Constitutional order faltering in West Africa and the Sahel - UN official
19 december 2025 - 07:49:09New York, US (PANA) - West Africa and the Sahel are moving forward in the open. Between successive coups d'état, [...] Full text...
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New York, US (PANA) - West Africa and the Sahel are moving forward in the open. Between successive coups d'état, [...] Full text...
From farm to classroom: Feeding children and supporting farmers in Timor-Leste
14 december 2025 - 18:48:20Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – It’s a win-win recipe: schoolchildren eat a free, nutritious meal every day and local farmers gain [...] Full text...
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Preventable ‘meningitis belt’ deaths targeted in health agency action plan
10 april 2025 - 12:53:27Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Millions of deaths could be avoided from meningitis if countries are able to adopt new guidelines [...] Full text...
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WHO gives clean bill of health to cities taking action on preventable diseases
21 march 2025 - 08:21:13Paris, France (PANA) - Three cities that share a healthy vision for their residents won UN World Health Organisation awards [...] Full text...
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Guterres calls for probe into death of WFP staff member detained in Yemen
13 february 2025 - 15:43:51Geneva, Switzerland ((PANA) - Flags at all UN offices in Yemen are flying at half-mast this week following the death [...] Full text...
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UNESCO urges more action to combat violence and bullying at school
07 november 2024 - 05:33:37Paris, France (PANA) - Nearly one in three students worldwide says they have been physically attacked at least once during [...] Full text...
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'Aid restrictions and dismantling UNRWA will compound Gazans’ suffering'
05 november 2024 - 05:12:49Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Aid entering Gaza reached a new low in October, the head of UN Palestine refugee agency [...] Full text...
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Graduation ceremony for 30 Libyan girls from UNSMIL's Leaders Programme
06 june 2024 - 11:39:09Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Thirty participants in the "Leaders Programme" of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) have [...] Full text...
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Step up child protection efforts UNICEF urges Nigeria, on 10th anniversary of Chibok abductions
16 april 2024 - 06:21:36Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday called on Nigeria to intensify child protection efforts, 10 [...] Full text...
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Nigerian President hails release of abducted school children
24 march 2024 - 17:27:46Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday hailed the release of school children abducted in the northwest [...] Full text...
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Malian government dissolves governing body of students
15 march 2024 - 08:31:59Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government has dissolved the Association des élèves et étudiants du Mali (AEEM -Association of [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: UNICEF Condemns Bandits Abduction Of 287 Kaduna Students, Says ‘Nigerian Children Deserve To Learn In Peace'
08 march 2024 - 18:03:38Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned Thursday’s attack and abduction of primary and secondary [...] Full text...
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AfDB moves to save thousands of African children at risk of dying before their fifth birthday
21 june 2023 - 08:47:46Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - At least 216 million African children suffer from stunting and malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, where [...] Full text...
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Death toll in boat disaster involving school children rises to nine
11 may 2023 - 15:31:25Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The death toll in the boat disaster involving schoolchildren at an island community west of the [...] Full text...
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World Bank steps up support to Morocco's financial, digital inclusion reforms
03 april 2023 - 18:51:10Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – Adding to two previous financings, the Board of Directors of the World Bank has approved a [...] Full text...
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WFP moves to restore full food rations to 56,000 Congolese refugees in Burundi
02 april 2023 - 17:32:14Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Over the next six months, US$7.1 million will be needed "urgently" to restore full food rations [...] Full text...
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First Lady of Burundi pays working visit to Italy
30 march 2023 - 15:56:02Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The wife of Burundi's Head of State, Angéline Ndayishimiye Ndayubaha, left Bujumbura Wednesday for Rome at [...] Full text...
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UN education fund head appeals for support for millions of children caught in emergencies
24 october 2022 - 07:11:08New York, US (PANA) - The head of a UN educational fund is urging donors to step up support so that the [...] Full text...
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Danish humanitarian charity, WFP agree to advance school-feeding in Rwanda, Uganda
10 october 2022 - 12:15:06Copenhagen, Denmark (PANA) – A Danish humanitarian charity and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have sealed a partnership to further [...] Full text...
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Nearly 6,000 Congolese refugees return home from Zambia with UNHCR support
27 september 2022 - 14:38:14Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with the governments of Zambia and the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
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Girls ‘failed by discrimination’ and stereotyping in maths class: UNICEF
15 september 2022 - 05:22:33New York, US (PANA) - Solving the equation: Helping girls and boys learn mathematics, a new report published on Wednesday by UN [...] Full text...
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'Insecurity grips Nigeria's capital, as attacks, threats by multiple groups raise serious concerns'
09 august 2022 - 10:55:41Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A series of attacks and threats within close proximity of Nigeris's seat of government in Abuja by [...] Full text...
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AfDB gives Guinea $66 million to extend access to electricity
17 july 2022 - 05:32:43Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $66.39 million [...] Full text...
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WFP forced to suspend food assistance in South Sudan as funds dry up
14 june 2022 - 10:01:39Juba, South Sudan (PANA) – Almost one-third of the acutely food insecure South Sudanese the United Nations World Food Programme [...] Full text...
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2021 Year in review: Many African countries remained hotspots in 2021: UN
28 december 2021 - 10:46:57New York, US (PANA) - Many African countries remained hotspots of conflict and tension in 2021 and United Nations "Blue [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: School closures must be ‘avoided whenever possible’, despite Omicron
17 december 2021 - 17:11:30New York, US (PANA) - COVID-19 cases are spiking all over the world, but the Executive Director of the UN Children’s [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: : Libya begins third dose of vaccine
13 december 2021 - 12:04:44Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The director of the vaccination department of the Libyan National Center for Disease Control, Abdelbasset Samio, [...] Full text...
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UN agencies back plan to ensure every child in need gets regular healthy meal in school by 2030
16 november 2021 - 20:56:25NEW YORK, US (PANA) - United Nations agencies have announced their strong support for an international coalition aiming to rapidly improve [...] Full text...
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UNICEF says schools still closed for nearly 77 million students 18 months into pandemic
16 september 2021 - 10:38:33New York, US (PANA) – Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, schools for nearly 77 million students in six countries continue [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Buhari orders rescue of 140 Bethel students as mass abduction of students undermines school enrolment
06 july 2021 - 23:05:31Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Muhammadu Buhari Monday lamented the mass kidnapping of students by bandits in northwest region of [...] Full text...
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African policymakers face three challenges to lift economies out of worst health crisis
13 may 2021 - 15:09:41Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The second wave of the health crisis that hit sub-Saharan Africa earlier in the [...] Full text...
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Burkinabe President condoles with Niger over the death of 20 children
14 april 2021 - 17:03:43Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkinabè President, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, on Wednesday offered his condolences to the people of [...] Full text...
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Nigerian gov't slammed for failure to protect children as Chibok schoolgirls' abduction clocks seven years
14 april 2021 - 10:10:12Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As Nigeria marks seven years since 279 schoolgirls were abducted by the armed group, Boko Haram, [...] Full text...
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Traumatised, abducted Nigerian schoolchildren need rehabilitation – Rights experts
03 march 2021 - 16:27:19Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In Nigeria, too little is being done to help teenagers left traumatised by the recent spate of attacks on schools [...] Full text...
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UNICEF condemns new attack on Nigerian school in which ‘more than 300’ girls are missing
26 february 2021 - 21:12:22Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has condemned an attack on a secondary school in northwest Nigeria [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Declare state of emergency on insecurity, Senate tells FG as Buhari orders immediate rescue of abducted schoolboys
17 february 2021 - 21:32:06Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday ordered a military operation to rescue hundreds of students and teachers of Government [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: UNICEF chief says closing schools should be ‘measure of last resort’
13 january 2021 - 05:46:36New York, US (PANA) - The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday underscored that “no effort should [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Pandemic robs children in poor countries of nearly four months of school
30 october 2020 - 06:29:55New York, US (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic has robbed children in the poorest countries of nearly four months of [...] Full text...
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Amnesty International condemns killing of schoolchildren in Cameroon
27 october 2020 - 06:46:17Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Amnesty International has condemned last Saturday's killing of eight schoolchildren inside their classroom in Cameroon saying it [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Classes resume in Mauritania after six months of suspension
01 september 2020 - 22:49:52Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Classes for the 2019-2000 academic year resumed here Tuesday all over the country after closure for [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: UNICEF says 1 in 3 children missed out on remote learning when pandemic shuttered schools
27 august 2020 - 05:06:04New York, US (PANA) - For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to COVID-19, “there was no [...] Full text...
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Alpha Condé, candidate of ruling party for Guinean October presidential election
06 august 2020 - 21:47:11Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Rally for the Guinean People (RPG) at the end of its national convention Thursday nominated [...] Full text...
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Gambian foreign says some teachers lack requisite IT skills to deliver lessons online
08 july 2020 - 21:09:18Banjul, Gambia(PANA)- Dr. MamadouTangara,minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, said here Wednesday that some teachers lacked the [...] Full text...
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Rwandan media highlight state funeral of Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza
28 june 2020 - 12:16:40Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The funeral services for former Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza held at Ingoma Stade in Gitega (Central [...] Full text...
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HCR expresses fear for situation of refugees, internally displaced in DRC
10 june 2020 - 22:23:36Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The UN High Commission for Refugees (HCR) Wednesday expressed fears for refugees and internally displaced [...] Full text...
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COVID-19: IAEA gives Congo material to strengthen coronavirus screening
09 june 2020 - 21:01:42Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese minister of scientific research and technological innovation, Martin Parfait Aimé Coussoud-Mavoungou, Monday officially handed [...] Full text...
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Senegalese president announces alleviation of restrictive measures adopted to fight against coronavirus
11 may 2020 - 22:09:48Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall Monday evening in a televised address to the nation announced an alleviation [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Burkinabe government to give schoolchildren masks before resumption of classes
07 may 2020 - 00:02:42Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe government Wednesday insisted on the need to make masks available for schoolchildren before [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Food insecurity in West Africa could leave 43 million at risk as pandemic hits
06 may 2020 - 05:50:08Rome, Italy (PANA) - Well over 40 million people across West Africa face desperate food shortages in coming months, with [...] Full text...
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Congo: 61,000 Congolese schoolchildren benefit from food rations
21 april 2020 - 22:50:13Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) announced here Tuesday that it had found an alternative solution to [...] Full text...
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World Bank gives Niger US$140 million to improve quality of education
09 april 2020 - 12:04:21Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The World Bank Board of Directors has approved US$140 million in funding for the International Development Association [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Government says schools in Congo will not close
17 march 2020 - 18:19:44Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government announced Tuesday in Brazzaville it will not close schools to complete examinations of [...] Full text...
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Guinea: Legislative elections postponed
04 february 2020 - 16:36:26Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The postponement of Guinea's legislative elections was foreseeable because nothing serious was done on the technical [...] Full text...
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World Food Programme has been with Burundi for 52 years
14 january 2020 - 15:11:46Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), David Muldrow Beasley, on Tuesday wound up [...] Full text...
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Zimbabwe govt forces school kids to participate in anti- sanctions marches
23 october 2019 - 21:19:56Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe government has instructed schoolchildren to march as part of planned anti-sanctions activities slated for [...] Full text...
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Benin makes youth mobilization a weapon in the fight against climate change
02 october 2019 - 19:40:30Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin is making the mobilization of young people a weapon for the fight against climate change, [...] Full text...
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Prince Harry to meet young HIV activists in Botswana
26 september 2019 - 10:56:26Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry will meet young people speaking up for their peers living [...] Full text...
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UNICEF supports Beninese school children
15 september 2019 - 12:37:05Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is supporting Beninese schoolchildren as part of the 2019 -20120 school [...] Full text...
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Mugabe to be buried at National Heroes Acre - Family spokesperson
13 september 2019 - 10:07:20Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbawe's late former President Robert Mugabe will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on a [...] Full text...
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President Mnangagwa's associate, Wadyajena, in hot water over Lamborghini Urus purchase
12 june 2019 - 17:49:32Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zanu PF Member of Parliament for the Gokwe-Nembudziya constituency, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, has received heavy criticisms [...] Full text...
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Burundi Labour Day attracts more state officials than workers unions
01 may 2019 - 21:40:05Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's head of state Pierre Nkurunziza Wednesday led top government officials to grace this year’s International [...] Full text...
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Burkinabe government and partners discuss impact of security situation
30 april 2019 - 09:38:57Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkinabe Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Diabiré on Monday had a discussion with the technical [...] Full text...
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3 schoolgirls who "insulted" president Nkurunziza pardoned in Burundi
26 march 2019 - 17:07:10Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi Justice Minister, Aimé-Laurentine Kanyana, on Tuesday announced that three students, aged 15, 16 and [...] Full text...
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WFP gets involved in revival of Congo's agriculture sector
19 march 2019 - 10:52:56Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) will promote local food production in the Congo in order to ensure [...] Full text...
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Illicit tobacco trade, related products worry Burundi
08 march 2019 - 20:37:42Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Illicit tobacco trade and related products have become rampant in Burundi, where the practice is blamed [...] Full text...
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Museveni says some education for all than all education for some
21 february 2019 - 01:48:15Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has since January 1986 usually wooed voters, especially in the countryside, using [...] Full text...
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High school in northern Burkina Faso closed after receiving threats from jihadists
12 february 2019 - 21:49:37Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – A high school In northern Burkina Faso was closed down Monday morning following a threatening [...] Full text...
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New Burkinabe army commander says committed to bringing peace of mind
12 february 2019 - 21:22:04Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Colonel Gilles Bationo, the new Chief of Army Staff of Burkina Faso, said Tuesday [...] Full text...
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South Africa continues to grapple with post-apartheid education
09 february 2019 - 08:44:48Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nearly 42 years ago, South Africa was in the international spotlight for all the [...] Full text...
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Rights group demands freedom for 70 schoolchildren taken in mass abduction in Cameroon
06 november 2018 - 07:05:54Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Human rights group Amnesty International is demanding the release of at least 70 school children who [...] Full text...
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Mali not fulfilling its ‘sovereign role’ in protecting its people: UN human rights expert
11 october 2018 - 20:09:14Bamako, Mali (PANA) - In an effort to better protect people and their property throughout Mali, the international community must [...] Full text...
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Namibia, Estonia and Indonesia home to 2018 winners of Education for Sustainable Development Prize
21 september 2018 - 15:25:37Paris, France (PANA) - The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has named the three winners of this year’s UNESCO-Japan Prize [...] Full text...
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Human Rights Council hears plea to protect victims of ‘brutal’ sexual violence in South Sudan
18 september 2018 - 05:35:14Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The plight of South Sudan’s women and girls “should no longer be ignored”, UN investigators told [...] Full text...
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Rights group tells Madagascar gov't mot to criminalise right to protest
10 may 2018 - 05:19:59Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has told the Malagasy government that the right to protest should [...] Full text...
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Students gather at UN to ‘Remember Slavery,’ honour those who suffered
28 april 2018 - 14:05:57New York, US (PANA) - Students from around the world joined United Nations and Government officials in New York on [...] Full text...
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Egypt: Death toll from train crash hits 41
12 august 2017 - 12:13:35Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The death toll from Egypt’s latest train disaster rose to 41 as cranes and rescue workers [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Malala visits Nigeria to draw attention to education crisis
18 july 2017 - 20:03:07Maiduguri, Nigeria (PANA) – Education activist Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday met with girls displaced by the Boko Haram crisis during [...] Full text...
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Somalia: Keating condemns terrorist attack in north-central Somalia
21 august 2016 - 17:58:41Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Somalia, Michael Keating, has strongly condemned the [...] Full text...
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South Africa: South Africa marks second anniversary of Mandela's death
05 december 2015 - 16:18:38Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Saturday marks the second anniversary of the death of world statesman Nelson Mandela with [...] Full text...
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UN: UNICEF report says conflict keeps millions of children out of school in M/East, North Africa
03 september 2015 - 18:04:01New York, US (PANA) - More than 13 million children are prevented from attending school by surging conflict and political [...] Full text...
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UN: UN launches education appeal in fight against child labour
13 june 2015 - 06:42:28New York, US (PANA) - The UN has announced it is marking the 2015 edition of the World Day Against [...] Full text...
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UN: Global education envoy welcomes release of 200 Nigerian girls
29 april 2015 - 22:51:57New York,US (PANA) - The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Mr. Gordon Brown, has welcomed the release of 200 [...] Full text...
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UN: 'Don't forget Chibok girls'
15 april 2015 - 08:50:14New York, US (PANA) - On the first year anniversary of their abduction by the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram, [...] Full text...
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UN: UNICEF says 800,000 Nigerian children flee Boko Haram violence
13 april 2015 - 16:58:14New York US (PANA) - A new report released Monday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed that at least [...] Full text...
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UN: UN chief calls for more global action for sustianable development in 2015
08 january 2015 - 22:35:57New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he looks forward to a "Year of Opportunity", as he [...] Full text...
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Kenya: WFP cuts food rations to refugees in Kenya
14 november 2014 - 12:32:39Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Around half a million refugees, mainly from Somalia and South Sudan, living in northern Kenya, will [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Health officials meet amid fresh Ebola worries
01 september 2014 - 08:57:14Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal and state health officials were due to meet Monday (1Sept) in the capital city [...] Full text...
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Ghana: Media report strike over missing stillborn baby, challenges in water, power supply
22 february 2014 - 07:42:12Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A week-long strike by the doctors and nurses at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Ghana’s [...] Full text...
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Funding shortage forces WFP to reduce food support in DR Congo
03 december 2013 - 22:14:12New York, US (PANA) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says that serious resource constraints is forcing it [...] Full text...
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WFP report highlights benefits of school meal programmes
24 may 2013 - 20:54:56New York, US (PANA) - A World Food Programme (WFP) report has stressed the importance of providing meals for schoolchildren, [...] Full text...
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Kenya, global partners lead way in mitigating World wheat threat
04 october 2011 - 18:19:23Njoro, Kenya (PANA) - Many small-scale farmers in East Africa, who have given up what farming following devastation to their [...] Full text...
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10 murdered in Nairobi by suspected outlawed gang
10 january 2009 - 13:03:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Ten people, among then schoolchildren, were early Saturday morning brutally hacked to death by a gang [...] Full text...
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