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New York, US (PANA) – South Africa’s International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola says the US invasion of Venezuela undermined international law and the principles of state sovereignty enshrined in the UN Charter. Jonathan Passmoor, South Africa’s acting deputy permanent representative to the United Nations said “the unlawful, unilateral actions” of the [...]
©- - 06 january 2026 - 09:38:20 - thread Politics (714 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African opposition parties have joined the chorus of condemnation over the US administration’s military strike against Venezuela and the reported capture of President Nicolás Maduro. US President Donald Trump made the announcement on social media, and the US Attorney General said Mr. Maduro and his [...]
©- - 05 january 2026 - 10:54:41 - thread Politics (613 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government has urgently called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC'I truly pray that peace will come to eastern DRC' (By UN News) to convene in response to Washington’s military action against Venezuela on Saturday.It expressed grave concern over the Trump [...]
©- - 04 january 2026 - 12:07:10 - thread Politics (238 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Friday condemned the Christmas Day airstrikes by the United States against Islamist militants in northwest Nigeria as a reckless escalation of US military imperialism in Africa.It said the rationale for the strikes – described by US President [...]
©- - 27 december 2025 - 10:03:38 - thread Politics (188 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Interior Ministry denied, in a statement early Tuesday reports that one of the boats in the ‘’Semmoud'' flotilla bound for Gaza, which docked at the port of Sidi Bou Said, had been hit by a drone off the coast of Tunis.These reports are unfounded,’ [...]
©- - 09 september 2025 - 14:30:44 - thread Politics (274 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia on Monday welcomed the peace agreement signed on 19 July in Doha, Qatar, between the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the rebel Congo River Alliance/March 23 Movement (AFC/M23).The agreement marks the start of direct negotiations between the two parties, under the [...]
©- - 22 july 2025 - 12:36:48 - thread Politics (335 words)


Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to engage in deep introspection and adopt a more strategic approach in dealing with unconstitutional changes of government in the region.Former President Obasanjo was delivering the keynote address at [...]
©- - 04 july 2025 - 10:15:30 - thread Politics (641 words)


Athens, Greece  (PANA) -  Greek diplomatic sources reacted on Sunday to statements by the Turkish Foreign Ministry criticizing the position of Greece and Cyprus in relation to the maritime agreement signed between Libya and Turkey.Quoted by the website of the Greek newspaper Kathimeriní, these sources said that “international law must [...]
©- - 30 june 2025 - 14:12:38 - thread Politics (244 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has expressed its ‘clear and unequivocal condemnation of Zionist aggression’ against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the US strikes against Tehran's nuclear sites.In a statement published on Sunday, Tunisia said that ‘nothing can justify this aggression under international law’, which must cease immediately.International law [...]
©- - 23 june 2025 - 17:50:35 - thread Politics (256 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) –  The South African government on Wednesday said it is gravely alarmed by reports confirming that at least 31 Palestinians were killed and over 200 injured near an aid distribution point in Rafah, Southern Gaza.Eyewitnesses and medical personnel attest that Israeli forces opened fire on [...]
©- - 04 june 2025 - 09:02:41 - thread Politics (325 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia is ready to host an inter-Libyan dialogue on its territory under the aegis of the United Nations Mission in Libya, announced a communiqué from the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The aim is to reach a peaceful political solution, guaranteeing the unity of Libya and meeting [...]
©- - 17 may 2025 - 13:37:21 - thread Politics (253 words)


Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) -  Mali on Monday announced the closure of its airspace to all civil and military aircraft flying to or from Algeria with effect from Monday until further notice.Algeria had earlier announced the closure of its airspace to flights to and from Mali as the diplomatic crisis [...]
©- - 08 april 2025 - 12:17:47 - thread Politics (310 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of National Unity has condemned in the strongest possible terms attacks launched by the Israeli occupying forces against the Gaza Strip, which resulted in numerous martyrs and injuries among the Palestinian people.It descried these [...]
©- - 19 march 2025 - 14:49:29 - thread Politics (362 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Rwanda has accused South Africa of siding with genocidal forces in the DRC after Pretoria warned that another attack on members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) would be considered a declaration of war.Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olivier Nduhungirehe, on Wednesday said [...]
©- - 30 january 2025 - 05:56:42 - thread Politics (234 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent a high-profile delegation to engage with Mozambican leaders as tensions over the disputed October poll threaten the region’s stability.The Government and the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (Natjoints) says the engagement which is being led by [...]
©- - 30 december 2024 - 13:13:57 - thread Politics (180 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has addressed the political turmoil in Mozambique, saying the escalating protests against the election results should be solved through dialogue."South Africa calls on all parties to commit to an urgent dialogue that will heal the country and set it on a new [...]
©- - 27 december 2024 - 06:29:36 - thread Politics (221 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s ambassador to Syria will remain at his post despite the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad and his regime by an Islamist rebel force on Sunday.Ambassador Ashraf Suliman on Monday confirmed that he and his team remain at their Damascus offices as the [...]
©- - 10 december 2024 - 08:07:58 - thread Politics (213 words)


Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been at war with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since April last year, has accused Egypt of providing direct assistance to its foes and said the West has turned a blind eye to the return of the [...]
©- - 10 october 2024 - 08:16:09 - thread Politics (832 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government on Friday said it is gravely concerned about the continuing escalation of military action by Israel on the State of Palestine and the Lebanese Republic, as well as the subsequent response by the Islamic Republic of Iran.It has called on [...]
©- - 04 october 2024 - 07:15:22 - thread Politics (272 words)


Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - A large delegation of the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council  (PSC) arrived in Sudan on Thursday as diplomatic efforts intensify to end the devastating war in the East African nation, the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported. This is as military confrontations rage in Khartoum [...]
©- - 03 october 2024 - 17:37:11 - thread Politics (442 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) opposition party has condemned “anti-immigrant” protests that have spread in different parts of Britain.The violent anti-immigrant protests were sparked by the murder of three girls in a knife attack incident in Southport.EFF spokesperson Leigh-Ann Mathys said the protests were [...]
©- - 06 august 2024 - 13:12:40 - thread Politics (241 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has arrived in Jordan to represent South Africa at a high-level conference on the crisis in Gaza. The meeting begins Tuesday and is being hosted by the Jordanian and Egyptian leaders as well UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Lamola will meet heads of [...]
©- - 11 june 2024 - 09:29:59 - thread Politics (297 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has again expressed its serious concern at the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan which has resulted in loss of civilian lives, wanton destruction of property, especially critical infrastructure, and displacement of the population. The Office of the Presidency says Pretoria stands in solidarity [...]
©- - 30 may 2024 - 10:38:04 - thread Politics (344 words)


Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The leader of the assailants who attempted a coup in Kinshasa on Sunday has been killed by the DR Congo Defence Forces, General Sylvain Ekenge, spokesperson for the DR Congo Armed Forces (FARDC), told national television. "Some forty assailants were arrested, while four others, including their [...]
©- - 20 may 2024 - 19:07:49 - thread Politics (488 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Staff and students at the University of Cape Town have erected a pro-Palestinian camp on the campus, following a trend at Johannesburg’s Wits University and others across the United States. They have laid out a long white banner down the steps of one the buildings [...]
©- - 17 may 2024 - 08:11:03 - thread Politics (288 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa will on Thursday afternoon ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to “immediately withdraw and cease its military offensive” in Rafah. Members of South Africa’s legal team, Department of International Relations and Cooperation Director-General, Zane Dangor and the South African [...]
©- - 16 may 2024 - 07:54:51 - thread Politics (243 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Türkiye is seeking to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague. Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that “upon completion of the legal text of our work, we will submit the declaration [...]
©- - 02 may 2024 - 11:41:39 - thread Politics (153 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The resignation of the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal, came as no surprise given the deepening political division in the country, according to the Libyan News Agency (LANA). Mr Bathily's [...]
©- - 18 april 2024 - 11:03:02 - thread Politics (582 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has joined other African countries in expressing concern at developments in the Middle East following the retaliatory action by Iran against Israel following Israel’s attacks on Iran’s Embassy in Damascus on 1 April. Pretoria has emphasised that all parties must exercise the utmost [...]
©- - 16 april 2024 - 08:32:08 - thread Politics (238 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - President Cyril Ramaphosa has conveyed his condolences to the government and people of Mozambique after a disaster at sea in which nearly 100 people are believed to have drowned.   The death toll stands at 97. Officials in Nampula province said five of the passengers [...]
©- - 09 april 2024 - 15:44:56 - thread Politics (153 words)


Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The Togolese opposition is united in its opposition to the constitutional change that took place on Monday night, transforming Togo from a presidential to a parliamentary system, without a referendum or dialogue with the population. In addition to the change of regime, this constitutional revision propels Togo [...]
©- - 28 march 2024 - 17:35:45 - thread Politics (823 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has hailed Monday’s UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza despite Israel’s response that suggested it would change nothing in its conduct of the war. The United States has previously vetoed three draft resolutions on Gaza, but on Monday it [...]
©- - 26 march 2024 - 08:51:41 - thread Politics (354 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian army has neutralised several terrorists in Zouera, in the Goundam circle, in the Timbuktu region, in the north-west, and in Niaba, in the Douentza region  in the centre, according to a press release issued by the Armed Forces Information and Public Relations Directorate (DIRPA) [...]
©- - 20 march 2024 - 17:01:35 - thread Politics (282 words)


Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Morocco on Monday rejected Algiers' accusations that Rabat had "confiscated" property belonging to it in Morocco, describing them as "false and unfounded". The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday denounced Morocco's "provocations" as part of an "operation to confiscate" property belonging to its embassy in Rabat, [...]
©- - 19 march 2024 - 16:23:02 - thread Politics (278 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya on Sunday reiterated support for legitimacy in Yemen and everything that guarantees the security and stability of the people. The Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba said this during a telephone conversation with the Yemeni Prime Minister, Ahmed Awad ben Mubarak, according to a statement from [...]
©- - 18 march 2024 - 14:19:50 - thread Politics (115 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has again again approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to ask for additional emergency measures in its Gaza genocide case. In papers filed at The Hague, it said time is running out “to save the Palestinian people in Gaza already dying of [...]
©- - 07 march 2024 - 09:17:25 - thread Politics (318 words)


Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The UN Human Rights Office said on Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" by the crisis in Senegal arising from "the suspension of the presidential election". It also denounced the "unnecessary and disproportionate use of force against demonstrators and restrictions on civic space", according to the international [...]
©- - 13 february 2024 - 16:50:45 - thread Politics (631 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor’s security detail has been beefed up following threats against her and her family. This is after South Africa’s high-profile approach to the International Court of Justice at The Hague on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Pretoria is seeking several orders, [...]
©- - 09 february 2024 - 09:40:21 - thread Politics (204 words)


Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian Civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on President Adama Barrow to engage his Senegalese counterpart, Macky Sall, to obtain his assurance and commitment to a free, fair, and peaceful presidential election as scheduled. They also called on Banjul to assume "a leading and instrumental role" in [...]
©- - 08 february 2024 - 11:34:19 - thread Politics (639 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed South Africa’s extraordinary victory at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), saying the judgment was an important first for South Africa's quest to secure justice for the people of Gaza. This was after the United Nation’s top court on Friday [...]
©- - 26 january 2024 - 16:18:37 - thread Politics (548 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government on Thursday announced the end, with immediate effect, of the Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali resulting from the Algiers process, signed in 2015 in Bamako between the Malian government, the armed movements of northern Mali and the international community. This was aimed [...]
©- - 26 january 2024 - 15:43:31 - thread Politics (502 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Army announced here Wednesday it had neutralized around ten terrorists and destroyed a quantity of war materiel, five km south-west of Labezanga in northern Mali, on the border with Niger. According to a press release from the army's Public Relations Directorate (DIRPA), "on Monday 22 [...]
©- - 24 january 2024 - 17:32:02 - thread Politics (128 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Government has said it expects the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hand down judgment on provisional measures sought in its genocide case against Israel on Friday. A government delegation has arrived at The Hague in anticipation of the judgment which is [...]
©- - 24 january 2024 - 10:31:05 - thread Politics (240 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African  Government on Tuesday said it is deeply concerned about the increased attacks on civilians around the world and recent reports that more civilians were killed in armed conflict over the last year than any other year for more than a decade. It [...]
©- - 23 january 2024 - 10:23:28 - thread Politics (282 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African lawyer Wikus Van Rensburg is leading an international initiative to prepare a lawsuit against the United States and United Kingdom on the grounds that they are complicit in Israeli forces' war crimes in Palestine.  At least 47 South African lawyers have been recruited along with [...]
©- - 19 january 2024 - 07:14:34 - thread Politics (346 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A statue of Archbishop Desmond Tutu wearing a Palestinian scarf was erected in Cape Town on Friday to symbolise his decades-long work championing justice for Palestinians and South Africa’s case against Israel at The Hague. The late Nobel peace laureate's "life-size statue" will be on [...]
©- - 12 january 2024 - 09:52:07 - thread Politics (369 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – More than 1,000 international organisations have expressed support for South Africa’s case against “genocide” in Gaza which is due to be heard at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Thursday and Friday. On 29 December, South Africa filed an urgent application [...]
©- - 10 january 2024 - 08:18:47 - thread Politics (297 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has compiled a team of legal heavyweights headed by the Deputy Chief Justice to address the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on its claim that Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza is "genocide". Advocate Adila Hassim will deliver oral arguments for the [...]
©- - 09 january 2024 - 09:17:48 - thread Politics (306 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has condemned  South Africa's application against Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). On Friday, South Africa filed an urgent application at the ICJ in The Hague urging it to declare on an urgent basis that [...]
©- - 01 january 2024 - 15:49:36 - thread Politics (306 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian army says it "neutralised" at least six terrorists during strikes in the Kidal region in the far north. According to a statement, fighter jets carried out strikes, the first of which neutralised six terrorists camouflaged under a tree. The second strike, which took place to the [...]
©- - 31 december 2023 - 14:35:14 - thread Politics (145 words)

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