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'''PanaPress''' or '''Pana''' or '''PanAfrican News Agency''' is an African news agency.<ref name="UIA" /> It has its headquarters in [[Dakar]], [[Senegal]]. It was founded on 20 July 1979 in [[Addis Ababa]] by the [[Organisation of African Unity|OAU]] and was relaunched by [[UNESCO]] in February 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=sosig1028722952-15373 |title=Panapress |website=[[Intute]] |access-date=6 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515210806/http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=sosig1028722952-15373 |archive-date=15 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="UIA" /> It provides news in [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], and [[Arabic]]. PanaPress works in collaboration with UNESCO.<ref name="UIA" /><br />
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It contains Pan-African News Agency (PANA), also referred to as ''Agence d'information panafricaine'' (AIPA) and ''Agence panafricaine d'information'' (API) in French.<br />
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== History ==<br />
It was founded on 20 July 1979 in [[Addis Ababa]], with the adoption of a convention by African Ministers of Information. PANA took over the activities of the [[Union des agences d'informations Africaines]], which had been set up in April 1963 in [[Tunis]].<br />
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PANA was officially inaugurated and commenced news agency activities on 25 May 1983. PANA is a specialised agency of the [[Organization of African Unity|OAU]] and has its headquarters in [[Dakar]], [[Senegal]], with regional offices in [[Khartoum]], [[Sudan]]; [[Lusaka]], [[Zambia]]; Kinshasa, [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|DR Congo]]; [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]]; and [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]], [[Libya]].<br />
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== Relevant treaties and protocols ==<br />
*OAU Charter, adopted on 23 May 1963. South Africa was admitted to the OAU on 23 May 1994 and the OAU Charter became binding on South Africa on that same date.<br />
*PANA Convention<br />
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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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dakar.unesco.org/news/en02/020314_journalist.shtml |title=Training Workshop For Journalists Covering Educational Topics |date=2003 |website=UNESCO |access-date=6 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607032801/http://www.dakar.unesco.org/news/en02/020314_journalist.shtml |archive-date=7 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Boyd-Barrett |first1=Oliver |last2=Rantanen |first2=Terhi |title=The Globalization of News |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJMvJpRXcowC&dq=Pan+African+News+Agency&pg=PP9 |date=28 October 1998 |publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] |isbn=978-0-7619-5387-6 |page=9}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* PANATV<br />
* [[Mass media in Africa]]<br />
* [[Caribbean Media Corporation]] (CMC)<br />
* [[Caribbean Broadcasting Union]] (CBU)<br />
* [[Caribbean News Agency]] (CANA)<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite thesis | author=Deborah Acheampong | title=Seeking Balance in Global News Flows: Revisiting the Pan-African News Agency Experience | publisher=University of Ghana | year=2018 | url=https://summit.sfu.ca/_flysystem/fedora/sfu_migrate/20694/etd21038.pdf }}<br />
*{{cite journal | author=Kevin Cavanagh | title=Freeing the Pan-African News Agency | journal=The Journal of Modern African Studies | volume=27 | issue=2 | date=June 1989 | pages=353–365 | jstor=160856 }}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Official website|https://www.panapress.com/}}<br />
* [http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/indus19.htm News Syndicates Media Circuit]<br />
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