (WHO) has declared Liberia free of Ebola virus transmission. A WHO statement obtained by PANA on Saturday said 42 had passed since the last laboratory-confirmed case was buried on 28 March 2015 … Read More
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Three journalists from Botswana’s private media have been arrested for allegedly publishing a story on an ongoing investigation by the country’s anti-corruption law enforcement agency. Botswana’s Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) agents on Thursday … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Mmusi Maimane, parliamentary leader of the official South African opposition Democractic Alliance, on Sunday became the new head of the party. Delegates at the party’s congress in Port Elizabeth voted for the first black … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc, (HCCI) hosted its 13th Annual Let Us Break Bread Together awards dinner honoring individuals and organizations that “have contributed to the well-being of others in some special way” on April … Read More
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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has expressed shock at the recent wave of tragedies on the Mediterranean sea that has claimed hundreds of lives. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, especially West Africa, … Read More
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A young Cameroonian female student who is to be deported from Mauritius because of her HIV-positive status on Friday took the matter to the Supreme Court in a bid to have the decision from the Passport … Read More
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – Thousands of demonstrators took Saturday to the streets of Burkina’s capital, Ouagadougou, and the western city of Bobo-Dioulasso to show their support for the electoral code which has banned pro-Compaoré officials from taking part in … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell The youth committee of the Association of Senegalese in America (ASA) hosted in Harlem a reception in celebration of the 55th Anniversary of the independence of Senegal on April 4, 2015, at the newly renovated headquarters … Read More
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By Isseu Diouf Campbell African Life Center hosted its first African Women’s Day Celebration on March 31, 2015 at the Lincoln Medical Center to empower African women on health, education and economics. Several experts including Health Advocate Stella Chinyere Obilor, … Read More
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Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The designer of Ghana’s national flag, Theodosia Salome Okoh, is dead, according to family sources. She died on Sunday in Tema, about 25km east of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, aged 92. Okoh was honoured for designing … Read More
By Segun Adeyemi Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – On April 14, 2014, 276 girls were abducted from their school, the Government Secondary School in Chibok, in Nigeria’s North-east Borno State, in the early hours of the day by Boko Haram terrorists. One … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Just 20 years ago, South Africa was a moral beacon for the entire planet. Its prisoner-turned world statesman Nelson Mandela had confounded millions around the world with his message of reconciliation that saw the … Read More
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – A 109-year-old woman who trekked to a polling booth to cast her vote in Sudan’s ongoing presidential and parliamentary polls made newspaper headlines in the North African nation last week. Fatima Ismail Mohamed Ali voted the … Read More
