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New York, US (PANA) - The largest global environment movement is happening on Saturday, when the UN invites people around the world to shut the lights to remember the planetary crisis during Earth Hour as young partners find new ways to drive climate action.
“Turn off the lights, and move the [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian President Adama Barrow has called for collaboration between the government and key stakeholders in the fight against cancer.
According to a statement made available to PANA by the presidency on Saturday, the Gambian leader made the call during an audience with a delegation from the International Atomic Energy [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Former President Abdoulaye Wade’s Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) announced on Friday that it is joining the main opposition coalition’s candidate, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, in Sunday's presidential election, giving a new dimension to the vote.
The Constitutional Council had disqualified Karim Wade, the PDS’s flagbearer and the former [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A mass grave has been found in southwest Libya containing at least 65 migrants who are believed to have died while being smuggled through the desert.
According to the UN migration agency (IOM), which sounded the alarm on Friday, increasing numbers of people are dying on dangerous routes [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Independent UN human rights experts on Friday expressed alarm over increased reports of sexual slavery and trafficking in Sudan, especially of women and girls.
This is being compounded by an increase in child and forced marriage, and the recruitment of boys by combatants in the continuing war between [...]Full text...
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - A major upsurge in violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has displaced at least 400,000 people in North Kivu since the beginning of the year is exposing children to unacceptable levels of violence, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday.
At-risk children [...]Full text...