Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana has recorded 382 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) to send the cumulative number of active cases to 2,858, local media reported here Monday. The Ghana Health Service (GHS), in its latest update here Monday, said as of Wednesday, 14 July, 2021, the total number of persons [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Monday said it totally rejects a unilateral decision taken by Ethiopia to fill the second stage of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) without any prior consultation with either Sudan or Egypt. “The Ethiopian authorities on Monday announced they have completed filling of the second [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - As the official COVID-19 death toll around the world passed 4 million earlier this month, UNICEF is increasingly concerned for children left without one or both parents, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said on Monday in a statement on children deprived of parental care due [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Attacks against so-called slaves in Mali are on the rise and authorities must do more to prevent them, two independent UN human rights experts said on Monday. Although Mali outlawed slavery in 1905, a system of “descent-based slavery” persists, where some people are considered slaves because their ancestors [...]Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday saluted South Africans for uniting in the wake of devastating riots that ripped through the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces last week. He said the rescue of a baby from a burning building in the Durban city centre had touched the [...]Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday hailed the successful completion of the second filling of the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) saying, "Ethiopia moves onward resiliently." In a message on his Facebook page, the Prime Minister wrote: “Congratulations on the completion of the second [...]Full text...
Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - At the rate people are dying of Covid-19, Windhoek, the Namibian capital's main cemetery at Pionierspark will no longer be open for funerals by 2024, the country’s leading daily reported on Monday. This is according to City of Windhoek spokesperson Harold Akwenye, who said based on the [...]Full text...
Brindisi, Italy – Following the recent G20 side event co-hosted by the Italian Government and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) focusing on the role of logistics in current and future health emergencies, WFP and the World Health Organization (WHO) are launching INITIATE2, a joint project to bring together [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyans will on Tuesday celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in an atmosphere marked by a rise in COVID-!9 infections requiring precautionary measures to avoid contamination. A religious event par excellence, the Eid a-Adha festival has important social aspects linked to traditions in Libyan society, notably [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The perpetrators of the random firing of rockets that killed Libyan artist Haitham Derbach and injured several others in front of the Al-Wahda Bank building in the eastern Benghazi district of al-Laithi have been arrested, the city's security directorate announced on Sunday evening. During a wedding ceremony, [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 133 asylum seekers left Tripoli for Rwanda last Thursday on a humanitarian evacuation flight from Libya after suspending operations due to the coronavirus pandemic crisis, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced. The refugees are men, women and children from Eritrea, Somalia, South [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 30.57 32.18 Canadian Dollar 32.64 34.47 Euro [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Health authorities in Mauritius have on Monday announced that 51 positive cases of COVID-19 were detected over the week-end after 3,908 PCR tests. The Ministry of Health and Wellness said 39 cases were detected on Saturday and 12 on Sunday. The ministry added that 1,988 cases have been [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – At least 10 bandits were killed as Nigeria police in Niger State on Sunday repelled an attack on Kundu, a community in the Rafi Local Government Area of the State. According to residents, two police officers lost their lives. Governor Abubakar Sani Bello visited the community on Sunday [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, on Sunday ordered a nationwide beef up of security as part of the efforts in fighting crimes and criminality and improving public safety and security. In a statement by the police spokesperson, Commissioner of Police Frank Mba, the IGP charged [...]Full text...
