G7 launches action plan to secure critical minerals supply chains
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Reconnecting Morality with Political Economy: IMF Blog By Benjamin Enke, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research
07 may 2025 - 11:22:27Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - For much of the 20th century, the disciplines of moral psychology and economics were [...] Full text...
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More than 30-year difference in life expectancy highlights health inequities
06 may 2025 - 12:59:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Where you're born could be the difference between living over three decades longer than someone else [...] Full text...
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Decades of progress in reducing child deaths and stillbirths at risk, UN warns
25 march 2025 - 16:00:50Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of children around the world dying before their fifth birthday stands at a record [...] Full text...
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Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising
06 march 2025 - 17:13:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The weak but significant La Niña weather event that began in December is likely to be [...] Full text...
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Democratising innovation can harness untapped talent and spur economic growth: IMF Blog By Xavier Jaravel, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
05 march 2025 - 13:01:25Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Notwithstanding Plato’s 2,400-year-oldproverb, necessity alone is not the mother of invention. It also requires opportunity. An [...] Full text...
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2024 CAF Awards: Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz, Morocco’s Dystinct among top artists
15 december 2024 - 12:28:49Marrakech, Morocco (PANA) - Diamond Platnumz, the Tanzanian music superstar, and Dystinct, the Moroccan who is known for his genre [...] Full text...
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The role of language in gender equality: How linguistic structures shape legal norms and reinforce gender biases: World Bank Blog By Pierrick Bruyas and Caroline Perrin
26 october 2024 - 10:44:56Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Globally, women’s rights have expanded significantly over the past decades. By 2023, 162 economies [...] Full text...
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South Africa sets wheat import duties while local wheat area drops
14 august 2024 - 12:32:35Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Falling global wheat prices triggered, in July 2024, a wheat import duty of Rand 176.30 [...] Full text...
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Kenyan climate scientists discover groundbreaking Turkana Jet influencing drought patterns
29 july 2024 - 17:19:23By Kennedy AbwaoNairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Climate scientists from the University of Nairobi (UoN) have discovered a new climate pattern [...] Full text...
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UNESCO trains teachers to counter hate speech
25 january 2024 - 07:37:58Paris, France (PANA) - UNESCO, the UN agency for culture, science, and education, is highlighting the key role teachers can play [...] Full text...
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UN chief calls for safe migration governance
18 december 2023 - 07:44:14New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday highlighted the urgent need for safe migration governance rooted [...] Full text...
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Africa Focus Group to defeat Daesh/ISIS takes steps to overcome security challenges
16 november 2023 - 06:17:36Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Africa Focus Group of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS is concentrating on strengthening and [...] Full text...
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We’re better off thanks to migrants, says new IOM chief
03 october 2023 - 05:27:48Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With people on the move globally at “unprecedented” levels, the UN’s new migration agency chief insisted [...] Full text...
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Burkina Faso: Parliament unanimously votes for law on meritocracy in public administration
16 march 2023 - 17:06:58Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The MPs of the Transitional Legislative Assembly of Burkina Faso voted unanimously on Thursday for [...] Full text...
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Libyan, Italian PMs discuss bilateral cooperation
28 january 2023 - 18:45:23Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, has said that his discussions with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia [...] Full text...
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Africa is object of various forms of exploitation. says Gambian President Barrow
07 december 2022 - 11:08:00Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's President Adama Barrow says Africa has been the object of infiltration and various forms of [...] Full text...
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Libyan Deputy Presidential Council chairman calls popular protests 'new revolution'
18 july 2022 - 12:38:24Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Deputy Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Moussa al-Kouni, says protests that rocked the country [...] Full text...
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Baby formula industry must end 'misleading and aggressive’ online marketing: WHO
29 april 2022 - 15:45:38Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The $55 billion baby formula industry must end exploitative online marketing targeting parents, particularly mothers, the [...] Full text...
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ECOWAS force to return to Guinea Bissau after failed coup attempt
04 february 2022 - 08:42:40Accra, Ghana (PANA) - ECOWAS leaders ended their extraordinary summit in Accra, Ghana on Thursday, ordering the return of a [...] Full text...
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Greek FM meets with Angola's President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço
11 january 2022 - 20:11:48Athens, Greece (PANA) - Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, was received on Tuesday in Luanda by Angola's President João Manuel [...] Full text...
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Somalia’s economy rebounds from ‘triple shock’ – World Bank report
15 september 2021 - 13:34:25Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Somalia’s real GDP growth is projected at 2.4 percent in 2021 as the economy rebounds from [...] Full text...
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Climate, weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives - WMO report
01 september 2021 - 15:06:43Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events have caused a surge in natural disasters over the [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's secret Police warns secessionists, others
03 may 2021 - 08:42:30Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's Department of State Services (DSS) on Sunday warned “misguided elements” who, it said, are threatening [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Bujumbura International Airport to reopen on Sunday
04 november 2020 - 10:59:10Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Bujumbura International Airport in the economic capital of Burundi will be operational again from next [...] Full text...
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Libya: Fears over military talks and ceasefire agreement highlighted in news
24 october 2020 - 19:01:33Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan newspapers this week devoted most of their news coverage to the 5 + 5 Joint [...] Full text...
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Commonwealth launches webinar series to counter violent extremism
22 june 2020 - 13:57:00Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A webinar series has been launched by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK, to [...] Full text...
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Congolese Finance Minister expresses the need to maintain cooperation with IMF and World Bank
25 january 2020 - 16:40:10Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Minister of Finance, Sele Yalaghuli, has expressed the need to maintain cooperation with [...] Full text...
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Transparency International urges govts to address corrupting role of big money in party financing
23 january 2020 - 13:42:03Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Governments must urgently address the corrupting role of big money in political party financing [...] Full text...
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Canada donates 290,000 USD to floods victims in northern Congo
14 january 2020 - 22:41:44Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Canadian minister of international development, Kirina Gould, Tuesday gave 290,000 USD worth of non-food aid [...] Full text...
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Africa records significant losses in 10 years due to illicit capital flight - Senegalese expert
26 december 2019 - 19:58:27Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The African continent recorded between 2003 and 2014 significant losses due to the illicit flight of [...] Full text...
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UNESCO adds 'Morna of Cabo Verde' to the list of the intangible heritage of humanity
12 december 2019 - 17:41:02Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - The Morna, a truly Cape Verdean musical genre, was on Wednesday officially included on the [...] Full text...
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Gambian Christians frown on omission of ‘secular’ in draft constitution
04 december 2019 - 21:23:19Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Christian community in The Gambia Wednesday expressed concern over the omission of the word ‘SECULAR’ [...] Full text...
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Botswana Bank rate unchanged at 4.75 percent as inflation soars
31 october 2019 - 16:05:18Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Botswana has announced its decision to maintain [...] Full text...
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Buhari castigates abuse, torture of over 400 men and boys in Kaduna building
28 september 2019 - 17:25:01Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Presidency on Saturday commended the Nigeria Police for the rescue of 400 men and [...] Full text...
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Will the recapture of Ghariane accelerate a political solution to the Tripoli war? (News analysis by Youssef Ba, PANA correspondent)
28 june 2019 - 05:46:01Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Forces loyal to the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) last Wednesday recorded their most significant [...] Full text...
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Botswana Bank rate remains constant
27 june 2019 - 20:27:00Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Governor of the Bank of Botswana (BoB), Moses Dinekere Pelaelo, has announced that the Botswana [...] Full text...
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Nigeria moves to ban 'almajiri' beggars in northern Nigeria that fuels out-of-school children
20 june 2019 - 22:48:04Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Federal Government on Thursday began moves to outlaw the almajiri phenomenon in the country [...] Full text...
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Army chief accuses "defeated politicians" of sponsoring insecurity in Nigeria
15 may 2019 - 18:07:45Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, on Wednessday said that the Army has [...] Full text...
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Burundian head of state opens national youth conference
26 april 2019 - 23:30:37Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's head of state, Pierre Nkurunziza, Friday officially opened the 4th edition of the National Youth [...] Full text...
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African countries self-assessing before New York meeting on MDGs
17 april 2019 - 21:12:27Marrakech, Morocco (PANA) - About 20 African countries participated Tuesday in Marrakech in the review of the Voluntary National Review [...] Full text...
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Foreign interference in Libya casts shadow over inclusive conference
28 march 2019 - 21:19:35Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, said here Thursday the continued [...] Full text...
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Leading American rapper to perform in South Africa
31 january 2019 - 12:37:56Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Leading American singer Lauryn Hill has arrived in South Africa ahead of her once-off [...] Full text...
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Is tradition affecting women’s socioeconomic leadership? (Feature by Meekaeel Siphambili, PANA correspondent)
31 january 2019 - 00:07:11Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - As a result of historical, cultural and other factors, women have not yet achieved equality in [...] Full text...
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Multilateral Development Banks: Turning the Paris Agreement into reality (An AfDB Feature)
08 december 2018 - 09:24:21Katowice, Poland (PANA) - Financial support is a critical element when it comes to achieving the world’s climate goals, such [...] Full text...
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Textile, Clothing industries can drive Africa’s industrialization, benefit women (By Vanessa Moungar, Emanuela Gregorio, AfDB)
23 august 2018 - 13:44:16Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - As the African Development Bank (AfDB) celebrates World Fashion Day, we take this opportunity to [...] Full text...
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UN urges protection of indigenous peoples’ rights during migration
09 august 2018 - 06:09:13New York, US (PANA) - Marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres [...] Full text...
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Economic mobility in developing countries stalled for 30 years: WBG report
09 may 2018 - 20:00:31Washington, US (PANA) - Generations of poor people in developing countries are trapped in a cycle of poverty determined by [...] Full text...
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2017 costliest year ever for extreme weather and climate events, says UN
22 march 2018 - 20:20:22Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hurricanes, monsoon floods and continuing severe drought made 2017 the costliest year ever for severe weather [...] Full text...
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UN chief outlines way for Africa to beat hunger, poverty
27 january 2018 - 16:37:54Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – For Africa to build and sustain peace and address hunger and poverty, it needs community-based [...] Full text...
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FAO cautions that soils being neglected as 'World Soil Day' is marked
05 december 2017 - 10:30:39Rome, Italy (PANA) - As the world marks "World Soil Day" on Tuesday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) [...] Full text...
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US: UN officials urge sustained support for humanitarian efforts in Lake Chad Basin
21 september 2017 - 18:55:55New York, US (PANA) – United Nations officials on Thursday underscored the need for sustained international support for the humanitarian [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: New mobile app game empowers youth in Climate Change adaptation efforts in Greater Horn of Africa
24 august 2017 - 13:02:03Zanzibar City, Zanzibar (PANA) - A new mobile application, know as "Ponya Mobile Game" developed by a team of young [...] Full text...
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UN: UN political chief calls for engagement of terrorism victims
12 february 2016 - 05:56:53New York, US (PANA) - The top United Nations political official on Thursday urged Member States to engage with victims [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: WB report says four billion miss out on development for lack of internet access
13 january 2016 - 20:52:34Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A new World Bank report said on Wednesday that while the internet, mobile phones [...] Full text...
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Sierra Leone: AI warns of risks to pregnant schoolgirls excluded from school, exams
06 november 2015 - 09:31:34Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Thousands of pregnant girls, excluded from mainstream schools and barred from sitting upcoming exams, risk [...] Full text...
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Italy: IOM event reflects on Mediterranean deaths
02 october 2015 - 11:15:16Rome, Italy (PANA) - Italy’s Mediterranean island of Lampedusa will on Saturday observe the second anniversary of a tragedy that [...] Full text...
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UN: Pope Francis, FAO discuss sustainable food for all
12 june 2015 - 07:29:56New York, US (PANA) - Addressing over a hundred delegates attending the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Rome, [...] Full text...
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Senegal: New report says African real estate has unique drivers for growth
18 march 2015 - 15:41:19Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) Africa Wednesday released a statement, saying its new report has shown [...] Full text...
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Zambia: Re-entry policy for pregnant school girls triggers debate in Zambia (News analysis by Mildred Mulenga, PANA Correspondent)
06 april 2014 - 08:36:20Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The re-entry policy introduced by the Zambian government to allow pregnant school girls complete their education [...] Full text...
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Libya: Two rival tribes Libya sign reconciliation agreement
25 march 2014 - 21:50:16Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Two rival tribes in Libya - Toubou and Ouled Sleiman - on Tuesday signed a reconciliation [...] Full text...
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Special Security: Military, diplomatic intervention saved Mali from terrorism threat - Analyst
28 january 2014 - 17:56:49Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Residents of Northern Mali towns of Gao, Kidali and Timbuktu are enjoying relative stability following the [...] Full text...
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South Sudan urged to ratify Convention on Child Rights
19 november 2013 - 21:22:30Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday called on the Government of South Sudan to [...] Full text...
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Africa gears up for population dividend
12 september 2013 - 13:11:40Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As Africa prepares for the forthcoming Regional Conference on Population and Development, one of the [...] Full text...
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UN chief calls for protection of marine environment
09 june 2013 - 14:25:40New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the international community to do more to reverse degradation [...] Full text...
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UN report: Commodity-based industrialization key to Africa's development
24 april 2013 - 20:40:55New York, US (PANA) - A UN economic report says sweeping political and economic changes over the last half century [...] Full text...
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Election issues again dominate Ghanaian media
27 october 2012 - 08:19:20Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Election issues once again dominated the media in Ghana this week with the fallout of the [...] Full text...
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Protests over anti-Islam film: Nigeria tightens security around Western embassies
12 september 2012 - 19:26:29Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has ordered ''water-tight security'' around the embassies of the US and other Western nations in [...] Full text...
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OAPI's 50th anniversary to be celebrated in Cameroon
10 september 2012 - 17:07:42Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – The African Organization for Intellectual Property (OAPI) will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its creation from [...] Full text...
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NGO seeks probe of abandoned projects in Nigeria
21 may 2012 - 11:38:50Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian nongovernmental organization Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a request to the Chief [...] Full text...
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Ghana hosts confab on reshaping agricultural research in Africa
30 january 2012 - 18:18:16Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UK parliamentarians and civil servants will this week join African farmers, international donors and [...] Full text...
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ECOBANK launches Middle Africa's first-ever bond
11 december 2011 - 11:38:18Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The Pan African Ecobank Group has launched the first-ever benchmark index to measure the performance of [...] Full text...
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Ban says economic, social disparities affect children's right
18 november 2011 - 16:14:59New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on Friday said that increasing economic and social disparities posed a [...] Full text...
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UNESCO, partners unveil 10 proposals to safeguard the ocean
01 november 2011 - 19:29:05Paris, France (PANA) – UN agencies Tuesday launched a plan to improve the management of the ocean and coastal areas, [...] Full text...
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Fear of failure deters young Comorans from applying for micro-credit loans
21 october 2011 - 18:04:21Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - In the culture of the Comoros, it is a shame not to repay a loan. So although [...] Full text...
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Fewer newborns dying worldwide, Africa left behind - Report
31 august 2011 - 08:46:46Washington, DC, US (PANA) - A newly-published report has shown that while fewer newborns are dying worldwide, progress is too [...] Full text...
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Sarkozy, Compaore, Ban, Bedie applauded at Ouattara's investiture
21 may 2011 - 17:05:24Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Four prominent personalities, the men who helped Alassane Ouattara to the Ivorian presidency, were strongly [...] Full text...
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Jonathan says privatized public companies performing below expectation
20 may 2011 - 20:36:47Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Deeply worried by the state of privatised public companies, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday directed [...] Full text...
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Tanzanian papers reflect on faith matters, superstition
05 march 2011 - 08:19:29Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – As the upheavals in Arab countries continued to make waves around the world, the Tanzanian [...] Full text...
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News feature: Whither Africa's common values?
27 january 2011 - 14:29:25Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The freedom struggle in pre-independence Africa was fuelled by common values of the people under [...] Full text...
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Paris hosts Malians' art, culture exhibition in April
15 january 2011 - 15:31:55Paris, France (PANA) - Nearly 330 art works will be displayed in April at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, [...] Full text...
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African fashion goes on exhibition at FESMAN
19 december 2010 - 19:11:56Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The ongoing third World Festival of Black Arts (FESMAN) taking place in Senegal on Saturday featured [...] Full text...
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UN expert tasks Mozambique on impartial judiciary
10 december 2010 - 21:44:12New York, US (PANA) - A UN human rights expert, Ms. Gabriela Knaul, on Friday called on Mozambique to redouble [...] Full text...
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Libya to host African-Arab cultural conference
13 august 2010 - 23:06:00Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya will host a two-day African-Arab cultural conferen ce devoted to the role of the intellectual [...] Full text...
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Cape Verdean President wants nation's history re-written
01 august 2010 - 17:11:00Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Cape Verdean President Pedro Pires has charged historian s to re-write the history of his country [...] Full text...
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Expert emphasises African influence in Michael Jackson's music
02 july 2009 - 17:45:00Paris- France (PANA) -- The African-American singer, Michael Jackson, who died la st Thursday, owed Africa the liveliness of his [...] Full text...
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Three organizations pledge US$30 million for African think tanks
11 may 2009 - 21:53:00Accra- Ghana (PANA) – Three international organiza-tions on Monday pledged US$30 million in grants to 24 think tanks in East [...] Full text...
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Nigeria opposition slams govt. on oil sector deregulation
05 march 2009 - 14:19:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's opposition Action Congress (AC) party has desc ribed the plan by the federal government to [...] Full text...
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Egypt media hopeful over Obama presidency
24 january 2009 - 09:45:00Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- When the United States inaugurated its 44th President, Barack Obama, on Tuesday, the entire world joined [...] Full text...
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