New York, US (PANA) - The war in Ukraine has drastically cut funding for emergency medical and psychosocial care for victims of sexual violence in South Sudan, a United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said here Thursday after recent missions to Western Equatoria and Unity States. “It is [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - President William Ruto has called for urgent reform of the global decision-making system that will give Africa and the developing world a stronger voice. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the President said the UN Security Council, the top organ of the [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian President Adama Barrow was sneaked through the backdoor of his Manhattan hotel to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) where he addressed the 77th Session meeting currently underway today Thursday in New York, PANA reports. According to sources, the president was escorted through the backdoor by US [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow Thursday emphasized that the current cost-of-living crisis across the world was a wake-up call for an immediate global response to alleviate the suffering and poverty that held nations to ransom. He said the global inflationary trends, food insecurity, and the energy crisis compounded the [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The prime minister of the National Unity Government, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, reaffirmed here Thursday his government's commitment to the option of elections to move Libya to the stage of stability. He called for thinking of alternative solutions if the blockage of the promulgation of the constitutional rule continued [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A new platform to promote the use of data science in finding solutions to some of Africa's most-pressing development challenges has been created, a data scientist said. Rose Delilah Gesicho, Data Science Community Coordinator at Zindi, the new platform bringing together data scientists, said with 1.4 billion [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow has commended the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change -TBI for the support it continues to provide to his government since 2017. He made the commendation during an audience with the Executive Chairman and former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on the sidelines of [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian President Adama Barrow has told a meeting on mobilising climate financing held on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly in New York that there is a need for countries to raise investments and focus on saving and protecting lives and the ecosystems. According to [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The annual report for 2021 by the Audit Office has revealed the expenditure of large sums of money by the Government of National Unity (GNU), prompting Prime Minister Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba to ask the relevant departments to respond to the remarks contained in the document. The report, published [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia has recorded one new coronavirus-related death bringing the death toll to 372. The Ministry of Health also said 20 new infections were registered to bring the total COVID-19 cases to 12,415, adding that 46 recoveries were recorded. In another development, Gibril Gando Baldeh, Senior Health Communication Officer [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of the Transition of Mali, Colonel Assimi Goita, on Wednesday received a delegation of the first sub-regional forum of Muslim religious leaders for peace and stability in Mali and the Sahel. The delegation was led by the President of the High Islamic Council of Mali [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Najla al-Mangouch has continued her talks with her counterparts from several countries and international organisations participating in the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, on the latest developments in the country. She has been stressing the importance of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan health authorities said on Thursday that they detected two new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours out of 51 samples tested, representing a positivity rate of 4%. The National Centre for Disease Control said there was no death during the period, adding that five [...]Full text...
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - In an accelerated effort to scale up response to the Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda, World Health Organisation (WHO) is delivering medical supplies, providing logistics and deploying staff to support the national authorities in halting the spread of the virus. So far, seven cases, including one death, [...]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...
New York, US (PANA) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday began efforts to resolve the tension between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda when he met their leaders in New York on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly meetings. A series of tweets by the Presidency [...]Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PAA) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday gave consent to ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. A statement by the State Department said "The United States will soon join 137 other countries that have already ratified the Kigali [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Referring to a world in a state of turbulence, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on Wednesday called for multilateral cooperation and efforts to address intersecting crises, including climate change, food price inflation, conflict and migration. Despite shortcomings, he flagged that global health was an example that [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - It was doubtful that any generation of Earth’s inhabitants has ever witnessed “such a perfect storm of global economic chaos, a war with global consequences, and an unwillingness or inability to find a consensus to deal with the catastrophe”, the President of Ghana told the [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, has told the 77th session of the UN General Assembly that his country has moved through a decade of “pain and hope”, as it moves towards building a State of institutions and establishing principles of democracy. He upheld his [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - During a private meeting of Heads of State and Government held on Wednesday at UN Headquarters in New York, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for more action and leadership to tackle the climate crisis, warning that efforts to keep the rise in global temperatures to [...]Full text...
