Burkina Faso lifts ban of fresh tomato exports to Ghana
02 april 2026 - 09:59:45Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The government of Ghana announced on Thursday that Burkina Faso has lifted its ban on fresh [...] Full text...
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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The government of Ghana announced on Thursday that Burkina Faso has lifted its ban on fresh [...] Full text...
Burkina Faso suspends export of fresh tomatoes
17 march 2026 - 10:51:38Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The government of Burkina Faso on Monday suspended the export of fresh tomatoes until further [...] Full text...
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From farm to classroom: Feeding children and supporting farmers in Timor-Leste
14 december 2025 - 18:48:20Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – It’s a win-win recipe: schoolchildren eat a free, nutritious meal every day and local farmers gain [...] Full text...
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AfDB approves $2.25 million to boost agricultural productivity in Sierra Leone
19 october 2025 - 07:08:20Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - In a move set to boost Sierra Leone’s food security and crop yields, the African [...] Full text...
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Turning Tanzania’s farmers into agri- entrepreneurs. A unique international alliance helps smallholder farmers become more sustainable and profitable (By Caitríona Palmer and Birom Seck)
09 october 2025 - 07:36:35Mwanza, Tanzania (PANA) - It is just past dawn in the village of Kasuguti, Tanzania, and as a golden pink [...] Full text...
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A Moving History: IMF Finance & Development (By Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University)
06 august 2025 - 10:46:10Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - The history of migration is the story of humanity and its progress. It’s a story [...] Full text...
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A different type of mistreatment of a journalist held by militias in Sudan’s war By Mohamed Osman Adam
08 july 2025 - 17:52:27Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - For almost eleven months, I fought to restore self-esteem so that I could resume writing and [...] Full text...
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Burkina Faso's president to inaugurate second tomato processing plant
16 december 2024 - 12:32:13Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The President of Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, will on Monday inaugurate the Société Faso [...] Full text...
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Holding the front line against desertification
09 december 2024 - 07:15:59Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (PANA) - Some one billion people globally under the age of 25 live in regions where they [...] Full text...
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Egypt’s cane sugar production drops
23 august 2024 - 07:14:37Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt’s sugar production in marketing year 2024/25 (October to September) is forecast to reach 2.6 million [...] Full text...
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Egypt seeks to raise earnings of millions working in cotton production, textile manufacturing
12 april 2024 - 11:36:04Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Egypt’s cotton production in marketing year (MY) 2024/25 is forecast at 310,000 bales, down 40,000 bales [...] Full text...
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EU legislators strike deal to ban products made with forced labour
05 march 2024 - 11:10:04Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional deal on the regulation prohibiting [...] Full text...
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Benin hit by continued high prices for consumer goods at end of November
19 december 2023 - 19:10:11Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Prices of consumer goods continued to soar at the end of November in several markets in [...] Full text...
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Combating drought, one garden at a time (A WFP feature)
18 june 2023 - 04:48:16Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Just before noon in Satara, a remote village in Niger’s southwestern Tillaberi region, the thermometer is [...] Full text...
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Burkina Faso launches community entrepreneurship through popular shareholding programme
12 june 2023 - 14:01:30Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The President of the Transition in Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Monday launched a programme [...] Full text...
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Benin's harmonised consumer price index rises in March
19 april 2023 - 17:19:00Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The harmonized index of consumer prices rose slightly in March in Benin, according to a publication [...] Full text...
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Sudan: civilians trapped in urban warfare (analysis by Mohamed Osman Adam, PANA correspondent)
18 april 2023 - 19:02:06Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - As fighting between Sudanese rivals continues for the fourth day running, civilians in Khartoum and other [...] Full text...
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Ramadan welcomed in Libya with wave of price increases
22 march 2023 - 18:47:18Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - This year again, the month of Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims, which starts Thursday [...] Full text...
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FAO rolls out its "Soil Doctors" programme in Burkina Faso
16 march 2023 - 17:59:55Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is running its global "Soil [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Nigeria to benefit from Duty-free Trade on 99% of goods exported to UK
25 january 2023 - 20:38:58Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The UK government has launched the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) in Nigeria, which offers one [...] Full text...
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Slight rise recorded in Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices in December
19 january 2023 - 20:20:16Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The harmonized index of consumer prices rose slightly in December in Benin, according to an official [...] Full text...
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Burkina Faso calls for 'stronger commitment' from China in terrorism fight
03 december 2022 - 15:40:14Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Mr. Apollinaire Joachimson Kyelem de Tambela, on Friday called [...] Full text...
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Kenyan technology start-up boosts e-commerce in agroprocessing industry
25 november 2022 - 10:57:19Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - When Peter Njonjo, a former employee of a multinational company, set out to create Twiga Foods [...] Full text...
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Benin experiences variation in agricultural commodity prices in early October
17 october 2022 - 19:12:08Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The prices of a kilogram of maize and yam fell in the first week of October [...] Full text...
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Benin's harmonised consumer price index rises in May
17 june 2022 - 16:01:02Cotonou, Benin(PANA) - The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices rose in May in Benin, according to a survey published by [...] Full text...
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Mauritius to tackle food wastage
22 july 2021 - 08:10:53Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Maneesh Gobin on Wednesday launched the 2021 potato harvesting [...] Full text...
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Civil unrest turns South Africa’s food and agricultural sector upside down
21 july 2021 - 13:51:32Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - While specific costs and implications of the recent South African civil unrest to the food [...] Full text...
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Mauritian govt to control prices of essential food products in the face of COVID-19
12 july 2021 - 07:43:15Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Sunday announced that the government will bring down the prices [...] Full text...
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Nigerian president Buhari again vows to protect all religious, ethnic groups
15 february 2021 - 11:47:53Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government would protect all religious and ethnic groups in [...] Full text...
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Mauritania: Prices of fruits, vegetable rise sharply
26 october 2020 - 17:05:17Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's fruit and vegetable market is experiencing serious disruptions, leading to high scarcity and soaring prices [...] Full text...
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Nigeria’s Food Reserve stock now 109,657 tonnes
14 october 2020 - 10:46:12Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono has announced that the country's [...] Full text...
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Three young Malians at the "Hub Africa 2020" in October in Casablanca, Morocco
24 september 2020 - 22:58:39Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Three young Malians will represent their country at the "Hub Africa 2020" competition to be held [...] Full text...
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As climate change ravages Southern Africa, two Zimbabwean farmers turn to drone irrigation (Feature by Tatira Zwinoira)
16 june 2020 - 17:48:43Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Nathan Zecks Mazvazva, aged 25, remembers standing in the center of his 15-acre sugar cane field [...] Full text...
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From farm to fork: Women championing agricultural transformation in Africa (An AfDB Feaure)
09 june 2020 - 16:29:37Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - From Sudan to Mali, Senegal to Mozambique, and Zambia to Mauritania, women are changing the [...] Full text...
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Ramadan without respite for Libyans, victims of military escalation (News analysis by Youssef BA, PANA correspondent)
17 may 2020 - 20:48:37Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyans will have lived in 2020 the Ramadan, month of fasting for Muslims, the most difficult [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Togolese govt. warns speculators who attempt to profit from coronavirus
25 march 2020 - 21:56:02Lomé, Togo (PANA) – The Togolese government promises to take serious action against traders who take advantage of the coronavirus [...] Full text...
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Switzerland grants nearly 6 million Swiss francs to Tunisia
31 january 2020 - 09:26:46Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Two agreements for two grants totalling 5.8 million Swiss francs were signed on Thursday between Tunisia [...] Full text...
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WFP calls for increased support as eight million in Zimbabwe face hunger
31 december 2019 - 06:05:05Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) is calling on countries to step up support to Zimbabwe, where millions of [...] Full text...
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Nigerian ministers visit main western border with Benin to assess impact of closure
26 november 2019 - 05:39:03Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – A Nigerian ministerial delegation led by minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday [...] Full text...
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Cost of living jumps nearly 73 percent by end of October in Zimbabwe
04 november 2019 - 23:56:48Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe’s cost of living has ballooned by 72.48 percent to ZWL (Zimbabwe dollar) $3,943.88 by end-October [...] Full text...
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Enough food being produced but hunger on the rise in parts of the world - UN
04 october 2019 - 07:57:25Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet, but hunger is on the rise [...] Full text...
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Inflation slows down to remain within Central Bank target range in Kenya
30 august 2019 - 18:36:50Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's annual inflation slowed down to 5% in August after climbing down from 6.27% in July, [...] Full text...
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Inflation softens in May on abundant rains in Kenya
31 may 2019 - 17:43:20Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The year-on-year inflation softened to 5.49% in May from 6.58% in April, driven down by the [...] Full text...
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Prices of basic commodities and services to increase further in Zimbabwe
22 may 2019 - 17:54:46Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) – The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has warned of further price increases following the price of [...] Full text...
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Kenyatta calls for modernised agriculture to bolster food security
04 december 2018 - 19:38:56Narok, Kenya (PANA) – President Uhuru Kenyatta has called on farmers to adopt modern farming and livestock production technologies to [...] Full text...
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Small-scale horticulture project transforming lives in Kenya (An AfDB Feature)
24 august 2018 - 13:47:22Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A decade after going through a food crisis and in the aftermath of the drought in [...] Full text...
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Water project in Cabo Verde saves communities, transforms livelihoods of women (An AfDB feature)
23 july 2018 - 18:02:45Santiago Island, Cabo Verde (PANA) - A water irrigation and supply system, funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB), has [...] Full text...
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'Bees must be protected for the future of our food' - FAO
19 may 2018 - 16:48:44Ljubljana, Slovenia (PANA) - On the eve of the first World Bee Day, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) [...] Full text...
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On ‘Zero Discrimination Day’ UN urges tackling everyday biases
01 march 2018 - 19:54:47New York, US (PANA) - To mark Zero Discrimination Day, the United Nations agency coordinating the global effort to tackle [...] Full text...
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FAO urges the protection of mountains from degradation
11 december 2017 - 07:38:46Rome, Italy (PANA) - As the world celebrates International Mountain Day on Monday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) [...] Full text...
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Papal gift helps hungry families in South Sudan - FAO
13 november 2017 - 10:14:59Yei, South Sudan (PANA) - Hungry families in South Sudan will be able to make ends meet thanks to vegetable-growing [...] Full text...
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US: FAO calls for global call for zero tolerance on food loss and waste
20 september 2017 - 09:50:48New York, US (PANA) - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has joined in calls for a renewed global commitment [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Nigeria's inflation rate drops to 16.25%
16 june 2017 - 07:11:48Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says that the country’s inflation dropped to 16.25 per [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: FAO-supported farmers expect good harvest in Northeast Nigeria
29 march 2017 - 13:40:50Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says farmers under its support programmes in Northeast Nigeria, the [...] Full text...
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Rwanda: Addressing challenges facing street vendors in Rwanda (A feature by Aimable Twahirwa, PANA Correspondent in Kigali)
28 february 2017 - 15:56:56Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Jobless and widowed, Margaret Mukansonera continues her petty trade through the pavements and street corners in [...] Full text...
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Botswana: Fresh produce import ban lifted in Botswana
02 february 2017 - 14:45:01Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s has lifted the indefinite ban it placed on fruit and vegetable imports into the country [...] Full text...
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Rwanda: Burundi lifts ban on selling food crops on border with Rwanda
06 april 2016 - 21:25:15Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A ban on selling food crops at Burundi's border post of Ruhwa, which connects Rwanda and [...] Full text...
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Ghana: Gory road accident, President’s Iran visit reported in Ghana
20 february 2016 - 06:36:41Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A gory accident on Wednesday night that claimed the lives of 61 passengers, President John Dramani [...] Full text...
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Ghana: Police say 61 passengers died in bus crash
18 february 2016 - 18:35:03Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The police in Ghana say the death toll in Wednesday's road accident in the north of [...] Full text...
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Ghana: Death toll in Ghana road accident goes up to 71
18 february 2016 - 15:59:31Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The death toll in the road accident in northern Ghana on Wednesday night has risen to [...] Full text...
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Ghana: Death toll in Ghana road crash rises to 53
18 february 2016 - 10:38:54Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The death toll in the road accident in northern Ghana on Wednesday night has risen to [...] Full text...
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Ghana: At least 45 passengers perish to Ghana road accident
18 february 2016 - 06:51:47Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At least 45 passengers are feared dead when a bus collided with a truck on Wednesday [...] Full text...
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South Sudan: UN humanitarian agencies reach thousands of South Sudanese cut off for months
27 august 2015 - 17:56:24Juba, South Sudan (PANA) – UN emergency relief teams Thursday managed to reach more than 27,000 people in a South [...] Full text...
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Tanzania:Violence against women is an affront to human dignity (Viewpoint By Donald Kaberuka, President, Africa Development Bank)
25 november 2014 - 07:55:49Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Idah Chilufya is a cross-border trader in the Great Lakes region. She is a [...] Full text...
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Belgium: Brussels, Rabat resolve problem of access to European market
23 june 2014 - 21:36:18Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) and Morocco have reached an agreement on access to the European market [...] Full text...
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Tunisia: Fresh vegetable exports from Tunisia rise
06 june 2014 - 16:39:11Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Export of fresh vegetables from Tunisia rose by 52% at the end of May 2014 or [...] Full text...
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Ivorian, Tanzanian firms win grants from Agriculture Fast Track Fund
18 october 2013 - 18:09:09Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Two firms - the National Federation of Food Production Cooperatives (FENACOVICI) of Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania-based [...] Full text...
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‘Nigeria spent 11.7b naira yearly on tomatoes importation’
04 july 2013 - 12:41:43Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has expressed displeasure over the [...] Full text...
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UN chief urges consensus on robust arms trade treaty
19 march 2013 - 11:03:07New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged participants at the UN Final Conference on the Arms [...] Full text...
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Child labour: Angolan police intercept truck carrying 54 children
17 january 2013 - 14:16:20Namibe, Angola (PANA) - The Angolan police Wednesday intercepted a truck carrying 54 children without the authorization of their parents, [...] Full text...
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Angolan govt. creates 180,000 agricultural jobs
09 august 2012 - 17:28:11Lubango, Angola (PANA) - The Angolan government has created over 180,000 jobs for its youth in the agricultural sector over [...] Full text...
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FAO, JICA sign deal to implement agric projects in South Kordufan, Blue Nile
08 may 2012 - 15:13:34Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has signed an agreement, worth US$ 1.45 million, with [...] Full text...
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European parliament approves EU-Morocco deal on Trade liberalisation
17 february 2012 - 17:25:01Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Parliament on Thursday approved the trade agreement for the reciprocal liberalisation of agricultural products [...] Full text...
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Oil spills, security issues, oil subsidy debate reported in Nigeria
12 november 2011 - 02:51:10Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Plans to clean up Ogoniland following the massive oil spills in the area and the continuing [...] Full text...
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AI says Shell must pay US$1b to clean oil pollution in Nigeria
10 november 2011 - 20:18:58Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Shell must commit to paying an initial US$1 billion to begin the clean-up of pollution caused [...] Full text...
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UN/EU-backed investment for Togolese poor farmers yields good returns
04 august 2011 - 14:31:26New York, US (PANA) - A UN-European Union (EU) initiative to help Togo cope with high food prices and bad [...] Full text...
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Inflation in Ghana continues downward trend
13 july 2011 - 13:40:20Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The year-on-year inflation in Ghana fell for the fourth consecutive month to 8.59 per cent in [...] Full text...
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'Urban horticulture in DRC reaps US$ 400m for small growers'
10 june 2011 - 20:19:46Rome, Italy (PANA) - An urban horticulture programme, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the five main [...] Full text...
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Tunisia expecting promising agricultural season
19 april 2011 - 15:34:31Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The Tunisian Minister of Agriculture and Environment, Mokhtar Jallali, announced that wheat stocks available in the [...] Full text...
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Court invalidates president's directive as Malawi university stand off spreads
15 march 2011 - 18:26:21Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The High Court in the eastern city of Zomba, some 70 kilometres from Malawi's commercial capital, [...] Full text...
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'Agric ministers commit to review world crop gene pool"
12 march 2011 - 18:01:40Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Agriculture ministers and senior officials from more than 100 countries have committed to review the global [...] Full text...
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Nigerians round-off shopping for Christmas
24 december 2010 - 20:46:10Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerians Friday made last-minute arrangements ahead of Saturday’s Christmas celebration, as several offices closed earlier, with [...] Full text...
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Kenya's inflation drops to 3.2% on declining prices
01 july 2010 - 14:34:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan consumers and bank loan borrowers have reason to be optimistic as the country's annual inflation [...] Full text...
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Kenya’s annual inflation climbs 3.9% in May
31 may 2010 - 18:38:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya’s annual inflation edged upwards to 3. 9 per cent in May, climbing from a four-year [...] Full text...
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FAO-designed scheme boosts Nigerien famers' income
12 april 2010 - 19:42:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- An ingenious financing scheme, designed by the FAO to al low African smallholder farmers to make [...] Full text...
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Kenya's inflation rises to 5.2% over rising consumer prices
03 march 2010 - 15:22:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The month-on-month inflation rose to 5. 2 per cent in Fe bruary, mainly driven by the [...] Full text...
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Kenya's inflation rises in December as alcohol prices inch up
31 december 2009 - 17:42:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyaâ™s month-on-month inflation rose to 5. 3 percent in December from 5. 0 in November due [...] Full text...
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EU, FAO boost small farmersâ? food production in Pakistan
09 november 2009 - 18:36:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Just in time for the upcoming planting season, the Europ ean Union (EU) has put in [...] Full text...
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Inflation under control in Mozambique
13 january 2009 - 17:44:00Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican government is winning its battle agai nst inflation, according to the latest data from [...] Full text...
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Kadhafi visits memorial of AU founders in Bamako
05 january 2009 - 08:04:00Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi has visited the site of the memorial built in the Malian capital, [...] Full text...
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