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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - External debts of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the three West African countries which endured dramatic suffering as a result of the Ebola Virus Disease -- should be written off, UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes, said Monday
©- - 26 january 2015 - 18:41:46 - thread African Union (323 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - After completing its work on Agenda 2063 flagship integration projects, the African Union Commission (AUC) is preparing the first 10-year plan for a concerted shift towards focusing on implementation of this continental vision, the Commission's Chairperson, Dr
©- - 26 january 2015 - 13:56:26 - thread African Union (610 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The NEPAD Agency of the African Union (AU) has said it is placing emphasis on mobilising African countries to put in place conducive and enabling environment for conducting clinical trials to test the candidate vaccines and other therapies against the Ebola virus
©- - 26 january 2015 - 12:08:45 - thread African Union (483 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on Friday expressed condolences to the Royal family and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz
©- - 23 january 2015 - 20:09:53 - thread African Union (129 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is in Tunis for a two-day working visit, PANA reported Thursday
©- - 22 january 2015 - 11:34:38 - thread African Union (155 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia's state run mobile telephone firm, Ethio Telecom, joined the campaign on Saturday to raise funds to finance an African-led effort against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
©- - 20 december 2014 - 14:31:31 - thread African Union (396 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Special Envoy for Women and Peace, Benita Diop, has launched a bid to effectively protect women in conflict zones by proposing a series of strict measures to punish sexual offenders
©- - 17 december 2014 - 15:18:28 - thread African Union (476 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Commission President, Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma, Friday hailed the election of Senegalese Justice Minister, Sidiki Kaba, as the next President of the Assembly of State Parties to Rome Statute
©- - 12 december 2014 - 15:27:45 - thread African Union (307 words)


Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The 11th international conference of the Francophone Union of internal auditing (UFAI) will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday next week in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, PANA reported, quoting a communiqué issued here Tuesday
©- - 09 december 2014 - 14:49:17 - thread African Union (156 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Special Envoy on Women and Peace, Benita Diop, has embarked on a visit to Nigeria, to review the status of women trapped in conflict, with the status of the kidnapped Chibok girls in Nigeria top on her agenda
©- - 08 december 2014 - 15:20:35 - thread African Union (573 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Trade Ministers have kicked off a meeting to prepare the ground for the launch of negotiations on a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), PANA reported Thursday
©- - 04 december 2014 - 21:51:13 - thread African Union (310 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – At its maiden conference on the Libyan crisis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the International contact group for Libya warned on Wednesday that the solution to the crisis in the north African nation cannot be military
©- - 04 december 2014 - 12:36:00 - thread African Union (260 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosozana Dlamini Zuma Tuesday decried lack of funding as the main crisis facing the implementation of Africa's development plans
©- - 02 december 2014 - 17:59:02 - thread African Union (648 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) is to launch a mobile-phone enabled campaign to raise funds to support the fight against Ebola spread in West Africa, the AU’s top official said Tuesday
©- - 02 december 2014 - 13:28:04 - thread African Union (266 words)


Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cape Verde will host a regional Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for 30 member States of the African Union (AU) under the continental organisation's initiative to establish connection across Africa, official sources told PANA here Tuesday
©- - 25 november 2014 - 17:20:22 - thread African Union (212 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfuri rebel movements, which did not sign the Doha peace agreement, began Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
©- - 24 november 2014 - 12:30:09 - thread African Union (370 words)


Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Turkey and Africa will hold a second summit to strengthen their cooperation, the African Union Commission (AUC) announced Thursday
©- - 20 november 2014 - 16:25:20 - thread African Union (354 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has abandoned plans to suspend Burkina Faso from its membership after the newly-appointed President Michel Kafando was sworn in and the military designated the transfer of power on 21 November
©- - 18 november 2014 - 15:26:40 - thread African Union (419 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has sought China’s support towards its push for the inclusion of trade and industrialization agenda in the future UN plan to fight poverty, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), at talks with visiting Chinese officials
©- - 18 november 2014 - 13:42:55 - thread African Union (557 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has welcomed a decision by the military in Burkina Faso to appoint Michel Kafando the transitional President, shortly before a 15-day deadline of naming a civilian head of state was due to expire
©- - 17 november 2014 - 13:02:11 - thread African Union (478 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Committee of 10 Heads of State, preparing a common African position on UN Security Council reforms, is due to meet in Kenya Monday, the Kenyan foreign ministry said Friday
©- - 14 november 2014 - 12:51:02 - thread African Union (349 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Sudanese negotiators have kicked off talks in Addis Ababa to seek an immediate ceasefire to the continuing fighting in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile states, PANA reported Thursday
©- - 13 november 2014 - 11:24:54 - thread African Union (423 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has hailed Germany for providing assistance to universities in African countries to enhance research on effective land use and management
©- - 12 november 2014 - 14:57:47 - thread African Union (494 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Government said it would send an 8-member delegation from the ruling party leadership and other non-government parties to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in response to a proposal by the African Union (AU) to try to convince armed movements to take part in national dialogue
©- - 10 november 2014 - 12:30:00 - thread African Union (205 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU), the UN and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are launching a major bid to improve the management of land, which has been a source of conflict in Africa
©- - 07 november 2014 - 13:11:18 - thread African Union (609 words)


Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise several years of collaboration, according to a statement made available to PANA here Thursday
©- - 06 november 2014 - 08:58:39 - thread African Union (231 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has stepped up its Ebola response with the deployment of a team of medical workers to Guinea, one of the three countries affected by Ebola
©- - 05 november 2014 - 14:27:52 - thread African Union (417 words)


Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Industrialisation can be an important tool for poverty and hunger reduction but should not come at the expense of agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said
©- - 05 november 2014 - 11:21:44 - thread African Union (234 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - While an increasing number of Africans enjoy higher living standards, sub-Saharan Africa countries should redouble efforts to ensure crises such as the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa do not reverse development achievements, according to a report released here at the ongoing the African Economic Conference (AEC)
©- - 02 november 2014 - 13:16:23 - thread African Union (678 words)


Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - "Response to crisis in Africa must be global and based on the promotion of democratic governance as guaranteed by the African Charter outlined by the African Union," the Chair of the African Union Commission, Mrs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, warned in a message she sent Thursday to AU member countries
©- - 31 october 2014 - 12:07:49 - thread African Union (417 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -The African Union (AU) said Thursday it has dispatched a high-level team to hold talks with the authorities in Burkina Faso after daylong violence which saw protestors storm into parliament
©- - 30 october 2014 - 18:36:00 - thread African Union (277 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – African and world attention in general is on Tunisia as voters in the North African country go to the polls on Sunday to attest the promotion of democracy in that part of the continent, according to the African Union (AU)'s head of the Election Observation Mission, Cassam Uteem
©- - 24 october 2014 - 17:23:53 - thread African Union (241 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The number of African peacekeepers killed in Sudan's restive Darfur region has risen to more than 60 since deployment of the force in 2007, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Wednesday
©- - 22 october 2014 - 18:10:22 - thread African Union (303 words)