Health sector in Burkina Faso paralyzed by 48-hour strike
MTA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Most health centres in Burkina Faso operated at a slow pace Wednesday following a strike action by the Union of [...] Full text...
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21st edition of the National Farmer’s Day opens next Thursday in Burkina Faso
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Health sector in Burkina Faso paralyzed by 48-hour strike
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Burkina Faso: Fuel tanker drivers abducted in Burkinabe Sahel
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EU gives Mali more than 900 million CFAF for good governance
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The European Union, Association of Malian Municipalities (AMM) and the Association of regions and municipalities (ARM) have signed two financing conventions [...] Full text...
Tunisian unemployed graduates threathen to commit suicide
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several higher education graduates in Mahdia province in southern Tunisia threaten to commit suicide if their job applications continue to be [...] Full text...
Japan gives 2.5 million dollars to support Burundian, CAR refugees, displaced persons in DRC
MSA Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Japan Thursday granted 2.5 million US dollars to the UN High Commission for Refugees (HCR) to cater for Burundian and [...] Full text...
Cyclone Idai: NGO calls for investigations into allegations of looting of relief aid in Zimbabwe
T Z Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Non-governmental organisation, Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA), has called for government to urgently investigate allegations of looting of Cyclone Idai [...] Full text...
IOM launches project to support sustainable reintegration of returning migrants in Mali
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in partnership with the Italian NGO International Cooperation (COOPI), officially launched on Wednesday in Bamako [...] Full text...
South African pilot plunges plane into clubhouse
M S Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Botswana police and aviation officials are investigating an incident in which a South African allegedly stole an aircraft and flew [...] Full text...
Cape Verde offers Mozambique $200,000 and rescue team for Cyclone Idai victims
MSA Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) – Cape Verde will donate about US$200,000 and send to Mozambique a rescue team that includes marines, doctors and nurses to [...] Full text...
Italy seizes humanitarian boat carrying African migrants in Mediterranean Sea
MSA Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – Italian authorities on Thursday seized a humanitarian boat, Mare Jonio, carrying 49 African migrants who were rescued from sea off the [...] Full text...
Malian national education unions declare new 15-day strike
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - After declaring several strikes since the beginning of the school year in Mali, the various national education unions have again called [...] Full text...
Mali President sends condolence message to Ethiopian counterpart after Ethiopian Airlines plane crash
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President, Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, on Monday sent a message of condolence to his Ethiopian counterpart, Sahle Work Zewde, following the [...] Full text...
Japan gives UN agencies in US$4.9 million to assist displaced populations
MSA Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – The Japanese government on Tuesday gave Cameroon a financial aid of US$4.9 million for UN agencies to assist internal displaced populations [...] Full text...
Tunisian journalist trade-union threatens to go on general strike
MSA Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - The chairman of the national trade-union of Tunisian journalists (SNJT), Neji Bghouri, on Tuesday said that the decision of the trade-union [...] Full text...
Greece says no sign of brutality was involved in Nigerian's death at police station
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Athens, Greeece (PANA)- Greek authorities said that the investigation into the death of a Nigerian man at the Greek capital Athens on February 8 has [...] Full text...
Tunisia’s unemployment rate remained stable during Q4 of 2018 - survey
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The unemployment rate in Tunisia was estimated at 15.5 percent during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2018, showing [...] Full text...
Guinea Bissau education sector paralysed by teachers’ strike
MSA Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) – The education sector in Guinea Bissau has been paralyzed since Thursday in the wake of a strike by teachers’ trade unions [...] Full text...
Over 8,000 Malians in distress repatriated back home in 2018
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - As part of the National Migration Policy implemented since 2014 by the Malian government, more than 8,000 Malians in distress around [...] Full text...
World Bank supports access to social services in Benin communes
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The World Bank is supporting Benin in the implementation of a project to support communes and communities for the expansion of [...] Full text...
Tanzania rules out conjugal rights to inmates
EBM Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The Tanzanian government has ruled out the possibility of prisoners in the country having their conjugal rights as [...] Full text...
Spate of 'ritual' child killings continues to rock Tanzania's southern region
EBM Njombe, Tanzania (PANA) - A wave of killings and abductions of children linked to witchcraft continue to rock the southern region of Njombe, as another [...] Full text...
Mali gets US$8m from EU, France for transformation, investment projects
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The European Union (EU) and France have released more than five billion CFAF (about US$8 million), through the French Development Agency [...] Full text...
Mauritanian telephony operator workers launch strike
MSA Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Workers of Mauritel, the telecommunications operator in Mauritania, which is a subsidiary of Morocco-Telecom, on Wednesday launched a strike to press [...] Full text...
Malian Air Force helicopter makes emergency landing
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A Malian Air Force helicopter made an emergency landing during a training flight on Saturday at Kati's, about 15 km from [...] Full text...
South African football officials charged in 2010 World Cup bribery case
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African fugitive Gupta family which has been heavily implicated in the State Capture scandal that clouded Jacob Zuma’s [...] Full text...
Malian workers launch 3-day strike as salary, job negotiations with gov't fail
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Mali's largest labour union, the National Union of Malian Workers (UNTM), on Wednesday began a 3-day strike after negotiations with the [...] Full text...
Senegalese minister calls for participation of social partners in public policies
MSA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – The president of the Social Dialogue of Francophone International, Senegalese Mrs Innocence Ntap Ndiaye, on Tuesday advocated the involvement of social [...] Full text...
Tunisian lawyers extend general strike to Thursday
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Bar Council announced on Tuesday that it has extended its strike that started on Monday for another three days.
The [...] Full text...
Kenya to host inaugural international sports film festival
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya is hosting a three-day inaugural Kenya International Sports Film Festival (KISSF) in Nairobi from Thursday.
Festival organisers say that at close [...] Full text...
Tunisian university lecturers, researchers begin strikes
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian university lecturers and researchers on Monday began a series of strikes to protest against the Tunisian ministry of Higher Education [...] Full text...
Striking Kenyan private service vehicles back on the road after talks with gov't
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Public Service Vehicle (PSV) operators in Kenya have called off their countrywide boycott following talks with the government that resolved some [...] Full text...
TV news anchor, friend held in woman's murder probe
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan court has ordered the police to further detain TV news anchor, Jacque Maribe, as they conclude their investigations of [...] Full text...
LIA forced to abandon its Tripoli HQ due to militia coercion
SSB Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) has been forced to abandon its headquarters at the downtown Tripoli Tower due to persistent militia [...] Full text...
Obama visits Kogelo ancestral home
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Former US president Barrack Obama, is in Kenya to launch, among other projects, the Sauti Kuu Centre in Kogelo, western Kenya.
Obama, [...] Full text...
Rights group criticises Uganda's 'troubling' social media tax
MA Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Human Rights Watch, an international human rights organisation, has joined in the chorus of criticism of the Ugandan government for [...] Full text...
Former president Zuma's pregnant lover fired by organisation
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A young woman who has been impregnated by former President Jacob Zuma has been forced to resign from the [...] Full text...
Social safety net programmes help millions escape poverty, but......
AR Washington, US (PANA) - An estimated 36 percent of the very poor or 50 million people, escaped extreme poverty because of social safety nets, providing [...] Full text...
Kenyan advocate seeks removal of Chief Justice, six others
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan lawyer has petitioned the National Assembly to remove Chief Justice David Maraga and five others from the Judicial Service [...] Full text...
Nigeria Police react to terror alert by US, UK govts
MON Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Police Headquarters on Tuesday allayed the fears of Nigerians over the red alert issued by the US and UK [...] Full text...
Global leaders call for action to help young refugees, IDPs
SSB Doha, Qatar (PANA) – An international panel on education has called for action to help young refugees and internally displaced youths.
The panel of world leaders [...] Full text...
Kenya: Kenya gets new thrust in fighting land management challenges
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The quest for an end to the perennial challenges in land management in Kenya late Monday benefited from a new thrust [...] Full text...
UN: Int'l tourism witnesses uptick in 2016
AA New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Tourism Organization (WTO) on Thursday said international tourist arrivals grew by 3.9 per cent to reach a [...] Full text...
UN: ILO report says unemployment to rise in 2017
AA LNew York, US (PANA) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) released its 2017 World Employment and Social Outlook report on Thursday, warning on rising unemployment [...] Full text...
UN: ILO report says 150 million migrants in global workforce
AA New York, US (PANA) - As policymakers seek to make headway on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and labour migration, a report by [...] Full text...
Belgium: UNICEF marks birthday with “tiny stories” looking towards a better world for children
VAO Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Four senior European Union (EU) Commissioners have joined renowned novelists Paolo Coelho, Chimamanda Adichie of Nigeria and some 200 other writers, [...] Full text...
UN: International tourism on upwards trend in early 2016 - WTO
AA New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Tourism Organization (WTO) on Friday said international tourist arrivals worldwide grew by four per cent between January [...] Full text...
US: Tourism operators tasked on sustainable development initiatives
AA New York, US (PANA) - The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) on Friday issued a challenge to tourism organisations around the world to show [...] Full text...
UN: UNICEF highlights 10 countries with highest out-of-school rates
AA New York, US (PANA) - As millions of children around the world prepare to return to school this month, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on [...] Full text...
US: Togo gets kudos for tourism investments
AA New York, US (PANA) - In the run-up to the first Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) in Lome, Togo, the organiser, Bench Events, has praised [...] Full text...
Kenya: Closure of Dadaab refugees' camp final, Kenyan DP says
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto said the
government's decision to shut down the Dadaab refugee camp is final,
stressing the need for [...] Full text...
UN: Egypt hails WTO calls to lift bans on tourists' travels, sites
AA New York, US (PANA) - Egypt has welcomed the UN World Tourism Organization (WTO) call for the lifting of any unnecessary bans on travel for [...] Full text...