Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - No new death linked to a coronavirus infection has been recorded in Libya, which has detected 82 new cases out of 348 samples analysed over the last 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Friday. A statement from the Centre on the local daily [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African Union (AU) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) have officially launched their joint election observer mission for next Tuesday's general elections in Kenya. The Joint Mission is led by former President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, supported by former Minister of [...]Full text...
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The Prime Minister of Togo, Victoire Sidémého Tomegah-Dogbé, met on Thursday with political parties to discuss the problem of terrorism facing the country and to need to be united to address the fight against violent extremism. According to the government, the objective is to explain to the [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal on Thursday signed a peace agreement with the separatist group, Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), President Macky Sall announced on his Twitter handle. The agreement with the provisional committee of the political and armed wing of the MFDC involves the laying down of arms. President Sall [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 37 new cases of coronavirus, all from community transmission, confirmed by tests carried out on 962 samples, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Friday in its daily communiqué on the epidemiological situation. The ministry also announced that 46 patients tested negative [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Injured people from the explosion of a fuel tanker in the southern municipality of Bint Baya have been evacuated to Turkey and Spain, the Health Ministry of the Government of National Unity (GNU) announced on Thursday. In a post on its Facebook page, the ministry said that [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Three European Union (EU) countries have held a conference with officials from several Libyan ministries and government institutions on e-governance, according to a statement from the EU Mission in Libya. In the statement issued on Thursday, the EU Mission said the meeting was an opportunity to exchange [...]Full text...
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Food prices dropped significantly in July, marking the fifth consecutive monthly decline since hitting record highs earlier in the year in the wake of the war in Ukraine, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported on Friday. The UN food agency has published its latest eagerly [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Hawks Football Club on Thursday won Gambia's 2021-22 national Division One football league after beating Gambia Armed Forces FC 3-1 at the Independence Stadium in Bakau. Modou Lamin Jarju’s brace and skipper Omar Sarr’s first-half header were enough for the Banjul-based team to celebrate their first [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian female track stars Gina Bass and Newbie Wurrie Njadoe, together with the beach volleyball team, are through to the semi-finals of the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK. Bass and Njadoe are in the semi-finals of the women’s 200m semi-finals with Bass reaching yet another milestone [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by the Central Bank of Gambia. Currency Buying Selling US Dollar 53.00 54.50 Pound Sterling [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Nearly a year ago, the UN chief released his report, "Our Common Agenda" (OCA), a blueprint for global cooperation moving forward, and reinvigorated multilateralism. On Thursday, he updated the General Assembly on progress made so far, saying the need for the report’s proposals “has only increased”. “In addition [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA)- The United Nations continues to engage with authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the wake of the deadly shooting this past weekend involving peacekeepers from its Mission there, MONUSCO. On Thursday, the head of UN Peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, briefed a closed-door session of [...]Full text...
