Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A national symposium on "funding mechanisms, sources and investment prospects in Libya’s oil and gas sector" will be held 14-15 April in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, the Libyan National Oil Company indicated in a statement issued here Wednesday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Further engagement of the European Union (EU) in the promotion of investments and reforms in Tanzania’s energy sector will be the central focus of discussions between EU officials and Tanzania’s Minister for Energy and Minerals, Prof. Sospeter M. Muhongo, who Wednesday began a three-day visit to EU institutions in Brussels, Belgium. Full text...

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

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

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

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

New York, US (PANA) - An economic forum will hold next week in Washington DC, US, to give policy makers insight into how South Sudan can chart its economic future, a US State Department statement said on Tuesday. Full text...

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

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

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - A sub-regional workshop on the management and fiscal control of natural resources in Central Africa opened Monday in Brazzaville, Congo, with a view to developing new strategies likely to improve the sector, according to an official statement issued here Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria spent 88.15 billion naira to import rice and raw cane sugar into the country in the last quarter of 2012, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in its fourth quarter 2012 trade statistics (US$1=155 naira). Full text...

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

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Global telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent and Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia’s leading telecommunications provider, have successfully completed the trial of super-fast broadband services using advanced Alcatel-Lucent’s VDSL2 vectoring technology. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – Cotonou will hold a two-day "Islamic Development Bank (IDB) days" from Tuesday to strengthen cooperation between the bank and Beninese public and private stakeholders, official sources told PANA on Monday in the Benin capital. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Gambian bird Airlines, a subsidiary of the Germany-based airlines, Germania, has launched the Banjul-Bamako route, according to a communiqué issued by the company on Monday. Full text...

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

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan carrier, Afriqiyah Airways, plans to extend its services to Niamey, the Nigerien capital, later this month, according to the Libyan Minister of Transport, Abdel Kader Mohamed. Full text...

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

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

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two African economic giants, South Africa and Nigeria, lead other countries on the continent in attracting US$1.1 billion private equity (PE) finance last year, according to a survey carried out by KPMG, a private consulting firm, based in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has given Congo a loan of CFA F 80 billion (US$157.6 million) to enable the central African country to implement a rural electrification project, according to a statement from the Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance . Full text...

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

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The following are the exchange rates for the Mauritanian ouguiya against some foreign currencies issued on Sunday by the Mauritanian Central Bank. Full text...

Accra, Ghana(PANA) - Ghana’s mining sector contributes about US$2 billion annually to the economy, a lecturer at the University of Cape Coast has said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's leading mobile payments service provide, Pagatech, has recorded the 500,000th user of its service as at the end of March, according to the online Nigerian Communications Week on Saturday. Full text...

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

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Business Sweden, Ericsson, and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) have announced a strategic partnership for a two-year ICT venture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Full text...

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

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

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

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Aviation Round Table (ART), which groups Nigerian aviation experts, has warned that the country risks losing its US Federal Aviation Administration-awarded Category One rating due to interference by the supervising Ministry of Aviation in aviation regulation. Full text...

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

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

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's international tea exports stagnated due to poor demand despite the doubling of the annual tea output from 18.4 million kgs in February 2012 to 38.5 million kgs in February 2013. Full text...

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

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

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

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

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

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Integrated telecommunications services provider Telkom Kenya has appointed Ms. Maureen Sande as its Chief Corporate Communications Officer. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - President of Libya's General National Congress (GNC) Mohamed Al-Megréyef opened the 41st Tripoli International Fair Tuesday, saying the fair sends a clear message to all that this country has become a safe place. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambian President Michael Sata will travel to China Thursday on a seven-day state visit that will coincide with the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Economic Conference. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Rwandan franc: 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...

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

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

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian airline, Dana Air, which has been in and out of suspension following the crash of one its planes in Lagos on 3 June, 2012, has slashed fares on its Lagos-Abuja-Lagos route, according to a statement by the airline Tuesday. Full text...

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

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - President John Mahama has confirmed Dr. Henry Kofi Wampah as Governor of the central bank, Bank of Ghana, the local media reported on Tuesday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Bank of Kigali (BK) in Rwanda has introduced a platform dubbed "e-payment " which will help local traders sell their products and automatically get their payments online, a senior official of the Bank said on Tuesday in Kigali. Full text...