22 november 2024 - 14:35:59
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday called for some $16.9 billion to address the escalating [...] Full text...
29 october 2024 - 13:17:08
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Climate Services Centre in collaboration with the National Institute of [...] Full text...
28 october 2024 - 12:45:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) New data released by the UN on Monday indicating that greenhouse gases have hit a record high [...] Full text...
16 october 2024 - 04:32:45
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Nearly six-and-a-half million people in southern Africa are starving because of an “historic drought” linked to [...] Full text...
09 october 2024 - 09:42:13
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Soybeans from the United States are once again eligible to enter South Africa following a [...] Full text...
07 october 2024 - 11:31:34
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The year 2023 marked the driest year in over three decades for rivers around the world, [...] Full text...
26 september 2024 - 08:40:08
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Cash4Jobs Project, known as Merankabandi ("be like others" in the local language), is more than [...] Full text...
31 august 2024 - 07:37:39
New York, US (PANA) - The UN’s top relief official on Friday allocated $100 million from the Organization’s Central Emergency [...] Full text...
23 august 2024 - 07:14:37
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt’s sugar production in marketing year 2024/25 (October to September) is forecast to reach 2.6 million [...] Full text...
14 august 2024 - 12:32:35
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Falling global wheat prices triggered, in July 2024, a wheat import duty of Rand 176.30 [...] Full text...
08 august 2024 - 07:42:57
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A new report from the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) reveals that food insecurity levels in [...] Full text...
26 july 2024 - 11:18:26
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) South Africa’s maize area is forecast to expand in marketing year 2024/25 after an 18 percent [...] Full text...
25 july 2024 - 07:40:09
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi’s current economic difficulties require a combination of immediate response measures and urgent reforms to address [...] Full text...
24 july 2024 - 05:46:58
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - UN agencies alongside humanitarian partners in Malawi have launched a Flash Appeal to help millions in [...] Full text...
15 july 2024 - 18:58:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Twelve years on from independence the people of South Sudan continue to face huge challenges, exacerbated [...] Full text...
28 june 2024 - 11:03:39
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Despite headwinds, Zimbabwe’s economy continues showing resilience but growth is expected to decelerate to about 2 [...] Full text...
18 may 2024 - 08:47:38
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania’s authorities and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached staff-level agreement on a [...] Full text...
27 april 2024 - 13:46:15
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - The World Bank is providing immediate support for millions of Malawians severely affected by the ongoing [...] Full text...
10 april 2024 - 05:47:15
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - About 220,000 people require immediate humanitarian assistance due to the catastrophic impact of Tuesday’s tropical cyclone [...] Full text...
27 february 2024 - 07:59:36
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) – Malawi’s medium-term growth outlook is improving because of bold reforms undertaken by the government in 2023 [...] Full text...
14 january 2024 - 05:32:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With the annual average global temperature fast approaching the critical threshold of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, [...] Full text...
10 november 2023 - 06:59:46
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The El Niño climate pattern will have severe impacts on agriculture and food security, threatening the [...] Full text...
08 november 2023 - 17:33:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - 2023 is “almost certain to be the warmest year on record” after October smashed temperature highs, [...] Full text...
17 october 2023 - 07:30:02
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Heads of international organisations have urged countries to balance short-term urgent interventions with longer-term [...] Full text...
16 may 2023 - 16:13:07
Vacoas, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Meteorological Services (MMS) said on Tuesday that winter season in Mauritius and Rodrigues occurs [...] Full text...
04 may 2023 - 06:17:44
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The development of an El Niño climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean this year is more [...] Full text...
23 october 2020 - 20:21:29
Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) – The Kingdom of Lesotho has signed an agreement with an African Union (AU) specialized agency, mandated [...] Full text...
25 march 2020 - 19:36:45
Paris, France (PANA) - Several radio stations broadcasting in France, including RFI, FIP and France Musique, as well as the [...] Full text...
04 december 2019 - 09:12:16
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe is facing its worst hunger crisis in a decade with half of the population – [...] Full text...
28 july 2019 - 11:55:40
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Recent monetary reforms to address distortions created by past policies in Zimbabwe have led to a [...] Full text...
10 july 2019 - 15:14:25
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Nearly seven million Zimbabweans are now facing hunger, a sharp increase from what the United Nations [...] Full text...
29 june 2019 - 17:59:13
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Drought and damage caused by the March Category three storm, Cyclone Idai, have impacted the current [...] Full text...
28 may 2019 - 19:18:44
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Eastern Africa region will experience extremely dry weather conditions during the months of June [...] Full text...
17 april 2019 - 14:56:32
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe is facing potential shortages of pork, chicken and beef as government's removed grain subsidies last [...] Full text...
10 april 2019 - 21:39:53
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised Zimbabwe's growth forecast downwards by a whopping 9 percentage [...] Full text...
14 february 2019 - 10:22:00
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A new United Nations report reveals hunger is on the rise in Africa following years [...] Full text...
06 february 2019 - 12:50:40
Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) - Growth is recovering in Lesotho following last year’s slowdown, although the economic situation remains challenging, and [...] Full text...
30 january 2019 - 21:13:51
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Heavy rains, which fell on Tuesday night in several localities in Nyagatare, a district in northeastern [...] Full text...
30 january 2019 - 13:57:21
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries have gone back to the drawing board in an [...] Full text...
14 december 2018 - 21:05:36
Katowice, Poland (PANA) - Africa is at a “tipping point” as global warming increases, and urgent action needs to be [...] Full text...
26 november 2018 - 16:50:19
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The number of severely food insecure people in Southern Africa rose to an estimated [...] Full text...
09 august 2018 - 09:30:06
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - About 1.26 million people are expected to be severely food insecure in the Grand [...] Full text...
09 july 2018 - 07:37:31
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global fish production will continue to expand over the next decade even though the amount of [...] Full text...
03 april 2018 - 17:53:12
Luanda, Angola (PANA) –International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President Gilbert F. Houngbo is due here on Wednesday for a [...] Full text...
22 march 2018 - 20:20:22
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hurricanes, monsoon floods and continuing severe drought made 2017 the costliest year ever for severe weather [...] Full text...
27 february 2018 - 10:54:32
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Poor rains and hot temperatures triggered water stress and adversely affected crop development in several areas [...] Full text...
12 february 2018 - 11:22:52
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Spain’s Telefonica, one of the world’s largest telecommunications [...] Full text...
18 january 2018 - 22:10:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The upward trend in global temperatures marked by record-shattering warmth in 2015 and 2016 kept pace [...] Full text...
05 january 2018 - 10:54:17
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda Meteorological Department on Friday warned of heavy rains across the country.
It said areas especially [...] Full text...
20 december 2017 - 22:27:37
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The Arctic continued in 2017 to warm at double the rate of the global temperature increase, [...] Full text...
27 november 2017 - 17:01:56
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Southern Africa continues to recover from the disastrous 2015/2016 El Niño-induced drought, which by [...] Full text...
16 november 2017 - 12:57:36
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa has increased mainly due to the impact [...] Full text...
30 october 2017 - 13:50:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere surged in 2016 to its highest level [...] Full text...
23 september 2017 - 09:19:11
New York, US (PANA) – Like many other countries, Ethiopia is dealing almost every day with the adverse impacts of [...] Full text...
21 september 2017 - 09:45:14
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Robust harvests in Latin America and rebounding agricultural conditions in Southern Africa are on course to [...] Full text...
18 september 2017 - 12:10:31
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The humanitarian crisis has worsened in drought-stricken Ethiopia, with almost three million additional people in [...] Full text...
15 september 2017 - 14:34:51
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 [...] Full text...
29 august 2017 - 10:47:05
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The significant progress in improving people’s health in Africa has been commended by delegates attending [...] Full text...
24 august 2017 - 13:02:03
Zanzibar City, Zanzibar (PANA) - A new mobile application, know as "Ponya Mobile Game" developed by a team of young [...] Full text...
23 august 2017 - 13:51:17
Zanzibar City, Zanzibar (PANA) - Adaptation to climate change and specifically to El Nino phenomenon in many countries across the [...] Full text...
11 august 2017 - 11:15:52
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Supporting herders to get back on their feet and preventing further livestock losses and suffering [...] Full text...
08 august 2017 - 16:16:09
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Zimbabwe and South Africa have lost over one million chickens to the Highly Pathogenic Avian [...] Full text...
31 july 2017 - 17:13:12
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique is increasingly a two-speed economy as extractives and mega projects drive growth, whilst other [...] Full text...
14 july 2017 - 05:29:05
New York, US (PANA) - The humanitarian situation in Eritrea – which is quite isolated and off the media radars [...] Full text...
07 july 2017 - 09:55:05
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - East Africa faces one of the biggest humanitarian crises in its history, the UN [...] Full text...
22 june 2017 - 09:23:15
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi has secured a US$26.9 million loan under an Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement, after the [...] Full text...
09 june 2017 - 11:17:44
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Large agricultural harvests in some regions of the world are buoying global food supply conditions, but [...] Full text...
18 may 2017 - 15:27:40
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The World Bank has extended a US$145.5 million loan to Botswana for construction of water reservoirs, [...] Full text...
10 may 2017 - 19:28:22
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Strengthening weather and climate services to protect lives, property and the economy from increasingly extreme and [...] Full text...
31 march 2017 - 15:53:58
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely [...] Full text...
31 march 2017 - 10:28:30
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were [...] Full text...
22 march 2017 - 18:49:35
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Solidifying the gains in macroeconomic stability, by limiting spending to available resources and safeguarding external and [...] Full text...
22 march 2017 - 07:00:40
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global temperatures set yet another record last year and the world witnessed exceptionally low sea ice, [...] Full text...
02 march 2017 - 20:03:41
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Despite robust food supply conditions, droughts are worsening food security across swathes of East [...] Full text...
02 march 2017 - 13:09:34
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Global food supply conditions are robust, but access to food has been dramatically reduced in areas [...] Full text...
21 february 2017 - 16:45:30
New York, US (PANA) – UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien on Tuesday released US$18.5 million from the organization's [...] Full text...
14 february 2017 - 13:29:19
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Drought throughout East Africa has sharply curbed harvests and pushed the prices of cereals and other [...] Full text...
08 february 2017 - 12:58:18
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Botswana’s meteorological services has issued a floods alert, saying the country’s Gantsi district in the western [...] Full text...
30 january 2017 - 11:32:19
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - With as little as one-quarter of expected rainfall received, widespread drought conditions in the Horn [...] Full text...
30 january 2017 - 09:33:06
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Commending the Ethiopian Government and humanitarian partners on the response to last year's El Niño [...] Full text...
27 january 2017 - 18:29:07
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – Eritrea’s fourth Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Programme was boosted Friday with announcement of a [...] Full text...
18 january 2017 - 18:25:10
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The year 2016 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record, surpassing the exceptionally high [...] Full text...
18 january 2017 - 09:19:27
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - On the heels of failed rains and a calamitous El Niño in Ethiopia, the country's [...] Full text...
17 january 2017 - 10:52:53
Rome, Italy (PANA) - New drought across swathes of southern Ethiopia may jeopardise the East African nation's restoration of food [...] Full text...
12 january 2017 - 10:43:07
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Prices of major food commodities declined for the fifth year in a row in 2016, averaging [...] Full text...
06 january 2017 - 13:34:18
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Thanks to the good rainy season between June to September last year, the main crop [...] Full text...
04 january 2017 - 14:39:36
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two million Sudanese children under-five are acutely malnourished and 550,000 of these children are severely malnourished, [...] Full text...
23 december 2016 - 06:25:40
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s Department of Meteorological Services is forecasting heavy rains with possibility of flooding in Botswana over [...] Full text...
08 december 2016 - 11:50:27
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Civil conflict and weather-related shocks have severely affected food security in 2016, increasing the number of [...] Full text...
07 december 2016 - 18:44:12
New York, US (PANA) - Following the worst El Nino-induced drought in decades in southern Africa, UN humanitarian agencies and [...] Full text...
05 december 2016 - 15:44:03
New York, US (PANA) - The world is facing a humanitarian crisis that will require a record US$ 22.2 billion [...] Full text...
03 november 2016 - 10:35:11
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The amount of net financial assistance going to help developing countries fight climate change [...] Full text...
27 october 2016 - 17:23:05
New York, US (PANA) - The impact of severe El Nino-induced drought on crop production in southern Madagascar, where nearly [...] Full text...
27 october 2016 - 09:10:46
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The European Union (EU) on Thursday announced a new set of actions to respond to the [...] Full text...
25 october 2016 - 05:04:23
New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said globally averaged concentration of carbon dioxide (C02) [...] Full text...
16 october 2016 - 16:56:13
New York, US (PANA) - To mark World Food Day 2016, the UN is highlighting the close links between climate [...] Full text...
11 october 2016 - 11:18:40
Rome, Italy (PANA) - This year's World Food Day will focus on climate change and sustainable agriculture, the UN Food [...] Full text...
07 october 2016 - 18:02:51
New York, US (PANA) - Ethiopia is about to complete one of the largest and most successful seed distribution campaigns [...] Full text...
05 october 2016 - 21:07:16
New York, US (PANA) - The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Ms. Ertharin Cousin said the [...] Full text...
22 september 2016 - 19:05:41
New York, US (PANA) - The Emergency Coordinator of the World Food Programme (WFP), Denise Brown, and the Emergency and [...] Full text...
22 september 2016 - 05:52:34
New York, US (PANA) - As much as social media offers a digital platform to improve exchange of information and [...] Full text...
15 august 2016 - 16:43:30
New York, US (PANA) - Seasonal floods, resulting in crop damage and inundation of pastures, following a severe El Nino-induced [...] Full text...
09 august 2016 - 22:35:45
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners are continuing their programmes against yellow fever [...] Full text...
08 august 2016 - 15:19:43
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) on Monday issued an alert of possible flooding in 11 of [...] Full text...
03 august 2016 - 19:42:52
New York, US (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a smartphone app in drought-hit Malawi to fundraise [...] Full text...
02 august 2016 - 18:28:09
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - In response to the severe drought affecting nearly 23 million people in Southern Africa, the U.S. [...] Full text...
02 august 2016 - 16:00:32
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - USAID Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), David Harden, has [...] Full text...
28 july 2016 - 13:45:51
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Humanitarian agencies in southern Africa have called on donors to release urgently needed funds to save [...] Full text...
28 july 2016 - 13:31:37
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - With only a few weeks before land preparation begins for the next main cropping season, some [...] Full text...
26 july 2016 - 19:00:02
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Tuesday launched a Regional Appeal for Humanitarian and Recovery [...] Full text...
25 july 2016 - 15:37:43
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The food situation in several regions across Zimbabwe remained grave and could deteriorate to a large-scale [...] Full text...
22 july 2016 - 19:58:30
New York, US (PANA) - Wrapping up a visit to southern Africa, UN deputy humanitarian chief, Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, on [...] Full text...
21 july 2016 - 18:08:55
New York, US (PANA) - Global temperatures for the first six months of this year reached new highs, setting 2016 [...] Full text...
19 july 2016 - 06:16:24
New York, US (PANA) - More than 18,000 global leaders, scientists, advocates, and front-line health workers gathered on Monday in [...] Full text...
17 july 2016 - 06:41:18
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the need for concerted action by both regional and [...] Full text...
06 july 2016 - 13:59:36
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 60 million people worldwide, 40 million of them in East and Southern Africa, are [...] Full text...
05 july 2016 - 18:10:45
New York, US (PANA) - Floods across Ethiopia have severely impacted on livestock-dependent families, following more than 18 months of [...] Full text...
04 july 2016 - 14:18:34
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The 2015-16 El Niño weather phenomenon has been one of the strongest and most widespread of [...] Full text...
28 june 2016 - 21:17:17
New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarian chief, Mr. Stephen O'Brien on Tuesday stressed the need to transcend the divide [...] Full text...
28 june 2016 - 14:12:41
New York, US (PANA) - UN officials on Tuesday stressed the need for the international community to act with urgency [...] Full text...
24 june 2016 - 11:11:55
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Pope Francis in a meeting on Thursday with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva praised the [...] Full text...
22 june 2016 - 05:55:43
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released its 2015 [...] Full text...
17 june 2016 - 15:51:48
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Representatives of 13 international development agencies working in agriculture and rural development in Tanzania [...] Full text...
15 june 2016 - 15:18:18
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Vulnerability Assessment Results released by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has indicated that over 41.4 [...] Full text...
31 may 2016 - 10:20:28
Rome, Italy (PANA) - With around 795 million hungry people in the world, and an additional 60 million needing food [...] Full text...
23 may 2016 - 12:59:37
Istanbul, Turkey (PANA) - A new network to achieve joint global food-security assessments and joint responses to food crises, including [...] Full text...
20 may 2016 - 19:09:46
New York, US (PANA) - Global temperature records were broken yet again in April
for the 12th consecutive month, the [...] Full text...
12 may 2016 - 18:09:22
New York, US (PANA) - Disasters associated with slow processes of environmental
change, including drought, sea level rise and desertification [...] Full text...
05 may 2016 - 16:00:36
New York, US (PANA) - Global prices of key staple food commodities rose in April, marking a third consecutive monthly [...] Full text...
26 april 2016 - 21:07:54
New York, US (PANA) - With 60 million people across the world affected by droughts, floods
and other extreme weather [...] Full text...
23 april 2016 - 14:23:52
New York, US (PANA) - Expressing grave concern on the fragile security situation in Somalia,
the UN Security Council has [...] Full text...
22 april 2016 - 13:05:51
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - As representatives from more than 150 countries, including nearly 60 Heads of State, gather at the [...] Full text...
11 april 2016 - 15:59:30
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are intensifying joint efforts [...] Full text...
09 april 2016 - 14:28:43
New York, US (PANA) - Greater efforts in preparedness response, recovery and development
interventions are needed from humanitarian actors for [...] Full text...
07 april 2016 - 11:25:52
Rome, Italy (PANA) - World cereal production in 2016 is set to amount to 2,521 million tonnes, just 0.2 percent [...] Full text...
04 april 2016 - 09:17:11
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Fourteen countries that are mostly affected by the ongoing drought in Eastern and Southern Africa will [...] Full text...
03 april 2016 - 06:51:46
Washington, D.C. US (PANA) - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced it is providing nearly US$68 million [...] Full text...
24 march 2016 - 18:09:08
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and humanitarian partners have launched a 90-day campaign to raise awareness about the [...] Full text...
24 march 2016 - 09:15:50
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - An estimated 2.8 million people in Malawi remain at risk of food insecurity while the prolonged [...] Full text...
22 march 2016 - 07:48:15
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Earth is already one degree Celsius hotter than at the start of the 20th century, [...] Full text...
18 march 2016 - 13:49:46
Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) – A meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Southern Africa has called on countries [...] Full text...
17 march 2016 - 15:22:00
New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday said it would not suspend relief operations [...] Full text...
16 march 2016 - 06:02:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Zimbabwe is facing its worst malnutrition rates in 15 years, as nearly 33,000 children are in [...] Full text...
16 march 2016 - 05:53:07
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese authorities have agreed to pursue a new environment roadmap, focusing on reducing the use of [...] Full text...
09 march 2016 - 17:36:41
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's economic difficulties have deepened and this southern Africa country cannot wait but needs to act [...] Full text...
09 march 2016 - 12:38:14
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Thirty-four countries, 27 of them in Africa, are currently in need of external assistance for food [...] Full text...
07 march 2016 - 11:53:15
Italy, Rome (PANA) - Timely agricultural assistance for the upcoming rainy season is essential to help the drought-affected people of [...] Full text...
29 february 2016 - 06:57:41
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Southern African region is reeling under the El Niño-related impact of below normal [...] Full text...
26 february 2016 - 11:16:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The above-average rainfall caused by El Niño that is expected in parts of South America until [...] Full text...
18 february 2016 - 18:48:51
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Representatives of meteorological services from 11 countries from Eastern and Horn of Africa will gather in [...] Full text...
18 february 2016 - 15:56:05
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana is likely to face the most severe drought ever faced in years, officials have said.
Tshekedi [...] Full text...
17 february 2016 - 15:24:10
New York, US (PANA) - Across eastern and southern Africa, millions of children are at risk from malnutrition, hunger, water [...] Full text...
13 february 2016 - 09:27:21
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Over the coming year, humanitarian partners should prepare for food insecurity levels as food insecure population [...] Full text...
11 february 2016 - 18:10:44
New York, US (PANA) - A new analysis issued on Thursday by the UN Office for Disaster
Risk Reduction (UNISDR) said [...] Full text...
08 february 2016 - 17:44:58
New York, US (PANA) - A new UN food security and nutrition assessment report on
the situation in Somalia on Monday [...] Full text...
04 february 2016 - 06:02:09
New York, US (PANA) - Maintaining the United Nations momentum towards the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit – set for 23 [...] Full text...
01 february 2016 - 05:51:04
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday visited Ethiopia's drought-stricken region of Oromia where he witnessed [...] Full text...
31 january 2016 - 16:46:55
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The international community must stand with the people of Ethiopia in their time of need, [...] Full text...
26 january 2016 - 19:58:38
New York, US (PANA) - UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Robert Glasser on Tuesday drew the attention of [...] Full text...
26 january 2016 - 19:38:48
New York, US (PANA) - Despite the well-coordinated response already underway to offset
the impacts of an El Nino-induced drought [...] Full text...
26 january 2016 - 15:50:48
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday announced the launch of a US$2.8 billion appeal [...] Full text...
26 january 2016 - 05:24:21
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The global average surface temperature in 2015 broke all previous records by a strikingly wide margin, [...] Full text...
22 january 2016 - 15:42:12
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners on Friday
announced that they have predicted [...] Full text...
18 january 2016 - 15:38:22
New York, US (PANA) - With 14 million people facing hunger in Southern Africa as the El Nino weather pattern, [...] Full text...
15 january 2016 - 11:26:44
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The strongest El Niño weather episode in the last several decades has caused repeated crop failure, [...] Full text...
14 january 2016 - 17:34:26
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Ertharin Cousin arrived here Thursday for a four-day official [...] Full text...
08 january 2016 - 18:22:23
New York, US (PANA) - Faced with a global shortage of oral cholera vaccines (OCV), the World Health Organization (WHO) [...] Full text...
08 january 2016 - 06:02:58
New York, US (PANA) - The top UN relief official has urged the international community to act now to help [...] Full text...
29 december 2015 - 18:47:20
New York, US (PANA) - Extreme tornadoes in the US over Christmas, abnormal snowfalls
in Mexico, and heavy flooding in [...] Full text...
22 december 2015 - 11:30:07
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Crop and livestock production prospects in Southern Africa have been weakened by the El Niño weather [...] Full text...
21 december 2015 - 19:11:26
New York, US (PANA) - Two UN agencies on Monday announced a cooperation agreement
to help Sudan manage its natural [...] Full text...
18 december 2015 - 14:31:28
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia (PANA)- The U.S. on Friday announced US$88 million in assistance for Ethiopia to address an urgent [...] Full text...
16 december 2015 - 16:03:24
New York, US (PANA) - Following reports of increasing food shortage and hunger problem in Malawi coming from its communities [...] Full text...
16 december 2015 - 05:49:22
New York, US (PANA) - Amid the “deadly escalation” of violence in Burundi, the United Nations human rights chief on [...] Full text...
07 december 2015 - 17:47:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Warning that global suffering has reached levels not seen in a generation, the United Nations [...] Full text...
03 december 2015 - 20:49:33
New York, US (PANA) - November saw a decrease in major food commodity prices as the cost of most globally-traded [...] Full text...
02 december 2015 - 20:07:42
New York, US (PANA) - Following the devastating impact of El Nino, the UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian [...] Full text...
17 november 2015 - 17:38:29
New vYork, US (PANA) - With Ethiopia experiencing its worst drought in decades the UN
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has [...] Full text...
11 november 2015 - 11:33:26
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Unusually heavy and widespread rains that fell recently in northwest Africa, the Horn of Africa and [...] Full text...