UN chief, Guinea PM discuss 'swift' return to constitutional order
MA New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, on Tuesday met with Mr. Bernard Gomou, Prime Minister of Guinea, in New York [...] Full text...
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Politics
Kenya's Ruto picks key allies to new Cabinet line up
AO Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President William Ruto has elevated key political allies to a newly created post of Prime Cabinet Secretary, a position equivalent [...] Full text...
EU invites deputy chairman of Libyan Council to chair conference on cross-border cooperation by Libya and Sahel
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The deputy chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Moussa Al-Kouni, received on Tuesday an official invitation from the European Union (EU) to [...] Full text...
US throws weight behind ECOWAS sanctions on Guinea
MA Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States on Tuesday commended the "strong actions" taken by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) "in [...] Full text...
Former Guinean Transitional President Dadis Camara arrested
BBA Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The former Guinean president of the 2009 transition, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, was arrested on Tuesday after an interrogation with the [...] Full text...
Parliament approves increase in minimum wage in Libya to 1,000 Libyan dinars
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The House of Representatives (Parliament) in Libya during a plenary session here Tuesday approved an increase in the guaranteed inter-professional minimum [...] Full text...
Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin admits having created Wagner mercenary group
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A Russian businessman close to the Kremlin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, acknowledged on Monday that he formed the paramilitary Wagner Group, in 2014 [...] Full text...
Former Speaker of Guinean National Assembly Claude Kory Kondiano dies
BBA Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The former Speaker of the Guinean National Assembly, Claude Kory Kondiano, died on Tuesday, aged 80, in a clinic in the capital, several [...] Full text...
Libyan Parliament meets in Benghazi
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan parliament is meeting on Tuesday in plenary session at its headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi to elect [...] Full text...
Libya, France review cooperation in training and employment
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Ali al-Abed, met on Monday in Tripoli [...] Full text...
South Africa's ruling party under fire over Russia stance
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Youth Wing of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has sparked an outcry by accepting an invitation [...] Full text...
UNSMIL denounces use of heavy weapons in armed clashes in Zawiya in western Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned the use of heavy weapons in densely populated areas during clashes in [...] Full text...
Package of measures to streamline spending by unity government in Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, has issued a regulatory circular to ministries and their [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Libyan presidential council chairman meets senior AU, UN officials
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, on Saturday held discussions in New York with the chairman of the [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Burkina Faso, Russia agree to strengthens cooperation
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Russia and Burkina Faso are to strengthen cooperation during talks between their top leaders on the margins of the 77th [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: UN chief, Burkina Faso junta leader discuss humanitarian, security issues
MA New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Saturday granted an audience to Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, President of the Transition in [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Egypt’s Foreign Minister calls for improved climate commitments at COP27
MA New York, UN (PANA) - Egypt, which is hosting the 2022 UN Climate Conference this November, is calling on the international community to act on [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Mali reports progress in political transition process, fighting terrorism
MA New York, US (PANA) - The Authorities in Mali are moving along the path to political transition and institutional reform while combating terrorism and other [...] Full text...
Five Western countries including the United States express their support for Abdoulaye Bathily's mission in Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Senior officials representing France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States have voiced their support for the new Special [...] Full text...
MSP calls for strengthening role of the UN for solution of Western Sahara dispute
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Sahrawi Movement for Peace (MSP) pleaded Friday for the strengthening of confidence in the role of the United Nations (UN) [...] Full text...
Sudanese military leader discusses with UN Secretary General situation in Sudan
MO Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s military leader, Lieutenant General Adel Fattah Al Burhan, Friday conferred with UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres, on the sideline of the [...] Full text...
UN chief expresses 'serious concern' about political crisis in Sudan
MA New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday expressed "serious concern" about the continuing political crisis in Sudan, as well as the [...] Full text...
Five Western countries express support for new Special Representative of the UN chief in Libya
MA New York, US (PANA) - Five Western countries have expressed their support for newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Abdoulaye Bathily, as he takes [...] Full text...
Polisario held responsible for violations in Tindouf camps
BBA Genève, Switzerland (PANA) - The 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council, meeting on Thursday in Geneva (Switzerland), called on the international community to [...] Full text...
US ambassador announces new 'ideas' from Washington on Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - US Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, Friday spoke of "new ideas and great interest" in Libya to try [...] Full text...
Morocco reaffirms its support for elections as political solution in Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita Friday expressed his country's support for the international position in favour of national elections as the [...] Full text...
ECOWAS imposes graduated sanctions on Guinea
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at an extraordinary [...] Full text...
AU, Senegal support Libyan elections at New York meeting
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, discussed with Senegalese President Macky Sall, who is also the current Chairperson [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Sudan committed to achieve national reconciliation, General Assembly hears
MA New York, US (PANA) - Abdel-Fattah Al Burhan Abdelrahman Al-Burhan, the President of the Transitional Government of Sudan, has reiterated his commitment to peaceful transition [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Somalia committed to tackling twin threats of looming famine and terrorism, President tells UN Assembly
MA New York, US (PANA) - Despite efforts to move past decades of drought and conflict, Somalia is facing some of the most complex crises in [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Least developed countries impacted by ‘range of interlinked crises’ – Assembly President
MA New York, US (PANA) - The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine war and rising costs are "severely and disproportionately affecting" Least Developed Countries (LDCs), [...] Full text...
Kenya calls for better African representation at the UN
AO New York, US (PANA) - President William Ruto has called for urgent reform of the global decision-making system that will give Africa and the developing [...] Full text...
The current cost-of-living crisis across the world is a wake-up call- President Barrow
MSS Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow Thursday emphasized that the current cost-of-living crisis across the world was a wake-up call for an immediate global [...] Full text...
PM urges alternatives to constitutional basis if Libyan elections remains blocked
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The prime minister of the National Unity Government, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, reaffirmed here Thursday his government's commitment to the option of elections [...] Full text...
President Barrow commends TBI
MSS Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow has commended the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change -TBI for the support it continues to provide to [...] Full text...
Libyan FM mobilises support in New York for elections
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Najla al-Mangouch has continued her talks with her counterparts from several countries and [...] Full text...
French President Macron meets DCR, Rwanda leaders in effort to end tension between them
MA New York, US (PANA) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday began efforts to resolve the tension between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Africa is doing its part but must do more, says Rwandan President Kagame
MA New York, US (PANA) - Referring to a world in a state of turbulence, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on Wednesday called for multilateral cooperation [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: As global economic crises ‘pile up’, Ghanaian leader says it's time for urgent attention
MA New York, US (PANA) - It was doubtful that any generation of Earth’s inhabitants has ever witnessed “such a perfect storm of global economic chaos, [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: Libya working towards democratic transformation, Presidential Council chairman
MA New York, US (PANA) - The Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, has told the 77th session of the UN General Assembly that his [...] Full text...
Rabat reiterates support for transition processes in 4 African countries
BBA Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Morocco reiterated recently in Addis Ababa, before the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) its strong and [...] Full text...
77th UN General Assembly: Macky Sall calls for fairer global governance
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese president, Macky Sall, said on Tuesday, before the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, that [...] Full text...
International community urged to act within UN framework to resolve crisis in Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Malta, India, the United Arab Emirates and Italy Wednesday affirmed their support for intensified efforts by the international community to work [...] Full text...
Morocco calls for cooperation that serves African countries
BBA New York, United Nations (PANA) - Morocco on Wednesday called for the strengthening of international cooperation that serves African countries, notably through debt relief and [...] Full text...
AU chairperson pleads at the UN for Africa's place in G20
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall reiterated on Tuesday at the United Nations Assembly the request of the African Union (AU) to have [...] Full text...
77th UN General Assembly: Chairman of Libyan Presidential Council praises Germany's role in seeking political solution in Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA)- The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, on the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly, Tuesday hailed Germany's role [...] Full text...
77th UN General Assembly: Africa must be able to exploit its resources, says Macky Sall
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal's President Macky Sall told the UN Assembly Tuesday Africa, the least polluting continent and the one lagging behind in the [...] Full text...
77th UN General Assembly: Macky Sall invites the Security Council to better engage in the fight against terrorism in Africa
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese head of state, Macky Sall, current chairman of the African Union (AU), invited on Tuesday the United Nations Security [...] Full text...
77th UNGA: DR Congo President denounces ‘aggression’ by Rwanda, calls on UN to support African-led mediation
MA New York, US (PANA) - The major challenges facing humanity are “complex and interlocking,” Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, the President of the Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...
Libya recovers detainee handed over by Ukrainian authorities
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Interior Ministry of the Interim National Unity Government Tuesday announced the reception of a Libyan prisoner handed over to it [...] Full text...