Gambia confirms migrant boat capsize, seven dead, dozens rescued

01 january 2026 - 19:15:54
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)– The Gambian government has confirmed a tragic maritime incident involving a boat reportedly carrying more than 200 [...] Full text...

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Gambian President calls for 'ethical politics' as country enters election year

01 january 2026 - 12:27:06
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Gambian President Adama Barrow has called for peace, unity, and restraint ahead of the 2026 presidential [...] Full text...

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Afghanistan to remain major crisis in 2026, UN, partners warn

31 december 2025 - 15:20:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Afghanistan is expected to remain one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises in 2026, UN agencies [...] Full text...

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Gambia: Jinak emerges as key ‘backway’ departure point to Europe

26 december 2025 - 18:29:38
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Jinak, a coastal settlement in The Gambia’s Niumi area, North Bank Region, has become a major [...] Full text...

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Over 190 feared dead as migrant boat sinks

25 december 2025 - 18:34:04
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)  - The United Democratic Party (UDP) has expressed deep sorrow over confirmed reports that a migrants’ boat [...] Full text...

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Sudan war: Kordofan’s El-Obeid ‘one or two steps’ away from being attacked

19 december 2025 - 16:29:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As fighting escalates in Sudan, “people are scared, people are fleeing their homes”, the UN migration [...] Full text...

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Intensifying hostilities in Sudan bring new displacement, more casualties

17 december 2025 - 05:27:02
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The situation across Sudan’s Kordofan region is rapidly worsening, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) has [...] Full text...

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UN peacekeepers targeted in Sudan, Central African Republic targeted

16 december 2025 - 08:26:19
Bangui, CAR (PANA) - In two days, six UN peacekeepers were killed and eleven others wounded in attacks in Sudan [...] Full text...

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Can dialogue heal a fractured world? A UN-led alliance is making the case

12 december 2025 - 15:10:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As 2025 draws to a close, geopolitical divides are deepening – North and South, East and [...] Full text...

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UN Human Rights Office in 'survival mode', says rights chief

11 december 2025 - 08:02:41
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As human rights violations in conflict-affected areas around the world increase, the UN Office of Human [...] Full text...

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EC clinches deal on EU law about returns of illegally staying third-country nationals

08 december 2025 - 13:25:38
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Monday finalised its position on an EU law to speed up and [...] Full text...

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Migration and asylum: EU member states agree on solidarity pool

08 december 2025 - 11:22:27
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Council on Monday reached a political agreement on the establishment of the annual solidarity [...] Full text...

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Sudan and Libyan officials discuss situation of refugees and migrants

07 december 2025 - 13:07:31
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Interior Minister, Babiker Samra Mustafa, held talks on Saturday with his Libyan counterpart [...] Full text...

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A fragile peace, a harsh winter: Gaza’s families struggle to rebuild

06 december 2025 - 08:17:08
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Nearly two months after the latest ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on 10 October, a [...] Full text...

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EU Council and Parliament strike deal to reinforce rules on trade preferences to developing countries

02 december 2025 - 06:49:09
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators reached a provisional agreement on the revised [...] Full text...

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Every step a struggle:’ Nigerian woman with disabilities leads push for dignity and inclusion

30 november 2025 - 15:31:14
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA)  - A woman living with disabilities in a camp for displaced people in Nigeria is demonstrating why [...] Full text...

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UN envoy to press for Sudan dialogue

28 november 2025 - 07:40:16
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Sudan, Ramtane Lamamra, is preparing to travel to Port [...] Full text...

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Countries, experts agree on 10-year Africa Health Workforce Agenda

27 november 2025 - 10:39:29
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - African countries have reached consensus on the priority actions, commitments and milestones that will shape [...] Full text...

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Africa and Europe can shape a fairer global system - Guterres

25 november 2025 - 05:30:53
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General says the world is shifting fast towards a multipolar system – where power is [...] Full text...

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“One Partnership. One Future” (op-ed article by EU President António Costa and President Ursula von der Leyen)

24 november 2025 - 09:22:44
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - As Africa and Europe prepare for the 7th European Union–African Union Summit in Luanda, we stand [...] Full text...

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Silenced women in South Sudan now making their voices heard (By UN News)

23 november 2025 - 05:26:47
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Reprimanded for wanting to go to school as a young girl, then ignored and despised [...] Full text...

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One Sea, one Pact, one Future: EC approves conclusions on the pact for the Mediterranean

21 november 2025 - 10:37:57
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council has approved conclusions welcoming the pact for the Mediterranean, which coincides with the [...] Full text...

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More than 100,000 people forced to flee in one week in violence in northern Mozambique

19 november 2025 - 10:42:28
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - As coordinated attacks by non-state armed groups have intensified in some districts of Nampula province in [...] Full text...

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AU sustainable development chief calls for deepening of community-led conservation efforts in Botswana

18 november 2025 - 16:45:28
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – The sight of wild animals freely roaming the floodplains of the Chobe National Park in the [...] Full text...

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Ukraine faces ‘unprecedented housing crisis’

17 november 2025 - 15:02:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ukraine is facing what has been described as an “unprecedented housing crisis” three and a half [...] Full text...

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Ukraine faces ‘unprecedented housing crisis’

16 november 2025 - 18:21:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Ukraine is facing what has been described as an “unprecedented housing crisis” three and a half [...] Full text...

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‘When finance flows, ambition grows': COP30’s call for action

16 november 2025 - 07:26:35
Belém, Brazil (PANA) - In Belém, Brazil, as the world turns its eyes to the Amazon where COP30 has been [...] Full text...

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From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30

14 november 2025 - 07:53:02
Belém, Brazil (PANA) - Floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms are forcing millions from their homes every year. Most never cross [...] Full text...

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42 migrants missing in shipwreck off Libya coast

13 november 2025 - 08:46:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An inflatable boat that departed from Zuwara, in northwestern Libya, capsized on 3 November with about [...] Full text...

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Latest deadly shipwreck highlights need for safer migration

12 november 2025 - 19:03:27
Geneva, Switzerland - (PANA) - Forty-two people are missing and presumed dead following a shipwreck off Libya – the latest [...] Full text...

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IOM Chief warns of imminent catastrophe as displacement surges in North Darfur

11 november 2025 - 15:27:17
Port Sudan,Sudan (PANA)- The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Director General Amy Pope has warned that extreme insecurity and appalling [...] Full text...

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Humanitarian crisis in North Darfur worsens as violence spreads - OCHA

11 november 2025 - 07:01:45
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the crisis in Sudan’s [...] Full text...

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Holding on to home, as the ocean engulfs the Solomon Islands UN Feature

08 november 2025 - 18:27:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Morning light spreads over Sikaiana, a remote atoll in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific [...] Full text...

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AU, EU leaders to convene for 7th summit in Angola

07 november 2025 - 12:52:55
Addis Abba, Ethiopia (PANA) - The 7th AU–EU Summit will be held on 24–25 November 2025 in Luanda, Angola, bringing together Heads of State and Government from the [...] Full text...

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Battlefields to wastelands: UN warns conflicts are destroying ecosystems worldwide

07 november 2025 - 07:22:37
New York, US (PANA) - From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it [...] Full text...

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Sudan's paramilitary RSF agrees to humanitarian truce

06 november 2025 - 18:24:58
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has agreed to the humanitarian truce proposed by the [...] Full text...

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Sudan crisis: UN agencies race to aid civilians as violence engulfs El Fasher

06 november 2025 - 16:32:08
New York, US ( PANA) - UN agencies are stepping up relief operations to help civilians fleeing the escalating violence [...] Full text...

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Famine tightens grip on Sudan, with civilians trapped and aid blocked

03 november 2025 - 20:17:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Sudan’s hunger crisis has deepened further, with new UN-backed analysis confirming that famine is underway in [...] Full text...

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UN expert calls for urgent response on child trafficking in conflict situations

02 november 2025 - 07:31:29
New York, US (PANA) – Child victims of trafficking in conflict situations require urgent and specialised protection measures, according to [...] Full text...

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Sudan medical group, UN report massive displacement from Bara, rights violations

01 november 2025 - 04:52:51
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan Doctors Network (SDN) said on Friday that 4,500 people have been displaced from the [...] Full text...

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Tens of thousands fleeing on foot amid atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher

31 october 2025 - 18:09:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) = More details continued to emerge on Friday of atrocities committed during and after the fall of [...] Full text...

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Multilateralism can survive the loss of consensus (Danny Quah, Professor of Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, writes for F&D Magazine)

29 october 2025 - 07:44:05
Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Can adversarial nations work together for the common good? It’s natural to despair over prospects [...] Full text...

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‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan's El Fasher

29 october 2025 - 07:28:03
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - After 500 days of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have taken control of [...] Full text...

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IOM steps up Ebola and mpox preparedness across Africa

28 october 2025 - 05:20:08
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is scaling up its health response across Africa, responding swiftly to [...] Full text...

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UN warns Gaza’s displaced face freezing nights and food shortages

25 october 2025 - 05:57:27
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and its partners are accelerating deliveries of life-saving aid across Gaza, but relief [...] Full text...

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Nigeria takes action on behalf of internally displaced

24 october 2025 - 07:13:33
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has risen to the challenge and taken action to realise the UN Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on [...] Full text...

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Forty migrants, including children, perish in Tunisia shipwreck

24 october 2025 - 06:46:18
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A shipwreck off Tunisia that claimed the lives of at least 40 African migrants has once [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Millions pushed to ‘brink of survival’

23 october 2025 - 17:30:52
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Over 900 days of brutal conflict, widespread human rights violations, famine, and the collapse of essential [...] Full text...

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Libyan MPs attend General Assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union

22 october 2025 - 12:56:51
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Members of Parliament are attending the 151st Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) General Assembly and the 216th [...] Full text...

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Over one million return to Sudan's capital amid fragile recovery

22 october 2025 - 07:36:42
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - More than a million people have returned to Sudan’s war-ravaged capital in the past ten months, [...] Full text...

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People in Sudan's besieged El Fasher city remain trapped - UN

21 october 2025 - 07:18:49
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - People in Sudan's besieged El Fasher city in the west of the war-torn country remain trapped [...] Full text...

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Libyan MP participates in Inter-Parliamentary Union advisory group meeting on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism

20 october 2025 - 12:52:38
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The member of the House of Representatives in Libya (Parliament) and member of the High-level Advisory [...] Full text...

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‘No level of lead is safe’: WHO

18 october 2025 - 07:46:13
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Lead is found in many everyday products such as paint and cosmetics, but that doesn’t make [...] Full text...

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IOM repatriates 165 migrants from southern Libya to Burkina Faso

15 october 2025 - 13:10:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 165 migrants, including 17 families, were repatriated on a flight organised the International [...] Full text...

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Indirect disaster effects cost the world nearly $2 trillion per year, Guterres says on International Day

13 october 2025 - 19:09:57
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - From 1970 until 2000, the costs of disaster averaged $70-$80 billion. Those mainly preventable costs doubled [...] Full text...

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IOM facilitates first voluntary humanitarian return flight for Syrian migrants in Libya

10 october 2025 - 05:44:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has facilitated the voluntary return of 152 vulnerable Syrians from [...] 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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More people being forced to flee Sudan's besieged city

07 october 2025 - 08:01:22
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More people are being forced to flee their homes as fighting continues in El Fasher, Sudan, [...] Full text...

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AfDB and IOM sign MoU to harness migration for peace, development

05 october 2025 - 06:53:11
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The sixth Africa Resilience Forum concluded in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, with the signing of a [...] Full text...

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IOM Director General, Pope Leo call for urgent reform to protect migrants and end smugglers’ exploitation

04 october 2025 - 08:26:16
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Amy Pope, concluded a two-day visit [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Civilians in El Fasher trapped between siege and deadly roads

01 october 2025 - 07:33:38
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As fighting intensifies for control of El Fasher, one of the main cities in western [...] Full text...

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EU informed about new Libyan initiative to promote voluntary return of migrants

30 september 2025 - 11:16:12
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Head of the Border Guards and Chairman of the Technical Committee for the Surveillance of [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Khartoum returnees face shelter crisis, warns IOM

27 september 2025 - 06:32:18
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The ongoing war between rival militaries in Sudan has left vast areas devastated and people returning [...] Full text...

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Senior officials of 10 countries, UN meet on Libya

24 september 2025 - 06:58:59
New York, US (PANA) - Senior oficials of 10 countries and the United Nations have met on the margins of [...] Full text...

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All 11 West Africans deported to Ghana from US sent back home -Lawyer

23 september 2025 - 12:19:35
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - All 11 West Africans who had filed a legal action against the Ghana government to halt [...] Full text...

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IOM chief calls for stronger cooperation on migration at UN General Assembly

23 september 2025 - 07:56:32
New York, US (PANA) - As world leaders convene in New York for the High-Level Week of the 80th Session [...] Full text...

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US/Africa expulsion deals flout rights, says rights advocate

23 september 2025 - 05:39:27
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The United States' recent expulsions of third-country nationals to Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and South Sudan [...] Full text...

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Sudan crisis deepens: Violence, famine and cholera threaten millions in Darfur - UN

23 september 2025 - 05:17:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Conditions are deteriorating rapidly in El Fasher, the besieged capital of Sudan's North Darfur State.Between 17 [...] Full text...

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AUC chairperson concludes AU–UN bilateral, and AU–UN–EU Trilateral

22 september 2025 - 10:21:01
New York, US (PANA) – The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, on Sunday concluded a [...] Full text...

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AU, EU and UN chiefs hold sixth trilateral meeting in New York

22 september 2025 - 06:21:32
New York, USA (PANA) - African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, European Council President António Costa, European Commission [...] Full text...

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Workshop on identifying victims of human trafficking and migrants in Libya ends

21 september 2025 - 11:57:08
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A training workshop on identifying victims of human trafficking and irregular migrants, aimed at strengthening the [...] Full text...

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Migrant medics mean shortages at home - WHO

18 september 2025 - 05:15:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a warning on Wednesday that southern and eastern European [...] Full text...

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Venezuelan migrants drive economic gains in Ecuador but face persistent vulnerabilities

17 september 2025 - 16:07:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador contribute an estimated $900 million each year to the country’s economy, yet [...] Full text...

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First ever EU-Egypt summit scheduled for Brussels on 22 October

12 september 2025 - 10:17:05
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The President of the European Council, António Costa, together with the President of the European Commission, [...] Full text...

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Libya and Malta discuss ways to promote bilateral relations

10 september 2025 - 14:27:25
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan interim Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of National Unity, [...] Full text...

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IOM resumes operations in Khartoum, over 2 million return amidst Sudan war

09 september 2025 - 15:13:14
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- The International Organization for Migration (IOM), which has just relocated its office to Khartoum, central Sudan, has [...] Full text...

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The 9/9/99 Sirte Declaration on creation of AU hailed in Libya as major step towards African unification

09 september 2025 - 14:22:39
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - On its 26th anniversary, the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Unity [...] Full text...

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UN migration agency returns to Khartoum

09 september 2025 - 10:44:41
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has become the first UN agency to resume operations [...] Full text...

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Leadership of women crucial to UN’s reinvention at 80, says former Assembly President

08 september 2025 - 21:17:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Since the creation of the United Nations 80 years ago, only four women have served as [...] Full text...

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Top UN official in Libya, eastern-based army chief discuss 'practical measures' to implement political roadmap

08 september 2025 - 12:57:21
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Hanna Serwaa Tetteh, and the [...] Full text...

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IOM deploys team to support national Ebola response in DRC

08 september 2025 - 09:38:40
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is responding to a new Ebola virus disease outbreak in [...] 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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IOM: Sudanese returning home despite war challenges

04 september 2025 - 17:54:28
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The UN International Organization for Migration said here Thursday that, despite the critical situation in the [...] Full text...

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IOM: More than 1,000 families flee Sudan's besieged El Fasher city

01 september 2025 - 07:49:52
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced on Sunday that more than a thousand families [...] Full text...

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Dozens of illegal migrants detained by gang of traffickers released in Tripoli

29 august 2025 - 11:39:13
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 62 illegal migrants of various nationalities, including an infant, detained by a gang [...] Full text...

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Seven deportees from US arrive in Rwanda

29 august 2025 - 08:46:15
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwandan government has confirmed the arrival of seven migrants from the United States, as part [...] Full text...

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IOM ensures voluntary return of 268 Guinean migrants

27 august 2025 - 13:28:37
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Tunis has announced that two special [...] Full text...

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Rights group accuses Mauritania of years of migration control abuses

27 august 2025 - 06:56:05
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against largely West and [...] Full text...

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Sudan: After ten months of blockade, a UNICEF convoy reaches South Kordofan

26 august 2025 - 06:15:39
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - For nearly a year, the people of Sudan's South Kordofan region have been isolated, besieged [...] Full text...

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Senior UN migration agency official ends Nigeria visit

25 august 2025 - 11:17:35
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Deputy Director General for Operations, Ugochi Daniels, has concluded a [...] Full text...

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Top UN official in Libya to brief Security Council on new roadmap for political process

21 august 2025 - 10:40:34
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya, Hanna Tetteh, will brief the Security Council [...] Full text...

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A two-way street: Reversing brain drain in Somalia (By By Naima Sawaya, UN News)

16 august 2025 - 06:04:14
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - For many countries in crisis, brain drain can feel like an unbreakable loop. Armed conflict, climate [...] Full text...

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UN warns of steep rise in sexual violence during conflict

14 august 2025 - 21:14:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Sexual violence in conflict zones rose sharply in 2024, increasing by a quarter compared to the [...] Full text...

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Safety on and off the pitch: Closing down child trafficking in sport

14 august 2025 - 05:43:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Saido, a Somali refugee, started playing basketball when she entered the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. [...] Full text...

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Libyan, UN agencies discuss sustainable solutions to internal displacement

12 august 2025 - 10:27:31
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan and United Nations agencies on Monday held a meeting to discuss sustainable solutions to internal [...] Full text...

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The Debate over Falling Fertility: IMF Finance & Development (By David E. Bloom, Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

06 august 2025 - 12:21:08
Washington DC, USA (PANA) - A decline in global population later this century may threaten human progress, or it may [...] Full text...

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A Moving History: IMF Finance & Development (By Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University)

06 august 2025 - 10:46:10
Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - The history of migration is the story of humanity and its progress. It’s a story [...] Full text...

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Dozens more migrants die after boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen

05 august 2025 - 17:12:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported that 56 people had died and 132 were missing [...] Full text...

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WHO consultations bring urgency, hope to health worker migration crisis

05 august 2025 - 11:11:26
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – When health experts across the World Health Organisation (WHO) African region, logged into the virtual WHO [...] Full text...

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Violence in northern Mozambique forces thousands to flee, straining aid efforts

03 august 2025 - 07:43:03
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Recent attacks by armed groups in northern Mozambique displaced tens of thousands in July alone, deepening [...] Full text...

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UN migration agency highlights deepening climate and displacement crisis in Somalia

02 august 2025 - 05:30:23
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Climate shocks and mass displacement caused by conflict have uprooted some 3.6 million people in Somalia, [...] Full text...

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Libyan-Turkish-Italian hold summit in Istanbul on economic cooperation in the Mediterranean

01 august 2025 - 10:34:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, will participate on Friday in a tripartite summit in [...] Full text...

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President of Italian Council of Ministers visits Tunisia

31 july 2025 - 12:18:11
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The President of the Council of Ministers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, made a working visit to [...] Full text...

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Voluntary return of Nigerien migrants to home country at center of Libyan-Nigerien meeting

30 july 2025 - 14:19:36
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The acting Libyan Minister of the Interior of the Government of National Unity, Major-General Imad Mustafa [...] Full text...

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IOM offers support in wake of deadly shipwreck off Libya's coast

30 july 2025 - 06:45:05
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - At least 18 migrants died following a shipwreck off the coast of Tobruk, Libya, this past [...] Full text...

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The PSC calls for the transfer of the AU Liaison Office to Tripoli and the appointment of a Special Envoy for Migration

26 july 2025 - 12:57:27
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union has requested the Chairperson of the [...] Full text...

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1.3 million Sudanese return home, offering fragile hope for recovery

25 july 2025 - 17:11:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - With pockets of relative safety emerging in Sudan, over 1.3 million Sudanese people — including one [...] Full text...

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AU holds special session on Libya on Thursday

24 july 2025 - 12:22:54
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) will hold an extraordinary session in Addis Ababa, [...] Full text...

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Top UN official holds consultations with AU ahead of Peace and Security Council meeting on Libya

23 july 2025 - 11:56:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Libya, Hanna Tetteh, has briefed the Permanent [...] Full text...

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Effective partnerships can stop the next pandemic

21 july 2025 - 21:50:23
New York, US (PANA) - “There will be another pandemic, and it will not be 100 years from now,” UN [...] Full text...

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IGAD and Germany expand partnership on regional migration

17 july 2025 - 16:27:29
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)-The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has announced signing a landmark Euro 8 million Grant Agreement with [...] Full text...

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Humanitarian needs deepen in Sudan amid rising hostilities and heavy rains

15 july 2025 - 05:05:36
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Escalating violence, displacement and heavy rains are deepening the needs of civilians caught in the [...] Full text...

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Greece refuses to be corridor to Europe, warns Prime Minister

12 july 2025 - 15:38:43
Athens, Greece (PAN ) - In a statement to the press on Friday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said “Greece [...] Full text...

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Libya, EU officials discuss mechanisms for border management

11 july 2025 - 11:27:51
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Technical Committee for Migration and Border Security on Thursday held a meeting with a [...] Full text...

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Greece describes dismissal of EU delegation from Benghazi as unprecedented event

09 july 2025 - 15:01:54
Athens, Greece (PANA) - Greek government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis has said the eastern Libyan government's dismissal of the European ministerial [...] Full text...

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84 illegal migrants rescued off the coast of Libya

09 july 2025 - 14:16:17
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 84 illegal migrants of various African nationalities attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea [...] Full text...

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We need a new Growth Compact (IMF Blog By Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, IMF’s economic counsellor and director of the Research Department)

09 july 2025 - 12:29:54
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) – Policymakers are grappling with how to boost growth and expand opportunities.Early in the last [...] Full text...

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EU-AU Angola summit on 24-25 Nov aims at deeper cooperation

08 july 2025 - 14:59:01
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Leaders of the 27 European Union (EU) member states and the 55 countries of [...] Full text...

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Libyan coastguards rescue 39 illegal migrants off coast of Tripoli

06 july 2025 - 13:36:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan coastguards have rescued 39 illegal migrants of various nationalities at sea off the east [...] Full text...

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Landless and locked out: Young farmers struggle for a future

04 july 2025 - 09:20:37
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Agricultural land is more than just a resource to produce food – for many older adults [...] Full text...

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UN warns of soaring displacement and looming floods in Sudan

02 july 2025 - 07:16:27
New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarians on Tuesday sounded the alarm over worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan, as escalating [...] Full text...

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Three Egyptians identified in Greece as smugglers of migrants from Libya

27 june 2025 - 16:35:13
Athens, Greece (PANA) - The Greek authorities have identified four Egyptians aged between 20 and 36 accused of smuggling hundreds [...] Full text...

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How the IMF finances itself and why it matters for the global economy: IMF Blog By Julie Kozack, Bernard Lauwers

26 june 2025 - 12:00:55
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The IMF may be best known for lending to crisis-hit countries. But what about [...] Full text...

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Human Rights Council hears concerns over displacement, genocide risks and migrant trafficking

24 june 2025 - 05:23:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - On day six of the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, the [...] Full text...

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UNICEF chief meets some of Sudan’s 700,000 child refugees crossing into Chad

24 june 2025 - 05:11:53
N'Djamema, Chad (PANA) - Since fighting erupted in Sudan in April 2023, more than two million children have been displaced [...] Full text...

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Dozens of migrants from Libya rescued by the Greek coastguard

21 june 2025 - 13:53:26
Athens,  Greece (PANA) - The Greek coastguard has rescued 278 migrants stranded on board a fishing boat south of the [...] Full text...

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Nearly a thousand new Sudanese refugees arrive in Libya

19 june 2025 - 10:37:24
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 1,000 Sudanese have taken refuge in Libya following recent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces [...] Full text...

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IOM: Six migrants dead, 60 others missing as they crossed the Mediterranean from Libyan coast

17 june 2025 - 10:39:02
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Six migrants died and 60 others went missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean from the [...] Full text...

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Decades of memories and loss – searching for the missing in Syria

12 june 2025 - 20:18:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years including during [...] Full text...

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At least eight drown in Red Sea as smugglers force migrants overboard

12 june 2025 - 07:26:04
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Survivors of a people-smuggling operation in the Red Sea have recounted how they were forced [...] Full text...

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414 migrants intercepted at sea and returned to Libya - IOM

11 june 2025 - 12:53:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 414 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between 1 and 7 June, [...] Full text...

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Fighting escalates in Sudan’s Kordofan region

11 june 2025 - 12:50:37
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Alarmed by intensifying violence in the greater Kordofan region of Sudan and the growing humanitarian impact [...] Full text...

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Refugees find hope through legal migration

11 june 2025 - 05:33:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly one million refugees from eight countries with high asylum recognition rates were granted entry permits [...] Full text...

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Funding shortfalls, cholera spread, conflict compound relief work in South Sudan and Sudan

06 june 2025 - 06:46:03
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) – The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is concerned about the impact of [...] Full text...

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‘Our worst held fears are being confirmed’: Dozens of bodies discovered in Libya mass graves

04 june 2025 - 18:49:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya, UN News [...] Full text...

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US underlines need for pressing warring Sudanese parties for negotiated settlement to conflict

04 june 2025 - 09:22:18
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The US Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, held a meeting  on Tuesday with the [...] Full text...

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Deadly flooding in Nigeria displaces thousands

02 june 2025 - 21:11:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Flush flooding in western Nigeria at the weekend has caused devastation around the town of Mokwa [...] Full text...

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AU chief welcomes appointment of Prime Minister in Sudan

01 june 2025 - 08:23:49
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission,(AU). Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has welcomed the appointment of [...] Full text...

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Cholera, conflict-driven displacement deepen needs in Sudan

30 may 2025 - 11:38:18
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Humanitarian needs in Sudan continue to grow, driven by the rapid spread of cholera and continued [...] Full text...

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Sanctions relief for Syria offers ‘powerful message of hope,’ says UN migration agency

27 may 2025 - 21:19:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed recent decisions by the United States, the [...] Full text...

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Six migrants dead, five missing in shipwreck off the coast of the Comoros - IOM

27 may 2025 - 12:52:23
Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - At least six people have died and five others are still missing at sea off the [...] Full text...

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AU welcomes agreement for UK to cede control over Chagos Islands to Mauritius

24 may 2025 - 13:17:16
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has “warmly” welcomed the announcement of the Thursday's historic agreement under [...] Full text...

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US accuses Sudan gov't of using chemical weapons in civil war; to impose sanctions in June

23 may 2025 - 10:50:42
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US on Thursday accused the Sudanese government of using chemical weapons last year in [...] Full text...

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Sudan: UN says civilian suffering deepens amid drone strikes

23 may 2025 - 05:00:27
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The civil war in Sudan, which erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces [...] Full text...

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Number of migrants in Libya increases by 4 per cent in 2025: IOM

22 may 2025 - 12:13:03
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 858,604 migrants were registered during the period January to February 2025 in Libya, [...] Full text...

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Scam centres are a ‘human rights crisis’, independent experts 21

21 may 2025 - 17:49:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Southeast Asian nations should do more to protect people from being reeled into scam farms, top [...] Full text...

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Sudan: More than 40,000 refugees have flocked to Chad in one month - UNHCR

15 may 2025 - 09:57:43
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - More than 40,000 Sudanese, the majority of them women and children, have fled the ongoing fighting [...] Full text...

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Humanitarian situation in Sudan deteriorating after more than two years of war: UN

14 may 2025 - 11:56:01
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - With several locations in Sudan still gripped by fierce fighting between the army and paramilitaries, [...] Full text...

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Rights group urges Libyan government to investigate crimes by illegal militia groups

14 may 2025 - 10:54:03
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Amnesty International has urged the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) to immediately open “thorough, independent, [...] Full text...

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Number of internally displaced breaks new record with no let-up in conflicts, disasters

13 may 2025 - 19:35:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A record 83.4 million people have been forced from their homes around the world, fuelled by [...] Full text...

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UN migration agency helping migrants in the US return home voluntarily

13 may 2025 - 07:18:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United States has asked the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to assist undocumented migrants who [...] Full text...

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UNICEF calls for action after deaths of migrant children at sea

13 may 2025 - 06:40:18
Tripoli, Libya Libya (PANA) - Two young children, aged 3 and 4, have died from dehydration aboard a rubber dinghy [...] Full text...

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UN concerned about impact of ongoing drone attacks in Sudan

13 may 2025 - 06:35:09
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The UN expressed deep concern on Monday over the impact of ongoing drone attacks on [...] Full text...

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Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps

11 may 2025 - 15:11:06
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Every summer in Ma’rib, Yemen, a place marked by loss and uncertainty, a football tournament offers [...] Full text...

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Libya's rival govts reject Trump administration's moves to repatriate illegal immigrants to the country

08 may 2025 - 12:54:36
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The intention of the administration of US President Donald Trump to repatriate illegal immigrants to Libya [...] Full text...

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More than 30-year difference in life expectancy highlights health inequities

06 may 2025 - 12:59:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Where you're born could be the difference between living over three decades longer than someone else [...] Full text...

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Anthrax outbreak compounds security crisis in eastern DR Congo

02 may 2025 - 07:52:39
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - An anthrax outbreak is compounding the worsening security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo [...] Full text...

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Unlocking Cameroonian youth’s potential for more and better jobs (A World Bank feature)

29 april 2025 - 08:56:31
Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Young people aged 18 to 35 represent 57% of the labor force in Cameroon—but many struggle [...] Full text...

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From border control to belonging: How host communities gain from empowering refugees

26 april 2025 - 07:18:20
New York, US (PANA) - With humanitarian aid in decline, the international community must shift its focus from short-term relief [...] Full text...

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Indigenous Peoples sidelined in global climate fight, UN warns (By Laura Quinones, UN News)

25 april 2025 - 05:28:18
New York, US (PANA) - As the planet heats up and the push to decarbonise gathers pace, Indigenous Peoples – [...] Full text...

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Sudan war: Hundreds of thousands flee renewed violence in North Darfur

21 april 2025 - 08:37:39
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - A mass wave of displacement in Sudan’s North Darfur state is pushing hundreds of thousands [...] Full text...

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Migration and Refugee Policies - When destination countries tighten migration and refugee policies, it has economic ripple effects elsewhere: IMF Blog By Paula Beltran Saavedra, Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Samuel Mann and Carolina Osorio-Buitron

19 april 2025 - 11:32:55
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Migration has always been an integral part of humanity’s history and success. As of last year, [...] Full text...

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External flow of weapons into Sudan must end: Guterres

16 april 2025 - 07:09:55
New York, US (PANA) - Two years to the day since Sudan’s brutal war erupted between rival generals who rejected [...] Full text...

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Interior ministers of Algeria, Italy, Tunisia, Libya agree on joint action mechanisms in on migration

12 april 2025 - 12:39:13
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Participants in a quadripartite coordination meeting on irregular migration in Naples, Italy, attended by the interior [...] Full text...

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Libya calls for integrated approach to combating irregular migration from Africa to Europe

11 april 2025 - 11:36:11
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation, Ali al-Abed, has stressed that Libya is facing major challenges [...] Full text...

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Sudan war: UHCHR chief stresses need to help refugee hosts in Chad

09 april 2025 - 15:54:14
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) -  As the brutal war in Sudan nears the two-year mark, thousands of people continue to flee [...] Full text...

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Chad and Libyan discuss cooperation in air transport, trade

09 april 2025 - 12:35:23
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya and Chad have discussed issues of common interest, in particular cooperation in the field of [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Suffering continues amid massive destruction across Khartoum

06 april 2025 - 05:43:36
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The people of Sudan are trapped in siege-like conditions “with no escape, no hope, and often [...] Full text...

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Sudan crisis: UN rights chief condemns extrajudicial killings in Khartoum

03 april 2025 - 17:14:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The fight for Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, likely involved widespread summary executions of civilians following its recent [...] Full text...

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Libya accuses international NGOs of working to resettle illegal migrants in the country

03 april 2025 - 15:58:09
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's internal security body has announced that it has detected “hostile foreign activity” aimed at resettling [...] Full text...

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Accountability for missing persons is ‘crucial’: UN human rights chief

03 april 2025 - 09:16:56
New York, US (PANA) - 2024 saw the highest increase in missing persons in at least two decades, with 56,559 [...] Full text...

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UN rights chief denounces a 'frightening proliferation of racist violence and hate crimes'

28 march 2025 - 08:06:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world is facing a "frightening proliferation of racist violence and hate crimes," the UN human [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Nearly 400,000 displaced people return home despite insecurity and humanitarian crisis

27 march 2025 - 15:10:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) have returned to their homes in Sudan since last December [...] Full text...

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Libyan, UN hold meeting on illegal migration

26 march 2025 - 14:06:03
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's acting Minister of the Interior, General Imad al-Trabelsi, head of the High Committee for Monitoring [...] Full text...

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Global Talent and Economic Success: IMF Blog By William Kerr, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

26 march 2025 - 13:01:00
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Countries that attract the world’s most talented people will be the most successful at [...] Full text...

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Economics of talent: IMF Blog By Ruchir Agarwal, cofounder of the Global Talent Fund and director of the Raj Center at Columbia University, and Patrick Gaule, cofounder of the Global Talent Fund and associate professor of economics at the University of Bristol

26 march 2025 - 11:18:38
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The new “economics of talent” field aims to identify and nurture exceptional problem-solvers at [...] Full text...

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UN agency warns of ‘surge’ in AIDS deaths without US funding

25 march 2025 - 05:33:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid continuing uncertainty about the impact of deep US funding cuts to humanitarian work worldwide, the [...] Full text...

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Record number of more than 8,900 people died on migration routes in 2024 - IOM

23 march 2025 - 05:18:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A record number of more than 8,900 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2024, the [...] Full text...

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Top UN official in Libya meets African diplomats

20 march 2025 - 15:25:00
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in [...] Full text...

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In just one month, intensifying violence has forced over 60,000 people to flee their homes in Haiti’s capital

19 march 2025 - 17:06:47
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (PANA) - In just one month, intensifying violence has forced over 60,000 people to flee their homes in [...] Full text...

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UN migration agency forced to restructure amid significant budget cuts

18 march 2025 - 19:29:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is undertaking “essential structural adjustments” at its Geneva headquarters and [...] Full text...

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Libya reiterates its refusal to bear the burden of illegal immigration alone

18 march 2025 - 17:01:40
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's interim Minister of the Interior in the government of national unity, Major- General Imad Mustafa [...] Full text...

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Tunisian Gendarmerie recovers 18 bodies of sub-Saharan migrants

18 march 2025 - 16:30:31
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Units of the Tunisian National Guard (Gendarmerie) Tuesday recovered 18 bodies of sub-Saharan migrants and rescued [...] Full text...

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Tunisian human rights organization calls for strategy to manage migratory flows

17 march 2025 - 16:19:04
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The debate on the presence of illegal sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia is resurfacing in political and [...] Full text...

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Libyan PM rejects resettling migrants in the country

14 march 2025 - 12:10:14
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, has denied his government's intention to settle migrants in [...] Full text...

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How sound economic policy can help prevent conflict: IMF Blog By Franck Bousquet, Paul M. Bisca, Christopher Rauh, Benjamin Seimon

14 march 2025 - 11:59:22
Washington, DC, United Sates (PANA) - Simulations that incorporate machine learning-based predictions of conflict suggest large payoffs from preventive policies, [...] Full text...

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Is Artificial Intelligence the future of farming? Exploring opportunities and challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: World Bank Blog By Chakib Jenane, Regional Director for Sustainable Development, West and Central Africa, World Bank

13 march 2025 - 07:33:43
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Across Sub-Saharan Africa, a quiet revolution is underway. Smallholder farmers are increasingly leveraging Artificial [...] Full text...

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Up to 1mln Syrians living in camps, displacement sites intend to return home

08 march 2025 - 09:04:31
7 March 2025 Migrants and RefugeesDamascus, Syria (PANA) - Up to one million desperate Syrians living in camps and displacement [...] Full text...

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Gender equality in employment would take nearly two centuries, says ILO

07 march 2025 - 11:05:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thirty years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set ambitious [...] Full text...

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IOM finalises expansion of Chadian centre to provide assistance to Darfur

06 march 2025 - 08:38:50
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - The United Nations Migration Agency (IOM) announced on Wednesday the completion of work to expand a [...] Full text...

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Libyan security institutions agree measures on border security

03 march 2025 - 12:40:41
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Representatives of the military and security institutions in the East and West Libya responsible for border [...] Full text...

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Cholera cases soar in Sudan as fighting intensifies

27 february 2025 - 06:12:16
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As hostilities, insecurity and attacks on health facilities in Sudan continue to increase the risk [...] Full text...

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Rosemary DiCarlo condemns divisions and foreign interference as factors of instability in Libya

20 february 2025 - 13:44:33
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding, Rosemary DiCarlo, has pointed to deep divisions [...] Full text...

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Barrow ignites hope for a stronger, self-reliant nation

18 february 2025 - 19:51:22
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- President Adama Barrow has urged Gambians to embrace self-reliance, unity, and national development as the West African [...] Full text...

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African ministers discuss visa-free movement to spur regional unity

18 february 2025 - 15:37:16
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) –  African ministers discussed obstacles to the continent’s economic integration, underscoring visa-free movement as a precondition [...] Full text...

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Sudan, ‘the most devastating humanitarian and displacement crises in the world’ (By UN News)

15 february 2025 - 05:53:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s ruinous civil war is approaching its third year, leaving a legacy of malnutrition, massive population [...] Full text...

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Two mass graves of migrants uncovered in Libya

10 february 2025 - 17:17:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two mass graves likely containing the bodies of migrants have been discovered in Libya, highlighting the [...] Full text...

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Save the Children: violence in increase especially against children in Sudan

10 february 2025 - 16:07:39
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- An international charity organization operating in the Sudan has charged that violence is on the increase [...] Full text...

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UN mission in DRC offers protection to ‘vulnerable populations’, despite huge challenges

06 february 2025 - 05:29:32
Goma, DRC (PANA) - Rwanda-backed M23 rebels continued to consolidate their hold over North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...

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What the UN is doing in DR Congo

05 february 2025 - 19:48:49
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The current phase of fighting erupted in late January in the mineral-rich eastern region of the [...] Full text...

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