New York, US (PANA) - A report, released Tuesday by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, said that royalties and licence fees from intellectual property rights have generated an estimated US$ 180 billion in revenue. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A report, released Tuesday by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, said that royalties and licence fees from intellectual property rights have generated an estimated US$ 180 billion in revenue. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A UN report on Thursday said the world needs to enhance its capacity to prevent and respond to the threat of terrorism using chemical or biological weapons. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - The L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership Monday named the five exceptional women scientists from around the world who will receive the 2012 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards in Life Sciences. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Executive Board of Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has acknowledged receiving a 12-point communique from African ICT Ministers, PANA reported Monday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Board of Directors of Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Friday ended their meeting with a resolve towards helping applicants who want to run a new generic top-level internet domain and require, financial, technical or other assistance. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal on Monday declared the "ICANN 42 Dakar" meeting open with a call for "democratic management" of the internet. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – African delegates, led by host country, Senegal, Sunday showcased their rich cultural heritage at the start of a week-long Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting here. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Participants at the on-going internet meeting held here in Dakar, Thursday called for more space and participation for Africa in the affairs of the Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Full text...

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Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola will double the number of scholarships to be awarded to worthy students to study in the country's institutions from 3,000 this year to 6,000 in 2012, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola's communications sector, currently operating the analog system, will go digital in the first quarter of 2012, the Angolan vice minister for Telecommunications and Information Technologies, Aristides Safeca, announced here Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian experts have lamented what they call the sorry state of science education in the country, after this year's US$100,000 Prize for Sciences, sponsored by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), was not awarded because there was no winner. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The 62nd International Astronautical Congress, the first of its kind in Africa, wrapped up in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The US-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has granted US$1.5 million to the African Union’s NEPAD Planning Coordinating Agency to support on going work of the Africa Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE), a NEPAD statement obtained by PANA here said. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Turkey has expressed interest in cooperating with Angola in various sectors of education, including the granting of scholarships, according to the Turkish ambassador to Angola, Hamit Osman Olcay. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The second African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-Senegal), after that of South Africa, will open its doors to students 6 September in Mbour, 80 km from Dakar, the Senegalese capital, PANA learnt Tuesday from its managing director, Professor Mamadou Sangharé. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two days after Nigeria launched two satellites into space for security and environment monitoring purposes, indications are that the ground station in the capital city of Abuja lacks the facilities to receive images from one of the satellites. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday announced the successful launch of two satellites into space. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government will save 77 billion naira yearly from the roll-out of public security network billed to start later in December, according to the Managing Director, Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd (NigComSat), Ahmed Rufai (US$1=150 Naira). Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Brazilian researcher José Luis Neves said here Thursday that he discovered in Angola last May, a site and a marine giant reptile fossil, PANA reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The West African Research Centre (WARC) has appealed to governments across Africa to encourage the emergence of a new crop of young scientists to complement the efforts of their old counterparts, and also to ensure that minimum standards are maintained in the laboratories of their research institutions. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Bank is providing up to 15 billion CFA francs to the Republic of Congo to implement a project that would improve telecommunication in the Central Africa region, the Congolese Ministry of Finance and Budget announced on Tuesday. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola's deputy minister for Technical and Professional Education, Narciso dos Santos, Wednesday, in Luanda, reiterated the need for the European Union (EU) to continue financing the Information System for Education Management (SIGE), with a view to extending the programme across the country. Full text...

Buenos Aires, Argentina (PANA) - Angola and Argentina here Tuesday signed an agreement aimed at boosting a win-win co-operation in the fields of science, technology and innovation. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Hundreds of African science communicators on Wednesday announced the creation of a forum for press officers of all research institutions established on the continent for research to benefit socio-economic development. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Internet connectivity in Mauritania suffered widespread disruption on Thursday and Friday resulting in total break in links with the rest of the world during the period. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - At least 120 African architects are attending the 10th congress of the Africa Union of Architects (AUA), which will run from Tuesday to Friday in Luanda, Angola. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Participants at the just concluded African Science Technology and Innovation Indicators (ASTII) workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have stressed the need for more investments in science technology on the continent. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The number of new internet users in Egypt has increased tremendously following the 25 January revolution, the national agency for communications in Egypt announced on Friday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The three-day African Science Technology and Innovation Indicators (ASTII) Initiative workshop has ended in Addis Ababa, with participants stressing the need to sustain the successes recorded and build upon them. Full text...

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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Participants from across the continent have started arriving Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a workshop to launch the African Science Technology and Innovation Indicators (ASTII) Phase Two, holding from 23-25 May, according to a statement from NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said on Thursday that the number of multiple States patents issued under a UN-backed treaty on intellectual property has hit the two million mark since the international innovations registration system was launched in 1978. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - UNESCO will host an international conference, entitled ‘Africa: the Choice of Science, the AIMS Initiative’ on 14 and 15, April, the UN agency said in a statement from its headquarters in Paris, France. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government is to review the national policy on science and technology, formulated in 1986, with a view to fashioning out new cutting edge technologies for the country, the private Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The former Rwandan Minister of Science and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Romain Murenzi, has been appointed head of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), an international research structure based in Italy. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government is seeking a 120-billion naira (US$800 million) loan from the China Export-Import Bank to acquire two new communication satellites that will serve as back-up to the nation's premier communications satellite, NigComSat-1. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya will experience a partial solar eclipse which would be visible across the country on 4 January next year from 0845 hours local time (1045 GMT), the Libyan National Centre for Space Sciences said on Tuesday. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – The 11th Arab conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) started on Tuesday in Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya,with participants being academics, researchers and specialists from various Arab universities, institutes and enterprises. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African countries have kicked off an effort to cr eate a continental agency to enforce a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons testing o n African soil and to ensure states can utilize its scientific benefits. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A team of Libyan and French researchers has discovered a rare type of vertebrae fossils dating back 37 million years, Al-Fateh Universit y of Tripoli has reported. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A team of three scientists from Johannesburg's Wits Institute for Human Evolution on Friday announced in the prestigious international journal Science that they have found evidence t hat modern humans in South Africa used sophisticated techniques to make sharp stone tools, earlier than was previously thought. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- A six-man delegation of experts from UNESCO and the Isla mic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) are exploring way s of setting up a science and technology park in the Gambia, PANA reported from h e re. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Melwater Foundation, a US-based software company, is to op en a non-profit incubator in Ghana to foster the growth of African software entr e preneurs and companies. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) ha ve held talks on the setting up an African space agency, according to a statemen t issued in Brussels on Thursday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said more than 100 nations now allow it greater access to information on their nuclear programmes. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Kenyan Mass Media minister, Samuel Poghisio, says h is country wants to cooperate with Angola in telecommunication development and i n formation technology. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese Professor Salimata Wade, researcher in nutrit ion and head of the Laboratory of Nutrition at the Faculty of Science and Techno l ogy of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal, has won the ECOWAS Prize f o r Life and Land Sciences, a statement from the Institute for Land Sciences of th e University said on Friday. Full text...