Malian President IBK to participate in Paris Peace Forum
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will participate in the Paris Peace Forum and the 40th UNESCO General Conference from 11-13 November [...] Full text...
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Bamako municipalities go on weeklong strike
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Councils of the six municipalities of Bamako district and its surroundings started a weeklong strike on Monday to denounce the arrest [...] Full text...
Mali's National Union of Banks and Financial Institutions staff go on strike
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Workers under Mali's National Union of Banks and Financial Institutions on Thursday (SYNABEF) began a 48-hour strike to press their demand [...] Full text...
Malitel donates food, materials to host centers and orphanages in Bamako
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malitel, first mobile phone operator in Mali, Tuesday donated food and materials worth 105 million CFAF or USD 175,000 to host [...] Full text...
Tanzania police probe mysterious disappearance of computers from state prosecutor's office
EBM Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Police in Tanzania are investigating the puzzling theft of computers from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions [...] Full text...
Malian Customs Union to go on strike from October 30
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Members of the powerful Customs Union in Mali plan to begin a 72-hour strike from October 30, PANA learned from the [...] Full text...
Obesity rates soar due to dramatic global diet shift, says UN food agency
VAO Rome, Italy (PANA) - Eating food high in starch, sugar, fats and salt; combined with a sedentary lifestyle, is a recipe for soaring global obesity [...] Full text...
Mali: Stakeholders extend 25th edition of the month of Solidarity and the fight against exclusion to Nov. 15
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 25th edition of the month of solidarity and the fight against exclusion, whose launch was initially scheduled for October 1, [...] Full text...
Mali launches integration, reintegration projects for returning migrants
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's Minister for Malians Living Abroad, Amadou Koita, on Monday launched in Bamako the integration and reintegration projects for returning migrants [...] Full text...
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita to take part in international conference on population in Nairobi
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita will take part in the international conference on population and development (CIPD+25) scheduled from 12-14 November [...] Full text...
Mali to distribute 1,200 tonnes of Japanese rice to vulnerable populations
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Japan has authorised the Malian government, through the Office of the Food Security Commissioner, to distribute 1,200 tonnes of rice free [...] Full text...
Botswana dedicated to resolve human wildlife conflict - President Masisi
M S Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana President, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi, has asserted government’s determination to resolve human wildlife conflict in favor of protecting Batswana (citizens of [...] Full text...
Botswana minister applauds Germany for assistance
M S Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Gaborone's acting Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation, Shaw Kgathi, has commended Germany for the continued assistance it rendered to Botswana [...] Full text...
Malian govt develops plan to boost Bamako-Diboli railway traffic
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Passenger and goods traffic between Bamako-Diboli, on the Senegalese border, will be revived in the coming months, after nearly two years [...] Full text...
Botswana President holds nationwide consultative meetings
M S Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana is holding nationwide meetings as part of his consultation with the nation.
The meetings which started mid-September [...] Full text...
About 1,000 tonnes of food to be distributed to people in Bamako district
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian food security commission, a state agency responsible for assessing Mali's food and nutrition situation, will distribute from this week [...] Full text...
Malian PM receives delegation of international investigation commission for Mali
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé on Friday received in Bamako a delegation of the International Investigation Commission for Mali led by [...] Full text...
Malian PM receives delegation of Saudi Fund for Development
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) – A delegation from the regional management, Africa zone of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), led by Alzahrani Saeed, was received [...] Full text...
Togo: 500 new national volunteers engage with local communities
MSA Lomé, Togo (PANA) – Five hundreds new Togolese national volunteers last week engaged with the local communities to strengthen their resilience, official sources told PANA [...] Full text...
Côte d'Ivoire becomes first African member-country of WB programme on capacity strengthening for executives
MSA Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Côte d’Ivoire has become the first African member-country of the World Bank programme for capacity strengthening of public sector executives [...] Full text...
Two killed as plane crashes in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park
EBM Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – (PANA) – A plane belonging to Auric Air crashed on Monday morning at Seronera airstrip in the famous Serengeti National [...] Full text...
ILO, Togo sign deal for decent jobs
MSA Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo and the UN International Labour Organisation (ILO) have signed an agreement for decent jobs that paves the way for the implementation [...] Full text...
Twenty finalists of Anzisha Award 2019 released
KND Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Anzisha Prize Selection Committee released Monday the list of the top 20 candidates. The winner of the 2019 edition [...] Full text...
Mali: Two hospitals on strike to demand allowance arrears
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Hospital ‘part-time workers’ in Mali have been on an indefinite strike since Wednesday in two university hospital centers, Mali Hospital and [...] Full text...
Cote d'Ivoire to host 14th eLearning Africa Conference
KND Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 14th Pan-African Conference on Technologies Applied to Learning, Training and Skills Development, eLearning Africa, will be held here from [...] Full text...
120 Malians repatriated from Libya
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A total of 120 Malian migrants, including 19 women, repatriated from Libya have arrived home.
The Minister of Malians Abroad, Amadou Koita [...] Full text...
Malian Prime Minister announces rehabilitation of Kati-Djidiéni road
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé on Thursday announced commencement of work on the 160 km Kati-Djidieni road in Diéma, while on [...] Full text...
Residents of Bamako-Kayes end road blockade
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Residents of the Bamako-Kayes-Diboli road (RN3), on the Senegalese border, where hundreds of trucks and buses transporting people and goods between [...] Full text...
Postal sector in Tunisia hit by strike
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Postal workers in Tunisia continued their strike on Monday, which began on August 21 in all regions of the country for [...] Full text...
'I was made to drink sewer water,' says Zimbabwean comedian Kureya
T Z Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Popular Zimbabwean comedian, Samantha Kureya, known as ‘Gonyeti’, says she was made to drink sewage water in her abduction ordeal as [...] Full text...
Mali's works to ratify Agency for Trade Insurance in Africa
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government on Wednesday adopted draft texts in the Council of Ministers meeting on its accession to the Agreement to [...] Full text...
Bamako hosts 5th African Scout Integration Camp
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - About 500 young Africans, including 300 Malians, will participate from 21 to 30 August in Bamako in the 5th African Scouts [...] Full text...
Strike warning on gold site in Mauritania
KND Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The staff delegates of Tasiast Mauritania Limited (SA), a subsidiary of the Canadian company, Kinross, which operates a gold-mining site in [...] Full text...
Japan offers Mali more than 6,000 tonnes of rice to strengthen Mali's food security programme
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Japan has donated 6,428 tonnes of rice to Mali as food assistance for the 2017 fiscal year.
The donation ceremony took place [...] Full text...
Death toll from tanker explosion in Tanzania rises to 97
EBM Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – More victims of 10 August fuel tanker tragedy at Morogoro in Tanzania died over the weekend from injuries they [...] Full text...
ICRC hails vital contribution of humanitarian workers
BBA Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Marking World Humanitarian Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday praised the vital contribution of humanitarian [...] Full text...
Workers in health centres of Bamako go on strike
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Workers of referral health centres of the six communes of the Malian capital, Bamako, are on strike since Wednesday following a [...] Full text...
Ghanaian Christian pilgrims undertake pilgrimage to Israel
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Thirty Christians of different denominations left here Monday for Israel on a seven-day visit to historical and religious sites, local media [...] Full text...
Spain donates market gardening production material for women associations in Malian region
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Spanish Cooperation (AECID) and the council for development association (ACOD) Friday donated a batch of market gardening production equipment worth [...] Full text...
Workers of Malian hospital launch 72-hour strike
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The staff of the Gabriel Touré hospital-university center (CHU), one of Mali’s biggest hospitals, has since Wednesday embarked on a 72-hour [...] Full text...
Bamako to host 2nd African Civil Status Day
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 2nd African Civil Status Day opens on Saturday in Bamako on the theme: "Birth certificates for all, a need for [...] Full text...
African Ombudsman and Mediator Association bemoans threatening working conditions
M S Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Regional leaders of the African Ombudsman and Mediator Association (AOMA) have expressed concern about difficult working conditions experienced in recent times [...] Full text...
Angola, DRC set up university cooperation project
KND Dundo, Angola (PANA) - The provinces of Lunda-Norte in Angola and Kasaï Central in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday proposed a university cooperation [...] Full text...
Malian prime minister launches social drinking water connection operation in Bamako
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé last Sunday launched ‘Operation 100,000 social connections’ for drinking water for the poorest, an official source [...] Full text...
Côte d'Ivoire establishes two social security schemes for self-employed workers
MTA Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Self-employed workers in Côte d'Ivoire will benefit from two social security schemes, following the adoption and ratification of a bill [...] Full text...
Public media journalists in Burkina Faso to go on general strike if .....
KND Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkinabe journalists have announced a 24-hour general strike, effective on Wednesday, to demand the transfer of Sidwaya and Radio and Television [...] Full text...
Mali launches project to support livestock development
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Minister of Livestock and Fisheries Maguiraga Rokia Kane Thursday launched a Livestock Development Support Project (PADEL-Mali) in Kayes in Western [...] Full text...
SAP, German government to help create 450 jobs in Africa in digital sector
MSA Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The German computer company, SAP, and the German ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) have established a joint three-year [...] Full text...
After surviving prosecution, Kenya's Deputy Chief Justice on the ropes again
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Two months after she survived prosecution over allegations that she was involved in irregular sale and acquisition of property, Kenyan Deputy [...] Full text...
Botswana's education system 'coming of age' (Feature by Meekaeel Siphambili, PANA Correspondent)
M S Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s education system is undergoing a tremendous transformation with the introduction of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)" which has descended upon the [...] Full text...