02 may 2024 - 05:37:08
New York, US (PANA) -The UN and humanitarian partners have provided emergency support for over 124,000 people in Kenya, where [...] Full text...
19 april 2024 - 16:24:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new oral vaccine for cholera has received prequalification by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The inactivated [...] Full text...
17 april 2024 - 05:43:55
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States is providing nearly $154 million in additional assistance for the humanitarian response [...] Full text...
10 april 2024 - 09:50:47
Washington D.C., USA (PANA) - Cyber attacks have more than doubled since the pandemic. While companies have historically suffered relatively [...] Full text...
07 april 2024 - 06:14:50
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - With the largest hospital in Gaza largely destroyed and out of action, access to healthcare has [...] Full text...
05 april 2024 - 14:15:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said here Friday that more than 1.2 million cholera rapid diagnostic [...] Full text...
29 march 2024 - 05:24:46
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and aid partners are assisting Malawi’s efforts to respond to a severe drought [...] Full text...
28 march 2024 - 20:25:20
The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday issued new provisional measures for Israel as [...] Full text...
22 march 2024 - 19:12:50
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Only 62% of Burundians have basic access to drinking water, which puts this African Great Lakes [...] Full text...
21 march 2024 - 11:04:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Immediate action is needed to stem an unprecedented multi-year upsurge in cholera cases worldwide, according to [...] Full text...
06 march 2024 - 06:54:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Efforts by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver desperately needed food supplies to northern [...] Full text...
21 february 2024 - 06:42:42
New York, US (PANA) - In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), fighting between the M23 armed group [...] Full text...
17 february 2024 - 05:41:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The largest remaining hospital in southern Gaza is “barely functional”, the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) [...] Full text...
16 february 2024 - 10:19:18
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Immediate action to address the escalating humanitarian crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [...] Full text...
15 february 2024 - 07:21:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is cautioning the parties to the Israel-Palestine conflict, [...] Full text...
06 february 2024 - 19:20:30
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The world observed the International Day of Zero tolerance for female genital mutilation (FGM) amid [...] Full text...
24 january 2024 - 20:05:19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Researchers at The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and [...] Full text...
20 january 2024 - 06:30:51
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Unprecedented flooding in the Republic of the Congo has left more than 350,000 people in urgent need [...] Full text...
18 january 2024 - 16:17:47
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Medicines for Israeli hostages were reportedly allowed into Gaza for the first time on Thursday along [...] Full text...
17 january 2024 - 18:49:26
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday appealed to the international community [...] Full text...
16 january 2024 - 18:44:35
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The world enters 2024 with soaring cases of cholera globally, with over 667,000 cases and [...] Full text...
16 january 2024 - 15:28:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Israeli authorities have continued to block lifesaving aid from reaching northern Gaza 102 days since [...] Full text...
16 january 2024 - 05:12:17
New York, US (PANA) - Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, has allocated $10 million from the UN’s Central Emergency Response [...] Full text...
12 january 2024 - 17:41:18
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The recent surge in cholera cases has placed immense pressure on healthcare facilities, particularly the Beatrice [...] Full text...
12 january 2024 - 14:10:50
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - More than 234,000 Burundian refugees, almost half of the total supposedly living in exile abroad, returned [...] Full text...
10 january 2024 - 13:17:41
The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) – The International Court of Justice(ICJ) hearings 11-12 January, 2024 on genocide in Gaza will include [...] Full text...
05 january 2024 - 18:30:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hunger is ravaging Gaza, and this is expected to increase illness across the Strip, most acutely [...] Full text...
29 december 2023 - 05:59:26
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - In Gaza, the latest death toll as of midnight on Thursday stood at 21,110 according to [...] Full text...
27 december 2023 - 06:55:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The past year saw significant milestones and challenges in global public health but also immense and [...] Full text...
22 december 2023 - 18:51:29
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The government of Japan has announced its support for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) programme [...] Full text...
22 december 2023 - 17:28:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the UN Security Council prepared to meet once again in New York on Friday for [...] 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...
13 december 2023 - 07:30:59
Washington DC, USA (PANA) — As part of an overall $35 million package of support, the World Bank has announced [...] Full text...
11 december 2023 - 14:14:47
Doha, Qatar (PANA) - UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths reiterated deep concerns for the people of Gaza on Monday.
This is [...] Full text...
05 december 2023 - 06:17:46
New York, US (PANA) - Humanitarians and partners are scaling up response to the outbreak of cholera across war-torn Sudan, [...] Full text...
01 december 2023 - 10:52:13
Ouagadougu, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Insecurity is pushing more than 1 in 10 children under the age of 5 into [...] Full text...
27 november 2023 - 17:39:34
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The world global food standards body marked its 60th anniversary on Monday at the headquarters of the [...] Full text...
22 november 2023 - 21:03:02
New York, US (PANA) - The heads of three UN agencies on Wednesday highlighted the disproportionate suffering faced by women [...] Full text...
21 november 2023 - 05:36:40
London, UK, (PANA) - Worldwide, 45 million children under-five are wasted, meaning they are dangerously thin for their height, and roughly one [...] Full text...
19 november 2023 - 07:07:08
New York, US (PANA) - Innovation abounds in the race to broaden access to clean water and sanitation around the [...] Full text...
18 november 2023 - 05:28:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Severe floods in the Horn of Africa have affected tens of thousands of displaced families in [...] Full text...
17 november 2023 - 12:37:35
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo has recorded eight cases of dengue fever in three regions, according to a statement from [...] Full text...
16 november 2023 - 17:48:26
Bangui, Central African Republic (PANA) - Reviving agriculture is critical to fostering economic growth and tackling widespread extreme poverty in [...] Full text...
14 november 2023 - 07:14:10
Cairo, Egypt, US (PANA) - Trucks transporting desperately needed aid into Gaza could stop rolling on Tuesday due to a [...] Full text...
13 november 2023 - 19:59:30
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A Russian team led by the Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Robert Kargougou, visited [...] Full text...
08 november 2023 - 15:22:27
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians still in northern Gaza face unprecedented hardship after being isolated by [...] Full text...
31 october 2023 - 05:42:49
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) warned on Monday that the number of internally displaced [...] Full text...
30 october 2023 - 20:14:03
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council is on Monday meeting again on the Israel-Gaza crisis.
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30 october 2023 - 19:51:12
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese environmentalists and poeliticians have warned that every possible ingredient for environmental catastrophe is now fermenting [...] Full text...
30 october 2023 - 13:03:45
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - With the Israel-Palestine crisis in its fourth week, UN aid teams on Monday highlighted the mounting [...] Full text...
30 october 2023 - 07:09:31
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Relief agencies warned on Sunday that civil order is starting to break down in Gaza after [...] Full text...
24 october 2023 - 15:08:17
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - A study conducted by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit of The Gambia at London [...] Full text...
19 october 2023 - 11:41:06
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Humanitarians continued to stand ready on Thursday to deliver lifesaving aid to Gaza following reports of [...] Full text...
18 october 2023 - 07:01:05
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General said he was horrified by the killing of hundreds of civilians following a [...] Full text...
17 october 2023 - 07:30:02
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Heads of international organisations have urged countries to balance short-term urgent interventions with longer-term [...] Full text...
06 october 2023 - 05:47:58
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An estimated 13.4 million babies were born early in 2020, with nearly one million dying from [...] Full text...
29 september 2023 - 20:20:54
Cairo, Egypt (PANA)– Sudan has declared a cholera outbreak in Gedaref State, where 264 suspected cholera cases, 4 confirmed cases [...] Full text...
29 september 2023 - 10:00:47
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - While warplanes and mortars are hitting Khartoum inhabitants with fire from above, environmental degradation, brought by [...] Full text...
29 september 2023 - 05:40:24
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - More than 16,000 children are displaced in eastern Libya following Africa’s deadliest storm in recorded history, [...] Full text...
22 september 2023 - 16:15:20
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The World Bank has approved additional financing of $700 million for Nigeria to scale up the [...] Full text...
22 september 2023 - 12:50:43
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The head of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Michael Langley, on Thursday met with the [...] Full text...
21 september 2023 - 19:31:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The damage and losses caused by the Mediterranean storm Daniel that hit eastern Libya on 10 [...] Full text...
17 september 2023 - 04:48:17
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Thirty children were released by the Sudanese Armed Forces on Friday in an operation facilitated by [...] Full text...
17 september 2023 - 00:07:12
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Thirty children were released by the Sudanese Armed Forces on Friday in an operation facilitated by [...] Full text...
15 september 2023 - 05:19:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - UN humanitarians are working flat out on the ground in Libya, providing desperately needed aid to [...] Full text...
14 september 2023 - 14:36:10
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Medicines, food, body bags, first aid kits and household items from the International Committee of the [...] Full text...
13 september 2023 - 08:24:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched an emergency appeal [...] Full text...
08 september 2023 - 08:07:17
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Dwindling resources amidst growing needs have forced humanitarian agencies to prioritise the delivery of vital [...] Full text...
02 september 2023 - 05:34:18
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Children in Africa are among the most at risk from climate change impacts but are being [...] Full text...
24 august 2023 - 11:51:21
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - At least two million children have been forced from their homes since the conflict in [...] Full text...
22 august 2023 - 10:40:04
Stockholm, Sweden (PANA) – In a major stride to ensure universal access to water and sanitation, the governments of Malawi and [...] Full text...
19 august 2023 - 05:06:10
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - A spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is [...] Full text...
10 july 2023 - 18:13:36
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 10,424,712,779 billion Libyan dinars (approximately 2,167,299,954 billion US dollars) was spent by the [...] Full text...
06 july 2023 - 16:29:04
New York/Geneva (PANA) - Globally, women are most likely to be responsible for fetching water for households, while girls are nearly [...] Full text...
22 june 2023 - 09:24:21
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A cholera outbreak in some 79 districts in Ethiopia has killed 156 people, mostly children [...] Full text...
21 june 2023 - 08:47:46
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - At least 216 million African children suffer from stunting and malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, where [...] Full text...
17 june 2023 - 07:55:30
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has committed US$3 million to the African [...] Full text...
17 june 2023 - 07:42:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee and migration agencies are calling for urgent and decisive action to prevent further [...] Full text...
08 june 2023 - 19:36:15
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Minister for Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention, Dr. Roger Samuel Kamba, and the World [...] Full text...
07 june 2023 - 06:04:06
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Every day, some 1.6 million people worldwide fall ill from eating contaminated food, which kills 420,000 [...] Full text...
01 june 2023 - 19:46:15
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least 50 babies kept at a catering house, have died because of adverse conditions created [...] Full text...
29 may 2023 - 05:58:01
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Fatoumatta Fatty’s commute on an old, malfunctioning wheelchair takes up to two hours during rainy season [...] Full text...
26 may 2023 - 06:08:10
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and humanitarian partners are mobilising to reach as many people as possible while [...] Full text...
19 may 2023 - 16:12:06
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Several villages in the rural communities of Bafoulabé, Sidibéla and Mahina in the Kayes region of [...] Full text...
19 may 2023 - 15:59:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - After years of steady decline, cholera is making a devastating comeback and targeting the world’s most [...] Full text...
19 may 2023 - 15:52:09
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is seeking nearly $88 million to assist 6.5 million people in [...] Full text...
16 may 2023 - 15:01:49
Geneva -Switzerland (PANA) - The WHO has validated Benin and Mali as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, [...] Full text...
16 may 2023 - 05:39:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - New guidelines from the UN health agency released on Monday have advised against using non-sugar sweeteners (NSS).
The recommendation [...] Full text...
10 may 2023 - 05:59:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A “silent emergency” that is claiming one million tiny lives born premature each year requires concerted [...] Full text...
09 may 2023 - 05:17:34
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned the looting of the World Food Programme’s (WFP) main offices [...] Full text...
03 may 2023 - 05:35:28
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - More than 100,000 people have now fled Sudan to neighbouring countries in search of safety, the [...] Full text...
19 april 2023 - 18:28:54
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Acute food insecurity is set to reach a 10-year high in West and Central Africa [...] Full text...
12 april 2023 - 08:27:02
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The United Nations chief Antonio Guterres,
continuing his tradition of carrying out solidarity visits to Muslim countries [...] Full text...
06 april 2023 - 06:59:55
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The UN’s Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Adam Abdelmoula, made a passionate appeal for sustained [...] Full text...
05 april 2023 - 11:03:33
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Independent human rights experts expressed their solidarity with the people of Malawi on Tuesday, following the [...] Full text...
03 april 2023 - 15:39:39
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi office of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on behalf of 72 [...] Full text...
22 march 2023 - 16:44:36
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - In Burundi, 92% of the rural population do not have access to hand washing with soap [...] Full text...
22 march 2023 - 05:17:19
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Around 44% of the population in the African region suffer from oral diseases.
And while the region [...] Full text...
21 march 2023 - 05:25:16
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - UN agencies on Monday were scrambling to reach millions affected by the deadly tropical cyclone Freddy, [...] Full text...
20 march 2023 - 16:29:49
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - A new report released Monday by the Federal Ministry of Health & Human Services, WHO and [...] Full text...
20 march 2023 - 05:28:24
New York, US (PANA) - A new analysis from the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, shows that some 190 million children in [...] Full text...
17 march 2023 - 05:21:58
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Thursday announced $150 million in new humanitarian assistance for [...] Full text...
16 march 2023 - 15:43:12
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, the Office of the First Lady of The Gambia, [...] Full text...
15 march 2023 - 17:18:04
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PAMA) - US Secretaty of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced more than $331 million in new [...] Full text...
15 march 2023 - 07:21:00
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Addis Ababa on Tuesday night for a [...] Full text...
09 march 2023 - 11:41:56
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The United States of America has issued a travel advisory asking its citizens to exercise increased [...] Full text...
06 march 2023 - 14:35:42
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger announced on Thursday that it would join a key UN water-sharing agreement with its Lake [...] Full text...
01 march 2023 - 16:43:38
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Education, access to basic social services, social and public rights, housing, hygiene and sanitation, and food [...] Full text...
25 february 2023 - 06:16:18
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Tropical cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting systems in the southern hemisphere, slammed into Mozambique on [...] Full text...
24 february 2023 - 23:55:39
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Financial services including banking, telecommunication and energy supply services have gradually resumed in Ethiopia's northern [...] Full text...
17 february 2023 - 08:16:00
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Heavy fighting continued to be reported in Laas Caanood in the disputed Sool Region in South [...] Full text...
17 february 2023 - 06:07:36
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN launched a $1.3 billion appeal on Thursday to help six million people severely affected [...] Full text...
13 february 2023 - 11:04:21
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Providing universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) could reduce Tanzania’s economic losses [...] Full text...
09 february 2023 - 05:28:45
New York, US (PANA) - Although investing in school health and nutrition has a positive effect on children’s academic outcomes, [...] Full text...
09 february 2023 - 05:05:10
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Humanitarians are seeking $2.6 billion to assist some 7.6 million people in Somalia this year, the [...] Full text...
07 february 2023 - 06:17:48
Geneva, Ghana (PANA) – United Nations member countries have urged the Ghana government to address the shackling and inhumane treatment of people [...] Full text...
20 january 2023 - 17:50:55
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government has opted to contract out the monitoring and construction of the domestic sewage [...] Full text...
13 january 2023 - 15:55:13
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Due to the impact of food and nutrition crises caused by natural hazards such as [...] Full text...
02 january 2023 - 13:47:15
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's health authorities on Monday reported an outbreak of cholera in Bujumbura, the economic capital and main [...] Full text...
23 december 2022 - 05:46:30
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The number of children suffering from dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more [...] Full text...
20 december 2022 - 17:02:08
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A $1.5 million grant to the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, announced on Tuesday, is [...] Full text...
16 december 2022 - 06:42:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three agencies have joined forces to help parliamentarians act on child hunger by working with governments [...] Full text...
15 december 2022 - 05:49:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Countries must ramp up investments to provide safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to all [...] Full text...
14 december 2022 - 08:10:47
New York, US (PANA) - Amid rising humanitarian needs worldwide, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, on Tuesday [...] Full text...
13 december 2022 - 17:06:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Urgent action is needed globally and locally to achieve safe and sustainably managed water, sanitation and hygiene [...] Full text...
09 december 2022 - 05:23:00
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The number of hungry people in West and Central Africa could reach a record high of [...] Full text...
06 december 2022 - 12:07:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 80,000 people have arrived in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, the majority arriving over the [...] Full text...
01 december 2022 - 19:58:23
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A UN body responsible for working to bring Sudanese political and social rivals together to agree [...] Full text...
01 december 2022 - 13:34:15
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Unidentified armed individuals have attacked the gendarmerie and police stations in the town of Tougan, [...] Full text...
29 november 2022 - 11:24:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is warning of escalating humanitarian needs for displaced people [...] Full text...
18 november 2022 - 05:23:46
New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of World Toilet Day on 19 November, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is launching a [...] Full text...
17 november 2022 - 06:35:54
New York, US (PANA) - The unprecedented drought in the Horn of Africa is affecting whole communities, but it is [...] Full text...
03 november 2022 - 05:42:16
New York, US (PANA) - Despite severe constraints on access, UN and other humanitarian workers in the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...
26 october 2022 - 11:27:21
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso's transitional Prime Minister, Apollinaire Joachimson Kyelem de Tambela, on Tuesday named a 23-member [...] Full text...
25 october 2022 - 13:41:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Over recent months, funding shortfalls have forced UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to make cuts [...] Full text...
24 october 2022 - 16:52:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Governments must invest more in building safe drinking water systems, both to ensure greater access to [...] Full text...
23 october 2022 - 04:51:31
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Women and girls are bearing the brunt of the worst drought experienced in Kenya for 40 [...] Full text...
22 october 2022 - 04:59:36
New York, US (PANA) - More than 2.8 million people have been impacted by Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade, [...] Full text...
21 october 2022 - 14:52:44
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Office for the Coordination [...] Full text...
19 october 2022 - 18:37:41
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - In Cameroon, the cholera epidemic has resurfaced in the Far North region with three deaths [...] Full text...
11 october 2022 - 14:45:56
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - No death linked to the coronavirus was recorded in Libya but seven new infections were detected [...] Full text...
08 october 2022 - 15:43:39
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 3,967 people were vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) this week, bringing the total number of [...] Full text...
27 september 2022 - 14:38:14
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with the governments of Zambia and the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
24 september 2022 - 12:23:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 352 people received a vaccine against the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Libya over the [...] Full text...
09 september 2022 - 12:11:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid surging humanitarian needs for 96,000 refugees who have fled to Uganda so far this year, [...] Full text...
07 september 2022 - 14:17:25
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The U.S. Embassy in Banjul has donated $250,000 in humanitarian assistance to the Red Cross to [...] Full text...
06 september 2022 - 15:52:39
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) have handed over more than [...] Full text...
31 august 2022 - 12:27:34
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Some 200,000 children in Guinea are threatened with malnutrition, with the worst affected localities being Conakry, the [...] Full text...
25 august 2022 - 05:11:44
New York, US (PANA) - Amidst deteriorating levels of malnutrition and Ethiopia’s worst drought in 40 years, 17 million people are [...] Full text...
18 august 2022 - 11:11:55
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The Government of The Gambia and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), have launched the [...] Full text...
04 august 2022 - 17:39:43
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)- The Burkinabe Ministry of Health will on 30 August launch the distribution of more than 16 [...] Full text...
02 august 2022 - 19:26:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that the Greater Horn of Africa is experiencing [...] Full text...
19 july 2022 - 11:45:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday restarted the voluntary repatriation of DR Congo [...] Full text...
17 july 2022 - 14:20:04
Cotonou Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government is to train 700 tourism professionals with a view to improving services in [...] Full text...
08 july 2022 - 07:25:01
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The COVID-19 crisis in South Africa seems to be subsiding but its effects hit household [...] Full text...
04 july 2022 - 20:22:49
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- The United Nations on Monday warned that urgent funding was needed as "multiple interconnected shocks plight the [...] Full text...
17 june 2022 - 19:37:22
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - UN humanitarians in Burkina Faso on Friday appealed to the international community for help, after attacks by [...] Full text...
13 june 2022 - 14:49:11
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Communities in the Horn of Africa are facing the threat of starvation following four [...] Full text...
13 june 2022 - 12:34:39
New York, US (PANA) - The UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, announced on Monday the winners of it’s [...] Full text...
10 june 2022 - 07:13:51
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The dogmatic positions of protagonists in the political crisis in Libya are casting doubt on prospects [...] Full text...
02 june 2022 - 06:30:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thirty non-endemic countries have reported more than 550 confirmed cases of monkeypox, the head of the [...] Full text...
20 may 2022 - 18:20:52
-Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has indicated in its latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics to [...] Full text...
17 may 2022 - 12:23:50
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has given Burundi 9.3 million euro to strengthen the resilience of rural [...] Full text...
06 may 2022 - 16:13:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - When good hand hygiene and other infection prevention and control (IPC) measures are followed, 70 per [...] Full text...
02 may 2022 - 12:23:20
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese Football Federation (FSF) has initiated discussions with the coach of the national football team, [...] Full text...
30 april 2022 - 10:57:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and 44 humanitarian partners on Friday launched a coordinated [...] Full text...
28 april 2022 - 18:00:05
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The World Bank (WB) has warned of the enormous challenges to the economy facing Libya, in [...] Full text...
28 april 2022 - 05:23:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United States has announced more than $200 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the Horn of [...] Full text...
27 april 2022 - 16:35:39
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 35 asylum-seekers, including eight women and 20 children, were released on Monday from [...] Full text...
24 april 2022 - 04:59:53
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Ethiopian government says 74 trucks carrying humanitarian items are on the way to Mekelle, [...] Full text...
16 april 2022 - 05:47:49
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has welcomed the arrival on Friday of a convoy of trucks carrying [...] Full text...
09 april 2022 - 05:51:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of hungry people in the Sahel and West Africa has quadrupled over the last three years, [...] Full text...
08 april 2022 - 11:53:58
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Climate-related health emergencies are on the rise in Africa, accounting for more than half of public health [...] Full text...
31 march 2022 - 04:56:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A third of the world’s population has yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, [...] Full text...
28 march 2022 - 11:35:33
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea has signed a framework agreement with mining companies Rio Timto and Wining Consortium Simandou for [...] Full text...
12 march 2022 - 06:16:15
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The socioeconomic situation of the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa has worsened following the COVID-19 pandemic, [...] Full text...
06 march 2022 - 18:17:49
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Prime Minister of the transition of Burkina Faso, Albert Ouédraogo, on Saturday unveiled a [...] Full text...
24 february 2022 - 05:07:56
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The United Nations will work together with the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), [...] Full text...
22 february 2022 - 05:19:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Health teams worldwide need much safer working conditions to combat the “dangerous neglect” they have faced [...] Full text...
21 february 2022 - 16:04:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO) have published a new guide on [...] Full text...
18 february 2022 - 19:59:50
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Increasing levels of military hostilities in Tigray region, which include an airstrike reported on Atsbi [...] Full text...
16 february 2022 - 12:40:31
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing additional humanitarian aid valued at $39 [...] Full text...
11 february 2022 - 05:23:45
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Humanitarians are continuing to support Madagascar in the wake of Cyclone Batsirai which hammered the island [...] Full text...
05 february 2022 - 08:54:29
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Lives, livelihoods, and vital crops are at risk across Madagascar with Tropical Cyclone Batsirai expected to [...] Full text...
28 january 2022 - 05:25:14
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - United Nations teams are on the ground in Mozambique assisting thousands of people affected by Tropical [...] Full text...
28 january 2022 - 05:16:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, has said needs are growing faster than generosity in [...] Full text...
25 january 2022 - 14:36:40
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The government of Japan has donated medical materials and equipment worth about US$1.5 million to Guinea, [...] Full text...
24 january 2022 - 06:57:20
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – All schools in Mauritius would reopen on 2 February, the Minister of Education, Tertiary Education, Science [...] Full text...
18 january 2022 - 14:37:07
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Since 2021, Burundi has been hit by a resurgence of diseases with epidemic potential, mainly due [...] Full text...
25 december 2021 - 08:03:25
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Christians in Ghana are on Saturday celebrating Christmas to mark the birth of Jesus Christ with [...] Full text...
20 december 2021 - 08:07:50
Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Intercommunal clashes that erupted in Cameroon’s Far North region in the past two weeks have driven [...] Full text...
15 december 2021 - 05:38:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Omicron variant is “probably” now present in most of the world’s countries and it would [...] Full text...
10 december 2021 - 05:16:04
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - An international humanitarian organisation operating in Ethiopia has warned against what it described as “overwhelming humanitarian [...] Full text...
01 december 2021 - 05:55:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the UN health agency has criticised “blunt” and “blanket” measures taken by countries in [...] Full text...
20 november 2021 - 13:57:34
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenya has set a target of US$3 billion in earnings annually from the African Continental Free [...] Full text...
15 november 2021 - 19:03:19
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As the humanitarian crisis grows in Ethiopia’s conflict-affected north, the UN announced on Monday that $40 million in funds had been made [...] Full text...