Peace falters as fighting in eastern DR Congo raises fears of regional war

13 december 2025 - 08:21:26

New York, US (PANA) - Civilians across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are facing collapsing health services and mass displacement as fighting spreads, [...] Full text...

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 Democratic Republic of the Congo [...] Full text...

South Africa barred from attending G20 preparatory meeting

03 december 2025 - 07:42:54

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has not been invited to the upcoming G20 sherpas meeting scheduled for 15 and 16 December in [...] Full text...

Sudan welcomes President Trump's decision to end the war in Sudan

20 november 2025 - 08:33:16

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has welcomed US President Donald Trump's statement that he would initiate a peaceful resolution to the conflict [...] Full text...

Intense violence, worsens food insecurity in conflict areas

18 november 2025 - 12:45:35

New York, USA (PANA) - Attacks harming civilians and civilian infrastructure leave fields abandoned, disrupt food ssissupply chains, drive up prices and destroy livelihoods, said [...] Full text...

Sudan's military ruler sets conditions for talks

15 november 2025 - 06:19:04

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's military ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has again set conditions for truce in the bloody war in the East African [...] Full text...

Top US diplomat lashes out at Sudan's RSF, calls for cut off of weapons supply

13 november 2025 - 08:02:21

Hamilton, Canada (PANA) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has strongly criticised Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the “terrible” things it has [...] Full text...

Ghana President speaks of new plans to enhance regional security cooperation

03 november 2025 - 16:33:21

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama said on Monday that there are plans to establish a new platform to enhance regional security [...] Full text...

Mo Ibrahim Foundation weighs in on Tanzania electoral violence

03 november 2025 - 08:06:59

London, United Kingdom (PANA) – The violence against civilians protesting against the conduct of elections in Tanzania is "unacceptable”, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation has stated.“We are [...] Full text...

South Sudan at risk of return to war, UN investigators warn

30 october 2025 - 07:27:31

New York, US (PANA) - South Sudan faces a renewed slide into full-scale conflict unless urgent international action is taken, the UN-appointed independent investigative body [...] Full text...

Security, humanitarian reasons behind withdrawal from besieged city , says Sudan's military leader

28 october 2025 - 05:52:49

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese army chief, Lieutenant General Abdul Fatah Al Burhan, says security and humanitarian concerns dictated the withdrawal of his troops [...] Full text...

Libya's 5+5 Joint Military Committee reaffirms 'full commitment' to ceasefire agreement

23 october 2025 - 15:04:08

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's 5+5 Joint Military Committee has reaffirmed its “full commitment” to the terms of the country's ceasefire agreement, its attachment to [...] Full text...

Sudanese govt slams EU Council for legitimising rival paramilitary group

23 october 2025 - 05:11:02

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government on Wednesday rejected to the conclusions of the European Union Council, which emphasise that the primary responsibility [...] Full text...

'Sudanese, US officials engaged in pre-peace talks consultation'

22 october 2025 - 12:31:48

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - A news portal close to the Sudanese government on Tuesday said the military rulers are currently engaged in consultations with [...] Full text...

Sudan: RSF leader Hemetti accuses rival national army of ethnic cleansing, genocide

22 october 2025 - 08:27:23

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA - The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, on Tuesday accused the Sudanese army of committing [...] Full text...

Take all necessary steps to end Sudan war, EU Council tells all parties to the conflict

21 october 2025 - 13:20:25

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union Council has strongly condemned the ongoing conflict in Sudan and called on all parties to the bloody war [...] Full text...

Sudan to make use of the Gaza momentum reaching peace at home

15 october 2025 - 19:20:14

Port Sudan, Sudan(PANA)-  Sudan and Egypt are agreed that the region should make use of the momentum brought by the Trump peace deal in Gaza and [...] Full text...

South Africa represented at Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women

15 october 2025 - 08:42:57

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Minister in the Presidency Sindisiwe Chikunga is attending the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women in Beijing. The meeting aims to [...] Full text...

DRC: UN envoy urges people eager for peace in the east ‘not to lose hope’

04 october 2025 - 06:21:12

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - For people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) exhausted by years of conflict, the United Nations envoy for the [...] Full text...

DR Congo: Peace still elusive despite ‘progress we see on paper’, UN official says

01 october 2025 - 07:30:46

New York, US (PANA) - Peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “is still mostly a promise”, the head of the UN peacekeeping [...] Full text...

AUC chairperson reiterates urgent call for immediate ceasefire in Sudan

26 september 2025 - 07:33:57

New York, US (PANA) -  Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the AU Commission, has reiterated the urgent imperative of an immediate ceasefire as a prerequisite [...] Full text...

Libyan Parliament, UNSMIL meet on security situation in Tripoli and the west

25 september 2025 - 13:13:56

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Committee on Defence and National Security of the Libyan Parliament reviewed in a meeting with officials the Division of Security [...] Full text...

Taiwan confirms it is restricting trade to South Africa

25 september 2025 - 07:55:44

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Taiwan has confirmed that it is restricting trade to South Africa after Pretoria said it will downgrade its mission [...] Full text...

UN’s Guterres to world leaders: Choose peace and cooperation over chaos

23 september 2025 - 15:28:55

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General opened the General Assembly high-level debate with a stark message: the world is awash with overlapping crises [...] Full text...

Civilians bear the brunt of ethnicization of Sudan conflict: UN

21 september 2025 - 04:33:56

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Sudanese conflict has intensified in recent months, according to a report by the UN Human Rights Office, which reports a [...] Full text...

Fragile progress in Syria, at risk from exclusion and foreign interference, UN warns

18 september 2025 - 20:05:07

New York, US (PANA) - Syria’s tentative steps towards recovery could quickly unravel without inclusive politics, sustained aid and respect for national sovereignty, top UN [...] Full text...

AU,IGAD welcome QUAD outcome on Sudan

14 september 2025 - 17:04:55

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA)- The African Union Commission, along with the Inter government Authority for Development IGAD, say they have received with keen interest a [...] Full text...

Peace bell rings at UN amid cacophony of conflict

13 september 2025 - 06:13:32

New York, US (PANA) - With more conflicts on Earth than ever before since the end of World War II, the Peace Bell rang on,12 [...] Full text...

Sudan's paramilitary RSF 'seizes new ground' in besieged city

02 september 2025 - 07:07:40

El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday they have “seized new ground” in El Fasher, the last stronghold [...] Full text...

UNSMIL calls for peaceful dialogue, de-escalation in Tripoli

30 august 2025 - 15:32:32

Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed concern the high levels of tension in Tripoli warning that any [...] Full text...

C'ttee responsible for implementation of Tripoli truce meets to defuse tension

29 august 2025 - 15:18:01

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Chief of Staff of the Libyan Army in Western Libya, Lieutenant General Mohamed Al-Haddad, held a meeting on Thursday with [...] Full text...

ICRC: Conflict in Sudan drives missing persons cases in Africa

28 august 2025 - 16:24:41

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - A huge increase in missing persons in Africa, has been attributed mainly to the current Sudan war and its impact [...] Full text...

ECOWAS meeting discusses financing fight against terrorism

28 august 2025 - 14:03:25

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Experts from the Ministries of Finance and Defence of member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) [...] Full text...

UN calls for decisive steps to end conflict as Gaza and West Bank crises deepen

28 august 2025 - 06:27:23

New York, US (PANA) - Nearly two years of war in Gaza along with continued violence and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank - [...] Full text...

Pope calls for security, peace for people of Mozabique's Cabo Delgado province

24 august 2025 - 13:17:00

Vatican City, Vatican (PANA) - Pope Leo on Sunday expressed concern about violence for insecurity in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province and prayed for peace for [...] Full text...

Sudan army, allies repel 'major attack' by paramilitary RSF on besieged El Fasher

21 august 2025 - 08:09:26

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese army and allied armed groups say they repelled a major, multi-pronged attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces [...] Full text...

International coalition urges Sudanese warring parties to take action to improve humanitarian situation

20 august 2025 - 21:24:50

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - An international coalition that groups five governments beside the United Nations and the African Union on Wednesday issued a joint [...] Full text...

South Sudanese ‘are counting on us’, top UN official tells Security Council

19 august 2025 - 07:25:34

New York, US (PANA) - Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, briefed the Security Council on the deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in South Sudan [...] Full text...

Sudan welcomes AU Peace and Security Council’s stance towards developments in the country

08 august 2025 - 17:37:38

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has welcomed a statement by the African Peace and Security Council rejecting and condemning the establishment of a parallel government to [...] Full text...

Sudan welcomes AU Peace and Security Council’s stance towards developments in the country

08 august 2025 - 17:37:38

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has welcomed a statement by the African Peace and Security Council rejecting and condemning the establishment of a parallel government to [...] Full text...

Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns "proxy war" in Darfur undermines regional and continental peace

05 august 2025 - 11:39:16

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has officially claimed that mercenaries from a number of countries are involved in the raging war between the Sudanese [...] Full text...

Sudanese Darfur group claims mercenaries fighting alongside militias

04 august 2025 - 12:19:39

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Joint Force of the Armed Struggle Movements (The Joint Force) has claimed that foreign Latin American mercenaries have [...] Full text...

‘It is the Environment, Stupid’: Sudan’s war and its impact on local communities (Feature by Mohamed Osman Adam, PANA correspondent, Khartoum)

27 july 2025 - 14:06:23

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The tip of the iceberg behind the causes of the current war in Sudan are political, social and economic disparities, politicians [...] Full text...

AU holds special session on Libya on Thursday

24 july 2025 - 12:22:54

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) will hold an extraordinary session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday to discuss [...] Full text...

Libyan lawmakers, military and security officials discuss strengthening legislative role in national security

24 july 2025 - 08:40:19

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Members of Libya's House of Representatives and senior military and security officials gathered in the Tunisian capital this week for a [...] Full text...

UN Security Council, in unanimous vote, presses nations to resolve disputes peacefully

23 july 2025 - 06:12:05

New York, US (PANA) - The Security Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging all Member States to “utilise effectively” the mechanisms for pacific settlement [...] Full text...

South African President Ramaphosa fires senior Minister over graft scandal

22 july 2025 - 08:19:00

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday fired Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane who is facing graft allegations.Nkabane’s firing [...] Full text...

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 long illness. His death was confirmed [...] Full text...

Launch of joint security plan for Tripoli

26 june 2025 - 11:58:11

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of the Interior has launched the joint security plan for the city of Tripoli, under the supervision of [...] Full text...

Sudan’s war intensifies amid starvation, rights probe warns

18 june 2025 - 07:10:54

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Heavy fighting continues to escalate in Sudan as a “direct result” of the continued flow of arms into the country meaning [...] Full text...