Press Review -
  • Blackouts, drought put Ethiopians in distress
    24 may 2008 14:49:00
    Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's business community and the public in general would be better prepared to carry on with their daily activities if there were regular official reports on electricity availability in the country, the weekly Capital newspaper stated. Full text...

  • Xenophobic violence dominates S/African press
    24 may 2008 14:22:00
    Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's media coverage was dominated by the spread of xenophobic violence this week. Full text...

  • Economic, political issues dominate Ghana's media
    24 may 2008 11:57:00
    Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- With the voices of complaints against high cost of living growing louder, the Ghanaian media was dominated by measures outlined by Preside n t John Agyekum Kufuor to offer relief to the people. Full text...

  • Kenyan newspapers slam waning interest on peace plan
    24 may 2008 10:06:00
    Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan newspapers, in their usual vibrancy and penchant for 'hot stories' jumped on the rage attacks in South Africa against foreigners, but did not miss out on the raging debate over the fate of hundreds of suspects h eld over post-poll chaos. Full text...

  • Libyan media underscore need for continental unity
    17 may 2008 13:28:00
    Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan media this week echoed the holding of the nin th conference of the Organisation of the African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) in Li b ya and the meeting of the leaders of African workers' unions with Libyan leader M uammar Kadahfi who re-iterated the need for African unity. Full text...

  • Amendment of president's term hits Senegalese headlines
    17 may 2008 11:19:00
    Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The proposed constitutional amendment of the presidentia l term from 5 to 7 years approved during a cabinet meeting and issued last week- e nd, was the headline of Senegalese newspapers this week. Full text...

  • Electoral alliance of Nkrumaists dominates media
    17 may 2008 10:00:00
    Accra- Ghana (PANA) – The announcement of an elect-oral alliance between the two main political parties that claim to be the successor of Ghana's first president and pan-Africanist Dr Kwame Nkrumah dominated the media in the week with newspap e rs giving it top priority. Full text...

  • Nigerian papers replete with fuel pipeline fire story
    16 may 2008 15:36:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- All Nigerian daily newspapers Friday devoted the front pages of their publications to the report of the Thursday tragic fuel pipeline incident which claimed no fewer than 39 lives. Full text...

  • Politics, football dominate Ghana media
    10 may 2008 16:52:00
    Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The campaign launch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for elections in December and the decision of Claude Le Roy, the French coach of Ghana's senior national football team, the Black Stars, not to renew his contract dominated the media during the week with newspapers running several pages on the stories. Full text...

  • Cabinet reshuffle dominate Mauritanian newspapers
    09 may 2008 20:15:00
    Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian media this week devoted most of their analyses and commentaries to the appointment of Yahya Ould Ahmed Yaghef as Prime Minister and the expected formation of a new government. Full text...

  • Nigerian papers lament Eagles' loss to Cote d'Ivoire at CAN 2008
    22 january 2008 08:24:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's 1-0 defeat by Cote d'Ivoire in the group B opening match of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations received a major play in the local media Tuesday, with newspaper headlines reflecting the widespread disappointment felt by many Nigerians at the loss. Full text...

  • Newspaper editorials urge Nigeria's Super Eagles to win CAN 2008
    20 january 2008 12:17:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As the Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagl es, take to the field Monday in Sekondi, Ghana, in their campaign for the 2008 A f rican Nations Cup, Nigerian newspapers, as well as nigerians (both young and old ) are united in wishing them "Go for it!, Super Eagles, Go for it!" On a day the Nations Cup tournament will begin in Ghana, Nigerians are seen in huge numbers around newspaper stands savouring, as much as they can, the avalan c he of stories from CAN 2008. Full text...

  • Nigerian state governor's collapse makes headline news
    16 january 2008 08:55:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian newspapers Wednesday feasted on the story of the incident involving Governor Sullivan Chime of South-east Enugu state, who collapsed during a public ceremony in the state capital, Enugu, a day earlier. Full text...

  • Sudan marks 3rd anniversary of Comprehensive Agreement
    11 january 2008 08:14:00
    Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Though the people of Sudan this week celebrated the third anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the North and South without public fanfare, English language dailies in Khartoum have played up the importance of the agreement in their editorials. Full text...

  • Financial Times celebrates Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala
    27 november 2007 22:18:00
    New York- US (PANA) -- London-based Financial Times (FT) has described Nigeria's former finance minister, Dr. Full text...

  • Financial Times celebrates Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala
    27 november 2007 21:42:00
    New York- US (PANA) -- London-based Financial Times (FT) has described Nigeria's former finance minister, Dr. Full text...

  • Financial Times celebrates Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala
    27 november 2007 17:58:00
    New York- US (PANA) -- London-based Financial Times (FT) has described Nigeria's former finance minister, Dr. Full text...

  • Togolese press speculates on next Prime Minister
    07 november 2007 20:43:00
    Lomé- Togo (PANA) -- The Togolese press has for the past week been speculating on who the next Prime Minister of the West African country would be, and has produced a long list of probable candidates, depending on their strengths. Full text...

  • Politics remains dominant in Nigerian newspapers
    02 november 2007 08:52:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Political issues, which have dominated local newspapers in Nigeria for several weeks, remained on the front burner Friday, a day after the House of Representatives (parliament) voted to elect a new Speaker. Full text...

  • President Sarkozy's divorce hits headlines
    19 october 2007 18:37:00
    Paris- France (PANA) -- Most French newspapers Friday gave prominence to the divorce of French President Nicolas Sarkozy from his wife, Cécilia. Full text...

  • Death of MP dominates Nigerian newspapers
    18 october 2007 09:03:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The death of parliamentarian Aminu Safana in a fracas that engulfed Nigeria's House of Representatives (parliament) Wednesday, for the second day running, dominated local newspapers Thursday, with almost all newspapers reporting it on their front page. Full text...

  • Ethiopian weekly urges abolition of death penalty
    10 august 2007 09:55:00
    Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Reporting the execution Monday of a soldier convicted of murdering Ethiopia's security chief in 2001, a private weekly, The Sub-Saharan Informer, Friday called for the abolition of the capital punishment in Africa. Full text...

  • French media highlight presidential election
    23 april 2007 19:57:00
    Paris- France (PANA) -- The conduct and results of Sunday's French presidential election dominated the country's press reports Monday, zeroing on the 6 May run-off between the two frontrunners - Nicolas Sarkozy, of the ruling Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP) and the Socialist Party (PS) candidate, Ségolène Royal. Full text...

  • Nigerian polls get media play in US
    11 april 2007 19:58:00
    New York- US (PANA) -- Nigeria's 14 and 21 April crucial elections received prominent previews Wednesday in two major American newspapers - the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Full text...

  • Nigerian VP's disqualification gets big media play
    16 march 2007 10:16:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Thursday's disqualification of Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar from contesting next month's presidential election made headlines news in all available local newspapers Friday. Full text...

  • French press dwells on presidential election in Senegal
    27 february 2007 16:53:00
    Paris- France (PANA) -- Major newspapers in France on Tuesday commented on the presidential election held last Sunday in Senegal. Full text...

  • Abidjan press plays the Gbagbo, Banny clash
    29 november 2006 18:58:00
    Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian president and his prime minister are at loggerheads, and the tandem so hailed by the prime minister Charles Konan Banny has gone the wrong way by end of November, with the press having its day. Full text...

  • Newspapers play ECOWAS summit on Cote d'Ivoire
    06 october 2006 18:39:00
    Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Most newspapers published in Abidjan Friday focused on the extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that was scheduled Friday in Abuja, Nigeria, on the crisis currently unfolding in Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

  • Togolese press comments on new Prime Minister
    18 september 2006 19:03:00
    Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togolese newspapers Monday lauded the appointment of Yawovi Madji Agboyibo, leader of the opposition Action Committee for Renewal (CAR), as prime minister, replacing Edem Kodjo. Full text...

  • Gnassingbe, Compaore praised over Togo's peace deal
    21 august 2006 21:28:00
    Lome- Togo (PANA) -- The Togolese press on Monday played up the peace and reconciliation agreement recently signed by the various political actors and the civil society in the country. Full text...

  • Malawi papers focus AIDS screening, draft budget
    23 july 2006 17:21:00
    Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's two prominent weekend newspapers have in their editorials analysed the just-ended national HIV/AIDS campaign to encourage voluntary testing. Full text...

  • Ethiopia needs to pay more attention to its kids
    16 june 2006 18:26:00
    Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Despite Ethiopia's sustained efforts to attain growth and prosperity, its population continues to languish in poverty and its concomitant ills, laments the government-owned daily, The Ethiopian Herald. Full text...

  • Ivorian press blames coach for loss to Argentina
    12 june 2006 18:22:00
    Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – The entire Ivorian- press has blamed coach, French Henri Michel of Côte d'Ivoire's national squad, the "Elephants", for the (1-2) loss to Argentina on Saturday. Full text...

  • Mauritania, IMF relations hit headlines in Nouakchott
    12 may 2006 11:07:00
    Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Relations between Nouakchott and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hit the spotlight this week in the Mauritanian press following a lengthy mission of the Bretton Woods institution to the country. Full text...

  • SA media harp on Zuma's court verdict
    09 may 2006 11:18:00
    Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) – The 10th anniv-ersary of South Africa's constitution was over shadowed Tuesday as the local media gave extensive coverage to the acquittal on Monday of former deputy president Jacob Zuma of rape charges by a High Court here. Full text...

  • Kenyan paper sues for EFA by 2015
    13 april 2006 20:41:00
    Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan government should make Education for All (EFA) by 2015 a dream come true in order to take advantage of donors' goodwill in the project, urged the Daily People of Kenya on Thursday. Full text...

  • Ethiopia recognises the might of the pen, but...
    12 april 2006 11:45:00
    Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- While more voices are heard and more people across Africa are interacting with their political system through the media, in Ethiopia this may be a long way down the road. Full text...

  • Kenyan media comment on Taylor
    30 march 2006 15:36:00
    Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan media Thursday hailed the arrest of Charles Taylor, terming it a right step towards minimising future abuses world wide. Full text...

  • Market demand keeps Ethiopian farmers in the fields
    30 march 2006 08:37:00
    Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Realisation of the rising market pulse is stimulating Ethiopian farmers to increase produce and pay more attention to professional advice on improving productivity, according to the government-owned daily, The Ethiopian Herald. Full text...

  • Nigerian press on oil workers' abduction, cartoon riots
    20 february 2006 08:35:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The twin crises facing Nigeria - the cartoon riots which claimed at least 16 lives in the northern city of Maiduguri and the abduction of nine foreign oil workers by militants in the oil- producing Niger Delta region -- at the weekend have dominated local editorials on Monday. Full text...

  • Benin foreign minister's sacking makes headlines
    17 february 2006 21:22:00
    Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The Beninese Foreign Minister Rogatien Biaou's sacking from the government following a land property deal in the US has made headlines in this week's editorials. Full text...

  • Ivorian dailies blame Gbagbo's party for protests
    19 january 2006 16:37:00
    Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Most dailies published in Abidjan this week accused the ruling Ivorian Popular Front (IFP) of orchestrating the violent street demonstrations by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo that have paralysed activities in the economic capital since Monday. Full text...

  • Ivorian newspapers react to new cabinet
    29 december 2005 22:08:00
    Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- After a lengthy waiting for a new cabinet, which Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny formed after 23 days of painstaking negotiations, newspapers in Abidjan had different interpretations about the composition of the new government announced in the Ivorian business capital on Wednesday evening. Full text...

  • Kigali newspapers speaks on genocide comments
    22 december 2005 17:28:00
    Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Newspapers in Rwanda have widely commented on the dismissal last week of MP Brigitte Tumushime from the ruling Patriotic Front (FPR), for allegedly calling for hatred and praising the ideology of genocide. Full text...

  • Ethiopian paper sues for peace conscious communities
    11 november 2005 10:40:00
    Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Following a week of bloody riots that rocked Addis Ababa and some regional capitals, a government-owned English daily Friday suggested that ensuring peace and security should primarily be the charge of local communities. Full text...

  • Saturated media coverage for 'black weekend' in Nigeria
    24 october 2005 13:35:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Local newspapers Monday proclaimed as "black weekend" the double tragedy that hit Nigeria, with the shocking death of the First Lady and a passenger plane crash that claimed 117 lives. Full text...

  • Ethiopian paper urges balanced population growth
    14 october 2005 09:33:00
    Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- For the Ethiopian population there would be neither pride nor a future in numbers, according to the government-controlled daily, The Ethiopian Herald. Full text...

  • Togolese papers allege plot by CAF, Senegal
    07 october 2005 21:28:00
    Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Several Togolese newspapers this week harped that the national team would qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany in spite of alleged "manoeuvres by the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF)" to "rob it" of this opportunity. Full text...

  • Ivorian dailies sombre on anniversary of uprising
    19 september 2005 20:54:00
    Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Literally all Ivorian newspapers on Monday focused on the third anniversary of the 19 September abortive coup attempt that led to the partitioning of the country into two parts -- the north under the ex-rebel New Forces and the south controlled by the government. Full text...

  • Paper criticises Nigeria's advert on CNN
    11 september 2005 15:02:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- An advert meant to promote Nigeria as a choice tourist destination, which has been running on the US Cable News Network, CNN, has been slammed as "gaudy" and "primitive" by the local Guardian newspaper, which also demanded its immediate withdrawal. Full text...

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