New York, US (PANA) - UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) President Nestor Osorio has called for a more effective and inclusive global governance system to ensure that the international community achieves the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and establishes an actionable post-2015 agenda. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) will present awards to African scholars who have published distinctive research in the field of education, at a ceremony in Sevres, near Paris, France on Tuesday, the association said in Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghanaian doctors on Tuesday announced the end of their crippling strike that disrupted services in government health facilities and brought suffering to patients for about one month. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, on Monday welcomed the birth of a new mechanism which will empower individuals to seek out justice when their rights to food, adequate housing, education or health are violated. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the World Press Freedom Day is observed Friday, the umbrella Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Global rights body Amnesty International said Tuesday that Burundi's new law, which will severely limit the activities of journalists in Burundi, poses a grave threat to freedom of expression. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Teachers in Nigerian polytechnics have commenced an indefinite strike over pay and the poor work conditions, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has declared 1 May as a public holiday in observance of Workers' Day, Minister of Interior Abba Moro announced in a statement Friday in the capital city of Abuja. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's National Labour Commission (NLC) has filed a writ at the High Court seeking the powers of the court to compel striking doctors to return to the hospitals as conditions in the public health facilities continue to deteriorate. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - In an unprecedented move, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has granted a television station, TopTV, permission to broadcast pornography in the country. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudan continues to hold 100 political prisoners, even though it has recently released 24 others, according to a coalition of human rights organisations. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Thousands of disgruntled teachers in South Africa on Wednesday morning embarked on protest marches in Cape Town and Pretoria. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) – Japan on Tuesday granted Togo CFA F 5.6 billion to assist the West African nation in its struggle to end poverty that is adversely affecting the population, official sources told PANA here. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Mali-based NGO, SAMU-Social, and partners, Bamako Town Hall, have jointly initiated a project aimed at protecting children in difficult situations and reinforcing the technical capacities of the social services at the local level, PANA learnt here Monday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Gambia's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) has banned online dating services and the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services offered by cyber cafes, PANA confirmed Monday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The strike by doctors in public health facilities in Ghana entered its second week on Monday, but with doctors rescinding their decision to intensify their action, at least for a week. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – Pupils and students in public and private schools in the Togolese capital, Lome, and some cities in the West African state on Friday held demonstrations to express their anger at the handling of on-going strike called by teachers. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Leading South African politicians have paid tribute to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday at the age of 87. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC) has warned those Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centres in Ghana, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released here over the weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Work resumed across Nigeria Tuesday, after the Easter holiday weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that his administration will protect the country's unity and territorial integrity, amid continued terror attacks that many have won could plunge the nation into another civil war. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Under a bill being considered by the Nigeria House of Representatives (parliament), employers of labour in the private and public sectors in Nigeria will be liable to a one-year jail term and the loss of 30 per cent of benefits due to employees if they delay or fail to pay their salaries Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - African experts meeting in the Ivorian economic capital city of Abidjan have been urged to mobilise local and global financial resources and technical expertise to harness the demographic dividend, as they strategise on policies needed to accelerate economic growth in Africa. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - Africa has been urged to seize the opportunity to reap from demographically-driven benefits similar to what Asia experienced, resulting in accelerated economic growth as a result of population dynamics. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Wednesday marked the first annual International Day of Happiness, which has now been added to the global calendar. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN member states on Tuesday in New York completed the first round of global discussions aimed at articulating a set of new sustainable development goals that will shape the UN development agenda. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark has called for new development targets that focus on how growth, poverty alleviation and sustainability can complement one another. Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The Gabon’s national oil union, ONEP, has suspended its strike following a meeting in Port-Gentil to pave the way for talks with the government. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghanaian teachers on Monday began an indefinite strike to press for higher pay, despite a last minute attempt by the government to avoid a full-scale action that has been timed to coincide with the start of the West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The rise of the South is radically reshaping the world of the 21st century, with developing nations driving economic growth, lifting hundreds of millions of people from poverty and propelling billions more into a new global middle class, a UN statement said on Friday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa faces a crippling judicial strike if the country’s magistrates carry out their threat to down their gavels from Monday. Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabon’s oil workers’ union (ONEP) Sunday began an indefinite strike, following the failure of talks with the government on the situation in the oil sector. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Zambia’s former soccer international, Kalusha Bwalya, is to officiate at a fund-raising match for Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee this weekend. Full text...

Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – The World Bank human development director, Mrs. Ritva S. Reinikka, will Thursday begin an official visit to Cameroon to evaluate the implementation of the bank's projects on human development, according to official sources. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – Japan has granted Togo 460 million Yen (about 2.760 billion CFAF) to buy rice and wheat under a food aid project to ensure food security in the West African state, reliable sources told PANA on Tuesday in Lomé. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Saudi government has donated 200 tonnes of food supplies to Mali intended for people in difficult nutritional situation and persons displaced from Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal regions, scenes of the war against Islamist rebels in northern Mali, PANA reported Tuesday, quoting sources close to the Ministry of of Humanitarian Action, Solidarity and the Elderly. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's education ministry officials have described poverty as one of the major hindrances to the achievement of universal free primary education. Full text...

New York. US (PANA) - A dedicated trust fund has been set up by the UN to boost youth volunteerism and harness the energy of young people around the world to contribute to achieving development goals while enhancing their own lives. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Malian Red Cross are providing emergency assistance to some 7,000 displaced people in Diabali, central Mali, and the families hosting them. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has urged his compatriots to continue to pray for peace in all parts of the country, as they celebrate Eid-El-Maulud which commemorates the birth of Prophet Mohammed. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - China will build a technical school estimated at 60 million yuan (US$10 million) in Burundi in an effort to assist the African country to training its population and solve unemployment problems. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian public prosecutor Simplice Koffi Kouadio has revealed that the New Year Eve's tragedy that resulted in 63 deaths, with 40 inuured in the commercial city of Abidjan were caused by inadequate presence of security agents, among others. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Normal health services resumed at Burundi's public health institutions Monday after nurses and paramedics ended a three-week strike to press for higher wages and better work conditions, PANA reported Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of Libya's General National Congress, the country’s highest legislative authority, Dr. Mohamed Al-Megreyef, Saturday deplored Thursday's violence in Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, stating that "these acts are not acceptable and do not reflect the status of Benghazi as the 'city of resistance'.'' Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Several members of the Burundi National Trade Union of Nurses and Paramedics (SYNAPA) were arrested Thursday when police officers tried to force the striking workers back to work, according to local media reports. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Africa’s first Nobel laureate in Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka, was on Wednesday named winner of the maiden award of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo prize for leadership for 2012. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The strike embarked upon by the umbrella National Union of Nurses and Paramedical Personnel in Burundi (SYNAPA) has entered its third week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In the spirit of the Christmas celebrations, the wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, Thursday lit-up a giant Christmas Tree at the Heritage Garden, Oshodi, a suburb of Nigeria's commercial nerve centre, Lagos, PANA reported here Friday. Full text...