UN says drone attacks on Sea port, serious violations of international humanitarian law

06 may 2025 - 18:41:28 MO

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The UN on Monday said drone attacks on Sudan’s sea port and provisional seat for the military government and the main [...] Full text...

Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates: UNHCR

06 may 2025 - 12:49:19 MA

N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Thousands of exhausted Sudanese refugees continue to flee fighting in search of safety in neighbouring Chad, aid teams said on Tuesday, as [...] Full text...

UN mission in Libya calls for independent investigation into disappearance of MP, torture video

06 may 2025 - 11:52:08 MA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed alarm at a video circulating on social media purporting to show House [...] Full text...

UN condemns aerial bombardment on South Sudan hospital

06 may 2025 - 07:08:59 MA

Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations has condemned a deadly aerial bombardment on a hospital in South Sudan’s Jonglei state that killed multiple [...] Full text...

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

05 may 2025 - 10:59:21 MA

Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has strongly condemned the “deliberate bombing” of its hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan, [...] Full text...

Southj Africa: Remains of anti-apartheid activists reburied

04 may 2025 - 17:09:57 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi on Saturday presided over the handover and reburial ceremony of the exhumed remains of political [...] Full text...

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

04 may 2025 - 12:42:10 WA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Two months into a devastating aid blockade of Gaza food has run out and people are fighting over water amid [...] Full text...

Guterres condemns violence against civilians in Syria, urges Israel to stop attacks

03 may 2025 - 18:45:52 WA

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres is following developments in Syria, where fresh fighting in the capital, Damascus, and elsewhere is threatening [...] Full text...

Journalism facing new threats from AI and censorship - UN rights chief

03 may 2025 - 08:55:19 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Countries must do everything to ensure that free and independent news reporting can thrive, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [...] Full text...

World Press Freedom Day: Political repression, funding cuts drive media sector into deep crisis

03 may 2025 - 04:54:52 AR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Massive funding cuts, compounded by growing political repression and increasing violence towards journalists, are driving the media sector into [...] Full text...

Funding crisis increases danger and risks for refugees: UNHCR

02 may 2025 - 17:51:50 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday that a worsening funding crisis is placing refugees – who cannot return home [...] Full text...

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

02 may 2025 - 17:44:37 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Two months into a devastating aid blockade of Gaza food has run out and people are fighting over water amid [...] Full text...

Resurgence of religious extremism

02 may 2025 - 16:21:19 AO

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Terror groups have regrouped and intensified religiously-motivated attacks.In Kenya, five workers were singled out from a group of 21 passengers traveling [...] Full text...

Commission to probe apartheid-era crimes in South Africa

02 may 2025 - 08:24:00 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is in the process of establishing a judicial commission of inquiry to [...] Full text...

Sudan: UN rights chief appeals for greater protection of civilians in besieged El Fasher

02 may 2025 - 08:05:12 MA

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - New More than 500 civilians have been killed in North Darfur state, Sudan, over the past three weeks, the UN [...] Full text...

Kenyan lawmaker shot dead, motorcyclist flees scene in dusk raid

01 may 2025 - 14:51:04 AO

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan police has declared the shooting to death of Charles Ong'ondo Were, a three-term Member of Parliament, on Wednesday a [...] Full text...

UN alert over deepening crisis in Sudan as famine spreads and violence escalates

01 may 2025 - 06:19:43 MA

New York, US (PANA)  The United Nations has warned that Sudan is sliding deeper into catastrophe, with growing famine and surging violence – particularly in [...] Full text...

Millions will die from funding cuts, says UN aid chief

30 april 2025 - 16:45:01 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Lifesaving operations everywhere continue to be shut down by sweeping funding cutbacks which will result in millions of people dying, [...] Full text...

Education has been and can continue to be at the centre of global poverty reduction: IMF Blog By Amory Gethin, Economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group

30 april 2025 - 08:33:14 AR

Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The world economy has experienced a remarkable transformation over the past four decades. Global GDP per capita doubled in [...] Full text...

Escalating violence displaces thousands in eastern DR Congo

30 april 2025 - 06:57:51 MA

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Ongoing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is uprooting families, crippling essential services, and placing civilians at [...] Full text...

Children in Gaza ‘going to bed starving’ amid blockade: UNRWA

29 april 2025 - 13:04:14 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The biggest UN aid agency in Gaza on Tuesday condemned the two-month Israeli blockade that has left families eating barely enough [...] Full text...

Unlocking Cameroonian youth’s potential for more and better jobs (A World Bank feature)

29 april 2025 - 08:56:31 AR

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Young people aged 18 to 35 represent 57% of the labor force in Cameroon—but many struggle to find work. With rapid [...] Full text...

Gazans face hunger crisis as aid blockade nears two months

29 april 2025 - 08:12:27 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Surviving on one meal a day and stretching out rapidly dwindling food rations have become a desperate reality in the [...] Full text...

UN refugee chief regrets flouting of international humanitarian law in conflicts

29 april 2025 - 07:54:00 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Thousands of lives have been “destroyed in the pursuit of supremacy”, as international humanitarian law has been “dismissed” and “cast [...] Full text...

UN launches network to support victims and survivors of terrorism

29 april 2025 - 07:42:15 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) launched the Victims of Terrorism Associations Network (VoTAN) on Monday.The UN initiative aims to [...] Full text...

UN trust fund supports over 4,300 victims of sexual exploitation and abuse

29 april 2025 - 07:27:26 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Spokesperson also reported on Monday that more than 4,300 victims and community members affected by sexual exploitation and [...] Full text...

UN warns Sudan’s humanitarian crisis deepening

29 april 2025 - 07:23:57 MA

New York,US (PANA) - Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is deepening as escalating violence blocks aid deliveries and forces thousands more civilians to flee, the UN warned [...] Full text...

Firefighters tackle massive Table Mountain blaze in South Africa

28 april 2025 - 09:41:40 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Several helicopters and hundreds of firefighters are battling to contain a massive fire on Cape Town’s world famous Table [...] Full text...

‘Killer Robots’ threaten human rights during war, peace, says rights advocate

28 april 2025 - 07:50:40 MA

New York, US (PANA) – Autonomous weapons systems pose grave risks to human rights during both war and peacetime, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in [...] Full text...

Gaza: UN official warns of 'assault on dignity' as blockade cripples humanitarian response

27 april 2025 - 13:54:46 WA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The coming days in Gaza are set to be critical, the UN warned on Saturday, as humanitarian operations are severely [...] Full text...

From border control to belonging: How host communities gain from empowering refugees

26 april 2025 - 07:18:20 MA

New York, US (PANA) - With humanitarian aid in decline, the international community must shift its focus from short-term relief efforts to inclusive policies that [...] Full text...

Sudan situation ‘absolutely devastating’ as UN ramps up food aid

26 april 2025 - 07:12:22 MA

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The situation in western Sudan is “shocking” and people in the capital, Khartoum, face “absolutely devastating” conditions according to a [...] Full text...

WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza

25 april 2025 - 18:04:52 WA

New York, US (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has run out of food in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to block the [...] Full text...

Security Council debates precarious path forward for a new Syria

25 april 2025 - 17:28:56 WA

New York, US (PANA) - Syria is undergoing a rocky transition after years of conflict and authoritarian rule. Despite tentative political progress, ongoing violence, deepening economic [...] Full text...

DR Congo crisis forces refugees to swim for their lives to Burundi

25 april 2025 - 15:23:57 MA

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The number of desperate refugees fleeing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and seeking safety in Burundi continues [...] Full text...

Achieving parity in internet usage would add trillions of dollars to global GDP: UN

25 april 2025 - 13:11:49 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Globally, far more men than women use the internet, and closing this gap in low- and middle-income countries could add [...] Full text...

As budgets shrink, UN Peacekeeping looks to the future

25 april 2025 - 05:06:35 MA

New York, US (PANA) - With just weeks to go before a key ministerial meeting in Berlin, the UN and Germany have reaffirmed their commitment [...] Full text...

Hundreds killed in Sudan’s camps for displaced people

24 april 2025 - 20:26:08 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hundreds of civilians, including at least 12 humanitarian workers, have been killed in recent artillery shelling targeting the El Fasher and [...] Full text...

Health, education, opportunity at stake, amid stubborn digital gender divide

24 april 2025 - 07:23:07 MA

New York,US (PANA) - As transformative technologies such as Artificial Intelligence continue to reshape the global economy, millions of women and girls remain excluded from [...] Full text...

Sexual violence systematically used as a weapon of war in the DR Congo

23 april 2025 - 19:51:10 WA

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to have devastating consequences, particularly for women and children, [...] Full text...

Sewage, trash and disease overwhelm displaced communities in Gaza

23 april 2025 - 19:28:39 WA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Amid sweltering heat, raw sewage and overflowing trash, displaced families in southern Gaza are facing an escalating public health crisis [...] Full text...

Gaza: Destruction of vital lifting gear halts search for thousands buried under rubble

23 april 2025 - 16:12:17 WA

New York, US (PANA) - Families in Gaza were holding on to the slim chance of finding loved ones buried under the ruins of destroyed [...] Full text...

Gaza aid crisis deepens as border closure stretches into 50th day

23 april 2025 - 05:16:34 MA

Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with more than two million people – mostly women and children [...] Full text...

Hunger stalks Ethiopia as UN aid agency halts support amid funding cuts

22 april 2025 - 14:47:57 MA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Funding and supply shortfalls for the UN World Food Programme's relief work in Ethiopia will halt lifesaving treatment for 650,000 [...] Full text...

Challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples, ‘an affront to dignity and justice’

22 april 2025 - 07:38:17 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Too many Indigenous Peoples are still being excluded from decisions that directly affect their lands, territories, cultures, and the future [...] Full text...

Syria is ‘brimming with hope and opportunity’: Senior UN aid official

21 april 2025 - 21:48:09 WA

New York, US (PANA) - Now is the time to invest in Syria, and support people returning to the country and their communities, the outgoing [...] Full text...

Kenyans mourn Pope Francis

21 april 2025 - 15:31:03 AO

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenyans are mourning Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, aged 88 years, after a battle with pneumonia.Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, [...] Full text...

UN chief hails Pope Francis as ‘a transcendent voice for peace’

21 april 2025 - 14:57:09 MA

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has joined the world in mourning His Holiness Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday in [...] Full text...

Ghana's President Mahama pays tribute to Pope Francis

21 april 2025 - 13:29:03 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has paid tribute to Pope Francis who passed away on Easter Monday, aged 88, saying that [...] Full text...

URGENT: Pope Francis dies

21 april 2025 - 08:53:37 MA

Vatican City, Vatican (PANA) - Pope Francis has died.He died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced, according to media reports.His [...] Full text...