Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The president of Microsoft Africa, Cheikh Modibo Diarra, Thursday pleaded for an investment in the accessible and affordable technologic a l solutions that could be adapted to the realities of the continent. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania's industry and mining ministry and th e African Intellectual Property Organization (AIPO) began a four-day seminar on M onday in Nouakchott on the descriptive memoirs of patents. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The former UNESCO chairman, Professor Amadou Mactar Mbow, on Monday urged Africans to take a fresh look at the importance the attach to science and technology to avoid becoming simple consumers of foreign cultura l products. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria and China have signed a US$157 million agreement for the replacement of the African nation's faulty communications satellite, tagged NIGCOMSAT-1, the privat e Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco and Burkina Faso agreed on Tuesday to cooperate in the educational and scientific sectors over 2009-2011, official sources in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, said. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egypt was named one of the world’s “enemies of the Interne t” by a media rights watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a report publ i shed Thursday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Pan-African e-Network Project was formally in augurated Wednesday at the Tele Education Centre of the Addis Ababa University i n Ethiopia. Full text...

Nigeria- Lagos (PANA) -- A Pan African e-Network project funded by the Indian gov ernment, which will provide effective communication and connectivity between African coun tries and the Asian country through the use of satellite and fibre network, has been inaugurated. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has challenged African scientists to carry out research on viable farming methodologies that could help mitigate the perennial food insecurity in the continent during prolonged dry spells. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Innovation in technological access is on the growth with the introduction of a new mobile banking facility into the Kenyan market. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – A 200 million--dollar telecommunications project aimed at improving telecommunications among African countries and with Europe has taken off. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The ongoing renovation of the UN headquarters in New York is designed to make the complex more modern, safe and sustainable in energy usage, the project's Executive Director, Micheal Adlerstein, said on Tuesday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The aeronautics sector in Morocco, which is made up of a bout 50 companies employing more than 2,000 workers, intends to triple its turno v er to one billion euros by 2012, authoritative sources told PANA here. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A visiting American scientist has challenged African leaders to allocate more resources to science, technology and research work, in addition to providing the enabling environment for African scientists in the Diaspora to contribute to the development of the sector in the continent. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Chinese Great Wall Industry Corporation is to replace Nigeria's first-ever communications satellite, which failed in orbit 10 Nov. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- South African and Japanese envoys will compete for the po st of Director-General of the Vienna-based UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali will host on 27 January the extraordinary general meeting of the Global Agency for Digital Solidarity Fund, an official source told PANA here on Monday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Djibouti and the US National Nuclear Security Administrati on (NNSA) have signed a deal to cooperate on preventing nuclear proliferation at the Port of Djibouti. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Malian ministry of Communications and New Technologies will organise an "e-festival" on ICT which will feature all schools in the coun t ry. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The Vienna-based UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is urging increased use of radiation to produce high-yielding plants to help people avoid hunger. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African scientists with ground-breaking research proposals will get training opportunities, financial and technical support to co m mercialize their knowledge under a new deal reached here Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- After a year's delay, the New Partnership for Africa's D evelopment (NEPAD) e-Africa Commission terrestrial network feasibility study, wh i ch is a key step forward in the development of broadband infrastructure for the c ontinent, has started, according to the official Newsletter of the organisation m ade available to PANA in Lagos. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The third edition of the symposium on scientific and technological development in Congo began here on Tuesday with the theme: "What type of scientific and technological research for Congo's development". Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) – Nitram, a multinational -company involved in the design and manufacture of equipment and services for the processing industry, plans to open a training school in 2010 in Algiers. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC) party has challenged the federal government to ''come clean'' on what has happened to the 40-billion-naira Nigerian communication satellite (NigComSat) that was launched i nto orbit last year (US$1=N118). Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Lack of funds for implementing key Information and Commu nication Technology (ICT) programmes has been identified as a key factor hamperi n g the setting up of digital villages and access to internet services across East Africa. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian government has denied local newspaper reports that its 40-billion-naira communication satellite has gone missing in orbit (US$1=118 Naira). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The communication Satellite launched into orbit with fanfare by Nigeria some 18 months ago has gone missing, the private Thisday newspaper reported Wednesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PAN) -- An institute of architecture and town planning, called the Grand Ecole of Civil Engineering and Town planning (GECETP), opened here Monday, PANA reports. Full text...

Madison- US (PANA) -- A delegation of the University of Science and Technology (K SUT) in Nigeria's North-Central Kano State arrived here Sunday to foster a partn e rship with the University of Wisconsin (UW) System. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is set to re-establish its centre, closed 21 years ago, in Nigeria, institute said in a statement made available to PANA here Monday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Scientists at the Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in D akar, Senegal, are now better placed to cooperate with researchers overseas -- t h anks to the installation of the first computing grid at the university (the frui t of a joint effort by the UNESCO/Hewlett-Packard project), called “Reversing Bra i n Drain into Brain Gain for Africa” and the Grid Computing Institute of France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Full text...

Réduit- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Pro-Chancellor of the University of Mauritius, Pr ofessor Sudursun Jugessur, has said that Mauritius was lagging far behind in ter m s of research, development and innovation. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The University of Mauritius has announced plans to hold the second edition of its Research Week, aimed at presenting to the general public the latest works by its students and the various faculties, PANA reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is collaborating with the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, to establish a DBT-ICRISAT Platform for Translational Research on Transgenic Crops (PTTC) at ICRISAT's global headquarters at Patancheru, near Hyderabad in India, according to a statement from the Institute. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is collaborating with the Department of Biotechnology (DB T ) in the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, to establish a DBT-ICRISAT Platform for Translational Research on Transgenic Crops (PTTC) at IC R ISAT's global headquarters at Patancheru, near Hyderabad in India, according to a statement from the Institute. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique's Minister of Industry and Trade, Antonio Fernando, Monday recognised that difficulties still prevailed in processing the country's natural resources to add value to them and promote sustainable develop m ent. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Two young South African oceanographers have bee n selected to participate in one of the most ambitious research voyages ever und e rtaken off the east coast of Africa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's mobile phone service provider, Safaricom, has ra ttled competitors in the provision of Internet services, following its launch of the third generation (3G) network services. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A new database on the world's soils offers insights that c an be helpful in addressing climate change and food production, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) "The more information we have about soil properties, the more we can evaluate th e quality of our natural resources all over the world and their potential to pro d uce food now and in future scenarios of climate change," Alexander Muller, FAO A s sistant Director General for Natural Resources and Environment Management, said. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Permanent Secretary of Senegal's Accelerated Growth Strategy (AGS), Ibrahima Wade, announced here Tuesday that the government had pu t in place a support fund for scientific and technological competitiveness, in an effort to enable Senegalese researchers make known their inventions. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Executive Director of the West Africa Microsoft Citi zen programme, Samba Guissé, announced here Tuesday that by the end of the year, Wolof, the most widely spoken language in Senegal and the Gambia, would be trans l ated into Windows Vista and Office 2007 softwares. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Thursday signed letters to enable Ghana to host a conference on climate change in August. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) - – Egypt is on the road to future technological growth, according to a recent Global Information Technology Report issued by the World Economic Forum. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) 0 The head of the United Natio-ns International Telecommunica tion Union (ITU) and the Chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates have discussed enhanci n g their collaboration on using information technology to spur development around the world. Full text...

Bangui- Central African Republic(PANA) -- Researchers at the University of Bangui in the Central African Republic have presented four prototypes of renewable energy-operated foodstuff-drying devices. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – The Ghana government on Wedn-esday gave science and technol ogy a big shot in the arm with the establishment of an endowment fund to boost r e search. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – With the Ghana government se-eking reliable sources of ener gy to supplement its power production, it has given its blessings to nuclear ene r gy power, although this has been rejected by other sources as expensive and dang e rous. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- More than 5,000 industry leaders and stakeholders were due to converge in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja Monday for the start of the Africa Information Technology Exhibition (AFRITEX). Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Africa Union (AU) and Microsoft have agreed to join forces in acceleration of social and economic development in Africa through the use of information and communication technology (ICT). Full text...