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Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - The investigating judge at Sidi M'hamed Court (Algiers) Friday ordered the arrest and detention of the secretary general of the National [...] Full text...
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Angry demonstrators assassinate police commissioner in Malian central region
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Angry demonstrators on Thursday ransacked the police station of Niono, in the Malian central region of Segou, 360 km from Bamako, [...] Full text...
Malian government concerned about escalating violence in Timbuktu
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government has expressed concern over the community conflicts that have led to a sudden rise in violence in parts [...] Full text...
2020 CHAN qualifiers: Mali, Mauritania meet in Nouakchott
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's national football team will meet their Mauritanian counterparts on Saturday at the Nouakchott Olympic Stadium in the first leg of [...] Full text...
Bamako welcomes new president of FIBA ​​
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Elected on August 29 in China at the head of FIBA-World, the governing body of world basketball, the former president of [...] Full text...
Mali: New cement factory in Diago to start operations in October
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's Minister of Industry and Trade Mohamed Ag Erlaf launched here Tuesday activities of Cements and Materials of Mali (CMM-SA), a [...] Full text...
First session of National Early Warning and Security Risk Response Mechanism opens in Bamako
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The first session of the National Early Warning and Security Risk Response Mechanism opened here Tuesday, official sources told PANA.
The mechanism [...] Full text...
France condemns clashes in CAR locality of Birao
Paris, France (PANA) – France on Wednesday ‘’strongly’’ condemned the clashes that broke out on Saturday in Birao, northern region of Central African Republic (CAR) [...] Full text...
Mali first division national football championship resumes
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Interrupted more than two weeks ago because of the general election to the Malian Football Federation (FEMAFOOT) which took place on [...] Full text...
Military escalation continues with new air raids on Wednesday
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Fighter jets of the Libyan National Army commanded by Marshall Khalifa Haftar on Wednesday afternoon carried out air strikes on the [...] Full text...
Malian president IBK in Luanda for first edition of Peace biannual meeting
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian Presiden Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is in Luanda since Tuesday to take part in the first edition of the Peace biannual [...] Full text...
New air strikes on Maitigua, Zouara airports, in western Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Vicious air strikes on Tuesday targeted the airport of Maitigua, closed to air traffic for more than two weeks, and Zouara [...] Full text...
Malian president IBK receives US Africom commander, Townsend
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian president, Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, on Monday received in audience in Bamako the US General Stephen J. Townsend, the 5th commander [...] Full text...
22 Malian doctors graduate from the West African college of doctors in Bamako
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A total of 22 Malian medical doctors from the West African College of Doctors in Bamako on Monday received their diplomas [...] Full text...
Four killed in boat mishap in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Four people were killed when their boat capsized in a lake on Monday in the commune of Fourou, circle of Kadiolo, [...] Full text...
Activist Kemi Seba invites Africans to mobilize against neo-colonialism, France
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Pan-African activist Kemi Seba has called on African peoples to mobilize against neo-colonialism, the CFA franc and French politics in Africa, [...] Full text...
Djoliba ladies , Atar Kidal men's club win Mali Basketball finals
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Djoliba's women won on Saturday in Bamako the Mali basketball cup beating Center Bintou Dembele of Koulikoro by a score of [...] Full text...
One person killed, 11 wounded in air strikes against Libyan government troops near Sirte
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - At least one person was killed and 11 others were injured, one seriously, on Monday following three air strikes which targeted [...] Full text...
Senior Mali agriculture official arrested for embezzlement of public funds
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Chairperson of the Malian Permanent Assembly of the Chambers of Agriculture (APCAM), Bakari Togola, has been arrested for embezzling public [...] Full text...
Three people killed in northern Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least three people were killed on Friday night by gunmen in the village of Galwitanga, in Soum province in [...] Full text...
Mali: Two hospitals on strike to demand allowance arrears
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Hospital ‘part-time workers’ in Mali have been on an indefinite strike since Wednesday in two university hospital centers, Mali Hospital and [...] Full text...
Malian President attends ECOWAS summit on terrorism in Ouagadougou
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for a G5 Sahel summit on energy production on Friday, PANA [...] Full text...
OIF Secretary General welcomes national dialogue in Cameroon
Paris, France (PANA) - The Secretary General of La Francophonie, Louise Mushikiwabo, has welcomed the announcement by Cameroonian President Paul Biya to convene a major [...] Full text...
Mali: Construction of the Timbuktu-Gomacoura road to resume soon
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Work on the Timbuktu-Gomacoura-Niono road, linking northern and southern Mali, will resume not later than November 25, following the memorandum of [...] Full text...
France grants 33.5 million euros to Mali for agriculture, decentralization
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and France on Wednesday signed several agreements totalling 33.5 million euros (about 21.98 billion CFA francs), during the visit to [...] Full text...
Malian soldier killed in ambush in the north
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A Malian soldier was killed and four others wounded in an ambush by unidentified gunmen between Wana and Dibla on the [...] Full text...
First Tunisian-Malian university opens in Bamako
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The first Tunisian-Malian university in Bamako has been inaugurated in the Malian capital, Bamako, with the objective of offering students quality [...] Full text...
Malian Prime Minister received by French President
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister, who is also Economy and Finance Minister, Boubou Cissé, was on Tuesday received by French President Emmanuel Macron [...] Full text...
Youth in Timbuktu demand re-opening of Timbuktu-Niono south road
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Protesting youth of Timbuktu who have for the past week been asking the Malian government to resume work on the Timbuktu-Gomakoura-Niono [...] Full text...
139 elements of the Bangladesh police unit honored by MINUSMA in Bamako
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Mission for the Stabilization of Mali (MINUSMA),on Monday awarded the United Nations Medal to 139 elements, [...] Full text...
U23 CAN qualifiers: Mali hosts Morocco in 2nd-leg match
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's under-23 national team will face Morocco in Bamako on Tuesday in the CAN qualifying round, which final tournament is scheduled [...] Full text...
Malian PM, French officials meet in Paris
Paris, France (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé, on a working visit to France, will Wednesday in Paris meet with the French officials of [...] Full text...
Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé visits France
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé, also Minister of Economy and Finance, begins a two-day working visit to France on Monday, at the [...] Full text...
Niger pledges to help Mali preserve its territorial integrity
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Niger’s president Mahamadou Issoufou has reaffirmed his country's support to efforts of Mali to preserve the country’s territorial integrity, unity and [...] Full text...
AFCON U-23 qualifier: Mali and Morocco draw 1-1
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and Morocco on Saturday drew 1-1 with their first-leg CAF U-23 Africa Cup playoff match in the Moroccan city of [...] Full text...
Twenty-two MOC elements abducted by unidentified gunmen in central Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Twenty-two ex-Malian combatants, members of the Operational Coordination Mechanism (MOC), which grew out of the Mali Peace and Reconciliation Agreement, were [...] Full text...
Malian President mourns late Robert Mugabe
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said he was deeply dismayed and sad by the death on Thursday in Singapore of Zimbabwe's [...] Full text...
GNU bans Libyan ministers, top officials from meeting with representatives abroad
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Fayez Al-Sarraj, the President of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Unity (GNU) recognized by the international community, has [...] Full text...
Malian international footballer loaned to Turkish club Bekistas for a year
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian international football player Abdoulaye Diaby (28), captain of the Eagles of Mali, was on loan for one year to Besiktas [...] Full text...
UN envoy makes another push to silence the guns in Tripoli (News analysis by Youssef Ba, PANA correspondent)
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Despite a stalemate in the five-month-old fighting near Tripoli, neither side appears to have the appetite for a political solution.
The Tripoli [...] Full text...
Malian opposition leader blames gov't for the death of 4,000 civilians and soldiers between 2013 and 2019
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Soumaila Cissé, chairman of the opposition party, Union for the Republic and Democracy (URD)​, has revealed that between 2013 and 2019, [...] Full text...
WADB gives Mali 25bn CFA francs for building 1,000 housing units near Bamako
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé and West African Development Bank (WADB) President Christian Adovelande on Wednesday signed a loan agreement in [...] Full text...
LEAD: Libyans continue ‘spilling their blood on the battlefield’ as fight for Tripoli rages on
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - It is five months to the day since the forces of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) launched an offensive to [...] Full text...
UN envoy in Libya pleads for resumption of political process
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Secretary General's Special Representative and Head of the Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ghassan Salamé, has urged the UN [...] Full text...
WAEMU hands over silos for San in central Mali to Malian government
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian minister of agriculture, Moulaye Ahamed Aboubacar, Tuesday presided over the handing over ceremony of storage stores for crops built [...] Full text...
At least 8 people killed in mine explosion of bus in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - More than eight passengers were killed and several others injured when a passenger bus hit a mine on the road that [...] Full text...
Bombings against Maitigua airport in Tripoli: Ghassan Salamé to report to Security Council and ICC
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative, Ghassan Salamé, also head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), reaffirmed here Tuesday the [...] Full text...
Malian President IBK notes Japan's availability to train African executives
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Taking stock of the just ended 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VII), Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said [...] Full text...
Mali takes on Ivorian women's football team for next Olympic Games
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian women's national football team on Tuesday takes on their Ivorian counterpart in Bamako in the second leg of the Tokyo [...] Full text...
Mali international Amadou Danté to play at Austrian club TSV Hartberg
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian junior international Amadou Danté, who has just signed with Austrian club Sturn Graz, was immediately loaned to TSV Hartberg for [...] Full text...