South African billionaire Johann Rupert richest in Africa

03 september 2024 - 10:59:26
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African billionaire Johann Rupert is officially the richest man in Africa.His estimated net [...] Full text...

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Disgraced South African businessman Marcus Jooste commits suicide

22 march 2024 - 08:44:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The mastermind of South Africa’s biggest ever fraud case, former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste, [...] Full text...

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African tech heavyweights meet in Cape Town

02 may 2023 - 08:35:28
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Sentech Africa Tech Week Conference kicked off in Cape Town on Tuesday. The event [...] Full text...

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‘Urgent need’ for more accountability from social media giants to curb hate speech: UN experts

07 january 2023 - 05:29:06
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The heads of many of the world’s biggest social media platforms were urged on Friday to [...] Full text...

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa 'very likely' to resign

01 december 2022 - 17:20:32
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has lost the political support of the ruling African [...] Full text...

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South African billionaire publishes her memoirs

25 april 2022 - 13:25:15
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s wealthiest woman has revealed how she fled to the Maldives with her [...] Full text...

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South African billionaire assists with Ukrainian war effort

22 march 2022 - 13:04:18
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African-born billionaire Elon Musk is using his Starlink satellite system to help a [...] Full text...

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Cameroonian journalist to lead New York-based investment banker's Africa expansion

26 february 2022 - 00:04:21
New York, US (PANA) – Cameroonian broadcast journalist, Michel Lobé Ewané, has been named a Board member of the New [...] Full text...

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South African-born billionaire launches major vaccine plant

19 january 2022 - 12:06:23
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African-born pharmaceutical billionaire on Wednesday launched a plant that will produce one [...] Full text...

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South Africa: South African billionaire saluted by TIME

14 december 2021 - 12:57:24
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - TIME magazine has named South African billionaire Elon Musk as its Person of the [...] Full text...

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Africa being left behind amid 'extreme vaccine discrimination': report

06 december 2021 - 09:51:21
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Africa has little chance of recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic in the coming year due to [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: South African-born billionaire pledges to provide vaccine

13 may 2021 - 11:41:37
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African-born pharmaceutical billionaire has committed US$255 million to help the country produce [...] Full text...

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Liberia President Weah named Ambassador for Pan-African Inter-School Championship

06 may 2021 - 07:29:00
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - A joint delegation of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and FIFA on Wednesday named Liberian [...] Full text...

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CAF president launches pan-African inter-school championship with own $10 million

05 may 2021 - 15:38:59
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The South African billionaire and president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe, on [...] Full text...

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New CAF President outlines his vision

16 march 2021 - 15:33:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Newly-elected Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Patrice Motsepe on Tuesday outlined his plans [...] Full text...

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South African billionaire appointed CAF president

12 march 2021 - 12:25:00
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe was confirmed as the president of the Confederation of [...] Full text...

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South African rocket sets height record

10 march 2021 - 15:54:20
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) –  A rocket developed by the University of KwaZulu-Natal has set a new altitude record [...] Full text...

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South Africa: FIFA "favours" South African to head CAF

02 march 2021 - 15:40:09
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - FIFA has reportedly asked three candidates to back South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe in [...] Full text...

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Two CAF presidential candidates due in Conakry this week

23 february 2021 - 14:28:06
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Senegalese Me Augustin Senghor and Mauritanian Ahmed Yahya, both candidates for presidential election of the Confederation [...] Full text...

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South African billionaire strikes gold

11 january 2021 - 17:45:23
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africans are paying tribute to tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk, who has overtaken Amazon’s [...] Full text...

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South African billionaire raises eyebrows again

07 december 2020 - 11:44:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African-born billionaire Elon Musk has come under fire following revelations that black employees [...] Full text...

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Augustin Senghor, candidate for CAF presidency, says committed to respond to appeal of Africa and football

16 november 2020 - 21:55:01
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Augustin Senghor, the chairman of the Senegalese football federation (FSF), contesting the presidency of the Confederation [...] Full text...

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CAF presidency: Mauritanian Ahmed Yaya, 4th candidate in the race

10 november 2020 - 21:27:45
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - As the deadline for bids for the presidency of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) draws [...] Full text...

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CAF presidency: South African Patrice Motsepe In the race

10 november 2020 - 00:04:06
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - South African billionaire and owner of the football club, Mamelodi Sundowns, Patrice Motsepe, Monday declared his [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: China to help Congo fly in medical equipment

13 july 2020 - 15:41:12
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - China's ambassador to Congo, Ma Fulin, confirmed on Sunday in Brazzaville that Congo has indeed placed [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Steve Harvey helps Botswana fight COVID-19

04 may 2020 - 18:06:28
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - American comedian and actor, Steve Harvey, has donated five tonnes of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to [...] Full text...

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COVID-19: Jack Ma, WHO-Africa and UNDP present more donations to Congo for fight against coronavirus

20 april 2020 - 21:41:08
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  - Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa and the UN Development Programme [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Major relief airlift for ‘most vulnerable’ African nations takes off

15 april 2020 - 05:36:20
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The first of the UN’s “Solidarity Flights” carrying urgently needed medical equipment in the war [...] Full text...

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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma offers Togo material for fighting coronavirus

25 march 2020 - 18:03:34
Lomé, Togo (PANA)-Togo on Tuesday received at Lomé airport a donation of health equipment from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, founder [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Zimbabwe announces third positive case

24 march 2020 - 20:51:56
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe government has announced its third confirmed case for the coronavirus (COVID-19), a man who [...] Full text...

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South African billionaire dead at 84

22 march 2020 - 10:59:20
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African tycoon, Sol Kerzner, who developed some of the world’s most spectacular hotels, [...] Full text...

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Zimbabwe announces death of woman who appeared to show COVID-19 symptoms

08 march 2020 - 10:30:21
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe government has announced the death of a woman who appeared to show symptoms of [...] Full text...

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South Africa to construct Pan African University in Cape Town

26 february 2020 - 17:19:03
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, on Wednesday announced that the government will commence [...] Full text...

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Billionaire Kenneth Bordewick to build US$50 million hotel in Zimbabwe

23 february 2020 - 14:29:40
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Billionaire investor, Kenneth Bordewick, has partnered Zimbabwean-born and Dubai-based businesswoman, Edith Chibhamu, to invest in hotel [...] Full text...

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AU Summit: Guterres addresses AU High Level Meeting on Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment

09 february 2020 - 02:27:37
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Addressing a High Level Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at the African Union [...] Full text...

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South African billionaire apologises for hailing Trump

28 january 2020 - 15:27:39
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe, on Tuesday apologised for hailing American President Donald Trump [...] Full text...

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South African businessman slammed for praising Trump

26 january 2020 - 09:39:37
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe has sparked an outcry after being caught on camera [...] Full text...

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‘Simply throwing money won’t solve health crisis’, Senior Doctors tell Zimbabwe's richest man

06 december 2019 - 17:40:39
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA) has urged telecoms billionaire, Strive Masiyiwa, through his Higher [...] Full text...

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COP25: ‘Signals of hope’ multiplying in face of global climate crisis, says Guterres

02 december 2019 - 05:51:29
Madrid, Spain (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General has outlined the “increased ambition and commitment” that the world needs from governments during [...] Full text...

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Cape Town to host 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens

29 october 2019 - 11:49:56
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Cape Town has been named as the host city for the 2022 Rugby World [...] Full text...

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South African rugby match broadcast in space

04 october 2019 - 12:47:44
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – History was made on Friday when the Rugby World Cup match between South Africa [...] Full text...

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Tunisians to elect new president on Sunday

14 september 2019 - 14:37:30
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - More than seven million Tunisians are expected to go to the polls on Sunday to elect [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Tickets for world's biggest tennis match sold out in minutes

04 september 2019 - 15:23:32
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) –  All 47,000 tickets for the world’s highest attendance tennis match in history to be played [...] Full text...

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Body to grant aid for research project on environment protection in Africa

26 june 2019 - 23:43:39
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA)   -   The Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant (JWO Grant) will on 5 July open bids for [...] Full text...

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Togo EU economic forum- Lomé, Brussels in partnership for investment

13 june 2019 - 21:37:39
Lomé, Togo (PANA)  -  Lomé will from Thursday host the first Togo-European Union economic forum meant to facilitate the mobilisation [...] Full text...

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Bloody start to civil disobedience action in Sudan

09 june 2019 - 16:04:48
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A civil disobedience action called by Sudan's opposition got off to a bloody start on Sunday, [...] Full text...

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Mo Ibrahim Foundation 'deeply concerned' about Sudan situation; opposition calls for civil disobedience

09 june 2019 - 04:56:13
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has expressed deep concern at the rapidly deteriorating situation in Sudan, as [...] Full text...

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Ramaphosa inaugurated at spectacular ceremony

25 may 2019 - 11:55:57
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA)   -   President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated as the sixth democratically-elected president at a spectacular ceremony at [...] Full text...

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Botswana former president contemplates joining opposition

06 may 2019 - 19:09:18
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Ian Khama Seretse Khama, Botswana’s former president who stepped down in April 2018, is contemplating joining [...] Full text...

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Private helicopter crash-lands in Addis Ababa with no casualties

26 april 2019 - 18:02:37
 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA)   -   A helicopter operated by a private aviation company Friday morning crash- landed in Addis Ababa [...] Full text...

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Majority of Libyans favour elections to end the country's crisis, says UN envoy Salamé

28 march 2019 - 11:52:54
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The UN envoy in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, says about 83% of Libyans are favour elections to [...] Full text...

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Uganda hosts conference on Africa’s future

12 march 2019 - 19:15:37
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) = Political and business leaders on Tuesday met in Kampala, Uganda, to discuss the future of Africa, [...] Full text...

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SA'sTV personality Trevor Noah strikes gold again

11 march 2019 - 17:09:35
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Top South African television personality Trevor Noah has seen his acclaimed biography “Born a [...] Full text...

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South African-born billionaire reaches for the stars

04 march 2019 - 15:49:31
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African-born billionaire Elon Musk has made history again. His Falcon9 rocket, which is carrying [...] Full text...

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South African President Ramaphosa salutes 'dawn of a new era'

07 february 2019 - 20:01:25
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Exactly a year after toppling Jacob Zuma and sweeping into office on a ticket [...] Full text...

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South African students send Mandela photograph into space

29 january 2019 - 14:19:08
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A group of University of Cape Town students have sent a framed photograph of [...] Full text...

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Oxfam says billionaire fortunes grew by US$2.5 billion a day last year; poorest see wealth fall

21 january 2019 - 10:53:21
Davos, Switzerland (PANA) - Billionaire fortunes increased by 12 percent last year – or US$2.5 billion a day - while [...] Full text...

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Tesla eyes first African operation

11 december 2018 - 11:45:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African-born billionaire Elon Musk has revealed that his electric car company could open [...] Full text...

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South Africans linked to abducted Tanzanian billionaire

21 october 2018 - 09:39:10
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – There is growing speculation that South Africans may have been linked to the high-profile [...] Full text...

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UN stands up to stop 41 million avoidable deaths per year

27 september 2018 - 19:17:26
New York, US (PANA) - “Heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, chronic Lyme disease, depression” – just some of the illnesses [...] Full text...

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Japanese billionaire commits to invest $100 billion in solar energy in Africa

03 july 2018 - 17:23:58
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A Japanese business magnate, Masayoshi Son and chief executive of Japanese holding company SoftBank, is keen [...] Full text...

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Climate Action Special Envoy Bloomberg pledges $4.5 million to help UN fight climate change

22 april 2018 - 20:01:41
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, Michael Bloomberg, announced on Sunday a contribution of [...] Full text...

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Mauritian President Gurib-Fakim resigns

17 march 2018 - 15:00:08
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim intends to step down on 23 March 2018 following misunderstanding between [...] Full text...

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Ramaphosa's vows to tackle corruption in maiden State of the Nation Address

17 february 2018 - 07:38:57
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Opposition parties have unanimously welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address (SONA) [...] Full text...

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Trump salutes South African-born billionaire

08 february 2018 - 08:55:23
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – US President Donald Trump has saluted South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, who this week [...] Full text...

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South African billionaire launches new rocket

09 january 2018 - 12:41:31
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African billionaire, Elon Musk, has launched his latest rocket into space under the [...] Full text...

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Kenya: ICC staff linked to former Prosecutor face probe over indecent contact

06 october 2017 - 19:34:15
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has denied having formal relations with the immediate former Chief [...] Full text...

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South Africa: South Africa commemorates Mandela's 99th birthday

18 july 2017 - 17:43:04
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel and British billionaire Sir Richard Branson on Tuesday [...] Full text...

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Cote d'Ivoire: Africa Tourism Monitor wants policies on inclusive tourism growth, intra-Africa trade, visa openness

16 june 2017 - 10:38:06
Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - More than ever before, African countries need to craft economic and trade policies that will foster [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Bill Gates salutes South African comedian

24 may 2017 - 09:16:20
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Billionaire Bill Gates has saluted South Africa’s top television personality Trevor Noah’s biographical book [...] Full text...

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US: Innovators, UN discuss using tech to tackle world's development challenges

18 may 2017 - 06:04:25
New York, US (PANA) – From drones dropping food and medicines, to handheld devices that can diagnose Ebola with a [...] Full text...

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US: Americans, immigrants protest Trump's presidential win

10 november 2016 - 17:13:18
New York, US (PANA) - Thousands of Americans and immigrants took to the streets in New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, [...] Full text...

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Ghana: African leaders congratulate Trump; Rights groups caution him to 'set new tone'

09 november 2016 - 16:39:11
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – African leaders on Wednesday congratulated US president-elect Donald Trump on his victory in the 2016 US [...] Full text...

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US: Poisonous rhetoric must not become Government policy - Amnesty International

09 november 2016 - 11:48:57
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Human rights watchdog Amnesty International says US president-elect Donald Trump must reaffirm and abide by [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: Tanzanian, Ghanaian presidents congratulate Trump

09 november 2016 - 11:06:15
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The presidents of Tanzania and Ghana on Wednesday congratulated US President-elect Donald Trump on [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Ghana president Mahama congratulates Trump

09 november 2016 - 10:51:46
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has congratulated US president-elect Donald Trump on his victory in Tuesday's [...] Full text...

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US: Trump beats Clinton to win US presidential election

09 november 2016 - 08:53:40
Washington, DC, (PANA) - Republican candidate Donald Trump has won the 2016 presidential election, beating former Secretary of State and [...] Full text...

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US: Bloomberg Philanthropies commits US$10 million to women’s economic development in Africa

21 september 2016 - 16:46:29
New York, US (PANA) - New York-based charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies on Wednesday announced a US$10 million investment toward expanding [...] Full text...

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US: African leaders, Obama to hold business forum in New York

08 september 2016 - 17:14:54
New York, US (PANA) - African leaders, US President Barack Obama, businessmen and women, as well as chief executives of [...] Full text...

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UN: Business leaders urge UN to decriminalize all drugs

22 april 2016 - 16:20:25
New York, US (PANA) - Business leaders under the auspices of Leaders of Global Commission on Drug Policy have condemned [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Zuma's son lays charges against 'racist' tycoon

27 march 2016 - 14:16:05
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – In the latest saga involving the so-called “Guptagate” scandal which has plunged the government [...] Full text...

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Mauritius: South African billionaire faces murder charges in Mauritius

14 march 2016 - 11:43:14
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - South African billionaire Peter Wayne Roberts is facing trial in a Mauritian Court on chargers of [...] Full text...

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UN: UN chief requests internal investigation over corruption allegations

08 october 2015 - 18:42:02
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has requested the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to [...] Full text...

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UN: Top UN officials 'shocked' by allegations against former General Assembly President

07 october 2015 - 13:13:09
New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials on Wednesday said they were shocked and deeply troubled to learn about [...] Full text...

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South Africa: African pioneers reach for the stars (Feature by Craig Urquhart, PANA Correspondent)

30 august 2015 - 07:58:32
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A young Durban man has become the latest in the long line of Africans [...] Full text...

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UN: Ban calls for more investment, business engagement to achieve sustainable energy for all

15 april 2015 - 19:45:42
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on business leaders to expand investment in low-carbon [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: Prime Minister Essid names new Tunisian cabinet

23 january 2015 - 18:31:46
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisia's newly-appointed Prime Minister Habib Essid on Friday named his cabinet, nearly three months after parliamentary [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: New Tunisian parliament holds inaugural session

02 december 2014 - 17:42:44
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia's newly-elected parliament, Assembly of People's Representatives, held its inaugural session Tuesday marking the beginning of [...] Full text...

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Malawi: Madonna leaves Malawi

02 december 2014 - 13:33:19
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - US pop diva, Madonna, who has spent the thanksgiving holiday in Malawi, Monday afternoon left the [...] Full text...

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US: American billionaire donates US100 million to fight Ebola

25 october 2014 - 20:33:00
New York, US (PANA) - American billionaire, Paul Allen, who owns the Seattle Seahawks, a professional American football franchise based [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Billionaire Afronaut wins US$25 million court case, gives it all away

02 october 2014 - 14:44:10
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former Cape Town billionaire, Mark Shuttleworth, has won back a staggering US$25 million levy [...] Full text...

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Tunisia : Etoile du Sahel beat Club Africain 2-0 in Tunisian Premier League

28 august 2014 - 19:02:26
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Etoile Sportive du Sahel (ESS) has beaten Club Africain (CA) 2-0 in a shock match of [...] Full text...

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Malawi: Voting opens

20 may 2014 - 11:41:52
Malemia, Malawi (PANA) - Voting has opened in Malawi's fifth elections since the advent of multi-party politics in the country [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: US$80b investment expected in 5 years

27 january 2014 - 12:48:08
Lagos, Nigeria(PANA) - Nigeria’s Trade and Investment Minister Olusegun Aganga has said the country expects to attract more than US$80 [...] Full text...

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Special Security: Ethno-religious, economic, political motives fuel Nigerian violence (A PANA News Analysis by Abudu Babalola)

17 january 2014 - 20:05:52
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The interplay of religious, political and economic factors have been cited by analysts as some of [...] Full text...

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ANC Youth League salutes first black African to enter space

26 december 2013 - 08:14:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The youth wing of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has saluted Mandla [...] Full text...

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‘Malawi is my friend’ A PANA Feature by Raphael Tenthani

08 december 2013 - 12:13:49
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - I arrive in Dar es Salaam at around 2am. Ordinarily the weather is supposed [...] Full text...

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South African-built satellite launched

21 november 2013 - 11:41:24
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A South African-built satellite launched into orbit from a Russian base on Thursday with [...] Full text...

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Clinton pledges to help Malawi fix its challenges

01 august 2013 - 18:35:18
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Former US president Bill Clinton, on the last day of his visit to Malawi, Thursday said [...] Full text...

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Clinton endorses Malawi's Banda, visits health, agriculture projects

31 july 2013 - 19:21:08
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Former US president Bill Clinton, on a two-day visit to Malawi accompanied by daughter Chelsea, has [...] Full text...

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Billionaire loses bid to recover US$25m levy in SA

19 july 2013 - 10:21:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Billionaire former Cape Town businessman Mark Shuttleworth, who made international headlines in 2002 by [...] Full text...

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Madonna sneaks into Malawi

01 april 2013 - 14:54:19
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - US pop diva Madonna sneaked into Malawi Monday morning, PANA reported. "Madonna's jet touched down at Kamuzu [...] Full text...

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Chinua Achebe's death, blood bath in Kano, Obasanjo's warning reported in Nigeria

23 march 2013 - 06:57:25
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death of literary icon Chinua Achebe, Monday's lorry park suicide bombing in Kano, former president [...] Full text...

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Corruption pardon controversy: Nigeria says Bill Gates did not cancel trip

19 march 2013 - 08:20:35
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian presidency has denied reports that American billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates cancelled his [...] Full text...

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Bill Gates 'cancels' trip to Nigeria over pardon for corrupt ex-governor

18 march 2013 - 12:50:50
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - American billionaire Bill Gates has cancelled his 27-28 March visit to Nigeria following the diplomatic row [...] Full text...

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Shell's threat to close shop, cash-for-job scam highlighted in Nigeria

09 march 2013 - 09:56:17
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The threat by Oil giants Shell to shut down operations and the cash-for-job scam in federal [...] Full text...

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2013 AFCON: Nigerian billionaire gives Super Eagles US$1m

11 february 2013 - 08:51:37
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In what is sure to be the start of money rain on new African champions Super [...] Full text...

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2013 AFCON: Tit bits from the Nigerian camp

30 january 2013 - 19:50:07
Rustenburg, South Africa (PANA) - Here are tit bits from the Nigerian camp at the current 2013 African Nations Cup [...] Full text...

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ANC conference ends

21 december 2012 - 08:39:02
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) Thursday wrapped up its national conference in [...] Full text...

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Zambia's former president receives democracy award

16 december 2012 - 17:35:01
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s former president, Rupiah Banda, has been honoured with the Honorary Prize for African Democracy at [...] Full text...

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Ph.D, Master's degrees holders apply for driver's job in Nigeria

05 november 2012 - 10:54:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Highlighting the high unemployment rate in Nigeria, six Doctorate and 704 Master's degrees holders are among [...] Full text...

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No winner this year for Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa

15 october 2012 - 14:09:11
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Mo Ibrahim Foundation Monday said there is no winner for this year's African Leadership Prize [...] Full text...

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Nigeria to spend 17.6b naira to mitigate effects of 'unprecedented' flooding

09 october 2012 - 07:39:46
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria is to spend a total of 17.6 billion naira to mitigate the effects of ''unprecedented'' [...] Full text...

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Tutu wins US$1m Mo Ibrahim Foundation award 'for speaking truth to power'

04 october 2012 - 13:57:38
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa Thursday bagged the one-off US$1 million Mo Ibrahim Foundation's [...] Full text...

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World Bank election: Mo Ibrahim seeks transparency, fairness

14 april 2012 - 16:33:03
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As diplomatic moves to clinch the exalted post of president of the World Bank intensify, the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's central bank gov. named Forbes' African Person of the Year 2011

29 november 2011 - 13:43:50
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been named [...] Full text...

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New Nigerian bourse chief unfolds agenda to reposition market

19 may 2011 - 20:26:09
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Oscar Onyema, has called [...] Full text...

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'Wealthy Nigerians acquire US$225m private jets in one year'

16 may 2011 - 09:32:22
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Wealthy Nigerians acquired at least six private jets worth a total of US$225 million between March [...] Full text...

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Egypt's richest man launches new political party

05 april 2011 - 13:42:07
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt's richest man Naguib Saweeras has launched a new political party, called ''The Free Egyptians". The billionaire [...] Full text...

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Nigeria hosts Mo Foundation’s parley on good governance in Africa

19 january 2011 - 20:34:40
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The London-based Mo Ibrahim Foundation has concluded arrangements to hold a discussion programme on the role [...] Full text...

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Experts say Nigerian economy a mixed bag in 2010

07 january 2011 - 14:42:17
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With just seven days into 2011, mixed reactions have trailed the performance of the Nigerian economy [...] Full text...

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Divergent views on 50 years of self rule in Africa (Feature)

09 november 2010 - 11:32:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As 17 African countries out of the continent's 53 nation s this year celebrate half a [...] Full text...

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Nigerian bourse lists 15 billion Dangote cement shares

27 october 2010 - 08:48:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In what is seen as a major boost to investors' confidenc e on the capital market, [...] Full text...

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Nigerian state seeks help as flood displaces 1.2m

25 september 2010 - 10:02:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Flooding in Nigeria's northern Jigawa state has displace d 1. 2 million people and destroyed property [...] Full text...

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India's Bharti Airtel promises lower phone charges in Africa

17 september 2010 - 10:14:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Africa's mobile phone users can expect lower call charges over the next three months, following the [...] Full text...

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Senegal's representative of Dangote group dies

11 september 2010 - 12:13:00
Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The director of the Senegalese subsidiary of Nigerian group Dangote, Abdel Kader Mbacke, died Friday morning [...] Full text...

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Nigerian businessman donates US$2m to Pakistan's flood victims

09 september 2010 - 09:29:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote has donated US$2 million to the United Nations World Food Programme [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Stock Exchange sacks 197 workers

26 august 2010 - 19:38:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The spate of staff retrenchment, which affected some ban ks and stock broking firms in the [...] Full text...

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Senate committee meets over Nigerian bourse

10 august 2010 - 09:53:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Concerned by the recent shake-up that saw the sacking of Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyuike as the [...] Full text...

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Nigerian bourse gets interim administrator

06 august 2010 - 10:07:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A chartered accountant, Emmanuel Ikazoboh, has been appointed as the interim administrator of the Nigerian Stock [...] Full text...

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Bill Gates Foundation gives US$ 1.5b for maternal, child health

09 june 2010 - 16:58:00
New York- US (PANA) -- US-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday pledged to spend US$ 1. 5 billion [...] Full text...

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East African leaders lobby mega-rich Saudi investors

16 november 2009 - 13:28:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- East African leaders are cashing in on the Saudi Arabia-East African Forum underway here to [...] Full text...

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Billionaire Egyptian businessman sentenced to death

21 may 2009 - 13:02:00
Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egyptian real-estate tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustapha was sentenced to death by hanging on Thursday morning for [...] Full text...

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