Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Interior Ministry of the Interim National Unity Government Tuesday announced the reception of a Libyan prisoner handed over to it by Ukrainian authorities across the Polish border, in accordance with the prisoner exchange agreement signed between the two countries. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian leader Adama Barrow, has said that The Gambia upholds education and skills acquisition as a right for every citizen to attain goals and commitments. The country also seeks to achieve high learning and skills outcomes, with more than 80 per cent of the children reaching the [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya detected nine new cases out of 93 samples analyzed over the last 24 hours, representing a positivity rate of 6.4 per cent, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Tuesday. A statement from the Centre said that two recoveries were also recorded in the country. The [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan prime minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, has called for the adoption of a clear timetable for the resumption of rehabilitation of the Tripoli International Airport eight years after closure of the facility. The call came during a meeting held on Monday [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister appointed by the Parliament, Fathi Bachagha, revealed here Tuesday that the existence of a regional and international situation does not favour an intra-Libyan rapprochement for the settlement of the crisis. However, he announced that he would continue to carry out his government's activities [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - With people from all points of the globe crying out for relief and hope, international action on major challenges – from climate to conflict and securing sustainable development – is paralysed by dysfunction and held hostage to geopolitical tensions, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on [...]Full text...
New York, USA (PANA) - The United Nations Population Fund, in partnership with the governments of Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia and Togo, Tuesday launched a global call for action to scale-up efforts to eliminate obstetric fistula in West and Central Africa by 2030. The launch coincides with the theme [...]Full text...
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The health authorities in Uganda on Tuesday declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the Sudan ebolavirus was confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the country. The Uganda Virus Research Institute confirmed the case after testing a sample taken from a 24-year-old [...]Full text...
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea is not afraid of the extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), scheduled to take place on the sidelines of the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, government spokesperson Ousmane Gaoual Diallo said Monday on a private [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, has stressed the need to strengthen the mechanisms of joint action to coordinate the positions of Arab countries on the most important issues in the region during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly. He made the [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Najla al-Mangouch and US Assistant Secretary of State, Barbara Leaf, on Monday met in New York with their discussions focusing on the strategic relations between the two countries and joint efforts to strengthen stability in Libya. Leaf reiterated during [...]Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Johannesburg lawmaker has denied media reports that he has been involved in an animal trafficking syndicate. Michael Sun, who serves as a Johannesburg City councillor, has been named in a Taiwanese media report in relation to an animal trading investigation in Taipei. Focus Taiwan CNA [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - One cent coins with the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II was distributed to passengers on Monday on board the Metro Express Ltd (MEL) Light Rail Vehicles at the Port Louis Victoria station. The Chief Executive Officer of MEL, Mr Das Mootanah, said that the event is an [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday’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...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Statistics Mauritius on Monday said that the Balance of Visible Trade showed a deficit of 15.2 billion rupees in July 2022, lower by 20.2 % compared to the previous month and higher by 44.1 % compared to the corresponding month of 2021. It said that total imports [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for strengthened international solidarity to address a raft of global challenges – from climate change and geopolitical division to deepening inequalities and conflict. “My objective is to make it clear that…we need cooperation, we need dialogue, and the present terrible geopolitical divides [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday held separate meetings with the foreign minister of Egypt, Sameh Shoukry, and the President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, who are in New York to attend the 77th meetings of the UN General Assembly, with their discussions centering on bilateral and multilateral issues. A [...]Full text...
New York. US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Monday discussed the Libyan crisis at separate meetings in New York with Mr. Mohamed Younis A. Menfi, Head of the Presidency Council of Libya and Mr. Jean-Claude Gakosso, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Congolese abroad of the Republic of Congo. A statement issued by [...]Full text...
