Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said that the increase of patients suffering from weapons wounds in South Sudan has strained healthcare system in the nascent African country, that has been suffering from communal violence ever since it gained independence from Sudan in [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In the first ever visit of its kind, Israel Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, landed in Khartoum on Thursday where he immediately called on Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council (TSC), president Lt. General Abdel Al-Fattah Al-Burhan in the presence of Acting Foreign Minister, Ali Al Sadeq The official media, [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mr. Mohamed Al-Manfi, on Thursday discussed with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily, "serious ideas" for holding elections in the near future. They also highlighted the importance [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, on Thursday announced the start of the first phase of the initiative on housing for young people and needy families, through the distribution of the first batch of land and housing loans for 25,000 people. This initiative was announced on 17 [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese Head of State, Macky Sall, who is also the current Chairperson of the African Union (AU), on Thursday called for a review of the conditions for financing infrastructure. Infrastructure remains under-financed in terms of volume and terms of interest rates and repayment periods, he said [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela, on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Malia's military leader, Colonel Assimi Goita. de Tambela delivered a message from the President of the Transition of Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traore, to his Malian counterpart. Speaking at the end of [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The visiting United Nations Expert on Human Rights in the Sudan, Radhouane Nouicer, on Thursday called on the Sudan’s Sovereign Council Vice President, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, a news release from the office of the Vice President said. The release said the two men reviewed the human [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese President, Macky Sall, on Thursday lamented the "very high" deficit in physical and digital infrastructure in Africa. Opening the Dakar Summit on the financing of infrastructure on the African continent, he stressed that infrastructure is the lifeblood of development and also the thread of African integration [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria and her neighbours must place higher premium on the effective policing of borders, as the fragile nature of entry points into various countries enhances terrorism, economic sabotage, and illicit flow of arms, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday. President Buhari spoke in Abuja while playing host [...]Full text...
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi has recorded 115 cases of cholera, including one death, since 1 January 2023, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and the fight against HIV/AIDS, Pamphile Bukuru, said on Thursday. In addition, 102 recoveries have been recorded and 12 cases are currently under medical follow-up. The first [...]Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, does not believe there will be another World Cup tournament in Africa in his lifetime. Blatter made the remarks in an interview with popular South African radio presenter Robert Marawa on his newly launched show 947 on Wednesday. Blatter, who was president of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The president of the Libyan Court of Accounts, Khaled Shakchak, has called on the state's sovereign institutions to take "preventive measures" to protect the country's investments abroad, and to reconsider "useless investments". The call came during a meeting held in Tripoli on Wednesday in the presence of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives in Libya, Youssef al-Agouri, on Wednesday expressed the desire of his country to benefit from German expertise, such as the federal system. He said that the system is a good solution to the current situation [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has denied reports of its intention to form a new legislative body aimed at finding solutions to the country's political crisis. An unknown organisation claiming to be affiliated with the United Nations is said to have made the claim [...]Full text...
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Pope Francis, on the penultimate day of his visit to DR Congo, on Thursday met with young people and catechists from across the country and urged them never to grow discouraged in their quest to resist corruption. The Vatican News reported that the meeting took place in [...]Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The low voter turnout in last Sunday's second round of Parliamentary election in Tunisia reflects the dire need for the government to engage in a more inclusive path going forward, the US said on Wednesday. The results of the election announced on Tuesday show that only 11.2% [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Following are Thursday’s exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling as issued by the Bank of Tanzania. Currency Buying Selling Burundi Franc 2.2001 2.2167 Euro [...]Full text...
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) – The Government of Liberia, with support from the World Bank, the Government of Norway, and donor partners, has organised a high-level international forum to highlight the significance of Liberia’s forestry sector and climate resilience. The two-day high-level Forest and Climate Resilience Forum, running from, is designed to [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Central Bank of Gambia. Currency Buying Selling US Dollar 59.75 [...]Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has expressed deep concern over Sudan's 30 January release of Abdel-Ra’uf Abuzaid, one of the people convicted of the 2008 murders of John Granville and Abdel Rahman Abbas, who were staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). A statement issued by Mr. Ned [...]Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Vincent Biruta in Washington, DC, on Wednesday with their discussions focusing on regional security issues of mutual interest. This includes how to arrest the deteriorating situation in eastern Democratic [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - A UN-led plan to tackle climate change by radically improving the way heat-trapping atmospheric pollutants are measured all over the planet, is being given serious consideration by governments and the international scientific community, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. The WMO initiative would create a network [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Trafficked medical products kill almost half a million sub-Saharan Africans every year, and action is needed to stem the flow, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) states in its new threat assessment report. A lack of access to healthcare and medicines has been fuelling [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UN agencies have welcomed a pledge by 12 African countries to end AIDS in children by 2030, This was announced on Wednesday at the first ministerial meeting of the Global Alliance to end AIDS in Children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It marked a step up in [...]Full text...
