WHO warns of dangerous escalation of attacks on health care in Sudan

19 december 2025 - 16:04:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA)  -  Attacks on health care in Sudan are becoming deadlier and more widespread, cutting off access to [...] Full text...

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Ukraine suffering continues as electricity is cut for days amid ongoing Russian attacks

17 december 2025 - 19:42:02
Kherson, Ukraine (PANA) - Imagine living through a war and not being able to make a meal or heat your [...] Full text...

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Intensifying hostilities in Sudan bring new displacement, more casualties

17 december 2025 - 05:27:02
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The situation across Sudan’s Kordofan region is rapidly worsening, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) has [...] Full text...

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New influenza variant is surging, but vaccination still our best bet: WHO

16 december 2025 - 13:02:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid an early start to the Northern Hemisphere influenza season a new variant of the virus [...] Full text...

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UN peacekeepers targeted in Sudan, Central African Republic targeted

16 december 2025 - 08:26:19
Bangui, CAR (PANA) - In two days, six UN peacekeepers were killed and eleven others wounded in attacks in Sudan [...] Full text...

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UN peacekeepers hold farewell ceremony for six collegues killed in Sudan drone strike

16 december 2025 - 07:34:38
Kadugli, Sudan (PANA) - A solemn farewell ceremony was held on Monday at the headquarters of the UN Interim Security [...] Full text...

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UN warns of ‘regional conflagration’ as DR Congo violence uproots 500,000

12 december 2025 - 07:58:39
New York, US (PANA) - More than half a million people have now been uprooted by escalating violence in eastern [...] Full text...

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Gaza’s maternal and newborn health system ‘decimated’, UN warns

11 december 2025 - 18:45:21
Geneva, Switzerland ( PANA) - Gaza’s health system for mothers and newborns has been “decimated”, the UN said on Thursday.This [...] Full text...

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‘All we want for Sudan is peace’ say children fleeing violence

09 december 2025 - 20:02:19
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Nahed was visiting Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, with her family to celebrate Eid, a major Islamic holiday, [...] Full text...

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Sudan: UN chief condemns deadly strikes on children's nursery, hospital

08 december 2025 - 17:30:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As Sudan’s civil war intensified on Monday, top UN officials condemned the killing of dozens of [...] Full text...

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Sudan's paramilitary RSF blames Army for drone attack on WFP food aid truck

07 december 2025 - 17:27:27
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Suport Forces (RSF) has accused its rival in the counry's bloody civil [...] Full text...

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WFP condemns attack on its food aid truck

07 december 2025 - 05:10:56
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has strongly condemned an attack on one of its [...] Full text...

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Kherson maternity ward struck as attacks on Ukraine’s health care escalate and the fourth winter of full-scale invasion sets in

06 december 2025 - 19:56:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - On Thursday, 4 December 2025, a maternity ward in Kherson was attacked, damaging walls, windows, doors, [...] Full text...

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UN hails DR Congo-Rwanda peace deal amid ongoing hostilities in the east

06 december 2025 - 06:53:12
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations on Friday welcomed a newly signed peace accord between the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...

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UPDATE: Western countries pile pressure on Tanzania for accoutability in post-election violence

05 december 2025 - 17:23:12
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - About a dozen Western embassies in Tanzania have are adding to the pressure on [...] Full text...

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UN support helps Gaza mothers give birth amid collapsing health system

05 december 2025 - 07:42:19
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Every week in Gaza, at least 15 women give birth outside any health facility, often [...] Full text...

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US says reviewing its bilateral relationship with Tanzania

04 december 2025 - 17:23:20
Washington DC, US (PANA) - The US said on Thursday that it was reviewing its bilateral relationship with Tanzania following [...] Full text...

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Air strikes and shelling continue in Gaza

04 december 2025 - 13:21:07
New York, US (PANA) - The UN has called for an investigation into the recent “horrific” killing by Israeli forces [...] Full text...

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Sudan’s crisis deepens with communities trapped in ‘siege conditions’

04 december 2025 - 07:14:23
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Civilians across Sudan’s Kordofan region are facing extreme hardship as conflict intensifies, warned the UN aid [...] Full text...

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Democratic Republic of the Congo declares end of 16th Ebola outbreak

01 december 2025 - 15:27:37
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo Monday declared the end of the Ebola virus disease outbreak [...] Full text...

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Global measles cases surge as 30 million children miss vaccines, UN health agency warns

28 november 2025 - 20:03:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Measles deaths have dropped by 88 percent since 2000 – yet an estimated 95,000 people, mostly [...] Full text...

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Countries, experts agree on 10-year Africa Health Workforce Agenda

27 november 2025 - 10:39:29
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - African countries have reached consensus on the priority actions, commitments and milestones that will shape [...] Full text...

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Aid access and hospital operations remain constrained in Gaza

27 november 2025 - 10:06:57
New York, US (PANA) - Aid deliveries into Gaza continue to face difficulties as fighting continues across the territory, with [...] Full text...

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New massacre in eastern DRC raises fears of spiral of violence

22 november 2025 - 06:47:54
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The bodies were discovered in villages at the end of tracks that wind into the hills [...] Full text...

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Healing the hidden wounds of childbirth (By UN News)

16 november 2025 - 07:17:15
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - In Somalia, where six out of ten births take place without a doctor, childbirth is often [...] Full text...

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At least six dead in stampede during recruitment into the Ghana Armed Forces

12 november 2025 - 12:11:18
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - At least six people have been confirmed dead and several others injured following a stampede during [...] Full text...

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Hundreds killed, detained following deadly election violence in Tanzania: UN

12 november 2025 - 07:25:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hundreds of protesters and others have been killed and an unknown number injured or detained in [...] Full text...

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Sudan: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher

11 november 2025 - 17:20:33
New York, US  (PANA) - The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday warned of a deepening crisis in Sudan’s [...] Full text...

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Gazans continue heading home as ‘fragile ceasefire’ holds

11 november 2025 - 07:44:25
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - A month into the ceasefire in Gaza, families continue to slowly head back to their [...] Full text...

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Humanitarian crisis in North Darfur worsens as violence spreads - OCHA

11 november 2025 - 07:01:45
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the crisis in Sudan’s [...] Full text...

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Sudanese doctor wins international accolade of over 1 million dollars

08 november 2025 - 15:02:42
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan Doctors Network has sent a sympathetic congratulation to  Dr. Jamal Al-Tayeb, Director of [...] Full text...

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Syria’s future under threat from acute funding shortages

04 november 2025 - 19:01:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hopes for a peaceful future in post-war Syria are at risk as funding for basic services [...] Full text...

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Obstetric violence deadly for Sierra Leone women, newborns - HRW

04 november 2025 - 09:24:54
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) – Women giving birth in public healthcare facilities in the West African state of Sierra Leone face [...] Full text...

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Africa CDC mobilises emergency public-health response after Sudan hospital attack

01 november 2025 - 17:35:18
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is dispatching critical medical commodities and [...] Full text...

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Tens of thousands fleeing on foot amid atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher

31 october 2025 - 18:09:05
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) = More details continued to emerge on Friday of atrocities committed during and after the fall of [...] Full text...

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UN rights commission says El Fasher atrocities must be investigated

31 october 2025 - 13:49:24
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The UN High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) said on Friday that more details are [...] Full text...

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‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls (By Vibhu Mishra, UN News)

30 october 2025 - 19:21:31
New York, US (PANA) - El Fasher has “descended into an even darker hell”, senior UN officials warned on Thursday, [...] Full text...

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Reported massacre at hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher leaves 460 dead

29 october 2025 - 16:20:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Horrific stories of mass-atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Services (RSF) militia continue to emerge, along [...] Full text...

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Giving birth in the shadow of Sudan’s war (By Esther Bayliss and Sufian Abdul-Mouty, UN News)

27 october 2025 - 11:11:18
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)  As Sudan’s destructive war – now in its third year – grinds on, the challenges to [...] Full text...

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UN alarmed by ‘terrifying’ situation in Sudan’s El Fasher, calls for immediate ceasefire

27 october 2025 - 04:51:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN’s top humanitarian official has called for an immediate ceasefire in El Fasher, the capital [...] Full text...

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Ghana declares three days of national mourning for former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings

24 october 2025 - 11:02:49
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Government of Ghana on Friday declared three days of national mourning following the death of [...] Full text...

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Ghana's former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings dies, aged 76

23 october 2025 - 14:29:55
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Former First Lady of Ghana, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, has passed away, according to local media publications [...] Full text...

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UN sounds alarm over spike in sexual violence against women in DRC

22 october 2025 - 07:22:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are trapped in one of [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Aid efforts continue as UN teams start clearing up to 60 million tonnes of debris

21 october 2025 - 07:35:58
New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Monday said it was encouraged by renewed Gaza ceasefire commitments, warning that [...] Full text...

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Haiti is under a UN arms embargo: So why are 500,000 illegal weapons in circulation?

17 october 2025 - 20:46:09
Port-au-Prince (PANA) - Up to 500,000 illegal weapons ranging from handguns to battlefield-grade semi-automatic rifles are thought to be in [...] Full text...

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Gaza: UN pushes to fire scale up aid delivery

16 october 2025 - 20:54:37
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As a fragile ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip, UN aid teams are intensifying efforts [...] Full text...

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Former Kenyan PM Raila Odinga dies

15 october 2025 - 08:38:31
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga died on Wednesday in India, aged 80, according to Kenya [...] Full text...

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US official condemns RSF attack against hospital, mosque and civilian shelters in El Fasher

12 october 2025 - 16:29:48
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - US Senior Adviser for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos has condemned an attack by [...] Full text...

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'I will not go hungry again': Hope reborn in Gaza after ceasefire agreement (By UN News)

10 october 2025 - 18:09:17
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - "What makes me even happier is that I will no longer suffer from hunger." Like [...] Full text...

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Sudan: El Fasher mosque and hospital attacks leave at least 20 dead

09 october 2025 - 18:37:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - At least 20 civilians were reportedly killed this week in attacks targeting a mosque and a [...] Full text...

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Sudanese Doctors Network: El Fasher Hospital bombing kills12, injures 17

08 october 2025 - 12:19:57
Port Sudan , Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan Doctors Network has said the only operating hospital in the besieged city [...] Full text...

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Thousands flee amid renewed fighting in northern Mozambique, UN warns

08 october 2025 - 07:24:07
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Nearly 22,000 people fled their homes in northern Mozambique in a single week last month due [...] Full text...

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Sudan: UN rights council extends mandate of Fact-Finding Mission for one year

06 october 2025 - 16:04:29
Geneva, Swizerland (PANA) - As the conflict in Sudan enters its third year, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted [...] Full text...

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Sudanese journalist dies of his wounds, raising to 32 those killed in the war

05 october 2025 - 11:42:34
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate on Sunday said a journalist, Al-Nour Suleiman, has died of his [...] Full text...

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DRC sees 'significant decline' in Ebola virus transmission in Kasai

01 october 2025 - 16:16:24
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Ebola outbreak in Kasai province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is seeing signs of a [...] Full text...

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World failing Gaza’s starving children, aid teams warn

01 october 2025 - 14:22:35
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - As Israeli forces continued their push to take full control of Gaza City on Wednesday, [...] Full text...

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Breathless in Gaza: Health crisis deepens as families burn plastic for fuel

01 october 2025 - 07:34:23
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Doctors in Gaza are warning of a surge in respiratory illnesses as families – cut [...] Full text...

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Medical charity suspends activities in Mozambique's Mocímboa da Praia

28 september 2025 - 07:40:11
Pemba, Mozambique (PANA) - Medical and humanitarian charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has temporarily suspended activities in the town and [...] Full text...

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Four more hospitals shut in Gaza amid ongoing Israeli offensive

26 september 2025 - 13:20:13
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The escalating Israeli military offensive in Gaza City continues to overwhelm medical professionals there, with four [...] Full text...

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Sudan: UNICEF says at least 11 children killed in El Fashir mosque attack

22 september 2025 - 15:37:39
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As more details come out from the scene of the drone strike that killed at [...] Full text...

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'Sudan faces worst cholera outbreak in years as war devastates infrastructure'

19 september 2025 - 06:18:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Amid Sudan’s devastating conflict, which has already caused tens of thousands of casualties and displaced millions, [...] Full text...

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Gaza City lifelines collapsing, UN aid agency warns

18 september 2025 - 20:48:30
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The last remaining lifelines for civilians in Gaza City are collapsing as Israel ramps up [...] Full text...

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Afghanistan: Ban on secondary education for girls marks four long years

17 september 2025 - 16:53:00
  Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - For millions of girls in Afghanistan, it has been four long years since the ban on [...] Full text...

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Attacks on Gaza City are destroying health and protection services for pregnant women and survivors of violence

17 september 2025 - 05:29:10
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Intensified bombardment and ground operations in Gaza City are forcing families to flee yet again, [...] Full text...

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Deadly attacks and collapsing services push Sudan closer to catastrophe

16 september 2025 - 06:07:04
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations has sounded the alarm over Sudan’s spiralling crisis, warning that deadly attacks [...] Full text...

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Deadly attacks across Darfur leave nearly 100 wounded in MSF-supported facilities

12 september 2025 - 07:51:35
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Following a series of attacks by Sudan's warring parties – the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) [...] Full text...

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Inquest into Steve Biko's death reopened

11 september 2025 - 07:02:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Wednesday announced that it will officially reopen [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Ceasefire urgently needed as civilians left with ‘no safe place’ to go

11 september 2025 - 05:44:33
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The UN and humanitarian partners warned on Wednesday that nearly one million civilians in Gaza [...] Full text...

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UN reveals besieged city goes without food assistance since beginning of the year

10 september 2025 - 14:09:53
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The United Nations has reiterated that for nine months running, humanitarian and UN organisations are unable [...] Full text...

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IOM deploys team to support national Ebola response in DRC

08 september 2025 - 09:38:40
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is responding to a new Ebola virus disease outbreak in [...] Full text...

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The night the mountains shook: A doctor on the front lines of Afghanistan’s earthquake (A UN Feature)

06 september 2025 - 20:33:50
Jalalabad, Afghanistan (PANA) - The first jolt threw Dr. Abdul Mateen Sahak out of bed. The second sent him to [...] Full text...

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The ‘unthinkable’ is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns

05 september 2025 - 20:08:10
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called on Thursday for the international community to do everything [...] Full text...

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The ‘unthinkable’ is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns

05 september 2025 - 07:23:16
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called on Thursday for the international community to do everything [...] Full text...

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Sudanese health ministry says no chemical weapons used in Khartoum

02 september 2025 - 12:13:35
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) -The Sudanese Ministry of health has dismissed widespread rumours about the possible use and residues of [...] Full text...

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16 injured in explosion at ammunition depot in Misrata

01 september 2025 - 13:20:47
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 16 people were injured on an explosion at an ammunition depot in the [...] Full text...

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Sudan army drone strikes paramilitary RSF positions in besieged city

31 august 2025 - 14:24:24
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese army drone struck Rapid Support Forces (RSF) positions in the besieged city of [...] Full text...

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African health leaders, partners call for greater investment in integrated NCD services

31 august 2025 - 07:34:56
Lusaka, Lusaka (PANA) — African health ministers and partners are calling for increased investment in integrated health services to address [...] Full text...

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The descent into ‘a massive famine’ in Gaza has begun, relief agencies warn

29 august 2025 - 14:20:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid reports of increased Israeli military operations across Gaza City on Friday, UN aid agencies repeated [...] Full text...

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Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City marks ‘new and dangerous phase’: Guterres

28 august 2025 - 14:20:30
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday renewed his call for a ceasefire in Gaza, greater [...] Full text...

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Hunger and disease in Gaza will only worsen from ‘man-made’ famine: WHO

27 august 2025 - 16:33:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday issued a new warning over the deadly impacts [...] Full text...

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Killing of journalists in Gaza hospital attack ‘should shock the world’: UN rights office

26 august 2025 - 15:31:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The killing of five more Palestinian journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces – bringing the total [...] Full text...

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Gaza: UN calls for probe following deadly strikes on Nasser Hospital

25 august 2025 - 18:48:04
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) renewed his call for a ceasefire in Gaza [...] Full text...

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Health and aid workers targeted in conflicts around the world, UN agency says

24 august 2025 - 06:26:17
New York, US (PANA) - From Gaza to Sudan, wars are being waged on the very systems set up to [...] Full text...

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Gaza humanitarian crisis continues as Israeli military offensive intensifies

23 august 2025 - 07:36:12
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City intensifies, the UN and partners continue to warn [...] Full text...

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Gazans face a future of pain and prosthetics

22 august 2025 - 06:14:50
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Israeli airstrikes and shootings near aid hubs run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a [...] Full text...

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Sudan hospitals under fire

21 august 2025 - 06:35:07
New York, US (PANA) - In recent days, reported attacks on healthcare facilities in Sudan’s Darfur State have forced some [...] Full text...

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Sudan: MSF suspends activities at Zalingei hospital following armed attack

20 august 2025 - 08:50:52
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Medical and humanitarian charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has been forced to reduce its teams [...] Full text...

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‘Beauty and Beast’: Story of the Sudanese IDPs and the Gash River

19 august 2025 - 19:13:39
Kassala, Sudan (PANA) - Huge volumes of thick reddish torrents of water dash from the Ethiopian plateau and mountainous heights [...] Full text...

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Libya instals insulin equipment to treat diabetic children at Tripoli hospital

19 august 2025 - 11:47:43
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Deputy Secretary-General of Libya's Ministry of Health Mohamed al-Ghouj, has visited the Al-Jalaa hospital in [...] Full text...

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Hundreds of health, nutrition centres closed in Somalia due to suspension of US aid

19 august 2025 - 07:46:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The realisation is painful. More than six months after the U.S. government decided to suspend its [...] Full text...

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UN warns Gaza crisis could worsen without safe, unrestricted aid flow

17 august 2025 - 14:55:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Without an urgent and unrestricted flow of aid, Gaza’s already dire humanitarian crisis could deteriorate further, [...] Full text...

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UN warns Gaza crisis could worsen without safe, unrestricted aid flow

16 august 2025 - 06:09:36
New York, US (PANA) - Without an urgent and unrestricted flow of aid, Gaza’s already dire humanitarian crisis could deteriorate [...] Full text...

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MSF: War fuels cholera outbreak across Sudan

14 august 2025 - 12:05:03
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - International medical and charity organisation, Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), says that war has fuelled cholera [...] Full text...

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Malnutrition deaths mark ‘latest in the war on children’ in Gaza: UNRWA chief

14 august 2025 - 05:58:47
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - At least 100 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition and hunger, prompting humanitarians to [...] Full text...

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Gaza: UNESCO condemns ‘unacceptable’ killing of journalists

12 august 2025 - 20:07:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN organization which champions culture and education, UNESCO, has strongly condemned the targeted killing of [...] Full text...

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Gaza health system ‘catastrophic’ with hospitals overwhelmed and medicines running out, WHO warns

12 august 2025 - 17:31:32
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA)  - Public health conditions in Gaza are “catastrophic”, with hospitals operating far beyond capacity. Some life-saving medicines [...] Full text...

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Hospitals overflowing in Gaza, as malnutrition surges

11 august 2025 - 15:40:38
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate, UN officials warned on Monday, describing overflowing [...] Full text...

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Improving access to maternal health care in Burkina Faso (Feature by WHO)

11 august 2025 - 10:02:06
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – "During my first pregnancy three years ago, I had to travel 45 km just to [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Hospitals ‘at near-total collapse’, staff overwhelmed by the injured

07 august 2025 - 19:06:42
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) -  Exhausted UN aid workers in Gaza on Thursday continued to report a lack of food [...] Full text...

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Burkina Faso performs first-ever kidney transplant

31 july 2025 - 12:24:35
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A medical team from Burkina Faso, supported by a Turkish delegation, has successfully completed the [...] Full text...

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Amnesty International demands unconditional release of North Gaza hospital chief

31 july 2025 - 07:44:22
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania (PANA) - Amnesty International is urging human rights activists, campaigners and journalists worldwide to call on [...] Full text...

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Russian attack on Ukrainian prison kills 16: UN rights monitors

29 july 2025 - 21:05:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An attack on a prison in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on Monday reportedly left [...] Full text...

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Syria: Deadly sectarian violence displaces thousands in Sweida; healthcare attacked

26 july 2025 - 16:31:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As deadly sectarian violence continues to displace hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s Sweida Governorate, [...] Full text...

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Libyan govt says more than 600 projects completed

17 july 2025 - 13:04:11
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 658 projects have been fully implemented, while 801 others are still underway in [...] Full text...

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Gaza: 875 people confirmed dead trying to source food in recent weeks

16 july 2025 - 05:48:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly 900 desperate and hungry Gazans have been killed in recent weeks trying to fetch food, with [...] Full text...

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Belgacem Hafar inaugurates health facilities in Benghazi

13 july 2025 - 15:37:48
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Director General of the Libyan Development and Reconstruction Fund, Belgacem Khalifa Haftar, has inaugurated a [...] Full text...

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UNICEF deplores ‘unconscionable’ killing of families lining up for aid in Gaza

11 july 2025 - 05:41:15
New York, US (PANA) - The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Hospitals rationing critical supplies, ambulances stalling

08 july 2025 - 21:30:20
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - UN humanitarians have warned that the catastrophic conditions in Gaza are worsening, as tents, schools, [...] Full text...

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UN mission in Libya calls for investigation into death of activist Abdel Moneim al-Maraimi

05 july 2025 - 15:52:19
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has urged the authorities to open a "transparent [...] Full text...

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South Africa's former Deputy President David Mabuza dies

04 july 2025 - 08:24:56
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former Deputy President David Mabuza on Thursday died at a Mpumulanga hospital after a [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Sharp rise in attacks on healthcare after two years of conflict

03 july 2025 - 17:22:32
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - An international humanitarian organisation operating in the Sudan has highlighted that attacks on hospitals and [...] Full text...

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Sudan: ‘Fighting shows no signs of abating,’ senior UN official tells Security Council

28 june 2025 - 07:27:22
New York, US (PANA) - Three years into the conflict in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed [...] Full text...

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Rights group says Kenyan authorities must be held accountable for protesters’ deaths

27 june 2025 - 06:39:02
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenyan authorities should be held accountable for all abuses during countrywide protests on June 25, 2025, including [...] Full text...

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Hospital attack kills dozens in Sudan’s West Kordofan state

25 june 2025 - 11:53:44
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday that it was gravely [...] Full text...

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South Africa requests state burial for former Zambian President Edgar Lungu

25 june 2025 - 08:39:09
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola has concluded a high-level diplomatic mission to [...] Full text...

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Dozens of migrants from Libya rescued by the Greek coastguard

21 june 2025 - 13:53:26
Athens,  Greece (PANA) - The Greek coastguard has rescued 278 migrants stranded on board a fishing boat south of the [...] Full text...

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Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease

20 june 2025 - 16:25:13
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice [...] Full text...

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Rights group again flags South Sudan’s man-made humanitarian catastrophe

19 june 2025 - 12:17:09
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - South Sudan is once again on the brink of full-scale humanitarian catastrophe, propelled by conflict, [...] Full text...

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Kenya medics extract bullet from head of victim of police shooting

18 june 2025 - 13:02:03
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - At least 17 people were hospitalised during Tuesday's protests against the killing of a teacher and [...] Full text...

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Libyan PM promises compensation for municipality in Tripoli damaged by recent fighting

18 june 2025 - 12:57:17
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, has stressed the need to speed up the work [...] Full text...

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Kenyan policeman fired for shooting protester in downtown Nairobi

17 june 2025 - 19:44:25
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan policeman captured on camera shooting an unarmed hawker in Nairobi on Tuesday during street [...] Full text...

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Sudan: UN denounces use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas

17 june 2025 - 19:30:25
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As fighting has intensified in recent weeks in parts of Darfur, Sudan, UN investigators have [...] Full text...

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Gaza healthcare near to ‘full disaster’

17 june 2025 - 13:10:17
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Gaza’s health system is at breaking point, overwhelmed time and again by scores of people [...] Full text...

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Kenya's Deputy Police Chief steps aside over 'death chamber' probe

16 june 2025 - 15:05:23
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Deputy Police Inspector-General Eliud Lagat has stepped aside to allow investigators to crack the mysterious [...] Full text...

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At least eight drown in Red Sea as smugglers force migrants overboard

12 june 2025 - 07:26:04
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Survivors of a people-smuggling operation in the Red Sea have recounted how they were forced [...] Full text...

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In a changing world, are people having the number of children they want?

10 june 2025 - 12:38:09
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The United Nations Population Agency (UNFPA) on Tuesday launched ts State of World Population [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line

09 june 2025 - 21:57:23
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached “unprecedented levels of despair,” the UN [...] Full text...

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Kenyan rights activists slam Police for running 'death chamber' after death of blogger

09 june 2025 - 10:39:26
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan police are back in the public spotlight following the death of a man, identified [...] Full text...

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South Africa embroiled in dispute over late Zambian president Lungu's remains

09 june 2025 - 08:11:45
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has been caught in the crossfires of a dispute between the Zambian [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Ramaphosa salutes former Zambian President Edgar Lungu

08 june 2025 - 09:04:01
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday expressed his sadness at the passing of former Zambian [...] Full text...

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'Victims still waiting for justice, truth and reparations 25 years on from Kisangani war in DRC'

05 june 2025 - 11:36:04
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Twenty-five years since the six-day war in Kisangani in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in [...] Full text...

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Coalition working for peace in Sudan condemns attack on UN humanitarian convoy

05 june 2025 - 07:31:22
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Members of a coalition working for peace in Sudan have strongly condemned the recent attack [...] Full text...

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'Shocked' UN rights chief says sites of gross human rights violations in Libya must be sealed and impartially investigated

04 june 2025 - 10:38:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said on Wednesday he was shocked by revelations of gross [...] Full text...

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Five humanitarians killed in ‘horrendous’ attack on aid convoy in Sudan

03 june 2025 - 21:14:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges

03 june 2025 - 17:11:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years [...] Full text...

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Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub

03 june 2025 - 12:46:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN human rights chief Volker Türk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed [...] Full text...

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UN says attacks on Sudanese civilians continue

03 june 2025 - 05:52:18
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - On May 29, the World Food Programme’s facility in Al Fasher was repeatedly shelled, resulting [...] Full text...

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Rights group flags repressive laws, lack of due process, attacks on judicial staff in Libya

02 june 2025 - 13:00:49
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya's fragmented justice sector is suppressing fundamental freedoms and obstructing accountability for abuses, Human Rights Watch [...] Full text...

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Lifting of Israeli blockade ‘the only way to avert mass starvation’ in Gaza: UNRWA chief

02 june 2025 - 06:07:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid disputed reports of Israeli forces firing on civilians near a new privatised aid distribution point [...] Full text...

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UN reiterates call for halt to attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Sudan

01 june 2025 - 13:55:57
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations on Sunday denounced attacks on hospitals and food and humanitarian relief warehouses [...] Full text...

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Desperate hunger drives crowd to storm UN food warehouse in Gaza

30 may 2025 - 06:56:06
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Desperate hunger drove crowds of people to overrun a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in [...] Full text...

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New project to boost Tunisia’s health system and pandemic response

29 may 2025 - 07:56:31
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Wednesday approved US$125.16 million in financing [...] Full text...

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Over a million children at risk as cholera spreads in Sudan’s Khartoum State

28 may 2025 - 16:11:17
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The UN Children Fund (UNICEF) has claimed that more than 7,700 cholera cases - including over [...] Full text...

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Six migrants dead, five missing in shipwreck off the coast of the Comoros - IOM

27 may 2025 - 12:52:23
Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - At least six people have died and five others are still missing at sea off the [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Strikes on houses and tents responsible for over half of deaths this week

23 may 2025 - 05:25:59
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - More than half the people killed in Gaza over the past week were in shelters [...] Full text...

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As limited supplies enter Gaza, UN stresses need for more aid

22 may 2025 - 12:17:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that on Wednesday and Thursday, [...] Full text...

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'Keep the lights on’ for women and girls caught up in crisis

21 may 2025 - 05:15:28
New York, US (PANA) - Women and girls living through humanitarian crises are at risk of being overlooked – just [...] Full text...

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Director-General’s Award for Global Health given to Professor Awa Marie Coll Seck and Professor Sir Brian Greenwood

20 may 2025 - 20:25:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -  In recognition of their lifetime achievements in global health, specifically in malaria elimination and beyond, WHO [...] Full text...

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Pandemic heroes stepped up in 2020 – now they’re asking world leaders to do the same

17 may 2025 - 18:49:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As world leaders meet in Geneva to negotiate a new UN-brokered agreement on pandemic preparedness, we [...] Full text...

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UN aid office denounces attacks on Gaza hospital

15 may 2025 - 07:32:36
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, underlined the need to protect civilians and healthcare facilities [...] Full text...

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UN Security Council urged to renew, enforce arms embargo on South Sudan to protect civilians

14 may 2025 - 11:13:07
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) -  Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to renew the arms embargo on [...] Full text...

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‘Stop the 21st century atrocity’ in Gaza, Fletcher urges UN Security Council

14 may 2025 - 05:45:24
New York, US (PANA) - No aid has entered Gaza for more than 10 weeks and every single one of [...] Full text...

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Gaza: 57 children reported dead from malnutrition, says WHO

13 may 2025 - 17:38:24
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -- In the aid desert of Gaza, malnourished children are dying while survivors can now expect a [...] Full text...

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Calm returns to Tripoli after night of armed clashes

13 may 2025 - 12:10:04
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan capital, Tripoli, awoke on Tuesday to an atmosphere of precarious calm, a day after [...] Full text...

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Hospital bombing deepens bleak situation for war-weary South Sudanese

07 may 2025 - 07:23:22
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Aid teams in South Sudan warned on Tuesday that repeated attacks on healthcare including the [...] Full text...

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UN condemns aerial bombardment on South Sudan hospital

06 may 2025 - 07:08:59
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations has condemned a deadly aerial bombardment on a hospital in South Sudan’s [...] Full text...

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South Sudan: MSF 'strongly condemns' deliberate bombing of its hospital in Jonglei state

05 may 2025 - 10:59:21
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has strongly condemned the “deliberate bombing” of its hospital [...] Full text...

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Gaza: ‘Worst-case scenario’ unfolds as brutal aid blockade threatens mass starvation

04 may 2025 - 12:42:10
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Two months into a devastating aid blockade of Gaza food has run out and people [...] Full text...

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Gaza: ‘Worst-case scenario’ unfolds as brutal aid blockade threatens mass starvation

02 may 2025 - 17:44:37
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Two months into a devastating aid blockade of Gaza food has run out and people [...] Full text...

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Millions will die from funding cuts, says UN aid chief

30 april 2025 - 16:45:01
New York, US (PANA) - Lifesaving operations everywhere continue to be shut down by sweeping funding cutbacks which will result [...] Full text...

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Escalating violence displaces thousands in eastern DR Congo

30 april 2025 - 06:57:51
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Ongoing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is uprooting families, crippling essential [...] Full text...

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Hundreds killed in Sudan’s camps for displaced people

24 april 2025 - 20:26:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hundreds of civilians, including at least 12 humanitarian workers, have been killed in recent artillery shelling [...] Full text...

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DR Congo crisis: Children subjected to deliberate, systemic sexual violence

11 april 2025 - 18:30:14
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Sexual violence against children in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached staggering proportions, [...] Full text...

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‘Persistent violence’ driving displacement and disease outbreaks in DR Congo

10 april 2025 - 07:36:43
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The displacement of people and the outbreak of disease in the eastern Democratic Republic of the [...] Full text...

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Children die while walking long distances in South Sudan to seek medical treatment for cholera

09 april 2025 - 11:16:04
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey [...] Full text...

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Gaza: Guterres calls on Israel to ensure life-saving aid reaches civilians

08 april 2025 - 18:11:38
New York, US (PANA) - With no aid allowed into Gaza for more than a month, the UN Secretary-General appealed [...] Full text...

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Situation remains critical in Eastern DR Congo, say peacekeepers

06 april 2025 - 05:49:24
New York, US (PANA) - The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, continues to implement [...] Full text...

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Global cholera cases surge worldwide

06 april 2025 - 05:18:52
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A global surge in cholera is threatening vulnerable people from Angola to Myanmar, fuelled by conflict, [...] Full text...

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‘Every piece tells a story’: Bombs to beauty, from Gaza to Ukraine

04 april 2025 - 17:54:34
Kiev. Ukraine (PANA) - What happens to bombs after they land? Some explode. Some don’t, leaving behind a deadly legacy [...] Full text...

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DR Congo: Armed violence displaces thousands as cholera outbreak worsens

04 april 2025 - 05:41:35
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Ongoing violence in North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Sexual violence used as weapon of terror against women and girls

03 april 2025 - 08:09:23
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Amid alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan, [...] Full text...

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Gaza aid worker killings: One humanitarian still missing in mass grave

02 april 2025 - 08:32:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN humanitarians and partners on Tuesday expressed deep shock at the killing of 15 colleagues on [...] Full text...

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Nigerian boxer dies in Ghana ring

30 march 2025 - 13:24:06
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Nigerian light-heavyweight boxer Gabriel Oluwaseun Olanrewaju, also known as “Success,” tragically passed away following an abrupt [...] Full text...

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Tens of millions risk starvation as funding cuts deepen crises in DR Congo: WHO, WFP

30 march 2025 - 06:41:58
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Sharply declining aid could force tens of millions across the globe who rely on food aid [...] Full text...

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WFP mobilises to help Congolese refugees in Burundi in a difficult financial context

25 march 2025 - 06:02:01
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has quickly mobilised additional aid to Burundi to support [...] Full text...

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Connecting 300 million people to electricity and building a resilient future in Africa, World Bank Blog By Celine Ramstein and Stéphane Hallegatte

22 march 2025 - 09:50:58
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - One of the resounding messages of the recent Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit was [...] Full text...

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Children, refugees pay hefty price of global aid funding crisis

22 march 2025 - 07:07:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Children, refugees and displaced people worldwide are paying the price for the deep-seated funding crisis that [...] Full text...

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UNICEF condemns looting of life-saving supplies for children from Khartoum hospital

21 march 2025 - 14:00:02
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) – The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Friday condemned in the strongest possible terms the looting [...] Full text...

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Sudan war: Children facing ‘unimaginable suffering’, warns UNICEF chief

14 march 2025 - 08:17:13
New York, US (PANA) - Sudan is now the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the [...] Full text...

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UN Commission approves WHO recommendations to place psychoactive substances under international control

13 march 2025 - 19:06:16
Geneva, Switerland (PANA) - Following recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) [...] Full text...

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Women, girls bear brunt of cyberbullying against persons with disabilities

11 march 2025 - 15:54:15
New York, US (PANA) - States must do more to prevent cyberbullying and overcome unequal access to assistive technology which [...] Full text...

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Sudan virus disease reported in Uganda

08 march 2025 - 14:51:43
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Since the outbreak of Sudan virus disease (SVD) was declared in Uganda on 30 January 2025, [...] Full text...

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DRC: UNICEF, partners provide clean water to 700,000 people a day in Goma

04 march 2025 - 07:14:20
Goma, DRC (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [...] Full text...

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UN Feature: ‘This is our land’ – Building Gaza’s future from the wreckage of war

02 march 2025 - 20:17:00
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) -  At night he sleeps under a tarpaulin sheet on the ruins of his family home. [...] Full text...

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Cholera cases soar in Sudan as fighting intensifies

27 february 2025 - 06:12:16
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - As hostilities, insecurity and attacks on health facilities in Sudan continue to increase the risk [...] Full text...

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DRC fighting has claimed more lives, forced families from their homes

26 february 2025 - 07:26:50
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Ongoing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and [...] Full text...

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Sudan: MSF says forced to halt activities as violence engulfs Zamzam camp in North Darfur

25 february 2025 - 08:06:18
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) -  Medical and humanitarian charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says the current escalation of attacks and [...] Full text...

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DRC crisis: People trapped in climate of insecurity amidst clashes in Uvira - MSF

24 february 2025 - 09:33:11
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Medical and humanitarian charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is flagging security around the city of Uvira, [...] Full text...

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Dozens dead, over 800 being treated for acute watery diarrhoea in Sudan's White Nile State

23 february 2025 - 07:36:31
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Dozens of people have died, and over 800 are being treated for symptoms of acute [...] Full text...

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MSF mourns worker killed in DRC

23 february 2025 - 07:26:19
Goma, DRC (PANA (PANA) - A worker of humanitarian and medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has died from gunshot [...] Full text...

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Full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has sown ‘psychological terror’, warns top aid coordinator

22 february 2025 - 09:58:23
Kiev, Ukraine (PANA) - In the nearly three years since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country’s people have [...] Full text...

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Ukraine: Three years of war reverses progress for women and girls

19 february 2025 - 23:15:54
Geneva, Switzerland( PANA) - Three years of war in Ukraine have reversed decades of progress for women and girls, leaving [...] Full text...

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Rights group demands release of Uganda opposition leader Besigye, other civilians

19 february 2025 - 08:21:39
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) is asking the Ugandan authorities to release from prison former opposition presidential [...] Full text...

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UN rights office condemns continuing Israeli military operation in West Bank

15 february 2025 - 05:41:31
Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday condemned the intensifying Israeli military operation in [...] Full text...

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‘No time to lose’ in Gaza, as ceasefire offers fragile respite

14 february 2025 - 05:29:10
New York, US (PANA) - The UN is racing against time to expand humanitarian relief and prepare for the monumental [...] Full text...

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UNICEF sounds alarm over child crisis in eastern DR Congo

13 february 2025 - 18:37:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern [...] Full text...

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Attempted assassination in Tripoli of Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs condemned

13 february 2025 - 12:22:15
Tripoli, 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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US funding cuts threaten global health response, WHO chief warns

13 february 2025 - 05:37:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed deep concern over the impact of US funding cuts [...] Full text...

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Meds platform launch gives children with cancer a fighting chance

12 february 2025 - 05:14:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new UN-partnered project to distribute essential childhood cancer medicines has begun in Uzbekistan and Mongolia, [...] Full text...

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Save the Children: violence in increase especially against children in Sudan

10 february 2025 - 16:07:39
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- An international charity organization operating in the Sudan has charged that violence is on the increase [...] Full text...

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