Humanitarian charity warns of alarming consequences of aid cuts as crisis in Mali spreads south

15 december 2025 - 12:32:53

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A poisonous cocktail of escalating conflict, blockades, increased displacement, and humanitarian funding cuts is pushing people in Mali to the brink. Families [...] Full text...

Fall of eastern DRC city to rebels puts civilians at risk - HRW

15 december 2025 - 09:35:27

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Rwandan forces and M23 armed group that captured the city of Uvira in South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of [...] Full text...

US slams Rwanda for escalation of war in eastern DRC

13 december 2025 - 12:27:09

New York, US (PANA) - The US has slammed Rwanda for the escalation of the war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as it [...] Full text...

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...

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 coordination office (OCHA) on Wednesday.Communities [...] Full text...

IMF concludes virtual mission on programme review with Mali

25 november 2025 - 10:31:28

Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and the Malian authorities have concluded the virtual mission under the First Review of the [...] 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...

Mali's fuel crisis stifles humanitarian operations

14 november 2025 - 07:46:00

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A severe fuel shortage caused by a jihadist blockade of several strategic roads is fuelling the humanitarian crisis in Mali. This [...] 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...

AUC Chairperson calls for urgent international action as Mali's crisis escalates

10 november 2025 - 09:49:12

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has expressed deep concern over the rapidly deteriorating [...] Full text...

AUC Chairperson calls for urgent international action as Mali's crisis escalates

10 november 2025 - 09:49:12

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has expressed deep concern over the rapidly deteriorating [...] Full text...

South Africa calls for support for Hurricane Melissa victims

05 november 2025 - 07:17:30

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government on Tuesday expressed its deepest condolences and solidarity with the governments and peoples of the [...] 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...

Rights group urges Malian authorities to immediately release former PM, others

28 october 2025 - 14:37:20

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The conviction and sentencing of Mali’s former Prime Minister Moussa Mara to two years in prison, one of which is mandatory, [...] 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...

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...

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...

UN aid coordination office warns of health crisis in eastern DRC

21 october 2025 - 07:27:09

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday reported that health systems across North and South Kivu in the restive Democratic [...] Full text...

Europe’s health system under strain as doctors and nurses face mental health crisis

10 october 2025 - 15:16:51

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - One in 10 doctors and nurses in Europe experience suicidal thoughts, a new survey carried out by the World Health Organisation [...] 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...

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...

Rights group urges Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger not to leave ICC

23 september 2025 - 20:12:01

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Human rights advocate. Amnesty International, on Tuesday described the decision of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to withdraw from the International [...] Full text...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger withdraw from International Criminal Court

23 september 2025 - 10:30:36

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, 0n Monday announced their withdrawal from the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), saying it has [...] 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...

Tunisia denies drone attack on Soumoud flotilla

09 september 2025 - 14:30:44

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Interior Ministry denied, in a statement early Tuesday reports that one of the boats in the ‘’Semmoud'' flotilla bound [...] Full text...

UN rights chief denounces Mali's authoritarian drift, growing repression

07 september 2025 - 05:38:25

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN human rights chief sounded the alarm on Thursday over the deteriorating political situation in Mali, where the democratic process [...] 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...

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...

AU chief 'strongly condemns' terrorist attacks in Mali

28 august 2025 - 16:14:58

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has strongly condemned terrorist attacks in Mali.A press release [...] 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...

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...

Mali's Supreme Court opens investigation into 'massive' embezzlement case involving former Prime Minister Maiga

20 august 2025 - 12:51:31

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A judicial investigation into “massive” embezzlement of public funds, forgery, money laundering and complicity was opened by the Attorney General's Office [...] Full text...

Mali, UAE sign 11 agreements in strategic areas of development

19 august 2025 - 12:20:00

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The second meeting of the Joint Cooperation Commission for Mali and United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday in Abu Dhabi [...] Full text...

Surge in flow of Burkinabe refugees into Mali

18 august 2025 - 06:40:22

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - In barely a week, the small town of Koro in central Mali has seen an influx of more than 8,000 Burkinabe [...] Full text...

Several soldiers arrested in Mali for attempting to 'destabilise state institutions'

15 august 2025 - 12:31:43

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Several Malian military officers, including General Abbas Dembélé, former governor of Mopti, and Brigadier General Niéma Sagara, have been arrested and [...] Full text...

Mali's former transitional PM Choguel Maiga placed in police custody

13 august 2025 - 12:58:51

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Mali's former transitional Prime Minister from 2021-2024, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, was taken into custody on Tuesday by the National Economic [...] 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...

Gaza: Security Council meets on hostage crisis amid ‘unbearable’ conditions facing Palestinian civilians

06 august 2025 - 06:53:26

New York, US (PANA) - As conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel continue to deteriorate, a senior UN official upheld the need for [...] Full text...

Malian PM attends 3rd Conference on Landlocked Countries in Turkmenistan

05 august 2025 - 12:00:54

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Major General Abdoulaye Maïga is taking part in the 3rd United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), [...] 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...

Malian Foreign minister visits Venezuela

04 august 2025 - 11:02:48

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Abdoulaye Diop, has been in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, since Saturday [...] Full text...

Former Malian PM Moussa Mara detained for X post on 'prisoners of conscience'

02 august 2025 - 16:24:42

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Former Malian Prime Minister Moussa Mara was remanded in pre-trial detention on Friday at Bamako Central Prison, after being questioned by [...] Full text...

IMF Executive Board concludes 2025 Article IV Consultation with Mali

01 august 2025 - 11:27:12

Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Mali on Thursday noting the [...] Full text...

Malian PM attends 2025 World Expo in Japan

01 august 2025 - 11:21:31

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister, Major-General Abdoulaye Maïga, arrived on Thursday in Osaka, Japan, to participate in the 2025 World Expo, reports the [...] Full text...

Death of Burkinabe activist in detention in Côte d'Ivoire reignites tensions

29 july 2025 - 10:56:05

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The death last Thursday of Burkinabe activist Alain Christophe Traoré, alias Alino Faso, while being held in prison in Côte [...] Full text...