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Sudanese military plane crashes in Omdurman, killing crew, civilians on ground
26 february 2025 - 17:58:04Omdurman, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese military aircraft on Tuesday evening crashed in Omdurman, north of Khartoum, the twin city [...] Full text...
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Attempted assassination in Tripoli of Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs condemned
13 february 2025 - 12:22:15Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The attempted assassination of Libya's Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Adel Jumaa, in Tripoli has [...] Full text...
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World ignores countdown to famine in Sudan, humanitarian charity warns
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South African President Ramaphosa offers condolences over DRC boat tragedy
09 october 2024 - 10:12:10Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his deep condolences to the Government and [...] Full text...
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Sudan, UAE govts in diplomatic row over embassy bombing
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South Africa: Popular Lesotho rapper killed in car crash
25 july 2024 - 13:39:15Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tributes are flooding in for popular Lesotho rapper Bokang Moleli who died in a car [...] Full text...
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UN remembers Nelson Mandela’s commitment to fight poverty and inequity
15 july 2024 - 18:59:09New York, US (PANA) - The UN paid tribute on Monday to the life and legacy of the first democratically [...] Full text...
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Refugee Paralympic Team heading to Paris
10 july 2024 - 06:40:24Bonn, Germany (PANA) - Eight athletes and one guide runner are set to compete in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games [...] Full text...
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More than 80 people missing after boat tragedy in south-western DR Congo
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Libyan PM expresses solidarity with Iran following the accidental death of President
20 may 2024 - 14:27:58Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhalid Al-Dbaiba, has expressed his "full [...] Full text...
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President of Burkina Faso pays tribute to Iranian President killed in helicopter crash
20 may 2024 - 14:19:28Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The President of the Transition in Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Monday paid tribute to [...] Full text...
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South Africa's legal fraternity mourns passing of prominent judge
10 may 2024 - 10:24:38Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tributes are pouring in following the death of former Constitutional Court Judge Yvonne Mokgoro [...] Full text...
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Senegal's Blaise Diagne Airport closed after aircraft runs off runway
09 may 2024 - 16:05:19Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD) in Diass, Senegal, was closed on Thursday after a TransAir [...] Full text...
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UN migration agency assists survivors of deadly shipwreck off Djibouti
25 april 2024 - 06:05:15Djibouti city, Djibouti (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is offering medical care, food, shelter and psychosocial support [...] Full text...
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UN chief calls for global action to defend women’s rights amid disturbing trends
11 march 2024 - 17:40:49New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Monday highlighted the urgent need to defend women's rights which are [...] Full text...
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'South Africa’s commercial airlines sector has zero fatal accident rate for four decades'
06 march 2024 - 09:15:24Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga says the country's commercial airlines sector has maintained a [...] Full text...
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Two killed in mid-air collision at Nairobi's Wilson airport
05 march 2024 - 13:59:14Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Two people were killed in a mid-air collision involving a training and passenger aircraft after take [...] Full text...
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Backlash over impeachment of prominent judges in South Africa
23 february 2024 - 12:05:29Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has slammed the impeachment of two prominent senior [...] Full text...
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At least 15 people killed in road accident in central Mali
20 february 2024 - 12:46:28Bamako, Mali (PANA) - At least fifteen people were killed and 46 others injured, some seriously, in a traffic accident [...] Full text...
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Remembering Holocaust victims, Guterres urges a stand against division
28 january 2024 - 06:04:11New York, US (PANA) - In remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a call [...] Full text...
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Several dead in the brazen excavation of an artisanal mine in Mali
24 january 2024 - 17:35:59Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Several people were killed last Friday when a gallery in a small-scale mine collapsed in [...] Full text...
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Ten die in Abidjan road accident
19 january 2024 - 11:42:28Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least 10 people have died and 10 others are injured in a road accident [...] Full text...
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South African artist injured in flying incident
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South African threatre producer Mbongeni Ngema killed in car crash
28 december 2023 - 08:43:56Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Leading South theatre producer and musician Mbongeni Ngema was killed in a vehicle accident [...] Full text...
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Eleven miners killed in South Africa shaft tragedy
28 november 2023 - 10:15:37Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Eleven miners have been killed and another 82 were injured following an underground mining [...] Full text...
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CAF mourns with family of diseased Wydad player
04 november 2023 - 07:43:44Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Confederation African Football (CAF) is saddened by the news of the sudden passing of Wydad [...] Full text...
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South Africa: Ramaphosa hails SA musician after New York concerts
10 october 2023 - 14:41:52Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - President Cyril Ramaphosa and Culture Minister Zizi Kodwa on Tuesday saluted South African musician [...] Full text...
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South African surgeon implants world's smallest pacemaker
04 october 2023 - 09:24:40Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African cardiologist has successfully implanted the world’s smallest pacemaker into a patient [...] Full text...
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South African artist gears for Madison Square Garden gig
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Mandela’s granddaughter dead at 43
26 september 2023 - 08:08:01Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Zoleka Mandela, the granddaughter of liberation heroes Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela Mandela, died [...] Full text...
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Storm Daniel tragedy gives Libya an international dimension
21 september 2023 - 19:31:55Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The damage and losses caused by the Mediterranean storm Daniel that hit eastern Libya on 10 [...] Full text...
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South Africa: Three dead in Cape Town submarine tragedy
21 september 2023 - 09:03:22Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Three South African Navy personnel have been confirmed dead after a massive wave hit [...] Full text...
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Former Scotland rugby great dies tragically in Cape Town
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45 people killed in Western Kenya road accident
30 june 2023 - 22:07:44Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - At least 45 people have been killed and 60 others hospitalized after a roadside crash which [...] Full text...
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Tunisia road accident kills 10 people
24 june 2023 - 14:22:24Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A total of 10 people were killed in a road accident on Friday in the region [...] Full text...
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Two seriously injured in peacekeepers' helicopter incident in northern Mali
16 june 2023 - 13:35:37Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Two passengers were seriously injured when a helicopter belonging to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation [...] Full text...
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20123 CAF Confed. Cup title: Algerian President honours USM Alger
13 june 2023 - 06:04:55Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - USM Alger were honoured with a state banquet by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune at the Presidential [...] Full text...
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South Africa's President Ramaphosa mourns Indian train tragedy
04 june 2023 - 13:04:20Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday expressed his condolences to the government and [...] Full text...
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At least 15 dead, 40 injured in Ghana road accident
30 may 2023 - 10:30:09Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At least 15 people are reported killed and some 40 others are injured in a road [...] Full text...
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Sudan conflict: Media forgotten in truce agreement; how journalists are faring in war situation (By Mohamed Osman Adam, PANA correspondent)
29 may 2023 - 12:35:56Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Over 500 journalists have lost their jobs since the outbreak of the fighting in Sudan on [...] Full text...
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Libyan newspaper sums up G7 Declaration as "constant nuclear terror and false peace".
26 may 2023 - 19:36:27Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan newspaper "Alsabaaah" said here Friday the Declaration of the Summit of the Group of [...] Full text...
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Seven illegal gold miners killed when pit collapses on them
16 may 2023 - 11:01:55Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Seven illegal gold miners have died when a pit in which they were mining collapsed on [...] Full text...
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Death toll in boat disaster involving school children rises to nine
11 may 2023 - 15:31:25Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The death toll in the boat disaster involving schoolchildren at an island community west of the [...] Full text...
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At least seven school children drown in boat disaster in Ghanaian capital
11 may 2023 - 06:34:20Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At least seven school children drowned on Wednesday when a boat carrying them from school capsized [...] Full text...
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One injured in freight train derailment in Côte d'Ivoire
09 april 2023 - 15:52:44Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A freight train bound for Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso derailed on Saturday in the [...] Full text...
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108 killed on Mauritian roads in 2022
01 april 2023 - 08:15:16Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – One hundred and eight people were killed on the Mauritian roads in 2022, same number as [...] Full text...
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Scores killed or missing in collapse of traditional gold mining area
31 march 2023 - 08:39:32Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least ten people were killed and dozens feared missing when a traditional gold mining mountain [...] Full text...
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About 30 sub-Saharan migrants reported missing off Tunisian coast
25 march 2023 - 14:38:22Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A Tunisian judicial source said on Friday that about 30 sub-Saharan migrants were missing off the [...] Full text...
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South Sudan: Humanitarians call for justice after latest deadly attack
20 march 2023 - 16:15:58Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Humanitarians have strongly condemned the latest deadly assault on aid workers in South Sudan, urging [...] Full text...
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'Diabetes, principal cause of deaths in Mauritius'
13 march 2023 - 08:15:00Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius said on Monday that diabetes mellitus was the leading cause of death in Mauritius in [...] Full text...
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Motor accident in Ghana claims 22 lives
06 march 2023 - 19:58:42Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A fatal motor acciddent Sunday claimed 22 lives in Ghana on the Kintampo-Yendi Highway between Babatokuma [...] Full text...
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Libya offers condolences to Algeria after deadly road accident
25 february 2023 - 15:50:14Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed condolences to Algeria following a traffic accident on [...] Full text...
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Four African children, woman migrants die in boat accident
06 february 2023 - 14:59:07Athens, Greece (PANA) - Four children and a woman died on Sunday when a dinghy carrying African migrants from the [...] Full text...
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Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs condoles with Chad following traffic accident
30 january 2023 - 19:36:48Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Unity has offered its sincere [...] Full text...
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20 die in oad traffic accident in Chad
27 january 2023 - 17:47:12Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least 20 people were killed on Friday in a road accident in Chad, Chadian [...] Full text...
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19 die inroad accident in Senegal
16 january 2023 - 14:12:23Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - At least 19 people died in a traffic accident on Sunday night in Mbengour, a village [...] Full text...
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Libya sympathises with Senegal over tragic road accident that killed about 40 people
09 january 2023 - 12:47:48Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has expressed its "sympathy and total solidarity" [...] Full text...
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Senegalese President declares three days of national mourning after 40 perish in road accident
09 january 2023 - 05:09:54Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall on Sunday declared three days of national mourning following a tragic road accident [...] Full text...
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UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ at deaths from South Africa gas tanker explosion
03 january 2023 - 05:07:36New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed his deep sadness over the reported death of at least [...] Full text...
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Seven workers die in accident at Burkina Faso airport construction site
02 january 2023 - 13:53:22Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Seven people were killed and six others injured on Friday when a building under construction [...] Full text...
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Four bodies of illegal migrants found off the Tunisian coast
15 november 2022 - 18:53:42Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian coast guard on Tuesday found a body of an illegal migrant, bringing to four [...] Full text...
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Police discover 21 bodies at unused South African mine
03 november 2022 - 10:58:28Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Police on Thursday confirmed that they have discovered two more bodies at a closed [...] Full text...
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Libya denounces 'terrorist' attack on Shia shrine in Iranian city of Shiraz
27 october 2022 - 16:01:51Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of National Unity Thursday [...] Full text...
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Two children injured in mine explosion south of Tripoli
16 october 2022 - 12:37:24Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Two children were injured on Saturday by a mine explosion in the Ain Zara neighbourhood, south [...] Full text...
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Kenyan transport regulator, auto manufacturer to enhance highway safety
29 september 2022 - 17:22:33Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Isuzu East Africa, a motor vehicle manufacturer, said Wednesday it was working with Kenya's National Transport [...] Full text...
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Concerns over growing xenophobic threat in South Africa
05 september 2022 - 12:31:12Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The High Commission of Nigeria has warned citizens living in South Africa to be [...] Full text...
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One worker dies after fire at Libyan oil field
25 august 2022 - 15:37:30Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - One worker has died and another injured after a fire broke out at an oil field [...] Full text...
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Libya expresses solidarity with Turkey following two road accidents
21 august 2022 - 15:08:59Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sunday expressed its sympathy and solidarity with [...] Full text...
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Plenary session of ibyan Parliament opens in Tobruk
15 august 2022 - 15:20:09Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The work of an official plenary session of the House of Representatives in Libya (Parliament) started [...] Full text...
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UN chief sympathises with families of victims of Egyptian church fire
15 august 2022 - 05:18:07New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed his condolences to the families of victims of Sunday's [...] Full text...
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Death toll from tanker explosion after injured evacuated abroad rises to 23
11 august 2022 - 18:48:22Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 23 people died in the fuel tanker explosion in Bint Baya in southern [...] Full text...
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Four more injured in Libyan fuel tanker explosion evacuated to Italy
06 august 2022 - 19:36:07Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Four more people injured in the explosion of a fuel tanker in Bint Baya, southern Libya, [...] Full text...
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MPs, activists from southern Libya request UNSMIL's support for region's involvement in decision-making
04 august 2022 - 11:17:05Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A delegation of members of Parliament and civil society representatives from southern Libya has requested the [...] Full text...
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Twelve persons killed in road accident on major Ghana highway
04 august 2022 - 10:37:41Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Twelve persons have been killed in a road accident on a major highway in western Ghana, [...] Full text...
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Libyan PM announces evacuation of injured from tanker explosion abroad
03 august 2022 - 18:57:59Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Prime Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdelhamid al-Dabaiba, has announced that arrangements had been [...] Full text...
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Four children drown in northern Burkina Faso
22 july 2022 - 18:45:39Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Four children drowned on Thursday in a river in Danaoua, a village located 5 kilometres [...] Full text...
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Nelson Mandela Day commemorated around the world
18 july 2022 - 12:52:25Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Millions of South Africans on Monday marked the former world statesman Nelson Mandela’s birthday, [...] Full text...
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Traffic accident claims seven lives in Tunisia
13 june 2022 - 19:52:28Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Seven persons died and four others were injured in a traffic accident that occurred on Monday [...] Full text...
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Libya loses 220,000 barrels of crude oil a day after pipeline linking oil field to port leaks
31 may 2022 - 18:16:14Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 220,000 barrels of oil per day were lost after a leak on the [...] Full text...
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Kenyans mourn departed third President Kibaki
26 april 2022 - 14:37:42Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Grieving Kenyan citizens thronged Parliament buildings in Nairobi's Central Business District for the second day on [...] Full text...
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Eight people still missing after floods in Burkina Faso mine
20 april 2022 - 05:13:15Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkina Faso Ministry of Mines said on Tuesday that eight people are still missing [...] Full text...
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Seven drown in Ghana boat accident
16 april 2022 - 05:56:58Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Seven people have drowned after the boat in which they were travelling on the Volta lake [...] Full text...
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Some 30 people killed in road accident in Chad
28 february 2022 - 16:07:24Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Chadian government Monday expressed concern over a motor accident that claimed some 30 lives [...] Full text...
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Burkina Faso: Six dead, 20 injured in a road accident in the West
24 february 2022 - 20:59:36Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Six people were killed and 20 others injured on Thursday in a road accident at [...] Full text...
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Uganda migrant labourers raise concern over organ trafficking in Arab states
15 february 2022 - 11:51:53Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Ugandan authorities are contemplating preferring charges against the directors of a company involved in sending domestic [...] Full text...
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Explosives manufacturing company at centre of huge Ghana explosion fined $6 million
08 february 2022 - 17:48:42Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's Ministry of Lands and Natural resources has imposed a $6 million fine on the company [...] Full text...
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Ethiopian Airlines returns B737 fleet back to the skies
02 february 2022 - 09:52:27Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Ethiopian Airlines flew the B737 MAX aicraft back to the skies on Tuesday on [...] Full text...
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Greece expresses solidarity with Ghana after explosion of truck carrying explosives
21 january 2022 - 12:20:15Athens, Greece (PANA) - Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs on Friday expressed solidarity with the government and people of Ghana [...] Full text...
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Number of casualties in Ghana explosion is 'at least 13': Vice President
21 january 2022 - 10:57:16Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The number of people who have died in Thursday's accident involving a truck conveying explosives to [...] Full text...
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At least 17 dead, 59 injured in Ghana explosion
21 january 2022 - 04:57:40Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At least 17 people had been confirmed dead in Thursday's explosion at Appiatse, in the Bogoso [...] Full text...
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Helicopter crash kills one in Tunisia
03 january 2022 - 16:58:07Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A military helicopter crashed Monday in the locality of Hicher in Bizerte (North) during a routine [...] Full text...
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Eritrean international cycling sensation killed in road crash
09 november 2021 - 20:21:07Asmara, Eritrea (PANA) - Eritrean international cycling sensation, Desiet Kidane, has died in a road accident during a training session, [...] Full text...
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UN mourns with Sierra Leone following deadly tanker crash
07 november 2021 - 17:04:52New York, US (PANA) - The UN chief has joined the whole UN System in Sierra Leone in mourning the victims [...] Full text...
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Ghana: 23 persons die in two road crashes in two days
05 november 2021 - 22:01:38Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A total of 23 persons were killed within two days this week along the Kumasi-Techiman Highway [...] Full text...
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Algeria moving on dangerously slippery slope in relations with Morocco
04 november 2021 - 20:52:45Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Algeria is moving on a dangerously slippery slope in its relations with Morocco that could plunge [...] Full text...
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Ten blue helmets injured in attack in Central African Republic
02 november 2021 - 19:41:43Bangui, CAR (PANA) - Ten unarmed Egyptian peacekeepers from the UN Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) were shot and [...] Full text...
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French Barkane soldier accidentally killed in Timbuktu, north-east Mali
13 october 2021 - 18:23:16Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Adrien Quélin, a 29-year-old mechanic with the Roc Noir desert battle group of the Barkhane force, [...] Full text...
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Mauritius PM calls for more vigorous actions to reduce road accidents
21 september 2021 - 07:43:13Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Monday described the rate of deaths in road accidents in [...] Full text...
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Seven Burkinabe girls killed as boat capsizes in Côte d'Ivoire
18 september 2021 - 18:49:59Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A boat carrying fishmongers capsized Friday evening while crossing the Sassandra River in Greikro, killing [...] Full text...
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Nigeria’s Accident Investigation Bureau submits report on crash that killed late COAS, General Attahiru
15 september 2021 - 21:37:00Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has submitted an interim report on the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) [...] Full text...
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Mauritius records 72 deaths in road accidents so far this year
13 september 2021 - 12:02:13Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A total of 72 people have died in road accidents since January 2021 in Mauritius, [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Increasing risk to migrant rights in Libya – UN report
06 september 2021 - 15:51:06Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls on, so too does its devastating impact on those in the [...] Full text...
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Malian, Senegalese Transport ministers guarantee free movement between their countries
26 august 2021 - 13:14:33Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Ministers of Transport and Infrastructure of Mali and Senegal have announced their commitment free movement [...] Full text...
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25 years on, world remembers Nigeria’s Atlanta’96 Olympics heroes
03 august 2021 - 17:09:19Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - August 3, 1996, would be etched forever in the memory of African football custodian and even [...] Full text...
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UNHAS flight crash lands in eastern Ethiopia
28 july 2021 - 12:49:53Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – World Food Programme (WFP) and local aviation authorities were on Wednesday carrying out a verification [...] Full text...
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AfDB Group-financed road interchange opens in Ghana
12 july 2021 - 14:52:12Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A modern road interchange financed by the African Development Bank Group has opened in the Ghanaian [...] Full text...
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Road crashes claim 622 lives in Mali in 2020
22 june 2021 - 13:22:51Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A total of 622 people were killed in traffic accidents in Mali in 2020 compared to [...] Full text...
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Beninese urged to donate blood to save lives
19 june 2021 - 14:04:51Cotonou Benin (PANA) - Benin's Minister of Health, Professor Benjamin Hounkpatin, has appealed to his compatriots to donate blood at [...] Full text...
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Libya: Widespread condemnation greets car bomb attack in southern region
07 june 2021 - 17:51:14Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A car bomb attack on Sunday night on a security post at the entrance to the [...] Full text...
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Nine illegal miners digging for gold in northeast Ghana drown in pit
03 june 2021 - 11:38:45Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Nine illegal miners digging for gold in northeast Ghana have drowned after the pit in which [...] Full text...
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Ghana: Three dead, 15 others trapped in mining pit
26 may 2021 - 23:56:25Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Three persons died while more than 15 others were still believed trapped following the collapse of [...] Full text...
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Nigerian Air Force mandates AIB-N to investigate Kaduna air crash
23 may 2021 - 19:45:06Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB -N) said it has been mandated by the Nigerian Air Force [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's Army chief dies in plane crash
22 may 2021 - 05:43:37Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, died in an air crash on Friday [...] Full text...
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Two Malian police officers from special force killed in traffic accident
01 may 2021 - 19:09:35Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Two police officers of the Special Antiterrorist Force (FORSAT), an elite Malian unit engaged in the [...] Full text...
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UNHCR, IOM concerned about sinking of 130 migrants off Libya
24 april 2021 - 13:53:51Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have [...] Full text...
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Tunisian Navy recovers 21 bodies of drowned sub-Saharan migrants
16 april 2021 - 15:58:04Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Navy units on Friday recovered 21 bodies of sub-Saharan clandestine migrants, including nine women and [...] Full text...
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At least 34 dead after smuggler's boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti
13 april 2021 - 06:00:45Obock, Djibouti (PANA) – At least 34 people have died after a boat operated by people smugglers, transporting approximately 60 migrants [...] Full text...
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21 die in Easter holiday road carnage in Zambia
06 april 2021 - 15:04:18Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - A total of 21 people died from 193 accidents recorded during the Easter holiday in Zambia. A [...] Full text...
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Guinea authorities investigate canoe accident that claimed 15 lives
31 march 2021 - 11:33:25Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean government on Tuesday opened an investigation into the capsizing of a dugout canoe on [...] Full text...
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Libyan PM asks Interior Minister to follow up on death of child in mine explosion
19 march 2021 - 09:54:31Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Mr. Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, has asked the Minister [...] Full text...
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(UPDATE) Death toll in road crash in Ghana rises to 19
26 february 2021 - 20:50:25Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The death toll in the Friday morning road accident involving two luxurious buses on the Accra-Kumasi [...] Full text...
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Sixteen die in road crash in Ghana
26 february 2021 - 16:23:52Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Sixteen persons died on the spot and several others were left in critical condition in the [...] Full text...
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Seven Nigerian Air Force officers killed in plane crash buried
26 february 2021 - 10:02:36Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Thursday buried the remains of seven young officers who died [...] Full text...
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Black box, cockpit recorder of crashed Nigerian Air Force aircraft recovered, bodies of 7 victims evacuated
21 february 2021 - 17:07:01Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The black box and the cockpit recorder of the crashed Nigeria Air Force (NAF) Beachcraft aircraft [...] Full text...
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American actress Ashley Judd hospitalised in South Africa
14 february 2021 - 11:18:44Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Leading American actress Ashley Judd is in intensive care in a Johannesburg hospital after [...] Full text...
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Nine perish in horrific road accident in Kenya
12 february 2021 - 18:10:52Nakuru, Kenya (PANA) - Nine people were killed on Friday morning in a grissly road accident, a head-on collision in [...] Full text...
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At least 18 passengers feared dead in Ghana road accident
03 february 2021 - 13:25:38Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At last 18 passengers are feared dead after two buses on which they were travelling collided [...] Full text...
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2021 CHAN: It's hosts Cameroon vs holders Morocco, Mali vs Guinea for places in the final
03 february 2021 - 08:15:57Limbe, Cameroon (PANA) - Hosts Cameroon will face a tough hurdle against defending champions Morocco when they lock horns in [...] Full text...
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Burkinabe president consoles Cameroonians after ghastly road accident
28 january 2021 - 10:39:13Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, on Wednesday extended his condolences to [...] Full text...
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Italy failed to rescue over 200 migrants in 2013 Mediterranean disaster, UN rights body finds
28 january 2021 - 05:59:40Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN rights committee said on Wednesday that Italy failed in its international obligations to protect [...] Full text...
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Ten feared dead, 30 in critical condition in Ghana road crash
27 january 2021 - 05:05:39Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ten people are feared dead and 30 others in critical condition following a road crash on [...] Full text...
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Twenty-one people killed in two road accidents in two Nigerian States
13 january 2021 - 09:25:27Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Twenty-one persons lost their lives on Tuesday in two separate road accidents in Niger and Oyo [...] Full text...
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Libyan Government of National Accord offers solidarity with Indonesia after airplane’s crash
10 january 2021 - 20:07:31Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya Sunday offered its full condolences and solidarity to Indonesia following the crash of an airplane [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Kenyan doctors agree to return to work after four-day strike
25 december 2020 - 19:17:16Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan dentist succumbed to the coronavirus disease on Friday, a day after a union of [...] Full text...
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Ten killed in central Mali road accident
25 december 2020 - 10:00:06Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Ten people were killed and 20 others injured in a road accident that occurred on Wednesday [...] Full text...
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Three security agents die in road accident in Tunisia
21 december 2020 - 12:16:16Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Three members of the Tunisian National Guard have been killed and two others injured, one of [...] Full text...
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South Africa: South African football star killed in car crash
13 december 2020 - 10:40:16Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Leading South African football player Motjeka Madisha was killed in a horrific vehicle accident [...] Full text...
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Six dead, five injured in Tunisia road accident
10 december 2020 - 11:48:10Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A road accident on Thursday morning in the department of Menzel Chaker, in the region of [...] Full text...
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South African race official hailed after horrific Grand Prix crash
30 november 2020 - 12:29:23Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African medical assistant is being hailed for the role he played in [...] Full text...
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At least six die in road accident in Burkina Faso
28 november 2020 - 10:27:33Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least six passengers on board a 70-seater bus were killed and 14 others injured [...] Full text...
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South African football star dies in car crash
23 november 2020 - 13:42:05Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's former football national defender Anele Ngcongca was killed in a car accident early Monday [...] Full text...
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Road accident leaves 47 people injured in Tunisian capital
22 november 2020 - 12:00:07Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A road accident following a collision between two buses Sunday morning here left 47 people injured, [...] Full text...
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Nine people killed in road accident in Mali
16 november 2020 - 11:37:07Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Nine people, including four brothers, were killed on Saturday around 6 p.m. local time (GMT), in [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Zambia sees 11% rise in road deaths during pandemic lockdown
22 october 2020 - 14:24:35Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - More people have died in road crashes in Zambia between July and September this year compared [...] Full text...
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Cote d'Ivoire: Road accident kills 18 Burkinabès
07 october 2020 - 17:43:51Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Eighteen Burkinabès were killed Wednesday morning in a road accident at the entrance to the [...] Full text...
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Mauritius bids to reduce the number of road accidents by 50% by 2025
06 october 2020 - 14:17:16Bell Village, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius on Tuesday launched the “Zero Accident” campaign that forms part of a Road Safety [...] Full text...
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Congo: Five killed, several wounded in road accident in center of country
21 september 2020 - 19:58:44Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Five people were killed and several others injured in a road accident Monday between the small [...] Full text...
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Six members of youth football team in Ghana die in road accident
20 september 2020 - 08:00:50Kumasi, Ghana (PANA) - Six members of a youth football team in Ghana, aged between 12 and 16 years, died [...] Full text...
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Buhari sad over death of 14 travellers whose vehicle plunged into a river
19 september 2020 - 19:23:15Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria on Saturday night said he is “saddened and aggrieved” over the [...] Full text...
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Road crash kills 11 women in Guinea
18 september 2020 - 15:36:16Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Twelve people including 11 women, who were returning from a weekly market in southern Guinea, died [...] Full text...
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At least 10 killed in Ghana road accident
15 september 2020 - 09:38:06Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At least 10 passengers are dead while over 80 others have sustained injuries in a road [...] Full text...
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Death toll in Rwanda's road crash rises to 4
12 september 2020 - 20:22:19Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The number of people who died in Rwanda's road accident involving a truck on the main [...] Full text...
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Three killed, 8 injured in road accident in Western Rwanda
12 september 2020 - 17:05:27Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least three people were killed and eight others injured in a road accident in the [...] Full text...
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Two killed, several wounded as truck hits crowd in Kigali
08 september 2020 - 21:54:15Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A truck with faulty brakes on Tuesday slammed into a group of people at a busy [...] Full text...
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Seven perish in Kenya road crash
24 august 2020 - 22:10:21Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Seven persons died in a freak road accident in Kenya late Monday. The accident along the Eldoret-Malaba [...] Full text...
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Five killed in North Western Rwanda road accident
21 august 2020 - 00:34:15Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least five people were killed in a road crash involving a car and a lorry [...] Full text...
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45 illegal migrants die off Libyan southwestern coasts, say UN organisations
19 august 2020 - 21:54:04Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Organisation for International Migration (OIM) and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said here [...] Full text...
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DR Congo initiates inquiry into deadly plane crash in South Kivu
17 august 2020 - 14:23:21Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - An inquiry has been launched into last week's plane crash that left four people dead in [...] Full text...
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Mauritania: Sadness and disappointment in Mauritania after Beirut explosions
05 august 2020 - 19:24:00Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani Wednesday sent his condolences to his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Aoun, [...] Full text...
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Mali: Three people killed in a traffic accident at Baguinéda
04 august 2020 - 17:08:44Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Three people died and seven others were seriously injured Tuesday morning in an accident involving two [...] Full text...
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UN Mission opens investigation into accidental landing of aircraft at Mali airport
04 august 2020 - 00:02:01Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The UN multidimensional integrated mission for Mali stabilization (MINUSMA) announced ''the opening of immediate investigation after [...] Full text...
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Six people killed in traffic accident 40 kilometers away from Bamako
03 august 2020 - 16:25:48Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Six people died following a traffic accident on Sunday in Kassela on the road to Ségou, [...] Full text...
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French soldier killed in operation in Chad
31 july 2020 - 22:29:40Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A French soldier was killed Friday as he was carrying out a maintenance intervention on [...] Full text...
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One dead, 11 survivors in capsizing migrant boat off Tunisian coast
28 july 2020 - 09:35:57Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A boat carrying illegal migrants capsized on Monday off the coast of Zarzis, in southeastern Tunisia, [...] Full text...
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Six killed in road accident in Tunisia
19 july 2020 - 19:08:17Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – A road accident, which occurred on Sunday in the outskirts of the city of Menzel Temim [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's first female combat helicopter pilot dies in road accident
15 july 2020 - 07:36:20Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is mourning the death of its first female combat helicopter pilot [...] Full text...
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COVID-19: ‘Women Rise for All’ to shape leadership in pandemic response and recovery
15 july 2020 - 06:34:28New York, US (PANA) - Although the COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented global health, humanitarian and development crisis, it has [...] Full text...
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Tunisian navy rescues migrants in difficulties at sea
14 july 2020 - 23:55:40Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian navy units Tuesday rescued a group of illegal migrants off the Mediterranean Sea,30 km off [...] Full text...
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Kenya loses two military pilots in helicopter crash
13 july 2020 - 12:32:44Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Two Kenyan military pilots died on Monday after the helicopter they were flying crashed at Kithyoko, [...] Full text...
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UNEP supports global food systems providing net positive impacts on nutrition, environment
13 july 2020 - 11:17:41Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – While progress on reducing hunger has stagnated in the last five years, evidence suggests [...] Full text...
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Seven people killed in collapsed wells at a gold panning site in western Mali
10 july 2020 - 15:02:25Bamako, Mali (PANA) - At least seven people died on Wednesday when four gold pits at a traditional gold panning [...] Full text...
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Death of a third Senegalese soldier following Monday's mine accident in Casamance
17 june 2020 - 18:45:47Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The number of Senegalese soldiers killed in the explosion of an anti-tank mine in the south [...] Full text...
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Two Senegalese soldiers killed in mine explosion in south of country
15 june 2020 - 21:16:14Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - Two Senegalese soldiers were killed and two others slightly wounded Monday around 14h GMT when an [...] Full text...
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Botswana Football Association supports ex-Zebra defender, Ramohibidu, now crippled
09 june 2020 - 16:37:53Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - To mark the 8th-year anniversary of the Zebras' qualification for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations [...] Full text...
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Five killed in Mali gold mine collapse
09 june 2020 - 13:06:49Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Five people were killed and at least seven others seriously injured on Sunday after a gold [...] Full text...
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Twenty people killed in traffic accident at Mali-Guinea border
21 may 2020 - 13:51:50Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Twenty people were killed in a road accident on Tuesday on the Solabougouda-Naréna section, close to [...] Full text...
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Three persons perish in auto accident in Burkina Faso
15 may 2020 - 16:43:11Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Three persons were killed and one injured on Friday morning in an accident involving two [...] Full text...
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Libyan oil company 'regrets' burning of four aviation fuel tanks in Maitigua airport bombing
10 may 2020 - 14:32:53Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) announced on Saturday evening that four aviation fuel tanks were [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Zambia records 13 new COVID-19 cases
04 may 2020 - 17:09:43Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia has recorded 13 new cases of COVID-19 from 811 tests conducted in the last 24 [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Mauritius to set up Preparedness Plan for Hospital Services
01 may 2020 - 07:41:14Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius will introduce a Preparedness Plan for its hospital services in a bid to render its [...] Full text...
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France welcomes legal proceedings on massacre of Cameroonian villagers
24 april 2020 - 15:01:08Paris, France (PANA) - France has welcomed the opening by Cameroonian authorities of legal proceedings against the alleged perpetrators of [...] Full text...
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One killed in road accident in Burkina Faso
15 april 2020 - 23:54:47Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A road accident Wednesday left one person dead on the Kaya Main-Road 3, some 45 [...] Full text...
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Two Malian soldiers killed in plane crash
08 april 2020 - 11:29:33Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A Malian Air Force plane crashed on Tuesday in Sévaré, in the central Mopti region, killing [...] Full text...
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Congo sets aside CFAF 35.6 million for burial of bodies abandoned in Brazzaville morgues
26 march 2020 - 14:24:04Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government has released FCFA 35,675,000 for the burial of 570 bodies abandoned in three [...] Full text...
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Guinean govt. pays tribute to 8 footballers killed in road accident
09 march 2020 - 22:27:03Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – ‘’We reaffirm our condolences to the families of the victims. Death is inevitable, but that of [...] Full text...
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More than 30 perish in gory road crash in Ghana
09 march 2020 - 15:07:51Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A ghastly road crash in Ghana involving a metro mass bus and a sprinter mini bus [...] Full text...
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More than 20 passengers feared dead in Ghana road accident
09 march 2020 - 10:45:24Tamale, Ghana (PANA) - More than 20 passengers are feared dead on Monday morning when a two buses collided head [...] Full text...
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Road crash claims 3 lives on Saturday in Bamako
08 march 2020 - 12:07:05Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Three people were killed and seven seriously injured in a traffic accident involving two public transport [...] Full text...
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The resignation of UN envoy to Libya, AU intentions to appoint a joint envoy highlighted in the news
07 march 2020 - 17:57:42Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The surprise resignation of the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, in the midst [...] Full text...
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Guinea to hold national funeral for 9 footballers killed in an accident
07 march 2020 - 17:38:55Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean government will organize a national funeral on Monday for the nine young footballers, members [...] Full text...
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Guinea: Seven footballers from the same team die in an accident
05 march 2020 - 20:34:00Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Eight people, including seven footballers, all members of the second division L'Etoile de Guinée were killed [...] Full text...
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Congo: Social security fund pays CFAF 58 billion in social benefits in 2019
04 march 2020 - 14:42:42Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's Director-General of the National Social Security Fund (CNSS), Evariste Ondongo, announced on Tuesday that the [...] Full text...
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11 people killed in Zambia as car plunges into river
02 march 2020 - 15:33:48Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Eleven people have died following a fatal accident which occurred when a car hit four people [...] Full text...
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UN human rights chief warns of women’s rights complacency
26 february 2020 - 05:58:40Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has warned against complacency on women’s rights [...] Full text...
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Tunisia: Five teachers of same school die in road accident
26 february 2020 - 01:12:11Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Five female teachers were killed Tuesday in a road accident near Kasserine, a region of the [...] Full text...
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Two Burkinabè soldiers killed in a road accident
23 february 2020 - 14:07:19Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Two Burkinabe soldiers were killed on Sunday in a road accident that also left two [...] Full text...
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France condemns massacre of villagers in Cameroun
19 february 2020 - 22:15:18Paris, France (PANA) - The spokesperson for the French ministry of foreign affairs, Agnès von der Mühll, Wednesday condemned the [...] Full text...
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Mauritius to set up a road safety observatory
18 february 2020 - 13:23:35Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Land Transport and Light Rail will, in collaboration with the University of [...] Full text...
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DRC’s president orders government to follow up victims of road accident
17 february 2020 - 22:31:20Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi Monday ordered the payment of all fees related to the [...] Full text...
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