UK High Court set to hear suit by Nigerian communities against Shell over pollution
10 february 2025 - 11:14:04Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - UK High Court will from 13 February to 10 March 2025 hear a case in a [...] Full text...
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Halal product market and consumers set to grow in West Africa
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Libyans begin Ramadan fasting
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Monday’s exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi
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Climate change: La Niña fades, as global heat keeps rising
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Top UN official in Libya urges parties to promote status of women
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Libya’s electoral framework at centre of fourth meeting of UN Advisory Committee
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CFAF 15 billion already invested in Benin’s special employment integration programme
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - UK High Court will from 13 February to 10 March 2025 hear a case in a [...] Full text...
ECOWAS court dismisses claims of Right Violation against Liberia
07 june 2024 - 07:36:18Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court, sitting in Abuja on Thursday, dismissed all claims brought by a Liberian citizen [...] Full text...
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Rights group accuses armed groups of war crimes in besieged localities in Burkina Faso
04 november 2023 - 06:13:10Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Ansaroul Islam and other armed groups are enforcing brutal sieges in localities across Burkina Faso [...] Full text...
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AU vows to end environmental pandemics linked to climate change
04 september 2023 - 12:38:26Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The African Union has decried the rise in climate change-related disasters and pandemics and vowed to [...] Full text...
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Senior UN official urges international community not to forget South Sudan's refugee crisis
08 june 2023 - 11:20:26Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, Raouf Mazou, has urged the international [...] Full text...
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WFP responds to impact of cyclone Freddy in Malawi
19 march 2023 - 05:22:44Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has stepped up an emergency response to help an [...] Full text...
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Feature - Climate Change: Inside struggles of Gambian flood victims
28 november 2022 - 18:10:46Banjul, The Gambia (PANA) - A 22-year-old young man from Tobacco Road, the hardest hit area by the latest flash [...] Full text...
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Millions face harm from flooding across West and Central Africa, UNHCR warns
28 october 2022 - 11:45:23Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning of surging needs for more than 3.4 million displaced [...] Full text...
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UNHCR warns of surging needs in Sudan amid skyrocketing prices and gaps in humanitarian funding
23 september 2022 - 11:54:18Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Friday warned of "spiralling humanitarian needs" for refugees [...] Full text...
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UNHCR supports peaceful end to conflict between herders, farmers in South Sudan
20 april 2022 - 10:51:09Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Semi-nomadic cattle herders blamed for a spate of deadly clashes with settled farmers in South [...] Full text...
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Gambian women raise concern about access to maternity health facilities
31 march 2022 - 10:00:17Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia’s National Human Right Commission (NHRC) has said dozens of women in the West African nation [...] Full text...
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UNHCR, partners rush aid to thousands in Mozambique after Tropical Cyclone Gombe
22 march 2022 - 12:00:13Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), alongside Mozambique’s government and humanitarian partners, is rushing to assist thousands [...] Full text...
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The Climate Crisis is a Human Rights Crisis, says rights group
31 october 2021 - 10:42:19Glasgow, Scotland (PANA) - As world leaders gather in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) this week, the stakes [...] Full text...
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UNHCR responding to worst flooding in decades in South Sudan
20 october 2021 - 06:04:10Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is supporting the Government of South Sudan in assisting people hit hard by the worst [...] Full text...
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Ethiopian crisis: Defence Forces claim 'terrorist' TPLF 'extensively crushed'
15 october 2021 - 13:01:12Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Ethiopian government says the National Defence and other forces have "extensively crushed" the "terrorist [...] Full text...
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Bandits kill 7, raze 250 houses northcentral Nigeria
02 august 2021 - 07:33:25Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Bandits have killed seven persons and razed down over 250 houses in some communities at Miango [...] Full text...
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"I’ll fight terrorism to the end, return IDPs back to normal lives", says Buhari
17 june 2021 - 18:30:49Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Maiduguri, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, assured citizens of the Federal Government's [...] Full text...
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Fulani herders, leaders bicker with Nigerian military over killing of cows by airstrikes in Nasarawa State
16 june 2021 - 14:38:15Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) –Fulani herders and the Armed Forces of Nigeria are bickering over reports that two military aircraft conducted [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: USAID buoys peace building supports between rival farmers and herders in Taraba State,
17 february 2021 - 20:27:54Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with a coalition of international and local partners, [...] Full text...
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Over 270,000 people affected by Cyclone Eloise in Southern Africa - OCHA
29 january 2021 - 09:12:50Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - More than 270,000 people have been affected by Tropical Cyclone Eloise across Southern Africa, including 267,289 [...] Full text...
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Ethiopian Crisis: Ethiopia warns Sudan over cross-border violence
29 december 2020 - 12:27:17Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopia has warned it would take drastic measures against Sudan should border violations near Tigray [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Outrage as Boko Haram kills 43 farmers
29 november 2020 - 20:02:46Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The horrific killing of at least 43 rice farmers at Zabarmari in the Jere Local Government [...] Full text...
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Gambia’s disaster affects over 60,000 people - Report
11 october 2020 - 20:41:32Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - More than 60,000 people have been affected by natural disasters, the country’s disaster management agency report [...] Full text...
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Lion causing panic in southern Senegal
02 october 2020 - 16:59:54Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - A lion, which walks freely on the streets of Oussouye, in Casamance, southern Senegal, is causing [...] Full text...
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Deadly flooding adds new danger to communities fleeing Sahel violence
25 september 2020 - 05:22:46Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Humanitarians have stepped up assistance to communities “on the brink”, who have been affected by devastating [...] Full text...
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Since April 2020, floods have claimed 41 lives, 112 wounded in Burkina Faso -Official
22 september 2020 - 23:38:20Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A wave of floods and heavy winds in all thirteen regions of Burkina Faso has [...] Full text...
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Gambia: Floods and windstorms affect 20,708 persons from 912 households
11 september 2020 - 17:22:24Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia National Disaster Management Agency has reported that flash floods and windstorms have affected 20,708 persons [...] Full text...
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Death toll in northern Ghana floods up to 10
09 september 2020 - 10:34:23Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The death toll in floods in northern Ghana after heavy rains and spillage of water from [...] Full text...
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At least four drown after heavy rains in northern Ghana
07 september 2020 - 06:00:57Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At least four persons have been confirmed dead following a week-long heavy rains in Ghana's North [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Buhari assures on restoration of security in Northeast, other parts of Nigeria
10 august 2020 - 17:49:15Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday gave strong assurances that security will be restored to Borno State, [...] Full text...
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Nigerian president 'surprised' at spate of armed banditry attacks
29 january 2020 - 07:51:58Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday in Abuja said that his administration is surprised by the [...] Full text...
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UN meteorological agency warns of another year of record gas emissions
25 november 2019 - 18:00:08Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, [...] Full text...
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Buhari says Nigerian farmers helped save billions of dollars annually from food importation
23 november 2019 - 18:17:38Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday commended Nigerian farmers for “saving us billions of dollars yearly [...] Full text...
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OCHA says 40,000 displaced persons affected by flooding in 2 local councils in Northeast Nigeria
17 november 2019 - 14:29:30Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that “no fewer than” 40,000 [...] Full text...
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Diffa: After Boko Haram, floods wreak havoc on thousands of people, devastates villages, farmlands
15 november 2019 - 23:02:17Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The governor of the Diffa region, Issa Lémine, said here Friday that people living along the [...] Full text...
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Over 100,000 people homeless as flood ravages seven local councils in Northcentral Nigeria
30 october 2019 - 17:01:37Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Over 100,000 people, including students of the Benue State University (BSU), were Tuesday rendered homeless as [...] Full text...
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Flood kills 18 people, sacks TV station in Nigeria
24 october 2019 - 17:54:20Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday said that 18 people died while 41,959 others [...] Full text...
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Rising sea water levels causing flooding in parts of Nigeria's Lagos State
19 october 2019 - 10:58:32Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The menace of flooding in Nigeria continues as the country's commercial capital, Lagos, alerted residents on [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's president 'shocked' over continued killings in his home State
23 may 2019 - 06:29:49Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday expressed shock over the continued killings by armed bandits of [...] Full text...
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Twenty-eight people, 319 cattle killed in fresh killings in northeast, central Nigeria
01 may 2019 - 09:55:19Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The gale of violence across Nigeria has continued with the Police confirming the killing of 28 [...] Full text...
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Armed bandits kill 3,526; injure 8,219 in three States of northwest Nigeria in five years
10 april 2019 - 08:01:39Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Zamfara State government in northwest Nigeria said on Tuesday said that 3,526 persons were killed by [...] Full text...
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IFAD and Egypt promote resilience in desert environments
19 february 2019 - 12:53:39Rome, Italy (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Egypt signed a financing agreement on Tuesday to [...] Full text...
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IFAD operations improve living conditions in rural Tunisia - Report
23 october 2018 - 11:08:50Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Development projects financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have contributed to better living [...] Full text...
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EU provides 1m Euros for flood victims in Nigeria
14 october 2018 - 10:03:19Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The European Commission has mobilised one million Euros to support the victims of the current flooding [...] Full text...
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Guinea's bauxite mining boom threatens rights - HRW says
04 october 2018 - 11:52:08Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea’s fast-growing bauxite mining industry is threatening the livelihoods of thousands of Guineans, Human Rights Watch [...] Full text...
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Uganda hosts world’s fastest growing refugee crisis
24 april 2018 - 16:12:15Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Across the Great Lakes region, some 7.4 million people are uprooted, with Uganda now [...] Full text...
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Rwanda distributes humanitarian materials to flood-hit families
06 march 2018 - 11:01:34Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwandan Government, in collaboration with the Rwanda Red Cross, has distributed about $18,000 worth of [...] Full text...
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Nigeria Police put on red alert over resurgence of terrorist attacks
22 november 2017 - 18:29:48Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – With the increasing spate of terrorist attacks on worship centres, especially in northeast Nigeria, Inspector General [...] Full text...
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UN report urges Sudan to address plight of millions of IPDs in Darfur
22 november 2017 - 05:10:44Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The United Nations human rights office has called on the Government of Sudan to pursue effective, [...] Full text...
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Burkina Faso: Government lays out plan to stave off famine in Burkina Faso
16 october 2017 - 20:08:22Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Facing the possibility of famine hitting several areas of Burkina Faso, the country's Ministry of [...] Full text...
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India: Solar power revolution offers hope for farm industrialisation in Nigeria
28 june 2017 - 08:16:21Ahmedabad, India (PANA) – Farmers in Nigeria have an opportunity to link up to affordable energy solutions, including solar power, [...] Full text...
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India: 'AfDB agri-business funding lays strong foundation for transforming African agriculture'
23 may 2017 - 16:54:41Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided a roadmap to the growth of agriculture in African [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Gunmen kill 31 in northwestern Nigerian State of Kaduna
15 november 2016 - 18:57:54Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – About 31 people were killed and several others injured as unknown gunmen attacked four communities in [...] Full text...
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Ethiopia: Ethiopians, foreign investors count losses after Oromia violence
06 october 2016 - 21:07:33Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - At least 11 factories owned by foreign investors were burnt down in the violent protests [...] Full text...
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Ethiopia: Scores killed after stampede at Ethiopian religious festival
02 october 2016 - 17:35:25Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Scores of people have been killed in a stampede in Bishoftu, Ethiopia's industrial town, after [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Denmark to assist Nigeria in removing landmines
23 september 2016 - 07:38:24Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – A six-member delegation from the Danish Refugee Council has offered to assist Nigeria remove mines planted [...] Full text...
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Kenya: African green revolution takes shape after a decade
06 september 2016 - 09:04:59Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A decade of intense domestic attention to farmers and food production has generated “the most successful [...] Full text...
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Kenya: AfDB chief offers roadmap towards agriculture transformation in Africa
26 august 2016 - 16:22:31Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina has outlined a roadmap towards the transformation of agriculture [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: World Bank pledges US$50 million for farmers in Boko Haram-ravaged N/East Nigeria
11 august 2016 - 15:55:59Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The World Bank has pledged a total of US$50 million in support of Nigeria’s agricultural sector [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Recoveries from looted funds, Muhammad Ali's death fill Nigerian papers
04 june 2016 - 14:40:30Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Government's "bombshell" on recoveries from looted funds and the sudden death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Govt. announces recovery of huge amounts of money from looted funds
04 june 2016 - 13:01:33Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government on Saturday announced the recovery over 78.3 billion Naira, US$185.1 million, 3.5 million [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Rights group says Shell must clean up oil pollution in Niger Delta
02 june 2016 - 05:32:02Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The multinational oil giant Shell must not be allowed to palm off its responsibility to clean [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Boko Haram terrorists lay landmines on farmlands in Nigeria
26 april 2016 - 19:30:36Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Defence Headquarters Tuesday alerted Nigerians on the new tactics of Boko Haram terrorists, saying [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Buhari pledges to secure Nigeria, presents 2016 Budget of US$30.4 billion
22 december 2015 - 13:16:15Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, has pledged to secure the country, rebuild its economy and make Africa's [...] Full text...
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UN: UN humanitarian official says Boko Haram violence fastest growing crisis in Africa
01 october 2015 - 15:22:51New York, US (PANA) - The humanitarian fallout from the violence inflicted by Boko Haram is the fastest growing crisis [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: 500 farmers to benefit from agric programme in Nigeria
24 june 2014 - 17:42:51Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 500 farmers will benefit from the second phase of the Social Enterprise Programme (SEP), designed [...] Full text...
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Senegal: AI says 'gold rush' in Senegal violates rights of communities
30 may 2014 - 22:31:18Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Amnesty International has said the "Gold Rush" in Senegal violates the human rights of communities. The verdict [...] Full text...
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UN: UN agencies scale up relief measures in northern Mali
27 may 2014 - 22:22:45New York, US (PANA) - The UN says its relief agencies and their partners are scaling up relief assistance in [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Senate mandates 4 committees to probe continuing violence in the North
20 march 2014 - 17:24:29Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Senate Thursday mandated its committees on Security and Intelligence, Defence and Army, Police Affairs [...] Full text...
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Special Security: Terrorism, armed conflicts, kidnapping still a challenge in Nigeria (News Analysis by Semiu Babalola)
12 january 2014 - 21:06:34Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Even though the frequency of attacks on places of worships and other targets by suspected terrorists [...] Full text...
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UN says 15,000 people need relief in Niger flood-hit region
03 december 2013 - 22:21:37New York, US (PANA) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday said more [...] Full text...
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Pilot programme of agric project to empower women takes off in Nigerian state
22 november 2013 - 13:53:41Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The pilot scheme of a project designed to assist Nigerian women farmers in agricultural development has [...] Full text...
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UN to hear plight of South Africa's farmers
12 september 2013 - 07:56:01Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s lobby group AfriForum organisation said it had teamed up with the families [...] Full text...
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AU Summit begins, seeks rapid industrialization to fight poverty
27 january 2013 - 09:33:36Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African leaders opened the 20th session of the African Union (AU) Assembly on Sunday, with [...] Full text...
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Satellite Sentinel Project releases images of burning Sudanese villages
06 december 2012 - 08:48:38New York, US (PANA) - The US-based Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has released new DigitalGlobe imagery confirming reports in November [...] Full text...
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Missing oil money, floods and famine dominate headlines in Nigeria
27 october 2012 - 08:56:35Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 86.65 billion Naira (about US$ 578 million) oil money, earned in 10 years and part [...] Full text...
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Nigerian papers highlighted by power reforms, devastating floods, first lady's return
21 october 2012 - 11:03:56Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The commencement of the big reform in the power sector, devastating floods and the return of [...] Full text...
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Flood disaster: Nigeria President's country home submerged
17 october 2012 - 15:30:03Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The country home of Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan in Otuoke in the oil-rich Bayelsa state has [...] Full text...
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Four farmers commit suicide over flood losses in Nigeria
15 october 2012 - 09:12:38Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Four farmers whose farmlands were washed away by the flood that has ravaged Nigeria's central Kogi [...] Full text...
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Ravaging floods, Bakassi peninsula dominate newspaper headlines in Nigeria
13 october 2012 - 09:12:50Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The floods that wreaked havoc across the country, the Bakassi question and plans to refurbish oil [...] Full text...
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Nigeria to spend 17.6b naira to mitigate effects of 'unprecedented' flooding
09 october 2012 - 07:39:46Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria is to spend a total of 17.6 billion naira to mitigate the effects of ''unprecedented'' [...] Full text...
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Worst flooding in 80 years affects millions in Niger
20 september 2012 - 15:33:16Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - International aid agency Oxfam on Thursday warned that devastating floods in Niger are affecting [...] Full text...
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Fresh floods displace about 13,500 in 30 communities in north-eastern Nigeria
18 september 2012 - 21:26:55Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A new wave of floods have hit the north-eastern Nigerian State of Taraba with the Nigerian [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's main opposition party wants oil firms punished for pollution
18 march 2012 - 14:32:56Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has sharply criticized the federal government for allegedly [...] Full text...
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Over 100,000 flee fresh violence in eastern DRC since November
20 january 2012 - 18:35:21Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency is concerned about fresh violence in the eastern regions of the Democratic [...] Full text...
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Study of large land deals finds evidence of harm than benefits
14 december 2011 - 08:20:57Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The most comprehensive study of large land acquisitions in developing countries to date, published [...] Full text...
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Massacre of nomadic herdsmen, Mills-Ban meeting highlighted in Ghana media
10 december 2011 - 08:13:44Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The massacre of more than a dozen Fulani herdsmen in northern Ghana, a meeting between President [...] Full text...
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FAO report highlights threats to global food production
29 november 2011 - 18:19:35New York, US (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report that global food production was [...] Full text...
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British, French firms linked to African land grabs
05 october 2011 - 16:57:40Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A French wealth fund and a United Kingdom-based asset management fund have been named the biggest [...] Full text...
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Climate change congress opened in Nigeria
21 september 2011 - 23:37:23Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A two-day African Mayoral Climate Change meeting opened on Wednesday in Nigeria's commercial city of [...] Full text...
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300b Naira lost to flood in Nigeria
13 september 2011 - 09:49:32Lagos, Nigeria(PANA) - Assets worth 300 billion naira have been lost to the various flood disasters that have ravaged the [...] Full text...
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African farmlands lose fertility due to degradation, says FAO
08 september 2011 - 15:26:58Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - About 6.3 million hectares of farmland have lost their fertility and water-holding capacity due to [...] Full text...
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Scores feared dead as multiple explosions rock Nigerian city
25 december 2010 - 10:30:19Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Scores of people were feared dead or injured when multiple explosions rocked Nigeria's northern city of [...] Full text...
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Nigeria court jails 15 over ethno-religious crisis
16 december 2010 - 18:35:41Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nine months after Nigeria's central city of Jos erupted in an ethno-religious violence that the police [...] Full text...
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3-day fasting, prayer begin for Nigeria violence victims
11 march 2010 - 07:54:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A three-day fasting and prayer period started Thursday f or the hundreds of people who were [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's Acting President orders investigation into mass killings
09 march 2010 - 07:24:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As victims of Sunday killings in Nigeria's northern Plat eau state were given a mass burial [...] Full text...
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55 die in Jos violence - Police
08 march 2010 - 13:45:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The police command in Nigeria's northern Plateau state h as put the death toll from Sunday's [...] Full text...
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Mass burial for victims of Nigeria's latest sectarian violence
08 march 2010 - 07:42:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Plateau state government plans to give a mass burial to the hundreds of people, mostly [...] Full text...
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SA court grants white Zimbabwe farmers permission to sue Harare govt
14 january 2010 - 08:15:00Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The North Gauteng Supreme Court in Pretoria, So uth Africa, on Wednesday granted permission [...] Full text...
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Nigeria counts losses from climate change
17 december 2009 - 09:59:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As the world meets to find ways of mitigating the impact of climate change, Nigeria, like [...] Full text...
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Experts urge vulnerable nations to collaborate in climate change war
16 december 2009 - 23:13:00-s last few days with little commitment by develope-d nations to sped up the deadl i ne for reduction [...] Full text...
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Kenya to develop climate change policy
27 october 2009 - 17:44:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan Ministry of Environment is working towards a developing a comprehensive climate change policy for [...] Full text...
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Africa's food prospects good, policy needs improvement - FAO
28 september 2009 - 16:13:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The recent positive performance of agriculture in sub-Sa haran Africa indicated a break with the past [...] Full text...
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FAO roots for increased investment in agro research
26 september 2009 - 11:12:00By David Jagongo- PANA Correspondent Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) -- Boosting agricultural production to the levels needed to feed an expanded [...] Full text...
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Seven killed in northern Ghana floods
18 september 2009 - 20:17:00Accra- Ghana (PANA) â" The Ghanaian authorities an-nounced on Friday that seven people have died in three regions in the [...] Full text...
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Shell cleans up oil spill site in Nigeria
24 march 2009 - 08:03:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has commenced the cleaning o f an oil spill site at the [...] Full text...
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'Pests invade farmlands in Liberia'
26 january 2009 - 08:12:00New York- US (PANA) -- The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) said hordes of caterpillar worms were destroying crops and [...] Full text...
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Groups canvass end to gas flaring in Nigeria
13 january 2009 - 12:37:00Lagos- Nigeria(PANA) -- Two environmental bodies - Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) and Environmental Rights Action (ERA) - have [...] Full text...
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