08 may 2024 - 06:55:44
New York, US (PANA) - The UN’s second Trailblazer award for Women Justice and Corrections Officers has gone to Major [...] Full text...
27 april 2024 - 12:29:53
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Chief Prosecutor, Al-Seddik al-Sour, has discussed with a delegation from the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...] Full text...
27 april 2024 - 05:22:22
New York, US (PANA) - A UN office investigating Israeli accusations that 12 staff members from UN Palestine relief agency [...] Full text...
27 april 2024 - 05:21:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday raised alarm over the situation in northern Burkina [...] Full text...
25 april 2024 - 10:39:10
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Burkina Faso military summarily executed at least 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages [...] Full text...
23 april 2024 - 13:34:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped [...] Full text...
22 april 2024 - 17:06:22
New York, US (PANA) - Israeli authorities have provided no proof yet following their three-month-old claim that a dozen UN [...] Full text...
15 april 2024 - 10:54:08
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – As global and regional leaders meet in Paris to spotlight Sudan and mark the one-year anniversary of the [...] 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...
20 march 2024 - 18:42:58
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Scientists are progressing to the third phase trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Tuberculosis, which [...] Full text...
19 march 2024 - 13:10:08
New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarians reiterated their resolve on Tuesday to help the people of Gaza where increasing [...] Full text...
19 march 2024 - 06:05:43
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - As Ghana continues to reel under a debilitating disruption of Internet services following a massive disruption to [...] Full text...
18 march 2024 - 08:46:11
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Mobile network companies in Ghana are working hard as they slowly reconnected the country to the [...] Full text...
17 march 2024 - 16:32:11
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The UN chief has condemned an attack which saw eight peacekeepers from the UN Mission [...] Full text...
16 march 2024 - 10:29:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday expressed outrage at the recent abductions [...] 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 - 13:59:14
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Two people were killed in a mid-air collision involving a training and passenger aircraft after take [...] Full text...
05 march 2024 - 11:10:04
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional deal on the regulation prohibiting [...] Full text...
05 march 2024 - 09:49:14
Washington DC, US (PANA) - The US has ended debilitating economic sanctions against Zimbabwe after nearly two decades despite years [...] Full text...
04 march 2024 - 23:04:06
Washington DC, US (PANA) - The United States has expressed "grave concern" over the rise in violence against civilians in [...] Full text...
01 march 2024 - 16:16:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Unchecked mass violence and entrenched repression in South Sudan threaten the prospects of durable peace and [...] Full text...
01 march 2024 - 12:48:28
New York, US (PANA) - As the devastating war in Gaza continues, UN investigators examining Israeli accusations against a dozen [...] Full text...
01 march 2024 - 06:09:36
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The “carnage” in Gaza has left more than 30,000 dead and must end immediately, UN rights chief Volker [...] Full text...
29 february 2024 - 19:29:38
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General said on Thursday he was “appalled by the tragic human toll of the [...] Full text...
28 february 2024 - 15:16:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - All parties to the Gaza conflict have been responsible for “clear violations of international humanitarian law [...] Full text...
24 february 2024 - 10:27:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN’s top human rights official on Friday made a strong call for accountability for serious [...] Full text...
24 february 2024 - 10:26:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The armed conflict in Sudan has resulted in thousands of civilians killed, millions displaced, property looted [...] Full text...
19 february 2024 - 14:31:25
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - South Sudan’s leaders must carefully navigate the conclusion of the elections set for December, which [...] Full text...
19 february 2024 - 12:35:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned the murder of 10 people at [...] 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 - 13:24:58
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The European Union Border Assistance Mission in Libya (EUBAM) has organised a training programme for a [...] 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 - 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...
02 february 2024 - 06:13:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ongoing military operations by Israel in Gaza have made it the deadliest and most dangerous war [...] Full text...
02 february 2024 - 05:36:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN human rights chief Volker Türk expressed his shock on Thursday at credible reports alleging that Malian [...] Full text...
31 january 2024 - 07:53:33
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - When looking at Somalia, there are often glaring gaps in data that obscure understanding of the [...] Full text...
30 january 2024 - 06:23:48
New York, US (PANA) - The international community’s failure to execute warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and [...] Full text...
30 january 2024 - 06:12:04
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres is due to meet with major donors to the UN agency [...] 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 - 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 - 05:28:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council have begun their work to investigate grave allegations of crimes [...] Full text...
11 january 2024 - 10:51:40
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The plane carrying Gambia’s national squad to Cote d'Ovoire developed technical problem nine minutes into the [...] 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...
29 december 2023 - 05:23:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The top United Nations human rights official has voiced “deep alarm” over the series of attacks [...] Full text...
15 december 2023 - 17:14:49
Athens, Greece (PANA) - Official investigations into credible allegations that Greek coastguard actions and omissions contributed to the catastrophic shipwreck [...] Full text...
08 december 2023 - 11:33:19
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian authorities must "promptly, thoroughly, independently, impartially, transparently and effectively" investigate the killing of more [...] Full text...
07 december 2023 - 19:24:30
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General called for stronger action to fight the growing challenge of transnational organized [...] Full text...
06 december 2023 - 09:00:17
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – An independent inquiry is needed to review failings in Libyan authorities’ management of catastrophic flooding in [...] Full text...
03 december 2023 - 16:30:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The resumption of hostilities in Gaza and its terrifying impact on civilians underscore the need for [...] Full text...
01 december 2023 - 13:15:45
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso has protested against a statement issued by an official of the UN High [...] Full text...
29 november 2023 - 17:31:06
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid al Dbaiba, stressed the need [...] Full text...
28 november 2023 - 20:02:06
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office, OHCHR, says it is appalled by the recent killing of dozens [...] 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...
16 november 2023 - 17:28:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday welcomed the Security Council call for pauses in [...] Full text...
09 november 2023 - 12:37:56
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has reported an acceleration in the [...] 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...
06 november 2023 - 19:21:18
New York, US (PANA) - The war between rival militaries in Sudan has interrupted encouraging signs of dialogue between Sudan [...] Full text...
02 november 2023 - 18:02:33
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A fire following an explosion at an ammunition depot in a military headquarters in the town [...] 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...
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...
14 october 2023 - 08:00:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN-mandated Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia on Friday released a harrowing report on [...] Full text...
11 october 2023 - 13:06:13
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid al Dbeiba, has ordered the formation of a committee to study [...] 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...
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...
19 september 2023 - 12:10:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Residents of the eastern city of Derna, which bore the brunt of the storm Daniel that [...] Full text...
07 september 2023 - 20:04:26
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commended law enforcement agencies around the world on Thursday stressing that [...] 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...
01 september 2023 - 12:33:41
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - South African officials on Friday deployed police dogs to help "sweep the building" in Johannesburg [...] Full text...
31 august 2023 - 17:04:33
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - South African officials have given an update on fatalities in Thursday's devastating fire in a residential [...] Full text...
31 august 2023 - 13:02:27
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his deep sadness at the significant loss of [...] Full text...
28 august 2023 - 12:08:55
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese military leader, Lieutenant General Abdul Fatah al Burhan, has vowed to continue fighting the paramilitary [...] 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...
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 - 17:16:28
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Kenyan government has banned its citizens from registering for the World Coin, a new cryptocurrency [...] 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 - 06:46:18
Goma, DRC (PANA) – Militia fighters killed at least 46 civilians, half of them children, and pillaged and burned a [...] 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...
15 july 2023 - 07:57:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday said it was very concerned over reports of police [...] Full text...
14 july 2023 - 06:01:49
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has condemned "in the strongest terms" the continued atrocities and ethnically targeted [...] Full text...
12 july 2023 - 18:01:52
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A human trafficking ring targeting Ethiopian migrants has been broken after Police investigators seized dozens of [...] Full text...
08 july 2023 - 14:35:19
Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - Nigerian Barrister Amobi Ezeaku and four fellow Africans have been selected from a large number of [...] Full text...
08 july 2023 - 06:39:14
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - According to the 2023 Tax Transparency in Africa progress report, unveiled at the 13th [...] Full text...
06 july 2023 - 14:56:14
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice Wednesday issued a landmark decision in [...] Full text...
06 july 2023 - 06:26:55
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN’s top humanitarian officials on Wednesday voiced shock and condemnation over increasing reports of gender-based [...] 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...
02 july 2023 - 13:17:03
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A human rights advocate has described the vote of the United Nations Security Council to dissolve [...] Full text...
02 july 2023 - 12:19:19
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's Zulu King MisuZulu KaZwelithini has been hospitalised following an illness, and suspicions of poisoning, South [...] 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...
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...
19 june 2023 - 19:37:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN-led appeal for funding to help the people of Sudan raised $1.5 billion on Monday [...] 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...
15 june 2023 - 19:50:23
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The U.S. State Department in its 23rd annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report assessing anti-trafficking efforts [...] Full text...
14 june 2023 - 07:37:29
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group appears responsible for mass graves containing scores of bodies found in [...] Full text...
11 june 2023 - 07:06:00
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Shoppers in Mali’s Gao, Timbuktu, and Ménaka regions in Mali can snap up AK-pattern assault rifles [...] Full text...
09 june 2023 - 10:48:36
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Fulgence Kayishema, the Rwandan national accused of genocide on Friday appeared before the Cape Town [...] Full text...
03 june 2023 - 18:55:00
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - France said Saturday it was "extremely concerned" by the violence that broke out in Senegal [...] Full text...
02 june 2023 - 18:24:18
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Reacting to the violence that broke out Thursday in Dakar and other cities following the [...] Full text...
31 may 2023 - 08:16:10
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Nearly two months since a series of nationwide protests began, the Kenyan authorities have failed to take [...] Full text...
29 may 2023 - 13:43:51
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's transitional government has criticised the decision of the United States to impose visa restrictions on [...] Full text...
25 may 2023 - 12:39:11
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Fulgence Kayishema, one of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives, has been arrested in [...] Full text...
18 may 2023 - 13:27:47
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe government on Wednesday announced that a judicial police force, "Prévôté", would be deployed [...] Full text...
18 may 2023 - 06:30:06
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Human rights group, Amnesty International, has called for the trial by a competent court of perpetrators [...] Full text...
12 may 2023 - 14:58:39
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)- A report by a fact-finding mission of the UN Human Rights Office has concluded that there [...] Full text...
11 may 2023 - 18:26:40
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, says the court has issued new [...] Full text...
11 may 2023 - 07:54:09
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The Tunisian authorities have intensified their attack on opponents of President Kais Saied’s 2021 power grab, moving [...] Full text...
06 may 2023 - 06:36:06
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice in policing ended a 12-day visit [...] Full text...
03 may 2023 - 19:42:38
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, 30 organizations, structures, movements and press bodies [...] Full text...
03 may 2023 - 19:33:52
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The government of Burkina Faso has expressed surprise at a statement from the Economic Community [...] Full text...
19 april 2023 - 09:20:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Tuesday called for an immediate end [...] Full text...
18 april 2023 - 19:02:06
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - As fighting between Sudanese rivals continues for the fourth day running, civilians in Khartoum and other [...] Full text...
18 april 2023 - 13:06:00
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) annouced here Monday the arrest of a 35-year-old Kenyan woman who [...] Full text...
17 april 2023 - 13:34:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid al-Dabaiba, Monday called on the chairman [...] Full text...
07 april 2023 - 18:29:04
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, mania and autism are among the main mental illnesses that affect [...] Full text...
07 april 2023 - 16:48:57
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said here Thursday that he [...] Full text...
04 april 2023 - 12:13:24
New York, US (PANA) - Tackling impunity will be critical to end pervasive violence and horrific human rights violations and [...] Full text...
29 march 2023 - 06:00:34
New York, US (PANA) - Although no region is immune to terrorism, the situation in Africa is especially concerning, Secretary-General [...] Full text...
27 march 2023 - 17:13:31
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - UN-appointed independent human rights investigators on Monday said there were grounds to believe that Libyan authorities and [...] Full text...
23 march 2023 - 10:30:30
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) – Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Health has confirmed eight more cases of Marburg, bringing the number of confirmed cases to [...] Full text...
22 march 2023 - 05:08:21
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania on Tuesday confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg Virus Disease after laboratory tests were [...] Full text...
21 march 2023 - 13:46:54
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Ethiopian government has rejected a statement by the US Secretary of State that says all [...] Full text...
18 march 2023 - 09:25:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to call for China to be ‘transparent’ in sharing COVID-19 [...] Full text...
15 march 2023 - 06:04:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - States must be “primary responders” in torture cases, to end impunity and bring justice on behalf [...] Full text...
09 march 2023 - 20:08:05
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - More than 16 billion CFA francs (more than 25 million dollars) of financial irregularities have [...] Full text...
08 march 2023 - 06:08:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Impunity is a major driver of the human rights and humanitarian crises in South Sudan, which [...] Full text...
28 february 2023 - 12:42:58
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Mozambique's delegate to the UN, Pedro Afonso, has told the Security Council that elections can be [...] Full text...
22 february 2023 - 10:46:24
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN expert has urged authorities in Mali to open up civic and democratic space and [...] Full text...
20 february 2023 - 17:42:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Despite the government’s efforts to redeploy defence and security forces over a large part of the [...] Full text...
16 february 2023 - 22:22:28
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling for the suspension of aid to Eswatini and [...] Full text...
16 february 2023 - 05:20:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Current disease outbreaks highlight the urgent need for every country to ramp up its care systems, [...] Full text...
15 february 2023 - 11:45:25
London, UK (PANA) – The forced displacement of the entire Chagossian people by the United Kingdom and the United States governments and [...] Full text...
15 february 2023 - 05:52:34
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has deployed experts to Equatorial Guinea this week following confirmation [...] Full text...
14 february 2023 - 06:25:25
New York, US (PANA) - Preventing violations against children affected by war has never been more pertinent or urgent, the [...] Full text...
14 february 2023 - 05:52:15
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) – Equatorial Guinea on Monday confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease, which is in the same [...] Full text...
06 february 2023 - 13:34:53
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The director of the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in [...] Full text...
06 february 2023 - 13:21:35
Goma, DRC (PANA) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed summary executions and forced recruitment of civilians in eastern Democratic [...] Full text...
02 february 2023 - 05:43:02
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Trafficked medical products kill almost half a million sub-Saharan Africans every year, and action is needed [...] Full text...
31 january 2023 - 12:01:19
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Fifteen passengers were killed on Sunday in a terrorist attack at the village of Linguekoro, [...] Full text...
30 january 2023 - 16:24:54
Bamako, Mali (PANA) -Aldjouma Touré, killer of eleven people, including one in Bamako and ten others in the town of [...] Full text...
30 january 2023 - 14:21:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission to Libya has called on the Libyan authorities to take decisive [...] Full text...
26 january 2023 - 07:06:20
Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has expressed deep concern reports about the killing of Mr. [...] Full text...
20 january 2023 - 13:01:22
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Large-scale artefact looting took place in war-ravaged Tigray State of northern Ethiopia, according to findings [...] Full text...
16 january 2023 - 19:45:59
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), have formally taken charge of the Abuja [...] Full text...
13 january 2023 - 10:13:48
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – African leaders failed to tackle widespread abuses against civilians by state security forces and non-state armed [...] Full text...
11 january 2023 - 09:30:49
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Amnesty International has asked the Ethiopian authorities to "immediately and unconditionally" release four human rights [...] Full text...
10 january 2023 - 07:12:47
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Forty-five years after the murder of liberation hero Rick Turner, fresh evidence has given [...] Full text...
21 december 2022 - 15:33:32
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Ebrima G. Sankareh, Government Spokesperson and Presidential Diaspora Adviser, Wednesday confirmed the arrest of four soldiers linked to [...] Full text...
19 december 2022 - 13:31:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, says "an unrelenting crisis of impunity in Libya" has enabled fighters [...] Full text...
16 december 2022 - 12:59:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, has said he will not allow the reopening of the [...] Full text...
16 december 2022 - 04:48:30
New York, US (PANA) - Holding those who commit crimes against UN ‘blue helmets’ to account, is key to improving [...] Full text...
10 december 2022 - 16:44:47
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 26th edition of the Democratic Interrogation Space (EID) opened here Saturday within the framework of [...] Full text...
05 december 2022 - 07:02:09
The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) – Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should make a commitment at their annual meeting [...] Full text...
05 december 2022 - 06:48:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A visit to Libya by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has reignited hope for long-delayed justice [...] Full text...
01 december 2022 - 15:32:43
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Central Office for the Fight against Illicit Enrichment (OCLEI) of Mali and the Superior Authority [...] Full text...
28 november 2022 - 14:06:06
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Ten Malian hostages, including three women and six children, held captive since 18 November by a [...] Full text...
28 november 2022 - 13:49:33
Athens, Greece (PANA) - Greek authorities Monday arrested seven Egyptians on charges of migrant smuggling after their boat ran into [...] Full text...
14 november 2022 - 11:10:41
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday terminated the appointment of the Minister of State [...] Full text...
08 november 2022 - 08:39:32
RightsTunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Nineteen Sahrawi activists languish in prison years after Moroccan courts convicted them in unfair proceedings, Human Rights [...] Full text...
07 november 2022 - 16:15:59
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, on Monday visited sites of [...] Full text...
26 october 2022 - 18:13:51
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Nearly a week after protests in Chad were violently repressed, independent experts from the UN [...] Full text...
26 october 2022 - 05:39:36
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - UN independent human rights experts on Tuesday demanded real accountability for the year-long brutal crackdown on [...] Full text...
25 october 2022 - 06:27:26
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Parties to the ongoing conflict in northern Ethiopia must protect civilians amid intensifying hostilities in [...] Full text...
21 october 2022 - 19:21:59
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The United Nations (UN) has condemned Thursday's deadly clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against [...] Full text...
21 october 2022 - 15:30:56
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An illegal migration operation to Europe involving 94 people from the beaches of Garabolli, west of [...] Full text...
18 october 2022 - 12:28:51
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea's opposition party, the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), has denounced Monday's arrest of [...] Full text...
13 october 2022 - 20:45:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister of the government of national unity Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba reviewed during a meeting with [...] Full text...
10 october 2022 - 16:47:11
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - One suspect involved in the murder of 15 illegal migrants in the city of Sabratha (west [...] Full text...
10 october 2022 - 16:37:46
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian army says it has arrested five terrorist suspects, including Alhadji Diakité, known as Abou Anass, at [...] Full text...
08 october 2022 - 08:17:41
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The government of Mauritius announced on Friday that a delegation from the Commonwealth Secretariat would arrive [...] Full text...
07 october 2022 - 21:15:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has called for investigations into deaths and injuries resulting from [...] Full text...
28 september 2022 - 20:13:46
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 581 Libyan citizens and migrants were killed extrajudicially between January 2020 and March [...] Full text...
26 september 2022 - 06:35:28
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The Ugandan Ministry of Health says the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the country is [...] Full text...
24 september 2022 - 10:40:25
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The Ugandan health ministry said here Saturday three more patients had died from the Ebola Virus [...] Full text...
17 september 2022 - 05:42:27
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Friday declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak that was confirmed nearly [...] Full text...
17 september 2022 - 05:20:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Burundi must engage more effectively in the rule of law and fight against impunity for violations [...] Full text...
09 september 2022 - 05:11:09
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - With the COVID-19 pandemic delaying meningitis vaccination campaigns for more than 50 million children in Africa, [...] Full text...
30 august 2022 - 06:21:33
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has agreed to establish a representation office for the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...] Full text...
23 august 2022 - 11:12:36
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a resurgence of Ebola on Monday night, following [...] Full text...
22 august 2022 - 12:04:16
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, has sent a letter to [...] Full text...
21 august 2022 - 17:51:10
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The statistics on corruption in Libya unveiled recently by the Libyan Prosecutor General, Seddik Al-Sour, indicated [...] Full text...
17 august 2022 - 19:56:36
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 63,986 fake national registration numbers were discovered in Libya by commissions of the [...] Full text...
16 august 2022 - 05:13:07
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has imposed sanctions on three senior Liberian government officials for their alleged involvement [...] Full text...
09 august 2022 - 11:20:41
Washington, DC, US (PANA) – United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken should publicly promote free and fair elections, respect [...] Full text...
06 august 2022 - 05:30:24
Bangui, CAR (PANA) - Armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) must lay down their arms and engage in [...] Full text...
03 august 2022 - 05:39:23
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Human rights group, Amnesty International, has denounced the arbitrary arrests and detentions of members of pressure [...] Full text...
03 august 2022 - 05:20:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three UN-appointed independent human rights experts returned from Ethiopia on Tuesday after working to negotiate access to [...] Full text...
29 july 2022 - 20:23:46
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe Minister of Gender and Family, Salimata Nebié Conombo, noted on Friday that more [...] Full text...
28 july 2022 - 12:39:47
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The High Court in Nairobi has ordered a senior Kenyan politician to forfeit nearly US$2 million [...] Full text...
27 july 2022 - 12:24:37
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - An official of Amnesty International has described as "deeply worrying" the adoption of a new constitution [...] Full text...
20 july 2022 - 10:58:32
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The Gambia has been upgraded to Tier 2 in the U.S. State Department's 22nd annual Trafficking [...] Full text...
14 july 2022 - 14:29:23
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Africa is facing a growing risk of outbreaks caused by zoonotic pathogens, such as the monkeypox virus [...] Full text...
13 july 2022 - 07:48:08
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Dozens of civil society, human rights and environmental organisations have urged the Egyptian authorities to ease their [...] Full text...
08 july 2022 - 08:07:58
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed [...] Full text...