Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday said 35 coronavirus-related deaths and 376 new infections were recorded on Saturday. According to the data released by NCDC, the new figures bring the total confirmed cases to 209,173 while the death toll is now 2,804. Out of the [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Two illegal migrants have died and 21 others are missing after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast on Sunday. According to the spokesperson for the courts of Mahdia, a port in central Tunisia, where the tragedy occurred, the coast guard was alerted by a survivor who [...]Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Executive Council of the African Union (AU) has deferred to the next AU Summit the consideration of the decision of the Chairperson of the AU Commission to grant observer status to Israel in the pan-African organisation. Several African countries last August vigorously opposed the decision [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Vice President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Moussa Al-Kouni, has stressed the need to take the battle against illegal immigration from the sea to the southern land borders. He said European countries spend astronomical sums of money on this exercise, without effective results, but rather resulted [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA)- Twenty-three new deaths linked to COVID-19 infection and 780 new cases have been recorded in Libya, out of 5,028 samples tested, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Sunday. In a statement, the Centre said that 1,831 recoveries were also recorded. The number of confirmed infections has risen [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded two new deaths linked to the coronavirus and 100 confirmed infections following laboratory tests carried out on a sample of 3,417 people, the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Saturday. The two new deaths bring the death toll to 25,085 since the beginning of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyans will next Thursday host an international conference dubbed the "Initiative for Stability in Libya", the first meeting to be held in country in the last decade during which it has been confronted with a double crisis: political and military. Beyond the crucial stakes of the ministerial [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Newspapers last week focused on cracks within the Government of National Unity (GNU) following a statement issued by the first deputy prime minister, Hussein Al-Qatrani, ministers, deputy ministers and mayors of the eastern region (Cyrenaica) in which they criticised the prime minister's handling of the [...]Full text...
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi is preparing to roll out mass vaccination against the coronavirus with the arrival of the first batch of 500,000 doses of vaccine from China. The World Bank has also promised to finance more than 2.3 million doses as the country sees an upsurge in cases. This should [...]Full text...
Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cabo Verde’s presidential election on Sunday got off to a slow start with voters only trickling into the polling stations in Praia, capital of the nation and Santiago Island, when polls opened at 0700 (0900 GMT). The two areas have with the largest concentration of voters [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, will pay a two-day visit to Burkina Faso from Sunday. The Burkina Faso presidency announced in a statement that President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and his Nigerien counterpart will review cooperation between their countries. They will also review the fight against [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is on the rise, the UN chief said in his message marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Sunday. Describing current levels of poverty as “a moral indictment of our times”, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on economies [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the declaration of a unilateral ceasefire in the Central African Republic (CAR) by President Faustin Archange Touadéra, the UN chief's his spokesperson said in a statement issued on Saturday. President Touadéra on Friday announced the accord with armed groups, stating that he [...]Full text...
