November 21, 2009
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Accra, Ghana (PANA)CAN 2010: Ghana FA boss says â?Group of Deathâ? will be tough * Accra, Ghana (PANA) â" Ghana's Central Bank on FriGhana cuts prime rate to 18 per cent * Accra, Ghana (PANA)Ghana records major swine flu outbreak school * Moroni, Comoros (PANA) -Government provides more money for Comoros elections * Dakar, Senegal (PANA) -CAN 2010: Group B seen as â?Group of Deathâ? *
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Sciences Last Updated     12/11/2009    21:45:00
Centre to receive telecommunication data opens in Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The secretary of the Libyan general office for communica tion, Dr Mohamed Mouammar Kadhafi, on Thursday opened in Tripoli a centre for th e reception of telecommunication data.    12/11/2009   full text...
SADC Science, Engineering, Technology Week opens in Mauritius
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Industry, Science and Research Minister , Dharam Gokhool, said the time has come for Africa, a land of knowledge, to red i scover itself and embark on the route to regeneration, renaissance and renewal.    22/10/2009   full text...
Mauritius hosts SADC science, engineering, technology exhibition
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius will host the Southern African Developm ent Community (SADC) Science, Engineering and Technology exhibition from 22 to 2 5 October at the Swami Vivekananda Centre, Pailles, near the capital, Port-Louis, PANA reported from here.    16/10/2009   full text...
Kenya rejoins atomic agency board
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya has been re-elected to the board of the Internatio nal Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after a 26-year absence.    18/09/2009   full text...
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 y , 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...
Kadhafi inaugurates African Satellite Control Centre
Gariyan, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, on Monday inaugurat ed the main African Satellite Control Centre (QAF1) in Gariyan, some 80km south- w est of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.    15/09/2009   full text...
AU honours first African women scientific researchers
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Commission on Wednesday rewarde d five African women researchers for their excellent research works.    09/09/2009   full text...
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 i 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...
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...
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...
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 s ian minister of Education and Training, Hatem Ben-Salem, said on Wednesday in Tu n is at the opening of the conference for Finance and Education ministers on the e c onomic downturn and education.    15/07/2009   full text...
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 s ian minister of Education and Training, Hatem Ben-Salem, said on Wednesday in Tu n is at the opening of the conference for Finance and Education ministers on the e c onomic downturn and education.    15/07/2009   full text...
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...
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...
Bamako hosts 6th African Exhibition of technological invention
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian capital, Bamako, will host the sixth edition of the African Exhibition of Technological Invention and Innovation (SAIIT), organ i sed by the African Intellectual Property Organisation (OAPI), PANA learnt from o f ficial sources here.    23/06/2009   full text...
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 r ials of the International Crops Research Institute for the semi-Arid Tropics (IC R ISAT) to all, have been formally launched by the institute.    31/05/2009   full text...
Microsoft Africa President wants technology adapted to Africa
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The president of Microsoft Africa, Cheikh Modibo Diarra, Thursday pleaded for an investment in the accessible and affordable technologic a l solutions that could be adapted to the realities of the continent.    28/05/2009   full text...
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 M onday in Nouakchott on the descriptive memoirs of patents.    18/05/2009   full text...
Former UNESCO chairman calls for scientific advance on African values
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The former UNESCO chairman, Professor Amadou Mactar Mbow, on Monday urged Africans to take a fresh look at the importance the attach to science and technology to avoid becoming simple consumers of foreign cultura l products.    04/05/2009   full text...
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...
Rabat, Ouagadougou reinforce cooperation in science
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Morocco and Burkina Faso agreed on Tuesday to cooperate in the educational and scientific sectors over 2009-2011, official sources in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, said.    24/03/2009   full text...
Reporters Without Borders name Egypt internet censor
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt was named one of the world’s “enemies of the Interne t” by a media rights watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a report publ i shed Thursday.    13/03/2009   full text...
Pan-African e-network project inaugurated in Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Pan-African e-Network Project was formally in augurated Wednesday at the Tele Education Centre of the Addis Ababa University i n Ethiopia.    04/03/2009   full text...
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...
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...
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...
US$200m telecom project to digitally connect Africa takes off
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A 200 million-dollar telecommunications project aimed at improving telecommunications among African countries and with Europe has taken off.    07/02/2009   full text...
'UN headquarters renovation work to minimise energy use'
New York, US (PANA) - The ongoing renovation of the UN headquarters in New York is designed to make the complex more modern, safe and sustainable in energy usage, the project's Executive Director, Micheal Adlerstein, said on Tuesday.    04/02/2009   full text...
Aeronautics in Morocco will generate 1 billion euros in 2012
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The aeronautics sector in Morocco, which is made up of a bout 50 companies employing more than 2,000 workers, intends to triple its turno v er to one billion euros by 2012, authoritative sources told PANA here.    28/01/2009   full text...
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...
'Chinese company to replace Nigeria's failed satellite' (Corrected)
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Chinese Great Wall Industry Corporation is to replace Nigeria's first-ever communications satellite, which failed in orbit 10 Nov. 2008, according to local media reports.    22/01/2009   full text...
South African, Japanese gun for UN nuclear agency post
New York, US (PANA) - South African and Japanese envoys will compete for the po st of Director-General of the Vienna-based UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).    06/01/2009   full text...
Disrupted Internet services almost fully restored in Egypt
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt has announced the restoration of nearly 80 per cent of its Internet services, after the cut of key cables in the Mediterranean Sea disrupted Internet services in much of the Middle East at the weekend.    22/12/2008   full text...
Digital Solidarity Fund to meet in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali will host on 27 January the extraordinary general meeting of the Global Agency for Digital Solidarity Fund, an official source told PANA here on Monday.    15/12/2008   full text...
Djibouti, US sign nuclear non-proliferation deal
New York, US (PANA) - Djibouti and the US National Nuclear Security Administrati on (NNSA) have signed a deal to cooperate on preventing nuclear proliferation at the Port of Djibouti.    14/12/2008   full text...
Mali govt. hosts e-festival on ICT for schools
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian ministry of Communications and New Technologies will organise an "e-festival" on ICT which will feature all schools in the coun t ry.    04/12/2008   full text...
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...
US think-tank to commercialise African scientific knowledge
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African scientists with ground-breaking research proposals will get training opportunities, financial and technical support to co m mercialize their knowledge under a new deal reached here Monday.    01/12/2008   full text...
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 i ch is a key step forward in the development of broadband infrastructure for the c ontinent, has started, according to the official Newsletter of the organisation m ade available to PANA in Lagos.    29/11/2008   full text...
Congo hosts third symposium on science, technology
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The third edition of the symposium on scientific and technological development in Congo began here on Tuesday with the theme: "What type of scientific and technological research for Congo's development".    19/11/2008   full text...
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...
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 i nto orbit last year (US$1=N118).    13/11/2008   full text...
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 n g the setting up of digital villages and access to internet services across East Africa.    12/11/2008   full text...
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...
'Nigeria's multi-million-dollar Satellite goes missing'
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The communication Satellite launched into orbit with fanfare by Nigeria some 18 months ago has gone missing, the private Thisday newspaper reported Wednesday.    12/11/2008   full text...
Architecture engineering institute opens in Bamako
Bamako, Mali (PAN) - An institute of architecture and town planning, called the Grand Ecole of Civil Engineering and Town planning (GECETP), opened here Monday, PANA reports.    10/11/2008   full text...
Nigerian, American universities partner on research, studies
Madison, US (PANA) - A delegation of the University of Science and Technology (K SUT) in Nigeria's North-Central Kano State arrived here Sunday to foster a partn e rship with the University of Wisconsin (UW) System.    26/10/2008   full text...
Research institute set to re-establish centre in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is set to re-establish its centre, closed 21 years ago, in Nigeria, institute said in a statement made available to PANA here Monday.    29/09/2008   full text...
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 h 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 i 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...
Mauritius lagging behind on research matters
Réduit, Mauritius (PANA) - The Pro-Chancellor of the University of Mauritius, Pr ofessor Sudursun Jugessur, has said that Mauritius was lagging far behind in ter m s of research, development and innovation.    03/09/2008   full text...
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