Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – China is to give Rwanda CFA Franc 5 billion to support the African country in its bid to process and promote the bamboo culture. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – The volume of interventions undertaken in Benin by The Netherlands will increase from 16 million Euros (about 10 billion CFA) last year to 29.5 million Euros (18 billion CFAF) this year, official sources said on Monday in Cotonou. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – The volume of interventions undertaken in Benin by The Netherlands will increase from 16 million Euros (about 10 billion CFA) last year to 29.5 million Euros (18 billion CFAF) this year, official sources said on Monday in Cotonou. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – Denmark will end its development cooperation with Benin this year after more than 20 years of partnership, official sources said on Monday in Cotonou. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The president of the Senate of DR Congo, Kengo wa Dondo, on Tuesday expressed the wish to establish "strong" diplomatic ties between his country and Rwanda, stressing that all measures should be taken to end the conflict in eastern DR Congo. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania and Morocco have signed 17 cooperation pacts in various fields, according to a statement issued Thursday after the 7th meeting in Nouakchott of the countries' Joint Cooperation Commission. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The US on Monday welcomed Friday's meeting between Presidents Omar al Bashir of Sudan and Salva Kiir of South Sudan in Juba, capital of South Sudan. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – The African Union special representative in Bissau, Ovido M. B Pequeno, on Friday in Paris that the socio-political situation in Guinea Bissau remained still fragile in the absence of a thorough reform of the defence and security sectors. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union has hailed the nomination of Mrs Mary Robinson as special envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region and pledged to work closely with her. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – A former French ambassador to Mali, Michel Reveyrand de Menthon, has been appointed the European Union (EU) envoy to Sahel, PANA reported here, quoting a communiqué from the European bloc in Brussels. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) is to grant an additional aid of 33 million Euros to the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to play its key peacekeeping role in Somalia, a statement issued in Brussels said on Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Morocco and Senegal have agreed to improve their bilateral economic cooperation by holding their 14th Joint Commission for Cooperation as soon as possible, a joint communiqué released on Tuesday in Dakar at the end of the five-day visit of Moroccan King Mohamed VI to Senegal. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has lauded the decision by Malian authorities to set up a commission for national dialogue and reconciliation, describing the move as a key step to establishing an all-inclusive process toward the total reconciliation and political re-foundation in the West African country. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium is demanding an enhanced security of the site where European instructors who will train Malian soldiers will be based before the country's soldiers can participate. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The 11th session of the Mauritania-Senegal Joint Commission began here Monday under the joint chairmanship of the Foreign Ministers of both countries, PANA reported. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Idris Debbi of Chad has concluded a one-day state visit to Khartoum where he and the Sudanese leader, Omar El-Bashir, discussed economic, political and security issues of concern to the Sudan and Chad. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The Dutch minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Lilianne Ploumen, on Thursday visited projects being implemented in Burundi under bilateral cooperation between the Netherlands and Burundi. Full text...

Tripoli Libya (PANA) - The Acting Secretary General of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Niger’s Ibani Ibrahim, has welcomed efforts by Libya to resume its activities at the regional organisation. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The Prime minister of the Libyan interim government, Ali Zidane, on Monday held talks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with the Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, during the just-ended African Union summit. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The ties between Angola and South Africa is being reviewed here Wednesday between the visiting South African president, Jacob Zuma, and the Angolan president, José Eduardo dos Santos. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwanda and South Korea have pledged to reinforce their cooperation in the fields of the information, communication technologies, agriculture and trade, diplomatic sources in Kigali told PANA. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – The Turkish Prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Wednesday pledged his country's assistance to help Niger attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Mr. Luc Adolph Tiao, arrived in Khartoum on Saturday for an official visit to the Sudan, the official Sudan news agency SUNA reported. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, on Monday telephoned his South Sudanese counterpart, President Salva Kiir Mayardit, and the two reviewed the agreement they signed 27 September in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, parts of which have not been implemented. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – Togolese president Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé has been invited to attend the Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD) scheduled for 1 to 3 June 2013 in Japan. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium has stopped military cooperation with Rwanda, Pieter De Crem, the Belgian Minister of Defence, said Thursday before the Parliament. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A high-level delegation of ECOWAS and Chinese officials will hold talks on Wednesday at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on ways to boost trade, investment and technical cooperation between the two, the Commission announced here Tuesday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will undertake a working visit to Niamey Thursday to join President Issoufou Mohammadou of Niger Republic in presiding over a scheduled meeting of the High Authority of the Nigeria-Niger Joint Commission for Cooperation. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma Monday urged the African Union (AU) and the UN to work together to secure peace around the continent. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – Burundi's president, Pierre Nkurunziza, on Tuesday said his government would work for stability in eastern DR Congo, which is reeling under serious rebel activity. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - French President François Hollande will meet with the President of the Libyan General Congress, Mr. Mohamed Megarief, in Paris Tuesday, the French presidency said. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS and the World Bank have agreed to revitalise and deepen their cooperation for accelerated regional development and integration. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwanda's minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mrs Louise Mushikiwabo, on Tuesday announced that the African Union (AU) would back the candidature of her country for the United Nations Security Council seat for 2013/2014. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese President and Chairman of the African Union Boni Yayi will take part in the 67th session of the United Nations' General Assembly, scheduled for 23-29 September in New York, PANA reported Friday. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Russia has vowed to support measures to end the instability in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo caused by the aggression against the country by rebels, the Russian deputy minister of foreign affairs, Mikhail L. Bogdanov, said on Thursday on arrival in Kinshasa. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila, left the northern Congo town of Oyo on Thursday, for home after a 48-hour visit. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Visiting Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama and host Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday discussed security and economic cooperation between their two countries during their bilateral talks at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – Ms.Yamina Benguigui, the deputy Minister in charge of Francophony in France, is expected in Algiers for a two-day working visit to Algeria, PANA learnt Wednesday from an official source. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Congo and China on Tuesday signed several cooperation agreements in Brazzaville to mark the visit to Congo of the Chinese deputy Prime Minister, Hui Liangyu. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Chinese deputy Prime Minister, Hui Liangyu, arrived here Monday for a working visit during which he will hold talks with the Congolese authorities, including President Denis Sassou N’Guesso, Radio Congo reported on Tuesday. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Prime minister Navin Ramgoolam leaves for South Africa on Wednesday to attend the 24th International Socialist Congress scheduled for 30 August to 1 September in Cape Town. Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, will visit Cuba on Monday, according to a statement issued here Friday by the Gabonese Foreign ministry. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The ministers of foreign affairs of Libya and Liberia, Achour Ben Khiyal and Augustin Njavoan respectively, have signed a memorandum for the normalisation of relations between them. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's head of state, Boni Yayi, is expected in China on Wednesday to take part in the 5th ministerial conference of the forum on Sino-African cooperation, according to a communiqué issued on Tuesday by the Beninese ministry of foreign affairs. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – The French government will soon submit to Parliament a bill amended on Wednesday in Paris by the council of ministers to set modalities for French-Algerian cooperation on defence, a communiqué made available to PANA said in the French capital. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Achour Ben Khiyal, on Thursday held talks in Tripoli with the Swedish ambassador in Libya on strengthening bilateral cooperation between their countries. Full text...

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan and US officials have expressed the need for continued dialogue between the two countries. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania and Gambia have signed six cooperation agreements covering transport, the supply of petroleum products, livestock, tourism, education and culture, according to a joint statement issued Tuesday after President Yahya Jammeh's state visit to Mauritania. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Prime minister of Libya's interim government, Abdelrahim Al-Kib and the Tunisian defence minister, Abdelkarim Zoubeidy, on Monday discussed in Tripoli how to consolidate relations between their countries through good neighbourliness and trust-based relations. Full text...