Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The vice-president-designate of the Libyan presidential council, Moussa Al-Koni, Sundayhas expressed his satisfaction with the desires of unity of the nation and the government expressed by the Sebha populations during the reception on Saturday of the chairman of the presidential council. Speaking in a tweet on its [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The National trade union of Tunisian journalists (SNJT) Sunday denounced physical and verbal attacks against journalists by members of the ‘organizing committee’ for the Ennahdha Movement Saturday in Tunis, a statement issued here said. SNJT said about a hundred journalists were attacked on Saturday by members of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan minister of Interior of the Government of National Accord, Fathi Bachagha, Sunday held talks with the deputy secretary-general and coordinator of the UN Support Mission in Libya, (UNSMIL), Raisedon Zenenga, on the methods and means for the success of the ongoing political process in [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan National High Electoral Commission (HNEC), Imad Al-Sayeh, Sunday held a meeting with a delegation of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) aiming to monitor the developments of the issuance of a voter’s card intended for the next elections. The meeting was attended by [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Zied Al-Warfalli, a journalist at the television news Al-Ghad and the cameraman accompanying him, were freed after three days of detention by a security unit, the foreign media department at the Libyan ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Accord announced here Sunday. The TV [...]Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A total of 626 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) were recorded in Ghana as at Sunday, 28 February, to take the total confirmed cases to 83,212, the ministry of Health (MOH) announced on its website here. It also reported 5,480 active cases, 77,133 recoveries and 599 deaths, [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says it is deeply concerned by a series of messages of distress it has been receiving from a group of 10 asylum-seekers currently in a detention facility in Mutukula, northwestern Tanzania. UNHCR said in a statement on Sunday that the [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched a US$164 million appeal to provide life-saving assistance and protection to nearly 1.5 million people uprooted in the Central African Republic (CAR). This number includes 210,000 who fled a new bout of violence related to the December 2020 [...]Full text...
Washington, DC , US (PANA) - The United States has expressed grave concern over reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia following fighting between the government and forces loyal to the former regional government led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). "We strongly condemn [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Former Cameroonian athlete Louise Renée Thobi Etame-Ndidi was appointed Friday as the new secretary general of the Conference of Ministers of Youth and Sports of the Francophonie (CONFEJES) at the end of the 38th Ministerial Conference held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She was picked from several other [...]Full text...
