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| Industry | News agency |
|---|---|
| Founded | 20 July 1979; 46 years ago (1979-07-20) |
| Headquarters | Dakar,Senegal,West Africa |
| Website | panapress |
PanaPress orPana orPanAfrican News Agency is an African news agency.[1] It has its headquarters inDakar,Senegal. It was founded on 20 July 1979 inAddis Ababa by theOAU and was relaunched byUNESCO in February 1993.[2][1] It provides news inEnglish,French,Portuguese, andArabic. PanaPress works in collaboration with UNESCO.[1]
It contains Pan-African News Agency (PANA), also referred to asAgence d'information panafricaine (AIPA) andAgence panafricaine d'information (API) in French.
It was founded on 20 July 1979 inAddis Ababa, with the adoption of a convention by African Ministers of Information. PANA took over the activities of theUnion des agences d'informations Africaines, which had been set up in April 1963 inTunis.
PANA was officially inaugurated and commenced news agency activities on 25 May 1983. PANA is a specialised agency of theOAU and has its headquarters inDakar,Senegal, with regional offices inKhartoum,Sudan;Lusaka,Zambia; Kinshasa,DR Congo;Lagos,Nigeria; andTripoli,Libya.
All member states of the OAU were members of PANA. South Africa officially became a member of PANA after becoming a member of the OAU on 23 May 1994. The Seventh Ordinary Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Information took place at Sun City in October 1994. This was the first time that an OAU-related activity took place on South African soil.[3][4]
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