Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The chief editor of the Senegalese private newspaper, La Tribune, Félix Nzalé, was arrested on Monday for reporting the detection of five people affected by Ebola in Senegal. He was due to appear before the public … Read More
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – A meeting of Libya’s six neighbouring countries – Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan, Niger and Chad – has been scheduled to take place in Cairo, Egypt, later this month, to find ways to enhance Libya’s stability, the … Read More
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Some 7,240 families, representing about 36,200 people, have been displaced in Tripoli as a result of the month-long clashes between rival armed militias fighting for the control of Tripoli airport, the local council of the Libyan … Read More
Luanda, Angola (PANA) – The Angolan government held last week its first national rural women consultation forum to readjust its national development plan in order to meet their concerns. The forum was preceded by similar consultations within communes, districts and regions, … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Four East African countries – Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan – have agreed on a regional telecommunications framework to establish a ‘One-Network-Area’ by December 31, 2014, global telecommunications industry monitor, … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) – Cape Verde will regularize the status of all illegal immigrants in the country with effect from January 2015 when a new legislation on foreigners comes into force, according to Deputy Health Minister Cristina Fontes … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – The Botswana foreign affairs ministry said on Monday that the Government had taken a decision to render financial assistance to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to assist them in the fight against the disease. … Read More
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has urged African leaders to follow the example of Mauritius by setting up in their respective countries transparent legal structures to ensure investments. The Mauritian Premier made the call in his … Read More
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara called on Wednesday on his compatriots to unite and take stock of the situation in the country as the nation celebrates its 54th independence anniversary Thursday. Speaking in a televised interview, he … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A new project geared towards reducing post-maize harvest losses and improving grain handling in Zambia was launched Thursday in the country. The project dubbed, ”Bags2Bulk Project” is said to be a product of partnership spearheaded by ”AGCO”, … Read More
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian NGO, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, to “urgently probe the alleged stealing of teachers’ salaries and benefits in several Federal Government colleges across the … Read More
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Despite the concern of Tunisian authorities about the rising number of people fleeing the ongoing fighting in Libya, the common border of the two countries was temporarily closed Friday due to a chaotic situation at Ras … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Twenty years since the advent of democracy and the birth of a non-racial South Africa, racism is still rife in the country, so says the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) which received 500 … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The trial of former Senegalese minister of International Cooperation, Infrastructure and Transport from 2009 to 2012, Karim Wade, for illegal acquisition of wealth, has been postponed until next Monday. Wade will have to justify the sources … Read More
Flic en Flac, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Health Minister Lormus Bundhoo says the government is considering the export of doctors to Africa given the significant number of doctors graduating every year in the island. Speaking on Wednesday at the opening … Read More
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – Families of victims of the crash of Air Algeria’s flight AH5017 are angry at the Algerian company. The honorary chairperson of the Burkinabe Movement for Human and Peoples Rights, Halidou Ouédraogo, whose daughter died in … Read More
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan army has said although the continuing violence in Tripoli and Benghazi has made the north African country a fertile ground for foreign intervention, such a development would make Libya lose its sovereignty and the … Read More
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – In Malawi, a magistrates’ court in the capital, Lilongwe, released on bail businessman Oswald Lutepo, the main suspect of the systematic looting of government money dubbed ‘cashgate’. Lutepo was re-arrested on Sunday after he confessed in … Read More
Washington, US (PANA) – With just weeks before the first ever US-Africa Summit, taking place August 4-6, 2014, a coalition of international NGOs and African civil society have called on the US President Barack Obama to provide official space for … Read More
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Armed attackers shot and killed prominent Somali musician and member of Parliament, Saado Ali Warsame, in Mogadishu, Wednesday, the fourth such incident to target prominent figures this year. Warsame and her driver were shot and killed … Read More
