29 january 2025 - 09:03:09
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The daughter of former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma will face charges of [...] Full text...
12 july 2024 - 00:20:34
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President William Ruto dissolved his Cabinet on Thursday, weeks after a political crisis which began [...] Full text...
27 june 2024 - 06:27:42
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and US Department of State have expressed concern about [...] Full text...
04 june 2024 - 10:37:10
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Police in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province are on high alert following former President Jacob [...] Full text...
16 february 2024 - 21:20:01
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Kenya has requested the African Union to alter the language in a report accusing the [...] Full text...
02 january 2024 - 07:51:15
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Peter Magubane, the anti-apartheid activist and renowned photographer, died on Monday at the age [...] Full text...
02 november 2023 - 18:44:31
Paris, France (PANA) - New data from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has revealed a worrying rise [...] Full text...
11 august 2023 - 07:12:13
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma on Friday morning returned to prison to serve [...] Full text...
14 july 2023 - 07:37:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Jacob Zuma Foundation on Friday rejected speculation that the former President will return [...] Full text...
10 july 2023 - 10:07:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tensions are running high in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces after several trucks [...] Full text...
04 july 2023 - 12:23:37
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Relief was the most widespread feeling in Senegal on Tuesday, following the announcement by President Macky [...] Full text...
27 june 2023 - 08:25:36
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Monday pledged to lay criminal charges against [...] Full text...
09 march 2023 - 08:56:32
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Global ratings agency S&P downgraded South Africa's credit rating outlook to stable from positive [...] Full text...
10 february 2023 - 11:47:52
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday confirmed that it intends to head [...] Full text...
21 november 2022 - 12:46:19
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Monday ordered former President Jacob Zuma [...] Full text...
06 november 2022 - 17:02:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, said here Sunday the [...] Full text...
27 october 2022 - 12:45:09
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese Army newspaper on Thursday said in a terse statement that dozens of soldiers guarding [...] Full text...
20 october 2022 - 10:54:20
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government says it remains committed to press freedom – an integral [...] Full text...
12 august 2022 - 12:26:56
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Twenty-two people alleged to have instigated the violent rioting in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and [...] Full text...
21 july 2022 - 17:53:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Independent UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Kenyan authorities and political candidates standing in [...] Full text...
10 july 2022 - 07:58:39
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa this weekend marked the one-year anniversary of the arrest of former President [...] Full text...
05 july 2022 - 13:03:36
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The spokesman of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Mohamed Hammouda, says an increase in electricity [...] Full text...
16 june 2022 - 15:54:33
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday called on South Africa’s youth to rally together as [...] Full text...
07 june 2022 - 12:54:26
Rome, Italy (PANA) - UN food agencies -- the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food [...] Full text...
26 april 2022 - 11:24:21
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – United Nations (UN) officials have arrived in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province as part of [...] Full text...
25 april 2022 - 08:05:21
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius is calm on Monday morning after the country experienced a violent and traumatic weekend as [...] Full text...
15 april 2022 - 06:11:23
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The conflict in Ukraine is driving up global food and fuel prices which is affecting efforts [...] Full text...
31 march 2022 - 13:58:08
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Thursday dismissed former President Jacob Zuma's attempts [...] Full text...
22 march 2022 - 15:16:38
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has refrained from issuing any comments on recent US financial sanctions imposed on [...] Full text...
21 february 2022 - 12:42:02
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) investigative hearings into last year’s riots in [...] Full text...
10 february 2022 - 16:51:48
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Oil giants BP and Shell on Thursday announced that they would halt operations at [...] Full text...
28 december 2021 - 08:42:29
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Cathedral bells around South Africa are ringing in recognition of anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond [...] Full text...
26 december 2021 - 08:34:39
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu died peacefully at his Cape Town home on [...] Full text...
07 december 2021 - 12:58:47
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Polish immigrant who nearly caused a full blown race war in South Africa [...] Full text...
01 november 2021 - 19:46:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A new book has outlined the July riots that caused chaos in South Africa’s [...] Full text...
14 october 2021 - 13:04:08
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A large crowd of people loyal to former President Jacob Zuma on Thursday gathered [...] Full text...
20 september 2021 - 05:34:25
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - A human rights advocate says the authorities in DR Congo have made no apparent progress investigating [...] Full text...
13 september 2021 - 12:35:23
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The highest urban bar in Africa has opened for business.
The Alto234 bar is located [...] Full text...
27 august 2021 - 18:15:45
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Samsung has announced that it has blocked hundreds of television sets during last month's [...] Full text...
13 august 2021 - 15:40:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A student activist that helped spark a riot that led to revolution that resulted [...] Full text...
19 july 2021 - 15:17:15
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday saluted South Africans for uniting in the wake of [...] Full text...
15 july 2021 - 15:09:13
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Zambian High Commission in South Africa has advised Zambian nationals to exercise caution as they [...] Full text...
14 july 2021 - 17:49:24
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The death toll from five days of deadly rioting and looting in several South [...] Full text...
13 july 2021 - 14:19:25
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Gauteng Premier David Makhura on Tuesday said 10 people have been killed during stampedes [...] Full text...
11 march 2021 - 05:44:14
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday asked the Ugandan authorities to take immediate steps to end the [...] Full text...
05 march 2021 - 18:42:39
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - While Senegal is rocked by clashes and protests following the arrest of the main opponent [...] Full text...
19 january 2021 - 09:25:55
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed on Monday warned young Tunisians against those who want to "take advantage [...] Full text...
18 january 2021 - 20:04:44
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Altogether, 632 people were arrested by the Tunisian security services following night riots marked by acts [...] Full text...
18 january 2021 - 07:07:35
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian security forces on Sunday fired tear gas to disperse groups of youths in the city [...] Full text...
17 january 2021 - 19:33:47
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – At least 242 youths were arrested on Saturday after riots broke out in several regions of [...] Full text...
14 january 2021 - 04:48:53
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - As polls open in Uganda's presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday, the UN chief Antonio Guterres [...] Full text...
09 january 2021 - 04:19:19
Geneva, Swtizerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office, OHCHR, is urging authorities in Uganda to ensure elections next week are free and peaceful, [...] Full text...
26 october 2020 - 07:49:15
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Human rights group, Amnesty International, says witness testimonies, satellite imagery and videos it has analysed and [...] Full text...
27 august 2020 - 00:04:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the presidential council of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, [...] Full text...
10 august 2020 - 17:03:46
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - “Mnangagwa (Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa) has become a pig and he is eating his own children [...] Full text...
22 july 2020 - 18:30:45
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria will Thursday visit Bamako, Mali, on a one-day visit, following the [...] Full text...
16 june 2020 - 10:34:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa on Tuesday commemorated the 44th anniversary of the Soweto Riots which sparked [...] Full text...
05 june 2020 - 14:24:20
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned the death [...] Full text...
02 june 2020 - 17:45:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s ruling ANC on Tuesday said it was concerned about the numerous incidents [...] Full text...
06 may 2020 - 16:09:35
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tributes are pouring in for South African football legend Sugar Ray Xulu who has [...] Full text...
06 may 2020 - 06:42:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As senior UN officials spread the alarm over the rapid spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) through prisons [...] Full text...
06 april 2020 - 14:22:59
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo on Monday recorded 8 new cases of Coronavirus, bringing the total of infected patients to [...] Full text...
14 february 2020 - 09:09:38
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the army to stop the gassing of [...] Full text...
04 february 2020 - 09:45:12
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabonese and European Union representatives are meeting in Libreville on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of [...] Full text...
08 january 2020 - 15:40:17
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Riots have erupted in Chingola, a small mining town northern Copperbelt province of Zambia over alleged [...] Full text...
08 december 2019 - 14:08:05
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday mourned the passing of renowned global evangelist Reverend Reinhard Bonnke, 79, [...] Full text...
04 december 2019 - 17:54:05
Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe (PANA) - A former pastor from Sao Tome and Principe, Iudmilo Veloso, of the [...] Full text...
28 november 2019 - 11:06:28
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s Rugby World Cup winning captain Siya Kolisi on Wednesday night fulfilled a [...] Full text...
11 november 2019 - 13:10:50
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Hundreds of thousands of people on Monday took to the streets of Cape Town [...] Full text...
07 november 2019 - 11:34:22
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tens of thousands of jubilant South Africans have lined the streets of Pretoria, Johannesburg [...] Full text...
04 november 2019 - 14:42:16
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said the sight of Springbok captain Siyamthanda Kolisi lifting [...] Full text...
30 september 2019 - 17:44:55
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The body of liberation hero, Patrick Mvundla, has been reburied in Soweto 31 years after [...] Full text...
28 september 2019 - 18:28:47
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has closed its borders with Libya and Central African Republic with immediate effect, citing economic [...] Full text...
09 september 2019 - 09:23:08
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - An Ivorian civil society organization, CIVIS Côte d'Ivoire (Citizens & Participation), on Sunday urged the [...] Full text...
04 september 2019 - 17:25:59
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told officials and business leaders on Wednesday that he was [...] Full text...
26 august 2019 - 12:06:11
Athens, Greece (PANA) - About 100 migrants, many of them Africans, were arrested on Monday in homes they were illegally [...] Full text...
03 may 2019 - 10:38:57
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Former Benin Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou is calling for a national dialogue to resolve the looming [...] Full text...
29 april 2019 - 14:15:47
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) on Monday order the resumption of classes in all universities, [...] Full text...
28 april 2019 - 12:49:57
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Dozens of Sudanese Islamists were injured Saturday when angry youth attacked a party convention Khartoum, sources [...] Full text...
08 february 2019 - 17:16:03
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – A Sudanese government committee probing circumstances of the death of a teacher involved in the recent [...] Full text...
07 february 2019 - 07:50:41
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Bashir has pledged to revise a notorious public order law under which young [...] Full text...
17 january 2019 - 21:53:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The reported use of “excessive force” against demonstrators across Sudan over food and fuel shortages that [...] Full text...
10 january 2019 - 07:26:41
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – Felix Tshisekedi, the leader of the largest Democratic Republic of Congo opposition party, has won the [...] Full text...
31 december 2018 - 19:00:52
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar Bashir on Monday said Sudan is devoting the year 2019 to strengthening its African [...] Full text...
31 december 2018 - 15:46:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese security services said Monday they have released “most” of those arrested during the past ten [...] Full text...
29 december 2018 - 10:22:07
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Government security authorities on Friday raided a house in a Khartoum suburb and captured a cell [...] Full text...
28 december 2018 - 18:51:03
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - While demonstrators protesting, for the 10th day running, price hikes and economic hardship in general, decreased [...] Full text...
28 december 2018 - 11:13:59
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Nineteen people died, including two policemen, and hundreds were injured in recent demonstrations that rocked various [...] Full text...
27 december 2018 - 18:21:25
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - For the third day in a row, there were clashes between protesters and police officers the [...] Full text...
26 december 2018 - 18:02:49
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) has called a general strike starting 14 January 2019 [...] Full text...
25 december 2018 - 05:37:06
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Thirty-seven protesters have been "shot dead by the security forces" in six days of anti-government demonstrations [...] Full text...
24 december 2018 - 18:26:37
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar Bashir on Monday spoke for the first time about the recent riots in Sudan [...] Full text...
02 october 2018 - 09:46:15
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday condemned the latest violence in Jos which led to the [...] Full text...
30 august 2018 - 09:05:02
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Thursday condemned an outbreak of xenophobic violence in [...] Full text...
10 april 2018 - 13:38:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa on Tuesday marked the 25th anniversary of liberation hero, Chris Hani, an [...] Full text...
12 august 2017 - 18:05:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - At least 24 people were killed in an overnight security crackdown and 93 others have been [...] Full text...
12 august 2017 - 17:49:58
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International on Saturday urged the Kenyan authorities to investigate reports that police shot dead demonstrators [...] Full text...
12 august 2017 - 14:38:02
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Several people are feared to have been killed in random shooting across the Western Kenyan towns [...] Full text...
10 may 2017 - 10:34:57
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Police used rubber bullets in Finetown and Itireleng near Pretoria on Wednesday to disperse [...] Full text...
15 march 2017 - 17:00:06
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia has relaxed its state of emergency rule, lifting restrictions on media and declaring more [...] Full text...
03 november 2016 - 15:33:14
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Apartheid-era politician Clive Derby-Lewis, who nearly sparked a full-blown race war on the eve [...] Full text...
10 october 2016 - 19:19:48
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome on Monday spoke of the need for reinforced efforts to resist [...] Full text...
03 october 2016 - 11:22:13
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Agriculture and Trade Ministers from around 20 countries together with other high-level officials and experts have [...] Full text...
22 august 2016 - 15:01:35
New York, US (PANA) - The US government is gravely concerned about the harsh prison terms imposed on 20 individuals [...] Full text...
03 august 2016 - 15:11:55
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Millions of South Africans on Wednesday voted in this year's local government elections, the [...] Full text...
22 june 2016 - 08:35:03
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Parts of Pretoria remain tense on Wednesday following running street battles that have led [...] Full text...
21 june 2016 - 09:44:29
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The situation in several Pretoria townships remains extremely tense on Tuesday after violent clashes [...] Full text...
17 june 2016 - 13:32:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Just one day after South Africa marked the 40th anniversary of the June 16, [...] Full text...
16 june 2016 - 18:41:57
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africans on Thursday marked the 40th anniversary of Soweto riots, a 1976 black [...] Full text...
24 may 2016 - 14:27:46
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tensions remain high at Hammanskraal north of Pretoria, South Africa, following three days of [...] Full text...
06 may 2016 - 10:58:17
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – An estimated 50 schools have been closed in South Africa’s Limpopo province following days [...] Full text...
22 april 2016 - 18:24:09
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – President Edgar Lungu has assured all foreigners in Zambia of full protection of their lives and [...] Full text...
21 april 2016 - 13:12:45
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has charged that this week’s Xenophobic attacks in Lusaka, Zambia, have [...] Full text...
21 april 2016 - 10:13:03
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia's Stand for Peace Foundation has described the attacks on shops owned by Rwandan nationals in [...] Full text...
19 april 2016 - 16:16:11
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Violent attacks targeted at foreign owned shops which broke out Monday in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, [...] Full text...
06 april 2016 - 09:08:10
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Tuesday's decision to drop charges against Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto and radio presenter Joshua Arap [...] Full text...
17 february 2016 - 07:47:18
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tensions remain high at the University of Cape Town after riot police were deployed [...] Full text...
04 february 2016 - 15:11:23
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian authorities announced on Thursday an indefinite closure of the country’s two leading universities, University of [...] Full text...
28 january 2016 - 14:37:13
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Parliament has given the government of President Omar Bashir 24 hours to reconsider the [...] Full text...
16 january 2016 - 08:47:52
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least 14 people were killed and 19 others, including 6 policemen, were injured in Genaina, [...] Full text...
13 november 2015 - 12:40:43
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Running street battles between students and police continued in Cape Town on Friday with [...] Full text...
24 october 2015 - 12:57:17
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The irony of the student protests that swept across South Africa and saw police [...] Full text...
21 october 2015 - 14:12:36
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – For the first time in history, protesters on Wednesday stormed Parliament as tensions [...] Full text...
12 august 2015 - 20:56:57
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Commission (EC), the executive body of the European Union, has released 2.4 billion euros [...] Full text...
15 july 2015 - 17:42:56
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Police in Zambia’s tourist capital, Livingstone, on Wednesday moved in to quell riots that broke out [...] Full text...
13 june 2015 - 20:16:51
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's Justice Minister Awad al-Hassan al-Nor has ordered the Prosecutor-General to conduct investigation into a [...] Full text...
25 may 2015 - 15:24:16
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Lawyers representing apartheid-era politician Clive Derby-Lewis who has spent more than 20 years in [...] Full text...
14 april 2015 - 12:25:33
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African port city of Durban remained on a knife-edge Tuesday as a [...] Full text...
11 february 2015 - 20:54:02
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - While several African countries have joined forces to combat the onslaught of Islamic extremist [...] Full text...
11 february 2015 - 16:57:46
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Good Governance Africa (GGA), a research and advocacy body working towards improved governance on the continent, [...] Full text...
05 february 2015 - 22:36:26
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At least one inmate at the Central Prison, Kumasi, in central Ghana, has died, while five [...] Full text...
30 january 2015 - 10:10:13
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Notorious Apartheid-era killer Eugene de Kock will be released on parole, Justice Minister Michael [...] Full text...
25 january 2015 - 09:16:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nearly 40 years ago, the youth of a sprawling township outside Johannesburg served notice [...] Full text...
13 december 2014 - 09:48:41
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Thirty years ago this week, the international spotlight shifted to South Africa and an [...] Full text...
20 november 2014 - 17:35:49
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia's Human Rights Commission Thursday condemned the manner in which the police dealt with protesting students [...] Full text...
08 november 2014 - 08:08:49
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Twenty years after Nelson Mandela was swept into power on a ticket of racial [...] Full text...
07 november 2014 - 11:25:14
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Friday welcomed the conviction of two [...] Full text...
24 september 2014 - 08:18:34
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The saga of one of Apartheid South Africa’s most notorious politicians has taken a [...] Full text...
22 september 2014 - 15:19:24
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Monday disclosed that a [...] Full text...
10 september 2014 - 13:13:45
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Tuesday issued a statement, saying [...] Full text...
10 september 2014 - 10:37:08
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ugandan authorities have never investigated killings by security forces during two days of rioting in September [...] Full text...
05 august 2014 - 11:23:42
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania’s Constituent Assembly resumed business Tuesday with a quarter of its members sticking to [...] Full text...
26 july 2014 - 10:51:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s sordid and testy relationship with Israel is back in the spotlight as [...] Full text...
12 july 2014 - 09:36:28
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Few issues divide the South African society as much as the white Apartheid-era killers [...] Full text...
06 june 2014 - 13:06:11
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Cricket South Africa (CSA) this week made history by appointing Hashim Amla as captain [...] Full text...
14 may 2014 - 15:24:13
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Zambian Police have appealed to the public to help locate 13 dangerous suspects who escaped [...] Full text...
10 may 2014 - 06:22:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) –Tensions are sky-high in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township following a night of carnage as election-related protests [...] Full text...
20 april 2014 - 15:48:45
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The association of Mauritanians repatriated from Senegal (ARMS) plan to hold a protest march from the [...] Full text...
27 march 2014 - 10:36:19
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – The man who came dangerously close to plunging South Africa into a full-blown race war [...] Full text...
15 march 2014 - 12:13:45
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir on Friday met his arch-rival, Dr. Hassan Turabi, their first meeting since [...] Full text...
11 january 2014 - 15:15:07
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – At least one person was killed and several others, including a police officer, were wounded as [...] Full text...
10 january 2014 - 14:30:48
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Rioting is continuing for the third day running in several regions of Tunisia as the population, [...] Full text...
04 november 2013 - 20:42:48
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana has asked world football governing body, FIFA, for details of security guarantees for the crucial [...] Full text...
01 november 2013 - 11:00:00
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - There are growing concerns that South Africa is on the brink of another outbreak [...] Full text...
29 october 2013 - 08:29:43
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - An unspecified number of people who have been in custody since last September's subsidy demonstrations across [...] Full text...
28 october 2013 - 17:50:03
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – In his first official comment since the end of the riots that claimed at least 60 [...] Full text...
05 october 2013 - 12:40:41
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has denied reports that Saudi Arabia was behind the recent subsidy demonstrations that left over [...] Full text...
24 september 2013 - 10:48:00
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – A demonstrator was killed in central Sudan’s second largest city of Wad Medani, south of Khartoum, [...] Full text...
06 september 2013 - 09:14:26
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has urged the government of Kenya to fulfill its commitments to seek justice [...] Full text...
29 june 2013 - 09:27:41
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The Ghanaian media this week highlighted public anger at news that the United Kingdom intends to [...] Full text...
26 march 2013 - 14:10:03
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The US embassy in Nairobi Tuesday warned that there could be “strong public reactions” to a [...] Full text...
18 february 2013 - 09:35:53
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Three suspects are in police custody for questioning in connection with Sunday’s murder of [...] Full text...
30 january 2013 - 11:54:52
Paris, France (PANA) - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, billed to visit France Friday, has canceled his trip to deal with [...] Full text...
10 january 2013 - 11:01:36
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Striking and rioting workers have served notice that South Africa is likely to see [...] Full text...
13 december 2012 - 10:57:06
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Khartoum-based Omdurman Islamic University in Sudan said Thursday that 24 students were injured and 34 [...] Full text...
20 november 2012 - 18:32:00
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The state of national anger brewed up across Kenya Tuesday, the second day of a national [...] Full text...
27 october 2012 - 09:27:39
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Reports on a fuel crisis, graft in governing party elections and religious tension filled [...] Full text...
11 october 2012 - 19:40:41
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said it undertook two important research briefs to enable [...] Full text...
26 september 2012 - 14:23:48
Arusha, Tanzania (PANA) – Agricultural transformation is a real possibility in Africa if governments will put in place the right [...] Full text...
15 september 2012 - 10:28:55
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudanese Police say two civilians were killed Friday and 50 other persons, including civilians and policemen, [...] Full text...
12 september 2012 - 12:19:15
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US Ambassador to Libya, Mr. Christopher Stevens, was killed in the attack carried out Tuesday [...] Full text...
31 august 2012 - 17:20:03
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan newspapers have blasted the government for emphasizing on development records while ignoring the grievances of [...] Full text...
27 august 2012 - 22:58:38
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) on Monday said they [...] Full text...
27 august 2012 - 20:07:03
Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan political leaders have gathered to discuss the prospects of holding a peaceful presidential election in [...] Full text...
25 july 2012 - 10:55:26
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A race relations expert has warned that there is a changing pattern towards the [...] Full text...
17 july 2012 - 11:08:09
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian police have opened an investigation into the riots that left one person dead and many [...] Full text...
08 july 2012 - 20:59:29
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - All 34 prisoners at the Zomba Central Prison in Malawi, who were pardoned by President Joyce [...] Full text...
29 june 2012 - 22:31:15
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government on Friday said police controlled "small riots" in three cities without casualties or [...] Full text...
29 june 2012 - 13:51:59
New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called on the Sudanese authorities [...] Full text...
25 june 2012 - 22:15:24
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's President Omar Bashir on Monday relieved all his advisers of their duties as part of [...] Full text...
19 june 2012 - 11:26:38
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Dozens of Libyan Islamists who call themselves "supporters of Sharia" on Monday night staged a rally [...] Full text...
12 june 2012 - 09:05:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The magnificent portrait “Arab” by celebrated South African artist Irma Stern sold for R17 [...] Full text...
29 may 2012 - 10:39:24
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The acclaimed South African movie “Man on Ground”, which deals with the xenophobia [...] Full text...
28 may 2012 - 14:34:35
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – US Ambassador in Tanzania, Alfonso E. Lenhardt, has added his voice to the many [...] Full text...
19 march 2012 - 15:22:30
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - A day after angry residents smashed and razed down a police station, police officers stationed in [...] Full text...
13 march 2012 - 10:36:18
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The friendly football tournament being planned to replace the cancelled 2012 Egyptian football league has not [...] Full text...
03 march 2012 - 07:15:57
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Food Security and Nutrition, David Nabarro, has stressed the [...] Full text...
23 february 2012 - 11:32:49
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese Human Rights League (LSDH) and the Senegalese section of Amnesty International (AI) have again denounced [...] Full text...
23 february 2012 - 10:07:01
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - France is concerned at the deteriorating situation in Senegal, ahead of Sunday's presidential election in the [...] Full text...
22 february 2012 - 11:35:57
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Election Observation Mission of the European Union (EOM/EU), deployed to monitor Sunday's presidential election in [...] Full text...
20 february 2012 - 11:44:37
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Clashes between Senegal's opposition and the police left one person dead and many others injured on [...] Full text...
29 january 2012 - 13:06:20
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, whose application to contest the 26 February presidential election has been approved [...] Full text...
07 january 2012 - 08:06:12
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The fuel subsidy, removed on the 2012 New Year day, and the three-day ultimatum from the [...] Full text...
05 january 2012 - 14:12:56
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The American embassy in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, Thursday issued an alert to American citizens living [...] Full text...
18 december 2011 - 09:25:53
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Local media reports on Sunday indicated that the Nigeria Police Force has launched a massive plan [...] Full text...
30 october 2011 - 14:48:17
Huambo, Angola (PANA) - A total of 32 soldiers, recruited recently in central Huambo province, are being grilled for what [...] Full text...
17 october 2011 - 17:08:48
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Three people were rushed to hospital in the remote town of Mitundu, some 40 kilometres from [...] Full text...
14 october 2011 - 17:40:56
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt's interim Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Thursday reiterated support for the way the [...] Full text...
28 september 2011 - 22:07:50
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Calm is gradually returning to the Mauritanian city of Kaedi, 430 kms southeast of Nouakchott, after [...] Full text...