Ghanaian authorities urge citizens to leave Lebanon given 'deteriorating security'

05 october 2024 - 12:05:09
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Given the deteriorating security situation in Lebanon, the Government of Ghana has urged all Ghanaians living [...] Full text...

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Gaza war: UN officials condemn Israeli airstrikes on camp for displaced

28 may 2024 - 06:31:48
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Senior UN officials have condemned Israeli air strikes on Sunday that hit a camp for displaced [...] Full text...

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2023/24 CAF Champions League: Espérance edge past Sundowns in Pretoria to book final place

27 april 2024 - 05:35:39
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Tunisian giants Espérance Sportive de Tunis reached the final of the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League when [...] Full text...

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Israel-Gaza crisis: Rights experts call on Israeli lawyers to block potential war crimes

24 october 2023 - 07:01:09
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - UN-appointed independent experts on Monday called on all lawyers advising the Israeli military to refuse legal authorisation [...] Full text...

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Bandits in northwestern Nigeria beg for dialogue after sustained military operations

12 september 2021 - 14:44:46
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The sustained aerial and ground operations by the Armed Forces of Nigeria is forcing the terror [...] Full text...

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Cameroon: Satellite images reveal devastation in Anglophone regions - rights group

28 july 2021 - 13:28:34
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International says new research has revealed the scale of destruction caused by the ongoing conflict [...] Full text...

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COVID-19 halting crucial mental health services in Africa, WHO survey finds

09 october 2020 - 06:18:38
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Critical funding gaps are halting and disrupting crucial mental health services in Africa, as demand for these [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Fighter jets destroy compounds housing Boko Haram terrorists' leaders

23 april 2020 - 16:28:43
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Armed Forces says that its Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, has destroyed [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Nigerian officials 'admit mistakes' in burial of president's Chief of Staff

21 april 2020 - 08:21:20
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Stung by a barrage of condemnations and criticisms over the way it allowed last Saturday's burial [...] Full text...

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Drought, conflict displace quarter of a million people in Somalia - NRC

11 september 2019 - 10:27:38
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - A deadly combination of drought, conflict and insecurity has forced almost a quarter of a million [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Air Force strikes Boko Haram locations, vehicles

25 november 2018 - 19:39:12
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Following the killing of over 100 Nigerian Army soldiers by Boko Haram terrorists in the northeast, [...] Full text...

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Uproar over Boko Haram killing dozens of Nigerian soldiers

24 november 2018 - 11:14:49
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – There is uproar in Nigeria over the killing of dozens of Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram [...] Full text...

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'No one safe from global pollution without concerted action' - warns UNEP

17 november 2017 - 10:24:04
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Everyone on earth is affected by pollution, according to a new report issued by UN Environment [...] Full text...

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Sierra Leone: FIFA wades into Sierra Leone "football politics"

11 july 2017 - 13:33:44
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Six months after the FIFA secretary general, Fatma Samoura, Sierra Leone on a mission to [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Finance Minister refuses to report for questioning

25 august 2016 - 12:22:32
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has defied an order to present himself to [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Deportation of 3 South Africans, retirement of Central Bank Governor reported in Ghana

02 april 2016 - 09:41:01
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The deportation of three retired South African policemen brought into Ghana by the main opposition New [...] Full text...

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Kenya: President Kenyatta sacks ministers in new corruption sweep

24 november 2015 - 19:21:14
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta sacked six ministers Tuesday in his largest anti-corruption drive since assuming office [...] Full text...

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Nigeria Decides 2015: Muhammadu Buhari, opposition candidate, takes one last shot at Nigeria's presidency (A profile by Segun Adeyemi, PANA Correspondent, Nigeria)

27 march 2015 - 07:52:20
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian politician Muhammadu Buhari has apparently imbibed the dictum that if at first you don't succeed, [...] Full text...

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2015 AFCON 3rd-place match: Will E/Guinea jettison bad-image toga against DRC (Preview by Vincent Obi, PANA Editor)

07 february 2015 - 07:52:09
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The 2015 AFCON hosts Equatorial Guinea, reeling under a barrage of criticisms and sanctions for [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Media report fire at drugs warehouse, suspension of commissioner of human rights

17 january 2015 - 06:17:03
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A huge fire that razed the warehouse of the Central Medical Stores of the Ghana Health [...] Full text...

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South Africa: State to appeal Pretorius' conviction and sentence

27 october 2014 - 16:12:45
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday confirmed that it will appeal both [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Pistorius involved in nightclub brawl

15 july 2014 - 10:02:25
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Just one week after the defence closed its case in South Africa’s biggest-ever murder [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Pistorius under fire over religious tweets

14 july 2014 - 14:08:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Oscar Pistorius has sparked a storm of controversy by sending a Tweet to thousands [...] Full text...

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Ghana: Media report aftermath of disastrous World Cup performance, Ebola meeting

05 july 2014 - 06:47:35
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The media in Ghana this week reported the fallout of the disastrous performance of the senior [...] Full text...

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2014 FIFA WC: Nigeria's coach hopeful on injured Oboabona

19 june 2014 - 09:39:57
Cuiaba, Brazil (PANA) - Nigeria's head coach Stephen Keshi is still hopeful that Godfrey Oboabona will be well enough for [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Govt. fends off barrage of criticism over societal lapses (News Analysis by Craig Urquart, PANA Correspondent)

15 march 2014 - 10:53:50
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government has come under "fire" following the spate of societal and political [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: Fighting in South Sudan affecting oil production

10 january 2014 - 09:46:44
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The escalation of in-fighting between the military and rebel forces in South Sudan may [...] Full text...

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African journalists report human rights violation to ACHPR

25 october 2013 - 14:49:34
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) has tabled a report on human rights violations against its [...] Full text...

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2013 FIFA U-20 WC: Ghana seek revenge against France (Preview by Vincent Obi, PANA Editor)

10 july 2013 - 08:35:18
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ghana will be seeking revenge Wednesday when it takes on France in the first semi-final of [...] Full text...

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2013 Nations Cup: Striker trades words with coach over exclusion from Nigeria's team

24 december 2012 - 10:31:12
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria strike Osaze Odemwingie, angry at being left out of the country's team for the 2013 [...] Full text...

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Kenyan govt orders military deployment in troubled northern region

14 november 2012 - 11:19:19
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya is to deploy troops to the troubled northern region, after the National Security Council approved [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's apex bank dismisses criticism of planned 5,000 naira note

29 august 2012 - 08:37:11
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The apex Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has dismissed the criticisms of its plan to introduce [...] Full text...

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Cut in workers' salaries, lawmakers' jumbo allowances, oil spill reported in Nigeria

24 march 2012 - 07:43:33
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Government's resolve to cut workers' salaries, self-approved jumbo allowances for lawmakers, bribery scandal in the legislature, [...] Full text...

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Domestic issues dominate headlines in Nigeria

13 august 2011 - 08:03:38
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Domestic issues, including the return of World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Finance Minister, dramatic [...] Full text...

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Crucial congress of Ghana's ruling party fills media

09 july 2011 - 08:04:26
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A national delegates' congress of Ghana's ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the continuing revulsion of [...] Full text...

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Ex-First Lady's presidential ambition, Gbagbo's “capture”highlighted by Ghana media

16 april 2011 - 08:50:16
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings' decision to vie against President John Evans Atta Mills [...] Full text...

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Sudan rallies international support against Israel air strike

14 april 2011 - 14:10:50
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudan has launched a campaign urging governments and members of the UN Security Council to condemn [...] Full text...

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Tanzania mourns blast victims

17 february 2011 - 15:36:40
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Julius Nyerere International Airport here re-opened to traffic Thursday as the Tanzanian nation started [...] Full text...

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UN to send more peacekeepers to Cote d'Ivoire

07 january 2011 - 06:31:02
New York, US (PANA) - The UN is to boost the number of its peacekeepers in Cote d'Ivoire with an [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's boxing hope, Samuel Peter, decisively beaten again

12 september 2010 - 08:44:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Ukrainian multiple World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Vla dimir Klitschko on Saturday in Frankfurt, Germany, virtually "destroyed" [...] Full text...

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Clergyman's faux pas, gaffe by ruling party chairman hit front pages

21 august 2010 - 09:03:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A senior clergyman's open endorsement of the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) [...] Full text...

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Ex-Nigeria captain pleads for unimpressive Eagles

27 may 2010 - 08:30:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- With Nigeria's Super Eagles facing a barrage of criticis ms over Tuesday's goalless draw against Saudi [...] Full text...

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Super Eagles' poor showing against Saudi worries Nigerians

26 may 2010 - 08:28:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian fans are unimpressed by the performance of their national team, the Super Eagles, against Saudi [...] Full text...

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Kenya police discover large cache of arms, ammunition in private house

01 february 2010 - 17:50:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- For the second time in as many months, the police in Ken ya announced on Monday [...] Full text...

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Mauritian PM, ministers face barrage of questions in parliament

26 october 2009 - 13:55:00
Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam will fac e a barrage of questions when the country's parliament [...] Full text...

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Racial rhetoric hots up in Namibia ahead of elections

05 october 2009 - 07:11:00
Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibiaâ?s ruling Swapo party has launched a scathin g attack on Gwen Lister, editor and publisher [...] Full text...

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Botswana refuses entry to stranded Congolese refugees

16 july 2009 - 09:10:00
Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Botswana has refused to admit into the country a grou p of 41 refugees who were [...] Full text...

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Escalation of Niger Delta crisis dominates Nigerian papers

23 may 2009 - 09:12:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The escalation of the perennial crisis in Nigeria's Nige r Delta oil region so dominated the [...] Full text...

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Mauritian MPs quiz PM, Ministers on 81 issues Tuesday

19 april 2009 - 08:33:00
Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Trafficking in persons, robbery cases, larceny of vegetables, the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, government advertisement in newspapers, [...] Full text...

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Nigerian govt. officials 'to grant better access to media'

13 april 2009 - 10:50:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has directed minister s and other top government officials to be more [...] Full text...

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New Somali leader attends AU summit

01 february 2009 - 09:04:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Hours after being sworn into office, newly-elected President of Somalia Sheikh Sharrif Sheikh Ahmed arrived [...] Full text...

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Industry players reiterate call to overhaul Kenya’s new media law

12 january 2009 - 19:20:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Media Owners Association called here Monday for a total overhaul of the punitive Media Bill [...] Full text...

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Kenyan parliament recalled early to expedite pending business

09 january 2009 - 09:23:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The recall on Thursday of Kenyan parliament is intended to hasten the implementation of a raft [...] Full text...

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