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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Environment Minister Dion George has saluted hundreds of South African firefighters who have departed [...] Full text...
Israel-Gaza crsis: ‘History is judging us all,’ Guterres says in fresh appeal for Gaza aid access
28 october 2023 - 07:45:20New York, US (PANA) - With the humanitarian system in Gaza on the verge of "total collapse", UN Secretary-General António [...] Full text...
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UN ready to assist people affected by deadly blaze in South Africa - Guterres
01 september 2023 - 15:26:58New York, US (PAMA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has underlined support for South Africa in the wake of the [...] Full text...
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South African officials 'sweep' Johannesburg fire disaster building
01 september 2023 - 12:33:41Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - South African officials on Friday deployed police dogs to help "sweep the building" in Johannesburg [...] Full text...
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Suspect accused of torching South Africa's Parliament confesses in court
13 july 2023 - 09:59:01Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The man accused of causing millions of dollars of damage by setting fire to [...] Full text...
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Libyan PM orders investigation into petrol tanker fire in Benghazi, will compensate victims
24 may 2022 - 22:00:26Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, has instructed the Ministry [...] Full text...
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UN-backed report warns of rising wildfire threat
23 february 2022 - 20:57:58Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Wildfires are projected to rise by 50 per cent by the end of the century due [...] Full text...
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Arrest made in connection with South Africa's Parliament fire
02 january 2022 - 20:01:19Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - An arrest has been made in connection with a large fire on Sunday that [...] Full text...
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Major fire damages South Africa's Parliament
02 january 2022 - 12:03:10Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A major fire Sunday caused extensive damage the country's Parliament, official sources told PANA [...] Full text...
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Fire breaks out in South Africa's Houses of Parliament
02 january 2022 - 10:24:09Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Fire broke out in South Africa's Houses of Parliament in Cape Town early on [...] Full text...
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Egypt dispatches two helicopters to help Greece extinguish wildfires
09 august 2021 - 09:44:48Athens, Greece (PANA) - Two Egyptian Chinook helicopters have arrived in Greece to join in efforts to extinguish wildfires raging [...] Full text...
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African migrants volunteer to tackle huge fires in northern Athens
06 august 2021 - 15:49:06Athens, Greece (PANA) - Dozens of African migrants in Greece volunteered on Friday to support firefighting teams on a number [...] Full text...
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South Africa's famous library damaged by fire
19 april 2021 - 16:02:49Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The famous African Studies Library at the University of Cape Town has been ravaged [...] Full text...
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Burkinabe President condoles with Niger over the death of 20 children
14 april 2021 - 17:03:43Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkinabè President, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, on Wednesday offered his condolences to the people of [...] 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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Firefighters working to contain blaze on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
12 october 2020 - 18:49:27Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Fire fighters are working to extinguish a wild fire that broke out on the [...] Full text...
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Senegalese president calls for acceleration of flood control mechanisms
10 september 2020 - 15:59:59Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall on Wednesday called on the government to speed up the optimal implementation [...] Full text...
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Senegalese president announces emergency fund against floods
09 september 2020 - 09:40:21Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Government of Senegalese will release an emergency fund of 10 billion CFA francs to fight [...] Full text...
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Cote d'Ivoire: At least 10 reported killed in landslide after downpour
18 june 2020 - 14:20:14Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A landslide left a dozen people dead and a lot of damage on Thursday in [...] 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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New shelling targets districts in Tripoli
09 may 2020 - 14:58:50Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - New rocket fire on Saturday targeted residential areas near Maitigua airport in the eastern suburbs of [...] Full text...
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Garage fire kills one, seriously injures another in Ouagadougou
06 february 2020 - 14:44:04Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - One person was killed while another was seriously injured on Wednesday in a fire that [...] Full text...
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Security guard injured in attack on fuel storage near Tripoli
17 january 2020 - 12:59:53Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A security officer at an oil facility was injured on Thursday evening when several shells fell [...] Full text...
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NOC calls for cessation of clashes in Tripoli after shell falls on gas warehouse
19 november 2019 - 13:57:13Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) has called for immediate cessation of clashes and for all [...] Full text...
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Senegalese president wants 2020 to be year of road safety
07 november 2019 - 12:48:55Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegalese President Macky Sall has expressed his desire to make 2020 the year of road safety [...] Full text...
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Two dead, two injured in Burkina Faso road accident
29 october 2019 - 09:51:04Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Two people were killed and two others injured in a road accident about 20 kilometres [...] Full text...
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Fire guts Dosso market in Niger
07 october 2019 - 18:30:04Dosso, Niger (PANA) - Fire on Sunday gutted much of the Dosso Market (140 km east of Niamey), the Nigerien [...] Full text...
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Malian Ministry urges drivers of articulated lorries to comply with Highway Code
30 september 2019 - 17:09:41Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's Ministry of Transport and Urban Mobility has called on owners of tractor-trailers and motor tricycles [...] Full text...
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Six killed in fuel tanker explosion in Bamako district
25 september 2019 - 12:10:38Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Six people were killed and 46 others seriously injured when a 15,000-litre tanker exploded, followed by [...] Full text...
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Seven passengers killed in road crash in western Burkina Faso
23 september 2019 - 15:39:08Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Seven people were killed late Sunday in a traffic accident involving a minibus and a [...] Full text...
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Bus accident kills four in western Burkina Faso
03 september 2019 - 14:08:56Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least four persons were killed early Tuesday when a public bus overturned at Siniéna [...] Full text...
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Power relay station hit by shell in Tripoli War damaged by fire
02 september 2019 - 12:04:15Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan General Electricity Company (GECOL) announced on Monday that fire caused by a shell that [...] Full text...
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AFCON 2019: Paris and Marseille mobilize several thousand police officers for the final
19 july 2019 - 15:02:05Paris, France (PANA) - Several thousand police officers will be mobilized Friday night in Paris and Marseille to check possible [...] Full text...
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Massive fire guts several shops in popular household-appliance market in Rwanda
13 july 2019 - 18:15:42Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A fire gutted hundreds of shops in a market for construction and household appliances in Kimironko, one [...] Full text...
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Huge fire destroys hundreds of hectares of forest in central Tunisia
10 july 2019 - 09:26:23Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A huge fire broke out on Tuesday evening in Jebel Serj, in central Tunisia, destroying hundreds [...] Full text...
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NOC helps contain fire in forest near Tripoli
09 june 2019 - 17:03:47Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Sunday that its civil protection teams have helped [...] Full text...
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US concerned about attacks on Libyan oil infrastructure
01 june 2019 - 14:09:55Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US embassy in Tripoli stated that "the United States government is deeply concerned about the [...] Full text...
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Niger's Zinder Int'l airport goes under ASECNA management
26 march 2019 - 16:48:28Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The Nigerien government on Tuesday announced the inclusion of Zinder International Airport (900 km east of [...] Full text...
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Operations resume after flight disruptions at Nairobi's international airport
06 march 2019 - 18:16:17Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Operations returned to near normal at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Wednesday, after a protracted [...] Full text...
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Fire wipes out whole village in southern Senegal
02 march 2019 - 14:38:04Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - A village in southern Senegal was wiped off the map on Friday night by a violent [...] Full text...
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Cape Verde: Five-year-old child burned in fire outbreak
18 january 2019 - 21:07:52Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - A five-year-old child was seriously burned in a domestic fire outbreak on Tuesday night at [...] Full text...
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Differences from Libya's Presidential Council members exacerbating the political crisis (Analysis by TALL Mamadou)
18 january 2019 - 19:06:46Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The open differences involving members of the internationally-recognized Presidential Council of the Government of National Unity [...] Full text...
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Fire engulfs armoury of military base in Ghana
16 january 2019 - 05:19:32Accra, Ghana (PANA) - An armoury of a military base near the industrial city of Tema, about 25 km east [...] Full text...
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Thirteen perish in Kenyan road accident
22 december 2018 - 14:36:56Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Thirteen people were killed on Friday night when a 14-seater minibus collided head on with a [...] Full text...
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Togo Electoral Commission building in Moyen-Mono catches fire
19 december 2018 - 16:33:08Lome, Togo (PANA) - A fire has damaged the building of the Togo Independent Local Electoral Commission (CELI) in the [...] Full text...
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Cyclone Ava dominates media coverage in Mauritius
06 january 2018 - 14:05:34Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The New Year festivities were marked in Mauritius by the passage of tropical cyclone Ava, [...] Full text...
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Gambia: Justice minister assures human rights victims of justice
21 july 2017 - 12:05:57Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian Minister of Justice on Friday assured victims of human rights violations under former president [...] Full text...
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South Africa: Massive fire threatens homes
04 january 2017 - 09:28:51Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Firefighters are battling massive mountain fires in Somerset West, near Cape Town, and hundreds [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Rights group says 30,000 people left homeless in Lagos after fire, demolitions
12 november 2016 - 16:12:58Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Amnesty International has lashed out at the Lagos State authorities in Nigeria for fire and demolitions [...] Full text...
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Rwanda: Rwanda's largest maize processing plant razed by fire
06 april 2016 - 15:44:23Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's largest maize processing plant, located at Mururu, a small village near the border with the [...] Full text...
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UN: UN Police assisting Mali government's probe of terrorist attack
23 november 2015 - 21:17:23New York, US (PANA) - UN police are providing Mali with support and technical expertise in the investigation of Friday’s [...] Full text...
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South Africa: Massive Cape Town fire continues to spread
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South Africa: Cape Town ravaged by massive fire
02 march 2015 - 14:58:34Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A devastating fire is sweeping through the mountains surrounding Cape Town, destroying several homes [...] Full text...
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Ghana: Media report fire at drugs warehouse, suspension of commissioner of human rights
17 january 2015 - 06:17:03Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A huge fire that razed the warehouse of the Central Medical Stores of the Ghana Health [...] Full text...
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Libya: Libyan army asks militias to stop the fighting in Tripoli
06 august 2014 - 20:56:13Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan army on Wednesday ordered all militias under its supervision and engaged in ongoing clashes [...] Full text...
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Libya: One dead, four wounded in new armed clashes in Tripoli
04 august 2014 - 21:23:56Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - One person was killed and four others injured in Janzour, western suburb of Tripoli, where new [...] Full text...
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Libya: Fuel depot hit by rockets
23 july 2014 - 11:31:43Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A fuel depot in Tripoli was Wednesday hit by a rocket after the resumption of indiscriminate [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Freedom fighter's grandson chains self to monument
09 june 2014 - 14:50:47Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A man claiming to be the grandson of one of Kenya's top freedom fighters, Dedan Kimathi, [...] Full text...
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8 corpses recovered as bus plunges into Abidjan lagoon
05 august 2011 - 13:19:04Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - A commercial bus with several passengers on board plunged into the Ebrié lagoon, Abidjan, on [...] Full text...
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Flooding claims 2, affects 58,000 families in Senegal
07 may 2011 - 16:32:39Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Almost 58,000 families, comprising 520,000 people were directly affected by flooding in Senegal last year, the [...] Full text...
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Bin Laden: Obama honours 11 September victims
05 may 2011 - 18:50:14New York, US (PANA) - US President Barack Obama on Thursday laid a wreath at Ground Zero, site of the [...] Full text...
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Angola firefighters recover third corpse from boat mishap
07 january 2011 - 17:01:26Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Men of Angola's National Service of Civil Protection and Fire Fighters (SNPCB) Wednesday recovered the corpse [...] Full text...
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BCEAO workers in Dakar evacuated over fire alert
21 may 2010 - 14:57:00Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- For the second day running, workers in the head office o f the Central Bank of [...] Full text...
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Fire guts residence of Senator in under-age bride furore
30 april 2010 - 08:10:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A part of the private residence of the Nigerian Senator who is under fire for marrying [...] Full text...
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Kenya supermarket fire: Victims locked in, shoppers say
01 february 2009 - 17:01:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Some lucky survivors of Kenya's Nakumatt Downtown superm arket fire incident alleged that the management of [...] Full text...
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