Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Customs services from Nigeria, Niger,Chad, Benin Republic and Cameroon have agreed to streamline their checkpoint operations by using the latest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. In a communique issued at the end of their meeting … Read More
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Getting more African youth involved in agriculture and boosting support for the region’s vulnerable family farmers will be pivotal to improving food security and economic well-being in the years to come, FAO Director-General, José Graziano da … Read More
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – With just five weeks to South Africa’s general elections, tensions are sky-high between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) over the latest scandal involving President Jacob Zuma. Both … Read More
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Ethiopia is launching a major diplomatic offensive to win international support for its renaissance dam project, whose construction is underway despite a strong Egyptian objection. A panel, comprising ministers, senior political, community and religious leaders, … Read More
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria is among the lowest consumers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Africa, despite having the highest reserve of the commodity. Africa’s most populous nation consumes a paltry 30% or 250,000 tonnes, out of the whopping … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Mostafa Al-Gamel of Egypt has smashed the African Hammer Record, according to world athletics governing body, IAAF. According to a statement posted on the IAAF official website, Al-Gamel added 66 centimetres to the … Read More
Lome, Togo (PANA) – The 20th edition of Togo’s beauty contest was officially launched on Friday in Lome, the Togolese capital. The final of the event, under the theme: “Information and Communication Technology for education of rural youth”, will be … Read More
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – Millions of South Africans came together on Friday to mark the March 21, 1960, Sharpeville massacre, one the darkest days in the country’s history. On that fateful day, police opened fire and killed 69 people and wounded … Read More
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has stressed the need for Africa to act as one on issues around mining and commodities. The AUC boss made the assertion while receiving in audience Monday … Read More
Lomé, Togo (PANA) – MTN, one of Africa’s mobile telephone leaders, and Ecobank, the Pan-African bank operating in 36 countries, are to cooperate to improve access to mobile financial services in Africa, according to a joint statement issued in the … Read More
Lagos , Nigeria (PANA) – Farmers in Nigeria will soon generate 42 billion naira (US$252.5 million) from wheat production, according to Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina. The minister was quoted as saying, that apart from the income to be generated from … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Malawi President Joyce Banda’s convoy came under attack Sunday when she took her re-election campaign to her main challenger’s area. Banda was in Goliati village in the tea-growing district of Thyolo where Peter Mutharika, presidential candidate … Read More
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – The Nigerien government dismissed accusations that it extradited Saadi Gaddafi, the son of late Muammar Gaddafi, to Libya in exchange for US$20 million. On March, 6, 2014, Nigerien authorities extradited Saadi and several Libyan refugees to … Read More
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said Friday that she received with great sadness news of the death of Sierra Leone’s former President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, who died Thursday in Freetown, his country’s … Read More
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – North Korea has disowned the vessel which illegally loaded a shipment of crude oil from a militia-held port in Libya, local media reported Thursday. The report quoted North Korea’s official news agency as saying the vessel, … Read More
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The civil society in Nyiragongo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Thursday condemned the presence of Rwandan troops along the Morambi-Kibumba section of the Nyiragongo territory in North Kivu, eastern DRC. Vice President of … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The People’s Cooperative Renewable Energy (PCRE) Wednesday launched the first solar cooperative farm in Mauritius, on the occasion of the country’s 46th Independence anniversary. The cooperative society consists of some 150 citizens, small … Read More
Issa Hayatou Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Mr. Issa Hayatou, has nudged African teams heading to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil to strive to reach the last four. No African … Read More
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings has lashed out at the “hypocrisy and inconsistency” of some of the superpowers in the Ukrainian crisis, describing it as a serious insult to the intelligence of the world. In … Read More
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – It has been over a half-century since the African continent began freeing itself from the scourge of colonialism. Ghana, my country, led the movement toward liberation by becoming the first sub-Saharan nation to gain its independence. … Read More
