Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The United Nations flag will fly at half-mast worldwide on Tuesday in honour of Zambia President Michael Sata who died on October 28, 2014. According to a statement issued Sunday by the Zambian Mission to the … Read More
New York, US (PANA) – The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said an unknown number of Nigerian women who have risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Italy have become sex slaves. An IOM statement circulated in New … Read More
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) plans to introduce a mobile payment platform to support intra-African trade and payments, according to Bank President Jean-Louis Ekra. President Ekra said at the opening of Afreximbank’s annual Seminar/Workshop on the … Read More
Tunis , Tunisia ( PANA) – Tunisians are optimistic that the 23 Nov. presidential election in the country will usher in an era of political stability, security and better economic prospects, especially in the tourism sector that has been badly … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – Victor Sithole, the Malawi Government Accounts Assistant, who became the second convict in ‘cashgate – the systematic plunder of millions of dollars of government money, was sentenced last week to nine years imprisonment with hard labour … Read More
New York, US (PANA) – Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany on Sunday won the men and women titles at the New York City Marathon. Kipsang, in his first appearance in the New York Marathon, surged ahead of Ethiopia’s Lelisa … Read More
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The head Burkina Faso’s transition, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida, on Saturday announced the reopening of the country’s airports closed on Friday following the resignation of long-serving President Blaise Compaore after violent protests by hundreds of … Read More
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
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – The President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, has called for a new international military intervention in Libya, under UN supervision, to neutralize the rampaging militias. “There is a need to have French, US and British troops in … 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
