Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The head of the Technology and Innovation Section of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mactar Seck, has called for data security to be strengthened to avoid holding back industrial development. Mr. Seck made this call in an interview with PANA on the sidelines of the sixth [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan and international demining partners have stressed the urgent need to facilitate the work of mine risk education teams and demining operators in southern Libya. They also called for the lifting of suspension of demining operations imposed for more than a year in the country. Participants at a [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Amid growing international calls for restraint from Israel in Gaza and reports on Wednesday of further deadly strikes overnight, UN humanitarians underscored the ongoing devastating impact of the war and the need to ensure reliable aid supply lines to people in desperate need in the enclave. “One-third [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Tuesday announced sanctions against Tunisia and its athletes following the expiry of the deadline for complying with the World Anti-Doping Code. The sanctions prohibit Tunisia from organising any regional, continental or world championships, in addition to its flag being flown at [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of Political Affairs, Mohamed Issa, has agreed with the Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia accredited to Libya, Didi Ahmad Rifai, on the need to work to strengthen and develop relations in all areas. This came at [...]Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The head of the Technology and Innovation Section of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mactar Seck, has given the assurance that Africa is capable of meeting the challenges of technology. He was speaking in an interview with PANA on the sidelines of the sixth African [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The first meeting of the Joint Committee between Libya and the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) has agreed that cooperation will initially focus on supporting the capacities of the Libyan authorities involved in border security and management, with the aim of securing the territory of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The acting Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas, Khalifa Abdel Saddok, led a high-level Libyan delegation to the Riyadh Economic Forum, where he discussed with his senior counterparts in the energy and oil sectors ways of strengthening international cooperation and achieving sustainable growth in the sector. On [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and the Malian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on emergency financing through the Exogenous Shock Window of the IMF’s Rapid Credit Facility (RCF). Mali’s economy has been hit by multiple exogenous shocks recently, including Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Red Sea [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius has recorded 316 active cases of dengue fever in the island, of which 50 have been hospitalised in both public and private hospitals the Government Information Service (GIS) said Wednesday. In Rodrigues, 139 active cases have been recorded of which 23 were hospitalised. The health authorities in [...]Full text...
Paris, France (PANA) - Malawi striker Tabitha Chawinga and Nigerian goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie, have been named the best player and best goalkeeper respectively in the French women's league. Chawinga wasted no time in making an impact upon her arrival in France after joining Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) from Inter Milan in less [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A new generation of young African match officials is set to be unearthed, thanks to CAF’s innovative youth football competition, the CAF African Schools Football Championship. The second season of the CAF African Schools Football Championship recently concluded its Zonal Phase where 12 winners, equally [...]Full text...
Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - Following a successful kick off to the CAF Club Licencing Regional Workshop 2024 in Mauritania, Algeria is playing host to the second leg of the ongoing workshop aimed at reaching all 54 CAF Member Associations. The four-day workshop will see 12 French-speaking nations gathered at the north [...]Full text...
Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - The Egyptian Under-17 Boys National Team are the new champions of the Union of North African Football (UNAF) after a 1-1 draw against Algeria concluded the weeklong competition that took place from 24 – 30 April in Algiers. The round-robin tournament, which brought together hosts Algeria, Egypt, [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are the exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling on Wednesday as issued by the Bank of Tanzania. Currency Buying Selling Burundi Franc 0.8888 0.8971 Euro [...]Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A new World Bank report calls for urgent action to strengthen the resilience of Ghana’s health system against the adverse effects of climate change. The report released on Tuesday, titled Climate and Health Vulnerability Assessment (CHVA) for Ghana, identifies gaps and risks to the country’s health sector, [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has called on Guinea Bissau to arrest former president of the Central African Republic (CAR), François Bozizé, without delay and transfer him to the country's authorities who must "promptly" bring him before the Special Criminal Court (SCC) of the country. Responding to [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ordinary Gazans remain in a “constant state of trauma” over an impending full-scale Israeli attack on the enclave’s southernmost city of Rafah amid a growing number of strikes there, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday. “There is an extraordinary, deep anxiety [...]Full text...
Ottawa, Canada (PANA) - The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has reported significant progress in talks this week in Ottawa to draw up the world’s first treaty curbing plastic pollution next year. Since its introduction in the 1950s, a staggering 9.2 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced, with seven billion tonnes of [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world’s leading humanitarian action forum on Tuesday said that crushing levels of violence and displacement are fuelling unprecedented civilian suffering in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) called for greater international support for the Congolese people [...]Full text...
