Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Sunday that a staff team would visit Ghana from 26 September to 7 October to continue discussions with the authorities on policies and reforms that could be supported by an IMF lending arrangement. A statement by the IMF said the [...]Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – All beaches in the popular Western Cape Town of Plettenberg Bay have been closed after a woman was killed in a shark attack on Sunday morning. It is believed that a Great White shark was responsible for the attack. It was the second fatal shark [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, on Saturday held discussions in New York with the chairman of the African Union Commission (AUC), Moussa Faki and the President of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Hungarian Csaba Korosi. An official statement said the discussions [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Russia and Burkina Faso are to strengthen cooperation during talks between their top leaders on the margins of the 77th UN General Assembly in New York. There were no details of the talks between the President of the transition in Burkina Faso, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya recorded one new case of coronavirus infection out of 61 samples tested in the past 24 hour, representing a positivity rate of 1.6%. The National Centre for Disease Control announced on Sunday that three recoveries were also recorded. There was no death during the period leaving [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Saturday granted an audience to Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, President of the Transition in Burkina Faso. on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly in New York, with their discussions focusing on the political, humanitarian and security situation [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres and African leaders have launched a high-level panel to assess the situation in the Sahel and make recommendations on ways to foster international engagement and map out responses to the region’s complex challenges. The independent panel was formally announced on Saturday in [...]Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The following are the results of international friendy footbal matches played by African countries on Saturday. South Africa 4-0 Sierra Leone Cote d'Ivoire 2-1 Togo Tanzania 1-0 Uganda Bolivia 0-2 Senegal -0- PANA MA 25Sept2022 [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$194.5 million from the United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), to provide critical food and nutrition assistance and resilience building initiatives for thousands of people facing the worst drought [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture said on Saturday that the production of sugar for the crop year 2022 will drop by 6.2% to 240,000 tonnes from 255,818 tonnes in 2021. In its latest issue of the Economic and Social Indicators presenting data for the first six months of [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD) have launched a fund for refugees. The Global Islamic Fund for Refugees (GIFR) was launched in New York on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Filippo [...]Full text...
New York, UN (PANA) - Egypt, which is hosting the 2022 UN Climate Conference this November, is calling on the international community to act on climate pledges made to developing countries, the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, said on Saturday. In his speech to the high-level segment of the UN General [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The Authorities in Mali are moving along the path to political transition and institutional reform while combating terrorism and other insecurity, Acting Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga said in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Saturday. The process to restore civilian rule in the wake [...]Full text...
