Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Human rights advocate. Amnesty International, on Tuesday described the decision of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) as “a serious backwards step in the fight against impunity in the Sahel region and worldwide”.Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General opened the General Assembly high-level debate with a stark message: the world is awash with overlapping crises – from wars and humanitarian emergencies to climate breakdown – and leaders must decide now “what kind of world we choose to build together”.Each September, [...] Full text...
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Amid the devastating war in Sudan, UN aid teams are overcoming major obstacles to curb a cholera outbreak claiming lives across the country, with young children particularly at risk.The World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Deputy Representative to the country Hala Khudari reported on Tuesday that the [...] Full text...
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Parliament's committee responsible for monitoring and evaluating the conditions of detention of Libyan prisoners abroad has met to deliberate on the matter.The committee which is to identify their places of detention and their legal and humanitarian conditions, agreed to the creation of a precise database including [...] Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - All 11 West Africans who had filed a legal action against the Ghana government to halt their deportation have been sent back to their countries, their counsel told the High Court in Accra on Tuesday.Accra-based TV 3 outlet reported that the four Nigerians, three Togolese, two [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Trust Bank of Gambia.Currency Buying SellingUS Dollar [...] Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, 0n Monday announced their withdrawal from the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), saying it has "transformed into an instrument of neocolonial repression in the hands of imperialism".In a joint statement, the three countries which form the Alliance of Sahel States [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, and the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU), al-Taher al-Baour, on Monday participated in the high-level international conference on the peaceful settlement of the Palestinian issue and [...] Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - For more than 120 million forcibly displaced people around the world, including refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs), connectivity, access to affordable data and devices, and digital skills are no longer just a nice to have. They are a necessity. Jobs, education, banking, and even [...] Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are the exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling on Tuesday as issued by the Bank of Tanzania.Currency Buying SellingBurundi Franc 0.813 0.8211Euro 2,888.6202 2,917.5064British Pound [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - As world leaders convene in New York for the High-Level Week of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is calling for stronger international dialogue and collective action to position migration as a driver of development and [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the European Union (EU) have renewed their collaboration on achieving universal health coverage with the launch of Phase V (2025–2028) of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnership – WHO’s largest platform for strengthening health systems and advancing primary health [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - WHO has released a new landscape analysis that exposes critical gaps in global research and development (R&D) efforts related to cancer. A press release on Monday said the report reveals that despite rapid advancements in clinical research, “investment and innovation are often misaligned with the greatest public health [...] Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa is leading a South African delegation at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80)The session is taking place under the theme “Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,” coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the UN Charter.On [...] Full text...
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The United States' recent expulsions of third-country nationals to Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and South Sudan have exposed several hundred people to a risk of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, and refoulement, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.The “opaque deals” that facilitate these transfers, at least some [...] Full text...
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Hostilities between Israeli forces and Hamas have led to the shuttering of almost half of all malnutrition centres in and around Gaza City, the northern area of the Strip where famine was declared a month ago.That’s according to the UN humanitarian aid coordination office, OCHA, [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Conditions are deteriorating rapidly in El Fasher, the besieged capital of Sudan's North Darfur State.Between 17 and 19 September more than 7,500 people fled the Abu Shouk displacement camp and parts of El Fasher, according to reports from the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM).Following an [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The time has come to free the 48 hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza and to stop the bombing, massacres and displacement in the embattled enclave, French President Emmanual Macron told delegates in the UN General Assembly Hall on Monday. He was speaking at [...] Full text...
