Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Putting on a three-hour military parade, the Rwandan government on Friday celebrated 20 years of Rwanda liberation, which marked the end of genocide by the rebel movement of the Rwandan patriotic front (FPR) on 4 July, … Read More
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – The President of the opposition party Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), Pascal Affi N’Guessan, Thursday, said the opposition parties in the country rejected the composition of the new Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) because its membership is … Read More
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – If Japanese commercial airlines started regular flights to Tanzania or any other African country, holidaymakers from Southeast Asian countries could boost tourism on the continent, according to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. During discussion at … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Mohamed Ibrahim, Egypt’s Antiquities Minister, revealed Wednesday that 12 stolen artifacts would be returned to his country from London. According to a local paper, the artifacts were smuggled out of Egypt after the 25 January, 2011, revolution. … Read More
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan government strongly condemned the capture, on its territory by the United States special forces, of a Libyan Islamist, suspected of being responsible for the terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi in September … Read More
Manaus, Brazil (PANA) – Croatia beat Cameroon 4-0 in their 2014 FIFA World Cup Group A match at the Arena Amazonia, in Manaus, to bundle the African team from the competition. Cameroon has the final group match against hosts Brazil … Read More
Sao Paulo, Brazil (PANA) – “All my players are fit to start the match against Colombia,” said the coach of the Ivorian national team, Sabri Lamouchi, at a pre-match press conference here Wednesday which focused specifically on captain Didier Drogba … Read More
Belo Horizonte, Brazil (PANA) – Algeria may have lost 2-1 in its opening game against Belgium, on Tuesday, in Belo Horizonte, at the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil, but the North Africans broke a goal jinx that had afflicted the country … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Senegalese Minister of Public Service, Social Dialogue and Professional Organizations, Mansour Sy, said Tuesday that physical and biometric auditing of the public service has revealed the existence of 1,169 “ghost workers” for whom salaries totalling … Read More
Natal, Brazil (PANA) – The coach of Ghana’s senior national football team, Kwesi Appiah, said loss of concentration was partly to blame for Ghana’s 2-1 opening 2014 FIFA World Cup Group G loss to the United States on Monday and concedes … Read More
Curitiba, Brazil (PANA) – With his team playing a disappointing goalless draw against Iran at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Curitiba on Monday, Nigeria’s head coach Stephen Keshi said anxiety was responsible for the result. Speaking at the post-match … Read More
Curitba, Brazil (PANA) – Of the five African teams featuring in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, only two national coaches — Nigeria’s Stephen Keshi and Ghanaian Appiah Akwesi — are there with their countries’ national teams. The other … Read More
Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) – On the occasion of the Day for the African Child, celebrated June 16, every year, children in Casamance, southern Senegal, demanded on Monday from the Senegalese government adequate protection, saying “We deserve appropriate protection for a brighter future.” … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Natal, Brazil (PANA) – Ghana’s head coach James Kwesi Appiah has said he is not under any additional pressure ahead of his team’s 2014 FIFA World Cup opener against the US today. Appiah said as a coach, … Read More
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Civil society observers who gathered in the German city of Bonn for the UN climate change negotiations, have warned that new climate rules could threaten even greater hunger in Africa, if they were not carefully crafted … Read More
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Several countries endorsed a set of wide-reaching guidelines that will boost the already vital role of small-scale fishers in contributing to global food security, nutrition and poverty eradication, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. … Read More
Lomé, Togo (PANA) – The Togolese music group, Toofan, was received triumphantly in Lomé on its return from Durban, South Africa, where it won the MTV Music Awards in the category “Best francophone artist”. “It is as if we have just … Read More
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The newly-announced price of sugar in the European market threatens the production of the commodity in Mauritius, where it contributes 6 per cent to the economy and is very important in the production of renewable energy, … Read More
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – East African leaders are set to meet President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar today to bolster the peace talks to end the fighting in South Sudan, officials said Monday. The South Sudanese rebel … Read More
Douala, Cameroon (PANA) – Gas production has increased substantially in Cameroon from 93.4 million cubic feet in the first four months of 2013 to 4. 34 billion cubic feet during the same period in 2014, the National Hydrocarbons Society (NHS) … Read More
