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| Last Updated 12/11/2009 21:45:00
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 | Senegal to re-launch President's grand prize for technological innovation | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal will this year re-launch the President's Grand P
rize for technological promotion and innovation after almost 10 years of dormanc
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, the Senegalese senior minister of Mining, Industry, Processing of Agricultural
Products and Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises (SMEs), Mr Ousmane Ngom, announced on Wednesday in Dakar.
16/09/2009 full text... |
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| Yar'Adua cancels GHz Spectrum Band licence | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Umaru Yarâ?Adua Tuesday cancelled the licensi
ng of the 2.3 GHz Spectrum Band conducted by the Nigerian Communications Commiss
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on (NCC), saying â?the letters and spirit of the stipulated rules and guidelines
were not adequately complied with.â?
Yarâ?Adua subsequently directed NCC to initiate fresh process for the award of
the 2.3 GHz Spectrum Band licenses.
11/08/2009 full text... |
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| AU urged to set up research foundation | | Paris, France (PANA) - The chief education officer of Cheikh Anta Diop Universit
y in Dakar, Senegal, Prof. Abdou Salam Sall, has urged the African Union (AU) to
set up a research foundation to ginger African researchers into action.
21/07/2009 full text... |
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| Rare bird discovered in Mauritius | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A Dutch, Mauritian and British scientific team ha
s discovered the remains of a “pelvis de dodo", the world's rarest bird, as well
as huge turtles in Mare-aux-Songes in the southern part of the island, where the
y
have been conducting a search for some time.
16/07/2009 full text... |
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| Global crisis, a chance for education - Tunisian Minister | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The world economic crisis, instead of being a handicap,
may be an opportunity for students and the education sector to develop, the Tuni
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ian minister of Education and Training, Hatem Ben-Salem, said on Wednesday in Tu
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is at the opening of the conference for Finance and Education ministers on the e
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onomic downturn and education.
15/07/2009 full text... |
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| Global crisis, a chance for education - Tunisian Minister | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The world economic crisis, instead of being a handicap,
may be an opportunity for students and the education sector to develop, the Tuni
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ian minister of Education and Training, Hatem Ben-Salem, said on Wednesday in Tu
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is at the opening of the conference for Finance and Education ministers on the e
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onomic downturn and education.
15/07/2009 full text... |
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| Namibia to build technical Institute in Congo | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Namibian government plans to build a technical
and vocational Institute in Loudima, Northern Congo, with a view to
strengthening links between the two countries in the area of vocational
training, official sources told PANA on Thursday in Brazzaville.
02/07/2009 full text... |
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| Researcher discuss knowledge management in Africa | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nati
ons Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Ms Lalla Ben Barka, has called for the
promotion of knowledge as an essential element in the development process.
02/07/2009 full text... |
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| ICRISAT throws scientific publications open | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An open access (OA) system that will make scientific pub
lications, a digital, web-accessible repository of pre-prints and scholarly mate
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ials of the International Crops Research Institute for the semi-Arid Tropics (IC
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ISAT) to all, have been formally launched by the institute.
31/05/2009 full text... |
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| AIPO holds seminar on patents | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's industry and mining ministry and th
e African Intellectual Property Organization (AIPO) began a four-day seminar on
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onday in Nouakchott on the descriptive memoirs of patents.
18/05/2009 full text... |
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| China, Nigeria sign satellite replacement pact | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria and China have signed a US$157 million agreement
for the replacement of the
African nation's faulty communications satellite, tagged NIGCOMSAT-1, the privat
e Guardian newspaper reported
Wednesday.
25/03/2009 full text... |
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| India-financed Pan African e-network project takes off | | Nigeria, Lagos (PANA) - A Pan African e-Network project funded by the Indian gov
ernment,
which will provide effective communication and connectivity between African coun
tries and the Asian
country through the use of satellite and fibre network, has been inaugurated.
27/02/2009 full text... |
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| Kenya PM charges African scientists on research | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has
challenged African scientists to carry out research on viable farming
methodologies that could help mitigate the perennial food insecurity
in the continent during prolonged dry spells.
25/02/2009 full text... |
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| Zain launches mobile banking in Kenya | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Innovation in technological access is on the
growth with the introduction of a new mobile banking facility into the
Kenyan market. Zain network has introduced its Zap mobile-banking
facility
that will see the over 90 per cent of un-banked people in East Africa,
able
to access banking services through their mobile phones.
16/02/2009 full text... |
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| African leaders urged to invest more in science | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A visiting American scientist has challenged
African leaders to allocate more resources to science, technology and
research work, in addition to providing the enabling environment for
African scientists in the Diaspora to contribute to the development of
the sector in the continent.
27/01/2009 full text... |
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| IAEA urges radiation plant growth | | New York, US (PANA) - The Vienna-based UN International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) is urging increased use of radiation to produce
high-yielding plants to help people avoid hunger.
03/12/2008 full text... |
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| NEPAD study on terrestrial network begins | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - After a year's delay, the New Partnership for Africa's D
evelopment (NEPAD) e-Africa Commission terrestrial network feasibility study, wh
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ch is a key step forward in the development of broadband infrastructure for the
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ontinent, has started, according to the official Newsletter of the organisation
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ade available to PANA in Lagos.
29/11/2008 full text... |
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| Nitram to open training school in Algiers | | Algiers, Algeria (PANA) – Nitram, a multinational company involved in the design
and manufacture of equipment and services for the processing industry, plans to
open a training school in 2010 in Algiers.
15/11/2008 full text... |
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| Nigeria opposition tasks government of 'faulty' satellite | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC) party has
challenged the federal government to ''come clean'' on what has happened to the
40-billion-naira Nigerian communication satellite (NigComSat) that was launched
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nto orbit last year (US$1=N118).
13/11/2008 full text... |
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| Funds hitch hampers ICT development in East Africa | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Lack of funds for implementing key Information and Commu
nication Technology (ICT) programmes has been identified as a key factor hamperi
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g the setting up of digital villages and access to internet services across East
Africa.
12/11/2008 full text... |
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| Nigerian Satellite 'not missing' | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government has denied local
newspaper reports that its 40-billion-naira communication satellite
has gone missing
in orbit (US$1=118 Naira).
12/11/2008 full text... |
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| International project to reduce brain drain in Africa bears first fruits | | Paris, France (PANA) - Scientists at the Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in D
akar, Senegal, are now better placed to cooperate with researchers overseas -- t
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anks to the installation of the first computing grid at the university (the frui
t
of a joint effort by the UNESCO/Hewlett-Packard project), called “Reversing Bra
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n Drain into Brain Gain for Africa” and the Grid Computing Institute of France’s
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
17/09/2008 full text... |
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