Malian president IBK in Luanda for first edition of Peace biannual meeting
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian Presiden Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is in Luanda since Tuesday to take part in the first edition of the Peace biannual [...] Full text...
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First Tunisian-Malian university opens in Bamako
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The first Tunisian-Malian university in Bamako has been inaugurated in the Malian capital, Bamako, with the objective of offering students quality [...] Full text...
Tunisian film wins special human rights prize at Venice festival
MSA Tunis Tunisia (PANA) – A Tunisian film, "The Scarecrows" produced by Nouri Bouzid, won the special prize for human rights in his first participation in [...] Full text...
UNESCO chief says engaging ‘head and mind’, key for effective learning
MA Paris, France (PANA) - The Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has said that "engaging with both head and [...] Full text...
Togo pays tribute national tribute to rocker, painter, Jimi Hope
MSA Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo Friday praised the merits of artist and painter Jimi Hope in a tribute witnessed by several authorities of the country, [...] Full text...
Cote d'Ivoire: The 11th Abidjan Performing Arts Market to be held in March 2020
KND Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 11th edition of the Abidjan Performing Arts Market (MASA) will take place from March 7 to 14, 2020, on [...] Full text...
UNESCO to promote literacy as part of right to education
MA Paris, France (PANA) - This year’s International Literacy Day (ILD) will be celebrated worldwide to promote literacy as part of the right to education, as [...] Full text...
UNESCO sponsors event on the future of African cinema at TICAD VII
KND Paris, France (PANA) - UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay will on Wednesday lead an event on the future of African cinema on the sidelines of the [...] Full text...
Student crowned Miss Togo 2019
ASA Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Aida Yombo, a student in Accounting, was on Saturday night crowned Miss Togo 2019 at a beauty pageant organised at the [...] Full text...
Famous Ivorian designer Eloi Sessou dies
KND Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The world-renowned Ivorian fashion designer Eloi Sessou died on Wednesday night after a long illness, family sources said.
The former physics [...] Full text...
Arafat Dj will be buried on August 31
KND Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Arafat Disc Jockey (DJ), Huon Angel Didier, who died on August 12 in a motorcycle accident, the day after the [...] Full text...
Tunisian film producer Nejib Ayed dies
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian film producer Nejib Ayed died on Friday at the age of 66 following a heart attack, a source close to [...] Full text...
Côte d'Ivoire Release of the trailer of the film "Milkmaid"
MTA Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Directors Desmond Ovbiagele and Danono Media announced here Tuesday the release of the feature film "Milkmaid", which tells the story [...] Full text...
Benin to join Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illicitly Exported Cultural property
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin is to join the Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illicitly Exported Cultural property adopted in Rome on 24 June 1995, [...] Full text...
Photojournalism award dedicated to challenges faced by DR Congo
KND Paris, France (PANA) - Organisers of the 11th Edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award have announced that the competition will be dedicated to the human, [...] Full text...
Four in 10 indigenous languages at risk of disappearing, warn UN human rights experts
MA New York, US (PANA) - Of 7,000 indigenous languages spoken today, four in 10 are in danger of disappearing, rights experts said on Wednesday, in [...] Full text...
Togolese singer, painter Jimi Hope, dies
MSA Lome, Togo (PANA) – Togolese singer and painter, Jimi Hope, died on Monday in Paris after a short illness, cultural sources told PANA in the [...] Full text...
Libya to celebrate Eid al-Adha feast on 11 August
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya will celebrate the Eid al-Adha feast sacrifice on 11 August, the country's religious authorities announced on Thursday.
Dar Al Ifta in [...] Full text...
Indian gov’t to support Gambia artistic industry
MSS Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Visiting Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, has pledged to The Gambia half a billion US dollars to support the West African [...] Full text...
4 Zimbabwean film makers charged over film 'Lord Kush' depicting harm to a fictional Zimbabwean envoy
T Z Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers have charged four prominent film artists with contravening the draconian Censorship and Entertainments Control Act after [...] Full text...
Mali to host 12th Biennial African Photography show
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 12th edition of the African Photography Biennial show, scheduled for November 30, 2019 to January 31, 2020, in Bamako, was [...] Full text...
Diploma of Fundamental Studies to start Monday in Mali
ASA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A total of 235,410 candidates will Monday take part in the Diploma of Fundamental Studies (DEF), the Malian Ministry of Education [...] Full text...
First set of Guinean pilgrims leaves for the holy places of Islam
KND Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean Prime Minister Dr. Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, who Wednesday saw off the first batch (313) of Guinean pilgrims to Saudi [...] Full text...
First Malian pilgrims from the government to leave for Hajj on 25 July
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The first Malian pilgrims sponsored by the government will leave Bamako on 25 July for Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, after [...] Full text...
Guinean musician Kerfala Kanté passes away
BBA Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinean musician Kerfala Kanté passed away on Friday at a clinic in the Guinean capital, Conakry, following a heart attack, an [...] Full text...
Saudi Arabia commits US$25 million to UNESCO for protection of heritage
VAO Paris, France (PANA) - His Highness Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al Saud, the Minister of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and [...] Full text...
Teachers in 2 Togo universities threaten to strike from Monday
BBA Lomé, Togo (PANA) - From next Monday teachers and researchers of the Universities of Lomé and Kara will engage in a tussle with the heads [...] Full text...
Armed clashes near Tripoli force more than 12,000 students out of school
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The war in southern Tripoli, which has been raging since last April, has disrupted education in many parts of western Libya, [...] Full text...
Franco-Cameroonian comedian Dieudonné performs in Belgium
KND Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Franco-Cameroonian comedian Dieudonnute; Bala, after a brush with the police, managed to perform at a small rural town of Morlanwelz, 50 [...] Full text...
2nd edition of Mediterranean Film Festival ends in Tunis
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The second edition of the Mediterranean Film Festival, Manarat, ended Sunday night in Tunis at which 54 films from different [...] Full text...
20th Conference of African Higher Education Leaders begins in Cairo
BBA Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The 20th International Conference of African Higher Education Leaders began on Monday in Cairo, Egypt.
Organized by Al-Azhar University, in collaboration with [...] Full text...
Canada trains 2,000 Malian teachers in first half of 2019
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Canada has trained 2,000 Malian teachers in the first half of 2019, PANA learned on Monday from the Malian National Education [...] Full text...
Sudanese Director wins gold medal in Tunisia
MO Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese Film Director Saifeddin Hassan has won a gold medal for his documentary film “Saleel Alfaradeses” (The Descendent of Paradise) in [...] Full text...
International Fair on Education and Training opens in Niamey
KND Niamey, Niger (PANA) - An International Education and Training Fair (SIEFOR) focused on the role of civil society opened on Saturday in Niamey, under the [...] Full text...
Burkina Faso obtains World Heritage listing of metallurgical sites
KND Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso's old iron metallurgy sites were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List on Friday, the delegation of the Burkinabè [...] Full text...
Special edition of International African Fashion Festival opens in Niamey
BBA Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Ahead of the 33rd African Union Summit scheduled for 7 - 8 July in Niamey, a special edition of the International [...] Full text...
Tunisia hosts the 34th International Festival of El Jem Symphonic Music
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The 34th edition of the International Festival of Symphonic Music in El Jem, Tunisia, will take place this year from 5 [...] Full text...
Int'l symposium in Bamako on the Malian writer and politician Seydou Badian Kouyaté
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - An international symposium on the Malian writer, historian and politician, Seydou Badian Kouyate, is being held since Wednesday in Bamako, the [...] Full text...
Côte d’Ivoire to ratify African cultural renaissance Charter
MSA Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian government Wednesday adopted a bill authorizing the president of the Republic to ratify the African cultural renaissance charter, [...] Full text...
Pan-African Music Library to be established in Brazzaville
BBA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - An-African music library estimated at 55 million euros, will be set up in Brazzaville to serve as a centre for information, [...] Full text...
Egyptian university to host conference on higher education in Africa
BBA Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - El-Azhar University in Egypt, in collaboration with the Union of African Universities, is organising a conference in Cairo from 8 to [...] Full text...
Burkinabe musician charged with money laundering
KND Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso's prosecutor on Wednesday charged slam poet and artist musician Diallo Rasmata, aka Rama, with money laundering
According to a [...] Full text...
Tunisia elected to lead UNESCO's Underwater Cultural Heritage Commission
KND Paris, France (PANA) - Tunisia has been elected Chair of the Permanent Commission of the signatories to the UNESCO Agreement on the Protection of the [...] Full text...
138 Congolese students repatriated from Cuba will continue studies in country - Minister
MSA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese Minister of Higher Education Bruno Jean Richard Itoua said here Thursday all was set for the academic reintegration of 138 [...] Full text...
Egypt denies sales by auction of Toutânkhamon statute
MSA Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt has denied sales by auction of a statute of Toutânkhamon planned at the Christie’s Fair in London for 400 million [...] Full text...
Kenya to host high level workshop on national book policies
MSA Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - A high level workshop on national policies on books and reading to promote quality education in Africa will be held [...] Full text...
Mauritania cancels Mathematics paper in 2019 Baccalaureate exams
BBA Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training has cancelled Monday's Mathematics paper in this year's Baccalaureate examination because of [...] Full text...
Tunisia: First ‘’Green Cinema’’ festival on 12-16 June in Redeyef
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The first edition of ‘’Green Cinema’’, which focuses on environment, will be held from 12-16 June in the Tunisian city of [...] Full text...
French education minister due in Senegal Tuesday on official visit
MSA Paris, France (PANA) – French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Mrs Frédérique Vidal, is expected in Dakar on Tuesday for an official visit [...] Full text...
Morocco: Oujda Maghreb Film Festival scheduled for June 11-15
KND Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The eighth edition of the Oujda Maghreb film is scheduled to take place from June 11 to 15, PANA learnt on [...] Full text...