Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El-Ghazwani, at a meeting with the Vice President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Abdallah Al-Lafi, on the revival of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU - Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia) and Libya's membership of the G5 Sahel group [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Court of Appeal in the southern city of Sebha has accepted appeals by Seif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, bringing him back into the race for the 24 December presidential election. For one week, armed groups prevented from running when they attacked [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The presidential election of 24 December in Libya has taken an unexpected turn, where a huge number of candidates struggling to earn power have taken the polls away from its original purpose of providing the country with a permanent institution. The institution is supposed to have a [...]Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the victories achieved in the east and west of the country will be repeated in the central parts. The state-owned Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) said Abiy made made the remark during a meeting with the army at the third key [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The outgoing UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Jan Kubis, has expressed his "full support" for the judiciary during the electoral appeals process. He said his expectation is that the judiciary will act professionally, follow the law diligently [...]Full text...
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Only 1,683 people have been vaccinated in Burundi out of a population of more than 12 million people since the exercise began on 18 October. They comprise 1,095 men and 588 women, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday. It said 880 people have received their second dose [...]Full text...
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Michael Gonzales, is expected in the Guinean capital, Conakry, for talks with the transitional authorities. He will arrive from Cape Verde where he arrived on Wednesday. According to a statement from the US embassy in Guinea, the American envoy [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Ten new deaths linked to a coronavirus have been recorded in Libya bringing the death toll to 5,476, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Thursday. It said there were 529 new cases out of 4,444 samples tested, representing a positivity rate of 12%. According to a [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Najla al-Mangouch on Wednesday discussed with Turkish Ambassador to Libya Kenan Yilmaz preparations for the Third Turkish-African Partnership Summit to be held on 17-18 December in the Turkish capital, Istanbul. The two sides also discussed the importance of facilitating [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - About 86% of registered Libyan voters collected their voter identification cards at the end of the deadline on Wednesday evening, the High National Electoral Commission has announced. It said in a statement on Thursday that 2,465,648 out of the 2.8 million registered voters had collected their voter [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The deputy chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Abdallah al-Lafi, arrived on Wednesday evening in Nouakchott for a two-day visit aimed at promoting bilateral cooperation. According to a statement issued by the Presidential Council, Mr. al-Lafi was welcomed by a team led by the Mauritanian Minister of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya earned a total of US$1.978 billion from sales of crude oil, gas, condensates, petroleum products and petrochemicals during October, the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) announced. This is the third consecutive month of increased oil revenues, NOC said in a statement issued on Wednesday. Libya's oil production [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO), on World AIDS Day marked here Wednesday, highlighted the urgent need to end the economic, social, cultural and legal inequalities that drive the AIDS pandemic and other pandemics around the world. With millions of lives on the line, UNAIDS and [...]Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia's defence force has "liberated" the historic town of Lalibela and its international airport as fighting with rebels intensifies. The official Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) quoted the Government Communication Service as saying the united Ethiopian forces had liberated Lalibela town, where the World Heritage Rock-hewn Churches [...]Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana has detected the omicron variant of COVID-19, according to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye. He said on Wednesday that the virus was detected in persons travelling from Nigeria and South Africa into the country. Mr. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, the Minister [...]Full text...
Geneva, Swizerland (PANA) - A total of 274 million people worldwide will need emergency aid and protection in 2022, a 17 per cent increase compared to last year, UN humanitarians said on Thursday. The amount is equivalent to “the world’s fourth most populous country”, Martin Griffiths, UN Humanitarian Affairs chief said at the [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Agreement by countries to launch a process to develop a new global accord on pandemic prevention and response is cause for hope, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in Geneva. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the consensus decision, reached during a special session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the UN agency’s top [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Concluding a four-day to visit Burkina Faso, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said on Wednesday that the country faces “a multitude of challenges with severe impacts on a wide range of human rights of its people”. She noted the landlocked West African nation faced [...]Full text...
