One in ten people in Burundi faces acute food insecurity
MA Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Nearly 1.17 million people are in a situation of acute food insecurity in Burundi, or 10% of the total population of [...] Full text...
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Two years of Gaza-Israel war bring ‘indescribable’ pain, warn aid agencies
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the Gaza-Israel war enters its third year, sparked by Hamas-led attacks on Israel, the UN is appealing for the release [...] Full text...
Libya participates in Arab-African Youth Conference in Uganda
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A delegation from the Libyan Ministry of Youth of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) is participating in the Arab-African [...] Full text...
Libyan University, Malaysian academic institutions sign MoUs
BBA Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Omar Mokhtar University, based in Benghazi in the east, has signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Malaysian academic institutions [...] Full text...
Gaza: Major UN aid operation ‘ready to go’ if agreement is reached on US peace plan
MA New York, US (PANA) - UN aid teams in Gaza are “ready to go” with thousands of tonnes of supplies on standby to alleviate famine, [...] Full text...
More people being forced to flee Sudan's besieged city
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More people are being forced to flee their homes as fighting continues in El Fasher, Sudan, the UN said on Monday, [...] Full text...
UN World Court weighs in on right to strike
MA The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened hearings on Monday to determine whether the right to strike is protected under [...] Full text...
Rights group hails first conviction of former Janjaweed militia in Sudan or serious crimes
MA The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) – The first International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of a former leader of the Janjaweed militias for serious crimes in Sudan's [...] Full text...
Libyan university hosts conference on sustainable development
BBA Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - An international scientific conference on training and sustainable development on the theme: "Current challenges and future aspirations" started at Omar Mokhtar [...] Full text...
We are not powerless in face of Gaza, West Bank, Ukraine atrocities, insists UNHCR chief
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Monday took aim at the “deliberate abandonment” of the laws of war [...] Full text...
AUC Chairperson strongly condemns terrorist attack on Somali prison
MA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has strongly condemns the terrorist attack carried out by [...] Full text...
Somali security forces end deadly al-Shabaab terrorist attack on Mogadishu prison
MA Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Security forces of the Federal Government of Somalia have successfully ended a terrorist attack by al-Shabaab militants on the Godka Jilaow [...] Full text...
Sudanese journalist dies of his wounds, raising to 32 those killed in the war
MO Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate on Sunday said a journalist, Al-Nour Suleiman, has died of his wounds following the shelling by [...] Full text...
AfDB and IOM sign MoU to harness migration for peace, development
MA Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The sixth Africa Resilience Forum concluded in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between [...] Full text...
IOM Director General, Pope Leo call for urgent reform to protect migrants and end smugglers’ exploitation
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Amy Pope, concluded a two-day visit to Italy thsi week that [...] Full text...
UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur
MA Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The UN’s top humanitarian official in Sudan has warned of an impending catastrophe in Darfur, with civilians facing relentless violence, [...] Full text...
Fewer than one in 10 Somalis to receive life-saving aid in November, warns WFP
MA Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that millions in Somalia are at risk of worsening hunger and malnutrition [...] Full text...
Amnesty International calls for investigations into deadly force used against Gen Z protesters in Madagascar
MA Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Amnesty International has called on the authorities in Madagascar to launch a “thorough and efective” investigation into the “deadly force” used [...] Full text...
Rights group slams Chad for 'weaponization' of citizenship
MA N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed Chad for stripping a blogger and a journalist of their citizenship describing it as “a [...] Full text...
Seven illegal miners die as pit collapses
MA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Seven illegal miners have died, while five others have been rescued after a pit collapsed on them at an illegal mining [...] Full text...
UN rights chief calls for urgent action to protect civilians in Sudan's besiged city
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday warned that civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher city faces the imminent risk of [...] Full text...
Germany must deliver reparatory justice for its 'brutal' colonial past in Namibia - Amnesty International
MA Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, said on Thursday that Germany must fully acknowledge its legal responsibility for the genocide and other [...] Full text...
Human rights groups urged to ‘unite more than ever’ in efforts to end racism
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The “colour line” still exists today – proof that more must be done to stamp out anti-Black racism, the head of [...] Full text...
Calls grow louder for more age-inclusive societies
MA New York, US (PANA) - Member States, UN officials and civil society came together on Wednesday to shift the global perspective on ageing, with a [...] Full text...
World failing Gaza’s starving children, aid teams warn
MA Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As Israeli forces continued their push to take full control of Gaza City on Wednesday, reports emerged that another skeletal [...] Full text...
Sudan: Civilians in El Fasher trapped between siege and deadly roads
MA Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As fighting intensifies for control of El Fasher, one of the main cities in western Sudan, residents are faced with [...] Full text...
Insecurity in northern Mozambique continues to force thousands to flee
MA Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - More than 20,000 people, including 10,000 children, have been displaced by escalating conflict and violence in northern Mozambique, a United Nations [...] Full text...
Drafting of missing persons law in Libya moves forward with UN facilitation
MA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Building on a year-long process of consultations, a committee of experts reached consensus on key elements of a draft law on [...] Full text...
Gaza: As world waits for Hamas' response to US peace plan, aid teams call for ceasefire
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN agencies reiterated calls for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday to help alleviate Palestinian suffering, as a new US [...] Full text...
Gaza: UN rights office deplores deadly strikes on Palestinians gathering firewood
MA Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As Israeli military operations continue in Gaza City, deadly strikes on displaced Palestinians – including people collecting firewood for cooking [...] Full text...
Humanitarian situation in Sudan's besieged city growing 'more dire'
MA New York, US (PANA) - The humanitarian situation in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur state, is growing more dire [...] Full text...
Libyan Parliamentary delegation attends 3rd Arab Parliamentary Media Forum
BBA Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The media directorate of Libya's Parliament is attending the Third Arab Parliamentary Media Forum in the Kingdom of Bahrain, focusing on [...] Full text...
South Africa nominated for five Emmy Awards
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has confirmed that South Africa has received five International Emmy Awards [...] Full text...
Medical charity suspends activities in Mozambique's Mocímboa da Praia
MA Pemba, Mozambique (PANA) - Medical and humanitarian charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has temporarily suspended activities in the town and district of Mocímboa da Praia [...] Full text...
UN raises alarm over South Sudan’s worsening human rights crisis
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday voiced deep concern over the rapidly worsening human rights situation in [...] Full text...
Sudan: Khartoum returnees face shelter crisis, warns IOM
MA Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The ongoing war between rival militaries in Sudan has left vast areas devastated and people returning to their homes without adequate [...] Full text...
CAR: Thousands of civilians seek refuge with the UN on the Sudanese border
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly 5,000 fleeing civilians have gathered in recent days around a UN peacekeepers base in the Central African Republic (CAR), near [...] Full text...
French Navy ships seize 9.6 tons of cocaine off West African coast
MA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Two French Navy vessels on Monday seized 9.6 tons of cocaine off the coast of West Africa.The operation was under the [...] Full text...
AI must not decide humanity’s fate, UN chief warns Security Council
MA New York, US (PANA) - Artificial intelligence holds vast potential but poses grave risks if left unregulated, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council [...] Full text...
Troops ensure relative calm in Libyan city after armed clashes
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Relative calm has returned to the Libyan city of Zaouia, 45 kms west of Tripoli, after the deployment of troops following [...] Full text...
Parliament's committee to monitor conditions of detention of Libyans abroad meets
BBA Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Parliament's committee responsible for monitoring and evaluating the conditions of detention of Libyan prisoners abroad has met to deliberate on the [...] Full text...
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger withdraw from International Criminal Court
MA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, 0n Monday announced their withdrawal from the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), saying it has [...] Full text...
Why digitalisation for displaced people and host communities can’t wait (World Bank Blog by Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi, Global Practice Manager, Digital Economy & Society, Digital Vice Presidency; Johan Bjurman Bergman, Digital Development Specialist and Anne Schuchardt, Consultant, World Bank Digital Vice Presidency)
AR Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - For more than 120 million forcibly displaced people around the world, including refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs), connectivity, [...] Full text...
IOM chief calls for stronger cooperation on migration at UN General Assembly
MA New York, US (PANA) - As world leaders convene in New York for the High-Level Week of the 80th Session of the United Nations General [...] Full text...
US/Africa expulsion deals flout rights, says rights advocate
MA Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The United States' recent expulsions of third-country nationals to Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and South Sudan have exposed several hundred people [...] Full text...
Offensive shutters nearly half of all malnutrition centres in and around Gaza City
MA Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Hostilities between Israeli forces and Hamas have led to the shuttering of almost half of all malnutrition centres in and [...] Full text...
Sudan crisis deepens: Violence, famine and cholera threaten millions in Darfur - UN
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Conditions are deteriorating rapidly in El Fasher, the besieged capital of Sudan's North Darfur State.Between 17 and 19 September more than [...] Full text...
Sudan: UNICEF says at least 11 children killed in El Fashir mosque attack
MO Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As more details come out from the scene of the drone strike that killed at least 75 civilians in the [...] Full text...
Rights group concerned about surge in arrests of journalists, media workers in Ethiopia
MA Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – A human rights watchdog has called on the Ethiopian authorities to end their harassment of independent journalists and immediately release all [...] Full text...
Families of victims of human rights violations in Libyan city seek justice
MA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Tarhuna Victims’ Family Association, backed by the Tarhuna Mayor, have reiterated calls for accountability for human rights violations that occurred [...] Full text...