Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Information and Communications Ministers have unanimously endorsed landmark Continental Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy, the African Union Commission said on Monday.The ministers also endorsed an African Digital Compact to accelerate Africa’s digital transformation by unlocking the potential of the new digital technologies.More than 130 African [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - With global growth stabilizing for the first time in three years, inflation reaching a three-year low, and financial conditions brightening, the global economy seems to be on its final approach for a “soft landing.” But this positive news cannot obscure the grim reality: more than four [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - New generative-AI technologies hold immense potential for boosting productivity and improving the delivery of public services, but the sheer speed and scale of the transformation also raise concerns about job losses and greater inequality.Given uncertainty over the future of AI, governments should take an agile [...] Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A comprehensive global study of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) – health-endangering chemicals that stay in the environment over decades and longer – confirms they persist in human milk, air, water, soil, food and various ecosystems. The study, implemented by UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and funded by the [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team and the Mozambican authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies to complete the fourth review of Mozambique’s ECF arrangement. Once approved by the IMF Management and completed by the Executive Board, Mozambique will have immediate access to SDR [...] Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A Bundesliga champion with Bayer Leverkusen, Edmond Tapsoba, is now eyeing World Cup history.Bayer Leverkusen defender, Edmond Tapsoba, speaking to FIFA, says he is dreaming of World Cup qualification.After four rounds of CAF qualifying, the West Africans are third in Group AAfter being called up [...] Full text...
London, UK (PANA) - Gender apartheid must be recognised as a crime under international law in order to strengthen efforts to combat institutionalised regimes of systematic oppression and domination imposed on the grounds of gender, said Amnesty International on Monday. “The international community has failed to adequately recognise, acknowledge and address [...] Full text...
Enugu, Nigeria (PANA) – Rangers International FC of Enugu have won the 2023/24 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL).The team won the coveted trophy on Sunday after defeating visiting Bendel Insurance of Benin 2-0 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.The victory placed Rangers on top of the league table with 67 [...] Full text...
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (PANA) - The field is set. The line-up for the Eighth FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup includes four of the five former champions – France failed to qualify – and four debutants from four continents.Ahead of the draw for the tournament, which will kick off on [...] Full text...
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola has officially become the first African Union member state to ratify the statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, known as the Malabo Protocol. Fourteen other AU countries still need to ratify the statute before it enters into force, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [...] Full text...
