New York, US (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has called for global concerted efforts to address the situation of migrants attempting life-threatening journey across seas and deserts in the hope for a better life. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has sharply criticised the country's government for threatening to sack striking public university teachers if they failed to resume work on 4 Dec. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Friday's acquittal of a key Zimbabwean human rights defender is encouraging, but the fact that it comes after three years of harassment is further confirmation that the police continue to abuse the law to hamper the work of human rights defenders, Amnesty International said. Full text...

London, UK (PANA) - The New African Magazine, the world's biggest-selling, English-language pan-African magazine, Friday released a list of those it called 100 Most Influential Africans. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday said that accelerating industrialization in Africa requires a focus on job creation and entrepreneurship, stressing that these are key aspects that will fully capture the potential of Africa’s dynamic work force and boosting inclusive sustainable development on the continent. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), has called for a youth-centered goal in the Post-2015 development agenda, saying that young people are a vital force that must be front and centre in global development efforts. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has granted citizenship to 179 foreign nationals from countries within and outside Africa, according to government ministers. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Ambassador Ayo Oke as the new Director-General of the country's National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the presidency said in a statement issued here Thursday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN officials have said partnerships are vital if countries are to reduce poverty and advance economic and social progress, as well as address challenges and accelerate the achievement of the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The International Labour Organisation (ILO) says sharing experience for the promotion of green jobs can play a key role in helping countries to advance towards a greener and a more sustainable future. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN and US-based ELS Educational Services have signed an agreement to foster multilingualism among the youth, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said on Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Muslims in Nigeria Tuesday joined their counterparts from across the world in celebrating Eid Eil-Kabir, otherwise known as the feast of sacrifice, with a call from clerics to remain steadfast, obey and abide by the injunctions of the Almighty God. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Federal Government on Thursday declared 15-16 October as public holidays to mark Eid-el-Kabir, the Muslim feast of the sacrifice. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - An International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report, released on Tuesday, projects that by the end of the year, 40% of the world’s population, about 2.7 billion people, will be online, as mobile broadband has become the fastest growing segment of the global information and communications technology (ICT) market. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan government on Saturday declared three days of national mourning, beginning Sunday, in honour of 16 soldiers who were killed at a check point between the cities of Beni Walid and Tarhana. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Some UN agencies said on Saturday that the world would need to recruit more than five million teachers if the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary education is to be achieved by the 2015 deadline. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The 193-UN member states have, for the first time, unanimously adopted a Declaration calling for the respect of human rights and international labour standards for migrants, while reiterating their commitment to fight human trafficking and strongly condemning racism and intolerance. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's tourism and hospitality sector has received a major boost with the opening on Sunday night of the 23-storey Intercontinental Hotel in the economic capital city of Lagos. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - As the UN General Assembly continues its annual high-level segment, a host of African leaders have stressed that while the continent’s progress is beyond doubt, consolidating social and economic gains requires international, regional and local approaches that better protect African livelihoods and ensure that agreed development targets can be achieved. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – UN officials and experts from the fields of law enforcement, research and academia are meeting in Vienna, Austria, to find ways to combat the exploitation of children online, which has become more prevalent due to technological advances, a UN statement said on Friday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - World leaders attending the ongoing 68th session of the UN General Assembly Tuesday inaugurated a High-level Political Forum that aims to inject new energy into the global effort to boost world-wide development that is sustainable for future generations. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday mobilised heads of state, corporate organisations, business leaders and philanthropists into joint action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Leading African businessmen, Tony Elumelu and Edward Boateng, were amongst recipients who received accolades at the African Business Awards 2013, according to the African Business magazine, organizers of the event. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN on Wednesday marked the International Day of Peace with a call to invest in education that encourages children to embrace global citizenship based on values of tolerance and diversity. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – An undetermined device which exploded Friday in a trash can in the south-western Congolese city of Sibiti left two persons dead and five others injured, the Congolese radio reported Sunday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A new report by the UN on Wednesday said the number of international migrants has risen in recent times, with Asia seeing the largest increase over the past decade, and the US remaining the most popular destination. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Monday met with visiting UN Special Envoy on Global Education Gordon Brown, using the opportunity to reaffirm his administration’s commitment to policies and measures to ensure that Nigerian youth receive qualitative education that will equip them with the skills required by employers. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN senior officials on Sunday stressed the role of literacy in achieving a more sustainable future, noting that knowledge can help combat poverty and improve people's livelihoods. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A new UN treaty, which came into force on Thursday, will extend the labour and social rights of some 53 million domestic workers around the world. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked people around the world to donate time or money or act with kindness as the UN marked the first ever International Day of Charity, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius spent 27.3% of total government’s expenditure or 6.7% of its GDP - representing US$700 million - on social security and welfare of its population in 2012, PANA reported from Wednesday, quoting Statistics Mauritius. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is scaling up efforts to assist half a million children in Mali whose lives were disrupted by conflict, flooding and a nutrition crisis, to get back to their books, UNICEF spokesperson, Ms. Marixie Mercado, said on Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan government will deploy 1,435 police officers to Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, to enhance security in that city, according to a top security official, Col. Abdallah al-Zandini, who was speaking Sunday on Radio Libya. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Over 90 mass graves have been discovered across Libya, according to the Libyan ministry in charge of the families of martyrs and the dead. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - French language will be part of Nigeria's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for interested candidates from 2014, as part of efforts to popularise the language in the country, the local media reported Friday, quoting Education Minister Ruqayyatu Rufa’I. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The US has urged the Nigerian government to end the two-month-old strike embarked upon by teachers in the country's public universities. Full text...

Bangui, CAR (PANA) – The UN Integrated Office for Peacekeeping in Central African Republic (BINUCA) has expressed "grave concern" about bloody clashes reported for a week in the capital, Bangui, and the other regions of the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Namibian contestant Dillish Matthews Sunday emerged the overall winner of Season 8 of the reality show Big Brother Africa, tagged ''The Chase'', smiling home with the winner-takes-all prize money of US$300,000. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - French President François Hollande Friday held talks in Paris with the representatives of several French and international NGOs on the political and security situation in Central African Republic (CAR) since the Seleka rebels seized power, the French presidency said in a statement. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged African governments, development partners and the international community to boost action towards achieving the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa. Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A co-founder of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU - PF) party, Comrade Enos Nkala, died Wednesday at the age of 81. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Workers at Nigerian government's tertiary health institutions are due to begin an indefinite, nation-wide strike midnight Wednesday to protest government's failure to accede to their demand for better remuneration. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) Tuesday urged the country's federal government to honour its agreement with the umbrella association of university teachers, the failure of which triggered the ongoing strike that has paralysed academic work in the nation's public universities. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The African Extraordinary Chamber (AEC), which is trying the former Chadian president, Hissene Habre, for war crimes, torture and crimes against humanity, has sent a mission in Chad to conduct investigations on the ground on the charges. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has condemned Saturday's bomb attack on the Egyptian Consulate in Benghazi, Libya's second city, saying it will not affect the excellent ties between the two North African countries. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian workers returned to their offices on Monday after four straight days off, two of them to observe the public holidays marking Eid-el-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria's South-west town of Ile-Ife are celebrating the ranking of the public university as the best in Nigeria and eighth in Africa by the Spain-based research group Cybermetrics Lab. Full text...

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has launched its 24-hour news channel, with President Jacob Zuma tasking the station to tell the full story of South Africa as well as the African story. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - ECOWAS has again lived up to its reputation as a trail blazer in regional integration matters, with a staff of the ECOWAS Commission leading the pack of 16 participants at the just-ended intensive course on Migration Policy for Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Dakar, Senegal. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Marking the International Day of Friendship, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged the global community to use the potential of friendship to strengthen common bonds and inspire efforts for peace and sustainable development. Full text...