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Latest News Last Updated     02/05/2007    22:44:00
Cameroon to launch campaign on illegal migration
Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migrations (IOM) office in Cameroon will on Thursday in Yaounde, launch a campaign to prevent migrations, organisers told PANA here Tuesday.    02/05/2007   full text...
President Kabbah calms nerves ahead of elections
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has abhorred violence and appealed to Sierra Leoneans to continue to be peaceful.    02/05/2007   full text...
Sierra Leone's Telecom gives $US1m in dividend to govt
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in Sierra Leone on Tuesday handed to government Le3 billion (about $US1m as part of revenues collected from telecommunications operators working in the country.    02/05/2007   full text...
Govt vows to use gains from diamonds to benefit Liberians
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - Few days after the UN Security Council lifted sanctions on Liberia's diamonds export, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf vowed that her government will never allow Liberian diamonds to be used to fuel war anywhere.    02/05/2007   full text...
Ghana authorities announce first bird flu case
Accra, Ghana (PANA)– The Ghanaian authorities on Wednesday announced the first bird flu case in the country and declared the Tema Metropolitan area, some 25 km east of the capital, an Avian Influenza zone.    02/05/2007   full text...
IMF back Kenya's free secondary education programme
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has declared its support for Kenya's free secondary education, planned to take off next year.    02/05/2007   full text...
AfDB supports electricity production in Uganda
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday approved US$110 million to finance the Bujagali hydroelectric power project in Uganda.    02/05/2007   full text...
Madagascar gets US$150m AfDB loan to improve extractive industry
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Wednesday in Tunis, Tunisia, approved US$150 million to partially finance the Ambatovy Nickel Project in Madagascar.    02/05/2007   full text...
Mozambique, US sign military support pact
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique and the US Wednesday signed an "Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement" (ACSA), for mutual assistance in logistics and other military services, national news agency, AIM reported here.    02/05/2007   full text...
Rwanda Tribunal gets Danish Judge
Arusha, Tanzania (PANA) - Vagn Joensen of Denmark took the oath of office here Wednesday as one of the judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, sitting in this Tanzania's northern city.    02/05/2007   full text...
Mozambique's foreign debt now US$3.3 billion
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique's foreign debt stood at US$3.3 billion as at the end of 2006, Finance Minister Manuel Chang told the parliament here Wednesday.    02/05/2007   full text...
US-based Foundation to build tertiary hospital in Nigeria
Hutchinson Island, US (PANA) - US-based humanitarian organisation "Goodness and Mercy Foundation," is to build a modern medical centre in Ajalli, in Nigeria's south-eastern Anambra state, according to the Foundation's chair, Eugene Nwosu.    02/05/2007   full text...
Mozambique revises death toll from arms depot explosion
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The death toll from the 22 March explosion at a military arms depot in the Maputo suburb of Malhazine, now stands at 104, according to Women's Affairs and Social Welfare Minister Virgilia Matabele.    02/05/2007   full text...
African Coffee producers to meet in Yaoundé
Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - A two-day extraordinary ministerial conference of the African and Malagasy Coffee Organisation (OAMCAF), opens in Yaoundé, Thursday, industry sources said here Wednesday.    02/05/2007   full text...
EU disappointed at Nigerian polls
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has expressed "profound disappointment" at Nigeria's 14 and 21 April general elections, which it said were marred by "many irregularities, violence and deaths".    02/05/2007   full text...
Nigeria's apex bank explains high foreign reserves
Ilorin, Nigeria (PANA) - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said high crude oil prices and fiscal discipline contributed significantly to the growth of Nigerian foreign reserves from US$5.4 billion in 1999 to US$43.2 billion in December 2006.    02/05/2007   full text...
France's future president to address Darfur crisis
Paris, France (PANA) - France's future president due to be elected Sunday at the end of the run-off pitting Socialist candidate Segolène Royal and the Union for the Majority (UMP) leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, will address the crisis in the Sudan's western region of Darfur, which is facing a serious security and humanitarian crisis, a source in Paris told PANA Wednesday.    02/05/2007   full text...
ICC issues arrest warrants for Darfur suspects
New York, UN (PANA) - The Hague (Netherlands)-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued their first arrest warrants for suspects implicated in war crimes in Sudan's restive Darfur region.    02/05/2007   full text...
New airline planned for Great Lakes region
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium's Brussels Airlines will at the end of the year launch a new airline for the Great Lakes region, in partnership with Rwanda Express and Air Burundi, an official source said here Wednesday.    02/05/2007   full text...
Women's forum in Dakar to tackle African migration
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African women from all walks of life will gather in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, for two days in June to discuss new strategies to mitigate and minimise the negative impact of migration on the continent's development, organisers of the meeting confirmed here Wednesday.    02/05/2007   full text...
UNECA awards African governments promoting ICT use
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Nine African countries have won the first ever awards given in the continent for promoting the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by governments in fulfilling their public service delivery functions, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) announced here Wednesday.    02/05/2007   full text...
Mali's opposition alliance threatens to quit Commission
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Front for the Republic and Democracy (FDR), an alliance of four opposition political parties of, has said it would walk out of the Vote Centralisation Commission for the first round of last Sunday's presidential poll.    02/05/2007   full text...
Gbagbo reaffirms his desire for Ivorian peace
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, has reiterated his desire and that of the former rebel New Forces to sustain the peace process, urging his fellow citizens to show confidence and patience.    02/05/2007   full text...
Kufuor to address Pan African Parliament
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The chairperson of the African Union John Agyekum Kufuor who is also the president of Ghana, is expected to address the Pan African Parliament (PAP) on the opening day of the Seventh Ordinary Session on 7 May, a statement released here Wednesday by PAP confirmed.    02/05/2007   full text...
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