20 december 2023 - 13:51:07
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Four French officials suspected of espionage have been arrested by the police here, the capital [...] Full text...
03 december 2023 - 11:46:19
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The transitional government of Burkina Faso on Saturday announced the suspension of the distribution of [...] Full text...
03 april 2023 - 14:31:48
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - In a new report entitled "In the Skin of a Journalist in the Sahel", Reporters [...] Full text...
30 march 2023 - 19:33:58
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Methodically but with all the necessary application and seriousness, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary [...] Full text...
25 march 2023 - 19:29:41
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, has urged the "minority" [...] Full text...
23 december 2022 - 16:16:28
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Mrs Barbara Manzi, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Burkina Faso, has been [...] Full text...
22 december 2022 - 16:46:53
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Two French citizens arrested for spying activities were expelled from Burkina Faso during the night [...] Full text...
06 december 2022 - 13:41:43
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), on Tuesday condemned the suspension of Radio France Internationale [...] Full text...
04 december 2022 - 13:39:24
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The France Media Monde group deplored the suspension of Radio France Internationale (RFI) programmes by [...] Full text...
03 december 2022 - 17:50:45
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe authorities announced on Saturday the suspension of the broadcasting of Radio France Internationale [...] Full text...
29 april 2022 - 15:26:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Mali’s ban on two major international broadcasters operating inside the country is "a worrying development" in [...] Full text...
24 april 2022 - 16:59:47
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe army on Sunday denied allegations of the death of more than 100 civilians [...] Full text...
18 march 2022 - 15:40:56
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Maison de la presse du Mali (Press House) on Friday urged national and foreign media to [...] Full text...
17 march 2022 - 20:18:00
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) on Thursday denounced an attack against information, which will be prejudicial [...] Full text...
17 march 2022 - 15:37:56
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government announced on Wednesday a procedure to suspend until further notice the broadcasting of [...] Full text...
17 march 2022 - 15:30:42
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - French Médias Monde group, which owns Radio France Internationale (RFI) and France 24 television, had [...] Full text...
17 march 2022 - 15:22:04
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Mali's transitional government on Thursday rejected allegations of abuses by its army against civilians and [...] Full text...
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...
30 october 2021 - 10:04:42
Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday approved a Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP) for the Union of [...] Full text...
17 september 2021 - 10:03:33
Washington, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a disbursement of US$67.38 million [...] Full text...
08 september 2021 - 06:22:39
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania has secured US$567.25 million or 100 percent of its quota in emergency financing [...] Full text...
02 june 2021 - 17:40:39
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Reporter Without Borders (RSF) and partners calling for the release of French journalist, say they [...] Full text...
05 may 2021 - 15:50:13
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - French journalist, Olivier Dubois, has been kidnapped in northeastern Mali, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said [...] Full text...
07 april 2021 - 17:08:44
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Two Senegalese are on the list of 11 players selected for the Marc-Vivien Foé Prize, named [...] Full text...
02 april 2021 - 10:50:42
Washington, DC US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on Thursday an outright purchase [...] Full text...
05 march 2021 - 06:53:00
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, said urged he Niger authorities to launch an investigation into the [...] Full text...
26 february 2021 - 18:15:31
Niamey, Chad (PANA) - Radio France International (RFI) on Friday condemned the burning of the home of its correspondent in [...] Full text...
22 december 2020 - 10:03:12
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Convinced that weaker external demand and the deepening of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic [...] Full text...
08 october 2020 - 09:42:14
Washington, DC, US (PANA) – The coronavirus pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to Côte d’Ivoire but the country’s authorities [...] Full text...
01 august 2020 - 08:26:40
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday approved a disbursement of US$ [...] Full text...
30 july 2020 - 10:02:15
Mbabane, Eswatini (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved Eswatini’s request for emergency financial assistance of US$110.4 million [...] Full text...
30 july 2020 - 09:27:56
Maseru, Lesotho (PANA – Lesotho is now set to reduce balance of payments pressures stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic after [...] Full text...
02 july 2020 - 17:44:59
Paris, France (PANA) - Victor Osimhen, a Nigerian striker for the French Ligue 1 club, Lille, and winner of the [...] Full text...
29 june 2020 - 13:45:05
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen, who plays for French Ligue 1 club, Lille, has won the Prix [...] Full text...
28 june 2020 - 20:30:14
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya’s huge oil resources which are at the origin of foreign interference have brought to the [...] Full text...
27 june 2020 - 06:07:49
Washington, DC, US (PANA) – Egypt has secured a 12-month Standby-by Arrangement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with [...] Full text...
15 june 2020 - 13:12:50
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A staff team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached staff-level agreement with the authorities [...] Full text...
31 may 2020 - 17:56:00
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt is considering a ‘gradual resumption’ of international flights in the second half of June or [...] Full text...
12 may 2020 - 12:45:25
Washington, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved Egypt’s request for emergency financial [...] Full text...
01 may 2020 - 09:39:36
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s approval of US$411 million emergency assistance to Ethiopia to address [...] Full text...
29 april 2020 - 10:44:50
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s request for emergency financial assistance of US$ 3.4 billion to address the severe economic impact [...] Full text...
23 april 2020 - 10:35:41
Washington, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a US$12 million emergency assistance [...] Full text...
14 april 2020 - 17:28:00
Paris, France (PANA) - French President Emmanuel Macron, said in a televised address on Monday that France and Europe must [...] Full text...
14 april 2020 - 06:56:50
Washington, DC (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved US$442 million disbursement for Senegal [...] Full text...
11 april 2020 - 18:20:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian economy is expected to contract by 4.3% in 2020 as a result of COVID-19, [...] Full text...
10 april 2020 - 06:05:37
Washington, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the disbursement of US$147 million, [...] Full text...
02 april 2020 - 10:16:07
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegal and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff have completed discussions for emergency access to the [...] Full text...
25 march 2020 - 19:36:45
Paris, France (PANA) - Several radio stations broadcasting in France, including RFI, FIP and France Musique, as well as the [...] Full text...
29 september 2019 - 14:18:53
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - France, with the Club RFI, has begun actions to sensitize communities on the Ebola virus [...] Full text...
06 september 2019 - 04:16:10
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Despite a stalemate in the five-month-old fighting near Tripoli, neither side appears to have the appetite [...] Full text...
05 september 2019 - 11:24:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The relative lull prevailing in the fighting at the outskirts of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, continued [...] Full text...
09 july 2019 - 11:24:11
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia Press Union has condemned Monday's attack on two of its members at the High [...] Full text...
20 june 2019 - 19:18:37
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - AFCON2019 welcomes the continent’s most glamorous playmakers, with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané, two of the [...] Full text...
10 june 2019 - 12:42:17
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - 95 people were killed on Sunday evening in an attack on Sobale Kou village, near [...] Full text...
08 june 2019 - 16:50:03
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Radio France Internationale (RFI), TV5 Monde and the newspaper Le Monde were on Saturday the targets [...] Full text...
20 may 2019 - 04:22:19
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Lille's Ivorian international striker Nicolas Pépé has been voted Best African Footballer of French L1 championship [...] Full text...
10 may 2019 - 20:46:51
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Ivorian of Lille, Nicolas Pépé, Senegalese of Rennes, Ismaïla Sarr, and the Tunisian of Saint-Etienne, [...] Full text...
03 april 2019 - 14:56:11
Paris, France (PANA) - RFI and France 24 on Tuesday published the names of the eleven finalists for the 2019 [...] Full text...
11 march 2019 - 16:52:26
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The 12th edition of the International Festival of Blue Fireflies (Filbleu), which is an annual gathering [...] Full text...
18 february 2019 - 17:46:25
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Famous Rwandan musician Yvan Burabyo arrived in Bamako, Mali, in the wee hours of Monday where [...] Full text...
04 january 2019 - 18:53:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The post-election environment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is “calm but tense” as [...] Full text...
03 january 2019 - 18:08:00
Paris, France (PANA) – The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Radio France International (RFI) have [...] Full text...
18 november 2018 - 14:21:53
Lomé, Togo (PANA) – The remains of Dominique Komi Biava Séyéna Séshie, the director of Communications and Editor-in-Chief of the [...] Full text...
03 may 2018 - 07:44:36
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Journalists across West and Central Africa are facing intimidation and harassment and being targeted with arrest [...] Full text...
07 december 2017 - 10:39:36
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Cameroon must act swiftly on the recommendations published by the UN Committee against Torture and put [...] Full text...
02 november 2017 - 20:08:25
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Journalist in Danger, a media watchdog, has urged the international community to increase pressure on [...] Full text...
03 september 2017 - 16:41:08
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The global press freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has welcomed the release of scores [...] Full text...
16 may 2017 - 10:59:49
Washington, D.C., US (PANA) - Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have adopted a decision to enhance the [...] Full text...
14 july 2016 - 08:44:51
Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - Human rights group Amnesty International says more than 1,000 people, many arrested arbitrarily, are being held [...] Full text...
15 september 2015 - 20:12:39
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF) jointly with Radio France International (RFI) and [...] Full text...
04 august 2015 - 15:53:43
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and the UN human rights office have strongly condemned the assassination [...] Full text...
04 august 2015 - 10:51:36
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The International Francophonie Organization (OIF) has strongly condemned the violence in Burundi, especially Sunday's assassination of [...] Full text...
01 april 2015 - 11:40:54
Paris, France (PANA) - In order to promote new African music talents, StarAfrica.com, Orange's entertainment portal in Africa, is launching [...] Full text...
16 may 2014 - 10:56:05
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) has condemned the intimidation of two journalists in Burundi by [...] Full text...
03 january 2014 - 08:55:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A day after South African authorities confirmed that Patrick Karegeya, the former head of [...] Full text...
04 november 2013 - 16:27:31
New York, US (PANA) – The UN Security Council and the UN agency tasked with defending press freedom have [...] Full text...
04 november 2013 - 11:47:24
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, [...] Full text...
08 july 2013 - 22:40:23
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government on Monday announced it had sign a cease-fire agreement with the militant Islamic [...] Full text...
31 may 2013 - 21:10:33
Paris, France (PANA) – French president François Hollande has called for support for Libya to ensure its security and borders.
“We [...] Full text...
06 march 2013 - 17:33:27
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The Radio France International (RFI) correspondent in Burundi, Hassan Ruvakuki, was released Wednesday after one year [...] Full text...
08 january 2013 - 16:47:28
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A Burundian Court of Appeal has reduced to three years the life sentence slammed on [...] Full text...
21 june 2012 - 14:10:35
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's journalists' union (UBJ) has expressed its dismay at the life jail slammed on a local [...] Full text...
05 may 2012 - 14:22:47
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian government's deliberate measures to exterminate malaria, reactions to the ongoing oil subsidy report and revelations, [...] Full text...
02 may 2012 - 08:30:49
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Islamic sect Boko Haram recorded last Thursday's attack on the private Thisday newspaper in the [...] Full text...
05 january 2012 - 09:05:53
New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the
authorities in the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
09 december 2011 - 17:02:17
Paris, France (PANA) - Several French Socialist and Communist elected representatives have declared support for the strike action that was [...] Full text...
26 november 2011 - 13:47:12
Paris, France (PANA) – Workers of Radio France International (RFI) will begin an indefinite strike on Monday, trades union sources [...] Full text...
05 september 2011 - 22:55:27
Paris, France (PANA) – A solem ceremony was held at the funeral parlour of Les Batignolles in Paris on Monday [...] Full text...
13 april 2011 - 16:21:24
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), said the Union of Media [...] Full text...
26 february 2011 - 13:51:07
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A Senegalese journalist, Basile Niane and his three compatriot students have been selected among the 20 [...] Full text...
14 december 2010 - 16:40:13
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has slammed the Ivorian [...] Full text...
08 february 2010 - 09:02:00
Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Chadian government is becoming impatient with the de lay in trying its former leader Hissene [...] Full text...
27 november 2009 - 08:44:00
Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Senegalese singer Naby has emerged the winner of the RFI Dis coveries prize 2009, after an [...] Full text...
01 october 2009 - 16:28:00
Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Accra-based rights body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Thursday decried "the mayhem on [...] Full text...
01 october 2009 - 15:06:00
Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Accra-based rights body, Media Foundation for West A frica (MFWA), on Thursday decried â?the mayhem [...] Full text...
30 july 2009 - 22:14:00
New York- US (PANA) -- The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Thursday called on the authorities in the [...] Full text...
19 june 2009 - 19:30:00
New York- US (PANA) -- The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Fri day called on the DR Congo [...] Full text...
27 may 2009 - 20:10:00
New York- US (PANA) -- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by t he Gabonese government's crackdown on [...] Full text...