Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Civilians are bearing the brunt of a surge in intercommunal conflict in pockets of South Sudan, the UN Mission in [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the war in Sudan enters its second year next month, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Almost 80 years after the incineration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons still represent a clear [...] Full text...
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The UN’s emergency relief chief on Monday outlined the need for a fundamental shift in how humanitarian assistance is delivered, advocating [...] Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday condemned the “unprovoked” killing of soldiers attached to 181 Amphibious Battalion of 63 Brigade, at [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's Ministry of Economy and Finance has imposed financial sanctions on six terrorist and rebel leaders for period "6 renewable months", [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid reports that the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Monday in search of Hamas fighters, UN humanitarians [...] Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Cape Town International Jazz Festival will return this year after a four-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The war in Gaza has left a staggering almost 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave, [...] Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Irate Nigerian soldiers have razed Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, Niger Delta region, where local youths [...] Full text...
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The UN chief has condemned an attack which saw eight peacekeepers from the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - At least 60 people on board a ship carrying migrants from the Libyan coast have drowned, according to the International Organisation [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday expressed outrage at the recent abductions by gunmen of hundreds of [...] Full text...
Washington, DC United States (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently experienced a cyber incident, which was detected on February 16.
According to an IMF [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government has dissolved the Association des élèves et étudiants du Mali (AEEM -Association of pupils and students of Mali), [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) – Coordinators of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board, Mr. Afonso S. Bevilaqua and Mr. Abdullah F. BinZarah, have [...] Full text...
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) – Nearly 100,000 people, more than half of them children, have been displaced in one month due to an escalation of armed [...] Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has urged the Nigerian government to urgently address the spate of abductions targeting children in schools [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Senior ministers of several countries as well as top officials of UN agencies have stressed the need for the delivery [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan authorities have failed to investigate the responsibility of powerful military and political actors in the catastrophic floods in the [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, has stated that the drop in Libya's ranking in the index of countries most [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's interim Minister of the Interior, General Imad Mustafa Trabelsi, has held talks with the British Ambassador to Libya, Martin Longden, [...] Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Amid reports of fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight into Wednesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said that more [...] Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African authorities have repatriated a two-year-old baby from a prison in Dakar, Senegal.
The toddler was born in Senegal [...] Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a $92.71 million financing for The Gambia Resilience, Inclusion, Skills, and Equity [...] Full text...
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - UN humanitarians are working around the clock to pre-position aid in Chad for Sudanese refugees fleeing the violence at home before [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Enough aid for 25,000 people has reached Gaza City for the first time in weeks, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) [...] Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania has made important strides in reducing infant and child mortality, but the authorities must act quickly to capitalise [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN aid officials welcomed the news on Tuesday that an aid ship had left Cyprus for Gaza carrying 200 tonnes of [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al-Dbaiba, on Monday stressed the need for availability of basic products on the market at reasonable [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States said on Monday that it is sanctioning 16 entities and individuals in a transnational network that spans the Horn of [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - A Ramadan ceasefire for Gaza must be implemented immediately, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, the first day of [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Twelve people were injured when fire broke out on Sunday evening at warehouses of the Libyan General Electricity Company (GECOL) in [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Qatar on Sunday to discuss the desperate humanitarian situation [...] Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The bodies of five illegal migrants have been recovered after their boat capsized 13 km off the coast of Zarzzis, south-east [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - An international maritime aid corridor to Gaza could be in operation as early as Sunday, according to the head of [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN independent expert on Friday called on States to review prison management practices and policies to ensure compliance with human rights [...] Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned Thursday’s attack and abduction of primary and secondary school pupils and students in [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - More than 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), an increase of [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Any assault by Israeli forces on the densely populated city of Rafah where 1.5 million have sought shelter following mass displacement, [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The benefits of cutting-edge technology remain out of reach for around 2.6 billion people globally who are still waiting for an [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Thursday called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan and unhindered humanitarian access as the country teeters [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The acting Libyan Minister of the Interior in the government of national unity, Imad Mustafa Trabelsi, discussed with his Maltese counterpart, [...] Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Days from the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan and with no ceasefire agreement in sight for Gaza, UN humanitarians [...] Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria faces a serious poverty-reduction challenge: Almost half of Nigerians are estimated to live below the national poverty line.
However, unemployment is [...] Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The United Nations on Wednesday “strongly” condemned Boko Haram terrorists’ abduction of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), many of them women, boys [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Much more lifesaving humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza where one in six children is dangerously malnourished in the north of the [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN migration agency (IOM) announced on Wednesday that last year was the deadliest on record for migrants worldwide.
Nearly 8,600 people [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Ninety-seven asylum seekers have been evacuated to Rome in Italy via Maitigua international airport, on the eastern outskirts of the Libyan [...] Full text...
London, UK, (PANA) - Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says it is devastated about the death of Reem Abu Lebdeh, an associate trustee of [...] Full text...