Libya's delegate to UN Security Council calls for concrete measures to end political crisis

22 august 2025 - 10:03:12 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Libya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Taher El-Sonni, on Thursday stressed that the country is going through a critical [...] Full text...

Amid massive destruction of Gaza City, UN chief renews ceasefire call

22 august 2025 - 05:51:37 MA

New York, US (PANA) - With intensifying Israeli activity in and around Gaza City reportedly continuing on Thursday, UN chief Antonio Guterres renewed his urgent [...] Full text...

Libya: Security Council urged to back popular ‘yearning’ for national elections

22 august 2025 - 05:37:57 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Recent elections in Libya are a sure sign of the people’s desire to choose their own representatives, the UN Secretary-General’s [...] Full text...

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

21 august 2025 - 10:40:34 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya, Hanna Tetteh, will brief the Security Council today (Thursday) during which, she [...] Full text...

International coalition urges Sudanese warring parties to take action to improve humanitarian situation

20 august 2025 - 21:24:50 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - An international coalition that groups five governments beside the United Nations and the African Union on Wednesday issued a joint [...] Full text...

‘Africa is poised for progress’ Guterres tells development conference in Japan

20 august 2025 - 18:54:02 MA

Yokohama, Japan (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday repeated his call for Africa to have a greater say in decisions that affect its future, [...] Full text...

UN deplores deadly attacks in eastern DRC

20 august 2025 - 07:18:44 MA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA)  - The UN has strongly condemned recent attacks carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group in several locations in [...] Full text...

Sudanese PM uses non-conventional method to address the West about the country’s woes (Report by Mohamed Osman Adam)

19 august 2025 - 15:42:43 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s new civilian Prime Minister has made an emotional appeal to the UN Secretary General to intervene and save thousands [...] Full text...

Libyan MPs discuss national reconciliation with German, Swiss officials

19 august 2025 - 11:59:16 BBA

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Libyan House of Representatives have discussed national reconciliation with a delegation [...] Full text...

South African, Russian presidents discuss Ukrainian conflict

19 august 2025 - 09:31:56 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday received a briefing from Russian President Vladimir Putin on the outcome of the meeting [...] Full text...

South Sudanese ‘are counting on us’, top UN official tells Security Council

19 august 2025 - 07:25:34 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, briefed the Security Council on the deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in South Sudan [...] Full text...

42% of respondents in online poll by UN mission in Libya prioritise elections to end political crisis

18 august 2025 - 11:54:46 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Forty-two per cent of people polled online by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) have opted for elections to [...] Full text...

Vote counting for Group II of the municipal elections in Libya begins

17 august 2025 - 13:27:07 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Counting and Statistics Centre of the Libyan High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) began counting the results of local elections in [...] Full text...

UN mission in Libya lauds 'successful' conduct of municipal elections

17 august 2025 - 06:22:12 MA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -  The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has congratulated the citizens of 26 municipalities for Saturday's “successful” conduct of Municipal [...] Full text...

Libya municipal elections begin

16 august 2025 - 13:51:08 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Voting for the 2025 municipal elections (Group II) began on Saturday morning in Libya, amid tight security measures aimed at ensuring [...] Full text...

Top UN official in Libya joins Youth Dialogue Forum meeting to discuss political process

15 august 2025 - 16:19:47 MA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the Secretary General for Libya, Hanna Tetteh, this week joined 40 youth on Wednesday at a meeting [...] Full text...

Several soldiers arrested in Mali for attempting to 'destabilise state institutions'

15 august 2025 - 12:31:43 MA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Several Malian military officers, including General Abbas Dembélé, former governor of Mopti, and Brigadier General Niéma Sagara, have been arrested and [...] Full text...

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

15 august 2025 - 11:51:55 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) has condemned attacks on its offices on the west coast and in Zaouia (45 [...] Full text...

Top UN officials in Libya, Army discuss efforts to consolidate Tripoli truce

14 august 2025 - 12:56:04 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Top officials of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and a top commander of the Libyan National Army met [...] Full text...

Sudan welcomes UN Security Council's rejection of plan by paramilitary group to establish rival govt in the west

14 august 2025 - 12:41:22 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has welcomed the UN Security Council's rejection of the announcement by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to establish a [...] Full text...

UN mission in Libya condemns attempts to obstruct municipal elections

14 august 2025 - 12:24:48 MA

Trpoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned, in the strongest terms, the armed attack by unknown assailants that took [...] Full text...

South Africa rejects 'deeply flawed' US human rights report

14 august 2025 - 10:26:59 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) –  Pretoria has rejected a report published by President Donald Trump’s administration that said the human rights situation has “significantly [...] Full text...

Rights office urges Uganda to release opposition leaders on bail

14 august 2025 - 05:36:45 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Wednesday expressed serious concern at repeated denials of bail in Uganda for opposition leader [...] Full text...

UN Security Council rejects creation of rival government in Sudan

14 august 2025 - 05:27:37 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has rejected the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) declaration last month of a rival administration in parts [...] Full text...

Mali's former transitional PM Choguel Maiga placed in police custody

13 august 2025 - 12:58:51 BBA

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Mali's former transitional Prime Minister from 2021-2024, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, was taken into custody on Tuesday by the National Economic [...] Full text...

US sanctions critical minerals traffickers stoking armed conflict in eastern DRC

13 august 2025 - 07:24:50 MA

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US Treasury Department is sanctioning four entities producing and trading in conflict minerals in Rubaya, in eastern Democratic Republic [...] Full text...

Saddam Haftar appointed deputy commander of eastern-based Libyan Army General Command

12 august 2025 - 11:50:54 BBA

Benghazi, Libya (PANA)- The commander of the eastern-bsed Libyan National Army's General Command, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has appointed Lieutenant General Saddam Khalifa Haftar, Chief of [...] Full text...

Libyan PM reaffirms commitment to supporting professional regular army

12 august 2025 - 11:36:22 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, on Monday reaffirmed the government's commitment to supporting a professional [...] Full text...

Libyan, UN agencies discuss sustainable solutions to internal displacement

12 august 2025 - 10:27:31 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan and United Nations agencies on Monday held a meeting to discuss sustainable solutions to internal displacement in the North African [...] Full text...

South African President Ramaphosa briefed on Ukraine peace process

12 august 2025 - 07:06:15 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday confirmed that he has been briefed by Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky on [...] Full text...

Rights group slams 20-year sentence for Chadian opposition leader Masra

12 august 2025 - 06:43:35 MA

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Human Rights Watch has criticised the guilty verdict and 20-year sentence imposed on 9 August, 2025, on Succès Masra, leader of Chad’s [...] Full text...

‘There is no military solution’ to end Israel-Palestine conflict, Security Council hears, as starvation stalks the Gaza Strip

10 august 2025 - 20:34:56 MA

New York, US (PANA) - It’s essential to work towards a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict as the international community addresses the reality of [...] Full text...

DRC, Rwanda meet on implementation of Washington peace agreement

09 august 2025 - 14:23:52 MA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The first Joint Security Coordination Mechanism meeting for the implementation of the Peace Agreement between the Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...

Swedish national Ingeborg Richardson appointed Deputy Special Representative of UNSMIL in Libya

09 august 2025 - 11:59:31 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Ingeborg Ulrika Ulfsdotter Richardson of Sweden as Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Support [...] Full text...

Israel’s military takeover of Gaza City would mark ‘a dangerous escalation’: Guterres

08 august 2025 - 20:35:05 MA

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed grave concern over Israel’s decision to “take control of Gaza City”, his Spokesperson said [...] Full text...

Sudan welcomes AU Peace and Security Council’s stance towards developments in the country

08 august 2025 - 17:37:38 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has welcomed a statement by the African Peace and Security Council rejecting and condemning the establishment of a parallel government to [...] Full text...

Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Libya on agenda of Libyan-UN meeting

08 august 2025 - 15:14:44 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya, Aeneas Chuma, met with the [...] Full text...

UN rights chief slams Israeli plan to take military control of Gaza; says it must stop now

08 august 2025 - 13:00:49 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN’s top human rights official insisted on Friday that the Israeli Government must not pursue a complete military takeover of [...] Full text...

South African foreign ministry expresses concern about former President Zuma's Morocco trip

08 august 2025 - 08:13:17 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) –  South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has registered its strong objection and concern regarding circumstances around [...] Full text...

Ghana's President Mahama appoints acting Defence and Environment ministers following deadly helicopter crash

07 august 2025 - 12:28:19 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, to take up additional responsibility as [...] Full text...

Sudan's PM Kamil arrives in Cairo on first foreign trip

07 august 2025 - 10:32:34 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese civilian Prime Minister, Dr Kamil Idris, arrived in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Thursday for his first official visit [...] Full text...

Landlocked nations ‘invisible to much of the world’: UN trade and development chief (By UN News)

07 august 2025 - 05:34:26 MA

Awaza, Turkmenistan (PANA) - Trapped by geography and squeezed by global market forces, the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries remain among the poorest – and [...] Full text...

‘Landlocked to landlinked’: UN summit seeks to turn geography into opportunity (By UN News)

07 august 2025 - 05:18:52 MA

Awaza, Turkmenistan (PANA) - For the world’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), geography isn’t just a challenge, it’s a costly barrier to trade. Cut off from [...] Full text...

Gaza: Security Council meets on hostage crisis amid ‘unbearable’ conditions facing Palestinian civilians

06 august 2025 - 06:53:26 MA

New York, US (PANA) - As conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel continue to deteriorate, a senior UN official upheld the need for [...] Full text...

Ways to promote political process in Libya at centre of meeting between President of Libyan Council and António Guterres

05 august 2025 - 14:28:49 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, discussed with UN Secretary-General, António Guterres ways to advance the Libyan political [...] Full text...

Geography shouldn't define destiny: UN summit on landlocked nations opens

05 august 2025 - 12:20:55 MA

Awaza, Turkmenistan (PANA) - Breaking down barriers and restoring fairness in global development should be the goal of the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing [...] Full text...

Malian PM attends 3rd Conference on Landlocked Countries in Turkmenistan

05 august 2025 - 12:00:54 MA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Major General Abdoulaye Maïga is taking part in the 3rd United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), [...] Full text...

Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns "proxy war" in Darfur undermines regional and continental peace

05 august 2025 - 11:39:16 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has officially claimed that mercenaries from a number of countries are involved in the raging war between the Sudanese [...] Full text...

Libya to hold Second phase of municipal elections on 16 August

04 august 2025 - 13:05:42 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The secind phase of 2025 municipal elections in 51 municipalites will be held on 16 August, the Council of Libya's High [...] Full text...

Sudanese Darfur group claims mercenaries fighting alongside militias

04 august 2025 - 12:19:39 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Joint Force of the Armed Struggle Movements (The Joint Force) has claimed that foreign Latin American mercenaries have [...] Full text...