Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The African Press Organization (APO), the leading African press release wire service, has announced an alliance with Dow Jones Factiva, the world’s leading news and business information research tool. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- One of Nigeria’s leading private broadcast stations, Daa r Communications Plc, owners and operators of Raypower and African Independent T e levision (AIT), has joined the league of quoted companies on the Nigerian Stock E xchange (NSE) with the listing of eight billion ordinary shares of 50k each at N 5. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- One of Nigeria’s leading private broadcast stations, Daa r Communications Plc, owners and operators of Raypower and African Independent T e levision (AIT), has joined the league of quoted companies on the Nigerian Stock E xchange (NSE) with the listing of eight billion ordinary shares of 50k each at N 5. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Libyan media production company 1/9 and a German publisher, Hidelberg, Sunday signed an accord in Tripoli aimed at establishing a new printing house here. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The African Development Bank (ADB) has commenced a publication aimed at relieving Africa from its persistent constrains in decision-making at many levels due to lack of reliable statistical data. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Mali office of the World Bank Thursday in Bamako organised a two-day seminar for 20 media practitioners to brief them of the institution's activities in the country. Full text...

Kenya- Nairobi (PANA) -- The high cost of equipment is inhibiting the widespread use of satellite technology in television broadcasting in Africa, industry players meeting here Thursday have revealed. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian journalists are being trained in the "stakes of the coffee-cocoa sector" at a seminar that started Monday in Grand Bassam, 40 km south-east of Abidjan, the country's economic capital. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Financial Standard African Standard, a newspaper for the ever-expanding expatriate communities of West Africa living in South Africa, estimated to number around 100,000, has been launched in the country by a leading Nigerian publisher, Millennium Harvest. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The panel investigating the financial scam involving gold company Goldenberg in Kenya Monday started questioning veteran journalist Gitau Warigi on the report he compiled for Germany-based anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International (TI). Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Some 30 journalists in Benin are currently taking drills in economic reporting at the West African Media Centre here. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian government's plan to divest from the country's oldest surviving newspaper, the Daily Times, has failed, according to the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Some 30 Malian journalists started Friday in Bamako a workshop aimed at familiarising them with the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Nation Media Group, Kenya's biggest media conglomerate, announced on Wednesday that its mid-year profit rose to 77. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The African summit conference convened in Dakar this week to seek private sector financing for NEPAD projects has had the indisputable merit of providing CEOs of transnationals a forum to air their views, albeit grievances against African nations whose laws stunt business growth. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Two hundred and forty thousand copies of a unique, national life skills publication are now being delivered to township dwellers in Gauteng, Western Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- An international seminar on the challenges and stakes of economic journalism in West Africa will be held 5-12 August in Cotonou, its organisers announced Monday. Full text...