Mali's national trade union plans five-day strike next month
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's largest trade union, Union Nationale des travailleurs du Mali (UNTM), intends to call a 120-hour strike from December 14 to [...] Full text...
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Unemployment rate in Tunisia drops by 2% in third quarter 2020
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The rate of unemployment in Tunisia dropped during the third quarter this year, reaching 16.2% as against the 18% recorded during [...] Full text...
More than 300 billion FCFA of financial irregularities detected in Auditor General's 2019 report
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - More than CFAF 300 billion in financial irregularities, including CFAF 287 billion in mining companies, have been detected in Mali, an [...] Full text...
Former Benin president Boni Yayi denies leaving debts to workers
MTA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's former president Boni Yayi (2006-2016) has said he left no debts to workers, contradicting his successor over a CFAF 173 billion [...] Full text...
Three young Malians at the "Hub Africa 2020" in October in Casablanca, Morocco
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Three young Malians will represent their country at the "Hub Africa 2020" competition to be held 7-8 October in Casablanca, Morocco, [...] Full text...
Celebrities call for green, gender-equal coronavirus recovery
DJ New York (PANA) - Goodwill ambassadors of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said here Thursday the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had exposed the vulnerabilities of [...] Full text...
Workshop on Misahel project launched in Bamako
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The president of the High Authority for Communication (HAC), Fodié Touré, Wednesday opened a workshop on the "Misahel" project to promote [...] Full text...
Tunisian unemployed embark on sit-in at seat of government for 10th consecutive day
MSA Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - Several unemployed Tunisians, particularly graduates from higher institutions, Friday continued their sit-in at the seat of government here for the tenth [...] Full text...
Japan donates airport equipment, rolling stock to Mali
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Japan has offered Mali ultra-modern airport security equipment, worth nearly 1.9 billion CFA francs, PANA learned on Friday from the Malian [...] Full text...
An illegal migrant drowns, two missing, 13 rescued after boat sinks off Tunisian coast
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian coastal guards on Sunday recovered the body of an illegal migrant and rescued 13 others after their boat sank off [...] Full text...
Tunisia: Dozens of dogs savagely killed in their refuge
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A horrible video showing dozens of dogs being savagely massacred in the Tunisian southern city of Djerba has been trending on [...] Full text...
Unemployed Tunisian journalists stage protest at government seat
KND Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - The coordination of unemployed Tunisian journalists organized a sit-in protest on Thursday in front of the seat of the government presidency, [...] Full text...
Protesters storm oil site in southern Tunisia
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Dozens of protesters stormed the entrance of the El Kamour oil site in southern Tunisia on Thursday evening in an effort [...] Full text...
Mauritania to review retirement age
MSA Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government has examined and adopted a draft bill amending and replacing several portions of the 93/009 Act of 18 [...] Full text...
Tunisian Navy intercepts 128 illegal migrants, including 94 Sub-Saharan Africans
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Units of the Tunisian Navy on Thursday arrested 34 Tunisians and 94 nationals of sub-Saharan Africa who were preparing to illegally [...] Full text...
250 Tunisians repatriated from Libya
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Some 250 Tunisians were repatriated from Libya Monday through the border post of Ras Jedir, diplomatic sources said here.
According to the [...] Full text...
Tunisia: Tataouine oil field workers embark on indefinite strike
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Workers in the various oil fields in the Tataouine region, southern Tunisia, began an an indefinite strike Saturday, completely blocking oil [...] Full text...
Denmark to host round table on humanitarian situation in the Sahel
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A ministerial round table on the humanitarian situation in the Sahel, particularly in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, is scheduled for [...] Full text...
120 Tunisians stranded at the Libyan border repatriated
KND Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Following the reopening of borders closed for several months due to the coronavirus pandemic, 120 Tunisians were repatriated overnight from Monday [...] Full text...
Two unions urge Malian state officials to retreat to safe areas in the face of abductions
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's Autonomous Union of Civil Administrators (SYNAC) and the Workers' Union of the Ministry of Territorial Administration (SYLTMAT) have asked their [...] Full text...
Police, demonstrators resume clashes in Tataouine, Tunisia
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Clashes between police and demonstrators resumed on Monday in the southern Tunisian city of Tataouine after only a few hours of [...] Full text...
Union leaders in southern Tunisian town declare general strike after 'heavy-handed dispersal' of sit-in
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Regional Labour Union of Tataouine in southern Tunisia, a union affiliated with the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), on Sunday [...] Full text...
Waves of protests reach several Tunisian regions
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several Tunisian regions were Friday hit by waves of protests and strikes, leading to the deterioration of the economic situation and [...] Full text...
Security, economic challenges in Sahel threatening development in ECOWAS Region – FM
WA Accra, June 12 (PANA) - Ghana’s minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said here Friday security and economic challenges in the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Catholic Church reopens masses in Mali
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Masses in the Mali's catholic church were relaunched on Sunday following a declaration by the President of the Episcopal Conference of [...] Full text...
Tunisian health workers hold day of anger
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Medical doctors and executives of the health sector in Tunisia Thursday held a sit-in protest in all the country’s health centers [...] Full text...
Malian civil administrators' unions plan 72-hour strike
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Unions of civilian administrators in Mali have threatened to go on a 72-hour strike from May 26 to press their demand [...] Full text...
Coronavirus:266 Malians stranded in France return home
MSA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Altogether, 266 Malians who were stranded in France for two months in the wake of measures against the coronavirus (COVID-19) returned [...] Full text...
Tunisia's information sector to stage protests
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The General Information Union, affiliated with the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), called on all its members and information workers, journalists [...] Full text...
Media workers face difficult time in Tunisia
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Press workers in Tunisia currently face huge difficulties due to the spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), including late payment of [...] Full text...
Mauritania making progress to improved labour environment
MTA Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania celebrated International Labour Day on Friday without any demonstration on the ground.
Civil Service, Labour and Administration minister Camara Saloum Mohamed, [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Classes to resume on 11 May in Burkina Faso
MSA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkina Faso government Monday announced that classes suspended because of the COVID-19 disease would resume from 11 May.
"On the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: The retired in Mauritania:deplore exclusion from management of Covid-19 efforts
MSA Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Retired Mauritanians Thursday deplored being excluded from health, economic and social packages set aside for the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) [...] Full text...
Mauritania in process to provide health coverage for 2,000 disabled persons
KND Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's Ministry of Social Affairs, Family and Children, and the Ministry of Health have signed an agreement under which 2,000 people [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Wave of support and solidarity with Sub-Saharan students and migrants in Tunisia
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian authorities and civil society organisations Wednesday expressed their support and solidarity with Sub-Saharan migrants and students residing in Tunisia facing [...] Full text...
Brain drain from Tunisia continues
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Out of 7,000 engineers trained each year in Tunisia, around 2,500 leave the country, the majority for France, regretted Mohamed Amine [...] Full text...
Kenya, Germany presidents launch Euro 39.4 million youth vocational training programme
DJ Kiambu, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday launched a Euro 39.4 million youth empowerment vocational training [...] Full text...
Number of unemployed people in Tunisia increased by 45% between 2007 and 2019
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The number of unemployed people in Tunisia increased by 45 per cent between 2007 and 2019, experts said at a think-tank [...] Full text...
Magistrates' strike stalls public hearing in Burkinabe
MTA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - All public hearings are postoned from 21 February in Burkina Faso, following a strike by members of the Autonomous Union [...] Full text...
Malian PM launches 6th edition of Bamako Housing Fair
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) -Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé on Thursday launched the 6th edition of the Bamako Housing Fair (Sahaba 2020).
The ceremony took place in [...] Full text...
Mauritanian collective for redistribution of agricultural land
MTA Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Manifesto for the Political, Economic and Social Rights of the Haratines (MDPESH - components of former slaves), in a just [...] Full text...
Malian pilgrims to pay more for this year's hajj
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian pilgrims undertaking this year's hajj on the government list will pay more compared with last year.
For this year, the cost [...] Full text...
Gabonese govt, social partners meet on draft Labour Code
BBA Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The Gabonese government, employers and trade union organisations are meeting in Libreville on Monday to try to reconcile their concerns on [...] Full text...
MINUSMA registers 13 billion F CFA in peace dividends in Gao, northern Mali
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has registered achievements from 2013 to 2019 in Gao, northern Mali, in [...] Full text...
Mali releases over 4.1 bn CFA francs to buy engines for Dakar Bamako Railway
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government has released 4.1 billion CFA francs for the purchase of four engines from the United States for the [...] Full text...
Gabon: Launching of a general strike at the SEEG
MTA Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Officials of the Gabonese Energy and Water Company (SEEG) launched a five-day strike here Friday following a notice filed on 17 [...] Full text...
Malian teachers march to demand 20 pct increase in salaries
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Hundreds of teachers, dressed in red and yellow, accompanied by students and parents organized a peaceful march on Thursday to demand [...] Full text...
Malian teachers on two-week strike to press their 20pc pay rise demand
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) -Responding to the call of their unions, Malian teachers have been observing a two-week strike since last Tuesday to demand a 20 [...] Full text...
Mali: Professional press associations regret Tiégoum Maïga's indictment
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Professional press associations in Mali say they learned with regret that their colleague, Tiégoum Boubèye Maïga, was charged by the Malian [...] Full text...
Mali: Teachers on five-day strike, demanding 20% salary increase
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian teachers, heeding calls from their different unions, began a five-day strike on Monday, demanding a 20% increase in their salaries.
They [...] Full text...