Lome, Togo (PANA) - The fourth regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Ecobank Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has approved several projects for infrastructural development for some countries in the sub region, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius and Zambia signed an agreement Thursday with regards to several areas of cooperation between the two countries, a PANA correspondent has reported from here. Full text...

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

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

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Sudanese national currency, the pound: Full text...

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

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The governor of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC), Abaga Nchama, has announced that the growth rate in the sub-region would be 4.1% in 2013, instead of 5.2% as previously announced. Full text...

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

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) – Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the CFA in Central Africa. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The future of Cloud Computing for telecommunication companies in Africa is bright, and according to a report published Wednesday by IBM, nowhere is Cloud’s potential impact on driving telecom business more relevant than in Africa. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The regional bloc Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is working with stakeholders to improve access to energy in the region, which is currently under 50 percent, the ECOWAS Commission said in a statement obtained by PANA here Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's second largest airline, Aero Contractors, which was grounded by regulators last week following a protracted strike by its workers, said Wednesday it would resume operations this Easter weekend. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - While hailing the progress made, African Ministers of Economy and Finance, Planning and Economic Development have expressed concern over the slow pace in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by Africa. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania’s external sector of the economy recorded a significant improvement in the year ended January 2013, with the current account deficit narrowing by 21.9 percent to US$3.3 billion, compared to a deficit of US$4.3 billion recorded in the corresponding period in 2012, the central bank has reported. Full text...

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

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – Job creation remains a huge challenge in Africa, says the 2013 edition of the economic report on Africa launched on Monday evening in Abidjan by the African Union (AU) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development have recognised the importance for the continent to introduce immediate measures to capitalize on its demographic dividend. Full text...

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...