Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Amnesty International has urged international donors attending the Berlin aid conference for Sudan to secure increased funding and pressure warring parties to ensure unhindered humanitarian access to allow lifesaving healthcare services to be delivered to civilians, including survivors of sexual violence.In a press statement it [...] Full text...
Djibouti City, Djibouti (PANA) - Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been reelected for his sixth term in Friday's presidential election.The Djibouti Information Service said he was declared winner with 97.81%. It said voter turnout was 80.4%.President Guelleh, 78, who was the candidate of the ruling Union for the Presidential [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The Gambia on Saturday marked the 26th anniversary of the April 10 -11 student demonstrations in 2000 during which 16 schoolchildren were killed by state security forces under the former government of Yahya Jammeh.The incident, widely regarded as one of the darkest episodes in the country’s [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US Senior Adviser on Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, has congratulated the two governments in Libya for signing a unified budget for the first time in more than a decade.“Congratulations to #Libya on signing a unified national budget for the first time in [...] Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese government formally notified the German government on Friday of its objection to a humanitarian aid conference scheduled to take place in Berlin on 15 April, citing its exclusion from the proceedings.Sudan's media outlet, Sudan Tribune, quoted a statement from the foreign ministry as saying [...] Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - As Sudan approaches the third anniversary of a brutal civil war, millions remain displaced and hungry while the health system lies in ruins, with no end to the violence in sight, UN agencies said on Friday.Speaking from Khartoum, the representative of the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, [...] Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Head of ECOWAS Observation Mission to Benin, Ghana’s former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged the more than 100 regional observers deployed for Sunday’s presidential election to be neutral and professional in discharging their responsibilities.“As observers, our role is clear. We are here to [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI – the first global body of its kind – is gearing up for its inaugural in-person summit.Tasked with navigating the volatile intersection of innovation and ethics, this group of world-leading experts is launching a landmark study into [...] Full text...
