Syria: Deadly sectarian violence displaces thousands in Sweida; healthcare attacked

26 july 2025 - 16:31:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As deadly sectarian violence continues to displace hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s Sweida Governorate, [...] Full text...

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Rights group flags repressive laws, lack of due process, attacks on judicial staff in Libya

02 june 2025 - 13:00:49
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya's fragmented justice sector is suppressing fundamental freedoms and obstructing accountability for abuses, Human Rights Watch [...] Full text...

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UNSMIL denounces deadly incident in Tripoli suburb

19 february 2024 - 12:35:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned the murder of 10 people at [...] Full text...

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Rights group says DR Congo security forces 'killed dozens' of protesters last Wednesday

01 september 2023 - 09:44:35
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - A human rights group has said DR Congo security forces shot and killed dozens of [...] Full text...

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Bodies of 210 sub-Saharan migrants found off Tunisia coast

29 april 2023 - 15:59:41
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Within the last ten days, the Tunisian coastguard has recovered some 210 bodies of illegal migrants [...] Full text...

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225 migrants disappeared off Tunisian coast in 2022 - IOM

26 may 2022 - 17:43:07
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Two days after the sinking of a migrant boat from Libya, the International Organisation for Migration [...] Full text...

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Twelve bodies of migrants washed up on Tunisian beaches

19 march 2022 - 15:34:12
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Coast Guard and Civil Protection units recovered 12 bodies of illegal migrants washed up by [...] Full text...

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Ambush on police patrol in north-central Burkina Faso leaves 15 dead

23 june 2021 - 13:42:50
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The latest death toll from Monday night's ambush by unidentified gunmen on the Barsalogho-Foubé road [...] Full text...

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Search for drowned teenagers continue along Central Region coastlines in Ghana

13 march 2021 - 13:49:08
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The bodies of 13 out of an estimated 25 teenagers who got drowned along the coastal [...] Full text...

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Moroccan navy rescues 43 sub-Saharan illegal migrants

25 december 2020 - 10:59:31
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - A unit of the Moroccan Navy, on patrol off Laayoune, on Thursday assisted an inflatable boat [...] Full text...

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Beninese rights body denounces illegal burial of victim of May 2019 demonstrations

11 december 2020 - 21:03:16
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese human rights and people’s organisation (ODHP) Friday denounced the secret burial of Prudence Amoussou, [...] Full text...

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UNESCO wants investigation into death of Nigerian journalist Pelumi Onifade

18 november 2020 - 20:35:05
Paris, France (PANA) - UNESCO Managing Director Audrey Azoulaye Wednesday called on Nigerian authorities to shed light on the death [...] Full text...

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Seven perish in Kenya road crash

24 august 2020 - 22:10:21
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Seven persons died in a freak road accident in Kenya late Monday. The accident along the Eldoret-Malaba [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Seven die in Nigeria's national oil conglomerate exploration platform

08 july 2020 - 15:07:04
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday said that seven people were killed in an [...] Full text...

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39 new bodies found in mass graves in Tarhouna, and the southern outskirts of Tripoli

02 july 2020 - 18:45:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 39 new bodies have been found in mass graves in Tarhouna and the [...] Full text...

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Libyan Government of National Accord welcomes acceptance of investigation by UN human rights commission

22 june 2020 - 23:44:08
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan ministry of Justice of the government of national accord (GNA) Monday expressed its approval [...] Full text...

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190 bodies discovered in hospitals, mass graves after defeat of Hafar forces in western Libya

20 june 2020 - 13:31:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 190 bodies have been discovered in hospitals and mass graves in Tarhouna, 100 [...] Full text...

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Atrocity of war crimes, crimes against humanity in Libya call for an end to impunity

19 june 2020 - 14:47:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The last few weeks have been full of dramatic developments in Libya following the defeat of [...] Full text...

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Libya requests UN assistance to investigate crimes committed in Tarhouna

16 june 2020 - 18:38:03
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, in a [...] Full text...

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Policeman killed by armed man in San, central Mali

16 june 2020 - 18:29:25
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A police officer posted at the entrance of the National Agricultural Development Bank (BNDA) agency in [...] Full text...

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Libyan FM appeals to UNSC for action on crimes committed by pro-Haftar forces

14 june 2020 - 18:48:14
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libyan foreign affairs and international cooperation minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Mohamed Siala, [...] Full text...

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Libyan government determined to shed light on mass graves discovered in Tarhouna, last pro-Haftar stronghold

13 june 2020 - 15:08:04
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -  The mass graves discovered in Tarhouna, 120 km south of Tripoli, the last stronghold of Marshal [...] Full text...

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Former Congolese minister dies in Brazzaville

28 march 2020 - 18:58:06
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's former sports minister and ambassador to China, Jean-Claude Ganga, died at his home on Saturday [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Arrangements must be made for safe burial of virus victims, says expert

19 march 2020 - 16:25:48
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The burial of victims of coronavirus disease requires a number of precautions, Prof. Martial Ouédraogo, [...] Full text...

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Congo: More than 400 bodies abandoned in Brazzaville morgues

06 march 2020 - 14:11:01
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The president of Congo's Union of Mayors (Usymco), Bertin Essami, on Thursday lamented in Brazzaville the [...] Full text...

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DRC’s president orders government to follow up victims of road accident

17 february 2020 - 22:31:20
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi Monday ordered the payment of all fees related to the [...] Full text...

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Five Algerians killed in road accident in Tunisia

28 january 2020 - 22:51:23
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  - Five Algerians were killed Tuesday evening in a road accident in the Tunisian central western region [...] Full text...

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Dozens killed, calm restored as probe is launched into Darfur community clashes

02 january 2020 - 20:29:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Red Crescent said here Thursday that at least 48 persons were killed in Genaina, [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: 12 killed in road accident in Niger State

09 december 2019 - 15:37:58
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Monday confirmed that 12 people died in a road [...] Full text...

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Guinea's opposition victims buried

04 november 2019 - 17:07:17
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The eleven young Guinean opposition activists, killed recently during street demonstrations organized by the National Front [...] Full text...

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Guinea-Bissau: PRS activist killed during weekend opposition demonstrations

28 october 2019 - 15:54:43
Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - A militant of the Social Renovation Party (PRS), the political party of former President Coumba Yala, [...] Full text...

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Mandela's widow seeks to block 'sensitive information' on late president

16 september 2019 - 18:36:49
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nelson Mandela’s widow, Graça Machel, is attempting to block his former physician from revealing [...] Full text...

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Senegal: Former rebel chief, Ousmane Niantang Diatta, dies

13 september 2019 - 18:15:23
Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - Ousmane Niantang Diatta, one of the ancient war leaders of the Movement of Casamance democratic forces [...] Full text...

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Seven killed in road accident in central-western Senegal

19 august 2019 - 12:57:44
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Seven persons were killed and one injured in a road accident in central-western Senegal on Sunday, [...] Full text...

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Guinea: Body of second crew member of crashed helicopter found

10 august 2019 - 13:34:19
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The body of the second crew member of the Guinean Air Force helicopter, which was damaged [...] Full text...

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Guinea: Wreck of helicopter crashed in sea recovered

08 august 2019 - 23:31:50
Conakry, Guinea (PANA)   -   The wreck of the helicopter of "Ecureuil" type of the Guinean air force which crashed at [...] Full text...

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80 bodies of migrants recovered by Tunisian Civil Protection and Navy

13 july 2019 - 12:54:06
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian civil protection and navy teams on Friday recovered 80 bodies of sub-Saharan migrants whose [...] Full text...

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Etienne Tshisekedi’s body arrives in Kinshasa

30 may 2019 - 20:36:03
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA)   -   The body of Etienne Tshisekedi, former prime minister and father of DR Congo’s incumbent President [...] Full text...

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20 killed in road accident in Mali

28 may 2019 - 23:15:50
Bamako, Mali (PANA)  -  Twenty people were killed while 13 others were injured in a motor accident Tuesday on the [...] Full text...

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DR Congo to repatriate remains of opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi

22 may 2019 - 19:00:48
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The remains of the opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, who died on February 1, [...] Full text...

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President Barrow mourns Staff Sergeant Bamidele Akinwale of ECOMIG

04 may 2019 - 17:26:53
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow has joined family and friends in mourning the death of ECOWAS military intervention [...] Full text...

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ECOMIG loses Nigerian peacekeeper in Gambia

03 may 2019 - 20:30:26
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)  -  ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia (ECOMIG) Friday announced the sudden death of one of its [...] Full text...

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Buhari “deeply saddened" by death of 15 supporters in Port Harcourt

13 february 2019 - 14:17:53
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives” [...] Full text...

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Three bodies of migrants found off Libyan coast

03 january 2019 - 16:30:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Three bodies, suspected to be of illegal migrants, were retrieved on Thursday from the Libyan seaside, [...] Full text...

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DR Congo commemoration of Tshisekedi

30 january 2018 - 18:50:27
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Political associates and family members of the late Etienne Tshisekedi, who passed away a year [...] Full text...

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Kenyan breastfeeding mothers face rape threats at state-run hospital

19 january 2018 - 11:39:19
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Mothers of new-borns at a state-owned Kenyan hospital have narrated rape ordeals usually perpetrated by healthcare [...] Full text...

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Kenyan opposition calls for international response after deadly round of violence

19 november 2017 - 19:04:04
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan opposition alliance said 14 people were killed by men riding motorbikes on Sunday and its [...] Full text...

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Libyan officials report 36 unidentified bodies found alongside road to Benghazi

27 october 2017 - 17:29:00
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 36 bodies of unidentified persons have been found along the main road linking Al-Abiar city [...] Full text...

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Zambia: HIV/AIDS testing now mandatory in Zambia

16 august 2017 - 08:37:41
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – HIV/AIDS testing is now mandatory in public health institutions as the Zambian Government acts to prevent [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Sporadic violence breaks out in Kenya after poll results

12 august 2017 - 14:38:02
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Several people are feared to have been killed in random shooting across the Western Kenyan towns [...] Full text...

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Libya: Benghazi hospital awash with photos of decomposing bodies of newborn babies

21 july 2017 - 05:58:15
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Health Minister of the Libyan Interim Government, Reida El-Oakley, has sacked the top Management Staff [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: 20 killed in fresh Nigeria bombing

18 november 2015 - 20:10:59
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - About 20 people were killed in Nigeria's northern city of Kano on Wednesday when two bombs [...] Full text...

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Libya: 26 bodies of illegal migrants recovered off Tripoli coasts

02 october 2015 - 12:34:31
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – A Libyan Red-Crescent team, in collaboration with the Libyan navy, on Thursday evening recovered 26 bodies [...] Full text...

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Libya: 4 killed in communal violence

14 july 2015 - 10:30:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Three persons were killed on Monday evening in Sebha, 800km South of Libya's capital, Tripoli, in [...] Full text...

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Libya: 5 soldiers killed, 28 injured in armed clashes in Benghazi

09 november 2014 - 11:22:55
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - At least five soldiers were killed and 28 others injured in armed clashes between Islamic militias [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Military ''kills'' 53 insurgents

06 july 2014 - 10:14:11
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military has said it killed 53 insurgents and lost six troops during an attack [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: Libyan diplomat commits suicide

03 july 2014 - 08:39:26
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Investigation is underway to establish the circumstances surrounding the apparent suicide by Libya’s acting [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Army probes shootings by soldiers as GOC addresses troops

14 may 2014 - 21:57:26
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's newly-formed army unit, the 7 Division, has set up a military board of inquiry to [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: '9 dead, 11 injured in Abuja bombing' (2nd Update)

01 may 2014 - 23:40:13
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - At least nine people were killed and 11 others critically injured in Thursday night's bombing at [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Casualty figure from Abuja bombing is 72 dead, 236 injured - Govt.

14 april 2014 - 19:04:39
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Ministry of Health Monday evening released the main casualty figures of the bomb blasts [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: President orders heightened security in capital city after deadly attack (Update 2)

14 april 2014 - 11:34:38
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a heightened security in the nation's capital, Abuja, following Monday's [...] Full text...

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Violent clashes leave 22 dead in Brazzaville

17 december 2013 - 18:56:45
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Monday's confrontation between policemen and the security guards of Col. Marcel Tsourou, a former Secretary of [...] Full text...

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CAR: Amnesty urges global community to protect civilians

09 december 2013 - 18:16:12
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The civilian population in Central African Republic (CAR) is in urgent need of protection, Amnesty International [...] Full text...

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Abuja killings, lingering ASUU strike, the nation at 53 highlighted in Nigeria

28 september 2013 - 09:25:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The killing, on 20 September in Abuja, of young men purported to be members of the [...] Full text...

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Unbridled orgy of killings dominates Nigerian media

11 may 2013 - 10:08:26
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The recent breakdown of law and order, resulting in the mass killing of persons, including security [...] Full text...

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Nigerian military kills 14 suspected Islamists in raid

31 march 2013 - 15:41:51
Kano, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 14 suspects were killed when soldiers of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling [...] Full text...

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4 die, 10 injured in Nigeria road crash

29 december 2012 - 22:43:04
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Four persons died while 10 others were injured when a truck collided with a passenger bus [...] Full text...

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Attendants pile corpses on roof tops as floods "sack" Nigerian mortuary

28 october 2012 - 10:34:05
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The floods that caused havoc across Nigeria has "sacked" the General Hospital, Patani, in Patani Local [...] Full text...

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Violence in Nigerian town claims 34 lives - Newspaper

21 october 2012 - 10:30:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram have killed at least 34 [...] Full text...

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Stop using live bullets on demonstrators, rights body tells Sudan

03 august 2012 - 16:46:20
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudanese security forces must stop shooting protesters with live ammunition, Amnesty International (AI) said after confirming [...] Full text...

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'40 killed in Nigeria violence'

20 june 2012 - 07:11:36
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 40 people, including soldiers and policemen, died in Monday's gun and bomb attack perpetrated [...] Full text...

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Kenya probes tragic police chopper crash

10 june 2012 - 15:03:47
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan authorities have launched an investigation into Sunday's helicopter crash that killed Interior Minister George Saitoti [...] Full text...

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Nigerian airline operators slam govt for suspending crash airline's license

07 june 2012 - 08:07:03
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Airlines Operators of Nigeria (AON) has slammed the federal government for suspending the operations [...] Full text...

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Rescue work resumes at Nigeria plane crash site for 3rd day running

05 june 2012 - 10:17:38
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The grim work of recovering the bodies of those who died in Sunday's plane crash in [...] Full text...

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139 bodies recovered from Nigerian plane crash site

04 june 2012 - 20:05:31
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 139 bodies have been recovered from the site of the crashed Nigerian passenger plane on [...] Full text...

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Alleged perpetrator of Burundi massacre shot dead

04 may 2012 - 13:22:15
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Carmel Mukono, one of the alleged perpetrators of the killing of at least 39 people in [...] Full text...

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'30 die in fuel tanker fire in Nigeria'

02 april 2012 - 09:45:42
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 30 people were burnt to death on Sunday following a fuel tanker explosion at [...] Full text...

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Death toll from Nigeria church bombing, aftermath rises to 19

13 march 2012 - 09:09:39
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll from Sunday's suicide bombing of a Catholic church in Nigeria's restive northern city [...] Full text...

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Congolese minister puts death toll from Congo blast at 152

06 march 2012 - 11:43:39
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's Minister of the Interior and Decentralization Raymond Zéphirin has put the death toll from Sunday's [...] Full text...

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Nigeria road crash claims 21 lives

09 june 2011 - 08:44:05
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A ghastly road crash involving a truck and a passenger bus along the Akure-Ilesha road in [...] Full text...

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Many die in Nigeria explosions

30 may 2011 - 07:56:34
Lagos, Abuja (PANA) - Three simultaneous explosions rocked a military barracks in Nigeria's northern city of Bauchi Sunday night, leaving [...] Full text...

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Military insists no mass killings in besieged Niger Delta community

06 december 2010 - 10:00:31
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military insisted Monday its troops did not engage in mass killing of innocent civilians [...] Full text...

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Gambia compensates families of Ghanaians murdered in Gambia

24 june 2010 - 08:01:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Government of Ghana has announced that it has received US$500,000 from The Gambia for disbursement [...] Full text...

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Outpour of emotions as Guinea trade unionists, journalists are buried

19 april 2010 - 15:41:00
Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- There was a huge outpour of emotions on Monday at the s tate funeral for two [...] Full text...

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12 feared dead in Nigeria road crash

19 january 2010 - 08:24:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Thirteen persons were feared to have died when a truck c ollided with a passenger bus [...] Full text...

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Jailing of 'the beast', Ghanaians in Libyan morgue hit headlines

22 august 2009 - 09:06:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghanaian media this week highlighted the jailing of a 28-year-old man who raped a young [...] Full text...

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Death toll rises to over 400 as fighting continues in northern Nigeria

30 july 2009 - 09:50:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA)-- Nigerian army soldiers continued their battle against the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in Maiduguri, the northern [...] Full text...

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Nigeria oil workers plan strike over kidnappings

07 february 2009 - 15:01:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's white-collar oil workers have said they will embark on an indefinite strike starting Monday to [...] Full text...

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Kenya supermarket fire: Victims locked in, shoppers say

01 february 2009 - 17:01:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Some lucky survivors of Kenya's Nakumatt Downtown superm arket fire incident alleged that the management of [...] Full text...

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State governor's death, Yar'Adua's leave top Nigerian press

31 january 2009 - 11:18:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The sudden death of the Governor of Nigeria's northern Yobe State, Senator Mamman Ali, in the [...] Full text...

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Death toll in Nairobi supermarket fire now 19

30 january 2009 - 15:15:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least 14 bodies were Friday recovered, bringing to 19 the number of people who died [...] Full text...

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