Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – “Response to crisis in Africa must be global and based on the promotion of democratic governance as guaranteed by the African Charter outlined by the African Union,” the Chair of the African Union Commission, Mrs Nkosazana … Read More
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Populations of African countries should make sure that their respective governments are strengthened and always do the right thing to rid the continent of the scourges of poverty, ignorance and disease, the African Development Bank … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has called on governments in West Africa to invest in making the internet more accessible, affordable, free and secure. The rights body made the call in a statement … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The “insidious cancer of corruption” is the biggest threat facing South Africa’s democracy, according to Cape Town’s Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba. Delivering the Beyers Naude Memorial Lecture at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Monday … Read More
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – A 19-year-old Togolese woman, identified as Cynthia, who was facing expulsion from Belgium after fleeing her house because her father beat her, is allowed to remain in the country until July 15, 2015. Although Cythia had … Read More
New York, US (PANA) – The UN World Health Organization says that it is too early to tell if restrictions on health workers through mandatory quarantine will deter medical staff from traveling to West Africa to help fight the Ebola crisis. A … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Mistrust, rumour and myths about the origin and spread of Ebola are allowing the disease to thrive particularly in the West African region, the aid agency Oxfam warned in a statement on Tuesday. “The unprecedented outbreak … Read More
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – South Africa has paid glowing tribute to Zambia for the role it played in assisting liberation movements in Southern Africa. South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Energy, Ambassador Thembisile Majola, who spoke Friday night in Pretoria at … Read More
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The Rwandan Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) has suspended the broadcasts of BBC Radio programmes in national Kinyarwanda language in the country with immediate effect. The suspension comes weeks after the British channel broadcast a new controversial … Read More
New York, US (PANA) – American billionaire, Paul Allen, who owns the Seattle Seahawks, a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, State of Washington, and the Portland Trail Blazers, a top-flight US National Basketball Association (NBA) team, has pledged … Read More
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Botswana’s ruling party, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), is set to win the country’s general elections held on Friday after securing more than half of the seats in parliament from the number of constituencies declared so … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Dr. Babacar Sène, a Senegalese lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, has stressed the need for “budgetary and political federalism” for West African states … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Good Governance Africa (GGA), a research and advocacy body trying to improve governance performance in Africa, said Tuesday its findings show it is getting easier to start business in Africa. “While it is getting easier to … Read More
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenya Airways has received two new modern planes with state-of-the-art features, bringing the number of its active aircraft to 40. The airline’s first next generation B737-800 touched down at Kenya Airways’ hub at the Jomo Kenyatta … Read More
Oscar Pistorius Judge Thokozile Masipa sentenced “blade runner” Oscar Pistorius to five years in jail for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. “The following is what I consider is a sentence that is fair and just both … Read More
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The burial of Prof. Ali Mazrui in Mombasa on Sunday, marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new reflection on what has mostly pushed out Africa’s intellectual giants to exile. Prof. Mazrui, … Read More
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Monday Nigeria Ebola-free, marking the second West African nation within a spate of four days. Senegal was also declared Ebola-free on Friday. Related Images:
Paul Mphwiyo Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Saturday former Ministry of Finance Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo on ‘cashgate’-related charges. Mphwiyo was arrested alongside his wife, Thandizo. “The Anti-Corruption Bureau has on, October 18, 2014, arrested Mr. Paul Mphwiyo, the … Read More
Marrakech, Morocco (PANA) – Greater cooperation between African nations has laid the groundwork for the continent to determine its own development models and priorities, King Mohamed VI of Morocco has said in a message to the 9th Africa Development Forum … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – In a dramatic development in Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s legal challenge against the estate of Nelson Mandela, her defence is claiming that her divorce from the former world statesman was fraudulently obtained. Court documents which have … Read More
