01 november 2024 - 14:50:00
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Prof. Abraham Kithure Kindiki was on Friday sworn in as the Deputy President of Kenya following [...] Full text...
17 october 2024 - 15:47:36
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was taken ill on Thursday, shortly before taking the witness stand [...] Full text...
09 october 2024 - 08:39:55
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has been impeached after a daylong session in Parliament which ended [...] Full text...
08 october 2024 - 14:51:57
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Members of Parliament began debating the special motion to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from [...] Full text...
01 october 2024 - 13:26:49
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The short-lived political cohabitation between Kenya's deputy President Geoffrey Rigathi Gachagua and the President William Ruto, [...] Full text...
23 february 2024 - 12:05:29
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has slammed the impeachment of two prominent senior [...] Full text...
01 november 2023 - 08:38:45
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday appointed advocate Kholeka Gcaleka as South Africa's new public [...] Full text...
17 february 2023 - 11:07:53
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it is to repatriate approximately $954,807 to [...] Full text...
12 december 2022 - 15:17:08
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African presidency has confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa will not be attending [...] Full text...
02 december 2022 - 12:17:37
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s ruling ANC is holding crisis talks on Friday amid concerns that President [...] Full text...
02 december 2022 - 11:22:34
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has said that South Africa should be [...] Full text...
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...
02 june 2022 - 16:17:27
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The campaigns ahead of the 9 August 2022 general elections in Kenya have officially kicked off [...] Full text...
18 december 2020 - 17:04:37
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan Senate has impeached the Governor of Nairobi, Gideon Mbuvi, alias Mike Sonko, after an [...] Full text...
29 november 2020 - 20:02:46
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The horrific killing of at least 43 rice farmers at Zabarmari in the Jere Local Government [...] Full text...
10 november 2020 - 17:02:32
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered Liberia to pay Counsellor Kabineh Muhammad Jan’neh, an impeached [...] Full text...
12 september 2020 - 15:12:31
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan media is facing a backlash over its reporting on corruption from wealthy citizens and [...] Full text...
19 august 2020 - 18:49:34
Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - FIFA’s independent ethics committee has cleared president Gianni Infantino of alleged breach of its code, world [...] Full text...
09 july 2020 - 20:56:25
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian parliament Thursday called for the impeachment of President Adama Barrow over his declaration of [...] Full text...
19 may 2020 - 22:54:27
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean political opposition Tuesday rejected the recent nomination of lawyer Mamadi 3 Kaba as chairman [...] Full text...
29 january 2020 - 23:16:57
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan Senate voted Wednesday to impeach the governor of Kiambu County, Ferdinand Waititu, after confirming [...] Full text...
10 december 2019 - 10:38:32
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The disturbing images of violent activities that saturated the social media space during the recent governorship [...] Full text...
04 november 2019 - 18:35:59
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Cuban Ambassador to The Gambia Rubén G. Abelenda disclosed here Monday a new draft resolution against [...] Full text...
25 june 2019 - 06:08:52
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia's Minister of Tourism René Trablesi on Monday accused Tunisian parties of financing an Israeli company [...] Full text...
25 january 2019 - 18:14:51
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria may be on the brink of a constitutional anarchy as President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday [...] Full text...
07 february 2018 - 15:21:27
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Cyril Ramaphosa, the leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), on Wednesday moved [...] Full text...
24 january 2018 - 22:49:15
New York, US (PANA) – Grappling with turbulent politics, persisting terrorism and the risk of famine, Somalia must make 2018 [...] Full text...
29 december 2017 - 11:00:21
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Constitutional Court on Friday ruled that the National Assembly failed to put in [...] Full text...
21 november 2017 - 17:57:19
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - News of the resignation of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has sparked wild celebrations across the [...] Full text...
21 november 2017 - 16:54:41
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - President Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Tuesday resigned after a week of pressure from the [...] Full text...
21 november 2017 - 16:35:04
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Jacob Zuma and Angolan President Joao Lourenco were due in Harare [...] Full text...
21 november 2017 - 14:22:40
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The process to impeach President Robert Mugabe began on Tuesday with the Speaker of Parliament Jacob [...] Full text...
21 november 2017 - 12:25:53
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s President Dr Seretse Khama Ian Khama has sent a letter to Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe asking [...] Full text...
21 november 2017 - 11:00:04
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Former Zimbabwe Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stepped into the political crisis in the country asking [...] Full text...
20 november 2017 - 20:31:16
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe Defence Defence and Security Services are urging Zimbabweans to remain calm and patient as [...] Full text...
20 november 2017 - 11:23:27
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The people of Zimbabwe are on Monday awaiting the next move of the ruling ZANU PF [...] Full text...
19 november 2017 - 19:53:26
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Sunday refused to step down despite the ruling ZANU PF sacking [...] Full text...
19 november 2017 - 15:10:12
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU PF party has sacked Robert Mugabe as its leader, while the party’s Youth [...] Full text...
17 september 2017 - 07:42:41
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) – Somalia’s international partners have welcomed the orderly election of state president for HirShabelle region.
The United Nations, [...] Full text...
29 july 2017 - 06:45:27
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The explosive disagreements among the top management personnel of the Electoral Commission (EC) and the fifth [...] Full text...
22 july 2017 - 05:39:15
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The maiden press conference by Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo and a petition by anonymous workers of [...] Full text...
29 may 2017 - 10:09:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – While President Jacob Zuma has survived yet another attempt to have him forced out [...] Full text...
21 april 2017 - 13:40:48
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – In a further setback for President Jacob Zuma, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) [...] Full text...
31 march 2017 - 09:01:55
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has been plunged into a fresh political crisis after President Jacob Zuma [...] Full text...
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...
15 september 2016 - 09:56:18
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Almost 1,000 days after corruption charges were laid against President Jacob Zuma, the National [...] Full text...
11 august 2016 - 08:19:13
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambians started voting on Thursday in the general election and national referendum under the amended Constitution [...] Full text...
23 may 2016 - 09:51:11
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday announced that it will seek leave to [...] Full text...
30 april 2016 - 12:38:32
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s two biggest opposition parties on Saturday took aim at President Jacob Zuma, [...] Full text...
29 april 2016 - 10:55:13
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – In another massive blow to President Jacob Zuma, the North Gauteng High Court on [...] Full text...
06 april 2016 - 20:51:02
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's President Jacob Zuma may have
survived Tuesday’s impeachment vote in the National [...] Full text...
05 april 2016 - 18:25:10
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The National Assembly of South Africa on Tuesday voted against removing President Jacob Zuma [...] Full text...
04 april 2016 - 11:50:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The executive committee of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is holding fresh talks [...] Full text...
31 march 2016 - 11:12:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Constitutional Court on Thursday sharply rebuked President Jacob Zuma, the ruling African National [...] Full text...
30 march 2016 - 09:27:50
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Constitutional Court – South Africa’s Highest Court – will on Thursday rule whether [...] Full text...
01 march 2016 - 16:58:52
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Jacob Zuma who is reeling following a series of high-profile political scandals, on [...] Full text...
29 february 2016 - 09:45:23
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - President Jacob Zuma is gearing himself for a tumultuous day in Tuesday with the Gauteng [...] Full text...
12 february 2016 - 15:14:49
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Jacob Zuma has experienced one of the most turbulent weeks in [...] Full text...
10 february 2016 - 08:06:29
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Following two years of ducking and diving in the wake of Public Protector Thuli [...] Full text...
21 september 2015 - 20:59:53
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan teachers have exchanged “unpleasant rhetoric” with President Uhuru Kenyatta following the shutting down of schools [...] Full text...
18 september 2015 - 15:32:40
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government shut down all schools and colleges on Friday after a three-week-long teachers strike [...] Full text...
10 september 2015 - 15:33:36
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The public in Ghana, including lawyers, are divided on whether it is appropriate to publicly screen [...] Full text...
09 september 2015 - 22:47:54
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong, has granted investigative journalist, Anas [...] Full text...
09 september 2015 - 18:42:50
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghanaian Judicial Council has suspended 22 Circuit Court judges and Magistrates with effect from 10 [...] Full text...
20 august 2015 - 13:36:37
New York, US (PANA) - Envoys from the UN and other international organizations have expressed deep concern that a parliamentary [...] Full text...
04 august 2015 - 12:57:21
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Tuesday gave notice in the National Assembly [...] Full text...
10 march 2015 - 15:25:32
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Sierra Leonean Vice President, Chief Alhaji Sam Sumana, expelled recently from the ruling All Progressive [...] Full text...
06 january 2015 - 16:47:16
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A formal complaint will be laid against Western Cape High Court Deputy Judge President [...] Full text...
29 november 2014 - 09:39:17
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Moves by some lawmakers in the national assembly to begin impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan [...] Full text...
22 november 2014 - 12:48:44
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Thursday's invasion of the National Assembly by the police and the failure of the Super Eagles [...] Full text...
26 september 2014 - 12:57:30
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Governor Kayode Fayemi of Nigeria's South-west Ekiti State Friday imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the state [...] Full text...
24 july 2014 - 16:11:25
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has agreed to convene an emergency congress 31 July, 2014, to [...] Full text...
24 july 2014 - 15:05:27
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The crisis that rocked Nigerian football since its national football team, Super Eagles crashed out of [...] Full text...
23 july 2014 - 20:50:46
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition leader and former military head of state retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday [...] Full text...
22 march 2014 - 10:00:13
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – With less than two months before South Africa’s general elections, President Jacob Zuma has been [...] Full text...
20 march 2014 - 11:48:43
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) Thursday moved to contain the fallout from the [...] Full text...
19 march 2014 - 16:07:24
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – Public Protector Thuli Madonsela on Wednesday afternoon released her long-awaited report on President Jacob Zuma’s [...] Full text...
30 december 2013 - 10:29:57
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Just like the “Watergate” scandal led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon [...] Full text...
15 december 2013 - 20:20:07
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian presidency and the opposition on Sunday engaged in a war of words over the [...] Full text...
05 december 2013 - 07:45:11
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Calls for the impeachment of South Africa's President Jacob Zuma are growing fast, amid [...] Full text...
02 december 2013 - 11:19:09
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Monday denied claims that it will [...] Full text...
30 september 2013 - 09:28:34
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The high-profile judicial inquiry into Western Cape Judge John Hlophe kicked off in Johannesburg, [...] Full text...
26 october 2012 - 09:36:19
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The delay tactics being used by lawyers to South Africa's President Jacob Zuma to [...] Full text...
07 september 2012 - 11:23:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has been urged to immediately suspend Western Cape Judge [...] Full text...
02 august 2012 - 09:57:41
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has described as a ''distraction'' the current face-off between it and the House [...] Full text...
05 april 2012 - 11:46:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Reeling from allegations that he solicited and obtained a church 'gift' from a foreign construction company [...] Full text...
03 april 2012 - 14:49:08
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan comes under heavy criticism for allegedly soliciting and accepting a church [...] Full text...
15 february 2012 - 22:28:57
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika's first Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, who was arrested on Monday, was [...] Full text...
14 february 2012 - 16:25:41
Blantyre , Malawi (PANA) - Former Malawi Attorney General, Ralph Kasambara, who was arrested on Monday after intercepting a gang [...] Full text...
13 february 2012 - 19:41:18
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Ralph Kasambara, a former Malawi Attorney General and now a leading lawyer in private practice, was [...] Full text...
12 january 2012 - 10:32:14
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Pastor Tunde Bakare, Convener of the civil society coalition Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Wednesday urged the [...] Full text...
06 january 2012 - 10:14:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has asked the National Assembly (parliament) to begin moves to [...] Full text...
01 november 2011 - 14:06:57
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has strongly opposed the plan by the federal [...] Full text...
10 october 2011 - 19:26:07
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Government Investigation Panel on the 2011 Election Violence on Monday submitted its report to [...] Full text...
18 september 2011 - 20:19:19
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - In a move seen as being groomed for the top job, the Malawi President's younger brother [...] Full text...
08 september 2011 - 15:14:41
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi's Vice-President has said she is neither moved nor surprised by President Bingu wa Mutharika's decision [...] Full text...
06 october 2010 - 13:25:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- An allegation by MEND leader Henry Okah, that President Goodluck Jonathan wanted him to compel the [...] Full text...
11 may 2010 - 08:05:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The presidency may not reveal the name of the vice-presi dential nominee anytime President Goodluck Jonathan [...] Full text...
10 march 2010 - 08:10:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As the leadership crisis thrown up by Nigeria's Presiden t Umaru Yar'Adua's illness continues, former military [...] Full text...
11 february 2010 - 07:24:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The resurgent violence in Nigeria's oil region may conti nue despite the installation of a Niger [...] Full text...
23 january 2010 - 10:30:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The continued absence of Nigerian President Umaru Musa Y ar'Adua from governance, which clocked 62 days [...] Full text...
20 january 2010 - 21:11:00
Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Angolan president would henceforth be elected by Parliament and can serve three terms when the [...] Full text...
20 january 2010 - 21:07:00
Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Angolan president would henceforth be elected by Par liament and can serve three terms when [...] Full text...
16 january 2010 - 15:00:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The story of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's absence fro m Nigeria, 55 days this Saturday, continued [...] Full text...
13 january 2010 - 08:09:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha has called on the country's public media to [...] Full text...
07 january 2010 - 21:44:00
Abidjan- Cأ´te d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The candidate of the Democratic Party of Cأ´te d'Ivoire (PDCI) for the next presidential election, [...] Full text...
11 september 2009 - 16:37:00
New York- US (PANA) -- UN envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, on Thursday ar rived in Somaliland, northwest Somalia, for [...] Full text...
04 august 2009 - 10:14:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambiaa?s main opposition Patriotic Front (PF) party an d the United Party for National Development (UPND) [...] Full text...
23 july 2009 - 09:33:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Two major opposition parties have written to the Speaker of the National Assembly to begin the [...] Full text...
18 july 2009 - 12:12:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a very busy week, filled with stories on politics, ec onomy and security, the Nigerian [...] Full text...