Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development have committed themselves to work together to develop a united vision to influence the global economic agenda and shape the outcomes of globalization for the benefit of Africans. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched a new policy paper, emphasizing that "trade integration is key to macroeconomic convergence'' in Africa, PANA reports Tuesday. Full text...

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

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

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

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

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

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – African countries must base their industrialization policies on regional orientation frameworks, says this year's economic report on Africa launched on Monday by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the sixth conference of African ministers of Finance, Economic Planning and Development. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – A mass industrialization of the continent based on raw materials is necessary, possible and profitable, according to this year's economic report on Africa prepared by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) launched on Monday. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – The 2013 Economic Report on Africa released on Monday says Zambia could improve its copper-dominated economy which would be ploughed into growing other industries. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – As Africa prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has called on Africa to use the current moment to tell its own story and shape Africa’s future growth trajectory. Full text...

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

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - African finance experts have urged the African Union Commission (AUC) to assess the impact of the Euro-zone crisis and the response of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to it in relation to the African Monetary Fund (AMF). Full text...

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

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - After raising its oil production to its pre-revolution level of 1.6 million barrels per day, Libya is determined to do better if the necessary conditions are met, Libya's Oil and Gas Minister Abdel Al-Bari Al-Arsi said Sunday. Full text...

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

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – A successful industrialization in Africa requires strong leadership and political will from governments on the continent, according to a document by experts meeting on Industrialization and Africa’s Development which started on Thursday in Abidjan. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – Experts attending a meeting in the Ivorian city of Abidjan on Africa's industrialization on Friday expressed the need for a continental fund for industrial development. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – A senior official of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has told a committee of experts meeting in the Ivorian city of Abidjan ahead of African Finance Ministers to ignore the critics of resource-based industrialization. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte-d’Ivoire (PANA) – High quality human resources are crucial for a successful industrialization of Africa, according to experts attending a meeting in the Ivorian city of Abidjan on the theme, “Industrialization in service of Africa’s emergence” . Full text...

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

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Following are Friday's forex rates for the Gambian currency, The Dalasis: Full text...

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

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 15-member West African regional bloc ECOWAS has moved closer to a customs union with the endorsement, by regional ministers of finance, of a new region wide tariff regime for West Africa, the ECOWAS Commission has announced. Full text...

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

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

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has implored Africa’s leading finance, economy and development experts, meeting in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, to chart the course that will lead to Africa’s effective economic transformation and take off. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's capital market regulators, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has suspended the pan-African bank, Ecobank Plc, from all capital market activities. Full text...

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

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Thursday revealed that it provided a total of US$ 211.6 million in grants and loans to support Ghana’s development process in 2012. Full text...

Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - ECOWAS cannot afford to divorce development from peace and stability as they are essential for Community development, given the dynamics of recurrent security challenges in the region, the Vice-President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Togo Gayewea McIntosh, has said. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – The committee of experts, meeting here ahead of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance and Economic Development, Thursday analyzed the theme of the conference “Industrialization for an emerging Africa” with a view to addressing how African countries can design and implement effective industrial strategies and policies that will support the promotion of value addition. Full text...

Moroni, Comoros (PANA) – Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Comoran franc: Full text...

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

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - West Africa is on the verge of making history if it adopts a proposed Common External Tariff (CET) that has salutary implications for the ECOWAS integration project and responds to the 2006 decision of regional leaders for such a common external tax regime. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Thursday ordered petroleum companies in the country to get ready for processing, transporting and exporting oil from South Sudan, as part of the implementation of agreements signed by both countries last year. Full text...

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

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – African Finance and Economic Development Ministers will meet next week in Cote d'Ivoire to strategise on how to accelerate industrialization with the aim of reversing the current state where many millions of Africans are caught in the poverty trap. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The following are the exchange rates of the Rwandan franc against major currencies in the world on Wednesday as issued in Kigali by the central bank of Rwanda. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC) says it has, for the first time, made information and communications one of its priority areas, urging the media in Africa to collaborate with it in the promotion of Africa's image. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Gambia on Tuesday launched its newly-developed National Export Strategy aimed at improving trade and economic development in the West African nation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The regulatory Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has grounded the country's second largest domestic airline, Aero Contractors, after days of work stoppage by the airline's workers who are protesting the working conditions. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, is due in the Ivorian commercial capital, Abidjan, shortly to attend the sixth conference of African ministers of Economy, Finance and Planning, PANA reported from here. Full text...

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

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

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

Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Comoran franc: Full text...

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

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Global IPTV (internet protocol television) subscriptions are expected to pass the 100 million mark in 2013 and grow to 181.1 million in 2017, according to the newest report from Pyramid Research. Full text...

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