Gambian activist hails draft constitution
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Madi Jobarteh, one of the leading human rights activists in the Gambia, on Wednesday hailed the country’s newly-drafted constitution while canvassing [...] Full text...
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PEACE, SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
UN renews mandate of AU-UN peace keepers in Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Tuesday renewed the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Darfur up to [...] Full text...
Malian Government sets up a crisis unit for release of opposition leader
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Malian government has set up a crisis cell for the release of opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé and his companions [...] Full text...
Gambia's President to receive draft constitution on Monday
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia’s Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) says the draft constitution has been finalised and will be submitted to President Adama Barrow on [...] Full text...
Niger: EU donates 13 armoured vehicles to support the fight against terrorism
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The European Union (EU) donated 13 armoured vehicles to Niger on Tuesday to "build the capacity" of Nigerien contingents engaged in [...] Full text...
EU wants lasting solutions to degrade al-Shabaab, build up secure environment in Somalia
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – Full cooperation is needed between the Federal Government of Somalia and the Federal Member States as well as among regional partners [...] Full text...
British PM deplores Libya's destabilisation due to foreign interference
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has expressed his concern that interference by regional and international powers in Libya has further [...] Full text...
Rwandan President Kagame appoints new State Minister for Agriculture
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Tuesday appointed a former university lecturer and Member of Parliament, Dr Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, as new [...] Full text...
No designated laureate for the 2019 Mo Ibrahim Prize for excellence leadership in Africa
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – The independent committee of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for excellence leadership in Africa has not designated any laureate for the [...] Full text...
Congolese government warns ex-ninja combattants in the Pool region
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese Minister of Primary, Secondary Education and Literacy Anatole Collinet Makosso warned ex-ninja combattants on Wednesday in Mindouli, about 100 kilometres [...] Full text...
South Sudan on road to ‘sustainable peace’, but intern'l support still key, says top UN official
Ne York, US (PANA) - Positive developments in South Sudan have “moved the country further along the road to sustainable peace”, the top UN official [...] Full text...
Libyan Interior minister reviews efforts to establish regular security units
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Interior minister of the Government of National Accord, Fathi Bachagha, presented during his meeting with the Chargé d'Affaires of the [...] Full text...
Hamdouk affirms the need to maintain civilian-military partnership in Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese Prime Minister, Dr. Abdalla Hamdouk, has once again underlined the importance of the hybrid system he and the military have [...] Full text...
Tunis hosts 37th session of Arab Interior Ministers on Sunday
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The 37th session of the Council of Interior Ministers of Arab countries will be held on Sunday in Tunis, PANA learnt [...] Full text...
Kinshasa, Bangui agree on technical and military cooperation
Kinshasa, Bangui agree on technical, military cooperation
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic Thursday signed a draft [...] Full text...
MONUSCO chief attends 2020 Fragility forum in Washington
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The special representative of the UN Secretary General in DR Congo, Leila Zerrougui, Tuesday left Kinshasa for Washington to participate [...] Full text...
Saudi Fund happy with project progress in Gambia
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Yousef I. Al-Bassam, Special Adviser of Saudi Fund for Development, on Tuesday expressed delight at the state of progress of the [...] Full text...
African countries warned of attempts to scuttle their contribution to settlement of Libyan crisis
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan prime minister, Fayez Al-Sarraj, on Tuesday expressed his desire to see the African Union play a central role in finding [...] Full text...
UN concerned with attempts to sap integrity of Libyan security institutions
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Monday said it was following with deep concern the attempts aiming to sap the [...] Full text...
Mauritania hosts conference of G5 Sahel ministers
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The meeting of the Council of G5 Sahel ministers, preparing for the sixth ordinary summit of Heads of State, due for [...] Full text...
Two extremists arrested by Tunisian security forces
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian security units in Meknine, 175 km south of Tunis, on Saturday arrested a Takfiri element, who was under judicial investigation [...] Full text...
Libyan media highlight difficulties of military escalation
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Obstacles to the resumption of the political process in Libya due to the military escalation and the African Union's proposal to [...] Full text...
UN Security Council reflects on CAR peace deal anniversary
New York, US (PANA) - One year after the signing of a peace deal in the Central African Republic (CAR), State authority is being extended throughout the country, violence [...] Full text...
Senegalese president suspends purchase of service vehicles
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall has suspended with immediate effect, "until further notice", all acquisitions of service vehicles, for the State, para-public [...] Full text...
Rights group asks South Sudan to reform abusive security agency
Juba, South Susan (PANA) - Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that South Sudan's National Assembly should urgently enact reforms of the National Security Service (NSS) to [...] Full text...
Burkina Faso: Opposition calls on government to secure places of worship
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkina Faso opposition on Tuesday called on the government to secure places of worship, two days after the attack [...] Full text...
UN Chief in Libya bemoans continued violation of Libya truce
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, deplored that "the situation on the ground in Libya [...] Full text...
Gambia marks 55 years of independence
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Gambians are celebrating 55 years of political independence on Tuesday with citizens of the tiny West African nation reacting to the [...] Full text...
Senegal: "The absence of war does not necessarily mean peace", says ex-mayor Robert Sagna
Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - Absence of war is not necessarily peace, former Ziguinchor Mayor Robert Sagna, and head of the Reflection Group on Peace in [...] Full text...
Rwanda's Health minister resigns
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's Health minister, Dr Diane Gashumba, resigned late Friday following a series of habitual gross errors and repeated leadership failures in [...] Full text...
CAR's year-old peace agreement must be implemented for ‘lasting peace’ , says UN expert
Bangui, CAR (PANA) - Following a visit to the Central African Republic (CAR), a UN independent expert said that everyone must take all measures necessary [...] Full text...
Air traffic resumes at Maitigua airport in Tripoli after short suspension
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Flights and air trafficking resumed Thursday evening at Maitigua airport, east of Tripoli, after a short suspension earlier in the day [...] Full text...
President Barrow calls on newly-appointed officials to be righteous, honest, trustworthy
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian President Adama Barrow, has called on newly-sworn public officers to be righteous, honest and trustworthy in the execution of their [...] Full text...
Kagame accepts resignation of two ministers
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Thursday accepted the resignation of two State Ministers who tendered their resignation last week over various [...] Full text...
More than 32,000 people arrested by police in 2019 in Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - In 2019, some 32,653 people were arrested by the Malian National Police and 15,772 brought before the courts, the Directorate General [...] Full text...
Mauritanian Army sweeps up gold panners in northern region
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian army carried out a large sweep of the gold panners by rounding up around 60 individuals in the far [...] Full text...
The US reaffirms support for efforts of Libyan authorities to dismantle militias
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US ambassador in Libya, Richard Norland, reaffirmed here Monday the US support for the continued efforts by the Libyan authorities [...] Full text...
Benin police officer killed in attack on police station near Burkina Faso border
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - A police officer was killed and another seriously injured on Sunday in an attack on the outpost in the northern town [...] Full text...
ECOWAS leaders set up panel on Nigeria's land border closure
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have constituted a committee, headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore [...] Full text...
Sudan Govt requests UN to establish peace support operation
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Government of Sudan on Sunday requested the United Nations to establish a peace support operation as soon as possible in [...] Full text...
Quadripartite committee on Rwanda/Uganda conflict makes 'significant progress': President Tshisekedi
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The committee set up to resolve the conflict between Rwanda and Uganda has made "significant progress", the President of DR [...] Full text...
IBK meets with under-secretary of state for political affairs
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The US Under-secretary of state for political affairs, David Hale, was received here Thursday by Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, official [...] Full text...
Niger launches 3 websites to improve security communication
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - In a bid to facilitate security communication, both internally and to citizens, Niger's National Police, National Gendarmerie and the National Guard [...] Full text...
Gambia’s Truth Commission Secretary resigns US job
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow, the Executive Secretary of Gambia’s Truth Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC), on Friday announced his resignation from [...] Full text...
UN official in Libya says there is ‘convergence’ over lasting Libya ceasefire
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - On day four of UN-led talks to transform an uncertain truce in Libya into a permanent ceasefire, veteran negotiator Ghassan Salamé on [...] Full text...
Ghassan Salamé informs Russian Middle-East envoy on outcomes of meeting of 5+5 military council
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The representative of the UN Secretary general in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, Wednesday briefed the special envoy of the Russian president in [...] Full text...
Haftar salutes Algeria's efforts to secure stability in Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), based in the east, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has praised the role of Algeria [...] Full text...
UNAMID helps in involving ordinary people to achieve peace in Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government and armed opposition groups, the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF- Darfur Track) Tuesday organized a second meeting that brought [...] Full text...
Congolese government sets priorities for improving health indicators
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese ministry of Health and Population Monday outlined actions to be carried out during this year to improve health indicators.
This [...] Full text...
Meetings of the Libyan 5+5 Joint Military Committee begin in Geneva
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The 5 + 5 Libyan Joint Military Committee, composed of five regular army officers from each side of the Libyan conflict, [...] Full text...