Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Friday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Involving low-income communities in markets and businesses across Africa is essential for economic growth to translate into sustainable development, according to a UNDP report released Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at a military facility in the country's oil city of Port Harcout on Thursday, but there were no casualty, the NAF spokesman, Group Capt. Dele Alonge said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has announced it is working on a national industrial revolution plan to further encourage investors and local production. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Zambian kwacha: Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Africa's negative portrayal as “a risky continent in which to do business” must be tackled, Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), told a high-level roundtable on ‘Building Private Equity and Private Capital Markets in Africa'. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The European Union (EU) will provide euros 9.5 million to support growers in Tanzania Mainland’s sugar industry as well as civil society organisations in the offshore Zanzibar Island, it was officially announced here Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has described the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa as a perfect platform to promote the African Agenda. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana’s Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Nii Armah Ashietey, has called for the introduction of entrepreneurship as a course in institutions of higher learning in ECOWAS member states. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – Moroccan bank, Attijariwafa Bank, has acquired majority shares in International Bank for Africa (BIA-Togo) by buying 55% of its capital. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Organisers of the ''Innovation Prize for Africa'' (IPA) award Wednesday named AgriProtein team as the winner of its 2013 Prize. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Gambian currency, the Dalasis (D): Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The capital base of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has risen from 250 billion to 1,200 billion CFA francs, an increase of 950 billion CFA francs, according to a statement issued here Wednesday by the Gabonese Ministry of the Economy. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the CFA franc issued by the Bank of Central African States (BEAC): Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Zambian kwacha: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia has increased its policy rate by 2% to 14% as it forecasts a further depreciation of the currency, the delasi, on account of economic challenges. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – About US$1.0 billion has so far been released to Burundi after the roundtable held by the country's bilateral and multilateral partners in October last year in the Swiss capital, Geneva, official sources say in Bujumbura. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) – Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for CFA in central African States: Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The following are the exchange rates for the Rwandan franc, as against major currencies as issued on Monday by the Central Bank of Rwanda. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Full text...

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Africa’s share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown over the past five years, highlighting the growing interest from foreign investors, according to international accounting firm Ernst & Young’s third Africa Attractiveness Survey, released on Monday. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Zambian kwacha: Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Six years after Nigeria paid off its external debt and obtained a clean bill of health, the country's external debt has risen to US$6.67 billion, the local media Monday quoted the Debt Management Office (DMO) as saying. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has banned the importation of rice through the country's land borders, according to the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will lead key members of his economic management team to this week's World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, in continuation of his efforts to promote rapid national economic growth and development, the presidency said in a statement made available to PANA in Lagos on Sunday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghanaian industrial and domestic power consumers, who have been going through a serious energy crisis, will still have to wait a few more months before the current load shedding ends despite the addition of 265 megawatts of power to generation in the past few weeks. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - State-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that its refineries in north Central Kaduna and south south Warri and Port Harcourt currently produce a total of 10.23 million litres of premium motor spirit (petrol) per day instead of the previous eight million litres. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Saying that Nigeria’s foreign reserve has hit about US$ 50 billion, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, declared that Nigeria has become one of the world's most attractive investment destinations and Africa's best, local newspapers reported Saturday. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian rupee: Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Here are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Nigerian currency, the Naira, and the last for the week: Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Zambian kwacha: Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Following are Friday's exchange rates for the Central African CFA Franc: Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A team of British entrepreneurs, led by the Lord Mayor, city of London, Mr. Alderman Gifford, is in Nigeria to deepen investment relationship between the two Commonwealth countries, PANA reported Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Nigerian currency, the Naira: Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Gambian currency, the Dalasis (D): Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Minister of Power Chinedu Nebo has said about 77 billion naira (US$484 million) will be needed to buy and install electricity meters in residences as a way of addressing the existing metering gap in the country. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) and Egypt have signed a pact for the financing facilities and initial working capital terms for the Al Nouran Sugar Project in Egypt. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the CFA franc issued by the Bank of Central African States (BEAC): Full text...

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - South African airports dominated the list of the 10 best airports in Africa in 2013, winning the first three places, in addition to the sixth and eighth places, according to the 2013 World Airport Awards held at Passenger Terminal EXPO in Geneva, Switzerland. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his administration will leave no stone unturned towards the practical enhancement of the welfare of all workers in both the private and public sectors, and in facilitating better relations with employers and government. Full text...

Sekondi, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Mahama, whose government has been under siege from a wave of strikes, on Wednesday asked workers to make the declaration of strike "an absolute last resort". Full text...