Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - World Athletics Monday ratified Peres Jepchirchir’s and Sifan Hassan's recent world record-breaking feats. Jepchirchir and Hassan are Kenyan and Dutch nationals respectively. The world athletics governing body ratified Jepchirchir’s 1:05:34 women-only world half-marathon record. It also ratified the one-hour world records from Hassan (18,930m) and Mo Farah (21,330m) as [...]Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Council of ministers of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has charged the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice to review its relations with some countries in the face of the current developments. Turkey and Qatar supported the presidential council of the GNA all along the [...]Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisia n President Kaïs Saied and the chief of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stephanie Williams Monday held discussions on the “forum for the inter-Libyan political dialogue” due here in November. A communiqué by the Tunisian presidency said Saied told the UN envoy the will [...]Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kais Saied and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune Monday held talks on phone over the situation in Libya and bilateral relations between their two countries. The Algerian president welcomed the Libyan-Libyan dialogue under the aegis of the United-Nations due November in Tunis, the Tunisian presidency said [...]Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Democratic space in Tanzania continues to narrow as the government applies laws to stifle freedom of expression, a human rights organisation has warned. While defenders of human rights continue to face reprisal attacks and are regularly dragged to court for minor offences, Amnesty International said in a [...]Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan National High Electoral Commission (NHEC), Imed Al-Sayeh, held talks here Monday with the European Union ambassador in Libya, José Sabadell, on plans for future international support for the commission to ensure the success of the next elections. The meeting “reviewed the preparations [...]Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Federal Government on Monday in Abuja inaugurated a high-level committee for the development of National Flood Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan to effectively tackle flooding across the country. Speaking at the inauguration, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social [...]Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Fire fighters are working to extinguish a wild fire that broke out on the slopes of Mount   Kilimanjaro in Tanzania on Sunday. The cause of the fire that has engulfed areas around Whona – Horombo rest centre for climbers to Africa’s highest peak in Kilimanjaro [...]Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu, to ensure that all officers whose misconduct and recklessness led to the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) be fished out and prosecuted. The President spoke just as the Surulere Police Division, [...]Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN-sponsored Libyan political process entered its final stretch after the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stephanie Williams, on Saturday announced a date and venue for further talks on the crisis. In her announcement, Williams [...]Full text...

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - At least 92 people were killed and 324 injured between June 2019 and March 2020 in Guinea during peaceful demonstrations organized by the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), the Front revealed this on Monday in a press statement. The first victims of the [...]Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) - Units of the Tunisian Navy, operating in South, Central and Northern regions of the Sahel, on Saturday foiled 32 clandestine migration attempts to Italy, the Tunisian ministry of Interior said in a statement. According to the statement, 262 people were arrested during the operations, indicating that the [...]Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Divers from the Tunisian National Guard recovered 12 corpses of sub-Saharan migrants on Sunday and rescued seven others whose boat capsized on Saturday off the coast of Sfax, a port in southern Tunisia, the Tunisian interior ministry indicated in a press release here. According to the release, [...]Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Ministry of Health and Population has called on departmental directors to continue to scrupulously enforce the barrier measures with a view to avoiding a new wave of Covid-19 contaminations, although the trend of the pandemic is going down, PANA learned Monday in Brazzaville from [...]Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - UNICEF has assured the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education in The Gambia of its continued support as the ministry moves ahead with plans to safely reopen schools after more than six months of physical closure for most classes. This commitment was made during a meeting between [...]Full text...

Edenvale, South Africa (PANA) - A new and creative form of Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) has been designed by South African entrepreneur, Andrew King, South Africa Engineering News reported on Monday. Owner of M&K Before Ink tattoo shop, based in Edenvale, Gauteng, King explained that the economic effects of the Covid-19 [...]Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- The European Union has donated a generator and fuel to enhance power supply at the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) for COVID-19 testing in The Gambia.   The stand-alone generator is capable of supplying electricity to the NPHL’s Molecular Laboratory Unit. It provides uninterrupted power supply required by Polymerase [...]Full text...

Washington, US (PANA) - In response to an urgent need for greater debt transparency, the latest edition of the International Debt Statistics (IDS) report, released on Monday, provides more detailed and more disaggregated data on external debt than ever before in its nearly 70-year history. It includes breakdowns of what each [...]Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Some African national teams will on Tuesday play their last game of preparation ahead of the  AFCON qualifiers 'Cameroon 2021'. Since Thursday, they were on track to try to make up for the time lost during the previous eleven months that had forced all African national soccer [...]Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has welcomed Sunday's announcement by the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) on the lifting of the state of force majeure on the al-Sharara oilfield, the country's largest crude oilfield. "The resumption of oil production in Libya's largest oilfield is [...]Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The South African Police Service (SAPS) last Wednesday seized one kilogram of heroin worth Rs 15 million (Rs 39,00 = 1 US $) in a courier station, the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) said in a communique issued on Monday in the Mauritian capital. The MRA said [...]Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- United Nations Development Programme and The University of The Gambia on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in The Gambia, project design, piloting and scaling, and the implementation of the Gender Equality Seal.   A statement made [...]Full text...

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - "The war is over in Casamance," former Minister of State Robert Sagna, who is also president of the Think Tank for Peace in Casamance (GRPC), an organisation that acts as an interface between the Senegalese government and the separatists of the Movement of Democratic Forces of [...]Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia's former Finance minister in President Edgar Lungu’s government, Felix Mutati, has launched his political party -- Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Speaking at the launch of the party on  Monday in Lusaka, Mutati said he was humbled to have been asked to be interim president of [...]Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded one coronavirus-related death, bringing to 315 the toll caused by the disease since its outbreak in the country on 2 March, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Monday. The ministry also said that 24 out of 639 tests done were coronavirus-positive, [...]Full text...