Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Ousted Burkina Faso military leader, Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has offered to resign "to avoid clashes with serious human and material consequences", PANA reported on Sunday. This was announced by religious and community leaders who carried out mediation between Lt. Col. Damiba and Captain Ibrahim Traoré, [...]Full text...
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The transitional authorities in power since September 5, 2021, in Guinea have "no intention of confiscating power," Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya said here Saturday. In his traditional message to the nation on the eve of the celebration of the 64th anniversary of the country's accession to independence, Col [...]Full text...
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The president of the Transition in Guinea, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, Saturday appointed to the rank of general a dozen senior officers of the army on the occasion of the celebration of the 64th anniversary of Independence Day. According to a decree read on national television, among the [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who overthrew his comrade-in-arms Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, declared in a statement on Sunday morning that following the dissolution of the government, the general secretaries of the ministries were in charge of current affairs. He summoned them to an important meeting Sunday [...]Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States says it is closely monitoring the fluid situation in Burkina Faso and called for "restraint by all actors". In a statement by the Department of State on Saturday, the US said it was deeply concerned by events, noting that for the second time in [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, has reaffirmed the government's willingness to provide more to the retired fringe of the Libyan society, assuring them it was still greatly committed towards granting them their rights. In an address on Saturday in Tripoli, on [...]Full text...
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The president of the Normalization Committee (CONOR), Mrs. Mariam Satina Sy, said here Saturday the decision of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to withdraw the organization of the 2025 African Cup of Nations from Guinea was due to its inability to play its official matches [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has recorded 10 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection but no death out of 91 samples tested, representing a positivity rate of 11 per cent, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Sunday. A statement from the Centre said that two recoveries were also recorded [...]Full text...
Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Saturday held the draw for the 2022 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) to be hosted by Algeria from 13 January to 4 February 2023. The competition is reserved for players in the domestic leagues in Africa. The following are the various [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned last Friday's attack against a Company Operating Base (COB) of the United Nations Organization Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) in Minembwe, South Kivu, by suspected Twirwaneho combatants. The attack resulted in the death of one [...]Full text...
Moroni, The Comoros (PANA) - Around 30 per cent of girls in The Comoros become child brides, and they make up the vast majority of sexual violence cases reported across the African country. Tackling this scourge was the theme of a recent UN event held during the opening session of the [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, on Saturday expressed his deep concern regarding the unfolding developments in Burkina Faso, where a group of military officers overthrew the man who had seized power in a coup only nine months earlier. Captain Ibrahim Traore appeared on Friday on national [...]Full text...
