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Benin takes measures to boost fishing yields
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Libya launches collection of postage stamps featuring historic sites included on ISESCO’s list of World Heritage sites
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General Assembly President raises alert over ‘commodity dependence’
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Workshop to validate Great Green Wall women’s platform opens in Mali
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Silence the guns, amplify women’s voices for peace to end rape in wartime
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Antibiotics ’overused’ among hospitalised COVID-19 patients - WHO
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AUC Chairperson deeply concerned about ’escalating tensions’ in northern Ethiopia
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Lessons of Hamas operation against Israel, - Libyan newspaper,
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Sixth Science, Technology and Innovation Forum opens in Addis Ababa.
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More than 6,000 Sudanese arrive in Libya fleeing conflict in country - IOM
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Gaza war: UN issues updates on probe into allegations of staff collusion during 7 October attacks
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2023/24 CAF Champions League: Al Ahly stage late rally to defeat Mazembe and reach final

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Earth Hour: Lights off, climate action on

23 march 2024 - 17:54:15

New York, US (PANA) - The largest global environment movement is happening on Saturday, when the UN invites people around the world to shut the lights to remember the planetary crisis during Earth Hour as young partners find new ways to drive climate action. “Turn off the lights, and move the [...]Full text...

Gambian President Barrow calls for stronger partnership in fighting cancer

23 march 2024 - 15:37:38

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian President Adama Barrow has called for collaboration between the government and key stakeholders in the fight against cancer. According to a statement made available to PANA by the presidency on Saturday, the Gambian leader made the call during an audience with a delegation from the International Atomic Energy [...]Full text...

Senegal opposition leader Faye gets big boost from former ruling party

23 march 2024 - 10:15:30

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Former President Abdoulaye Wade’s Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) announced on Friday that it is joining the main opposition coalition’s candidate, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, in Sunday's presidential election, giving a new dimension to the vote. The Constitutional Council had disqualified Karim Wade, the PDS’s flagbearer and the former [...]Full text...

Mass grave found in Libya highlights migrant horrors - IOM

23 march 2024 - 05:29:37

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A mass grave has been found in southwest Libya containing at least 65 migrants who are believed to have died while being smuggled through the desert. According to the UN migration agency (IOM), which sounded the alarm on Friday, increasing numbers of people are dying on dangerous routes [...]Full text...

Rights experts raise red flags about increased sex trafficking, child recruitment in Sudan

23 march 2024 - 05:25:17

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Independent UN human rights experts on Friday expressed alarm over increased reports of sexual slavery and trafficking in Sudan, especially of women and girls. This is being compounded by an increase in child and forced marriage, and the recruitment of boys by combatants in the continuing war between [...]Full text...

Massive rise in displacement in DRC poses dire threat to children - UNICEF

23 march 2024 - 05:18:27

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - A major upsurge in violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has displaced at least 400,000 people in North Kivu since the beginning of the year is exposing children to unacceptable levels of violence, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday. At-risk children [...]Full text...