Sudanese foes to initial peace agreement in Juba, South Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s government and two major rebel groupings have initialed eight documents in Juba, South Sudan, paving the way for signing a [...] Full text...
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Second extraordinary ECOWAS summit on Mali opens Friday
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) opened their second extraordinary summit [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Gambia, Senegal health ministers strengthen fight against COVID-19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian and Senegalese health ministers say they have have strengthened efforts to fight the Coronavirus pandemic with backing from their Presidents [...] Full text...
Wednesday's forex rates for the CFA Franc
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the CFA Franc as issued by the bank of the Central African States:
Currency. [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: U.S. govt donates vital sanitation equipment to Gambian Kanifing Municipal Council
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The United States remains committed to supporting countries, including The Gambia, in their fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic.
To this end, [...] Full text...
FIFA fines Egypt's Kahraba US$2 million for unilaterally terminating contract with Zamalek
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Football governing body, FIFA, announced on Friday that it has fined Ahly FC winger, Mahmoud "Kahraba" Abdel-Moneim, for terminating his contract [...] Full text...
SADC leaders urged to fix deteriorating human rights situation
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - As leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) prepare to meet on Monday to mark their 40th anniversary, Amnesty [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: EU Ambassador predicts COVID-19 crisis will continue for some time in The Gambia
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The European Union (EU) Ambassador to The Gambia, Attila Lajos, has said that with the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Gambia’s Non-State Actors call for enhanced efforts to combat COVID-19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Civil society organizations, trade unions and private sector associations in The Gambia have called on all citizens, associations and all stakeholders [...] Full text...
Gambian Police launch operation ‘Save our Souls’
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia Police Force has launched an operation, dubbed ‘Save our Souls (SoS)’, following the declaration of a new State of [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Gambia’s truth commission suspends public hearings amid Covid-19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Chairman of The Gambia, Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC), Dr. Lamin J. Sise, on Tuesday announced the suspension of [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Gambian Vice President tests positive
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Office of the President announced here on Wednesday that Gambian Vice President, Dr. Isatou Touray, has been tested positive for [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: No new reported cases in 80 percent of the country, Sudan says
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Tuesday announced that 14 out of the countries 18 states recorded no new case of COVID-19, and that even [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Gambian govt. calls on business owners to resume activities
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment has informed the business community in the country to resume normal [...] Full text...
ECOWAS takes decisive steps to resolve the Malian crisis
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The extraordinary summit of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: EU approves emergency response project for The Gambia
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- At a time when the spread of the coronavirus infection takes a worrying momentum in The Gambia, “Team Europe” is taking another [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Chinese regional gov't donates medical supplies to Gambia for pandemic fight
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in The Gambia, Ma Jianchun, on Saturday handed over a consignment of medical [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Gambia introduces new Covid-19 health regulations
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic in The Gambia is now governed by Public Health (Dangerous Infectious Diseases) Protection Regulations, 2020, replacing the State [...] Full text...
Gambia's Resident Doctors say country has frail health system
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia Association of Resident Doctors (GARD) has said that the country has a frail health system which is currently undergoing [...] Full text...
Mauritius wants to get out of EU tax haven blacklist
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade minister, Mr Nandcoomar Bodha, on Thursday said the Government is working arduously [...] Full text...
ECOWAS Court calls for support for ECOWAS parliament to execute its referral mandate
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Edward Amoako Asante, is drumming up support for the regional parliament in [...] Full text...
UNICEF calls for greater investment in birth registration in Gambia
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Despite appreciable progress in birth registration, an overwhelming number of children in The Gambia are without birth certificates, making them “uncounted” [...] Full text...
President Barrow, football fraternity mourn soccer legend, Biri Biri
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow has joined Gambia’s football fraternity in mourning the late football legend, Alhaji Momodou Njie, widely known as Biri [...] Full text...
Gambia’s football legend, Biri Biri, dies, aged 72
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's football legend, Alhaji Momodou Njie, popularly known as Biri Biri, died on Sunday in Dakar, Senegal, where he was receiving [...] Full text...
Tunisia ranked 2nd in Africa in 2020 Environmental Performance Index
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia was ranked 2nd in Africa and 71st globally in the 2020 edition of the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which analyzes [...] Full text...
Coronavrus: Gambia records highest single day infection of 15 cases
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia on Saturday registered 15 new cases of COVID-19, the highest number recorded in a single day since the outbreak [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: EU reinforces Gambia's national response to COVID-19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The European Union’s office in The Gambia has said that the Tekki Fii project, led by IMVF (Instituto Marquês de Valle [...] Full text...
Women and girls deserve more protection in emergencies, UN rights council hears
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The collective impact of climate change, COVID-19 and conflict mean that well over 200 million people will likely need humanitarian assistance [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Gambia registers third death of Convid19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia has registered it third and documented death of Covid-19 following the death of a senior healthcare worker at the [...] Full text...
President Barrow calls for unity as he swears-in new Justice Minister
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow of Gambia has appealed for unity in preserving peace and stability of the country.
He was speaking when he [...] Full text...
French President Emmanuel Macron attends G5 Sahel summit in Nouakchott
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian capital Nouakchott is hosting a G5 Sahel heads of state summit on Tuesday, attended by French President Emmanuel Macron, official [...] Full text...
G5 Sahel–France Summit: Burkinabe president Kabore in Nouakchott
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The Burkinabe president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, will Tuesday, 30 June, 2020, take part in a G5 Sahel-France Summit in [...] Full text...
Gambia reduces price of bag of rice amid Japanese rice aid
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The government of The Gambia has announced a reduction in price of the bag of rice from GMD 750 about (US$15) [...] Full text...
Libya, three other countries express reservations over Arab League resolution
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has announced that its delegate to the Arab League, [...] Full text...
Arab foreign ministers attached to Libya’s unity, integrity and sovereignty
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The League of Arab States Tuesday resolved to commit itself to “the unity, sovereignty, territorial integrity, well-being, stability and prosperity of [...] Full text...
Libya reduces number of representatives at Arab League meetings
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Foreign Ministry of the government of national accord (GNA) on Tuesday announced that Libya has reduced the number of [...] Full text...
International follow up committee on Libya urges Libyan belligerents to end military escalation in Sirte
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Members of the international follow up committee on Libya (IFCL) Monday expressed deep concern over the military escalation around Sirte, an [...] Full text...
Politics-Libya rejects planned meeting of executive council of Arab League
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan minister of foreign affairs of the government of national accord (GNA), Mohamed Taher Siala, Friday rejected an emergency meeting [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: EU team expands scope in response to pandemic in Gambia
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The European Union’s Rural Infrastructure and Employment Creation (RIEC) project, implemented by Enabel (Belgian Cooperation Agency), is expanding its scope in [...] Full text...
Ghana’s apex court orders electoral commission to provide legal basis for excluding voter IDs in voter registration
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana’s Supreme Court Thursday ordered the Electoral Commission (EC) to provide the legal basis for rejecting the existing voter identification card [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Chinese Ambassador commends Gambia’s effective measures to curb the spread of COVID-19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Chinese Ambassador to The Gambia, Mr. Ma Jianchun, has commended the effective measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: President Barrow says pandemic has impacted severely on formal, informal sectors
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow of Gambia has said that the pandemic has impacted severely on both the formal and informal sectors of [...] Full text...
South Africa: Ruling party condemns US police brutality on blacks
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s ruling ANC on Tuesday said it was concerned about the numerous incidents of police brutality against African [...] Full text...
Belgium commits support for WHO after the US withdraws from the UN agency
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A few days after the U.S. announcement to end “relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO)”, Belgian authorities have reaffirmed their [...] Full text...
Gambian human rights activist urges govt. to demand justice for slain African-Americans
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Prominent human rights activist in The Gambia, Madi Jobarteh, has urged the Gambian government to demand from the American government justice [...] Full text...
Abidjan stock market closes Thursday trading up
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Thursday trading up, with the BRVM 10 index rising from 126.98 to 127.07 points [...] Full text...
Covid-19 threatening fight against obstetric fistula
New York, US (PANA) - The fight to end obstetric fistula, one of the most serious and tragic injuries that can occur during childbirth, could be [...] Full text...
Mauritian papers highlight coronavirus this week
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - As in recent weeks, the news in Mauritius is still dominated by coronavirus, with local newspapers devoting large spaces to this [...] Full text...
C0vid-19: Seventy Malians stranded in UAE return home
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Seventy Malians who were stranded in the United Arab Emirates due to Covid-19 disease arrived in Bamako on Sunday on an [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Japan provides 4,000 tons of rice to Mali in response to Covid-19 pandemic
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Japan has provided Mali 4,237 tons of rice, worth more than one billion CFA francs, as part of its food assistance, [...] Full text...