Photo: http://semredcrossyouth.org PANA Quatre Bornes, Mauritius – On Saturday, the Mauritian Health Ministry launched the ‘Health Screening and Counselling services at your doorstep Programme’, taking screening and counselling services further closer to the population, PANA reported from here. Under the … Read More
Gambian youth participants in Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program, Photo: tostan.blogspot.com PANA Banjul, Gambia – Concerned by the worsening cases of human rights violations in West Africa in general and The Gambia in particular, two international human rights campaigners have raised … Read More
Photo: whiotv PANA New York, US – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced happiness with the “generally peaceful” conduct of the first round of presidential elections in Madagascar, “after the political impasses of the recent past”. PANA in New York, … Read More
Photo: evwind PANA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia– Ethiopia will Saturday launch what it claims to be Africa’s largest wind farm for power generation at Ashegoda, 18 km from Mekelle, the northern Tigray regional capital. Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) said here … Read More
Photo: voanews PANA Lagos, Nigeria- A renewed appeal has gone out from participants in a roundtable at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, US, to stop illicit financial flows (IFF) from Africa, which is depriving the continent of almost US$ … Read More
Photo: energydz The Christian Science Monitor’s David J. Unger Is oil a blessing or a curse? That question will ripple across many African nations in the coming decade as technology and geology converge to unlock billions of barrels of oil … Read More
Photo: Entrance of the Apartheid Museum © Global Brief The Guardian’s Azad Essa In his final address to the African National Congress (ANC) in 1997, Nelson Mandela stunned the western world by attacking white privilege – that enduring postcolonial swear … Read More
Photo: rt.com PANA Tripoli, Libya– On the occasion of the second anniversary of the ‘liberation of Libya’ from the late Mouammar Kadhafi, the US government has reassured Libyans of continued assistance. The assurance was given here Thursday by American Ambassador … Read More
Photo: Kevin Frayer/Associated Press/em> PANA Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire- More than 7.5 million Ivorian children, aged 0-5 years, will be vaccinated against polio when the third round of the nation’s national immunization programme begins on Friday, according to health officials here … Read More
Photo: ddr.tv PANA The Weinstein Company (TWC), backers of the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are to join forces to introduce Nelson Mandela and the story of South Africa’s transition to democracy to a … Read More
Photo: New Seasons Youth Program PANA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia– The African Union (AU) headquarters will host a high-profile workshop to mobilise the private sector, governments, civil society, regional economic communities and pan-African stakeholders to ponder Africa as a company, it … Read More
Photo: Premium Times, Talatu Usman PANA Lagos, Nigeria – The Nigerian government has renewed its energy partnership agreement with Germany to boost bilateral relations between the two countries and address the African nation’s power deficit, the local media reported Wednesday. … Read More
Photo: Huffington Post PANA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- The Third Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-III) kicked off in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday against a background of growing sense of urgency to respond to the impacts of … Read More
South African President Jacob Zuma, Photo: Huffington Post PANA Cape Town, South Africa- South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has talked himself into trouble after casting a slur on the continent by saying that Johannesburg residents should not ”think like Africans … Read More
Lesotho women protesting violence against women at a National Women’s Day protest at National University of LesothoPhoto: K. Kendall PANA New York, US– A key UN human rights body has provided authoritative guidance to countries that have ratified the women’s … Read More
Photo: Reuters PANA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- Ahead of next month’s UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland, the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) has expressed concern that the conditions of vulnerable groups are often forgotten in the midst of the … Read More
Photo: globetrottertravel PANA New York, US- Brazzaville, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Congo, has become the first city to be designed by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as a member of its network … Read More
Photo: thegatewaypundit PANA Tripoli, Libya-A terrorist cell believed to be behind recent assassinations in Libya’s second city of Benghazi has been dismantled with a dozen persons, including three Chadian nationals, arrested, a top Benghazi security official said. ”The Libyan Martyrs’ … Read More
Keryn JordanPhoto: Phil Walter/Getty Images AsiaPac PANA Cape Town, South Africa- Former South African national football team striker Keryn Jordan died Monday at the age of 37, after a long battle with cancer. Jordan began his career at Supersport United … Read More
Photo: “Viccisitudes” by Jason deCaires Taylor New York, US- The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution approving the construction of a permanent memorial at the UN headquarters in New York, to honour victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave … Read More
