Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian aviation company, Air Mauritius, Thursday posted a profit of 5.2 million euros for the period April to December, 2013, as compared to losses amounting to 3.1 million euros for the corresponding period in 2012, PANA reported here, quoting a communique from the company. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The West African Development Bank (BOAD) and the Senegalese government have signed a loan agreement worth 10 billion CFA francs for the partial financing of the project aimed at deepening the access channel and reconstructing the oil wharf in the Port of Dakar in Senegal, PANA learned on Wednesday from sources close to the financial institution at its Lomé-based headquarters. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - CMA/CGM, a French container shipping company based in Marseille, France, is to open a subsidiary in Mauritania, a senior official of the company said on Tuesday in Mauritania's capital city, Nouakchott. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The volume of passengers who went through the Maya-Maya airport in Brazzaville rose from 745,596 in 2008 to 1,126,071 in 2013, a 38% rise, the Congolese Country Planning and General Works Minister, Jean-Jacques Bouya, announced here Wednesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Flights have resumed at the Sebha International Airport, following the disturbances which Libya's southern city witnessed in January, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier, has announced a steady growth in the number of passengers it carried between 2012 and 2013, according to latest figures released here Thursday by the airline. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Air Transport Ministers from Mauritania, Mali and Niger gathered here Sunday to iron out details in their quest to establish a sub-regional airline, PANA learnt from official sources. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The new airport terminal now under construction at the Lomé international airport in Togo will cater for about two million passengers a year, compared to 400,000 presently, PANA learnt Saturday from the Civil Aviation National Agency (CANA). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria spends over 3.2 billion naira (US$20 million) yearly on the oversea's training of aviation personnel including pilots, air traffic controllers and others, according to local media reports on Friday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Four persons have been injured in a freak accident involving a British Airways (BA) aircraft at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, PANA reported Monday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's flag carrier RwandAir Express Tuesday announced the suspension of all its flights to the South Sudanese capital, Juba, this week, following an attempted coup that degenerated into clashes between different armed factions in the country. Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Emirates Airline Monday signed a new trade agreement with Air Mauritius under which the Mauritian airline will get more seats on the Port Louis-Dubai route, operated by the UAE carrier. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian aviation authorities have reopened the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the capital city of Abuja, a day after it was closed to flights following an incident involving a Saudi Cargo plane. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Flights in and out of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja were blocked between Wednesday night and Thursday following the closure of the main runway at the airport, after a Saudi Arabian B747 cargo plane overshot the runway. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A new domestic airline, Discovery Airways, is due to commence operations in Nigeria by mid-December, according to its spokesman, Benjamin Adigun. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Leaders of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) have resolved to work closely together to better serve the continent’s air transport market and connect Africa to the rest of the world. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Over 75,000 Nigerian pilgrims were successfully airlifted to Saudi Arabia during the 2013 Hajj Operation, according to the spokesman of the regulatory Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Fan Ndubuoke. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Against the background of the 255-million-naira (US$1.6 million) armoured cars' scandal rocking Nigeria's aviation sector, the country's domestic airlines have announced that they will no longer pay charges to aviation agencies until the sector is rid of corruption. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said that 28,000 over-flyers were recorded in the nation’s airspace in 2012, according to Mr. Supo Atobatele, the NAMA General Manager, Public Affairs. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the controversy over the reported purchase of two BMW armoured cars for Nigeria's Aviation Minister Stella Oduah continues to reverberate, a Nigerian civil society group has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to order the immediate sale of the US$1.6 million cars. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian airline, Arik Air, is to send 40 pilots for Computer-Aided-Engineering (CAE) assessment in London, the Airline's head of communications and public relations, Mr . Banji Ola, announced here Monday. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – The French airline Corsair International will increase its daily flights to several destinations during the new IATA 2013-2014 season, says a statement on Friday made available to PANA. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Airlines and Air Algerie are poised to start direct flights linking Addis Ababa and Algiers, as the governments of the two countries have affirmed their intention to bolster bilateral ties. Full text...

Brazzaville , Congo (PANA) - The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has removed the Republic of Congo from its black-listed countries following the improvement in the country's air transport safety measures, Transport Minister Rodolphe Adada has announced. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended the operations of local Dana Air so the regulatory agency can conduct an operational audit on the airline, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The regulatory Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Saturday suspended all operations of Associated Aviation Ltd., two days after one of its planes was involved in a crash that killed 13 of the 20 passengers on board. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Thirteen passengers and seven crew members were on board the Associated Airlines' Embraer 120 plane that crashed shortly after take-off from the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Thursday, according to the flight's passenger manifest obtained by PANA. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed ''great shock and sadness'' at the plane crash that left at least 13 dead in the commercial city of Lagos Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Only six of the 20 passengers and crew aboard the local Associated Airlines' Embraer 120 plane that crashed in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos on Thursday survived, according to Usman Muktar, a Commissioner with the country's Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 9 people are feared to have died when a commuter plane carrying 20 people crashed shortly after takeoff from the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Nigeria's economic capital city of Lagos Thursday, rescue officials said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A commuter plane with 20 people on board has crashed shortly after takeoff from the local wing of Nigeria's main gate Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, an official of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has confirmed. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Despite a US$24.9 million loss posted in its Tanzanian operation in the first half of 2013, Fastjet is confident in the potential of its long-term strategy to become the pan-African low cost airline of choice, according to Ed Winter, the company’s interim chairman and chief executive officer (CEO). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A commuter plane with 20 people on board has crashed shortly after takeoff from the local wing of Nigeria's main gateway Murtala Muhammed International Airport in the commercial city of Lagos, aviation sources told PANA here Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The massive publicity given to the teenage boy who flew in the wheel well of a local flight in Nigeria last August may have unwittingly encouraged other young boys to try out the risky venture, after three teenage boys were arrested by the police at the country's main gateway Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian aviation authorities said they have installed modern security equipment at the country's main gateway Murtala Muhammed International Airport in the economic capital of Lagos and other airports across the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) has warned against any attempt to make a hero out of the teenager boy who stowed away on a local flight from the southern city of Benin to the economic capital city of Lagos 24 Aug. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian teenage stowaway Daniel Ihekina, who flew in the wheel well of a domestic flight from the southern city of Benin to the economic capital city of Lagos Saturday, thought the plane was flying to the US. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's aviation authorities have launched an investigation into how a teenage boy flew from Benin in the country's southern Edo state to the economic capital city of Lagos in the wheel well of a plane operated by the local Arik Air on Saturday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Airlines, which operates the largest cargo services in Africa, is to open its second cargo hub in Africa, in partnership with the Lome-based ASKY Airlines, the Ethiopian flag carrier has announced on its website. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ethiopian Airlines is set to launch international flights from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Nigeria's South-eastern city of Enugu 24 Aug., PANA learnt from Nigerian aviation authorities Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - One day after a huge fire gutted parts of Kenya's main gateway Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), the country's national carrier, Kenya Airways, has resumed full operations for its domestic flights, the airline announced in a statement issued here on Thursday. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - US President Barack Obama has offered his country's support for Kenya following Wednesday's fire incident that gutted parts of the main Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the capital city of Nairobi. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan presidency has said the cause of Wednesday's dawn fire that gutted parts of the country's main airport is being investigated, hence there is no need for anyone to speculate about it. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government has announced that domestic flights are set to resume at the country's main airport, following the fire that gutted the arrival wing serving international passengers early Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya Airways has said all its staffers and customers are safe following the huge fire that gutted the arrival terminal of the country's main gateway Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the nation's capital, Nairobi, early Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's main gateway Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the nation's capital, Nairobi, was closed and flights diverted to other airports Wednesday due to a dawn fire at the arrival terminal, PANA reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The first electronic ticketing payment system for transport fare in Nigeria Tuesday came on stream in the commercial city of Lagos, PANA reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Flights were grounded and commercial activities paralysed Tuesday when tax officials from Nigeria's southern Edo State government sealed up one of the country's busiest local airports, located in the state capital, Benin City. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has been hit by the scarcity of aviation fuel, called Jet A-1, triggering flight delays in some of the nation's airports, PANA has learnt from airport officials in the economic capital city of Lagos. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South African Airways (SAA) on Tuesday confirmed that it had taken delivery of the first two of the 20 A320s aircraft it ordered from Airbus in 2010. Full text...