Libya chairs Arab discussion group at mine action session
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Mine Action Centre (LibMAC) chaired the Arab Discussion Group of the "National Directors' Day" session organized by the United [...] Full text...
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Libya, EUBAM agree to cooperate on border security
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The first meeting of the Joint Committee between Libya and the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) has agreed that cooperation [...] Full text...
More than 6,000 Sudanese arrive in Libya fleeing conflict in country - IOM
BBA bTripoli, Libya (PANA) - More than 6,000 Sudanese have arrived in Libya since the outbreak of civil war in Sudan last April, according to a [...] Full text...
Benin makes slight increase in budget for employment and SMEs for 2024
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The budget for 2024 for the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Employment Promotion has increased slightly, sources close to [...] Full text...
National Reconciliation Week launched in Bamako on Friday
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 2nd National Reconciliation Week (SENARE) was launched in Bamako on Friday by the Malian Minister for Reconciliation, Peace and National [...] Full text...
Famous Tunisian journalist Zied El Heni arrested
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A leading figure on the Tunisian media scene, Zied El Heni, was kept in detention on Wednesday, a day after he [...] Full text...
Botswana partners with SA pay TV to prop up creative industry
DRW Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - South Africa’s pay television MultiChoice has launched Channel O’s newest music video countdown show - Bots Top 5 in Botswana, to [...] Full text...
Sudan: UN evacuates hundreds of staff but pledges to stay
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - As fighting between the regular army and paramilitaries continued in Khartoum, hundreds of UN staff were evacuated on Monday, said [...] Full text...
Gov’t of Ghana moves to evacuate stranded nationals In Sudan
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghanaian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Sunday announced plans to evacuate Ghanaians caught up in Sudan’s disturbance, an official [...] Full text...
Government to compensate those affected by the sustainable and secure electricity access project
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government will compensate persons affected by the implementation of the Benin Sustainable and Secure Access to Electricity Project, the [...] Full text...
Kenyan woman arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine worth US$300,000
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) annouced here Monday the arrest of a 35-year-old Kenyan woman who tried to smuggle cocaine through [...] Full text...
World Bank, Benin conclude deal on CFAF 60 billion for Benin's social programme
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin and the World Bank have just concluded an agreement of 60 billion CFA francs to intensify the social programme in [...] Full text...
New study finds that 43 000 “excess deaths” may have occurred in 2022 from the drought in Somalia
WA Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - A new report released Monday by the Federal Ministry of Health & Human Services, WHO and UNICEF suggests that an estimated [...] Full text...
Motor accident in Ghana claims 22 lives
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A fatal motor acciddent Sunday claimed 22 lives in Ghana on the Kintampo-Yendi Highway between Babatokuma and Kintampo when a Yendi-Kumasi [...] Full text...
Four African children, woman migrants die in boat accident
BBA Athens, Greece (PANA) - Four children and a woman died on Sunday when a dinghy carrying African migrants from the neighbouring Turkish coast sank off [...] Full text...
Three agencies unite to ensure every child receives a healthy meal in school, every day
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three agencies have joined forces to help parliamentarians act on child hunger by working with governments to scale up and improve [...] Full text...
Ivorian president says case of 46 Ivorian soldiers held in Mali progressing well
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Cote d'Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara said Friday in Abidjan that the case of the detention of 46 Ivorian soldiers in [...] Full text...
US to provide Mali with 20.5 billion CFA francs for food security
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide Mali with US$32 million or 20.5 billion CFA francs to alleviate [...] Full text...
Malian justice launches international arrest warrant against former ministers of Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita's regime
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Justice has issued international arrest warrants against three former Malian ministers under the regime of former president, Ibrahim Boubacar [...] Full text...
Benin disburses over 80 billion CFA francs to clear salary arrears
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government has already disbursed more than 80 billion CFA francs to clear the salary debts of workers, sources close [...] Full text...
UN expert hails historic reparations ruling in favour of indigenous peoples in Kenya
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An independent UN human rights expert on Monday hailed a decision by the African Court on Human and People’s Rights, to award [...] Full text...
Public sector workers embark on strike in Tunisia
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Public sector workers on Thursday embarked on a general strike which paralyzed vital activities of the country's economy, already in difficulty [...] Full text...
Zimbabwean peacekeeper wins UN gender advocate award
MA New York, US (PANA) - For the first time, a Zimbabwean peacekeeper has been chosen to receive the prestigious 2021 Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award, [...] Full text...
UN condemns car bomb attack on Haftar's army camp in southern Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned Monday night's reported car bombing of a military facility belonging to [...] Full text...
UN releases $100 million to fight hunger in 6 African countries and Yemen
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN has allocated $100 million to fight hunger in Africa and the Middle East as the spillover effects of the [...] Full text...
Mali receives more than 327 million CFA francs from Spain for 2022 National Food Response Plan
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Spanish government has offered Mali, through the World Food Programme (WFP), more than 327 million CFA francs to support the [...] Full text...
Pump attendants at three major petrol stations in Mali observe 72-hour strike
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Pump attendants of Total Energies, Shell Energie and Oryx Energie, the three biggest petrol stations in Mali, have been on a [...] Full text...
Egyptian organization donates food stuff to Gambians
MLJ Banjul, Gambia (PANA)-An Egyptian charitable organisation, Misr El Kheir, has donated food stuff to Gambians through the first lady and her philanthropic group, sources revealed [...] Full text...
UN independent expert on official visit to Mali
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Mali, Alioune Tine, has been in Bamako since Tuesday for an official [...] Full text...
41 child care and protection centres authorised in Benin
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government has granted approval to 41 reception and child protection centres throughout the country, sources close to the Ministry [...] Full text...
Malian government to subsidize some basic necessities to ease price hike
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government has decided to subsidize certain consumer products, notably rice, sugar and cooking oil, to mitigate the effects of [...] Full text...
127 Gambian migrants repatriated from Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 127 Gambian migrants were voluntarily repatriated to their country on Thursday from Libya, the International Organization for Migration [...] Full text...
Government to compensate persons affected by project to develop largest market in Porto-Novo
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The government will compensate persons affected by projects on islands on south-eastern side of the Ouando market under construction in Porto-Novo, [...] Full text...
Senegalese army inspector general visits country's contingent based in Gao, northern Mali
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The head of the regional office of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Gao (North Mali), [...] Full text...
More than 3bln CFAF to rehouse people evicted from two fishing sites in Cotonou
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government is to release 3,461,803,000 CFA francs to rehouse and support the families of fishermen relocated from two sites [...] Full text...
Malian pharmacists suspend compulsory health insurance service
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Pharmacists in charge of private health structures in Mali will suspend, from 13 September until further notice, the compulsory health insurance [...] Full text...
Malian, Ivorian experts express support for delimitation of common border
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian and Ivorian experts have expressed their desire to support the delimitation of their common border, official sources said here Monday.
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Mali's National Union of Higher Education suspends strike order
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The National Union of Higher Education and Scientific Research (SNESUP) of Mali on Friday suspended its 72-hour strike, scheduled for Tuesday [...] Full text...
Armed robbers kill international journalist working on documentary in Ghana
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A journalist from the London-based television channel, MTA International, Taalay Ahmed, was Monday killed by armed robbers while working in Ghana, [...] Full text...
Tunisian navy rescues 31 illegal migrants
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Navy units rescued 31 foreign illegal migrants, threatened with drowning, after their damaged boat was taking in water.
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Japan donates more than 4,300 tons of milled rice to Mali
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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Japan has donated 4,310 tons of milled rice worth 300 million Japanese Yen or about 1.5 billion CFA francs to Mali [...] Full text...
Bamako public school teachers on strike for non-payment of salaries
MTA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Public school teachers in Bamako district have gone on strike effective Monday to press for payment of salaries to their colleagues [...] Full text...
Court restrains Nigeria from arresting, prosecuting NGO over Twitter case
WA Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice Tuesday ordered the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its agents to refrain from [...] Full text...
UN, WHO call for renewal of humanitarian assistance to millions in north-west Syria
WA Geneva-Switzerland (PANA) - Millions of people caught up in an active war zone in north-west Syria remain in need of humanitarian aid to survive, the United [...] Full text...
ECOWAS Court dismisses suit Filed by former staff of the West African Power Pool (WAPP)
WA Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court has dismissed a suit brought by a former staff of the West African Power Pool (WAPP), Mr. Ignace [...] Full text...
Libya gives foreign workers one month to regularise their situation
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Labour and Rehabilitation has asked all employers, whether public or private, as well as foreign workers to [...] Full text...
Ghana: Three dead, 15 others trapped in mining pit
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Three persons died while more than 15 others were still believed trapped following the collapse of an illegal mining (galamsey) pit [...] Full text...
Mali celebrates Labor Day with sobriety
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The president of the Transition in Mali, Bah N'Daw, in his message to Malian workers on Labor Day, expressed his respect [...] Full text...
Ghanaian actress jailed over nude photo granted bail
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The High Court in Accra on Thursday granted jailed Ghanaian actress, Rosemond Brown, popularly called Akuapem Poloo, bail in the sum [...] Full text...
Ghanaian actress jailed 90 days for indecent exposure
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - An Accra circuit court Friday sentenced a popular Ghanaian actress, Rosemond Brown, to 90 days in prison for indecent exposure of [...] Full text...