Jean-Pierre Fabre Lomé, Togo (PANA) – Leaders of an umbrella Togolese opposition group, Sauvons le Togo, (Let’s save Togo) and president Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé discussed on Wednesday issues about the country’s institutional and constitutional reforms. The opposition group, led by its … Read More
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Fish farmers in Nigeria have now gained access to the US market, as they now export large quantities of branded smoked fish, the local media reported on Wednesday. The private BusinessDay newspaper reported that the export … Read More
Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – The Cameroonian minister of scientific research and Innovation, Mrs Madeleine Tchuinté, and the director of the Institute for Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Noé Woin, signed on Tuesday, in Yaoundé, six financing conventions. The agreements totaling 1.28 … Read More
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – An international non-profit organization, Clitoraid, has alleged that pressure from the Catholic Church and other detractors of the International Raelian Movement (IRM) forced the Burkinabe government to block the March 7, opening of its clitoral repair … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – According to the International Narcotics Control Board’s (INCB ) annual report for 2013 released on Tuesday in Dakar by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) regional office based in the Senegalese capital, the rate … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) – The African Union (AU) has marked this year’s Africa Environment and Wangari Maathai Day in Maseru, Lesotho, the AU Commission said. The theme of this year’s celebration, marked on Monday, is ”Combating Desertification … Read More
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa warned Monday that the country’s economic woes could become “catastrophic,” saying that people will have to make sacrifices. Tunisia’s economic recovery since its 2011 “Arab Spring” revolution has been hampered by … Read More
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Michael Sata has attributed the recent depreciation of the national currency, Kwacha, to a combination of domestic and international market developments. President Sata said the US Dollar has broadly strengthened against other currencies following … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Forty-five Malian villages have given up female genital mutilation (FGM) under a convention signed on Friday in Bamako by the leaders of these villages and the Malian Minister for the Promotion of Family, … Read More
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – The abductors of a man who has been described variously as President Goodluck Jonathan’s cousin, uncle and adopted father are insisting on their earlier demand of 500 million naira (US$2.9 million) before he can be released, … Read More
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Claiming that the Mauritanian National Electoral Commission (CENI) failed in last year’s municipal and legislative elections, the Coalition for a Peaceful Alternative (CPA), which includes three moderate opposition parties, called Wednesday for the appointment of a new … Read More
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The chairman and director general of the Chinese company, Lulu de Mine, Zou Delyn, announced on Monday that it exported 1,100 tons of zinc and lead from south Congo this month. In a communiqué issued in … Read More
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The acquittal of renowned Zambian human rights and HIV activist Paul Kasonkomona, by the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court on charges relating to comments he made on television in support of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and … Read More
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Nigerian subsidiaries of global soft drink maker Coca-Cola Ltd and the Nigerian Bottling Company Ltd to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights … Read More
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Africa’s largest companies are set to converge on Geneva, Switzerland, for the second CEO Forum 17- 19 March to brainstorm on corporate growth strategies for the … Read More
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – A black nationalist movement, the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM), has condemned the selling of prime land in Senegal’s River Valley to Saudi businessmen. In a statement issued Monday, FLAM said landowners were being dispossessed … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has criticised Ugandan President President Yoweri Museveni over his approval of controversial anti-homosexuality laws. Two weeks ago, Museveni told members of his governing party he would sign the … Read More
Makhtar Diop Paris , France ( PANA) – The Vice-President of the World Bank’s Africa Region, Mr. Makhtar Diop, on Monday urged Senegalese leaders to use resources efficiently to get value for money. He also warned the Senegalese authorities against … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – A British-funded forensic audit into the massive plunder of the Malawi government coffers has uncovered that over 13 billion Malawi kwacha (over US$ 30 million) was looted by politicians, business persons and civil servants. The audit, … Read More
Gulnara Shahinian Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The UN special rappoteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Mrs Gulnara Shahinian, is expected today in Nouakchott for a four-day visit to Mauritania where slavery persists despite several bills against the practice. The dehumanising phenomenon … Read More
