Film professionals attend the International Film Festival in Abidjan
KND Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 8th edition of the International Film Festival of Lakes and Lagoons opened on Tuesday in Abidjan, the Ivorian economic [...] Full text...
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Tunisia to participate in the 10th Algiers International Film Festival
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia will participate in the 10th edition of the International Film Festival of Algiers (FICA) in Algiers, with the film "Fatwa" [...] Full text...
Abidjan hosts 3rd edition of the professional technical book and digital book days
MTA Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 3rd edition of the professional technical and digital book days will take place on 5-6 December in Abidjan under [...] Full text...
List of winners of the Carthage Film Days
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - This is the full list of winners of the Carthage Film Days (CFD) that took place in Tunisia from 26 October [...] Full text...
Benin musical and the diaspora show begins on Monday
KND Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The eighth edition of the national Beninese music and the diaspora starts on Monday across the country, organizers said on Saturday.
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Burkina Faso closes 455 schools due to terrorism
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A total of 1,455 schools have so far been closed in several regions of Burkina Faso as the country experiences [...] Full text...
US injects funds into Botswana’s cultural monuments
M S Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Underscoring the United States commitment to cultural preservation, the U.S. Embassy has announced that on 4 Nov 2019, the American Ambassador [...] Full text...
National workshops on handicraft training launched in Mauritania
MTA Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The national workshops of artisanal training in the field of pottery, drawing and ceramics, were launched Wednesday at the Nouakchott fair, [...] Full text...
37th edition of Carthage Film Days opens
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The 37th edition of Carthage Film Days (CFD 2019) began on Saturday with the launch ceremony attended by Tunisian Minister of [...] Full text...
Tunisia hosts 37th edition of International Festival of Poetry
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The 37th edition of the International Festival of Poetry in Tunisia started on Friday night in Tozeur in the south of [...] Full text...
Jury selected for 2019 Carthage Film Days (CFD)
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Some 15 filmmakers, producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors will constitute the official juries for the 2019 Carthage Film Days in Tunisia [...] Full text...
Senegal guest of honour at Mali's second International Craft Fair
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Senegal will be chief guest at the second edition of the Mali International Craft Fair (SIAMA) to be held from 7-19 [...] Full text...
Third International Festival of Poetry opens in Abidjan
KND Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The third edition of the International Festival of Poetry opened on Thursday in the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, and for [...] Full text...
14th edition of Nouakchott Film Festival opens
MTA Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The 14th edition of the Nouakchott Film Festival opened on Wednesday at the Palais des Congrès in the Mauritanian capital, in [...] Full text...
Ouagadougou to host 15th International Book Fair in November
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The 15th Ouagadougou International Book Fair (FILO) will be held from 21 to 24 November in the capital of Burkina [...] Full text...
Senegalese President at the 70th anniversary of "Présence Africaine" in Paris
MTA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese Head of State, Macky Sall, will attend the official ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the creation of [...] Full text...
Tunisia: 170 films to feature at 2019 Carthage cinema days
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Some 170 films, including 44 vying for honours, will feature at the Carthage cinematographic days (JCC), holding from 26 October to [...] Full text...
Sixth 'Musical Days of Carthage' ends in Tunis
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Carthage Film Festival's highest award, the Golden Tanit, has been won by a Cameroon's "100% Lornoar" at the 6th Carthage [...] Full text...
Centre for preservation, restoration of ancient manuscripts to be installed in Mali
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and Turkey on Friday signed a partnership agreement in Bamako for the installation of a Centre for the Preservation and [...] Full text...
Congo, DR Congo endorse Roadmap to strengthen technical education
KND Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese Minister for Technical Education, Antoine Nicéphore Thomas Fylla Saint Eudes, and his counterpart in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), [...] Full text...
Tunis hosts 2nd meeting of Arab ministers of tourism and culture
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The second conference of Arab ministers of tourism and culture opens on Wednesday in Tunis, according to official sources.
The conference will [...] Full text...
Niamey hosts 5th Meeting of African, Caribbean and Pacific Ministers of Culture
KND Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niamey will host the 5th meeting of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Ministers of Culture from October 17 to 20, [...] Full text...
First meeting of AU Advisory Committee on Arts, Culture and Heritage underway in Bamako
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The African Union's Advisory Committee on Arts, Culture and Heritage began its first meeting on Monday in Bamako to outline the [...] Full text...
Tunis to host 13th edition of world music festival
MSA Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - The 13th edition of the world music festival (Mûsîqât) will be held this year from 21-26 October at the Ennejma Ezzahea [...] Full text...
Congolese journalists train to process information on women in conflict
BBA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - More than 30 Congolese journalists took part in a training workshop in Brazzaville on Friday, focusing on building the capacity of [...] Full text...
Tunisia: 6th edition of Carthage Music Days opens Friday
KND Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - The sixth edition of Carthage Music Days (JMC), starts Friday night in Tunis and will continue until 18 October 2019.
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Sepholo Festival encourages photographic, video creativity in Togo
KND Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Lomé Photography Week (Sepholo), a new festival dedicated to photography, opts for the development of photographic creation and video, sources close [...] Full text...
Seidik Abba's book on Boko Haram to be released Wednesday in Paris
KND Paris, France (PANA) - Nigerian journalist and writer, Seidik Abba, has published a book on the Nigerian terrorist sect, Boko Haram, entitled "Journey to the [...] Full text...
Ghanaian sculptor holds largest solo Art Exhibition by an African Artist in Europe and Middle East
VAO Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ghanaian Sculptor, El Anatsui, Emeritus Professor of Sculpture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, recently launched the largest ever solo presentation [...] Full text...
Mali celebrates international education day
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, on Saturday asked his ministers to strictly respect the commitments his government has made to teachers [...] Full text...
Malian minister of education calls for smooth school year
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian minister of Education, Temore Tioulenta, Tuesday made an urgent call to the school authorities and students for a normal [...] Full text...
Tunisian film to open International Cairo Cinema Festival
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The film of Tunisian film director, Mehdi Barsaoui, Un fils (Bik Naich), with its main actor Samir Bouajila who received the [...] Full text...
Cape Verde to host the next edition of the oldest regatta around the world
KND Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cape Verde will become the second African country, after South Africa (Cape Town), to host The Ocean Race, the world's [...] Full text...
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...
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...