Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - UN humanitarians in Sudan issued a fresh alert on Friday about pervasive food insecurity and looming famine. After nearly a year of brutal civil war between rival militaries, food production has been hit and communities face acute shortages of other essential resources such as water and [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN renewed its commitment to never forget the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda during a candle lighting ceremony on Friday to mark 30 years since the horrific events there unfolded. The commemoration in the General Assembly Hall was held to remember the victims [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nigeria has become the first country to roll out a “revolutionary” five-in-one vaccine against meningitis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a statement on Friday. The Men5CV vaccine offers a powerful shield against the five major strains of the meningococcal bacteria - A, C, W, Y [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Almost 55 million people are facing further food and nutrition insecurity in West and Central Africa during the region’s three-month lean season from June through August, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. This is a four million increase in the number of people currently [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The situation for Gazans remains dire despite hopes stemming from recent commitments by Israel to boost assistance, the UN’s top aid official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Friday. Jamie McGoldrick, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator overseeing crisis relief in Gaza, pushed back at Israeli claims that [...]Full text...
Washington DC, USA (PANA) - Governments have traditionally used targeted interventions known as industrial policy to make domestic producers more competitive or promote growth in selected industries. While some developing countries continued to use it, industrial policy fell out of favour across most of the world for years, because of its [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The President of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, is encouraging civil servants and public employees to report any irregularities or unethical or illegal practices that they become aware of within public sector companies. "It is essential that everyone feels free and supported to share, in complete safety, information [...]Full text...
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The visa fee for nationals of The Gambia who wish to travel to the Schengen area will be reduced from €120 to the standard visa application fee of €80, the European Council decided on Friday. “Because of a lack of cooperation of The Gambia as regards readmission [...]Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government is to set up a water infrastructure company, following a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Cotonou on Thursday. "The establishment of the Société Béninoise des Infrastructures d'Eau (SoBIE) is part of the implementation of a new, efficient and transparent institutional system, promoting [...]Full text...
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) will provide €1 billion of urgent short-term macro-financial assistance to Egypt to help stabilise its economy. Announcing the support on Friday, the European Council said that the aid is meant to address the deteriorating macro-fiscal situation and financing needs of the country over [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Calm has returned to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, following a tense security situation after gunfire was heard on Thursday evening in the city, according to corroborating sources. Residents quoted by the local media said that traffic has returned to normal in Martyrs' Square, in the centre of [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Egypt’s cotton production in marketing year (MY) 2024/25 is forecast at 310,000 bales, down 40,000 bales from MY2023/24, driven by a 4-percent drop in harvested area and lower input use, impacting yields. Meanwhile, the country’s cotton Imports are forecast at 450,000 bales, down 50,000 bales on lower [...]Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) – New data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that many governments around the world did not meet public healthcare spending benchmarks amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). The new information indicates possible violations of countries’ obligations to the human right to [...]Full text...
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - One year since the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in Sudan, the response from the international community has remained woefully inadequate even as the civilian death toll rises in the country, Amnesty International, Sudan Democracy First [...]Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s Electoral Commission (IEC) on Thursday night approached the Constitutional Court on an urgent basis to appeal against Tuesday’s Electoral Court order which paved the way for former President Jacob Zuma to run in the May elections. The IEC received 22 objections to Zuma’s [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are the exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling on Friday as issued by the Bank of Tanzania. Currency Buying Selling Burundi Franc 0.8884 0.8966 Euro 2,781.6116 2,810.4604 British Pound 3,248.1105 3,281.6243 Japanese Yen 16.8468 17.0141 Kenya Shilling [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - People in Gaza are struggling to survive, said the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, who was part of a team carrying out an assessment mission on Wednesday in the southern city of Khan Younis following the Israeli military withdrawal last week. “Humanitarians are working [...]Full text...
