UNESCO World Heritage Centre inscribes Historic Georgetown on Janjanbureh Island into its Network

27 june 2025 - 14:20:41

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - UNESCO World Heritage Centre has officially inscribed Historic Georgetown on Janjanbureh Island in the Gambia into its Network of Places of [...] Full text...

UNDP, Government of Gambia launch 2025 Global Human Development Report

27 june 2025 - 14:14:51

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST), on Friday launched the [...] Full text...

‘A moral failure’: Security Council hears about grave violations against children caught in war

25 june 2025 - 19:47:08

New York, US (PANA) - When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three years-old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, [...] Full text...

AU creates agency to advance space technologies in war against climate change

25 june 2025 - 16:04:52

Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) – The African Union has created a new agency, whose mandate is to utilize space information to strengthen the fight against climate [...] Full text...

Africa's industrialisation through agricultural revolution shows mixed signals, says AU Commissioner

24 june 2025 - 07:55:46

Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) – The industrialisation of Africa, through an agricultural revolution, premised on increased investment in agricultural productivity, has shown mixed signals decades later, [...] Full text...

Africa's industrialisation through agricultural revolution shows mixed signals, says AU Commissioner

24 june 2025 - 07:55:46

Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) – The industrialisation of Africa, through an agricultural revolution, premised on increased investment in agricultural productivity, has shown mixed signals decades later, [...] Full text...

AU urges universal access to climate data to urgently enhance response

23 june 2025 - 17:41:18

Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) – The African Union has urged countries in Africa to urgently seek for universal access to climate information held by weather prediction [...] Full text...

Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe

19 june 2025 - 18:30:32

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - More than 100 days into Israel’s complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave warned on [...] Full text...

WHO calls for global expansion of midwifery models of care

18 june 2025 - 00:07:08

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday released new guidance to help countries adopt and expand midwifery models of care - where [...] Full text...

African Union and IGAD agree on working together to help Sudan achieve peace

11 june 2025 - 14:08:53

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The East African inter-government Development Agency (IGAD) has said it has agreed with the African Union to coordinate efforts for [...] Full text...

Luanda to host heads of state-level infrastructure financing summit under AU chairmanship

10 june 2025 - 11:57:51

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with Government of Angola will host Africa’s [...] Full text...

AU chief discusses political transition with representatives of Alliance of Sahel States

28 may 2025 - 09:46:37

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, on Tuesday held consultations with the Ambassadors of the [...] Full text...

Tanzanian farmers clear more land to expand coffee plantations

26 may 2025 - 12:59:22

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania's coffee sector is poised for expansion, with cultivated areas projected to grow from 265,000 hectares (HA) in marketing [...] Full text...

Ghana's President calls for reparations to address centuries of African exploitation

25 may 2025 - 16:16:26

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Mahama has called for global accountability and reparative justice to confront the enduring legacies of slavery, colonialism, and [...] Full text...

CAR implements the Enhanced General Data Dissemination System of IMF

20 may 2025 - 08:47:27

Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - With the successful launch of the new data portal—the National Summary Data Page (NSDP) — the Central African Republic [...] Full text...

AU chair expresses concern about armed clashes in Tripoli

18 may 2025 - 13:40:44

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has expressed “deep concern” over the recent armed clashes in [...] Full text...

AU condemns attacks on Port Sudan

06 may 2025 - 10:04:06

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has strongly condemned attacks on Port Sudan in Sudan, that had been used as a de [...] Full text...

Commission to probe apartheid-era crimes in South Africa

02 may 2025 - 08:24:00

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is in the process of establishing a judicial commission of inquiry to [...] Full text...

IMF Spring Meetings: Navigating an uncertain world

26 april 2025 - 11:36:26

Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - High economic uncertainty may be an overarching theme of the IMF Spring Meetings. But it has been on an [...] Full text...

Libya calls for integrated approach to combating irregular migration from Africa to Europe

11 april 2025 - 11:36:11

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation, Ali al-Abed, has stressed that Libya is facing major challenges due to the influx of [...] Full text...

Libya attends Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit in Addis Ababa

04 april 2025 - 11:53:35

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister for Youth, Fathalla Elzuni, took part in the opening of the Conference on African Youth Leadership, organised in [...] Full text...

AU Commission Chairperson to deploy Panel of the Wise for South Sudan mediation

01 april 2025 - 16:32:47

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mahmoud Youssouf Ali, is dispatching a high-level delegation of the AU Panel [...] Full text...

Top UN official in Libya meets African diplomats

20 march 2025 - 15:25:00

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Hanna Tetteh, on [...] Full text...

Libya reiterates its refusal to bear the burden of illegal immigration alone

18 march 2025 - 17:01:40

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's interim Minister of the Interior in the government of national unity, Major- General Imad Mustafa al-Trabelsi, has stated that Libya [...] Full text...

Libya to host 2026 Africa/Turkey Summit

18 february 2025 - 15:49:46

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya will host the 2026 Africa-Turkey Summit, the Libyan News Agency (LANA) reported on Monday.It quoted a press office from the [...] Full text...

African Union warns against territorial break-up of DR Congo

16 february 2025 - 15:04:19

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union warned Sunday against the break-up of the Democratic Republic of Congo, two days after the Rwandan-backed M23 [...] Full text...

Djibouti's Foreign Minister Ali Youssouf wins race for AUC Chairperson slot

15 february 2025 - 22:27:15

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf emerged victorious in the tough race for the leadership of the African Union Commission [...] Full text...

AU Summit: DRC, Sudan at the heart of discussions in Addis Ababa

15 february 2025 - 19:16:44

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - At the start of the 38th annual summit of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, the UN chief on [...] Full text...

Africa 'brimming with hope and possibility': Guterres

15 february 2025 - 18:58:58

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, emphasised the potential of Africa and its young population and called for global reforms to [...] Full text...

Outgoing AUC chair Moussa Faki offers personal scorecard, takes swipe at African leaders

15 february 2025 - 17:41:12

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -  The outgoing Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Moussa Faki, offered a personal reflection on Saturday on his eight-year [...] Full text...

Angola promises everlasting impression on infrastructure

15 february 2025 - 15:10:39

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union's newly-elected Chairman, Angola's President Joao Manuel Lourenco, has promised to leave a permanent mark on Africa's economic [...] Full text...

Key Libyan parties fail to initial AU-sponsored Charter for Peace and Reconciliation

15 february 2025 - 13:52:14

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation in Libya was signed on Friday in Addis Ababa under the auspices of [...] Full text...

African Union Summit opens in Ethiopia

15 february 2025 - 13:14:47

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Angola's Joao Manuel Lourenco assumed the rotating Chair of the African Union (AU) on Saturday, at the start of the [...] Full text...

Guterres: World must not turn its back on Sudan’s deepening crisis

15 february 2025 - 05:26:43

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Friday called on the international community to urgently scale up funding and diplomatic action to ease [...] Full text...

IMF team concludes Ghana visit

14 february 2025 - 20:23:31

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team led by Stéphane Roudet has visited Ghana as part of their regular engagement with [...] Full text...

Libya, AU reach agreement to reopen the organization's Tripoli office after ten-year hiatus

14 february 2025 - 16:39:27

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The head of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of National Unity, al-Taher al-Baour, has [...] Full text...

Reinforcing pastoralism in the Sahel and West Africa: a decade of progress and the path forward: World Bank Blog By Chakib Jenane, Boutheina Guermazi and Olivier Buyoya

14 february 2025 - 11:26:35

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Pastoralism has long been a hallmark of the cultural, social, and economic landscapes of the Sahel and West Africa, sustaining the [...] Full text...

Rights group urges AU to take action to end crackdown on opposition, dissent in Mali

14 february 2025 - 06:02:45

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has written a letter to African Union officials urging the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights [...] Full text...

Incoming AU leadership must prioritise, stand up for human rights - Amnesty International

14 february 2025 - 05:44:13

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As African heads of state and government prepare to elect and appoint the new leadership team of the African Union [...] Full text...

Libyan, Senegalese FMs discuss bilateral ties

12 february 2025 - 12:13:07

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan's Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr. al-Taher al-Baour and Senegal's Minister of African Integration and Foreign Affairs, [...] Full text...

Chairman of Libyan Presidential Council attends 42nd AUDA-NEPAD session

11 february 2025 - 12:39:14

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, on Monday participated in the 42nd session of the Committee of Heads [...] Full text...

African leaders to discuss establishment of Africa Credit Rating Agency

09 february 2025 - 08:08:03

Addis Ababa, Ehiopia (PANA) - African Heads of State and Government are set to convene for a Presidential Dialogue on the establishment of an Africa [...] Full text...

The national reconciliation process in Libya at the centre of talks between the Chairman of the Libyan Council and Moussa Faki

08 february 2025 - 16:17:58

Tripoli, Libya (PANA)- In a telephone conversation with the Chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki, the Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, [...] Full text...

AU warns DRC, Rwanda to quell military tension in eastern DRC

29 january 2025 - 18:15:18

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Peace and Security Council has expressed “grave concern” over the increased tensions between the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...

Mission 300 Energy Summit gathers Africa’s leaders and partners to transform energy sector

27 january 2025 - 08:08:53

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania (PANA) – African heads of state, business leaders, and development partners converge on Monday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the [...] Full text...

With IMF support Cape Verde aims to build climate resilience, grow strongly

25 january 2025 - 08:52:41

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the fifth review of Cape Verde’s performance under the [...] Full text...

Syria has real opportunity to ‘move from the darkness to the light’

13 january 2025 - 14:35:47

Damascus, Syria (PANA) - Syrians have high expectations for their country, and a strong desire for people from across the social spectrum to come together [...] Full text...

EU extends mandates of Operation ATALANTA, EUTM and EUCAP Somalia for two years

16 december 2024 - 12:28:34

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Monday prolonged the mandate of the EU Naval Force Operation ATALANTA and of the EU's military training [...] Full text...

US welcomes agreement to end Ethiopia, Somalia dispute over Somaliland port deal

13 december 2024 - 10:45:23

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States welcomes the 11 December Declaration between the Federal Republic of Somalia and the Federal Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...

Sudanese Foreign Minister: AU office to reopen in Port Sudan shortly

29 november 2024 - 20:25:44

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Friday said the African Union Representative will shortly reopen his office in Port Sudan; the administrative capital war [...] Full text...