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Ghana has concluded its $3 billion IMF bailout programme, marking a new phase in its economic recovery. The country will continue working with the IMF under a new arrangement that does not provide direct financial assistance.
The EU shuts its door on Namibian beef — and exposes a single-market risk
A foot-and-mouth outbreak in //Kharas has cost Namibia the market that took most of its beef. The case for African buyers just got sharper.
Ezulwini to the classroom: Africa's teachers ask for delivery, not declarations
More than 400 delegates at the AU's teacher-education conference are working on a continental qualification framework so a teacher trained in one country can teach in another.
Hichilema: when the region is connected, nobody picks up a weapon
Opening the second Lobito Corridor coordination meeting, Zambia's president cast the rail line to the Atlantic as a building block of the AfCFTA — and a peace project.
The AU asks Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt to step back from the brink
Expulsions, severed ties and fighting in Tigray have put the Union's crisis diplomacy to the test inside its own headquarters' neighbourhood.
Celebrating African Stories: Accra's stage opens to the continent and the diaspora
The Heritage Theatre Arts Festival brings performers from six countries to Legon this week — part of an October in which African culture is telling its own story, on its own stages.
In El-Alamein, the AU tries to settle an old argument: who actually does what
The Eighth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting put the African Union and the regional blocs in one room on Egypt's Mediterranean coast — and asked them to stop duplicating each other.
Liberia and the return flights: a US court ruling reopens an old wound
The US Supreme Court has let Washington resume deporting people to countries they have no ties to. Liberia, founded by freed Black Americans, is one of the main destinations.
Mahama: Africa imports 99% of its vaccines. That is a market, not a fate
At the Alamein Africa Forum, Ghana's president made the business case for health sovereignty — from active ingredients to the African Medicines Agency.
Dangote breaks ground in Lamu — and offers East Africa a share of the refinery
A 700,000-barrel-a-day plant on Kenya's coast, with up to 30% of the equity reserved for the region's governments. The promise is fuel sovereignty; the questions are crude supply and land.
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About PANNG
Pan-African News Network Global (PANNG) is a news network for Africa and its global diaspora. We cover diplomacy, trade, the economy, diaspora affairs, culture and heritage, and the generation now inheriting the continent — in written reports and video bulletins.
Our premise is simple: Africa's story should be told by the people living it, not routed through a newsroom in another hemisphere and handed back to us. That means datelines from Lusaka, Lamu and Ezulwini, not just from the capitals that have always held the microphone.
We report with rigour and we say plainly where we stand: for African integration, for African ownership of African resources, and for a diaspora that is treated as a partner in the continent's future rather than a footnote to it.
Our Founder
Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao grew up in Chivhu, Zimbabwe, and left for the United States in 1977 to pursue higher education. She studied chemistry at Fisk University and medicine at Meharry Medical College — both historically Black institutions — and went on to practise family medicine in Tennessee for close to three decades, founding the Bell Family Medical Centers with her husband, Dr. Saban Nii Quao.
Her work for the continent began long before diplomacy. From 2012 she chaired the African Union–African Diaspora Health Initiative, and in 2015 she received the Women of Excellence Award at the African Union Summit. She then served as the African Union's Permanent Representative to the United States, a post she held until October 2019.
As ambassador she became known far beyond Washington for saying out loud what official speeches usually avoid: that colonial-era economic arrangements, from the legacy of the Berlin Conference to currency and resource deals that still drain wealth from African states, continue to shape the continent's fortunes. She has made mobilising the diaspora — all people of African descent living outside Africa — the centre of her mission, and set out her case in the book Africa 101: The Wake Up Call.
PANNG is an extension of that conviction: that Africans and the diaspora need a newsroom of their own.