Desperate need for water and food continues as Gaza families head north

28 october 2025 - 05:26:58
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - More than 470,000 movements by civilians heading north inside the Gaza Strip have been recorded [...] Full text...

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Sudan: El Fasher mosque and hospital attacks leave at least 20 dead

09 october 2025 - 18:37:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - At least 20 civilians were reportedly killed this week in attacks targeting a mosque and a [...] Full text...

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Gaza City: Daily bombardment, more displacement amid escalating military offensive

12 september 2025 - 14:38:06
  Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As the Israeli offensive intensifies in Gaza City, nearly one million people estimated to be [...] Full text...

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Save the Children aid workers travelling on donkeys deliver first emergency assistance to landslide victims

05 september 2025 - 14:30:52
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - An international humanitarian organisation, Save the Children, aid workers travelling on a herd of donkeys [...] Full text...

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Downpours stymy aid teams following deadly landslide in war-torn Sudan

04 september 2025 - 20:48:45
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - War-torn Sudan continues to face “a horrific humanitarian situation” as UN colleagues scramble to help communities [...] Full text...

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Amid ongoing Israeli attacks, ‘the systematic destruction of Gaza City is already underway’: UN rights office

20 august 2025 - 19:34:07
Geneva, Switzerland 9PANA) - In recent days, the Israeli military has escalated attacks across Gaza City, reportedly deciding to take [...] Full text...

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Hunger and a heatwave plague the Gaza Strip

14 august 2025 - 20:01:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As hunger and malnutrition deepen in the Gaza Strip, humanitarian missions continue to face delays and [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Hospitals ‘at near-total collapse’, staff overwhelmed by the injured

07 august 2025 - 19:06:42
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) -  Exhausted UN aid workers in Gaza on Thursday continued to report a lack of food [...] Full text...

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Just 1.5 percent of Gaza’s agricultural land remains accessible and undamaged

06 august 2025 - 20:57:51
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - UN data published on Wednesday underscores the tiny amount of cultivable land that remains in [...] Full text...

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Syria: Ceasefire under strain as violence and aid access issues persist in Sweida

06 august 2025 - 20:40:43
Damascus, Syria (PANA) - Hostilities have continued in Sweida, Syria, despite a ceasefire agreement, the UN Office for the Coordination [...] Full text...

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Gaza Strip: Humanitarians warn of worsening famine conditions, attacks on civilians

01 august 2025 - 17:27:11
 Gaza, Gazza City (PANA) - Famine conditions are tightening their grip on the Gaza Strip, as the latest UN humanitarian [...] Full text...

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Sudan gripped by deadly crisis as hunger, disease and heat intensify

31 july 2025 - 05:07:23
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Wednesday [...] Full text...

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Syria: Deadly sectarian violence displaces thousands in Sweida; healthcare attacked

26 july 2025 - 16:31:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As deadly sectarian violence continues to displace hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s Sweida Governorate, [...] Full text...

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Sudan: UN scales up response plan as humanitarian needs rise in Tawila

23 july 2025 - 05:56:19
New York, US (PANA) - As the humanitarian crisis deepens in Sudan, the UN and partners have revised and scaled [...] Full text...

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Gaza: UNICEF mourns seven children killed queuing for water

14 july 2025 - 20:35:21
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of UN child rights agency UNICEF has called for Israel to review its rules [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Hospitals rationing critical supplies, ambulances stalling

08 july 2025 - 21:30:20
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - UN humanitarians have warned that the catastrophic conditions in Gaza are worsening, as tents, schools, [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Over 400 Palestinians killed around private aid hubs, UN rights office says

25 june 2025 - 05:58:03
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch [...] Full text...

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Worsening cholera and hunger in South Sudan - UNOCHA

20 june 2025 - 05:56:03
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Thursday over [...] Full text...

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US is 'deeply troubled' by eastern DRC fighting - Rubio

29 january 2025 - 06:01:51
Washington, DC, US (PANA) -  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said his country is “deeply troubled” by escalation [...] Full text...

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Gaza crisis: Lack of fuel threatens critical humanitarian services

15 january 2025 - 08:26:25
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Critical water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and activities are at risk of grinding to a [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Hospitals closed, aid denied, civilians trapped

31 december 2024 - 07:55:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Essential services that sustain life - healthcare, emergency aid, and humanitarian access - are being systematically [...] Full text...

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Evacuation orders in Gaza threaten to uproot UN’s aid hub once again

27 august 2024 - 13:03:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The plight of Gaza’s people continues to worsen in the enclave where humanitarian operations are “ongoing [...] Full text...

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No date yet for long-awaited South Sudan elections, UN Security Council told

15 august 2024 - 06:08:44
New York, US (PANA) - The UN continues to support an enabling environment for general elections in South Sudan, but [...] Full text...

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Humanitarians' efforts ‘nowhere near where they should be’ 300 days into Gaza war

02 august 2024 - 05:47:56
New York, US (PANA) (PANA) - Scaling up aid delivery remains a challenge in Gaza as the war reaches the [...] Full text...

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UN supports Sudanese refugees in Libya 

31 july 2024 - 05:14:49
New York, US (PANA) - A $5.3 million allocation from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will support some [...] Full text...

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Insecurity takes toll on women, girls in Niger’s Tillabéri region

23 february 2023 - 12:02:49
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The security crisis in Niger’s south-western Tillabéri region is taking a heavy toll on local communities, [...] Full text...

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EU allocates 40 million Euro to assist Sudan in humanitarian domains

20 february 2022 - 16:25:19
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The EU Commission has allocated Sudan 40 million Euro as part of a package of 294.2 [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: President Buhari predicts massive shift from insurgency to peace, stability in Nigeria's Northeast region

02 february 2022 - 14:02:58
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Muhammadu Buhari pledged on Wednesday in Abuja that Nigerians in the North East region would in the [...] Full text...

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UN says intense fighting in Northern Ethiopia halts humanitarian supplies

01 november 2021 - 21:24:42
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Fighting and hostilities in the northern Ethiopia towns of Dessie and Kombolcha in Amhara has [...] Full text...

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UN raises alarm over security of humanitarian workers in volatile Tigray region

22 december 2020 - 20:37:44
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has raised alarm over the security [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: UN, Borno State Governor express horror over killing of five aid workers by Boko Haram terrorists

23 july 2020 - 12:28:59
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The United Nations  Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon, has condemned the killing of five [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Somalia's positive cases climb to 2,602

17 june 2020 - 14:46:56
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Somalia have reached 2,602 with 88 deaths, the UN Office for [...] Full text...

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Libyan media highlight Russia-Europe struggle in Libya, inflow of arms and fighters

15 december 2019 - 08:36:59
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The fierce competition between certain European countries, including Germany, France and Italy, to consolidate their presence [...] Full text...

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UN agency reports high malnutrition levels in Horn of Africa countries

17 october 2019 - 07:04:37
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Two consecutive failed rainy seasons in some areas, floods in others, internal violence in [...] Full text...

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Worsening economic prospects hamper healthcare fuel gender-based violence in Southern Africa

30 september 2019 - 16:03:23
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Deteriorating economic prospects have exacerbated poverty and inequality and hampered access to essential services, [...] Full text...

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Climate crisis brings devastating consequences to Southern Africa

30 september 2019 - 13:46:48
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Southern Africa is experiencing the devastating consequences of the climate crisis first-hand, according to [...] Full text...

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School opening postponed in Blue Nile state due to cholera outbreak

15 september 2019 - 17:26:37
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese authorities on Sunday postponed the opening of schools in the southeastern State of Blue Nile [...] Full text...

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WHO says Ebola disease still "relentless and devastating" in Eastern DR Congo

31 july 2019 - 19:16:46
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday noted that the Ebola virus disease in North Kivu [...] Full text...

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‘Revved up climate action’ needed to counter ‘prolonged’ and deadly storms like Cyclone Idai: Guterres

27 march 2019 - 05:05:18
New York, US (PANA) - Cyclone Idai and the mounting death toll is “yet another alarm bell about the dangers [...] Full text...

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Cyclone Idai: ‘Ticking bomb’ health warning over deteriorating conditions facing victims

26 march 2019 - 04:56:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As efforts continue to reach all victims of Cyclone Idai in southern Africa, a senior relief [...] Full text...

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UN chief welcomes establishment of inclusive government in Central African Republic

25 march 2019 - 03:13:29
New York, US (PANA) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the establishment in the Central African Republic (CAR) of a [...] Full text...

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Cyclone Idai: Emergency getting ‘bigger by the hour’, warns WFP

19 march 2019 - 20:30:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The full scale of the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai in south-west Africa is becoming [...] Full text...

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Tropical Cyclone Idai displaces 1.5 million across Mozambique, Malawi

15 march 2019 - 20:51:13
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A major aid operation is under way in Mozambique and Malawi to help victims of Tropical [...] Full text...

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UN chief sends condolences to families of Malawi flood victims

12 march 2019 - 06:34:08
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has extended his condolences to the families of flood victims across [...] Full text...

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At least 23 people killed in Malawi flash floods this week

09 march 2019 - 20:03:40
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Heavy rains and floods have affected most parts of the Southern Region in Malawi, following the [...] Full text...

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Burkina Faso faces 'unprecedented' displacement - UN humanitarian office

06 march 2019 - 07:14:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Burkina Faso is facing “unprecedented” displacement, triggered by armed groups and intercommunal clashes, and exacerbated by [...] Full text...

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Zimbabwe needs urgent scale-up in humanitarian response

28 february 2019 - 18:44:32
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) – UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock on Thursday announced the allocation [...] Full text...

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UN humanitarian chief visits Zimbabwe, Malawi

25 february 2019 - 17:35:51
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock will visit Zimbabwe [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Army, UN agency to promote humanitarian principles in insurgency operations

14 october 2018 - 10:11:23
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Army is to partner with the United Nations Office for the Coordination Humanitarian Affairs [...] Full text...

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UNHCR moves detained refugees out of harm's way in volatile Libyan capital

02 september 2018 - 06:54:24
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in a joint effort with International Organisation for Migration (IOM), United [...] Full text...

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Severe food insecurity stalks two Madagascar regions

09 august 2018 - 09:30:06
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - About 1.26 million people are expected to be severely food insecure in the Grand [...] Full text...

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Additional storm system likely to impact Djibouti after Cyclone Sagar

24 may 2018 - 18:54:56
Djibouti, Djibouti (PANA) - Four days after Cyclone Sagar brought torrential rains on 19-20 May, floodwaters continue to affect several [...] Full text...

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Horn of Africa reeling after Cyclone Sagar pounding

21 may 2018 - 15:12:23
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Around 20,000 people were affected by flooding in Djibouti, more than 10,000 people were displaced in [...] Full text...

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WHO chief visits Ebola affected area in DR Congo

14 may 2018 - 08:36:33
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday visited the town of [...] Full text...

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Over 270,000 people displaced by floods in Kenya

09 may 2018 - 17:07:56
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 50,680 households, with about 271,000 people, have been displaced by floods across Kenya, [...] Full text...

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Floods displace more than 244,400 people in Kenya

03 may 2018 - 17:58:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Floods have displaced at least 244,407 people in 45,219 households across Kenya, including more than 23,000 [...] Full text...

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Ten aid workers missing in South Sudan

26 april 2018 - 14:09:45
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Ten aid workers have gone missing outside South Sudan’s Yei town in Central Equatoria [...] Full text...

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Uganda hosts world’s fastest growing refugee crisis

24 april 2018 - 16:12:15
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Across the Great Lakes region, some 7.4 million people are uprooted, with Uganda now [...] Full text...

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IOM chief says root cause of internal displacements must be tackled

18 april 2018 - 07:39:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 40 million people are displaced by conflict and another 25 million annually by disaster [...] Full text...

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Southern Africa countries assess impact of severe drought

27 february 2018 - 19:49:55
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – In the aftermath severe rainfall deficits recorded by the end of January 2018 across [...] Full text...

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Violation of child rights increases in Horn of Africa region

29 january 2018 - 19:40:58
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Violations against civilians, including sexual and gender-based violence, remained significant in the Horn of [...] Full text...

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Political instability drives humanitarian needs in Horn of Africa countries

29 january 2018 - 19:01:56
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Conflict and political insecurity in the Horn of Africa, notably in South Sudan, are [...] Full text...

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Drought, conflict drive high humanitarian needs in Horn of Africa

29 january 2018 - 16:32:02
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Persistent drought, complex conflict and political dynamics continue to drive high humanitarian needs and [...] Full text...

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UK helps UN humanitarian operation meet needs of conflict victims

20 december 2017 - 19:22:22
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A new £31.5 million multi-year contribution from the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) is [...] Full text...

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UN office cautions on protracted humanitarian crises in Great Lakes region

14 november 2017 - 09:14:14
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Conflict is likely to remain the dominant driver of protracted humanitarian crises in Central [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: US$ 9.9m urgently needed to respond to cholera outbreak in northeast Nigeria

18 september 2017 - 18:38:52
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The United Nations and its partners are urgently appealing for US$9.9 million to respond to the [...] Full text...

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Mali: Aid groups see rising security risk in Mali

28 august 2017 - 16:34:27
Bamakoi, Mali - Two separate attacks on U.N. peacekeeping bases in Mali this month have escalated security concerns for non-governmental [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Drought causes serious humanitarian impacts in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya

04 july 2017 - 12:29:20
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An estimated 761,000 Somalis have been internally displaced by drought between November 2016 and June 2017, [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Cholera claiming lives at 'alarming rate' in East Africa, Yemen - Aid agency

03 july 2017 - 12:02:38
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Cholera is claiming lives at an alarming rate in East Africa and Yemen, the Norwegian Refugee [...] Full text...

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Gambia: Gambia’s aquaculture on path of sustainable development, says AfDB

04 february 2017 - 11:33:29
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) says The Food and Agriculture Sector [...] Full text...

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Ethiopia: After good crop harvests less Ethiopians need humanitarian aid

06 january 2017 - 13:34:18
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Thanks to the good rainy season between June to September last year, the main crop [...] Full text...

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Libya: Libyan communities struggle to host IDPs

01 august 2016 - 17:02:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations and its partners continue to monitor the latest movements of internally displaced persons [...] Full text...

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Sudan: UN expresses regret over expulsion of its Senior official from Sudan

22 may 2016 - 19:37:13
Khartoum, Sudan ( PANA) – The UN on Sunday expressed “shock” over what it called a de facto expulsion of [...] Full text...

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Rwanda: South Sudan's cholera death toll hits 29

03 july 2015 - 10:47:32
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least 29 people, including six children, are confirmed to have died from an outbreak of [...] Full text...

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Malawi: Flood disrupt schooling in Malawi

18 january 2015 - 15:44:37
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - A total of 415 schools have been affected by the severe flooding ravaging parts of Malawi, [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Emergency agency counts cost of Boko Haram insurgency

25 march 2014 - 20:33:26
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday announced that the Boko Haram insurgency [...] Full text...

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ECOWAS to give US$500,000 food aid to Mali

19 november 2013 - 13:36:13
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Commission has announced it will give Mali about US$500,000 in food aid within the [...] Full text...

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ECOWAS deploys 20-member emergency response team to Mali

18 november 2013 - 15:14:21
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS is to deploy 20 members of its Emergency Response Team (EERT) to Mali within the [...] Full text...

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IOM seeks funds to help Congolese fleeing rebel advance

23 november 2012 - 09:42:38
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has appealed to the international community for US$5.3 million to [...] Full text...

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Ethiopian region to suffer food insecurity after poor rains

14 may 2012 - 18:40:52
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The delay in long rains in North-Eastern Ethiopia is likely to affect food security in [...] Full text...

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Somali camp deaths decline as refugee influx continues

19 september 2011 - 19:28:10
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Deaths amongst the Somalia's new arrival refugees at the various camps in Ethiopia have reduced [...] Full text...

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UN agencies warn of worsening malnutrition in Ethiopia

02 august 2011 - 07:44:23
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - International aid agencies have warned that acute malnutrition could worsen in parts of Ethiopia due [...] Full text...

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Worst drought in 60 years put 10 million at risk of starvation in East Africa

02 july 2011 - 09:09:06
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Christian Aid, an international non-governmental body working to end global poverty, has launched an [...] Full text...

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Flash floods uproot 26,000 people in western Ethiopia

04 october 2010 - 17:55:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Flash floods in Ethiopiaâ?s western tip of Gambe lla region have displaced 26,000 people and [...] Full text...

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Floods displace 15,600 people in Ethiopia

06 september 2010 - 15:42:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Heavy floods in Ethiopia's lowlands have displace d 15,600 people and scores have been killed [...] Full text...

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Floods displace 15,600 people in Ethiopia

06 september 2010 - 15:17:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Heavy floods in Ethiopia's lowlands have displace d 15,600 people and scores have been killed [...] Full text...

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At least 19 killed as heavy floods hit Ethiopian lowlands

31 august 2010 - 22:31:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Flood waters and landslides have killed at least 19 people and injured 24 others in [...] Full text...

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Armed groups in eastern DRC use rape as weapon - Aid agency

06 march 2010 - 10:16:00
Dar es salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Following recent brutal attacks on women by sus pected Democratic Forces for the Liberation [...] Full text...

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West Africa is facing new humanitarian challenges, says UNOCHA

19 august 2009 - 18:07:00
Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- West Africa is facing new humanitarian challenges follow ing the end of armed conflicts in the [...] Full text...

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UN envoy hails Somali troops' victory over Islamists

13 july 2009 - 13:06:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Somali government troops should continue their advances against the radical Islamists fighting to take control of [...] Full text...

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