Tanzania newspapers highlight launch of international gold market

23 march 2019 - 13:07:45
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Mainstream newspapers in Tanzania this week gave prominence to the country’s launch of an [...] Full text...

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Mauritian youth urged to embrace agriculture

21 march 2019 - 17:04:04
  Plaine Magnien, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister Mahen Seeruttun, on Thursday urged the youth to embrace [...] Full text...

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Burundi unveils fertilizer plant capacity for 120,000 tons per year

14 march 2019 - 19:21:10
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The first-ever local factory of "Organo-Mineral Industrial Fertilizers" (Fomi, that roduces 120,000 tons per year) has [...] Full text...

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IAEA funds Gravity-Fed Drip Irrigation System for Vulnerable Farmers

25 october 2018 - 19:29:01
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has funded the purchase of 25 gravity-fed drip kits, 250 [...] Full text...

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Hunger has `considerably declined` in northeast Nigeria - FAO says

18 december 2017 - 09:32:31
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - For the first time since the onset of the Boko Haram crisis, hunger has considerably declined [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Stanchart pledges to do more in its operations in Zambia

07 september 2017 - 18:48:22
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Standard Chartered Bank Group Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters has met with Zambian President Edgar Lungu [...] Full text...

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Ghana: President Akufo-Addo’s first 100 days, controversial bond reported in Ghana

22 april 2017 - 06:53:36
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The Ghanaian media once again focused on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s first 100 days in [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: World Bank pledges US$50 million for farmers in Boko Haram-ravaged N/East Nigeria

11 august 2016 - 15:55:59
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The World Bank has pledged a total of US$50 million in support of Nigeria’s agricultural sector [...] Full text...

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Mauritius: 'Coal is a major component in energy production in Mauritius'

10 august 2015 - 16:32:59
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius indicated on Monday that coal is becoming increasingly a major component in the production [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: African Water Facility improves sanitation services in Ethiopian town

02 july 2015 - 18:16:55
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Arba Minch town in southern Ethiopia will benefit from a €1.2-million grant from [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Experts recommend improved info systems to enhance weather forecast dissemination in Africa

11 march 2015 - 09:03:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African governments should enhance the capacity of national meteorological services after it has been noticed that [...] Full text...

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Malawi: Govt seeks US$16m to avert flood-induced food crisis

09 march 2015 - 12:57:48
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi is seeking at least US$16 million to help farmers replant food crops after several thousands [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: Local dailies focus on 2015 general elections, other issues

25 october 2014 - 10:47:53
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - As election year 2015 approaches, Tanzanians are agog at what it will bring as [...] Full text...

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Ethiopia: State monopolies strangle agriculture growth in Africa (News round up by Kennedy Abwao, PANA Correspondent)

07 september 2014 - 13:55:32
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The failure to rapidly grow the agricultural sector in Africa has been caused by weak [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: With the right investments, Nigeria can become world's leading economy (News Analysis by Abdul Babalola)

25 july 2014 - 10:40:02
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With the right reforms and investments, Nigeria, currently the largest economy in Africa, can become one [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Kwacha’s free fall borders on economic sabotage, opposition claims

31 may 2014 - 17:07:36
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The leader of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), Hakainde Hichilema, says the continual [...] Full text...

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Zambia: Bumper maize harvest makes headlines in Zambian press

10 may 2014 - 08:08:42
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – This year’s record high production of the country’s staple crop, maize, made headlines this week in [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Africa's agricultural output to hit US$500b by 2020, says AfDB

30 april 2014 - 15:01:34
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – Africa has the potential to increase the value of its annual agricultural output from US$280 billion [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Govt. to establish agro-meteorological stations

15 april 2014 - 16:41:53
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – To mitigate the effects of climate change on Nigeria’s agricultural sector, the Minister of Agriculture and [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: US firm to set up US$100 million fertiliser plant in Nigeria

22 march 2014 - 14:59:37
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – A United States based firm, Seppro Energy, in partnership with the southern Nigeria Akwa Ibom State [...] Full text...

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Ethiopia/AU: Africa must provide enough food for consumption, export (Feature by Anaclet Rwegayura, PANA Correspondent)

20 january 2014 - 12:59:22
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Africa’s ambition in agriculture, according to the African Union (AU), is to produce enough food [...] Full text...

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AGRA launches Africa Agriculture Status Report

04 september 2013 - 09:30:37
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Wednesday launched its inaugural report on the [...] Full text...

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Corruption reports on Nigeria exaggerated - Pres. Jonathan

23 april 2013 - 10:04:26
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has said that while corruption is pervasive in the country, reports on [...] Full text...

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4 UN agencies highlight women's plight as Int'l Women’s Day is marked

08 march 2013 - 09:11:41
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - On the occasion of the 2013 International Women’s Day, marked worldwide Friday, 8 March, 2013, the [...] Full text...

thread Gender

Nigeria minister scores agriculture sector high in 2012

26 december 2012 - 12:53:29
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's agriculture sector has performed creditably in the out-going year, enhancing the capacity of farmers and [...] Full text...

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Malawi 2012 subsidy programme begins

02 october 2012 - 13:15:34
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The Malawi government Tuesday kick-started the 2012 farm-input subsidy programme aimed at helping poor subsistence farmers [...] Full text...

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Capacity building for African farmers key to transforming agric industry

28 september 2012 - 12:45:01
Arusha, Tanzania (PANA) - Training of extension agents and building the capacity of young farmers is the real challenge facing [...] Full text...

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Annan urges African govts to uplift peasants from subsistence level

27 september 2012 - 11:56:06
Arusha, Tanzania (PANA) - Creating opportunities which will enable smallholder producers to transition from subsistence farming to running their farms [...] Full text...

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Investing in farming has great potential for Africa’s growth

26 september 2012 - 10:24:55
Arusha, Tanzania (PANA) - As Africa’s top politicians, business people and scientists converge on a mountain resort east of Arusha, [...] Full text...

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Nigerian media report trial of subsidy thieves, new refineries, earnings from cassava export

07 july 2012 - 10:49:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's resolve to deal with subsidy thieves, plans to build six new refineries, and [...] Full text...

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1 killed, 3 hurt in fresh grenade blast in north eastern Kenya

30 may 2012 - 22:16:31
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - One person has been killed and three others, including a child, are nursing wounds after a [...] Full text...

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Zimbabwe launches US$100m facility for agriculture

06 december 2011 - 12:47:50
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe Tuesday launched agricultural bonds worth US$100 million on the local market to finance the current [...] Full text...

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Climate Change: 'Govts ignore knowledge that can boost agric'

31 october 2011 - 12:40:27
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Governments are ignoring a vast store of knowledge, generated over thousands of years, that [...] Full text...

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African Green Revolution ignores downside of intensive farming

13 october 2011 - 12:32:24
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Lessons learned from Asia’s Green Revolution about the damage which intensive farming can cause [...] Full text...

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Jonathan assures on security with neighbours, scoffs at attempted coup in Niger

09 august 2011 - 16:42:25
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan said his administration would take definite steps to strengthen security cooperation with [...] Full text...

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Gates Foundation launches effort to 'reinvent' the toilet

19 july 2011 - 20:22:08
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday announced the launch of a strategy to help [...] Full text...

thread Health

Forex squeeze forces Malawi's Mutharika to skip AU Summit

01 july 2011 - 17:41:35
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi 's acute depletion of foreign exchange (forex) reserves has forced the immediate-past chairman of the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's firm saves country US$1.3b in forex

23 june 2011 - 12:40:19
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's privatisation agency Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) said has the Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) [...] Full text...

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Nigeria to establish US$6b petrochemical plants (corrected)

23 june 2011 - 08:52:40
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a plan to build a chain of [...] Full text...

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FAO offers support to Niger's agricultural programme

15 june 2011 - 11:27:27
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is prepared to support the agricultural programme, called [...] Full text...

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EU gives Zimbabwe US$100 million agric aid

08 june 2011 - 12:20:32
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The European Union (EU) Wednesday gave Zimbabwe US$100 million in agricultural aid for the forthcoming farming [...] Full text...

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Ghana in record cocoa harvest

30 may 2011 - 20:27:34
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Ghana, the world's second largest producer of cocoa after Cote d'Ivoire, says it saw a record [...] Full text...

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Pre-election violence, "troubled" presidential debate, gas revolution reported in Nigeria

26 march 2011 - 07:22:16
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The current waves of pre-election violence, the "troubled" presidential debate, Jonathan's gas revolution and the threat [...] Full text...

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UN study calls for ecological farming to boost food production

08 march 2011 - 18:27:01
New York, US (PANA) - A new UN study released on Tuesday has called for a fundamental shift towards agro-ecology [...] Full text...

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Morocco phosphate exports increase by 18.8%

01 march 2011 - 22:10:41
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – Moroccan exports of phosphate increased last January by 18.8% to 2.94 billion dirhams (1 euro = [...] Full text...

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Mali to buy 25,000 tonnes of fertilizer from Morocco

19 february 2011 - 16:29:14
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Half a dozen Malian businessmen have ordered 25,000 tonnes of phosphate fertilisers from Morocco, according to [...] Full text...

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Malawi minister offers to resign over fuel crisis

10 february 2011 - 19:43:30
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi's Energy and Mining Minister Grain Malunga, has offered to resign if the fuel situation in [...] Full text...

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Minister to explain 'botched' launch of Malawi's presidential project

09 november 2010 - 13:23:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Transport and Public Infrastructure Development Minist er Muhammad Sidiq Mia is expected to explain to Malawi's [...] Full text...

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Mutharika's dream port dominates Malawi media

30 october 2010 - 10:53:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika's â?colour dreamâ ? to end Malawi's â?landlockednessâ? dominated the media this [...] Full text...

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Snub on dream port exposes strained Malawi, Mozambique ties

27 october 2010 - 20:24:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Mozambique's unusual, if not undiplomatic, decision to impound a barge containing a consignment of fertiliser meant [...] Full text...

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Mugabe blames Mozambique for frustrating inland waterway project

23 october 2010 - 18:44:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Saturday issued a v eiled attack on Mozambique for frustrating efforts by [...] Full text...

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Equatorial Guinea President in Ghana

08 september 2010 - 13:52:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Nguema Mbasogo arrived in Ghana late on Tuesday at the head of [...] Full text...

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River Nile riparian states sign treaty despite threats by Egypt and Sudan

15 may 2010 - 12:42:00
Entebbe- Uganda (PANA) – Four countries signed the- Nile Cooperative Framework Agreement on Friday, a fresh treaty on the world’s [...] Full text...

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Ireland launches Africa Day 2010 celebrations

07 may 2010 - 09:53:00
Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- A series of events will take place across Ireland, commencing with a family day [...] Full text...

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FAO steps up aid to drought-hit Sahel pastoralists

22 april 2010 - 07:35:00
Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said it is stepping up aid [...] Full text...

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Ghana launches soil fertility project

18 april 2010 - 08:43:00
Tamale- Ghana (PANA) â" Ghana has launched a three--year soil fertility project to boost maize and legume production in the [...] Full text...

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Unending bloody conflicts in northern Ghana dominate the media

17 april 2010 - 08:02:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghanaian media this week focused on the unending conflicts in northern Ghana, which have wreaked [...] Full text...

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EU injects 15.9m euros into Malawi to prevent future food crises

24 march 2010 - 19:11:00
Lilongwe- Malawi, (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) on Wednesday released 15. 9 mi llion euros (about 3. 3bn Malawi [...] Full text...

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WB pledges more funding to Africa

31 january 2010 - 18:52:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- World Bank's President, Robert Zoellick, on Mon day announced that African countries would receive more [...] Full text...

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UN chief to convene MDG summit

31 january 2010 - 10:28:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Sunday he would convene a special summit in [...] Full text...

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Tunisian-Indian phosphoric acid factory to be set up

22 september 2009 - 18:04:00
Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- A phosphoric acid producing factory is in the offing in the region of Skhira, in southern [...] Full text...

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World Bank gives US$7m to Zim farmers

11 september 2009 - 14:12:00
Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The World Bank Friday announced it would give US$7 million to small scall farmers in Zimbabwe [...] Full text...

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'Farmers losing hopes on limiting impact of climate change'

07 september 2009 - 17:04:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Researchers have said that farmers in developing countri es are losing one of their best hopes [...] Full text...

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'Wonder tree' may alleviate food scarcity in Africa

31 august 2009 - 11:27:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A World Agroforestry Congress held last week at the Unit ed Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) headquarters [...] Full text...

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Malawi to teach NAM how to feed the world

14 july 2009 - 17:37:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika has said the Summi t of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), beginning [...] Full text...

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Kenya raises spending to fight economic recession

11 june 2009 - 10:00:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya’s Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta was expected to unveil the country's largest-ever national budget Thursday, aimed [...] Full text...

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Economic experts meet to tinker common agricultural policy

31 march 2009 - 19:55:00
Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- A meeting Tuesday in Bujumbura, Burundi, brought tog ether experts from the Economic Community of Central [...] Full text...

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'Forest trees getting bigger, absorbing more carbon'

11 march 2009 - 12:49:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- An international team of scientists, including researche rs from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), [...] Full text...

thread Environment

Ethiopian govt battles domestic financial crisis

17 february 2009 - 13:26:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has ordered a total freeze in government borrowing, but the [...] Full text...

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World Bank subsidiary plans capital injection in agro-businesses in Africa

11 february 2009 - 10:20:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The lending arm of the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), announced here on Wednesday [...] Full text...

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Govt says 10m Kenyans face starvation

10 january 2009 - 11:09:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya requires more than five million bags of maize in the short run to forestall a [...] Full text...

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