Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – A forensic audit conducted by an international accounting firm, Price Water Consulting (PWC), has found that a total of US$1.48 billion is yet to be fully accounted for or remitted into the federation account by the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ( NNPC). Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, said here Saturday that he respects the decision of African leaders, who Friday appointed Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe chair of the 54-member Pan African organization for a one-year term. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - It is incomprehensible that the Kingdom of Morocco continues to occupy Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba, told African Union (AU) leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has challenged the African Union (AU) member countries to deliberate and find lasting solutions to the scourge of terrorism in the coming year. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – “African countries have been the backbone and leading Member States of the United Nations since the day they achieved independence,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Africa leaders gathered Friday at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to make affordable, quality healthcare a central feature of Africa's development agenda. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have hailed the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency for the important role it plays in transforming the continent, the African Union (AU) said in a statement received here by PANA Friday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - In marking 2015 as the year of women's empowerment and development, Africa should take its continental programme of gender equality and women's empowerment to a higher level, African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma told the AU leaders gathered in Addis Ababa for their 24th Ordinary Summit.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Amnesty International on Friday accused the African Union Peace and Security Council of standing in the way of Justice in South Sudan, having failed to make public the report of the Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan.Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Béji Caïd Essebsi will attend the 24th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union to be held 30-31 January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Office of the Presidency announced here Thursday.Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola will be represented at the 24th Summit of African Heads of States and Government, scheduled to run from 30 to 31 January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by its vice-president, Manuel Domingos Vicente, who is expected in the Ethiopian Capital Thursday.Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, due in Addis Ababa shortly, will participate in the 24th summit of African Union (AU) heads of State and government, opening there Friday, the Congolese public radio reported here.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - African States should include a provision in their national legislation that all men, women and children have the right to a nationality, as a fundamental prerequisite for the enjoyment and exercise of the human rights recognized by the African Charter and the other African human rights treaties that they have ratified, a new human rights report has urged. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is expected to play a key role at the 24th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) which gets underway in Addis Ababa on Thursday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As civil society organizations express concern over fulfillment of pledges, the African Umiom (AU) Wednesday said situations in the three Ebola affected countries were improving. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and current Chair of the East African Standby Force, has informed the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, that the East African Standby Force is ready for deployment. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has expressed appreciation to the Cameroonian government for making available the AU Handbook in French, saying efforts would continue to ensure that the Handbook is translated into the other working languages of the continental organization. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - External debts of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the three West African countries which endured dramatic suffering as a result of the Ebola Virus Disease -- should be written off, UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes, said Monday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Member countries of the African Union (AU) must act now and collectively against the progressing threat of terrorism perpetrated by Boko Haram in West Africa, AU Commission Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said Monday at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Africa's leadership must do more and better for African youth, African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told the 26th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - After completing its work on Agenda 2063 flagship integration projects, the African Union Commission (AUC) is preparing the first 10-year plan for a concerted shift towards focusing on implementation of this continental vision, the Commission's Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) Monday in Port-Louis launched a Search and Rescue (SAR) Capability Programme for Mauritius, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The NEPAD Agency of the African Union (AU) has said it is placing emphasis on mobilising African countries to put in place conducive and enabling environment for conducting clinical trials to test the candidate vaccines and other therapies against the Ebola virus. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on Friday expressed condolences to the Royal family and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is in Tunis for a two-day working visit, PANA reported Thursday.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The African Union (AU) and the Kenyan government will send 170 health workers to Ebola hit countries, the AU said in a statement on Thursday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said Wednesday she was closely following the situation in Gambia following reports of an attempted coup in the West African country's capital, Banjul, on Tuesday. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - At its Council of Ministers meeting here Thursday, the Mauritanian government adopted the draft law on ratifications of the Convention on the creation of 5 Saharan States Grouping (G5), signed in Nouakchott on 19 December, PANA learnt Friday from official sources. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African leaders should take steps to break the impasse over the alternative sources of funding the African Union (AU), the Chairperson of its Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, said Saturday.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia's state run mobile telephone firm, Ethio Telecom, joined the campaign on Saturday to raise funds to finance an African-led effort against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - African countries have been urged to work harder to accelerate regional economic integration, fight poverty, create wealth, reduce unemployment as well as make the continent more competitive at the global level. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Special Envoy for Women and Peace, Benita Diop, has launched a bid to effectively protect women in conflict zones by proposing a series of strict measures to punish sexual offenders. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Commission President, Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma, Friday hailed the election of Senegalese Justice Minister, Sidiki Kaba, as the next President of the Assembly of State Parties to Rome Statute. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The 11th international conference of the Francophone Union of internal auditing (UFAI) will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday next week in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, PANA reported, quoting a communiqué issued here Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Special Envoy on Women and Peace, Benita Diop, has embarked on a visit to Nigeria, to review the status of women trapped in conflict, with the status of the kidnapped Chibok girls in Nigeria top on her agenda. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Trade Ministers have kicked off a meeting to prepare the ground for the launch of negotiations on a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), PANA reported Thursday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – At its maiden conference on the Libyan crisis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the International contact group for Libya warned on Wednesday that the solution to the crisis in the north African nation cannot be military. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosozana Dlamini Zuma Tuesday decried lack of funding as the main crisis facing the implementation of Africa's development plans.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) is to launch a mobile-phone enabled campaign to raise funds to support the fight against Ebola spread in West Africa, the AU’s top official said Tuesday.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Kenya’s forest dwelling community, the Ogiek, have kicked off a court case before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights against the government. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The European Union has committed Euros 40 million (US $60 million) to the launch of two projects aimed at achieving economic integration and attracting private sector investments in West African states, it was officially announced here Wednesday.Full text...

Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cape Verde will host a regional Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for 30 member States of the African Union (AU) under the continental organisation's initiative to establish connection across Africa, official sources told PANA here Tuesday.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfuri rebel movements, which did not sign the Doha peace agreement, began Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The main rebel leaders in Sudan's western Darfur region have agreed to a new round of talks under the mediation of the African Union (AU). Full text...

Adama, Ethiopia (PANA) - The East African military force forming part of the African Standby Force (ASF) has declared its full readiness to deploy against conflicts and security threats in Africa. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Turkey and Africa will hold a second summit to strengthen their cooperation, the African Union Commission (AUC) announced Thursday. Full text...

Dakar Senegal (PANA) - Finance Ministers and Customs heads of 15 States of the West African sub-region will meet on November 27 in Accra, Ghana, to finalize the preparations for the entry into force early next year of the Common External Tariff (CET) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has abandoned plans to suspend Burkina Faso from its membership after the newly-appointed President Michel Kafando was sworn in and the military designated the transfer of power on 21 November. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has sought China’s support towards its push for the inclusion of trade and industrialization agenda in the future UN plan to fight poverty, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), at talks with visiting Chinese officials.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - At a meeting to review two decades of progress since the launch of the Beijing Plan of Action, women have decried the marginal gains in ensuring equal participation of women in economic activity. Full text...