New York, US (PANA) - With Somalia scheduled to hold “one-person, one-vote” elections next year, leaders must act now to break the “stalemate” between the central government and federal member states, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Thursday. The election will mark just the third [...]Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An alarming lack of exercise among adolescents across the world risks seriously compromising their health into adulthood, the UN said on Thursday. In the first study of its kind on global and regional trends among 11 to 17-year-olds, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that around 80 [...]Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Hosts Egypt take on Cote d'Ivoire on Friday in the final match of the 2019 Under-23 AFCON. To reach the final, Egypt beat South Africa 3-0 in the semi-final while the Ivorians edged Ghana 3-2. The finalists have qualified for the football event of the 2020 Olympics in [...]Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA)  -  Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth Thursday called on the United Kingdom government to comply with its obligations under international law regarding the return of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius “as clearly set out in the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)”, PANA reported [...]Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  -  Lars Thomers, the Dutch ambassador to Libya, Thursday called on perpetrators of the deadly air strike against a biscuit factory in Wadi al-Rabie south of yhe capital to be "accountable". "We remind all parties to the conflict that civilians and civilian institutions are not a target," Thomers [...]Full text...