25 march 2024 - 10:41:46
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The inaugural Biodiversity Economy and Investment Indaba began in Boksburg on Monday.
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21 march 2024 - 10:18:08
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Implementation of economic reforms in the areas of fiscal management, revenue mobilisation, financial stability, and central [...] Full text...
28 february 2024 - 05:35:27
Barcelona, Spain (PANA) - The mobile phone industry has pledged over $9 billion towards the goal of connecting the world, [...] Full text...
07 february 2024 - 19:18:23
New York, US (PANA) - Around the globe, “peace is the missing piece” as conflicts rage, divisions grow and polarization [...] Full text...
14 december 2023 - 06:18:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A record 114 million forcibly displaced around the world represents a “crisis of humanity”, UN refugee [...] Full text...
24 november 2023 - 18:17:43
Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The North Africa section of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) plans [...] Full text...
22 november 2023 - 13:03:22
Addis Ababa Ethiopia (PANA) - Uganda's Minister for Lands and Urban Development, Ms Judith Nabakooba, has highlighted the importance of [...] Full text...
21 november 2023 - 18:09:19
Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Judith Nabakooba, Uganda's Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, launched the fifth African Conference on [...] Full text...
17 november 2023 - 17:53:44
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA - Kenya remains vulnerable to frequent climatic shocks that pose significant economic risk.
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14 november 2023 - 09:35:11
N'djamena, Chad (PANA) - Chad's economy is facing multiple, and often interrelated challenges that have slowed down its growth, according [...] Full text...
25 october 2023 - 15:00:49
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Sports Minister Zizi Kodwa is leading the South African delegation at the Conference of [...] Full text...
20 september 2023 - 18:10:25
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – A Summit to explore ways of expanding the use of computer software to enrich learning in [...] Full text...
01 september 2023 - 15:45:07
Washington DC, US (PANA) - Does internet help you to stay in touch with family and friends? If you answered [...] Full text...
01 september 2023 - 05:31:45
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Improved measurement of corruption could boost efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a senior [...] Full text...
18 july 2023 - 05:26:45
New York, US (PANA) - The world is “woefully off track” to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the [...] Full text...
27 may 2023 - 14:25:47
Paris, France (PANA) - The UN has convened the first ever global meeting with education ministers from around the world [...] Full text...
26 may 2023 - 06:40:13
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The ECOWAS Community Court’s 2023 International Conference on “Zero Tolerance for Unconstitutional Change of Government” (UCG) [...] Full text...
17 may 2023 - 07:48:58
Washington, DC, US (PANA) — The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors has endorsed a new Country Partnership Framework [...] Full text...
10 may 2023 - 05:59:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A “silent emergency” that is claiming one million tiny lives born premature each year requires concerted [...] Full text...
22 march 2023 - 09:45:26
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa is hosting a State Visit by His Majesty King Philippe and [...] Full text...
20 january 2023 - 08:58:21
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) would help build Africa’s economic [...] Full text...
18 january 2023 - 05:15:34
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - More than a year after the military coup in Sudan, political parties began talks this month [...] Full text...
08 january 2023 - 12:17:00
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese political forces, including the military, are meeting once again in Khartoum to finalise an initial [...] Full text...
16 december 2022 - 06:42:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three agencies have joined forces to help parliamentarians act on child hunger by working with governments [...] Full text...
31 october 2022 - 05:40:34
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday rallied his country in the midst of a [...] Full text...
09 september 2022 - 06:05:37
New York, US (PANA) - Advancing the rights and needs of people whose lives have been upended by terrorism is [...] Full text...
01 july 2022 - 05:33:29
New York, US (PANA) - Road traffic accidents claim nearly 1.3 million lives each year, cost some countries up to [...] Full text...
16 may 2022 - 16:35:13
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall officially opened the 54th. conference of African ministers of finance, planning and [...] Full text...
13 may 2022 - 13:22:30
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Abdou Diouf International Conference Centre in Dakar is currently hosting a meeting of African experts [...] Full text...
13 may 2022 - 05:25:41
Rome, Italy (PANA) - On the very first International Day of Plant Health, marked on Thursday, the UN Food and [...] Full text...
11 may 2022 - 07:21:26
Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - The President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Edward Amoako Asante, has spoken of [...] Full text...
29 april 2022 - 08:25:13
Ferney, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Thursday launched the first-ever African accelerator focusing on Regenerative Food and [...] Full text...
01 april 2022 - 05:24:37
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday urged private investors businesses, cities, states and regions, to [...] Full text...
13 march 2022 - 18:42:41
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Jean Paul Adam, director of Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management Division of the Economic [...] Full text...
06 march 2022 - 17:54:34
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The eighth African regional forum on sustainable development (FRADD-8) held in Kigali, has called on African [...] Full text...
05 march 2022 - 16:21:22
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - International environmental network, Environment and Development in the Third World (ENDA-Third World), has called for the [...] Full text...
04 march 2022 - 20:09:42
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A young Cameroonian, Divine Ntiokam, on Friday in Kigali, Rwanda, called for a better involvement of [...] Full text...
04 march 2022 - 17:18:11
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Ms. Vera Songwé, has called on [...] Full text...
03 march 2022 - 21:41:41
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Mrs. Arlette Soudan Nonault, the Congolese Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, has set out five [...] Full text...
03 march 2022 - 15:23:39
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Thursday presided over the official opening of the 8th African Regional [...] Full text...
01 march 2022 - 20:47:57
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The international network, Environment and Development in the Third World (ENDA Tiers Monde), has called for [...] Full text...
01 march 2022 - 13:27:49
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, is hosting on Thursday the eighth session of the African Regional [...] Full text...
23 february 2022 - 08:48:09
London, Britain (PANA) - Ghanaian-born African fashion enthusiast, Roberta Annan, is set to lift the rising star of the multi-billion [...] Full text...
21 january 2022 - 19:47:53
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A United Nations initiative for facilitating consultations on a political process for the Sudan, kicked off [...] Full text...
18 january 2022 - 18:37:21
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Monday began a regional virtual workshop on [...] Full text...
09 december 2021 - 10:24:41
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Up to $1.7 trillion is estimated to be wagered on illicit betting markets each year, according to [...] Full text...
28 october 2021 - 15:04:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The WHO Thursday kicked off the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 here with the [...] Full text...
11 october 2021 - 20:21:02
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) All is set for the fourth edition of the three-day Conference on Land Policy in Africa starting [...] Full text...
01 october 2021 - 15:59:11
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The UN Environment Programme, the Church of England Pensions Board and the Council on Ethics of [...] Full text...
30 august 2021 - 19:45:45
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Akinwumi Adesina, has called for bolder measures to grow the [...] Full text...
25 june 2021 - 16:05:42
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi’s low levels of electricity access, high internet prices, unpredictable connectivity, high cost of smart devices, [...] Full text...
17 may 2021 - 13:20:58
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - International financial experts and anti-corruption organisations drawn from Africa are gathering virtually to discuss strategies to [...] Full text...
17 may 2021 - 10:05:30
Cotonou, Benin ( PANA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the University of Cabo Verde are organising the [...] Full text...
29 april 2021 - 19:47:16
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in partnership [...] Full text...
05 february 2021 - 17:45:56
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The Pan-African Organization of United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG-Africa) on Thursday announced that [...] Full text...
03 february 2021 - 21:08:44
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - German geopolitical expert and political scientist, Volker Perthes, has arrived in Khartoum, to begin his assignment [...] Full text...
28 january 2021 - 14:54:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new World Health Organization (WHO) road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) proposes ambitious targets [...] Full text...
11 december 2020 - 09:10:13
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia’s First Republican President Kenneth Kaunda has received a memento from Gandhi Smriti, a museum, where [...] Full text...
17 november 2020 - 05:19:11
New York, US (PANA) - As countries work to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, they also have the chance to “get [...] Full text...
29 october 2020 - 08:46:57
New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials have highlighted the “extraordinary” contributions of grassroots communities in towns and cities [...] Full text...
13 october 2020 - 18:09:40
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The 8th edition of the National Forum on Internet Governance in Togo will be held from [...] Full text...
23 september 2020 - 05:45:47
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for global solidarity to overcome the COVID-19, and [...] Full text...
16 september 2020 - 19:45:06
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Corruption has been blamed for stalling Botswana’s progress into high income economy, an academic at the [...] Full text...
05 september 2020 - 06:33:39
New York, US (PANA) - Exactly 25 years after the historic world conference in Beijing on the advancement and equality [...] Full text...
26 august 2020 - 16:19:12
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Health Ministers and representatives from African countries gathered this week for the annual World Health Organization [...] Full text...
25 august 2020 - 07:40:49
Stockholm, Sweden (PANA) - With a rich and unique history spanning 29 years, World Water Week has developed into the [...] Full text...
24 august 2020 - 22:03:03
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Health ministers and representatives from African countries will Tuesday meet virtually here for the Seventieth session [...] Full text...
23 july 2020 - 15:03:54
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - In a joint effort to enhance research and development of traditional medicines for COVID-19 in Africa, [...] Full text...
16 july 2020 - 18:39:27
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – African and European Union leaders on Thursday held important negotiations on the potential of creating a borderless [...] Full text...
09 july 2020 - 03:24:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 50 Heads of State and government, alongside global employers’ and trade union leaders, on [...] Full text...
04 june 2020 - 16:21:09
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - How can Africa build on the solidarity shown during the coronavirus pandemic to achieve the [...] Full text...
27 february 2020 - 12:53:37
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Studies on Botswana’s salt pan – Makgadikgadi as the cradle of human kind are expected to [...] Full text...
25 february 2020 - 18:44:40
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohamed, has listed three imperatives to be [...] Full text...
25 february 2020 - 13:35:47
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said the sustainable development goals (SDGs) agenda is not [...] Full text...
18 february 2020 - 11:05:14
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has appointed a new ambassador to Namibia, as the government recalls an ambassador that has [...] Full text...
06 february 2020 - 20:17:54
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia office of the International Organization for Migrants (IOM) Thursday launched the National Referral Mechanism [...] Full text...
05 february 2020 - 15:04:34
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Executive Secretary Vera Songwe on Wednesday paid a courtesy call [...] Full text...
17 january 2020 - 07:43:27
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana's president Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi on Thursday left for Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic [...] Full text...
14 december 2019 - 07:14:29
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change Ministry will organise a two-day conference [...] Full text...
05 december 2019 - 07:12:40
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Wednesday launched a three-year Global Action for Fall [...] Full text...
25 november 2019 - 12:06:24
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Hundreds of prominent leaders from around the world including heads of state, development partners, NGOs and [...] Full text...
15 november 2019 - 14:40:46
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The 8th edition of the Maghreb Conference on New Technologies started on Friday in the Tunisian [...] Full text...
17 october 2019 - 19:01:50
Washington, US (PANA) - Across Africa, where less than a third of the population has access to broadband connectivity, achieving [...] Full text...
21 september 2019 - 07:39:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB), through its African Natural Resources Centre, will take part in the [...] Full text...
17 september 2019 - 11:05:24
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Participants at the first Forum on Local Governance on Monday called for the development of a [...] Full text...
14 september 2019 - 14:50:14
New York, USA (PANA) - Africa’s private sector and academia together with the Regional Bureau for Africa of the United [...] Full text...
11 september 2019 - 23:35:37
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The French-speaking international secretariat for environmental assessment (SIFEE) began the 22nd edition of its annual symposium [...] Full text...
05 july 2019 - 08:54:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - President Cyril Ramaphosa will officially open and address the first 4th Industrial Revolution Digital [...] Full text...
17 june 2019 - 16:41:37
Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) - A Maritime Security (MASE) Programme opened on Monday at Ebene, in the centre of the island, [...] Full text...
29 may 2019 - 20:47:23
Paris, France (PANA) - The UN Cultural agency (UNESCO) is organizing a two-day UNESCO-Africa-China Forum from Monday in Paris to [...] Full text...
20 may 2019 - 14:03:48
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Africa is making progress towards the goal of eliminating cervical cancer, a disease that is the [...] Full text...
15 may 2019 - 12:49:02
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Microsoft has invested in a $100 million Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Nairobi and another site [...] Full text...
03 may 2019 - 14:12:15
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The 54th Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the [...] Full text...
15 april 2019 - 11:37:16
Kigali, Rwanda (Rwanda) - One of the famous social humanoid robots and the world's first robot citizen, Sophia, will interact [...] Full text...
18 march 2019 - 13:47:39
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - A high-level delegation of the ECOWAS Court of Justice based in Abuja, Nigeria, on Monday began a [...] Full text...
06 march 2019 - 14:27:00
Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Technology, Communication and Innovation minister Yogida Sawmynaden on Wednesday said that Information and Communication Technology [...] Full text...
25 february 2019 - 14:25:26
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Research Repository (MRR), an online open access collection of research projects, reports, presentations, [...] Full text...
05 february 2019 - 10:55:33
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Second Road Safety Leadership Programme organised by the Africa Transport Policy Programme (SSATP), among other [...] Full text...
25 january 2019 - 05:14:03
Davos, Switzerland (PANA) - Around 50 million tonnes of electronic waste, or e-waste, is being thrown away each year, according [...] Full text...
30 november 2018 - 13:04:04
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Africa FinTech Hub (MAFH), a not-for-profit organisation meant to propel Mauritius into [...] Full text...
28 november 2018 - 22:39:13
New York, US (PANA) - The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the plan to transform the world agreed at the [...] Full text...
09 november 2018 - 14:42:35
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - At this week's Paris Peace Forum, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says it will [...] Full text...
22 october 2018 - 19:28:27
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - Speaking at the opening session of the UN World Data Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates [...] Full text...
22 october 2018 - 01:38:37
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - International data experts from national statistical offices, the private sector, NGOs, academia and international and regional [...] Full text...
10 october 2018 - 19:10:59
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Africa needs to speak with one voice when it goes to the global climate change summit [...] Full text...
24 september 2018 - 15:46:02
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The African Development Institute (ECAD) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Nigerian Economic Society [...] Full text...
21 september 2018 - 15:35:55
Paris, France (PANA) - On the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Peace on 21 September, UNESCO [...] Full text...
23 august 2018 - 06:04:26
New York, US (PANA) - The 67th United Nations Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Conference kicked off on Wednesday [...] Full text...
26 july 2018 - 15:49:24
New York, US (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has reiterated support for Lake Chad Basin Heritage Project, saying [...] Full text...
17 july 2018 - 19:48:28
The Hague, The Netherlands (PANA) - A two-day event was held at the headquarters of International Criminal Court (ICC) in [...] Full text...
16 july 2018 - 11:03:25
The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, is among high-level representatives of States, including those of [...] Full text...
12 july 2018 - 17:35:19
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya will host the first Africa Monitoring and Evaluation conference, which is geared towards facilitating dialogue [...] Full text...
30 june 2018 - 10:30:58
New York, US (PANA) - With new solutions proposed, and new partnerships established, the United Nations Secretary-General has told delegates [...] Full text...
06 june 2018 - 05:01:16
Rome, Italy (PANA) - A high-level delegation of the Government of China, representatives from Italy, several African countries and United [...] Full text...
01 june 2018 - 20:36:57
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Independent High-level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) [...] Full text...
04 may 2018 - 05:27:25
London, UK (PANA) - Mental health remains one of the most neglected global health issues, even though it is critical [...] Full text...
27 april 2018 - 05:43:13
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - From Switzerland to Somalia girls are creating their own apps; they are programming the robots they [...] Full text...
21 april 2018 - 08:10:50
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Seeking to enhance Egypt’s homegrown structural reform agenda and address its medium-term challenges, the International Monetary [...] Full text...
17 april 2018 - 07:13:58
New York, US (PANA) - Internet users worldwide are becoming more worried about their privacy online and many question the [...] Full text...
12 april 2018 - 15:49:40
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Natural Resources Centre of the African Development Bank (AfDB) will host a high-level [...] Full text...
06 april 2018 - 09:29:43
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Family farmers must remain central to bringing agroecology to scale, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva [...] Full text...
19 march 2018 - 18:17:40
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – African countries look forward to great opportunities to be created by the upcoming continental free trade [...] Full text...
07 february 2018 - 22:22:36
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (PANA) – The head of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has said that a week-long conference [...] Full text...
23 january 2018 - 19:55:36
Rome, Italy (PANA) - As an unprecedented number of government and business leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum (WEF) [...] Full text...
23 january 2018 - 08:37:40
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ouided Bouchamaoui, the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Laureate, has warned that Africa’s growing youth population [...] Full text...
16 january 2018 - 13:29:58
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) – The first meeting of the High-Level Panel on International Migration in Africa (HLPM) has highlighted regional [...] Full text...
11 january 2018 - 16:45:18
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) – Liberia will host the inaugural meeting of the African Union (AU) High Level Panel on Migration [...] Full text...
11 january 2018 - 09:36:59
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Newly elected president of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and country Deputy President [...] Full text...
21 december 2017 - 05:58:59
New York, US (PANA) – Safe migration, conflict prevention, sustainable development and United Nations reform will be the priorities of [...] Full text...
19 december 2017 - 16:58:44
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Governments can create a foundation for innovation by streamlining regulations "so that everyone plays by [...] Full text...
11 december 2017 - 07:13:27
New York, USA (PANA) – Despite children’s massive online presence – 1 in 3 internet users worldwide is a child [...] Full text...
29 november 2017 - 07:26:34
Ebène , Mauritius (PANA) - The third edition of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) - MERCK [...] Full text...
28 november 2017 - 06:18:56
Vienna Austria (PANA) – The Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) was reappointed for a second term [...] Full text...
12 november 2017 - 05:41:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - From smog hanging over cities to smoke inside the home, air pollution poses a major threat [...] Full text...
07 november 2017 - 06:42:44
Paris, France (PANA) – The media industry, which remains the primary source of news and information in the digital age, [...] Full text...
02 november 2017 - 19:43:34
Paris, France (PANA) – Justice must be done for the murder of journalists, who perform important functions in taking forward [...] Full text...
23 october 2017 - 16:44:51
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan trade unions and the civil society organisations on Monday called for the postponement of [...] Full text...
04 october 2017 - 22:45:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Highlighting the problems posed by illicit financial flows globally, including undermining rule of law and human [...] Full text...
03 october 2017 - 20:30:24
New York, US (PANA) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appointed Dr Natalia Kanem of Panama to head [...] Full text...
20 september 2017 - 06:42:21
New York, US (PANA) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has urged global support for France’s initiative to create the [...] Full text...
15 september 2017 - 05:42:06
New York, US (PANA) – The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on [...] Full text...
13 september 2017 - 06:46:21
New York, US (PANA) – Underscoring the importance of South-South cooperation, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has urged sustained [...] Full text...
12 september 2017 - 18:41:36
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - While hunger and malnutrition are still clearly a major problem in Africa, research from [...] Full text...
30 august 2017 - 07:09:32
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) – Any future economic programme engagement for Malawi with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should focus on [...] Full text...
15 august 2017 - 07:57:14
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has made great strides over the last decade to top the competitiveness rankings in [...] Full text...
12 august 2017 - 11:57:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has signed a US$ 3.5 million agreement with the FAO to strengthen its technical and [...] Full text...
05 august 2017 - 10:27:03
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Preparing to deploy its short-term election observers to the field, the African Union Election Observer Mission [...] Full text...
05 august 2017 - 09:41:08
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) – In the wake of a severe drought in Somalia that has displaced more than 800,000 people, [...] Full text...
03 august 2017 - 15:17:08
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA) of Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the [...] Full text...
15 july 2017 - 05:57:31
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A report on the role of the private sector in higher education and research has called [...] Full text...
07 july 2017 - 20:27:49
Rome, Italy (PANA) - FAO's governing Conference on Friday closed a week-long session during which Member States unanimously approved the [...] Full text...
01 july 2017 - 06:13:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - "Although attacks on journalists continue unabated, there are examples of successful grassroots and global efforts to [...] Full text...
30 june 2017 - 19:14:36
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s Ministry of Budget and National Planning, in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa’s Sub-Regional [...] Full text...
30 june 2017 - 13:09:35
Mahe Island, Seychelles (PANA) - Countries from the Indian Ocean Islands and East Africa are cooperating to develop strategies to [...] Full text...
23 june 2017 - 05:31:27
New York, US (PANA) – A Lebanese political science professor and political advisor to the United Nations in Iraq has [...] Full text...
16 june 2017 - 07:54:46
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Winners of the 2017 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) will be announced in Accra, [...] Full text...
13 june 2017 - 09:23:42
Berlin, Germany (PANA) - With intergovernmental discussions leading up to the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees currently taking place, [...] Full text...
12 june 2017 - 13:51:58
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - “It is important to underscore the need to re-establish trust and professional working relationships between security [...] Full text...
08 june 2017 - 09:21:55
Rome, Italy (PANA) – Technology and development experts have attended a two-day international conference on Information and Communication Technologies for [...] Full text...
23 may 2017 - 05:31:49
Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - A book, highlighting pragmatic tips that “developing countries can follow to spark economic growth, without waiting [...] Full text...
21 may 2017 - 12:47:13
Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The Mahatma Mandir Convention and Exhibition Centre in the Gandhinagar area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat State [...] Full text...
17 may 2017 - 14:26:07
New Delhi, India (PANA) - The Mahatma Mandir Convention and Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat State, [...] Full text...
28 april 2017 - 14:42:56
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Many countries in Africa are striving towards achieving the sustainable goals and climate change is [...] Full text...
18 april 2017 - 10:56:23
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is participating in the 2017 Spring Meetings of the International [...] Full text...
17 april 2017 - 06:51:06
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 2017 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will be held from [...] Full text...
29 march 2017 - 05:43:10
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Visiting a traditional fishing community in Senegal, the President of the United Nations General Assembly has [...] Full text...
22 march 2017 - 10:21:02
Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) - The African Economic Platform (AEP) ended on Tuesday night in Mauritius with participants calling for the [...] Full text...
21 march 2017 - 14:01:18
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwandan Ministry of Education has ordered the closure of several private universities as well as [...] Full text...
20 march 2017 - 14:33:20
Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, on Monday called for the creation of a vibrant single [...] Full text...
12 march 2017 - 10:54:35
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Federal Government is to validate the framework and National Action Plan (NAP) for de-radicalisation [...] Full text...
24 february 2017 - 07:50:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A working group of the United Nations agency which coordinates telecommunication operations and services throughout the [...] Full text...
26 january 2017 - 15:16:53
New York, US (PANA) - The world must take urgent action to mobilise the estimated US$265 billion a year needed [...] Full text...
25 january 2017 - 17:25:54
New York, US (PANA) - Disarmament can play an important role in ending existing conflicts and preventing the outbreak of [...] Full text...
25 january 2017 - 15:37:52
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stressed the importance of recognizing the links between sustainable development [...] Full text...
18 january 2017 - 09:28:52
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - With only 41 per cent of countries regularly producing data on violence against women [...] Full text...
16 january 2017 - 06:08:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The inaugural United Nations World Data Forum kicked off on Sunday in the South [...] Full text...
13 december 2016 - 17:28:19
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Zambia, together [...] Full text...
16 november 2016 - 15:00:51
New York, US (PANA) - The UN is working towards building climate resilience through the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s resilience initiative, [...] Full text...
26 october 2016 - 15:07:05
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Countries and international organizations need to make "tremendous" efforts and increase their investments to improve national [...] Full text...
24 october 2016 - 15:25:25
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Global Forum on Gender Statistics, holding in Helsinki, Finland, this week, is looking [...] Full text...
20 october 2016 - 06:29:08
Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Health Minister Anil Gayan on Thursday said that Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) are fast becoming a [...] Full text...
04 october 2016 - 11:22:48
Lyons, France (PANA) – An initiative has been developed by INTERPOL aimed at helping member countries understand and combat the [...] Full text...
29 september 2016 - 10:11:26
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary Carlos Lopes has stepped down after [...] Full text...
26 september 2016 - 11:50:57
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The agricultural sector must transform itself not only to achieve food and nutrition security for all, [...] Full text...
22 september 2016 - 19:23:57
New York, US (PANA) - 23 new commitments, corresponding to over US$2 billion in pledges for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ [...] Full text...
17 september 2016 - 17:59:08
New York, US (PANA) - About 140 world leaders are expected to participate in the first year anniversary of the [...] Full text...
30 august 2016 - 13:44:59
Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) - The World Bank Group, in collaboration with Mauritius, is organizing the African Ministerial Conference on Ocean [...] Full text...
23 august 2016 - 11:24:59
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) has signed an agreement with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology [...] Full text...
18 august 2016 - 15:08:31
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday charged African Central Banks to halt the growing trend of [...] Full text...
18 july 2016 - 17:27:02
New York, US (PANA) - Every government must accelerate the implementation pace of the development agenda adopted by UN member [...] Full text...
12 july 2016 - 22:22:16
New York, US (PANA) - A UN-backed partnership and fund were launched on Tuesday, in order to achieve the new [...] Full text...
22 june 2016 - 14:33:53
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on the international community to intensify efforts to [...] Full text...
22 june 2016 - 05:55:43
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released its 2015 [...] Full text...
10 june 2016 - 11:13:10
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The many ways farmers, fishers, foresters and ranchers around the world are adapting their practices to [...] Full text...