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
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The North Korean tanker, which was seized by the Libyan military after loading an illegal shipment of crude oil from the Al- Sidera port being held by a separatist armed group in eastern Libya, has escaped … 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
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
Sheikh Musa Fazil Harelimana Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Police officials from 40 countries across the world rose from a three-day annual general assembly of the International Association of police chiefs (IACP), agreeing to strengthen cooperation in the fight against cybercrime, … 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
