Human rights advocate urges DR Congo authorities to free journalist

02 february 2024 - 07:01:43
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo [...] Full text...

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Malian military leader says army has 'seized' Kidal

14 november 2023 - 15:40:49
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Malian Armed Forces seized the town of Kidal on Tuesday, after several days of [...] Full text...

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WHO, WADA sign MOU to collaborate on clean, drug-free sport

02 october 2023 - 19:30:58
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a four-year memorandum [...] Full text...

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Burkina Faso announces closure of military mission in Paris

15 september 2023 - 16:17:34
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkina Faso Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday the closure of the Burkina [...] Full text...

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Rights group asks Nigerian authorities to disclose identities of #EndSARS protesters due for mass burial

25 july 2023 - 07:38:01
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, has asked the Nigerian authorities to urgently halt plans to carry [...] Full text...

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Burundi to join Africa Finance Corporation

07 july 2023 - 13:19:49
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's weekly cabinet meeting adopted an invitation to the country to join the Africa Finance Corporation [...] Full text...

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Sudan conflict: Govt protests to WHO over occupation of health facilities by RSF in Khartoum

28 april 2023 - 06:29:12
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese government has officially protested to the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) against the [...] Full text...

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Burkina Faso: 27 soldiers killed in ambush of humanitarian convoy in Burkina Faso's Sahel on 26 September

04 october 2022 - 14:22:42
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Twenty-seven Burkinabe soldiers were killed on 26 September in an ambush that targeted a humanitarian [...] Full text...

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Gambia government rejects memo in circulation about civil servants pay as ‘grossly false’

29 march 2022 - 20:10:17
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian government has described a rescheduled document (memo) in circulation as ‘false and misleading’ and [...] Full text...

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Nigeria lifts Twitter ban after seven months

13 january 2022 - 06:40:00
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – After about seven months, the Nigerian Federal Government on Wednesday lifted the ban of Twitter operations [...] Full text...

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Ethiopian crisis: AU Peace and Security Council to receive update on situation; AUC denies reports of relocation

08 november 2021 - 08:46:22
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) will convene an emergency session on [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council approves immediate deployment of 5G network

08 september 2021 - 20:19:44
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved the National Policy on Fifth Generation (5G) Networks, effectively giving [...] Full text...

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Employees of a Beninese press group ordered to be vaccinated against COVID-19

17 august 2021 - 19:39:09
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Employees of the "Groupe de presse le Matinal" have until August 20 to be vaccinated against [...] Full text...

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Nigeria summons U.S., U.K., Canada, EU envoys, orders all broadcast stations off Twitter

07 june 2021 - 16:21:27
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian government on Monday summoned the envoys of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Army confirms recall of personnel in civil educational institutions, to be deployed in war against terrorism, banditry

16 may 2021 - 16:04:33
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA)  -  The Nigerian Army has confirmed the recall of its personnel studying in various civil institutions across [...] Full text...

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Libyan government's cabinet meeting scheduled for Benghazi on Monday postponed

26 april 2021 - 09:01:18
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A cabinet meeting scheduled for Benghazi on Monday has been postponed, government spokesperson Mohamed Hamouda announced [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's Federal Executive Council approves US$1.5 billion for rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery

17 march 2021 - 21:12:23
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The 38th virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved US$1.5 billion for the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Wearing protective mask mandatory in the Burkinabe armed forces

13 january 2021 - 18:29:11
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Faced with an upsurge in the number of covid-19 positive cases in Burkina Faso, the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria ratifies AfCTA

11 november 2020 - 18:54:29
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday ratified Nigeria’s membership of African Continental Free Trade Area [...] Full text...

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Congolese govt. declares state of humanitarian emergency following floods in the North

05 november 2020 - 17:23:33
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Minister of State for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Henri Djombo, on Thursday alerted the [...] Full text...

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Federal Executive Council approves ratification of Air Transport deal between Nigeria, U.S.

29 july 2020 - 19:17:03
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday, at its weekly meeting, approved the ratification of Bilateral [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's President suspends anti-graft head, Magu, over graft allegations

07 july 2020 - 16:32:58
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has suspended the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes [...] Full text...

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Mobile telephone operators in Mauritania fined for poor quality service

29 june 2020 - 09:19:21
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has fined mobile telephone operators for "failures in the quality of [...] Full text...

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Nigerian to take 'decisive action' against rape, violence against women, girls

11 june 2020 - 10:31:00
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria on Wednesday said that with the “embarrassing” rate of rape cases in the country, it [...] Full text...

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Six leaders of Zimbabwe's main opposition party arrested

05 june 2020 - 15:59:54
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) – Six leaders of  Zimbabwe's main opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, were arrested on [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Kenya government seeks justification as hotel chain fires staff

29 may 2020 - 12:58:39
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan Government has written to a local hotel chain seeking clarification on its justification to [...] Full text...

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Burkina Faso's Parliament ratifies African Medicines Agency Treaty

15 april 2020 - 12:22:17
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) -  Burkina Faso's Parliament has adopted the treaty establishing the African Medicines Agency (AMA), an official [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Nigeria Army suspends all projected events, to enforce restriction of movement

25 march 2020 - 12:50:21
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Army says it is to enforce the policy of restriction of movement and compulsory [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Visits to patients at Brazzaville University Hospital Center suspended

18 march 2020 - 20:35:43
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The general manager of the University Hospital Centre of Brazzaville (CHU-B), the largest hospital in the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Libyan belligerents prepare to battle virus

16 march 2020 - 04:36:31
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The main actors of the ongoing bloody Libyan conflict are faced with a common enemy: coronavirus. Although [...] Full text...

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Accredited French journalist deported from Guinea

07 march 2020 - 11:53:36
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - French journalist, Thomas Dietrich, was deported on Friday, 48 hours after arriving in Guinea. He was [...] Full text...

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Nigeria slashes visa charges for US citizens

07 february 2020 - 15:23:18
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria has slashed its visa application charges for citizens of the United States of America (USA).   This [...] Full text...

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Female police officers in Zimbabwe turn to prostitution due to meagre wages

13 january 2020 - 22:22:21
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA)   -  Zimbabwean female police officers are allegedly engaging in prostitution to supplement their meagre incomes, according to [...] Full text...

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Electricity tariffs set to rise in Nigeria

21 december 2019 - 08:04:44
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Federal Government is set to increase electricity tariffs as it expects the completion of [...] Full text...

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US slaps Liberia again with temporary suspension of non-immigrant visas

09 december 2019 - 23:19:50
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) – The United States embassy here Monday dealt another blow to the government and people of Liberia, [...] Full text...

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Minister tells Nigerian Customs to allow fuel supply to border towns to power generators for telecom services

23 november 2019 - 19:49:56
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Dr Isa Pantami, has urged the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to allow [...] Full text...

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Nigerian govt. repeals Geneva Convention, re-enacts it to accord greater access to justice by prisoners of war

20 november 2019 - 19:33:23
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the repeal of the Geneva Convention only to [...] Full text...

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Nigeria bans supply of petroleum products within 20 kilometres of its land borders

07 november 2019 - 19:19:57
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – In an unprecedented move, the Nigeria Customs Service has announced the cutting of supply of petroleum [...] Full text...

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Nigeria Customs Service now says no date set for reopening of land borders

04 november 2019 - 06:43:23
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) now says that all land borders will remain “partially” closed and [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's land borders with neighbouring countries to remain closed till 31 January, 2020

03 november 2019 - 16:34:39
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the closure of the country's land borders with neigbouring countries till [...] Full text...

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Zimbabwe's central bank freezes accounts of companies linked to President Mnangagwa's son, business associate

21 september 2019 - 04:53:47
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) froze the accounts of four companies to investigate money laundering [...] Full text...

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Yellow fever outbreak kills one person in Abidjan

01 august 2019 - 11:34:21
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The yellow fever outbreak, which has been raging in the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, in recent [...] Full text...

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Hospital stay charges nearly double in Zimbabwe

13 june 2019 - 05:14:47
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Hospital stay charges per night has nearly doubled at a time the value of incomes of [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's National Assembly issues stringent conditions for accreditation

21 may 2019 - 07:39:39
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Management of the Nigerian National Assembly has announced stringent conditions for accreditation to cover the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria Army chief gives new operational guidelines on Boko Haram war

03 august 2018 - 11:16:19
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has released new operational guidelines in the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria orders tougher security measures amidst fears of ISIS terrorist attacks

19 june 2018 - 18:00:18
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian federal government has ordered intensified, stricter passenger screening and other tougher security measures for [...] Full text...

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Gov'ts slow to address road freight transport emissions reductions – NGO

24 may 2018 - 09:22:09
Cologne, Germany (PANA) - Despite its significant contribution to global warming, the road freight transport sector is often neglected in [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Kenyan Supreme Court ruling and democratic consolidation in Africa (News Analysis by Paul Ejime, PANA Guest Writer)

11 september 2017 - 10:49:26
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As expected, the Supreme Court’s annulment of Kenya’s August 8 presidential election over “irregularities and illegalities” [...] Full text...

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Sudan: FM expects total lifting of US sanctions on Sudan

10 july 2017 - 18:02:07
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Monday expressed regret over reports that some members of the U.S. Congress have signed [...] Full text...

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US: UN chief criticises US funding cut to UNFPA as based on 'inaccurate perception'

04 april 2017 - 19:39:42
New York, US (PANA) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday voiced deep regret at the decision by the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Nigeria reinforces "no fly zone" order over nation's capital

13 march 2017 - 17:37:01
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA) on Monday reminded aviation authorities of the restriction on [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Govt. approves 8 new private universities

03 november 2016 - 05:37:25
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Government has given provisional licences for the establishment of eight new private universities in [...] Full text...

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UN: UN launches e-learning programme to tackle sexual abuses in field missions

22 july 2016 - 21:50:29
New York, US (PANA) - UN Department of Field Support (DFS), which is responsible for providing logistical support to UN [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Kenyan security agents uncover airport suicide bomb plot

29 february 2016 - 16:25:35
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan security agents have uncovered a plot by the Al Shabaab terror group to use teams [...] Full text...

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Botswana: Government denies sidelining private media in government adverts

08 december 2015 - 09:58:01
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Botswana government has denied allegations that private media have been blacklisted from getting government advertising [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: Reproductive Rights centre sues Kenya’s health ministry for blocking legal abortion

29 june 2015 - 13:33:10
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Kenya’s Ministry of Health is undermining women’s constitutional rights and contributing to cases of [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Regional Solidarity Fund for Ebola falls short

05 november 2014 - 15:29:43
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The US$15 million ECOWAS Regional Solidarity Fund (RSF), created in July 2014 to meet the demands [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Federal Executive Council approves first policy on labour migration

15 october 2014 - 20:54:28
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a draft national policy on labour migration [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Sacking of MD threatens huge investment project in central Sudan

16 july 2014 - 15:32:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A dispute has erupted between the Sudanese Authorities and Arab shareholders over the management of Africa’s [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Govt to align all data capture, identity verification, authentication

09 june 2014 - 17:35:01
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian government has begun the alignment of data capture, identity verification and authentication in the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Military warns against 'inflammatory statements'

28 april 2014 - 20:22:08
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, on Monday warned prominent Nigerians to [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Enlarged National Security Council meeting ends

24 april 2014 - 20:52:01
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The much anticipated all-inclusive Nigerian National Security Council meeting with the nation’s state Governors, security chiefs [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Executive Council approves US$152.12m AfDB loan for agriculture

23 april 2014 - 17:06:58
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved a loan of US$152.12 million from the African [...] Full text...

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Minister's armoured cars, devastating cholera attack highlighted in Nigeria

26 october 2013 - 07:04:38
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The alleged purchase of two BMW 760 armoured cars for the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella [...] Full text...

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President Obama okays military support for Somalia

09 april 2013 - 17:35:33
New York, US (PANA) - US President Barack Obama, has said Somalia will receive military assistance from the US [...] Full text...

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CPJ condemns jail terms for 3 journalists in Cameroon

07 december 2012 - 10:01:38
New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the prison terms slammed Monday on three [...] Full text...

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Nigerian football club denies disbanding team

16 september 2012 - 17:14:25
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The management of Nigeria's premier league club Dolphins FC has denied media reports that the club [...] Full text...

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Another former minister questioned on controversial judgement debt

21 february 2012 - 20:21:41
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Another former minister has been questioned by the Ghana police in connection with his alleged role [...] Full text...

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Malawi anti-Mutharika lawyer finally freed

21 february 2012 - 17:18:09
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - After a week of worldwide condemnation, Malawi's former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, arrested over a week [...] Full text...

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Malawi Police on edge as authorities ignore bail order for ex-Attorney General

17 february 2012 - 19:21:42
Blantyre , Malawi (PANA) - A team of heavily-armed para-military police surrounded the Zomba Maximum Prison on Friday as hundreds [...] Full text...

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Corruption-busting body zeroes in on anti-Mutharika ex-Attorney General

16 february 2012 - 14:42:51
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The state-run corruption-busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), has summoned lawyers representing incarcerated former Attorney-General Ralph [...] Full text...

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Mutharika's first Attorney General re-arrested hours after release

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...

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'Bailed anti-Mutharika lawyer can't go home'

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...

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Prominent Malawi lawyer arrested after intercepting sponsored terrorists

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...

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Security issues, oil subsidy, gay bill dominate front pages in Nigeria

10 december 2011 - 07:08:10
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Wednesday's explosion in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, which left seven people dead and many more [...] Full text...

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Nigeria again scoffs at pressure over anti-gay bill

07 december 2011 - 09:21:22
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's upper legislative chamber, the Senate, has again scoffed at attempts being made to force it [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's Lower House endorses 'controversial' Islamic banking initiative

21 july 2011 - 17:21:28
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Lower House of Representatives has endorsed the controversial issues of Islamic banking and 150,000 [...] Full text...

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Abducted daughter of Nigeria's electoral official freed

03 july 2011 - 13:46:07
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The abducted 11-year-old daughter of the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Nigeria's southern Rivers state has [...] Full text...

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New African weightlifting record set at Nigeria games

01 july 2011 - 12:45:25
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A new African weightlifting record has been set at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Port [...] Full text...

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Egypt's outgoing foreign minister calls for a national security council

25 june 2011 - 14:06:47
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt's outgoing foreign minister, Nabil al-Araby, has sent a memorandum to the government in which he [...] Full text...

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Malawi insists British High Commissioner must leave

26 april 2011 - 22:05:21
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The Malawi Government has finally informed the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London that High [...] Full text...

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Beninese journalists march against police brutality

12 april 2011 - 18:14:20
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Media practitioners in Benin on Tuesday took to the streets in Cotonou to protest against the [...] Full text...

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Court grants anti-Mutharika guards bail

22 december 2010 - 19:27:28
Blantyre, Malawi, (PANA) - Lilongwe First Grade Magistrates Court in Malawi, presided over by First Grade Magistrate Ritchie Gomani, on [...] Full text...

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Sudan denies plans to postpone 2011 referendum

13 august 2010 - 16:37:00
Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Sudanese government has denied reports that Preside nt Omer El-Bashir was planning to postpone the [...] Full text...

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Sudan denies plans to postpone 2011 referendum

13 august 2010 - 16:37:00
Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Sudanese government has denied reports that Preside nt Omer El-Bashir was planning to postpone the [...] Full text...

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Nigerian president to get 3 new planes (Corrected)

11 august 2010 - 16:12:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday secured the nod to purchase three new planes at a total [...] Full text...

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Nigerian president to get 3 new planes

11 august 2010 - 15:28:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday secured the nod to purchase three new planes at a total [...] Full text...

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Nigeria fires 4 national football administrators (Corrected)

26 july 2010 - 18:27:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The reorganization in Nigeria's football governing body, the Nigeria Football Federation, took a new twist Monday [...] Full text...

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Angola and U.S sign MOU on air transport

23 april 2010 - 22:27:00
Luanda- Angola (PANA) â" The governments of Angola- and the US on Thursday signe d a memorandum of understanding (MOU) [...] Full text...

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Canada Governor General on maiden visit to Rwanda

21 april 2010 - 15:06:00
Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The Governor General of Canada, Mrs. Michaأ«lle Jean, ar rived in Kigali for a three-day [...] Full text...

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Nigeria media highlight new ministerial list, constitutional amendment

27 march 2010 - 08:08:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Acting President Goodluck Jonathan's new ministerial list, constitutional amendment and passage of the 2010 Federal budget [...] Full text...

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Nigeria opposition reacts angrily to Jonathan comments

06 march 2010 - 15:11:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC) Saturday criticised the 12 Ministers who asked Acting President Goodluck [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Information minister berates Yar'Adua aides, says they are liars

28 february 2010 - 08:52:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Information Minister, Professor Dora Akunyili, has dropped another bombshell, saying she was fed up with [...] Full text...

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Nigerian apex bank fixes tenure of bank chiefs

21 january 2010 - 23:59:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a move to address some corporate governance issues in Nigeriaâ?s 24 banks, the apex bank [...] Full text...

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Dossier shades new light on Kenya's busy corruption industry

21 january 2010 - 17:35:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya is at the risk of losing US$ 45 million through fi ctitious requisitions, which international [...] Full text...

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Gaddafi receives Slovenia Prime Minister

11 november 2009 - 23:25:00
Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan revolutionary leader, Mouamar Gaddafi, who is the incumbent chairman of the African Union (AU), [...] Full text...

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Amnesty: Nigeria approves N179 billion projects for Niger Delta

28 october 2009 - 19:13:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria Wednesday approved massive infrastructure projec ts, worth a total of N179,133,700,684. 11 (N179. 13 billion [...] Full text...

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Libya marks deportation of citizens in Italy

26 october 2009 - 22:11:00
Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya on Monday observed five minutes of silence in memo ry of more than 5,000 Libyan [...] Full text...

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Libya marks deportation of citizens in Italy

26 october 2009 - 21:54:00
Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya on Monday observed five minutes of silence in memo ry of more than 5,000 Libyan [...] Full text...

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Westcor pulls out of Inga III power project

13 august 2009 - 00:48:00
Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Western Power Corridor (Westcor) has pulled out of Grand Inga III power project, a mega power [...] Full text...

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Nigerian public media workers set for strike

06 july 2009 - 21:27:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Baring any last minutes change of mind, workers in state - owned media organisations are set [...] Full text...

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Ghana’s beleaguered Youth and Sports Minister resigns

25 june 2009 - 21:50:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) – Ghana’s beleaguered Minister- of Youth and Sports Muntaka M ubarak on Thursday tendered in his resignation [...] Full text...

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Former Speaker’s removal of furnishing from residence hits headlines

30 may 2009 - 08:39:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) – The former Speaker’s action -of removing furnishing from th e official residence of the office holder [...] Full text...

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Graft: Kenya Youth Fund chief fired

20 may 2009 - 16:18:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities Wednesday sacked the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF), Umuro [...] Full text...

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UN staff protest Nairobi station chief's redeployment

03 march 2009 - 23:05:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Senior United Nations staff in Nairobi on Tuesday protested the “demotion” of the United Nations Director [...] Full text...

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Egyptian government releases opposition leader Nour

19 february 2009 - 01:12:00
Cairo- Egypt (PANA)- – The Egyptian has released opposition leader Ayman Nour in a surprise move citing health concerns. [...] Full text...

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