13 october 2024 - 05:22:58
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin has pledged $2 million to the next replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF), the [...] Full text...
30 april 2024 - 13:52:53
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Managing Director of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Makhtar Diop, is expected in Cotonou on [...] Full text...
06 june 2023 - 19:03:49
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese President Patrice Talon has appointed Shegun Bakary as Minister of Foreign Affairs, according to sources [...] Full text...
18 april 2023 - 14:42:24
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese President Patrice Talon on Monday reshuffled his cabinet, according to a decree published in the [...] Full text...
13 april 2023 - 21:59:35
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The President of the Rwandan Republic, Paul Kagame, is expected in Benin on Friday as part [...] Full text...
14 march 2023 - 15:54:53
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The presidents of Benin and Niger have committed themselves to strengthening military cooperation between their two [...] Full text...
24 november 2022 - 11:58:24
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the Accra Initiative have [...] Full text...
19 september 2022 - 06:15:42
Rome, Italy (PANA) - School-aged children are bearing the brunt of today’s Global Food Crisis with devastating consequences for their [...] Full text...
12 september 2022 - 11:30:02
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Some 6.7 million voters are expected to vote in the 8 January legislative elections in Benin, [...] Full text...
09 september 2022 - 12:26:41
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - More African heads of state have paid tributes to Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, who [...] Full text...
20 august 2022 - 17:13:03
Cotonou Benin (PANA) - The Democratic Renewal Party (PRD) of Mr. Adrien Houngbedji, one of the oldest political parties in [...] Full text...
28 july 2022 - 15:14:28
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – French President Emmanuel Macron has witnessed the signing of 11 bilateral agreements with the Beninese government [...] Full text...
15 july 2022 - 15:29:23
Cotonou, Benin PANA) - Former Beninese President Boni Yayi is receiving praise after renouncing to sue Benin following his house [...] Full text...
18 february 2022 - 23:03:45
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – On the visit of the chairman of the National foundation of Moroccan Museums, Mehdi Qotbi, to [...] Full text...
13 february 2022 - 15:49:29
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government has reassured the population of adequate security and announced new security measures following [...] Full text...
14 july 2021 - 19:47:49
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, left Ouagadougou on Wednesday for Abidjan, [...] Full text...
08 july 2021 - 18:38:39
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Through its history, architecture and atmosphere, Stade de l’Amitie has over the years become an essential [...] Full text...
25 april 2021 - 14:13:14
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has expressed concern about "the numerous arrests" of opposition political leaders in [...] Full text...
21 april 2021 - 09:54:53
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese President Patrice Talon has expressed his sympathy to the people of Chad following the death [...] Full text...
19 april 2021 - 20:48:38
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The final results of Benin's 11 April presidential election will be declared Wednesday by the Constitutional [...] Full text...
14 april 2021 - 22:47:13
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The US embassy in Benin Wednesday deplored the drop in the participation of Beninese in the [...] Full text...
12 april 2021 - 12:03:56
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Although no statistics have yet been published by the electoral authorities, few Beninese voted in Sunday's [...] Full text...
08 april 2021 - 19:24:00
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Thursday condemned the pre-election violence recorded in some [...] Full text...
08 april 2021 - 09:50:17
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's electoral platform of civil society organisations for the 11 April presidential election has denounced acts [...] Full text...
03 april 2021 - 12:45:24
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Sacca Lafia, has spoken out against acts [...] Full text...
09 march 2021 - 20:24:25
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria and Republic of Benin on Tuesday agreed to work together to end the importation of [...] Full text...
22 february 2021 - 23:41:11
Cotonou, Benin PANA) - The Beninese Constitutional Court Monday validated the bids of three pairs of candidates to take part [...] Full text...
16 february 2021 - 17:59:44
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Candidates for Benin's 11 April presidential election are expected to have their medical examination from Thursday, [...] Full text...
12 february 2021 - 18:20:12
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - In a statement issued Friday by its embassy in Benin, the United States has called for [...] Full text...
12 february 2021 - 14:06:22
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's presidential candidate for the election due in April, Ganiou Soglo, was evacuated to France on [...] Full text...
06 february 2021 - 12:53:50
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Galiou Soglo, the youngest son of former president Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo (1991-1996) and candidate for the [...] Full text...
05 february 2021 - 17:40:11
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA) has registered 20 candidates for the presidential election next April [...] Full text...
19 january 2021 - 16:02:43
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday reiterated the importance of good neighbourliness, saying the survival of your [...] Full text...
16 january 2021 - 17:13:39
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Cotonou and Kinshasa Saturday strengthened their bilateral cooperation with the opening of the consulate of [...] Full text...
16 january 2021 - 14:21:03
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's head of state, Patrice Talon, whose first term ends next April, announced Friday evening in [...] Full text...
16 january 2021 - 14:15:32
Cotonou, Benin(PANA) - The leader of the opposition party (Les Démocrates), Eric Houndété, criticized the announcement Friday by the Beninese [...] Full text...
13 january 2021 - 22:35:38
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese political parties and personalities, led by the Front for the Restoration of Democracy (FRD), Wednesday [...] Full text...
11 january 2021 - 19:46:38
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - On the occasion of the celebration of the National Day of Traditional Religions, the President of [...] Full text...
29 december 2020 - 23:31:32
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese president, Patrice Talon, said here Tuesday in his state of the nation address he [...] Full text...
29 december 2020 - 17:42:01
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin will soon achieve energy autonomy, President Patrice Talon reassured on Tuesday in the National Assembly.
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29 december 2020 - 17:34:09
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - President Patrice Talon on Tuesday presented to Members of Parliament a satisfactory picture of Benin in [...] Full text...
18 october 2020 - 12:50:36
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's former president Boni Yayi (2006-2016) has said he left no debts to workers, contradicting his successor [...] Full text...
15 september 2020 - 21:58:31
Bamako, Mali, (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday insisted on a [...] Full text...
08 april 2020 - 07:57:13
Paris, France (PANA) - Eighty-one civil society organizations grouped in a coalition on Tuesday sent a letter to 10 African [...] Full text...
29 december 2019 - 12:34:15
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese President Patrice Talon, in his state of the nation message to the national assembly Friday, [...] Full text...
28 december 2019 - 17:14:12
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin’s President Patrice Talon has praised the performance of country's agriculture in 2019 in his traditional [...] Full text...
27 december 2019 - 21:40:57
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government in 2019 recruited 17,000 contractor teachers for the primary and secondary sector, following [...] Full text...
27 december 2019 - 21:00:08
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese President Patrice Talon Friday told parliament he was concerned with the closure since August of [...] Full text...
04 december 2019 - 13:32:21
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) decided on Tuesday in Dakar to grant US$100 [...] Full text...
01 november 2019 - 11:43:52
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's lawmakers on Friday unanimously passed the legislation to amend the country's Constitution of 11 December [...] Full text...
06 september 2019 - 09:31:53
Cotonou, Benin(PANA) - Benin's head of state, Patrice Talon, reshuffled his cabinet on Thursday evening, with three departures and six [...] Full text...
05 september 2019 - 21:42:28
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese president, Patrice Talon, Thursday reshuffled his cabinet, with three departures and five arrivals, after [...] Full text...
28 august 2019 - 17:49:48
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday spoke for the first time on the closure of Nigeria’s [...] Full text...
01 august 2019 - 11:29:01
Cotonou, Benin(PANA) - The Government of Benin plans to establish a special employment integration programme in the coming days, President [...] Full text...
08 july 2019 - 21:02:59
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Egypt’s President and incumbent chairman of the African Union (AU), Abdel Fattah El Sisi, said here [...] Full text...
27 june 2019 - 22:52:26
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The new speaker of the Beninese parliament, Louis Vlavonou, Thursday hailed the memory of victims of [...] Full text...
20 june 2019 - 19:21:53
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday in Abuja stressed the importance of peace in neighbouring Benin [...] Full text...
20 june 2019 - 12:36:31
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting on Thursday with his Beninese counterpart, Mr Patrice Talon, at [...] Full text...
14 june 2019 - 14:51:25
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Ghana's John Kufuor on Friday called on the Economic [...] Full text...
21 may 2019 - 14:47:54
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese President Patrice Talon has paid tribute to a Beninese guide of French tourists kidnapped in [...] Full text...
21 may 2019 - 09:57:05
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – Benin president Patrice Talon has expressed regret at the violence that followed last 28 April’s parliamentary [...] 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...
02 may 2019 - 08:35:49
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - A Rumour of an attempted arrest of former Benin President Boni Yayi triggered a riot on [...] Full text...
26 april 2019 - 21:47:58
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Friday sent minister of foreign affairs Geoffrey Onyeama on an urgent mission [...] Full text...
06 april 2019 - 12:36:00
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A delegation of the Russian parliament led by Igor Morozov on Saturday paid a courtesy call [...] Full text...
21 march 2019 - 23:48:25
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Mohamed Ibn Chambas, UN Secretary-general’s special representative for West Africa and Sahel, Thursday urged the Beninese [...] Full text...
12 march 2019 - 22:37:05
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese opposition said here Tuesday its calls for strengthening the National Autonomous Electoral Commission “is [...] Full text...
08 march 2019 - 16:24:06
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - A high-level delegation of the ECOWAS Commission led by Vice President Mrs Finda Koroma, has met [...] Full text...
24 february 2019 - 10:52:56
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Confederation of Benin Workers (CSTB) has called on its members to take part in [...] Full text...
07 january 2019 - 13:45:32
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Gianni Infantino, President of the International Football Federation (FIFA), is expected on Thursday in Cotonou for [...] Full text...
27 november 2018 - 17:14:27
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium is willing to return to DR Congo ancient art objects exhibited at the Royal Museum [...] Full text...
16 november 2018 - 18:26:44
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A high-level delegation from Benin, led by Environment minister Francois-Corneille Kedowide, is on a study tour [...] Full text...
23 october 2018 - 16:52:17
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday handed over two border posts of the Economic Community of [...] Full text...
23 october 2018 - 09:28:59
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The presidents of Benin and Nigeria will on Tuesday inaugurate the joint control post of Sèmè-Kraké, [...] Full text...
25 july 2018 - 17:44:38
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday hosted President Patrice Talon of the Republic of Benin at [...] Full text...
29 november 2017 - 14:22:56
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese president, Patrice Talon, has left Cotonou for the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, to take part in [...] Full text...
26 september 2017 - 11:24:01
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Benin’s First Lady, Mrs Claudine Talon, on Monday began a working visit to Belgium where she [...] Full text...
25 may 2017 - 15:03:54
Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group concluded its 2017 Annual Meetings on Thursday in Ahmedabad, India, [...] Full text...
24 may 2017 - 17:04:07
Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - During a TV debate at the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Annual Meetings, African leaders agreed [...] Full text...
23 may 2017 - 15:56:50
Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The 52nd Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and [...] Full text...
21 may 2017 - 12:47:13
Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The Mahatma Mandir Convention and Exhibition Centre in the Gandhinagar area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat State [...] Full text...
17 may 2017 - 14:26:07
New Delhi, India (PANA) - The Mahatma Mandir Convention and Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat State, [...] Full text...
10 may 2017 - 18:45:37
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – A regional political risk insurer, the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI), has warned of political uncertainty [...] Full text...
25 april 2017 - 17:12:02
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Belgian minister of Cooperation to Development, Alexander de Croo, on Tuesday began a working visit [...] Full text...
28 december 2016 - 14:40:30
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The former chief of staff of the African Union Commission chair, Jean-Baptiste Natama, is one [...] Full text...
29 august 2016 - 11:56:14
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Benin President Patrice Talon on Monday arrived in Kigali for a three-day visit to Rwanda, PANA [...] Full text...
22 august 2016 - 11:22:47
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Mercy Ships, an international charity that provides free health services, has docked in Benin's port city [...] Full text...
02 august 2016 - 15:44:26
Abuja, Nigeria – (PANA) – Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, Monday received the President of Benin Republic, Mr. Patrick Talon, at [...] Full text...
08 march 2016 - 10:02:45
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The second round of Benin's presidential election will be between Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou and businessman [...] Full text...
06 march 2016 - 10:32:21
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - With about 5 million voters ready, 7,000 polling stations in place and 33 candidates rearing to [...] Full text...
02 march 2013 - 15:50:25
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – Two persons - Commander Pamphile Zomahoun, a close ally of President Yayi Boni, and an accounting [...] Full text...
08 december 2012 - 07:43:41
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The media in Benin this week focus attention of the brief arrest, in Paris, France, of [...] Full text...
07 december 2012 - 20:28:14
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The media in Benin this week focus attention on the brief arrest, in Paris, France, of [...] Full text...
31 october 2012 - 19:43:12
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Benin has requested for assistance from the Belgian judiciary to help shed light on attempts to [...] Full text...
25 october 2012 - 12:05:32
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Three aides of Beninese President Yayi Boni have been arrested and detained in Cotonou for allegedly [...] Full text...