Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Attacks on health care in Sudan are becoming deadlier and more widespread, cutting off access to lifesaving services and placing health workers and humanitarian operations at serious risk, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).Since the conflict began in April 2023, WHO has verified 201 attacks [...] Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on Friday outlined specific demands that his country believes must form the core of any meaningful reparations programme for Africa, as Ghana intensifies efforts to secure global recognition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and colonial exploitation as crimes against humanity.He said [...] Full text...
Benghazi, Libya (PANA)- A joint cooperation agreement was signed between the General Command of the Libyan National Army based in the East and the Pakistani Army, following an expanded meeting in Benghazi between the Deputy Commander of the General Command, Lieutenant General Saddam Khalifa Haftar, and the Chief of Staff [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Trust Bank of Gambia.Currency Buying SellingUS Dollar [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and Zambian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on policies to complete the sixth and final review of Zambia’s 38-month ECF arrangement. Subject to approval by the IMF Executive Board, Zambia will receive a disbursement of SDR 138.9 million (about $190 [...] Full text...
Washington, DC (PANA) - Management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on 15 December the first review of Mali’s Staff Monitored Programe (SMP). The 11-months SMP, approved in March 2025, aims to ensure fiscal sustainability, strengthen governance and public financial management, and protect the most vulnerable, a press release by [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the Nigerien authorities’ request for an extension of the country’s Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) arrangement until 4 March, 2026. This is to align the last RSF review Executive Board consideration with the review of the [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - West Africa and the Sahel are moving forward in the open. Between successive coups d'état, expanding extremist violence, coastal states affected by Sahelian instability and a humanitarian crisis that international aid is struggling to contain, the picture is bleak – and it is getting even [...] Full text...
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - A pregnant woman in Gaza thought she might lose her child because of malnourishment. Ten days ago, she gave birth and is now in recovery thanks to World Food Programme (WFP) facilities that are back up and running again, the agency’s representative for Palestine said [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday observed the first-ever International Day against Colonialism in All Its Forms and Manifestations which supports the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, adopted 65 years ago.Since then, the UN helped more than 60 territories – home to over 80 million people – pursue [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) will evacuate its logistics base in Kadugli, Sudan, in the wake of the “heinous attack” this past weekend that killed six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and seriously injured eight others. “The decision, which was communicated to the relevant authorities, [...] Full text...
