Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Saturday welcomed the principle of helping the country reach peace, but rejected any attempts to impose it from outside or to infringe on the national sovereignty.The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a statement stressing that the “government of Sudan [...] Full text...
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - A top official of Libya's eastern-based government has had a meeting with leaders of some Egyptian tribes to consolidate ties between tribal actors of the two countries.The Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the General Command of the Libyan Armed Forces based in the East, Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar, [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya and the US have held discussions focusing on encouraging American companies operating in the North African country to open offices there rather than just regional offices.This is to ensure their “direct and effective presence” in the local market, according to statement released on Friday by [...] Full text...
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris has appointed Ambassador Muhi al-Din Salem Ahmed as minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.Ambassador Ahmed, a carrer diplomat, was on Friday sworn in before the Chairman of the Sovereign Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel Fattah [...] Full text...
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - In the Gaza Strip, hope may be all that is left but it is not enough to keep people alive, a veteran humanitarian said on Friday, calling for more action to end the conflict and stop the bloodshed. Olga Cherevko, Spokesperson in Gaza for the UN [...] Full text...
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - African Union (AU) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have concluded talks to cement relations between the continental body and the Gulf state, with key stress on working together to achieve peace in many boiling African states.A statement on the website of the AU said [...] Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has condemned an attack by rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (AFD) of the DRC against a village in the country during the night of 8 September which claimed the lives of at [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - With more conflicts on Earth than ever before since the end of World War II, the Peace Bell rang on,12 September, at the United Nations headquarters in New York.As he does every year on the occasion of the International Day of Peace, UN Secretary-General Antonio [...] Full text...
The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday rejected, by 13 votes to two, Equatorial Guinea's request for measures to prevent France from selling a sumptuous mansion located at 42 Avenue Foch in Paris.The building, confiscated by the French courts as part of an "ill-gotten [...] Full text...
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Over 100,000 people in South Sudan have been displaced by what the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has called “new deadly floods”.In recent weeks, widespread flooding has engulfed large parts of Jonglei, Upper Nile and Unity states in the north of the country, UN News reported.The [...] Full text...
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Quad on Sudan's war – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America – on Friday called for an end to the war stressing that they see no military solution being reached.In a joint statement released by the US [...] Full text...
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Friday extended for another year Sudan's sanctions regime including an arms embargo, amid divisions over whether to reference Sudan’s worsening situation or limit the draft to a purely technical roll-over.A press briefing following the unanimous vote said adopting resolution 2791 [...] Full text...
