01 october 2024 - 06:15:08
New York, US (PANA) - Action is needed now to stop the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea from “becoming mass [...] Full text...
19 september 2024 - 05:56:10
New York, US (PANA) - The detention of asylum seekers around the world is harmful and contrary to their fundamental [...] Full text...
18 september 2024 - 04:30:59
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - UN agencies and their humanitarian partners are providing life-saving relief to families in Nigeria who lost [...] Full text...
22 august 2024 - 05:04:14
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - As the lean season intensifies across Mali, the situation for thousands of people who have fled [...] Full text...
09 august 2024 - 07:57:23
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US on Thursday announced nearly $536 million in life-saving humanitarian assistance for Sub-Saharan Africa.It [...] Full text...
31 july 2024 - 14:49:08
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 119 refugees and asylum seekers have been evacuated from Libya to Italy, the [...] Full text...
23 july 2024 - 13:12:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Renewed attacks on civilians in eastern Burkina Faso by non-State armed groups have forced thousands to [...] Full text...
13 july 2024 - 05:49:08
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and humanitarian partners are continuing to support Malian Government-led aid efforts, reaching an [...] Full text...
09 july 2024 - 14:15:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The desperate plight of migrants and refugees tortured, trafficked and sold “at scale” in Libya took [...] Full text...
09 july 2024 - 08:31:17
N’djamena, Chad (PANA) – Enhancing the economic inclusion of refugees necessitates acknowledging their economic contributions, according to the World Bank [...] Full text...
26 june 2024 - 18:39:17
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A delegation of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of [...] Full text...
20 june 2024 - 06:24:12
New York, US (PANA) - Conflict, climate chaos and upheaval have forced more than 120 million people from their homes [...] Full text...
19 june 2024 - 07:10:44
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Egyptian authorities must immediately cease the mass arbitrary arrests and unlawful deportations of Sudanese refugees [...] Full text...
07 june 2024 - 11:56:12
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned about the fast-growing humanitarian crisis in the Sahel [...] Full text...
06 june 2024 - 09:48:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, estimates that more than 2.9 million refugees worldwide will need resettlement [...] Full text...
20 may 2024 - 07:19:56
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian authorities have arrested at least nine people amid escalating government actions in recent weeks to [...] Full text...
18 may 2024 - 06:58:26
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN’s top human rights official has personally intervened to try to stop spiralling violence in Sudan that’s [...] Full text...
15 may 2024 - 13:07:05
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Ousman Sonko, former interior minister of Gambia, was convicted by Switzerland's top criminal court on Wednesday for crimes [...] Full text...
03 may 2024 - 05:28:36
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Top independent rights experts on Thursday called for an end to the practice of detaining the [...] Full text...
02 may 2024 - 05:49:48
New York, US (PANA) - The UN migration agency (IOM) and refugee agency UNHCR on Wednesday mourned yet another major [...] Full text...
24 april 2024 - 04:28:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Following the United Kingdom Parliament’s passage of the “Safety of Rwanda” bill, two top UN officials [...] Full text...
23 april 2024 - 05:32:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Independent UN experts have expressed concern over the role airlines and aviation authorities could have in [...] Full text...
17 april 2024 - 05:43:55
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States is providing nearly $154 million in additional assistance for the humanitarian response [...] Full text...
13 april 2024 - 16:29:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian naval units have recovered two bodies, foiled 23 attempts at illegal migration and intercepted 942 [...] Full text...
09 april 2024 - 05:18:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Only one in two countries offer guaranteed healthcare and educational access to all migrants, UN migration [...] Full text...
29 march 2024 - 05:06:12
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and partners on Thursday appealed for $1.4 billion this year to support [...] Full text...
28 march 2024 - 05:17:38
Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Vital food assistance to refugees in Cameroon may cease unless funding shortfalls can be filled, UN [...] Full text...
21 march 2024 - 05:27:45
New York, US (PANA) - Racism is “an evil infecting countries and societies around the world”, the UN chief has [...] Full text...
06 march 2024 - 15:33:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Ninety-seven asylum seekers have been evacuated to Rome in Italy via Maitigua international airport, on the [...] Full text...
02 march 2024 - 05:36:59
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has voiced deep concern over the escalating humanitarian crisis in the [...] Full text...
01 march 2024 - 23:46:09
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Aid agencies in Ethiopia have put up a joint appeal for US$3.2 billion required in [...] Full text...
22 february 2024 - 07:00:06
New York, US (PANA) – Governments across the globe are reaching beyond their borders and committing human rights abuses against [...] Full text...
19 february 2024 - 16:05:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United Kingdom’s legislative moves to facilitate the prompt removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda run [...] Full text...
16 february 2024 - 06:19:46
New York, US (PANA) - Progress towards credible elections in Libya is impossible without an agreement between the key political [...] Full text...
08 february 2024 - 17:55:59
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian coastguard Thursday fished out 13 bodies of illegal migrants after their boat sank nine [...] Full text...
01 february 2024 - 05:32:46
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has concluded a three-day visit to Ethiopia, [...] Full text...
29 january 2024 - 07:53:52
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Humanitarian charity, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), on Monday appealed to the international community to donate to help [...] Full text...
19 january 2024 - 22:27:43
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Sierra Leone's former President Ernest Bai Koroma, accused of treason by the government of his country [...] Full text...
13 january 2024 - 14:12:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Armed groups and militias in Libya continue to commit violations against Libyans and illegal migrants in [...] Full text...
12 january 2024 - 14:10:50
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - More than 234,000 Burundian refugees, almost half of the total supposedly living in exile abroad, returned [...] Full text...
12 january 2024 - 07:46:31
New York, US (PANA) – Global leaders have failed to take strong stands to protect human rights during 2023, a [...] Full text...
29 december 2023 - 12:12:54
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 153 illegal migrants have been evacuated in a humanitarian operation to Rwanda as a third [...] Full text...
24 december 2023 - 06:55:33
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has expressed alarm at the spreading violence and deteriorating humanitarian situation [...] Full text...
21 december 2023 - 07:41:35
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Reforms agreed by the EU on the Pact on Migration and Asylum will set European asylum [...] Full text...
20 december 2023 - 18:53:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday welcomed a key deal by members of the [...] Full text...
19 december 2023 - 11:34:41
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United States Representative to the United Nations Security Council, John Kelley, has denounced Libyan protagonists [...] Full text...
18 december 2023 - 07:44:14
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday highlighted the urgent need for safe migration governance rooted [...] Full text...
15 december 2023 - 18:32:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - While some of the world’s poorest countries are welcoming refugees “with great hospitality”, the international community [...] Full text...
15 december 2023 - 17:14:49
Athens, Greece (PANA) - Official investigations into credible allegations that Greek coastguard actions and omissions contributed to the catastrophic shipwreck [...] Full text...
30 november 2023 - 18:21:21
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya is planning to designate major refugee camps as urban centres and municipalities once a draft [...] Full text...
30 october 2023 - 16:55:19
Washington DC, US (PANA) - Although the majority of people affected by forced displacement are in low- and middle-income countries, [...] Full text...
11 october 2023 - 05:59:19
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The Tunisian National Guard expelled over 100 migrants from multiple African countries to the border with Algeria between [...] Full text...
10 october 2023 - 10:27:38
New York, US (PANA) – Rwandan authorities and their proxies are using violence, judicial mechanisms, and intimidation to try to [...] Full text...
03 october 2023 - 05:27:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With people on the move globally at “unprecedented” levels, the UN’s new migration agency chief insisted [...] Full text...
01 october 2023 - 06:34:08
New York, US (PANA) - More than 11,600 unaccompanied children have crossed the Central Mediterranean to Italy so far this [...] Full text...
08 september 2023 - 19:09:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than seven million refugee children are out of school globally according to UN data – [...] Full text...
07 september 2023 - 07:14:17
New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday launched a new global campaign to rally support [...] Full text...
01 september 2023 - 15:27:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN migration agency (IOM) called on Friday for the setting up of a humanitarian corridor [...] Full text...
29 august 2023 - 15:34:51
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The political crisis in Niger has created uncertainty for scores of vulnerable displaced people, with restrictions [...] Full text...
25 august 2023 - 05:52:17
Bangui, Central African Republic (PANA) - An independent UN expert expressed grave concern on Thursday over the human rights situation in [...] Full text...
22 august 2023 - 19:03:41
New York, US (PANA) - Recent deadly clashes between two largest armed groups in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, underscore the [...] Full text...
19 august 2023 - 18:22:49
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) arrived in the Niger capital, [...] Full text...
17 august 2023 - 05:50:48
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A two-day meeting of military chiefs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which [...] Full text...
16 august 2023 - 07:15:21
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US again stressed on Tuesday that it wants to see a diplomatic resolution to [...] Full text...
15 august 2023 - 18:44:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - After four months of war in Sudan, UN humanitarians on Tuesday called for action to be [...] Full text...
15 august 2023 - 17:30:24
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Committee of the Chiefs of Defence Staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will [...] Full text...
15 august 2023 - 06:46:33
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday spoke with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu as [...] Full text...
14 august 2023 - 06:18:54
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Humanitarian charity, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is warning that military escalation must not push Niger and [...] Full text...
10 august 2023 - 16:33:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three UN agencies on Thursday appealed for greater access to safe and regular pathways for migration [...] Full text...
09 august 2023 - 05:56:45
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling for safer legal paths to migration following the latest [...] Full text...
25 july 2023 - 06:38:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In a world characterised by economic crises, conflicts, and natural disasters, the uptick in migration is [...] Full text...
24 july 2023 - 10:45:45
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - In the second year since Tunisian President Kais Saied’s power grab, Tunisian authorities have taken further [...] Full text...
18 july 2023 - 19:17:11
Geneva, Swtizerland (PANA) - A group of UN independent experts on Tuesday expressed concern over Tunisia's alleged discriminatory treatment of [...] Full text...
15 july 2023 - 07:46:41
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - During the first half of the year, 289 boys and girls died while crossing the Mediterranean [...] Full text...
13 july 2023 - 12:09:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN experts on Thursday condemned Ethiopia's summary expulsion of hundreds of Eritreans at the end of [...] Full text...
13 july 2023 - 09:59:01
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The man accused of causing millions of dollars of damage by setting fire to [...] Full text...
13 july 2023 - 06:24:27
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Egyptian government’s decision in June 2023 to require all Sudanese to obtain visas to enter Egypt has [...] Full text...
09 july 2023 - 11:12:37
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Saturday's air strike in Omdurman, Sudan, which reportedly killed [...] Full text...
07 july 2023 - 06:02:36
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked the Tunisian government to halt the collective expulsions of Black [...] Full text...
06 july 2023 - 09:35:00
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Sudan’s neighbours must immediately lift entry restrictions for individuals fleeing the conflict in the country [...] Full text...
28 june 2023 - 06:18:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Four human rights organisations have urged the UN Human Rights Council to urgently address the deterioration [...] Full text...
21 june 2023 - 14:00:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Committee for Human Rights, an NGO, has urged European Union (EU) countries to [...] Full text...
21 june 2023 - 09:45:27
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Rwandan genocide-accused Fulgence Kayishema will apply for asylum in South Africa, his lawyer told [...] Full text...
17 june 2023 - 07:42:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee and migration agencies are calling for urgent and decisive action to prevent further [...] Full text...
14 june 2023 - 16:16:26
Djibouti, Djibouti (PANA) - The East African sub-regional group, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), has adopted a roadmap that it [...] Full text...
12 june 2023 - 15:23:31
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Mission of Support in Libya (UNSMIL) has called on the Libyan authorities to [...] Full text...
11 june 2023 - 07:20:55
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - A June 8 agreement among European Union countries on asylum procedures and migration management is a [...] Full text...
09 june 2023 - 10:48:36
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Fulgence Kayishema, the Rwandan national accused of genocide on Friday appeared before the Cape Town [...] Full text...
06 june 2023 - 05:52:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) remains critical, with more than half the [...] Full text...
02 june 2023 - 12:35:29
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishemaappeared in a Cape Town court on Friday where he [...] Full text...
26 may 2023 - 19:53:50
Athens, Greece (PANA) - Three refugees were found dead north-east of the Greek island of Mykonos when their boat sank [...] Full text...
16 may 2023 - 12:19:53
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Over 20,400 people, mostly Ethiopian returnees fleeing the war in Sudan, have crossed Ethiopia’s Metema [...] Full text...
11 may 2023 - 15:21:11
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of State for Women's Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Houria al-Tarmal, said [...] Full text...
10 may 2023 - 09:29:24
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), has welcomed the signing of the application decree of the asylum [...] Full text...
06 may 2023 - 06:36:59
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday urged States to keep borders open to people fleeing [...] Full text...
05 may 2023 - 05:15:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With 860,000 people projected to flee the fighting in Sudan for neighbouring countries, the UN refugee [...] Full text...
03 may 2023 - 05:35:28
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - More than 100,000 people have now fled Sudan to neighbouring countries in search of safety, the [...] Full text...
28 april 2023 - 19:42:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The deteriorating security situation in Sudan arising from the ongoing power struggles that have started to [...] Full text...
28 april 2023 - 18:14:28
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A turbulent transition to civilian rule has been underway in Sudan since the ouster of former [...] Full text...
18 april 2023 - 16:30:17
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Swiss prosecutors have charged a former interior minister of The Gambia with crimes against humanity for [...] Full text...
15 april 2023 - 08:43:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A dire lack of humanitarian funding has left hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced [...] Full text...
07 april 2023 - 12:55:10
Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - To commemorate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, the FIFA Foundation on Thursday [...] Full text...
05 april 2023 - 11:22:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Tunisia must take swift action to curb racist rhetoric and halt ongoing rights violations of Black [...] Full text...
29 march 2023 - 14:44:02
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - One hundred and thirty-four thousand people are internally displaced in Libya, the United Nations High Commission [...] Full text...
28 march 2023 - 16:18:43
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundian office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced in a statement [...] Full text...
23 march 2023 - 05:20:48
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - UN agencies and partners are seeking $116 million to support Somalis escaping violence that erupted last month in the [...] Full text...
17 march 2023 - 05:21:58
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Thursday announced $150 million in new humanitarian assistance for [...] Full text...
11 march 2023 - 14:28:03
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 150 asylum seekers and refugees were evacuated to Rwanda from Libya on the [...] Full text...
28 february 2023 - 12:42:58
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Mozambique's delegate to the UN, Pedro Afonso, has told the Security Council that elections can be [...] Full text...
25 february 2023 - 13:43:37
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 36% of the 2,450 asylum applications submitted by Libyans in 2022 to European [...] Full text...
21 february 2023 - 12:26:41
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - To protect and assist 2.2 million South Sudanese refugees in the region this year, UNHCR, the [...] Full text...
19 february 2023 - 05:23:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continuing to experience one of Africa’s most complex [...] Full text...
17 february 2023 - 19:02:03
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Overcoming the current political impasse in Libya can unleash much-needed progress in tackling the myriad [...] Full text...
11 february 2023 - 15:04:28
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - At the end of a two-day visit on Thursday and Friday, the UN High Commissioner for [...] Full text...
19 january 2023 - 14:14:31
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - A Ghanaian citizen who survived the massacre of approximately 59 West African migrants in July 2005 [...] Full text...
13 january 2023 - 10:13:48
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – African leaders failed to tackle widespread abuses against civilians by state security forces and non-state armed [...] Full text...
25 december 2022 - 15:29:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN human rights expert has called on the Libyan authorities to take urgent steps to [...] Full text...
21 december 2022 - 05:32:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reiterated its opposition to the UK-Rwanda migration partnership [...] Full text...
19 december 2022 - 13:31:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, says "an unrelenting crisis of impunity in Libya" has enabled fighters [...] Full text...
16 december 2022 - 15:50:02
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem [...] Full text...
14 december 2022 - 14:34:44
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Meta, the holding company operating social media platform, Facebook, has been taken to Court in Kenya, [...] Full text...
12 december 2022 - 08:39:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The use by the EU's border agency, Frontex, of aerial surveillance to enable the Libyan Coast Guard [...] Full text...
12 december 2022 - 05:52:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says it has stepped up assistance to conflict-affected populations in Ethiopia’s [...] Full text...
01 december 2022 - 13:11:56
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Nearly 120 people were evacuated on Wednesday on a charter flight from Libya to Italy, the [...] Full text...
25 november 2022 - 05:58:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As European Union (EU) interior ministers hold an extraordinary session of the Justice and Home Affairs [...] Full text...
19 november 2022 - 05:16:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has reiterated its call for a ban on forced returns to [...] Full text...
03 november 2022 - 20:57:58
Brazzaville, DRC(PANA) - New analysis by the the World Health Organization (WHO) has found that the number of reported disease outbreaks [...] Full text...
03 november 2022 - 14:01:36
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 174 asylum seekers have been evacuated from Libya to Niger, the United Nations [...] Full text...
26 october 2022 - 06:23:52
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called on global leaders to spare no efforts [...] Full text...
21 october 2022 - 05:53:18
New York, US (PANA) - Protecting women’s rights and promoting greater inclusion is a proven strategy for peace and stability, [...] Full text...
19 october 2022 - 15:58:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 32 refugees, including children, were evacuated in a new operation organized by the [...] Full text...
11 october 2022 - 10:00:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it is alarmed by a surge of deadly [...] Full text...
10 october 2022 - 15:02:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The spokesperson of the Libyan Interior Ministry of the National Unity Government, Abdelmoneim al-Arbi, Monday announced [...] Full text...
10 october 2022 - 05:45:33
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – Governments, UN agencies, and humanitarian organisations should take concrete steps to develop and invest in psychosocial [...] Full text...
09 october 2022 - 17:58:53
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned the killing of at least 15 [...] Full text...
06 october 2022 - 10:03:17
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - A woman who survived the murder of a renowned Gambian journalist, Deyda Hydara, will testify on Thursday [...] Full text...
27 september 2022 - 14:38:14
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with the governments of Zambia and the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
19 september 2022 - 14:53:23
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Monday assisted 29 refugees to leave Libya on flights [...] Full text...
10 september 2022 - 14:44:21
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The president of the Transition of Mali, Colonel Assimi Goita, on Friday received in audience a [...] Full text...
31 august 2022 - 11:51:34
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Tuesday called on the relevant authorities to [...] Full text...
28 august 2022 - 05:21:50
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, concluded a visit to the [...] Full text...
26 august 2022 - 18:45:31
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 19 refugees and asylum seekers, including children, were safely evacuated from Libya to [...] Full text...
09 august 2022 - 08:37:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opened in Geneva on Monday to review anti-discrimination efforts [...] Full text...
06 august 2022 - 05:45:30
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, on Friday announced in Ghana more than $127 million in [...] Full text...
03 august 2022 - 06:31:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Due to insufficient funding, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is unable to adequately respond [...] Full text...
27 july 2022 - 06:07:43
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday evacuated 85 vulnerable asylum seekers from Tripoli [...] Full text...
26 july 2022 - 05:35:38
New York, US (PANA) - The overall situation in Libya remains “highly volatile”, Martha Pobee, UN Assistant Secretary-General for political [...] Full text...
21 july 2022 - 05:43:24
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Intergovernmental Authority on [...] Full text...
19 july 2022 - 11:45:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday restarted the voluntary repatriation of DR Congo [...] Full text...
16 july 2022 - 07:08:38
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The United States on Friday announced more than $592 million in humanitarian assistance for Africa through the Department [...] Full text...
15 july 2022 - 19:37:32
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - A group of independent UN human rights experts have condemned reports of escalating violence targeting [...] Full text...
09 july 2022 - 06:49:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The collective global response to the COVID-19 pandemic fell short in protecting the rights of refugees [...] Full text...
04 july 2022 - 15:09:04
Geneva, Switzerand (PANA) - New suspected mass graves have been uncovered in Tarhuna, Libya, a Human Rights Council Probe reported on [...] Full text...
02 july 2022 - 14:33:17
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The Kingdom of Morocco's "approach to the migration issue is based on a cardinal paradigm centred [...] Full text...
01 july 2022 - 19:15:57
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The assault perpetrated on 24 June 2022 by migrants in Nador to force their passage to [...] Full text...
01 july 2022 - 17:58:27
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The Kingdom of Morocco's approach to the migration issue is based on a cardinal paradigm centred [...] Full text...
01 july 2022 - 15:59:37
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 95 asylum seekers and refugees were evacuated on Friday via a flight organized [...] Full text...
28 june 2022 - 05:13:47
New York, US (PANA) - Leaders in Libya must resolve outstanding issues so that long-awaited presidential and parliamentary elections can [...] Full text...
21 june 2022 - 22:37:17
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - On the occasion of World Refugee Day, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, has called for [...] Full text...
20 june 2022 - 16:24:41
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Najla al-Mangouch said on World Refugee Day that [...] Full text...
19 june 2022 - 05:15:35
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A UN human rights expert has urged the United Kingdom to halt its controversial policy of transferring [...] Full text...
17 june 2022 - 14:17:05
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Amnesty International on Friday asked Commonwealth leaders to take a firm and clear stand against the UK’s [...] Full text...
17 june 2022 - 05:25:15
New York, US (PANA) - Conflict, violence and other crises left a record 36.5 million children displaced from their homes [...] Full text...
16 june 2022 - 13:35:02
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An official delegation from the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation participated as an [...] Full text...
16 june 2022 - 05:32:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of people forced to flee their homes has increased every year over the past [...] Full text...
14 june 2022 - 05:08:57
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Monday dismissed the British Government’s proposal to process [...] Full text...
13 june 2022 - 05:16:43
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - The widespread exploitation of men, women and children at a refugee camp in Malawi has been [...] Full text...
10 june 2022 - 18:10:39
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Migrants who risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean to Europe on flimsy boats often piloted [...] Full text...
01 june 2022 - 15:08:22
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A group of 132 vulnerable asylum seekers, including young children, were evacuated from Libya to Rwanda [...] Full text...
30 may 2022 - 10:44:29
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian leader Adama Barrow has welcomed the African Union's humanitarian collective undertaking to examine and re-define [...] Full text...
27 may 2022 - 20:07:32
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council and Second Vice-Chairman of the African Union (AU), Mohamed [...] Full text...
23 may 2022 - 05:10:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Wars around the world have pushed the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human [...] Full text...
01 may 2022 - 15:17:48
Athens, Greece (PANA) - A Guinean refugee, threatened with deportation, has been granted asylum in Greece, the Greek government spokesperson, [...] Full text...
30 april 2022 - 10:57:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and 44 humanitarian partners on Friday launched a coordinated [...] Full text...
30 april 2022 - 06:08:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 3,000 people died or went missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean and the [...] Full text...
30 april 2022 - 05:29:33
Athens, Greece (PANA) - A Guinean refugee student who was facing deportation from Greece has been granted asylum, Giannis Oiconomou, [...] Full text...
27 april 2022 - 16:35:39
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 35 asylum-seekers, including eight women and 20 children, were released on Monday from [...] Full text...
20 april 2022 - 13:09:13
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several refugees from sub-Saharan countries have been taking part in a sit-in in front of the [...] Full text...
15 april 2022 - 05:46:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A deal made by the United Kingdom to send some migrants for processing and relocation to [...] Full text...
01 april 2022 - 12:20:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency, alongside the Government of Uganda and humanitarian partners, is assisting some 10,000 [...] Full text...
29 march 2022 - 05:42:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Many of Libya’s migrant detention centres remain places of terrible and systematic abuse that may amount [...] Full text...
18 march 2022 - 12:49:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), together with 102 humanitarian and development partners is appealing [...] Full text...
15 march 2022 - 20:21:15
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A family of three from Libya was resettled in Europe on Monday by the United Nations [...] Full text...
12 march 2022 - 05:26:36
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency is scaling up assistance to thousands of people displaced by severe drought [...] Full text...
01 march 2022 - 13:14:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Nearly 100 vulnerable asylum seekers, including women and children, were airlifted out of Libya on Monday [...] Full text...
18 february 2022 - 16:15:32
Athens, Greece (PANA) - A Cameroonian migrant has accused Greek coastguards of throwing him and two other men into the [...] Full text...
17 february 2022 - 10:03:45
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Eleven years since Libya’s uprising, a deepening political crisis now threatens progress made to help communities [...] Full text...
09 february 2022 - 11:42:05
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has welcomed the pledges made by the Government of Burundi [...] Full text...
03 february 2022 - 13:14:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) say children and long-term refugees are among populations a [...] Full text...
11 january 2022 - 09:31:34
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have expressed alarm at Monday's [...] Full text...
03 january 2022 - 19:35:02
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Priti Patel, British Home Secretary, has announced plans to 'impose visa penalties' on Gambia and others [...] Full text...
01 january 2022 - 12:41:12
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has evacuated 177 asylum seekers from Libya to Niger, [...] Full text...
21 december 2021 - 10:32:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly 5,000 refugees who fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) four years [...] Full text...
11 december 2021 - 08:34:07
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Asylum-seekers and other migrants continue to be forcefully expelled from Libya, raising concerns at the Office of [...] Full text...
10 december 2021 - 19:00:56
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 176 vulnerable asylum seekers were evacuated from Libya on Friday on a humanitarian [...] Full text...
28 november 2021 - 15:16:27
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Army mouthpiece, Al Gwat Al Musalah, on Monday said at least six army officers [...] Full text...
26 november 2021 - 11:18:39
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 93 asylum seekers, who were living in precarious conditions in Libya, were evacuated [...] Full text...