24 april 2024 - 05:03:08
New York, US (PANA) - The head of the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday reiterated that [...] Full text...
21 april 2024 - 05:14:01
New York, US (PANA) - Edem Wosornu, director of operations and advocacy at the UN Office for the Coordination of [...] Full text...
21 april 2024 - 05:13:41
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Drug trafficking in the Sahel region – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and the Niger – [...] Full text...
19 april 2024 - 05:25:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN independent human rights experts on Thursday raised alarm over the “systematic destruction” of the Palestinian [...] Full text...
16 april 2024 - 18:35:56
New York, US (PANA) - Efforts to foster dialogue and address the concerns of Libyan politicians are being met with [...] Full text...
16 april 2024 - 11:36:11
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Several army and police officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) have been [...] Full text...
15 april 2024 - 11:57:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A full year of conflict in Sudan has already caused immense suffering and death but the [...] Full text...
13 april 2024 - 16:29:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian naval units have recovered two bodies, foiled 23 attempts at illegal migration and intercepted 942 [...] Full text...
10 april 2024 - 09:54:41
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Six people have been arrested in connection with last week’s murder and hijacking of [...] Full text...
05 april 2024 - 13:12:18
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - As the 30th commemoration begins this Sunday, 7 April of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi [...] Full text...
04 april 2024 - 08:07:32
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Kaizer Chiefs football star Luke Fleurs was shot dead in a hijacking on the [...] Full text...
02 april 2024 - 15:19:03
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegal's new president, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, on Tuesday pledged to make his West African country [...] Full text...
02 april 2024 - 12:25:13
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Bassirou Diomaye Faye was on Tuesday sworn in as the fifth president of Senegal and the [...] Full text...
30 march 2024 - 07:37:32
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal's Constitutional Council on Friday published the final official results of the 24 March presidential election [...] Full text...
27 march 2024 - 20:52:10
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegalese opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye was on Wednesday declared winner of last Sunday's presidential [...] Full text...
27 march 2024 - 16:16:51
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Two police officers were killed and another wounded this Monday in a terrorist attack on a [...] Full text...
25 march 2024 - 16:57:54
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegalese opposition leader, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, 44, who has swept to victory over former Prime Minister and [...] Full text...
25 march 2024 - 10:51:18
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Libyan House of Representatives has expressed its deep regrets at [...] Full text...
25 march 2024 - 10:31:27
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – As Senegalese await official results of Sunday's presidential election from the Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA), the [...] Full text...
25 march 2024 - 05:17:02
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Early results from Sunday's presidential election in Senegal put opposition leader Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Faye in the [...] Full text...
18 march 2024 - 06:38:09
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Irate Nigerian soldiers have razed Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, Niger [...] Full text...
15 march 2024 - 11:01:29
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal's main opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, and Bassirou Diomaye Faye, his right-hand man and PASTEF party [...] Full text...
15 march 2024 - 08:31:59
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government has dissolved the Association des élèves et étudiants du Mali (AEEM -Association of [...] Full text...
13 march 2024 - 09:13:11
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African authorities have repatriated a two-year-old baby from a prison in Dakar, Senegal.
The [...] Full text...
08 march 2024 - 07:14:36
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Thursday called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan and unhindered humanitarian [...] Full text...
06 march 2024 - 11:34:36
New York, US (PANA) - Two people have been arrested for attempting to purchase and export arms to South Sudan, [...] Full text...
05 march 2024 - 06:02:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Dozens of elections taking place this year around the world will likely be “free from hatred” [...] Full text...
22 february 2024 - 20:05:16
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) has announced the killing of 286 terrorists in the last [...] Full text...
22 february 2024 - 07:00:06
New York, US (PANA) – Governments across the globe are reaching beyond their borders and committing human rights abuses against [...] Full text...
21 february 2024 - 15:05:53
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The acting Libyan Minister of the Interior in the government of national unity, General Imad Trabelsi, [...] Full text...
20 february 2024 - 14:58:28
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray is lagging behind in its efforts to recover from conflict, [...] Full text...
19 february 2024 - 05:35:36
The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, [...] Full text...
17 february 2024 - 18:09:12
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Thousands of people on Saturday marched in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to demand compliance with the electoral [...] Full text...
17 february 2024 - 06:05:52
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has welcomed the decision by Senegal’s Constitutional Council to restore the presidential [...] Full text...
16 february 2024 - 18:51:21
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall on Friday pledged “to fully implement” the verdict of the Constitutional Council [...] Full text...
16 february 2024 - 13:07:58
Dakar, Snegal (PANA) – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Friday urged stakeholders in the political crisis [...] Full text...
16 february 2024 - 06:06:21
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegal's Constitutional Council on Thursday struck down a controversial law that postponed the West African country's [...] Full text...
14 february 2024 - 06:07:17
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken with Senegalese President Macky Sall as tensions [...] Full text...
13 february 2024 - 16:50:45
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The UN Human Rights Office said on Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" by the crisis [...] Full text...
13 february 2024 - 14:23:35
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Senegalese authorities on Tuesday announced the suspension of internet at "certain time slots" as the [...] Full text...
13 february 2024 - 12:56:49
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The prefect of Dakar, Cherif Mouhamadou Blondin Ndiaye, has banned Tuesday's march in tribute to three people who [...] Full text...
13 february 2024 - 10:56:19
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Director-General of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Meinie Nicolai, is warning of the potentially catastrophic consequences [...] Full text...
13 february 2024 - 07:24:23
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday asked the Senegalese authorities to immediately open independent investigations into violence [...] Full text...
12 february 2024 - 17:19:10
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A team from the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Monday [...] Full text...
10 february 2024 - 08:16:43
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added his voice for peace and dialogue in Senegal following [...] Full text...
07 february 2024 - 07:41:07
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United States have [...] Full text...
06 february 2024 - 07:48:02
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese Parliament on Tuesday passed a controversial bill to postpone the West African country's presidential [...] Full text...
02 february 2024 - 07:01:43
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo [...] Full text...
30 january 2024 - 06:38:31
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US Department of State is designating Sudan’s former Minister of State for the Interior [...] Full text...
23 january 2024 - 16:01:18
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - As the trial of two Togolese journalists prosecuted by a member of the government got [...] Full text...
22 january 2024 - 11:47:00
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Amnesty International on Monday called on the Burkina Faso authorities to ensure his safe return [...] Full text...
22 january 2024 - 08:28:14
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The authorities in Senegal have cracked down on the opposition, media, and civil society, ahead of general [...] Full text...
19 january 2024 - 22:27:43
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Sierra Leone's former President Ernest Bai Koroma, accused of treason by the government of his country [...] Full text...
17 january 2024 - 15:47:18
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A seven-member Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) for Burundi has been sworn into office.
They comprise Prospère [...] Full text...
16 january 2024 - 09:03:44
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Lebanese authorities should immediately release Hannibal Gaddafi, a son of Libya's former leader, who has been held in [...] Full text...
12 january 2024 - 07:46:31
New York, US (PANA) – Global leaders have failed to take strong stands to protect human rights during 2023, a [...] Full text...
10 january 2024 - 10:25:40
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - If any country should be grateful to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for [...] Full text...
09 january 2024 - 09:15:58
Goma, DRC (PANA) – Security forces laid a siege on the residence of DRC presidential candidate Moise Katumbi on Monday, [...] Full text...
06 january 2024 - 10:26:14
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - With the beginning of a new calendar year, it’s all too familiar for people [...] Full text...
05 january 2024 - 14:44:58
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan prime minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid al Dbaiba, has hailed the [...] Full text...
05 january 2024 - 13:08:04
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Anti-Drugs Unit of Burkina Faso's National Police announced on Friday that it had seized [...] Full text...
05 january 2024 - 12:49:40
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 1,234 illegal migrants were intercepted on the sea and returned to Libya during [...] Full text...
05 january 2024 - 11:14:49
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The trial of former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko will open 8 January in Switzerland for [...] Full text...
03 january 2024 - 16:01:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prosecutor General, Councillor Al-Seddik Al-Sour, says 14 Libyan officials have been remanded in custody [...] Full text...
02 january 2024 - 17:22:53
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The transitional government of Burkina Faso Tuesday called on the Economic Community of West African [...] Full text...
02 january 2024 - 07:51:15
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Peter Magubane, the anti-apartheid activist and renowned photographer, died on Monday at the age [...] Full text...
30 december 2023 - 11:27:58
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 278 illegal migrants of different nationalities were Friday rescued by Libyan coastguards in [...] Full text...
29 december 2023 - 12:37:02
Athens, Greece (PANA) - The Greek authorities are set to deport Mohamed Boudarka, who is wanted in a terrorism case, [...] Full text...
29 december 2023 - 05:50:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Bulldozers in refugee camps, detainees stripped naked and spat at, farmers robbed of their harvest: against [...] Full text...
22 december 2023 - 16:52:48
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - France has cancelled the extradition decree of François Compaoré to Burkina Faso, where he is [...] Full text...
20 december 2023 - 13:51:07
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Four French officials suspected of espionage have been arrested by the police here, the capital [...] Full text...
19 december 2023 - 18:52:28
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, continues to sound the alarm over the war in Sudan, where displacement [...] Full text...
16 december 2023 - 07:40:46
Atlanta, US (PANA) - The global problem of illegal sports betting, the fraudulent manipulation of competitions, and the involvement of [...] Full text...
14 december 2023 - 12:56:06
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Heavy rains created new misery in Gaza as UN humanitarians repeated deep concerns on Thursday over [...] Full text...
14 december 2023 - 09:31:55
Dubai, UAE (PANA) - The UN's annual climate conference, COP28, finally acknowledged the need to transition away from fossil fuels [...] Full text...
13 december 2023 - 15:44:15
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Militants in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region began a renewed offensive in Rivers State, ambushing and killing four [...] Full text...
11 december 2023 - 17:48:37
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have resolved to set up a [...] Full text...
11 december 2023 - 11:13:36
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - As the world celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Sunday, [...] Full text...
08 december 2023 - 14:49:46
Athenes, Greece (PANA) - Ten ships docked on Tuesday on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Kos, Samos and Rhodes, carrying [...] Full text...
07 december 2023 - 08:10:52
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The failure of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to follow through with its [...] Full text...
05 december 2023 - 05:50:10
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated his call for a sustained humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza [...] Full text...
04 december 2023 - 13:23:43
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - More than 280 people, including smugglers and terrorist accomplices, have been arrested by the gendarmerie [...] Full text...
30 november 2023 - 18:21:21
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya is planning to designate major refugee camps as urban centres and municipalities once a draft [...] Full text...
28 november 2023 - 13:06:45
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - A solidarity and fact-finding Mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has [...] Full text...
27 november 2023 - 10:51:36
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has lifted the indefinite nationwide curfew imposed on the country following [...] Full text...
26 november 2023 - 17:40:26
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned the ongoing unrest in Sierra Leone [...] Full text...
20 november 2023 - 11:58:30
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Several smugglers and 120 illegal migrants of African nationalities, lost in the middle of the Libyan [...] Full text...
18 november 2023 - 06:58:13
Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - Liberia’s President Goerge Weah has conceded victory to his longtime political rival, former vice President Joseph [...] Full text...
17 november 2023 - 20:33:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has voiced alarm over reports of another ethnically motivated mass [...] Full text...
17 november 2023 - 15:59:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's acting Minister of the Interior in the Government of National Unity, General Imad Trabelsi, has [...] Full text...
17 november 2023 - 13:57:01
Cotonou, Bénin (PANA) - A customs officer alleged to have killed a mother in the commune of Sèmè Kpodji, in [...] Full text...
14 november 2023 - 09:37:16
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A Bolivian woman, Ercilia Parada Saucedo, 30, was arrested on Monday with a little over two [...] Full text...
13 november 2023 - 07:04:29
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Ahead of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, which will discuss the [...] Full text...
12 november 2023 - 07:33:51
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A former striker of Ghana's national football team, Raphael Dwamena, died in Albania after collapsing on [...] Full text...
10 november 2023 - 06:49:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has lamented calls for the Israeli [...] Full text...
09 november 2023 - 12:30:50
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's permanent representative on the United Nations Security Council, Taher El-Sonni, says that there is nothing [...] Full text...
09 november 2023 - 09:11:58
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Burkina Faso's military junta is using a sweeping emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its [...] Full text...
09 november 2023 - 08:27:59
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- The United Nations on Wednesday said it has received disturbing reports of militias targeting and killing civilians [...] Full text...
08 november 2023 - 12:29:33
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has called for a warrant of arrest [...] Full text...
08 november 2023 - 05:41:28
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (PANA) - Sudan's warring parties -- Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) -- have made commitments [...] Full text...
04 november 2023 - 15:54:18
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Thanks to close cooperation with the Moroccan security services, the Spanish services have arrested a Moroccan [...] Full text...
02 november 2023 - 18:44:31
Paris, France (PANA) - New data from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has revealed a worrying rise [...] Full text...
02 november 2023 - 17:48:00
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United States on Thursday called for an immediate cessation of attacks planned by the paramilitary [...] Full text...
02 november 2023 - 08:01:03
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Malian armed forces and Islamist armed groups have killed and otherwise abused numerous civilians in central [...] Full text...
02 november 2023 - 07:55:35
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Environmental defenders and anti-fossil fuel activists in Uganda routinely face arbitrary arrests, harassment, and threats for [...] Full text...
26 october 2023 - 15:19:36
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced the launch of peace talks between belligerent Sudanese parties, the Sudanese [...] Full text...
26 october 2023 - 09:02:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Soweto man who stole Nelson Mandela's Sugar Ray Leonard boxing belt has been [...] Full text...
21 october 2023 - 06:45:05
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have renewed calls for full investigations of [...] Full text...
20 october 2023 - 11:46:18
Cairo, Egypt (PAMA) - UN humanitarians said on Friday that an agreement to unlock aid deliveries across the border to [...] Full text...
19 october 2023 - 11:13:00
The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan, has dropped all charges against Mr [...] Full text...
11 october 2023 - 07:40:12
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A South African national, Gareth Gruen, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for importing [...] Full text...
09 october 2023 - 17:53:34
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed its concern about the armed clashes [...] Full text...
07 october 2023 - 13:54:51
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Communication and internet services have been interrupted for the second consecutive day in the eastern Libyan [...] Full text...
05 october 2023 - 15:15:47
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Police have confirmed that a prominent Palestinian businessman was shot and killed in Cape [...] Full text...
04 october 2023 - 05:40:12
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Independent UN human rights experts are warning that there is “an overwhelming risk” atrocity crimes [...] Full text...
30 september 2023 - 19:05:55
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Efforts to revive the trial of Joseph Kony, leader of the northern Uganda rebel group, the [...] Full text...
28 september 2023 - 09:29:04
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Anti-apartheid activist Aziz Pahad, who played an important role in the liberation of South [...] Full text...
28 september 2023 - 06:33:58
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The military government in Burkina Faso on Wednesday announced that it foiled a coup attempt [...] Full text...
26 september 2023 - 15:42:07
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) – At least 395 people were killed and 281 others injured in violent incidents in South [...] Full text...
25 september 2023 - 11:30:19
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African authorities are seeking the extradition of a murder suspect, Lehlohonolo Maketoane, who [...] Full text...
18 september 2023 - 15:04:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly one year since the signing of an agreement to cease hostilities in Ethiopia, atrocities, war crimes [...] Full text...
14 september 2023 - 10:40:02
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nelson Mandela’s childhood farmhouse in the Eastern Cape has been striped by vandals who [...] Full text...
14 september 2023 - 06:15:57
New York, US (PANA) - Both Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are responsible [...] Full text...
14 september 2023 - 06:03:09
New York, US (PANA) - With tens of millions of children heading back to school in recent weeks, for some, [...] Full text...
07 september 2023 - 08:37:23
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabon's military junta on Wednesday announced that ousted President Ali Bongo has been released from house [...] Full text...
06 september 2023 - 07:06:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PAA) - Members of the African diaspora continue to face immense challenges participating in public life in many [...] Full text...
05 september 2023 - 12:03:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN exprts have urged the Libyan National Army (LNA) to "immediately" cease the forcible eviction of [...] Full text...
04 september 2023 - 13:06:39
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - As Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated for his second term on Monday, a human rights [...] Full text...
02 september 2023 - 18:41:40
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabon military junta announced on Saturday that the country's borders closed following the coup that ousted [...] Full text...
01 september 2023 - 09:44:35
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - A human rights group has said DR Congo security forces shot and killed dozens of [...] Full text...
01 september 2023 - 08:51:48
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has suspended Gabon from all its activities with immediate effect following [...] Full text...
31 august 2023 - 06:58:08
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked Wednesday’s International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance by condemning [...] Full text...
31 august 2023 - 06:23:11
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Senior military officers who ousted Gabonese President Ali Bongo from power on Wednesday have named General Brice [...] Full text...
30 august 2023 - 19:55:35
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday "firmly condemned" the coup in Gabon, while acknowledging that “serious infringements of [...] Full text...
30 august 2023 - 15:36:53
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who senior military officers said they ousted from power on Wednesdsay, [...] Full text...
30 august 2023 - 13:56:40
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who senior military officers said they ousted from power on Wednesdsay, has [...] Full text...
30 august 2023 - 06:15:14
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Human rights organisations are calling on the Burundian authorities to "immediately and unconditionally" release and quash the [...] Full text...
29 august 2023 - 14:32:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday flagged the deteriorating human rights situation in [...] Full text...
29 august 2023 - 06:20:05
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has called on the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) to make the disaggregated polling [...] Full text...
28 august 2023 - 06:19:25
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for peaceful resolution of an election dispute in Zimbabwe [...] Full text...
27 august 2023 - 05:52:56
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Truck drivers in southern Africa who have been recruited to traffic or smuggle people illegally are [...] Full text...
22 august 2023 - 19:16:04
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have targeted leaders of opposition political parties, [...] Full text...
22 august 2023 - 19:03:41
New York, US (PANA) - Recent deadly clashes between two largest armed groups in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, underscore the [...] Full text...
22 august 2023 - 10:08:12
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday hosted his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping on [...] Full text...
21 august 2023 - 11:45:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – World leaders have begun arriving in South Africa ahead of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, [...] Full text...
18 august 2023 - 11:45:18
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Two weeks after irregular militia fighters called the Fano seized several towns and cities in [...] Full text...
16 august 2023 - 12:52:39
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Rwandan genocide fugitive Fulgence Kayishema, who was arrested near Cape Town earlier this year, [...] Full text...
15 august 2023 - 08:06:32
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The man convicted of murdering former first lady Marike De Klerk has been granted [...] Full text...
15 august 2023 - 05:42:14
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations continues to deliver aid in Niger, nearly three weeks since President Mohamed [...] Full text...
14 august 2023 - 05:41:18
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday criticised the Egyptian authorities for failing for a decade to hold [...] Full text...
11 august 2023 - 07:12:13
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma on Friday morning returned to prison to serve [...] Full text...
07 august 2023 - 06:47:31
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that Tanzanian authorities have detained or threatened at least 22 [...] Full text...
07 august 2023 - 06:34:15
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday asked the government of Angola to ensure urgent, impartial, and [...] Full text...
02 august 2023 - 06:31:10
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The security situation in wider West Africa could worsen unless the political crisis in Niger is resolved, the top [...] Full text...
01 august 2023 - 12:38:34
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Amnesty International on Tuesday asked the Niger military junta to urgently protect and respect human rights [...] Full text...
01 august 2023 - 10:19:48
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - France is to start evacuating its nationals from the West African state of Niger, where it [...] Full text...
01 august 2023 - 06:25:43
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The United Nations says it will continue consultations with its partners to restore constitutional order in [...] Full text...
31 july 2023 - 16:52:56
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The political party of ousted Niger president Mohamed Bazoum has flagged the detention of several of [...] Full text...
25 july 2023 - 10:10:11
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Malian Armed Forces and foreign fighters, apparently from the Russia-linked Wagner Group, have summarily executed and [...] Full text...
24 july 2023 - 13:21:30
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's Special Prosecutor has placed Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, under arrest for [...] Full text...
24 july 2023 - 10:45:45
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - In the second year since Tunisian President Kais Saied’s power grab, Tunisian authorities have taken further [...] Full text...
24 july 2023 - 06:31:32
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) is asking the Ethiopian authorities to immediately release seven Oromo opposition figures arbitrarily [...] Full text...
21 july 2023 - 23:35:45
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The home of former President Uhuru Kenyatta's son was raided on Friday in what the interior [...] Full text...
19 july 2023 - 18:31:06
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Police have shot dead one person and wounded scores during the first day of three days [...] Full text...
19 july 2023 - 12:04:36
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will not attend the forthcoming 15th Summit of BRICS [...] Full text...
19 july 2023 - 08:47:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is concerned by “nuclear war talk” from a top [...] Full text...
18 july 2023 - 06:39:39
Beirut, Lebanon (PANA) - Many Middle East and North African countries still prevent women from moving freely in their own country [...] Full text...
17 july 2023 - 07:16:23
Auckland, New Zealand (PANA) - The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off on Thursday night, the first football World [...] Full text...
16 july 2023 - 12:47:44
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Saturday welcomed the release of former finance [...] Full text...
14 july 2023 - 16:32:47
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Two major events in the last two weeks have attracted a great deal of attention, one [...] Full text...
14 july 2023 - 07:37:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Jacob Zuma Foundation on Friday rejected speculation that the former President will return [...] Full text...
14 july 2023 - 05:12:05
New York, US (PANA) - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Thursday that he is investigating [...] Full text...
13 july 2023 - 12:09:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN experts on Thursday condemned Ethiopia's summary expulsion of hundreds of Eritreans at the end of [...] Full text...
13 july 2023 - 09:59:01
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The man accused of causing millions of dollars of damage by setting fire to [...] Full text...
12 july 2023 - 09:15:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa will host the 2023 BRICS Political Party Plus Dialogue under the theme, [...] Full text...
10 july 2023 - 10:07:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tensions are running high in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces after several trucks [...] Full text...
07 july 2023 - 06:02:36
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked the Tunisian government to halt the collective expulsions of Black [...] Full text...
06 july 2023 - 08:29:37
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former Cabinet Minister and anti-apartheid veteran Essop Pahad died after a long battle with [...] Full text...
04 july 2023 - 12:45:58
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundian delegation to the 138th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday [...] Full text...
04 july 2023 - 12:23:37
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Relief was the most widespread feeling in Senegal on Tuesday, following the announcement by President Macky [...] Full text...
04 july 2023 - 11:52:54
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The President of Senegal, Macky Sall, has promised that investigations will continue to shed "all possible [...] Full text...
04 july 2023 - 09:02:48
Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, is asking the Cameroonian authorities to end the violence against the [...] Full text...
29 june 2023 - 08:17:14
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkina Faso armed forces summarily executed at least 9 men, and forcibly disappeared and apparently [...] Full text...
28 june 2023 - 06:18:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Four human rights organisations have urged the UN Human Rights Council to urgently address the deterioration [...] Full text...
24 june 2023 - 06:32:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In Tunisia, “vague” legislation is being used to criminalise independent journalism and suppress criticism of the [...] Full text...
23 june 2023 - 11:33:36
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - The election observer missions of the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African [...] Full text...
22 june 2023 - 14:41:37
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan public prosecutor's office has announced the discovery of several sites used for mining crypto-currency [...] Full text...
21 june 2023 - 19:22:38
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A leading figure on the Tunisian media scene, Zied El Heni, was kept in detention on [...] Full text...
21 june 2023 - 09:45:27
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Rwandan genocide-accused Fulgence Kayishema will apply for asylum in South Africa, his lawyer told [...] Full text...
19 june 2023 - 16:48:41
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A security guard was attacked on Monday by an unidentified individual near the Brazilian embassy in [...] Full text...
19 june 2023 - 16:44:30
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Public Prosecutor's Office has announced that an operation to smuggle 250 illegal immigrants has [...] Full text...
18 june 2023 - 05:31:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Human Rights High Commissioner says he was appalled by the killing of the Governor [...] Full text...
16 june 2023 - 12:06:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Seven African leaders are in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in an ambitious peace mission [...] Full text...