Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian security units operating in the region of Sliman, in the north-east of the country, dismantled a takfiri cell on Saturday and arrested six people, all of whom were under investigation, a security source said. In another development, the national committee for the fight against terrorism has [...]Full text...
Santa Maria, Cape Verde (PANA) - Mactar Seck, an African expert at the Digital Technologies Programme of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), has proposed prerequisites to enable Africa to adopt technologies profitably. In an interview with PANA during the just ended ninth Conference on Climate Change and Development [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has recorded 18 new deaths linked to COVID-19 as well as 989 new cases. The National Centre for Disease Control announced on Sunday in a statement that 1,371 recoveries were also recorded. The number of confirmed coronavirus infections has risen to 336,980, of which 77,479 are still [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several hundred demonstrators on Sunday held two rival rallies in Tunis as President Kaïs Saied's monopoly of powers continues to split the country down the middle. One group of demonstrators was hostile to the President demanding his departure and while the other expressed support for him after [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Dozens of members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) are requesting an emergency session to resolve issues threatening the entire political process designed to lead to presidential and parliamentary elections in December. Forty-six members of the LPDF are asking the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese army has accused Ethiopian troops of trying to infiltrate into Sudan on Saturday to retake an arable land strip separating the two countries. Sudan earlier this year said its troops regained Fashaga area and cleared it of heavy Ethiopian armed militias. Lt. Gen. [...]Full text...
Santa Maria, Cape Verde (PANA) - Although underdeveloped, Africa is the continent where technology growth has been fast, according to Mr. Mactar Seck of the UN Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) Digital Centre of Excellence. "Africa can dream of the opportunity of technology, because let's not forget that, Africa is the [...]Full text...
Santa Maria, Cape Verde (PANA) - Information and communication technology could help Africa combat adverse effects of climate change, according to Mactar Seck of the Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) Digital Technologies Programme. "...technologies are both part of the problem and part of the solution. But we have to look at [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Last Tuesday's vote of no-confidence in the Government of National Unity (GNU) by Parliament has led to an open political conflict between the legislative and executive branches of government, according to newspapers published in Libya last week. They point out that this is likely to be carried [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Ms. Samantha Power, has affirmed the agency's readiness to assist to make Libya's scheduled 24 December elections a success. In a virtual meeting on Saturday with Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Najla Al-Mangouch, she stressed the [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sept. 26 (SUNA) - Sudan announced on Sunday that its soldiers have "thwarted an incursion attempt" by Ethiopian soldiers. The official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) quoted Brigadier Al-Tahir Abuhaja, Media Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Armed Forces, as saying in press statement that "the Sudanese Armed Forces had [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - “Now is the time to eliminate nuclear weapons from our world , and usher in a new era of dialogue, trust and peace”, declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday, marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Addressing the threat of nuclear [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Sudan continues the path to democracy, two years after the revolution that “carried the aspirations of our people for freedom, peace and justice”, Prime Minister Abdalla Adam Hamdok told the UN General Assembly on Saturday. The revolution began in December 2018, leading to the April 2019 overthrow of former President Omar [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The interim Prime Minister of Mali, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, said on Saturday that “rarely, has a country or region been as severely affected by the piling up of crises than Mali and the states of the Sahel”. Terrorism, violent extremism and instability were a constant threat in the region, and now, “a note of anguish and tragedy has been added by the arrival [...]Full text...
