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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office on Tuesday denounced a "shocking" surge in mass abductions in north-central Nigeria, calling on authorities to "take all necessary legal measures" to end them. This new wave of violence comes as the northeast of the country is gripped by an unprecedented [...]

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Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Women in Gaza are ensuring their families’ survival “with nothing but courage and exhausted hands” while violence continues and essentials remain in short supply, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Tuesday.UN Women's Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp, who just returned from a visit [...]

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Riyadh, Sauri Arabia (PANA) - Exceptional women business leaders such as African engineer-turned-entrepreneur Norah Magero are demonstrating how lived experience and ingenuity, backed by United Nations support, can turn promising ideas into successful companies, even in societies where their voices have long been sidelined. As a young mother in a remote [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The global response to HIV is facing its most serious setback in decades, UNAIDS warned on Tuesday, as abrupt funding cuts and a deteriorating human rights environment disrupt prevention and treatment services across dozens of countries.Launching its 2025 World AIDS Day report, “Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – African countries must urgently take steps to track some US$1.2 trillion, which flows into the continent through wildlife conservancies, mostly through foreign corporations.According to James Arnott, Founder and Director of African Conservancies, the disappearance of large sums of money or failure to account for them, has [...]

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Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and the Malian authorities have concluded the virtual mission under the First Review of the Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP), pending approval by IMF management.Programme implementation has been strong amid a challenging environment, with the authorities achieving nearly all quantitative and indicatives [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Trust Bank of Gambia.Currency                     Buying                SellingUS Dollar                    [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The annual Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), Africa's foremost platform on science, technology and innovation began on Monday under the theme, “Igniting conversations about science.”More than 3,000 delegates are attending the event which ends on Saturday. Over the past decade SFSA 2025 has evolved to [...]

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Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) - As Guinea-Bissau’s estimated 2.2 million people eagerly await the results of Sunday’s parliamentary and presidential elections, the heads of international observation missions have enjoined all stakeholders to remain calm and abide by the country’s electoral laws and constitution.A press release by ECOWAS said at their post-election [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General and Security Council on Saturday jointly deplored the severe violence of the past two weeks in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where dozens of civilians have been killed by an armed group affiliated with the Islamic State.In [...]

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Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Farah Youssef refused to let the loss of her leg four years ago during conflict in Gaza to sideline her ambitions.Today – amid a fragile ceasefire and the devastation of her homeland – she stands on the football pitch not only as a player, but [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The ceasefire in Gaza is largely holding but recent violence by Israel and Palestinian militants put the truce at risk, the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Monday. Ramiz Alakbarov briefed on conditions in the battered enclave [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Country Team in Sudan met in Khartoum on Monday – the first time it has convened in the capital since  conflict erupted in April 2023. The 28 agencies, funds and programmes have  maintained their presence and operations from the coastal city of Port Sudan amid the brutal fighting between the [...]

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Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General says the world is shifting fast towards a multipolar system – where power is spread across several regions instead of concentrated in one or two. But Antonio Guterres warns this shift will not guarantee stability. “Multipolarity alone is no guarantee of peace,” he said. Without strong cooperation, [...]

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