Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia's government says its forces are closing in on the Tigray Regional capital, Mekelle, as fighting between the two sides intensifies, a government source said. The Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) quoted the Ethiopia State Emergency Fact Check as saying "the National Defence Force is edging closer [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers Sunday gave the government a 14-day strike notice to meet their demands for better working conditions. The frontline healthcare workers, fighting the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, are demanding adequate Personal Protection Equipment (PPEs) and risk allowance. The notice comes at a time the [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya will host the Virtual Africa Delivery Exchange (ADX) Summit 2020 to deliberate on service delivery in Africa amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, an official source said here Sunday. The event is being organized by the President’s Delivery Unit (PDU) in partnership with the Tony Blair Institute [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Sunday warned that Kenya faced an imminent second wave of locust invasion, an official source said. The UN agency said that control operations were underway against small hopper bands that were forming from local breeding in Samburu County, northern Kenya. In a [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Football Kenya Federation (FKF) President Nick Mwendwa sunday paid tribute to his departed Ivorian counterpart Augustin Sidy Diallo. Diallo, president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation (FIF),died on Saturday. The 61-year-old football administrator succumbed to he coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. “We grieve for the loss of Augustin Sidy Diallo, a [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Ministry of Health said here Saturday that 1,206 new cases of coronavirus were identified out of 4,028 tests carried out on November 20, bringing the total number of infections since the beginning of the epidemic to 87,47. According to local media, Tunisia has thus overtaken [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A road accident following a collision between two buses Sunday morning here left 47 people injured, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said in a statement. All the injured were evacuated by ambulances of the Civil Protection and the Ministry of Interior to hospitals in the capital. One of the [...]Full text...
Thies, Senegal (PANA) - Guinea overcame Mauritania here Saturday in the only match of the first day of Group B of the first round of the tournament for the U-20 in Zone A of the Union of West African Football Associations (WAFA). The "Syli national" juniors thus occupy the second place [...]Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Governors of the civil prisons of Akpro-Missérété, about 40 km from the capital, have been arrested following the escape late October of two inmates from Akpro-Missérété prison, a high-security prison, judicial sources reported here Sunday. In addition to the two officials, who were suspended only a few [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Polling stations opened Sunday at 6 a.m. in several localities throughout the country for the presidential and legislative elections, PANA noted here. "This Sunday, November 22, 2020, Burkinabe are called to the polls to elect the president of Burkina Faso for the five-year term 2021-2025, as [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria Saturday recorded 246 fresh cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total to 66,228. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said via its Twitter handle that one patient died Saturday, pushing the total death toll to 1,166 after tests from 739,216 persons for the virus. The public health [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi Saturday pleaded for a new development approach to reduce regional imbalance and avoid social explosion, an official source said. Speaking at the opening of the conference of governors, Mechichi indicated that the new development policy, different those used decades ago, would be based [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A total of 18,279 migrants of different nationalities living in Tunisia have benefited from direct aid offered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as part of the fight against the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According to an IOM monthly publication, 14,451 migrants received vouchers, 1,303 in [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian security units arrested early Saturday in Sousse, 140 km south of the capital, a wanted takfiri element described as "dangerous", who had been sentenced to eight years in prison for belonging to a suspected terrorist organization, security sources told PANA here. City security officials said they [...]Full text...
