MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Vital food aid blocked, Security Council meets in emergency session on Lebanon

31 march 2026 - 16:17:09
Beirut, Lebanon (PANA) - More than a month since war erupted in the Middle East, UN agencies confirmed on Tuesday [...] Full text...

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US signs MoU with Niger on bilateral health cooperation

28 february 2026 - 06:54:26
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The United States and Niger on Friday signed a five-year, $179.3 million bilateral health cooperation Memorandum [...] Full text...

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Aid for cyclones-hit Madagascar hampered by insufficient funds

17 february 2026 - 07:32:44
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - While Madagascar declared a state of national disaster after Cyclone Gezani passed through last Tuesday, "serious [...] Full text...

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Civilians and aid operations under fire as Sudan airstrikes intensify

12 february 2026 - 07:46:23
New York, US (PANA) - Escalating aerial attacks in Sudan are killing children, damaging schools and striking United Nations facilities, [...] Full text...

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Eight Western countries, EU condemn looting of WFP food in South Sudan

12 february 2026 - 07:25:09
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The Embassies of eight Western countries and the Delegation of the European Union in South [...] Full text...

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South Sudan: UN forced to suspend food aid after ‘unacceptable’ attacks on convoy

05 february 2026 - 08:22:14
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - South Sudan is buckling under a fresh wave of violence and displacement, after attacks and [...] Full text...

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US to resume WFP food distribution in Somalia

30 january 2026 - 10:58:40
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States is to resume World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution in Somalia while [...] Full text...

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US pauses assistance programmes to Somalia over illegally-seized food aid

08 january 2026 - 11:55:52
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US announced on Wednesday that it has paused all ongoing assistance programmes for the [...] Full text...

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The night the mountains shook: A doctor on the front lines of Afghanistan’s earthquake (A UN Feature)

06 september 2025 - 20:33:50
Jalalabad, Afghanistan (PANA) - The first jolt threw Dr. Abdul Mateen Sahak out of bed. The second sent him to [...] Full text...

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UN mission in Libya welcomes preliminary results of municipal council elections

24 august 2025 - 06:23:10
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has welcomed the High National Elections Commission’s (HNEC) [...] Full text...

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UN calls for probe into WFP convoy attack in Darfur

21 august 2025 - 16:01:09
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations on Thursday called for a probe into the attack on a relief convoy [...] Full text...

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Libyan Electoral Commission condemns attacks on two polling stations on eve of municipal elections

15 august 2025 - 11:51:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) has condemned attacks on its offices on the west [...] Full text...

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Gaza health system ‘catastrophic’ with hospitals overwhelmed and medicines running out, WHO warns

12 august 2025 - 17:31:32
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA)  - Public health conditions in Gaza are “catastrophic”, with hospitals operating far beyond capacity. Some life-saving medicines [...] 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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UNICEF Warns: We are at the verge of irreversible damage to an entire generation of children in Sudan

05 august 2025 - 15:10:14
Port Sudan, Sudan, (PANA)- Sheldon Yett, UNICEF Sudan Representative, has described seeing children ‘reduced to skin and bones’ during a [...] Full text...

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US' plan to destroy US$9.7 million of contraceptives is unconscionable, says medical charity

30 july 2025 - 06:40:00
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States government’s plan to destroy US$9.7 million worth of contraceptives is a callous [...] Full text...

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‘Peace is a choice’: UN chief urges diplomacy as wars spread from Gaza to Ukraine

22 july 2025 - 20:40:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Warning that the world is failing to uphold international law as wars stretch from Gaza to [...] Full text...

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Gaza: UN staff now fainting from hunger, exhaustion; WHO worker detained

22 july 2025 - 18:42:40
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Worrying alerts from United Nations staff in the Gaza Strip who have been fainting from [...] Full text...

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Gaza: WHO's operations compromised following attacks on warehouse and facility sheltering staff and families in Deir al Balah

22 july 2025 - 08:37:58
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has condemned in the strongest terms the attacks on a [...] Full text...

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Gaza is the ‘hungriest place on earth’, as Israel continues stranglehold on aid

30 may 2025 - 21:22:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained [...] Full text...

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Desperate hunger drives crowd to storm UN food warehouse in Gaza

30 may 2025 - 06:56:06
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Desperate hunger drove crowds of people to overrun a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Strikes on houses and tents responsible for over half of deaths this week

23 may 2025 - 05:25:59
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - More than half the people killed in Gaza over the past week were in shelters [...] Full text...

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Fostering core government bond market resilience: IMF Blog By Tobias Adrian, Kleopatra Nikolaou, Jason Wu

22 may 2025 - 08:20:34
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The smooth functioning of government bond markets is important for the safety and soundness [...] Full text...

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UN life-saving aid allowed to trickle into Gaza as needs mount

21 may 2025 - 05:23:40
New York, US (PANA) - Aid is trickling into Gaza after nearly three months of blockade, but it remains far [...] Full text...

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Gazans face hunger crisis as aid blockade nears two months

29 april 2025 - 08:12:27
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Surviving on one meal a day and stretching out rapidly dwindling food rations have become [...] Full text...

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Gaza: UN official warns of 'assault on dignity' as blockade cripples humanitarian response

27 april 2025 - 13:54:46
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The coming days in Gaza are set to be critical, the UN warned on Saturday, [...] Full text...

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‘Every piece tells a story’: Bombs to beauty, from Gaza to Ukraine

04 april 2025 - 17:54:34
Kiev. Ukraine (PANA) - What happens to bombs after they land? Some explode. Some don’t, leaving behind a deadly legacy [...] Full text...

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DRC: Outbreaks of infectious diseases due to depletion of stocks due to budget cuts

30 march 2025 - 06:44:39
Goma, DRC (PANA) - The near-total depletion of medical supplies, due to budget cuts and blocked access, is leading to [...] Full text...

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DR Congo emergency: Next 24 hours are critical, warn UN agencies

28 january 2025 - 17:52:28
Kinshasa, DR C (PANA) - The latest reports from Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from UN [...] Full text...

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Ceasefire puts life into Gaza humanitarian situation

23 january 2025 - 14:25:45
Gaza, Palestine (PANA) - A surge of supplies has entered Gaza since the beginning of the ceasefire, enabling an increase [...] Full text...

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Gaza war: UN World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on aid convoy

07 january 2025 - 07:54:27
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Israeli airstrikes continued across Gaza overnight into Monday, while the UN World Food Programme (WFP) [...] Full text...

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UN continues to call for timely Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon

05 january 2025 - 06:30:21
New York, US (PANA) - Operations by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) north of the UN-monitored Blue Line in southern [...] Full text...

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UN food agency halts operations in Gaza after team attacked

29 august 2024 - 06:09:44
New York, US (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Wednesday a pause in the movement of its [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Latest evacuation orders leave civilians dangerously close to frontline

21 august 2024 - 19:58:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - “Continuous” Israeli military evacuation orders in Gaza threaten already extremely vulnerable people in the enclave with [...] Full text...

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Humanitarian charity publishes on-the-record update on Gaza situation

06 august 2024 - 07:08:33
Deir al-Balah, Palestine (PANA) - It is a massive challenge to balance operational necessity and aid workers’ personal safety in [...] Full text...

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Libyan Prime Minister condoles Chadian President over victims of explosion at ammunition warehouse in N'Djamena

20 june 2024 - 18:46:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - During a telephone conversation with the Chadian President, Mahamat Idriss Déby, the Libyan Prime Minister of [...] Full text...

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Sudan war: Situation deteriorating in Sudan's El Fasher - UN

26 may 2024 - 05:42:30
New York, US (PANA) - The humanitarian situation for some 800,000 civilians in El Fasher, Sudan, and surrounding areas in [...] Full text...

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Gaza war: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah

19 may 2024 - 05:21:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Roughly 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched a military operation in [...] Full text...

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Kenya aims to begin vaccine manufacturing in 2027

15 may 2024 - 17:10:43
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenya will begin the mass production of vaccines, mostly those required for routine immunization and would [...] Full text...

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Gaza war: As exodus from Rafah continues, ceasefire calls grow

10 may 2024 - 11:09:14
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - With no let-up in the Israeli military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah into Friday [...] Full text...

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Gaza war: Patients in Rafah ‘afraid to seek services’, WHO reports

08 may 2024 - 06:47:52
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has taken “crucial steps” in the event of a large-scale Israeli [...] Full text...

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Targeting Rafah could lead to slaughter, warns UN aid agency

04 may 2024 - 07:25:13
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An Israeli military operation in Rafah “could lead to a slaughter” and cripple lifesaving humanitarian work [...] Full text...

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Sudan war: Paris conference on Sudan should jump-start new approach to humanitarian funding

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...

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Gaza war: Widespread destruction across Khan Younis as Gazans ‘struggle to survive’

12 april 2024 - 04:53:28
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - People in Gaza are struggling to survive, said the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian [...] Full text...

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Gaza war: Aid worker killings prompt temporary halt to UN operations after dark

04 april 2024 - 05:30:57
New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarians in Gaza have suspended operations at night for at least 48 hours in response to [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Bring coup mongers To justice, Defence Minister orders Defence Intelligence Agency

08 march 2024 - 18:11:15
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Matawalle, has directed the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) [...] Full text...

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Libyan PM orders increase in fuel supplies to the south after protests shut down crucial oilfield

08 january 2024 - 11:43:37
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba has ordered the state oil marketing company, Brega, to increase [...] Full text...

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Sudan conflict: WFP condemns looting at warehouse

29 december 2023 - 05:29:23
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the looting of life-saving food supplies from its [...] Full text...

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Mauritius to grant USD 50,000 to Seychelles, USD 25,000 to Morrocco

11 december 2023 - 15:03:03
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius government will grant financial assistance to the tune of USD 50,000 to the Seychelles, [...] Full text...

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Israel-Gaza crisis: UN chief calls on Israel to ‘spare civilians from more suffering’ in Gaza

05 december 2023 - 05:50:10
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated his call for a sustained humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza [...] Full text...

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Israel-Gaza crisis: Gaza City a ‘ghost town’, reports UN aid agency

29 november 2023 - 21:11:36
Cairo, Egypt (PAA) - Amid hopes of a deal to extend the pause in fighting in Gaza between Israel and [...] Full text...

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Israel-Gaza: Vital aid reaches shattered north as halt to fighting enters fourth day

27 november 2023 - 14:53:46
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Desperate Gazans in the north of the enclave had their first sip of clean water in [...] Full text...

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Fire, explosion hit ammunition depot in Libyya, but no casualties reported

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...

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Israel-Gaza crisis: Thousands in Gaza storm UN warehouses; a sign of desperation after weeks-long ‘siege’

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...

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Reunification of Libyan army, departure of mercenaries discussed at meeting in Benghazi

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...

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AfDB approves $23.04 million for modern Floating Dock Facility in Ghana

21 june 2023 - 07:50:00
Takoradi, Ghana (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a US$23.04 million loan [...] Full text...

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Libyan authorities urged by UNSMIL to end mass arbitrary detention of migrants

12 june 2023 - 15:23:31
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Mission of Support in Libya (UNSMIL) has called on the Libyan authorities to [...] Full text...

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Libya's missing uranium found

16 march 2023 - 20:46:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The missing uranium in Libya has been found in the south of the country, the general [...] Full text...

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Ethiopian crisis: Tigray authorities deny fuel raid as hostilities resume amid humanitarian crisis

25 august 2022 - 22:04:46
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Tigray authorities on Thursday denied raiding 12 fuel tankers from a World Food Program [...] Full text...

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Drought, hunger and fighting leave Ethiopia in ‘very difficult humanitarian situation’ : UN

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...

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Kenyans prepare to vote new President (News Analysis by Kennedy Abwao, PANA correspondent)

04 august 2022 - 13:15:56
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyans are preparing to vote on 9 August 2022 to elect President Uhuru Kenyatta's successor and [...] Full text...

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US donates US$29.5 million to WFP in Mozambique

15 june 2022 - 05:46:54
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) – The US Government on Tuesday announced a US$29.5 million donation to support the UN World Food [...] Full text...

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Tunis and Rome reach agreement on reshipment of Italian waste to Italy

15 february 2022 - 16:11:10
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia and Italy have signed an institutional cooperation agreement on the reshipment on 19 February of [...] Full text...

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Libya bans date imports from 1 March

04 february 2022 - 11:09:43
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The import of dates has been banned in Libya as of 1 March, the Minister of [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: U.S. delivers 3.2 million Pfizer vaccines to Nigeria

19 january 2022 - 06:52:09
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The United States has delivered 3.2 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria, the U.S. Mission in [...] Full text...

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Guterres condemns looting of UN facilities in Sudan

31 december 2021 - 07:42:44
New York, US (PANA) - The UN chief has condemned the looting and attacks against United Nations facilities, equipment and [...] Full text...

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Libyan PM chairs meeting with Brega Oil Company on gasoline supply to the South

18 november 2021 - 19:44:35
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, on Thursday visited the headquarters of Brega Oil Marketing Company in [...] Full text...

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Libyan presidential council member meets southern mayors on fuel, gas shortage

07 november 2021 - 18:27:08
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Vice President of the Libyan Presidential Council Moussa Al-Kouni on Sunday discussed with the mayors of [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Pandemic affects, challenges South Africa’s retail industry

20 july 2021 - 15:34:27
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, South African retail food sales totalled US$ [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Army arrests 2 Boko Haram logistics suppliers in northern Nigeria, confiscate supplies

29 may 2021 - 18:43:37
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Army says its troops, under Sector 2, Operation HADIN KAI, on Saturday raided another [...] Full text...

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UN report says Libya arms embargo 'remains totally ineffective'

17 march 2021 - 07:46:41
New York, US (PANA) - A report by a UN-appointed Panel of Experts on Libya has identified multiple acts that threatened [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Mauritius records eight new local, nine imported cases

07 march 2021 - 09:50:39
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Health authorities in Mauritius said on Saturday that eight new local and nine imported cases of [...] Full text...

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Heavy rains caused by Cyclone Eloise recede in parts of southern Africa

27 january 2021 - 08:58:53
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The low pressure area caused by Tropical Cyclone Eloise has moved south-west and is close [...] Full text...

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Tunisia condoles with Libya after 3 die in naval academy explosion in Tripoli

20 january 2021 - 23:53:42
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia Wednesday offered its condolences to the Libyan government and the families of victims of an [...] Full text...

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Three killed in Tripoli Naval Academy explosion

20 january 2021 - 10:34:32
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Three people were killed and four others injured on Tuesday evening in an explosion during a [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Military says its troops killed 5 Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in Northeast region

29 november 2020 - 19:51:45
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Armed Forces of Nigeria on Sunday said troops of Operation FIRE BALL, a subsidiary operation [...] Full text...

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UN Humanitarian Coordinator condemns killing of Eritrean refugee in Libya

12 november 2020 - 11:18:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya, Yacoub El Hillo, has "strongly" condemned the murder of a [...] Full text...

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EU gives Congo more than one billion Euros for agro-pastoral groupings

21 october 2020 - 21:41:57
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The European Union (EU) ambassador in Congo, Raul Mateus Paula, said here Tuesday his organisation would [...] Full text...

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Mauritius Revenue Authority seizes synthetic drugs from France

02 october 2020 - 13:23:32
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) on Friday seized 50.88 grams of synthetic drugs 'cannabinoid', worth Rs 763,200 [...] Full text...

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WFP strengthens Congo's storage capacities with 4 mobile warehouses

16 september 2020 - 17:16:48
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Representative of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Congo, Jean-Martin Bauer, on Tuesday handed over [...] Full text...

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Four Burkinabe wounded in Beirut explosions

06 august 2020 - 22:54:01
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe government Thursday announced that four Burkinabe nationals were wounded following the explosion on [...] Full text...

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Tunisia sends first aid to Lebanon after deadly blast

06 august 2020 - 12:21:32
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A Tunisian military plane carrying first aid for Lebanon took off on Thursday morning for the [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Ramaphosa addresses Beirut tragedy

05 august 2020 - 17:46:54
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday addressed Beirut’s horrific explosion, saying South Africa's thoughts and [...] Full text...

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Tunisia expresses support with Lebanon after deadly explosion in Beirut

05 august 2020 - 08:43:32
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian presidency has expressed support for Lebanon following a huge explosion in Beirut that killed [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Nigeria receives $8m from ECOWAS health organisation for pandemic fight

12 july 2020 - 09:52:57
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The federal government Saturday took delivery of $8million medical equipment from the Economic Community of West [...] Full text...

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COCOBOD, partners celebrate first US$200 million loan disbursement to boost cocoa productivity in Ghana

26 june 2020 - 18:20:15
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and lenders have welcomed the first disbursement of US$200 million of [...] Full text...

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Mauritius to develop five-year strategic plan for the health sector

10 june 2020 - 08:11:57
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Kailesh Jagutpal, on Tuesday said that a five-year strategic [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Military airstrikes kills four bandits, destroy their logistics warehouse in Zamfara State

31 may 2020 - 17:27:44
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Armed Forces on Sunday said that Nigerian Air Force (NAF) airstrikes destroyed a bandits’ [...] Full text...

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UN Humanitarian Coordinator calls for killers of 30 migrants in Libya to be brought to justice

30 may 2020 - 13:08:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Libya, Yacoub El Hillo, has denounced the shooting of illegal migrants [...] Full text...

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Old man wounded, warehouse of electoral commission destroyed in bombardments in Tripoli

15 may 2020 - 23:33:14
Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  -  An old man was wounded and a warehouse containing electoral material was damaged by rockets fired [...] Full text...

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Libyan oil company 'regrets' burning of four aviation fuel tanks in Maitigua airport bombing

10 may 2020 - 14:32:53
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) announced on Saturday evening that four aviation fuel tanks were [...] Full text...

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New shelling targets districts in Tripoli

09 may 2020 - 14:58:50
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -  New rocket fire on Saturday targeted residential areas near Maitigua airport in the eastern suburbs of [...] Full text...

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HCR takes assistance to flood victims in eastern DRC

21 april 2020 - 22:14:32
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) -  The UN Hight Commission for Refugees (HCR) Tuesday presented assorted emergency items to flood victims [...] Full text...

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Deadlock in Libya's political, military situation continues (News analysis by Youssef Ba, PANA correspondent)

13 april 2020 - 12:46:58
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The deadlock in Libya's political process following the resignation of the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative, Ghassan [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe moves to combat COVID-19

01 april 2020 - 16:32:59
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) has invoked public procurement systems to respond to the [...] Full text...

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Mauritius is not short of basic commodities - Minister

09 march 2020 - 18:31:28
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Minister of Commerce and Consumer Protection, Mr Yogida Sawmynaden, on Monday said “there is [...] Full text...

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Libyan GNA forces destroy second ammunition storage of Haftar’s forces near Tripoli

08 march 2020 - 18:35:42
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan army loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA) on Sunday announced the destruction [...] Full text...

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Liquefied gas tank in Tripoli hit by shell fire, says NOC

21 february 2020 - 11:07:12
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A liquefied oil gas tank in the Brega Oil Products Marketing Company's warehouse on the airport [...] Full text...

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Security guard injured in attack on fuel storage near Tripoli

17 january 2020 - 12:59:53
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A security officer at an oil facility was injured on Thursday evening when several shells fell [...] Full text...

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Three civilians killed as Haftar's fighter jet bombs southern Tripoli

01 january 2020 - 18:11:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Three people were killed in al-Sawani region south of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, due to bombing [...] Full text...

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Mauritius Revenue Authority seizes 360 grams of heroin at DHL courier warehouse

13 december 2019 - 14:55:40
Port Louis, Mauritius, (PANA) - The Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) on Tuesday seized 360 grams of heroin worth Rs 5.4 [...] Full text...

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Bulldozer driver dies in explosion of oil pipeline in western Libya

03 december 2019 - 21:32:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  - The driver of a bulldozer died in a fire that broke out while digging near an [...] Full text...

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NOC calls for cessation of clashes in Tripoli after shell falls on gas warehouse

19 november 2019 - 13:57:13
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) has called for  immediate cessation of clashes and for all [...] Full text...

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Artificial intelligence lags behind in Botswana while cyber crime soars

15 november 2019 - 15:06:32
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The global technology landscape is growing at an exceedingly great extent, with fraud and identity theft [...] Full text...

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Armed clashes target drug warehouses in Ain Zara, south of Tripoli

04 november 2019 - 17:55:14
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Armed clashes continued on Monday on the outskirts of Tripoli at a faster pace, illustrating the [...] Full text...

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Precarious calm prevails on war fronts near Tripoli after Saturday’s clashes

22 september 2019 - 16:43:47
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Precarious calm prevailed on Sunday on the different frontlines in southern Tripoli after fierce fighting on [...] Full text...

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Power relay station hit by shell in Tripoli War damaged by fire

02 september 2019 - 12:04:15
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan General Electricity Company (GECOL) announced on Monday that fire caused by a shell that [...] Full text...

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Mali acquires safe central drug storage in Bamako

06 august 2019 - 14:45:55
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali has acquired a safe drug warehouse thanks to cooperation with the United States, the Ministry [...] Full text...

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UN Chief pledges UN support during visit to cyclone-hit areas in Mozambique

13 july 2019 - 08:19:18
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Determined children learning in classes without roofs, resilient women farming without tools or much land, and [...] Full text...

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95 kilos of cocaine seized in Mauritius

11 july 2019 - 22:26:47
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA)   -   The Mauritius Police Anti-Drug Brigade Wednesday evening seized in Pailles, a suburb of the capital, [...] Full text...

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Air Zimbabwe partner’s Botswana’s Mack Air to boost domestic and regional flights

04 july 2019 - 14:15:28
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Air Zimbabwe has partnered a Botswana- based air charter airline, Mack Air, for daily and regional [...] Full text...

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Zimbabwe gov't, parastatals owe TelOne US$93 million

29 june 2019 - 17:33:41
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - TelOne Zimbabwe, one of government's leading telecommunication parastatals, is owed US$93 million from government and other [...] Full text...

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Five employees of Libyan oil company fall victims of armed robbery

22 june 2019 - 12:52:37
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Five employees of oil company Akakus, owned by the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC), were robbed [...] Full text...

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Kenyan commodities exchange to market minerals, agricultural produce

19 june 2019 - 17:06:34
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenya has completed the drafting of regulations to guide the process of launching an international commodities [...] Full text...

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Libyan National Oil Corporation warehouse destroyed in air strike

19 june 2019 - 10:55:51
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A warehouse of the Mellita Oil and Gas Company, owned by the Libyan Oil Corporation (NOC), [...] Full text...

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Zimbabwe's Agricultural sector requires US$1,2 billion in yearly funding

19 april 2019 - 15:16:09
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe needs US$1,2 billion in yearly funding to effectively support the agricultural sector towards growth, a [...] Full text...

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Children at imminent risk of injury or death as fighting in Libya escalates

19 april 2019 - 07:13:12
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - In and around Tripoli, an increasing number of children are “at imminent risk of injury or [...] Full text...

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President Issoufou lays foundation stone for Oil Tower in Niamey

16 april 2019 - 16:44:22
Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Nigerien president, Issoufou Mahamadou, on Monday laid the foundation stone for the building of the Pipeline [...] Full text...

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US releases an additional US$2,5 million in Cyclone Idai relief aid to Zimbabwe

04 april 2019 - 07:16:05
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The United States has provided an additional US$2.5 million to respond to emergency needs in Zimbabwe [...] 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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Over 72.77 million voters to participate in Saturday's presidential polls in Nigeria

21 february 2019 - 20:44:54
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s central electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Thursday said that the total [...] Full text...

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DR Congo electoral commission postpones voting in 3 cities until March 2019

26 december 2018 - 13:12:25
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Electoral Commission (CENI) of DR Congo on Wednesday announced the postponement of next Sunday's [...] Full text...

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UN Security Council urges continuous dialogue, transparency in DR Congo

23 december 2018 - 18:33:53
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations Security Council has called for continuous dialogue and transparency with all political [...] Full text...

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Amnesty International urges DR Congo authorities to uphold right to peaceful protests

23 december 2018 - 06:46:55
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Human rights organisation Amnesty International is calling on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) [...] Full text...

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DR Congo presidential election postponed to 30 December

20 december 2018 - 18:10:55
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The authorities in DRC have postponed Sunday's presidential election to 30 December, according to media reports. The [...] Full text...

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‘Excessive use of force’ in campaign must be avoided in DRC polls, says Bachelet

14 december 2018 - 21:21:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Deadly pre-election violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sparked by police reportedly firing [...] Full text...

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Central warehouse of DRC's Electoral Commission gutted by fire

13 december 2018 - 14:15:09
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Fire on Thursday gutted one of the central warehouses of DR Congo's Independent National Electoral [...] Full text...

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UN food relief agency airlifts aid to DR Congo province hit by Ebola outbreak

30 august 2018 - 18:13:24
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Emergency food aid is being delivered to people affected by the Ebola virus in the eastern [...] Full text...

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AfDB's work in agric. reduces poverty in eastern Côte d’Ivoire (An AfDB Feature)

17 august 2018 - 13:42:00
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is ramping up the pace of its work in the [...] Full text...

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Ballot papers for Sierra Leone polls arrive

27 february 2018 - 16:33:02
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission (NEC) on Tuesday took delivery of ballot papers for the [...] Full text...

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Rwanda: Parliament discusses draft law on warehousing receipt system in Rwanda

25 september 2017 - 17:12:41
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's Parliament on Monday started considering a draft law that would regulate warehouse receipt system as [...] Full text...

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Ghana: 'Ghana’s Northern Rural Growth Programme is transforming agriculture' - AfDB

06 july 2017 - 14:17:52
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana has continued to show steady improvements in economic growth of over 7% per year on [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Scores injured as gas tanker explodes in Ghana factory

09 may 2017 - 18:23:50
Takoradi, Ghana (PANA) - Scores of people have been treated in health facilities in Ghana's western seaport of Takoradi on [...] Full text...

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South Sudan: WFP 'outraged and heartbroken' by killing of three workers in South Sudan city

14 april 2017 - 17:50:06
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) – Expressing “horror” at the killing of three workers contracted by its office in Wau, South [...] Full text...

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Sudan: "Save the Children" condemns looting of its compound, warehouse in S. Sudan

28 february 2017 - 14:15:09
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International charity organization, Save the Children, said its food and supply stores in a South [...] Full text...

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France: Global scale of food fraud highlighted in INTERPOL-Europol report

27 october 2016 - 11:34:05
Lyon, France (PANA) – The final results from the joint INTERPOL-Europol operation Opson V targeting counterfeit food and drink have [...] Full text...

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UN: UN humanitarian chief urges South Sudanese parties to work together for peace

02 august 2016 - 22:06:51
New York, US (PANA) - UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien on Tuesday called on all actors in South Sudan, [...] Full text...

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UN: Ban welcomes new agreement with Inter Parliamentary Union

22 july 2016 - 05:55:39
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon late on Thursday in New York signed a new partnership agreement [...] Full text...

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UN: UNHCR says thousands flee to Uganda from South Sudan

20 july 2016 - 05:45:42
New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says more than 5,000 people, primarily women and [...] Full text...

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Italy/FAO: 'Violence in South Sudan raises spectre of hunger catastrophe' - FAO

16 july 2016 - 13:21:41
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Millions of people facing hunger in South Sudan will be driven to the brink of catastrophe [...] Full text...

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South Sudan: UN orders relocation of non-critical staff; WFP warehouse looted

15 july 2016 - 06:04:11
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations has ordered the temporary relocation of some non-critical staff from Juba, South [...] Full text...

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Rwanda: Rwanda's largest maize processing plant razed by fire

06 april 2016 - 15:44:23
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's largest maize processing plant, located at Mururu, a small village near the border with the [...] Full text...

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Botswana: US closes trade hub in Southern Africa bloc

09 march 2016 - 18:48:16
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – US government-funded Southern Africa Trade Hub based in Botswana, crafted to increase international competitiveness, intra-regional trade [...] Full text...

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Burkina Faso: Burkina soldiers ready to counter terrorist attacks - Minister

04 february 2016 - 16:22:05
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso has deployed a strong military system along its borders ready to wipe out [...] Full text...

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UN: WFP delivers relief supplies to displaced Libyans in western region

21 may 2015 - 15:49:40
New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday said 10 trucks carrying vital relief supplies [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Media report fire at drugs warehouse, suspension of commissioner of human rights

17 january 2015 - 06:17:03
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A huge fire that razed the warehouse of the Central Medical Stores of the Ghana Health [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Ghana says huge fire at warehouse consumes US$80 milion worth of medicines

14 january 2015 - 19:35:41
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A huge fire that started on Tuesday at the Central Medical Stores of the Ministry of [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Fire sweeps through Ghana's main drug warehouse

13 january 2015 - 19:52:19
Tema, Ghana (PANA) - Fire on Tuesday swept through the main warehouse of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) consuming a [...] Full text...

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UN: UN Ebola response warehouse in Guinea back in operation after fire incident

25 december 2014 - 08:11:56
New York US (PANA) - The UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) says a main UN logistics hub managed [...] Full text...

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UN: UN report warns of human rights violations in Libya

23 december 2014 - 18:44:25
New York, US (PANA) - A new UN human rights report on Tuesday warned that Libyan civilians have been subject [...] Full text...

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UN: Fire guts UN warehouse in Guinea with Ebola Response supplies

19 december 2014 - 04:53:37
New York, US (PANA) - Fire on Thursday engulfed a UN warehouse in Guinea that contained medicines and laboratory materials [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Opposition party calls invasion of its offices, worst political scandal in Nigeria

23 november 2014 - 11:08:39
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned Saturday's invasion of its offices in Lagos [...] Full text...

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Malawi: Ruling party loses seat in Parliament

28 october 2014 - 20:43:53
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The High Court in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, on Tuesday struck a blow to the ruling [...] Full text...

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Ethiopia: Africa aims to use agric to halve poverty by 2025 (Special Report by Kennedy Abwao, PANA Correspondent, Addis Ababa)

20 october 2014 - 10:25:44
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Boaz Blackie Keizire, a top agricultural strategist at the African Union (AU), glances at his [...] Full text...

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UN: UNHCR sends relief materials to Libyans

18 august 2014 - 18:43:10
New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday said for the first time, [...] Full text...

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Malawi: Running battles in Malawi capital as vendors protest burnt market

30 july 2014 - 13:56:04
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Tension was high in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, Wednesday following the running battles between police and [...] Full text...

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Rwanda: AGRA, CTA sign MOU to promote use of ICT across value chains

22 july 2014 - 20:30:39
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and [...] Full text...

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Malawi: Mysterious fire guts electoral body warehouse as recount fight rages on

15 july 2014 - 13:04:32
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - A mysterious fire in the wee hours of Tuesday gutted a Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse [...] Full text...

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Rwanda: East Africa Exchange launched

04 july 2014 - 13:37:54
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The East Africa Exchange (EAX), a commodity exchange, was launched Thursday at the 6th Northern Corridor [...] Full text...

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Rwanda: Ecobank, eleni commodity exchange in deal to boost Africa’s farming

22 may 2014 - 11:42:49
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - In a bid to promote the development of Africa’s agriculture industry, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) and [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Bloomberg to invest US$250m in storage of Nigeria's farm produce

13 may 2014 - 15:43:05
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – As Nigeria moves to reduce post-harvest losses in the country, an American company, Bloomberg, says it [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Jonathan commissions Police peacekeeping centre

08 april 2014 - 20:43:33
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Dr Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday commissioned the Nigeria Police Force International Peacekeeping Centre and [...] Full text...

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Sudan: ICRC staff member killed in Darfur

21 march 2014 - 12:36:15
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A staffer of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was killed in Darfur, Sudan's [...] Full text...

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Somalia: New initiative enables Somali farmers to produce high-quality food

07 march 2014 - 14:01:51
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - For the first time, Somali farmers are turning themselves into suppliers of high-quality food assistance [...] Full text...

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US: New American Embassy for Chad

27 february 2014 - 07:50:07
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has announced the award for the construction of a new Embassy in the [...] Full text...

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63,000 civilians flee to UN bases in South Sudan

28 december 2013 - 17:27:53
New York, US (PANA) - Some 63,000 civilians have now sought refuge in UN bases in South Sudan, as the [...] Full text...

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African Exchange Holdings delivers on new warehousing project in Nigeria

19 november 2013 - 11:51:01
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Assessing their new warehousing project, which enables Nigerian farmers, cooperatives and traders to safely store their [...] Full text...

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7th ECOWAS Fair opens

31 october 2013 - 20:35:14
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Ghana’s Trade and Industry Minister Haruna Iddrisu on Thursday opened the 7th Economic Community of West [...] Full text...

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AFEX, Nigerian govt. sign MOU on warehouse project for farmers

05 september 2013 - 12:30:41
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Pan African firm, African Exchange Holdings Company (AFEX), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) [...] Full text...

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Four foreign nationals 'arrested' over military-grade weapons in Nigeria

30 may 2013 - 09:21:46
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military has arrested four foreigners, suspected to be from the Middle East, in the [...] Full text...

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Death toll in SA, Mozambique flood rises to 69

29 january 2013 - 10:53:40
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The death toll in the flooding that has ravaged South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga [...] Full text...

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Explosion rocks fuel depot in Lagos, injures 4

09 january 2013 - 17:50:05
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A fuel depot owned by independent oil marketing company, MRS, in Apapa, in the port area [...] Full text...

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Over 15 houses on fire after Lagos explosion (1st Update)

26 december 2012 - 12:58:04
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More than 15 houses were set on fire and an unspecified number of people injured Wednesday [...] Full text...

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Developing Story: Firecracker warehouse explodes in Lagos

26 december 2012 - 11:37:48
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A warehouse packed with firecrackers has exploded in Nigeria's economic capital city of Lagos, but casualty [...] Full text...

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Faulty auxilliary power unit forces aircraft to make emergency landing in Nigeria

17 october 2012 - 15:05:44
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Management of Nigeria's second largest domestic airline, Aero Contractors, said Wednesday that a faulty Auxiliary [...] Full text...

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Over 3,000 Congolese flee to Uganda to escape fighting

28 september 2012 - 08:34:30
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency said fighting between rebel fighters and a militia group in eastern Democratic [...] Full text...

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Eight civilians killed, 1,000 displaced by floods in Darfur

13 august 2012 - 17:04:44
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least eight civilians were killed and hundreds of others displaced when heavy rains and flash [...] Full text...

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Free Trade Zones are catalysts for development, says Nigerian minister

04 august 2012 - 11:45:11
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has pledged its readiness to work with other countries to ensure the successful take [...] Full text...

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Japan to invest in agric, health sectors in Angolan province

18 june 2012 - 14:38:12
Luena, Angola (PANA) – Japan intends to invest in the agricultural and health sectors in the Angolan eastern Moxico province, [...] Full text...

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UN launches massive airlift to aid refugees in South Sudan

21 december 2011 - 18:33:38
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency has launched a massive airlift from Kenya to take urgently needed aid [...] Full text...

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Kenyan newspaper group warns about threats to journalists

10 december 2011 - 15:33:12
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan media group has voiced concerns over the safety of three of its journalists who [...] Full text...

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Two Spaniards jailed in Mali for murder

09 november 2011 - 21:59:15
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A Bamako court on Tuesday jailed two Spanish citizens, Aquilino Sousa Meranda and Miguel Angel Devesa [...] Full text...

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African exchange to facilitate smooth flow of commodities

15 august 2011 - 23:21:48
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The African Commodity and Futures Exchange (ACFEX) is taking significant steps to facilitate the smooth flow [...] Full text...

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Malawi begins prosecution of protesters

26 july 2011 - 15:27:14
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - At least 250 people have appeared in various courts in Malawi for their roles in last [...] Full text...

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WFP gives food assistance to 26,500 people in Southern Sudan

16 june 2011 - 15:49:53
New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday said that food assistance has reached more [...] Full text...

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Gambia's narcotic officials say court overburdened with drug cases

01 june 2011 - 17:02:53
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's anti-drugs agency has said that the country's narcotics court in the capital, Banjul, is overburdened [...] Full text...

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Mali reroutes goods to Dakar port following war in Cote d'Ivoire

21 april 2011 - 15:34:15
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Ivorian conflict has caused the rerouting of of Malian goods through Dakar instead of the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's 2011 budget passed

16 march 2011 - 18:39:14
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The two chambers of the Nigerian national assembly -- the Senate and the House of representatives [...] Full text...

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UNHCR steps up aid delivery to Liberia as Ivorian refugees top 22,000

06 january 2011 - 17:31:53
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - With the number of registered Ivorian refugees in Liberia topping 22,000 this week, UNHCR is about [...] Full text...

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Nigerian investigators to interview suspect in weapons shipment

12 november 2010 - 13:24:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian investigators have been given access to an Iran ian who has is believed to be [...] Full text...

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State Security Services says imported arms destined for Nigeria

10 november 2010 - 18:03:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's State Security Services (SSS) has shrugged off insinuations and claims suggesting that the arms-baring ship, [...] Full text...

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Death toll in Ghana port fire rises to four

26 september 2010 - 16:58:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The death toll in a fire that broke out Saturday at Ghana's eastern sea port of [...] Full text...

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3 burnt to death in Ghana port fire

26 september 2010 - 08:18:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- No fewer than three people were burnt to death in a fire t hat broke out [...] Full text...

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Guinea PM laments upsurge in crime

19 september 2010 - 16:22:00
Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Guinean Prime Minister, Jean Marie Dore, has condemned the upsurge in crime in Conakry, the Guinean [...] Full text...

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Gambian security operatives seize two tons of cocaine

08 june 2010 - 20:12:00
Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Gambian security operatives have arrested several suspected drug barons operating in the tiny West African country, [...] Full text...

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EC donation to support emergency food programme in Ethiopia

20 april 2010 - 12:55:00
Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday welc omed a generous donation of US$23 [...] Full text...

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FAO-designed scheme boosts Nigerien famers' income

12 april 2010 - 19:42:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- An ingenious financing scheme, designed by the FAO to al low African smallholder farmers to make [...] Full text...

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ActionAid provides emergency aid for 20,000 people in Haiti

20 january 2010 - 09:19:00
Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- International aid agency ActionAid said it had started d istributing emergency food and medicines in Port-au-Prince, [...] Full text...

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20 tonnes of 'expired' milk seized in Cape Verde

14 january 2010 - 07:14:00
Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- The Cape Verdean General Inspectorate for Economic Ac tivities (IGAE) has seized more than 20 [...] Full text...

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AI report indicts Nigeria Police over unlawful killings

09 december 2009 - 14:05:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- A new report released by Amnesty International (AI) in N igeria's capital city of Abuja Wednesday [...] Full text...

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