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 | 19-year-old crowned Miss Togo 2010 | | Lome, Togo (PANA) - Miss Gertrude Armande Akumah, a 19-year-old, third-year Mana
gement student, was Saturday night crowned Miss Togo 2010 at a magnificent grand
finale in Lome, the capital of Togo.
22/08/2010 full text... |
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| Libya to host African-Arab cultural conference | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya will host a two-day African-Arab cultural conferen
ce devoted to the role of the intellectual in the consolidation of identity and
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he achievement of African-Arab cultural interaction from 24 October.
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| World Orchestra for Peace to promote UNESCO message | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (
UNESCO) has selected the World Orchestra for Peace, an ensemble of musicians fro
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more than 40 countries, to promote its message and programmes and raise public
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wareness of its work on key issues.
03/08/2010 full text... |
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| Tanzania's Conservation Area is World Heritage Site | | Brasilia, Brazil (PANA) - The World Heritage Committee meeting in Brasilia, Braz
il, has inscribed the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania as a cultural pro
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erty on the World Heritage List, according to a press release issued by UNICEF a
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d made available to PANA here.
01/08/2010 full text... |
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| 7th cinematographic meetings hold 26-30 Nov | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 7th edition of the Bamako Cinematographic Meeting
(RCB) and the International Festival of Nyamina (FINA) will be held 20-30 Novemb
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2010, the Bamako-based Union of West African Cinema and Audiovisual Designers
and Entrepreneurs (UCEOAO) said.
31/07/2010 full text... |
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| UNESCO Literacy Prize winners for 2010 emerge | | Paris, France (PANA) - The six winners of the UNESCO International Literacy Priz
es for 2010 were announced Wednesday by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bo
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ova, following the recommendation of an international Jury, which met between 5
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nd 9 July.
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| Lome hosts 3rd African music festival | | Lome, Togo (PANA) - The third edition of the international African music festiva
l, dubbed "Africarythmes", will begin 5 August in the Togolese capital, Lome, wi
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h several artists from the continent, including Lokoua Kanza from the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), participating, sources close to organisers told PANA.
26/07/2010 full text... |
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| Big Brother Africa pays homage to Mandela at 92 | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Organisers of the reality show, Big Brother
Africa All Star, whose latest season started Sunday, paid homage to
former South African president, Nelson Mandela, on his 92nd birthday
anniversary (18 July).
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| Mauritius to promote four foreign languages | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Arts and Culture Minister Mukeshwar
Choonee, will introduce a bill to the National Parliament on Tuesday, seeking
to promote four foreign languages -- Arabic, Bhojpuri, Mandarin and Sanskrit,
a PANA correspondent reported from here.
16/07/2010 full text... |
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| UNESCO publishes work on teaching of African languages | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL)
has published a document entitled â?Why and how Africa must invest in African
languages and multilingual educationâ?, the working group, Communication for
Education and Development (COMED) of the Association for Education Development
in Africa, said on Wednesday.
14/07/2010 full text... |
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| UNESCO prepares for Haiti's rebirth through culture | | Paris, France (PANA) - Building institutional capacity, drawing up
inventories and developing plans for safeguarding Haitian cultural
heritage are some of the priority actions identified by the International
Coordination Committee for the protection of Haitian cultural heritage
(ICC) at its first meeting on 7 and 8 July in Paris, France.
08/07/2010 full text... |
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| Traditional crafts development meeting opens | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A three-day meeting on development of craft
industries and the sponsoring of traditional crafts in Arab countries
began on Monday in Tripoli to examine the experiences in the various
countries to promote the crafts industries and ways to improve the
capacities of their craftsmen.
05/07/2010 full text... |
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| Libya, UNESCO examine cooperation | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The secretary of the Libyan general people's Committee f
or Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Abdelkebir Al-Fakhri, on Wednesday hel
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talks in Tripoli with the Director-general of the UN Educational, Scientific an
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Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova.
16/06/2010 full text... |
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| Gambian leader honours US musician Jermaine Jackson, late brother Micheal | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, has decorated Jermaine
Jackson, the American music celebrity, with the national award -- Commander of t
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e National Order -- at an ongoing cultural festival in Kanilai, Jammeh's home v
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llage which is situated some 120 kilometres South/East of Banjul, the Gambian ca
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ital, PANA reported Wednesday.
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| US jazz group in Cote d'Ivoire | | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - An American jazz group, the Freddie Bryant Kale
idoscope Jazz Trio, is in Cote d'Ivoire as part of a 30-day regional tour that
will also take them it to Mali, Benin and Senegal.
02/06/2010 full text... |
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| UNESCO to designate new biosphere reserves | | Paris, France (PANA) - New biosphere reserves will be designated during the meet
ing of the International Coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB)
UNESCO Programme, whose 22nd session will be held from 31 May to 4 June at the U
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ESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
26/05/2010 full text... |
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| Sub-regional rights body advises Jermaine Jackson | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" The sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for Wes
t Africa (MFWA), has advised the American iconic singer, Jermaine Jackson, to st
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y away from Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and his planned birthday celebrations
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PANA reported from here Monday.
24/05/2010 full text... |
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| UNESCO showcases 600 art works in Paris | | New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations agency tasked with preserving the world’s cultural heritage on Saturday opened the doors of its headquarters in Paris to the public for guided tours of its collection of 600 masterpieces and artistic works.
15/05/2010 full text... |
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| Senegalese artist highlights food self-sufficiency (Corrected) | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese artist Ibrahima Seck Niang, through one of his works exhibited at the Village of Arts in Dakar, has raised the question of importation and consumption of Thai rice in his country instead of what is produced in the Senegal River Valley in the north and in Casamance in the south.
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| Six Senegalese artists to exhibit in Thailand | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A Belgian art association, Art sans frontières, has selected six Senegalese artists to take part in a series of exhibitions, the first of which is scheduled for August in the island of Koh Samui in Thailand.
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| Libya, Egypt sign MOU on religious goods | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan General Office for Waqfs (religious good) and
Zakat and the Egyptian ministry of Waqfs on Wednesday signed a memorandum of un
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erstanding (MOU) in Tripoli on Waqfs and Islamic Affairs.
12/05/2010 full text... |
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| PACA poised to develop the arts | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Pan-African Circle of Arts (PACA) has embarked on a
study tour of The Gambia in an attempt to implement a project initiated in 2001
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o develop the arts on the continent.
11/05/2010 full text... |
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| 42 int'l dancers train in Senegal | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese dancing school, Ecole des Sables of
Toubab Dialaw, is hosting young dancers and choreographers from 24
countries in Africa and the Diaspora during a 12-week dance course,
running from 14 April to 7 July, PANA reported from here.
05/05/2010 full text... |
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| Forum of Africa kings enthrones Elhadj Koky Diop king of Dakar | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The permanent secretary of the Forum of Africa
kings, sultans, princes, traditional leaders, king Tchiffi Zie Jean
Gervais of Côte d'Ivoire, on Tuesday enthroned Grand Serigne of Dakar,
Elhadj Massamba Koky Diop, who is the high chief of the Senegalese Lebou,
as king of Dakar.
04/05/2010 full text... |
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| Angolan historians participate in seminar on African descendants in | | Brazil
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A group of Angolan historians are expected in
Brazil onMonday to participate in a seminar on "The origin and culture of
African people", taking place in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, on 4-6
May,According to the co-ordinator of the group, Carlos Vicente de
Oliveira, the seminar is expected to help historians to understand the
true origin of Africans who were taken to other continents during the
slave trade period.
03/05/2010 full text... |
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| 28 artists from 16 African countries for 2010 Dak'Art festival | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Twenty-eight artists (18 men and 10 women) from
16 African countries have been selected to take part in the ninth edition
of the Contemporary African Art (Dak'Art) festival, scheduled to take
place from 7 May to 7 June in the Senegalese capital , Dak'Art Secretary
General, Ousseynou Wade, said here.
30/04/2010 full text... |
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| Cuba to assist Agostinho Neto Foundation | | Luanda, Angola ((PANA) - The Agostinho Neto Foundation may count on the assistance of the Republic of Cuba to enrich its archive, the Cuban minister of Culture, Abel Prieto, said in Luanda on Tuesday.
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