Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Signs of possible military clashes in Libya arising from the political impasse have led in recent days to demonstrations threatening to plunge the country back into security chaos. Indeed, the option of war seems to be the only way left to the Libyan protagonists to deal with [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union election observer mission said Thursday criminal gangs attempting to zone certain regions for politicians and political parties heightened tension during campaigns in Kenya ahead of the 9 August general election, which posted a lower voter turnout of 64.5 per cent. The head of the [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A devastating drought in Somalia has reached unprecedented levels, leaving one million people within the country currently registered as displaced, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday. More than 755,000 people have been internally displaced in Somalia because of the severe dry spell this year, bringing [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - International election observers have denied interfering in Kenya’s internal politics and urged independent civilian organizations to set up alternative election tabulation centres. Speaking during the release of their preliminary election observation mission findings to the media in Nairobi on Thursday, Bruce Golding, Chair of the Commonwealth Observer [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 23 people died in the fuel tanker explosion in Bint Baya in southern Libya after more deaths were recorded among the injured who were transported to Tunisia and Egypt, sources said on Thursday. The death toll has been rising since the accident in early [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union Observation Mission to Kenyan elections and other groups withheld comment on whether the general election was free, fair, transparent and credible until the end of the tabulation of the results but praised the calm political atmosphere and the peaceful voting. The head of the [...]Full text...
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The National Transitional Council (CNT), which has been acting as the National Assembly since the September 5 coup d'état in Guinea, approved on Wednesday the loan agreement signed on 4 September, 2021, between the Republic of Guinea and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). This loan agreement is [...]Full text...
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The former Guinean minister of Security and Civil Protection, Albert Damatang Camara, who has been in detention since April 21, was Wednesday granted a conditional release by the Supreme Court. Camara regained his freedom after long legal battles between the Court of Repression of Economic and Financial [...]Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The second turbine of the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Thursday started generating power in the presence of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, President Sahle-Work Zewdie and senior government officials, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported. The second turbine has a capacity of 375 MW, [...]Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is in Rwanda on the final leg of his three-nation African tour, has met with President Paul Kagame with whom he raised human rights issues and tension in the region. In a tweet on Thursday, Mr Blinken, who arrived in [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of Mali's Transition, Colonel Assimi Goïta, has declared a three-day national mourning, starting from Thursday, in memory of civilian and military victims of last Sunday's terrorist attack at Tassit, in the northern Gao region. During this period, flags will fly at half-mast on public buildings. On [...]Full text...
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi Ministry of Health on Thursday announced that 240 new cases of coronavirus, including 27 imported, have been detected in the country after tests carried out on 4,638 samples, representing an overall positivity rate of 11.8%. In addition, the report indicates that 288 patients have recovered. The official [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The former Burkinabe president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré leaves Burkina Faso on Thursday for Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for medical treatment, the Agence d'information du Burkina (AIB) announced on Thursday. The former president, who is currently experiencing some health problems, has expressed the desire to go [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali has strongly condemned Sunday's "complex and coordinated" attack of armed terrorist groups in Tessit, in the northern region of Gao, which claimed the lives of 42 soldiers and injured 22 others. The attack, probably by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), was characterised by [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Five Libyan regional hospital directors, seven officials of the Ministry of Health and two company directors have been detained on the orders of the Prosecutor General, Seddik al-Sour, in connection with a corruption and embezzlement case that has been under investigation for months. A statement issued on [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Members of Libya's Parliament have been called to a plenary session next Monday, an official statement said on Wednesday. The meeting will be held more than one month after the headquarters of the legislative body in the eastern city of Tobruk was burned during angry demonstrations against [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan health authorities have detected 146 new cases of coronavirus out of 442 samples tested over the last 24 hours, representing a positivity rate of 33%. The National Centre for Disease Control announced on Thursday that there were 75 recoveries. There was no death during the period, [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Statistics Mauritius said on Wednesday that the number of foreign tourists coming to the island has increased from 9,467 in January-July 2021 to 470,640 in the same period in 2022. It said France, the island’s main tourist market, as usual, leads the show with a total of [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has congratulated the people of Kenya for the peaceful voting during last Tuesday's General Elections. A statement by his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said the UN chief notes "the important work done by the Kenyan authorities and electoral management bodies, the active engagement of [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's military leader, Colonel Assimi Goita, on Wednesday spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin following the delivery of Russian five fighter jets and a combat helicopter to the West African country. In a tweet, Colonel Goita announced that he had a telephone conversation with President Putin. "We discussed [...]Full text...
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Amnesty International has slammed Guinea's military junta for dissolving the umbrella pro-democracy National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) and the summoning of a journalist to a military camp. The Guinean transitional authorities on Monday announced the dissolution of FNDC, accusing it of having “always been [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by the Central Bank of Gambia. Currency Buying Selling US Dollar 53.00 54.50 Pound Sterling [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, has hailed the efforts of the United Nations to advance the political process and seek a solution to the crisis rocking the country. The United Nations is currently making efforts through mediation between the Libyan parties to overcome [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, said on Thursday that the rate of non-communicable diseases (NCD) has reduced in the country. Quoting the NCD Survey Report 2021, he said that the percentage of people suffering from diabetes has decreased from 22.9 % in 2015 to 19.9% in [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The acting head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Raisedon Zenenga, on Wednesday reiterated the mission's commitment to the Libyan people and supporting the country on its path to peace, stability, and prosperity. This was contained in a statement on the third anniversary of [...]Full text...
