Steps taken to reopen Polish embassy in Libya

04 june 2024 - 18:04:10
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of National Unity has [...] Full text...

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European Council adopts update of Schengen Borders Code

24 may 2024 - 12:13:55
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Friday gave its final approval to a new Schengen Borders Code, the [...] Full text...

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EU reduces The Gambia visa fees

12 april 2024 - 12:09:54
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The visa fee for nationals of The Gambia who wish to travel to the Schengen area [...] Full text...

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Murder of Nahel in France, burning of Koran in Sweden confirm hypocrisy of slogans promoted by the West - Libyan newspaper

14 july 2023 - 16:32:47
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Two major events in the last two weeks have attracted a great deal of attention, one [...] Full text...

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Sudan conflict: Rights group urges Sudan's neighbours to provide safe passage to those fleeing

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...

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Morocco to launch electronic visa on 10 July

24 june 2022 - 13:14:02
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The electronic visa to Morocco will be launched for some key tourist sending countries on 10 [...] Full text...

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Libyan PM hails resumption of diplomatic relations between Libya and Spain

03 june 2021 - 17:14:04
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, has welcomed the reopening of the Spanish Embassy in Tripoli, [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Zambians barred to travel to Germany

08 february 2021 - 14:20:08
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The German government has announced a temporary travel ban on several southern African countries that include [...] Full text...

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Malta to start issuing European visas to Libyans

21 december 2020 - 14:32:53
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Vice President of the Presidential Council, Ahmed Maitig has agreed with Malta's Minister of Finance [...] Full text...

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Tunisia maintained among the 10 safe countries by the European Union

08 august 2020 - 10:31:58
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) -  Tunisia remains among 10 safe countries to which borders of the European Union(EU) and the Schengen [...] Full text...

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Libya: War, coronavirus and scare of food shortages among Libyans (News analysis by Youssef Ba, PANA correspondent)

03 april 2020 - 00:05:12
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya’s decade of a deadly armed conflict and the 4 April Tripoli war have thrown the [...] Full text...

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Belgian Consulate in DR Congo city of Lubumbashi reopens

19 january 2020 - 05:14:42
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Belgian Consulate in the DR Congo city of Lubumbashi, which was closed two years ago [...] Full text...

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Frontex staff will increase to 10,000 by 2027

18 november 2019 - 15:52:50
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Member States of the European Union (EU) have agreed to increase the staff of Frontex, the [...] Full text...

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EU-UK reach agreement on Brexit

17 october 2019 - 13:49:42
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) and the UK have finally reached an agreement on the exit of [...] Full text...

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DR Congo President Tshisekedi to visit Belgium next month

29 august 2019 - 11:20:13
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi will pay an official visit to Belgium from 17 to 20 [...] Full text...

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Report on granting of Belgian visas in Africa

17 july 2019 - 12:59:01
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - In 2018, a Congolese who applied for a visa at the Belgian consulate in Kinshasa had [...] Full text...

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Malian U20 World Cup players stranded in Bamako because of visa

13 may 2019 - 15:28:07
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Mali’s U20 football team, which was expected in Poland last Thursday for the World Cup of [...] Full text...

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European visa centre opens in Kinshasa replacing Schengen House

09 march 2019 - 10:37:04
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Visa Centre, the new name of the former Schengen House, opened its doors on [...] Full text...

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Tunisian choreographer criticises Europe's failure to assist her country

05 march 2019 - 13:55:45
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – Tunisian dancer and choreographer Syhem Belkhodja has deplored before the press in Brussels the attitude of [...] Full text...

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Belgian FM announces reopening of Schengen House in Kinshasa

25 february 2019 - 10:23:42
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The Belgian minister of foreign affairs, Didier Reynders, has lauded the signing on Friday in Kinshasa [...] Full text...

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President Tshisekedi reassures about DRC's basic principles of diplomacy

16 february 2019 - 13:50:07
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The basic principles of the Congolese diplomacy remain the same since the country's independence in [...] Full text...

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EU condemns expulsion of its representative in DR Congo

28 december 2018 - 10:51:15
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has condemned the decision of the DR Congo government to expel its [...] Full text...

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Switzerland: UN rights experts slam new EU policy on boat rescues

17 august 2017 - 19:46:08
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The European Union's new policy on Mediterranean Sea rescues threatens life and breaches international standards, two [...] Full text...

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Belgium: EC adopts conclusions on EU external action on counter-terrorism

19 june 2017 - 13:56:41
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Reiterating its strong and unequivocal condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, the European [...] Full text...

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US: No visa issued by fake US embassy in Ghana was used to enter the country - US official

06 december 2016 - 06:57:21
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US State Department says no visa obtained through a fake US embassy that was [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: European Council wants Africa's cooperation to stop illegal migration

21 october 2016 - 09:33:23
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The European Union (EU) wants to enhance cooperation with Africa in its goal to [...] Full text...

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Belgium: EU member countries combine efforts to investigate terrorist networks

24 march 2016 - 19:59:50
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Expressing their shock at the 22 March 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels, European Union Ministers for [...] Full text...

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Tunis: More than 100,000 illegal migrants listed at European borders in July

18 august 2015 - 21:58:33
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – More than 100,000 illegal migrants arrived in Europe in July this year, according to a communiqué [...] Full text...

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Belgium: Detained Burundi opposition leader released in Belgium

09 may 2014 - 17:32:28
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Burundi opposition leader, Alexis Sinduhije, detained in Belgium, has been released, his lawyer, Bernard Maingain, announced [...] Full text...

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Belgium: EU, Tunisia sign agreement on movement of populations

03 march 2014 - 19:28:57
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) and Tunisia on Monday signed an agreement on the movement of populations [...] Full text...

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‘Malawi is my friend’ A PANA Feature by Raphael Tenthani

08 december 2013 - 12:13:49
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - I arrive in Dar es Salaam at around 2am. Ordinarily the weather is supposed [...] Full text...

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OIF secretary-general defends francophone visa plan

03 october 2012 - 22:19:43
Paris, France (PANA) – The secretary-general of the International francophone organization (OIF), Abdou Diouf, on Wednesday defended the plan to [...] Full text...

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4 Africans elected to FISU Board

10 august 2011 - 12:17:51
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Four Africans were elected to the Board of the International Federation of University Sports (FISU), which [...] Full text...

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Media thrill intensifies as ICC gears up to host ‘Kenya six’

02 april 2011 - 15:11:46
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The impending trial of six prominent Kenyans at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, [...] Full text...

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Kenya's post-poll violence suspects granted Dutch visas to travel to Hague

31 march 2011 - 19:01:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - All the 40 Members of Parliament who want to go to The Hague, The Netherlands, in [...] Full text...

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Mauritius, Switzerland sign agreement on short-stay visa waiver

27 october 2010 - 10:11:00
Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius and Switzerland on Wednesday signed an agreement on short-stay visa waiver under which Mauritians could [...] Full text...

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Senegalese artist highlights food self-sufficiency (Corrected)

15 may 2010 - 14:17:00
Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese artist Ibrahima Seck Niang, through one of his works exhibited at the Village of Arts [...] Full text...

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Road-map for ECOWAS single visa adopted

07 may 2010 - 12:28:00
Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Experts meeting here have adopted a new road-map for the implementation of the single visa policy [...] Full text...

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EU lifts Schengen visas restriction on Libyan officials

28 march 2010 - 12:43:00
Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The Presidency of the European Union (EU) Saturday announc ed the cancellation of the blacklist of [...] Full text...

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Malta to issue visas to Libyans

23 march 2010 - 22:17:00
Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The Republic of Malta will issue visas to Libyans who se names are on the black [...] Full text...

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New visa guideline set in Schengen area

17 march 2010 - 19:32:00
Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The new guideline on Visas issued by the European Uni on (EU), which will come into [...] Full text...

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Italy to review conditions for Schengen visa issuance

16 march 2010 - 19:26:00
Tripoli- Libye (PANA) -- Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, Monday announc ed a new initiative for the revision of the [...] Full text...

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EU to reconsider Schengen Agreement on visas

12 march 2010 - 19:47:00
Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) will reconsider several artic les in the Schengen Agreement under which Switzerland [...] Full text...

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EU MPs to propose free movement with long duration visa

08 march 2010 - 21:03:00
Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- European MPs are to propose for the adoption by the m ember states a long duration [...] Full text...

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Supporters of Gaddafi demonstrate against Switzerland

05 march 2010 - 22:21:00
Tripoli- Libya ( PANA) -- The International Association for Supporters of the Lib yan leader, Mouamar Gaddafi, on Friday held [...] Full text...

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Arab League Council condemns Swiss travel ban on Kadhafi, other Libyans

04 march 2010 - 16:25:00
Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Council of the League of Arab States on Thursday con demned the travel ban to [...] Full text...

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Swiss-Libya diplomatic row on Schengen visa takes new twist

26 february 2010 - 22:01:00
Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The diplomatic row between Switzerland and Libya over the issue of Schengen visa has taken a [...] Full text...

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EU, Libya negotiate visa allocation to Europeans

16 february 2010 - 18:35:00
Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) has initiated a high-level co ntact with Libya in a bid to [...] Full text...

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Mauritians exempt from visa in Schengen area

08 may 2009 - 21:16:00
Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritians who wish to travel to Europe will be exempt from short stay visa in Schengen [...] Full text...

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Mauritians to travel visa-free to EU countries

01 may 2009 - 07:56:00
Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Foreign Affairs Minister Arvin Boolell has announced that Mauritian citizens will be travelling visa-free to [...] Full text...

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