Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Senior officials representing France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States have voiced their support for the new Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily, while rejecting any recourse to violence to resolve [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 352 people received a vaccine against the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Libya over the past week, an official source said here Saturday. This brings the total number of people vaccinated since the launch of the national pandemic vaccination campaign in March 2021 to 2,304,757, up [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Senior UN officials, including Secretary-General António Guterres, took part in a High-Level event at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, noting the encouraging progress that has been made towards ending the COVID-19 pandemic, while acknowledging that work still needs to be done to ensure [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Sahrawi Movement for Peace (MSP) pleaded Friday for the strengthening of confidence in the role of the United Nations (UN) "as the central element of a compromise solution" in the Western Sahara dispute. This plea was contained in a text titled "Las Palmas Manifesto" published by [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) launched on Thursday in Antananarivo, Madagascar, the first activities of the Governance, Peace and Stability in Indianoceania (GPS) project to strengthen democratic institutions. The project also aims to consolidate the rule of law and boost citizen participation in favor of peace within [...]Full text...
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The Ugandan health ministry said here Saturday three more patients had died from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), bringing the total number to four, the New Vision newspaper reported. It quoted a press release by the ministry on Friday as saying that the number of probable deaths [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s military leader, Lieutenant General Adel Fattah Al Burhan, Friday conferred with UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres, on the sideline of the UN General Assembly’s meetings, over the current political situation in the Sudan and the precarious security in the various regions. Burhan is the first Sudanese head [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday expressed "serious concern" about the continuing political crisis in Sudan, as well as the rapidly deteriorating security, economic and humanitarian situations. A statement by the Office of the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General said he was speaking when he met with [...]Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The following are the results of international friendly football matches played by African countries on Friday. Brazil 3-0 Ghana Ethiopia 1-1 Sudan Bahrain 1-2 Cape Verde Burkina Faso 1-0 DR Congo Equatorial Guinea 0-0 Rwanda Egypt 3-0 Niger Mali 1-0 Zambia Algeria 1-0 Guinea Morocco 2-0 Chile -0- PANA MA/RA 24Sept2022 [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Five Western countries have expressed their support for newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Abdoulaye Bathily, as he takes up his mandate to advance political stability and reconciliation among Libyans. This is contained in a statement issued after a meeting of senior officials representing France, [...]Full text...
