Warrants issued for arrest of three persons over expired pesticide

06 january 2026 - 11:03:34 MA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The public prosecutor of Libya's Tripoli-based government has ordered the detention of three officials from the National Committee for Combating the [...] Full text...

Libya's eastern-based govt deported more than 37,000 undocumented migrants in 2025

06 january 2026 - 10:54:38 MA

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Libya's eastern-based government deported more than 37,000 illegal migrants to their countries of origin under the voluntary return program for migrants [...] Full text...

Gaza: 100 per cent of basic food needs met for first time since 2023

06 january 2026 - 07:54:09 MA

New York, US (PANA) - For the first time since 2023, humanitarian assistance will provide Gazans with enough food to fulfil minimum nutritional needs.“The January [...] Full text...

Refugee response now at breaking point in Ethiopia, warns WFP

06 january 2026 - 07:34:52 MA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The global crisis in funding for humanitarian work is taking a major toll in Ethiopia, with aid teams warning that [...] Full text...

Civilians continue to bear brunt of escalating violence in Sudan

06 january 2026 - 07:22:06 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Civilians continue to bear the brunt of escalating violence in Sudan, particularly in the Darfur and Kordofan regions. In North Darfur, [...] Full text...

Gaza aid lifelines under strain as winter worsen

03 january 2026 - 08:25:57 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Humanitarian partners in the Gaza Strip are struggling to reach hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people as winter storms batter [...] Full text...

UN rights chief slams 'outrageous suspension' of numerous aid agencies from Gaza

02 january 2026 - 08:39:58 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Human Rights chief, Chief Volker Türk, has slammed Israel’s suspension of numerous aid agencies from Gaza as “outrageous”.He said [...] Full text...

Gambia confirms migrant boat capsize, seven dead, dozens rescued

01 january 2026 - 19:15:54 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA)– The Gambian government has confirmed a tragic maritime incident involving a boat reportedly carrying more than 200 migrants, which capsized around midnight [...] Full text...

Ghanaians welcome New Year with wishes of hope for peace, prosperity

01 january 2026 - 09:01:47 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Christians on Thursday welcomed the New Year with hope for peace and prosperity.Christians thronged churches and open air spaces where prayers [...] Full text...

Afghanistan to remain major crisis in 2026, UN, partners warn

31 december 2025 - 15:20:23 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Afghanistan is expected to remain one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises in 2026, UN agencies and humanitarian partners warned on [...] Full text...

EU supports UN to help millions of people in West and Central Africa

31 december 2025 - 06:50:20 MA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - In response to the worsening food crisis in West and Central Africa, the World Food Programme (WFP) provided food and nutrition [...] Full text...

Sexual violence against children ‘entrenched, systemic and widespread’ across DR Congo, UNICEF warns

31 december 2025 - 06:41:49 MA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Sexual violence against children has become entrenched, systemic and increasingly widespread across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with new [...] Full text...

Sexual violence against children ‘entrenched, systemic and widespread’ across DR Congo, UNICEF warns

30 december 2025 - 20:53:47 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Sexual violence against children has become entrenched, systemic and increasingly widespread across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with new [...] Full text...

100,000 refugees from DRC flow into Burundi in nearly a month

30 december 2025 - 08:19:32 MA

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - While massive and continuous population displacements are reported within the Congolese province of South Kivu, Burundi, a country bordering the Democratic [...] Full text...

EU's stronger toy safety rules enter into force on 1 January

29 december 2025 - 07:41:54 MA

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The new Toy Safety Regulation will enter into force on 1 January 2026, following its adoption by the European Parliament and [...] Full text...

UN mission in Libya welcomes efforts to address arbitrary detention

29 december 2025 - 05:37:06 MA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has welcomed efforts to address the human rights of detainees, particularly those related [...] Full text...

Gambia: Jinak emerges as key ‘backway’ departure point to Europe

26 december 2025 - 18:29:38 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Jinak, a coastal settlement in The Gambia’s Niumi area, North Bank Region, has become a major hub for irregular migration to [...] Full text...

African Road Safety Observatory ends Transitional Steering Committee meeting in Cape Town

26 december 2025 - 12:57:41 MA

Cape Town , South Africa (PANA) – The African Road Safety Observatory (AfRSO) has concluded the meeting of its Transitional Steering Committee (TSC) in Cape [...] Full text...

Libya's eastern-based govt establishes committee to monitor conditions of detainees and prisons

26 december 2025 - 11:48:43 MA

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Council of Ministers of Libya's eastern-based government is to establish a temporary committee to monitor the conditions of detainees and [...] Full text...

Over 190 feared dead as migrant boat sinks

25 december 2025 - 18:34:04 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA)  - The United Democratic Party (UDP) has expressed deep sorrow over confirmed reports that a migrants’ boat which departed from Nuimi Jinack [...] Full text...

Discrimination against Palestinians: a committee of experts calls on states to act

25 december 2025 - 12:42:03 MA

New York, US (PANA) - A United Nations anti-racism committee on Wednesday called on all states party to the Convention on the Elimination of All [...] Full text...

South African Archbishop calls for unity in a divided world

25 december 2025 - 12:00:08 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Archbishop Thabo Makgoba on Thursday delivered a Christmas message, warning that corruption, inequality, and growing disillusionment with democracy are [...] Full text...

Christians in Ghana mark Christmas

25 december 2025 - 07:19:22 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Christians in Ghana on Thursday joined billions of across the world to celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, who they [...] Full text...

UN expert urges Togo to release human rights defender Abdoul Aziz Goma

25 december 2025 - 07:09:51 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, has renewed her call on authorities in Togo to release Togolese-Irish citizen [...] Full text...

UN celebrates 10 years of progress in youth, peace and security agenda

24 december 2025 - 08:08:14 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The UN has long been at the forefront of efforts to involve young people in decision-making, and the last decade [...] Full text...

Burundi lawyers penalised for cooperating with UN

24 december 2025 - 07:53:01 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A committee appointed by the UN Human Rights Council has warned that Burundi has acted in violation of the Convention against [...] Full text...

DRC refugees in Burundi face a drastic drop in food aid

23 december 2025 - 08:30:57 MA

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Struggling with severe funding shortfalls, the World Food Programme (WFP) has cut food rations for refugees in Burundi by 75%. This decision [...] Full text...

Synthetic drug market disrupted in Syria after regime change

22 december 2025 - 17:47:21 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Past geopolitical tensions related to the synthetic drug “captagon” are now being mitigated with the Syrian authorities’ commitment to dismantle illicit [...] Full text...

Libya Post elected to Euro-Mediterranean Postal Union Board for 2026-2028

22 december 2025 - 12:15:12 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Euro-Mediterranean Postal Union (EMPU) for the 2026-2028 period, for the [...] Full text...

Three ministers of Libya's eastern-based government discuss humanitarian matters of Sudanese refugees

22 december 2025 - 12:02:20 BBA

Benghazi , Libya (PANA) - Three ministers of Libya's eastern-based government appointed House of Representatives have discussed humanitarian aspects related to the situation of the [...] Full text...

Nine killed, 10 injured in South Africa mass shooting

21 december 2025 - 17:20:46 M T

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Nine people have been killed in a mass shooting in the early hours of Sunday at at a tavern in [...] Full text...

DRC conflict: Neighbouring Burundi overwhelmed by the influx of refugees

21 december 2025 - 06:53:06 MA

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundian border is buckling under the strain. Since the beginning of December, more than 84,000 people have fled the violence [...] Full text...

South Sudan: UN condemns killing of staff member in Wau, calls for swift investigation

21 december 2025 - 06:48:48 MA

New York, US (PANA)  The United Nations on Friday condemned the killing of a civilian staff member serving with its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan [...] Full text...

Bodies of Bangladeshi peacekeepers killed in Sudan attack repatriated

20 december 2025 - 11:46:46 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The bodies of six UN peacekeepers killed in a drone attack on their camp in Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan, last [...] Full text...

Nigerian Air Force plane released by Burkina Faso arrives in Ghana

20 december 2025 - 11:46:28 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Nigerian Air Force plane released by the Burkina Faso authorities, after being impounded for violating Burkinabe airspace, has arrived in Ghana [...] Full text...

Security Council renews DR Congo peacekeeping mission amid renewed M23 offensives in the east

20 december 2025 - 07:03:40 WA

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...

WHO warns of dangerous escalation of attacks on health care in Sudan

19 december 2025 - 16:04:02 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA)  -  Attacks on health care in Sudan are becoming deadlier and more widespread, cutting off access to lifesaving services and placing health [...] Full text...

Gaza: Access to food improves but living conditions remain dire

19 december 2025 - 07:42:41 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - A pregnant woman in Gaza thought she might lose her child because of malnourishment. Ten days ago, she gave birth [...] Full text...

UN to evacuate Kadugli base in Sudan

19 december 2025 - 07:08:07 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) will evacuate its logistics base in Kadugli, Sudan, in the wake [...] Full text...

Sudan war: World urged not to ignore ‘gruesome sexual violence’

18 december 2025 - 15:02:37 WA

 Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Harrowing new details emerged on Thursday in a UN report detailing targeted sexual violence and summary executions in Sudan’s North Darfur [...] Full text...

Ghana transmits extradition request for former finance minister Ofori-Atta to US authorities

18 december 2025 - 13:13:13 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's Minister for Justice and Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine, said on Thursday that his office has formally transmitted a request [...] Full text...

Rights group sees growing support for treaty to guarantee free education for every child

18 december 2025 - 09:55:53 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Discussions are advancing at the United Nations on a new global treaty to guarantee every child’s right to a free education, [...] Full text...

Aid agencies warn Gaza response at breaking point as Israel urged to lift new restrictions

18 december 2025 - 06:11:17 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Humanitarian agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have warned that life-saving aid operations risk collapse unless Israel immediately [...] Full text...

Ukraine suffering continues as electricity is cut for days amid ongoing Russian attacks

17 december 2025 - 19:42:02 WA

Kherson, Ukraine (PANA) - Imagine living through a war and not being able to make a meal or heat your home; that’s the reality today [...] Full text...

Journalists killed in Gaza: the tragic toll of Israeli military operations since October 2023

17 december 2025 - 05:43:25 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Between October 2023 and mid-December 2025, 289 journalists lost their lives during Israeli military operations in Gaza, the UN High Commissioner [...] Full text...

DRC: Continued fighting plunges millions of children into food insecurity (By UN News)

17 december 2025 - 05:36:25 MA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The rapidly deteriorating food security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is putting more than four million children under [...] Full text...

Intensifying hostilities in Sudan bring new displacement, more casualties

17 december 2025 - 05:27:02 MA

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The situation across Sudan’s Kordofan region is rapidly worsening, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) has warned. Hostilities have been intensifying between [...] Full text...

Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs moves to support schools in Sudanese community

16 december 2025 - 15:46:57 BBA

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - A humanitarian initiative has been implemented in Ajdabiya (east) by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Libyan [...] Full text...

'Every young person has a role to play in consolidating peace'

16 december 2025 - 09:14:59 MA

New York, US (PANA) - To mark the 10th anniversary of Security Council Resolution 2250 on youth, peace and security, the UN organised a meeting [...] Full text...

More than 60,000 Congolese have sought refuge in Burundi in ten days following M23 offensive in South Kivu

16 december 2025 - 09:08:21 MA

Bujumbura, Buruni (PANA) - Following the M23 armed group's assault on the city of Uvira in South Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic [...] Full text...