03 august 2024 - 10:09:22
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Environment Minister Dion George has welcomed the downward trend in rhino poaching numbers in [...] 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...
26 july 2024 - 14:50:45
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - News of another deadly shipwreck tragedy off the coast of Mauritania is a clear indication of [...] Full text...
15 july 2024 - 12:18:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Director of the European Affairs Department at the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International [...] Full text...
10 july 2024 - 20:00:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, the President of [...] Full text...
06 july 2024 - 09:06:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Refugees and migrants continue to face extreme forms of violence, exploitation and death on sea and [...] Full text...
05 july 2024 - 11:01:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The trial of seven Chinese nationals charged with human trafficking and child labour offences [...] Full text...
02 july 2024 - 15:32:15
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 303 illegal migrants from Guinea Bissau, Benin and Bangladesh have been repatriated from [...] 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...
26 june 2024 - 13:11:39
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - The UN agency tackling crime and drug abuse (UNODC) released its annual World Drug Report on [...] Full text...
11 june 2024 - 18:01:18
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Walid [...] Full text...
05 june 2024 - 18:33:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - At a meeting held in Tripoli on Wednesday, the Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of [...] Full text...
04 june 2024 - 12:47:46
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The lack of protection services on major routes used by refugees and migrants is alarming and [...] Full text...
13 may 2024 - 16:57:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 76 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between 5-11 May, announced the [...] Full text...
13 may 2024 - 13:11:00
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Despite two decades of worldwide efforts, more than 4,000 precious wildlife species still fall prey to [...] Full text...
06 may 2024 - 05:29:35
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Cocaine, cannabis and opioids are getting easier to buy as criminal networks and armed groups capitalise [...] Full text...
24 april 2024 - 05:20:37
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The UN Department of State on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a total of seven Jama’at [...] Full text...
23 april 2024 - 11:29:11
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Abderrahman Hamada, Director of the Department of European Affairs at the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs [...] Full text...
21 april 2024 - 05:13:41
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Drug trafficking in the Sahel region – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and the Niger – [...] Full text...
10 april 2024 - 05:42:36
Djibouti City, Djibouti (PANA) - At least 38 migrants, including women and children, died when their overcrowded boat capsized off [...] Full text...
01 april 2024 - 16:20:31
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's interim Minister of the Interior, General Imad Mustafa Trabelsi, has discussed with the Tripartite Working [...] Full text...
29 march 2024 - 14:15:15
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan coastal guard has rescued 130 illegal migrants in the north of the western al-Garabolli [...] Full text...
20 march 2024 - 05:28:42
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Forced labour is happening all over the world and it’s earning criminal gangs an astonishing $236 [...] Full text...
17 march 2024 - 14:02:56
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - At least 60 people on board a ship carrying migrants from the Libyan coast have drowned, [...] Full text...
05 march 2024 - 20:35:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Widespread sexual abuse of children in the entertainment industry must be urgently stamped out, an independent [...] Full text...
05 march 2024 - 16:14:39
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The deputy Chairman of Libya's Presidential Council, Moussa al-Kouni, has said that in light of the [...] Full text...
17 february 2024 - 06:30:15
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Minister of State in the UK Cabinet Office, Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, has announced that her country [...] Full text...
14 february 2024 - 14:40:50
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantidozzi, arrived in Tripoli on Wednesday for a working [...] 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...
07 february 2024 - 14:26:50
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A meeting between officials of the Libyan Ministry of the Interior of the government of national [...] Full text...
19 january 2024 - 16:13:23
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 119 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between 7 and 16 January, [...] Full text...
18 january 2024 - 10:37:42
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, has stressed the importance of the efforts and role of [...] 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...
05 january 2024 - 12:49:40
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 1,234 illegal migrants were intercepted on the sea and returned to Libya during [...] Full text...
02 january 2024 - 11:24:02
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian President Adama Barrow has emphasised that a major concern his country faced in 2023 was [...] Full text...
30 december 2023 - 11:27:58
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 278 illegal migrants of different nationalities were Friday rescued by Libyan coastguards in [...] 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...
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...
08 december 2023 - 14:49:46
Athenes, Greece (PANA) - Ten ships docked on Tuesday on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Kos, Samos and Rhodes, carrying [...] Full text...
01 december 2023 - 12:24:44
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A delegation from the Libyan Ministry of the Interior, made up of coastguards and border guards, [...] Full text...
28 november 2023 - 20:08:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan press agency warned on Tuesday of serious consequences of the decision by the President [...] Full text...
27 november 2023 - 19:26:54
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of National Unity, [...] Full text...
27 november 2023 - 18:53:13
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid al Dbaiba, Monday opened the [...] Full text...
20 november 2023 - 11:58:30
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Several smugglers and 120 illegal migrants of African nationalities, lost in the middle of the Libyan [...] Full text...
18 november 2023 - 12:39:21
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan government is organising a conference on legal immigration on 27 and 28 November on [...] Full text...
17 november 2023 - 15:59:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's acting Minister of the Interior in the Government of National Unity, General Imad Trabelsi, has [...] Full text...
11 november 2023 - 15:09:12
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 147 illegal migrants of various Arab and African nationalities have been rescued off [...] Full text...
05 october 2023 - 12:59:02
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has invited the Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, to [...] Full text...
27 august 2023 - 05:52:56
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Truck drivers in southern Africa who have been recruited to traffic or smuggle people illegally are [...] Full text...
10 august 2023 - 13:08:54
Pte-aux-Piments, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, on Thursday highlighted the importance of regional cooperation to the effective response [...] Full text...
30 july 2023 - 07:03:37
New York, US (PANA) - As World Day against Trafficking in Persons is marked on Sunday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has [...] Full text...
04 july 2023 - 12:01:21
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says 601 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between 25 [...] Full text...
24 june 2023 - 13:18:27
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says 185 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between [...] 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...
19 june 2023 - 18:11:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, believes that the announcement [...] Full text...
19 june 2023 - 16:44:30
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Public Prosecutor's Office has announced that an operation to smuggle 250 illegal immigrants has [...] 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...
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 - 07:06:00
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Shoppers in Mali’s Gao, Timbuktu, and Ménaka regions in Mali can snap up AK-pattern assault rifles [...] Full text...
04 june 2023 - 06:38:17
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Kourou/Koualou, a tiny village in a neutral zone straddling Benin and Burkina Faso, was the [...] Full text...
01 june 2023 - 12:47:35
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Turkey's ambassador to Libya, Kanaan Yilmaz, has stressed the importance of calming the situation in the [...] Full text...
01 june 2023 - 12:25:30
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, has held a meeting with military [...] Full text...
30 may 2023 - 18:02:59
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Top government and security offiials met here Tuesday'
to monitor the situation in the west coast regions, [...] Full text...
30 may 2023 - 12:30:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Defence has announced the launch of a second phase of security operations [...] Full text...
29 may 2023 - 13:06:45
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Mali Customs Mobile Intervention Brigade (BMI) last week seized packets of cocaine weighing a total [...] Full text...
27 may 2023 - 14:14:52
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - In the summer of 2022, 70 Gambian babies and young children died from kidney failure after [...] Full text...
26 may 2023 - 18:33:14
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said here Friday it was closely monitoring events [...] Full text...
21 may 2023 - 05:48:49
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Chili peppers, fake medicine, fuel, gold, guns, humans, and more are being trafficked via millennia-old trade [...] Full text...
02 may 2023 - 15:55:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has completed deportation procedures of a number of Chadian migrants, illegally present in Libya and [...] Full text...
29 april 2023 - 15:39:19
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 473 illegal migrants of different nationalities on board a boat heading to the [...] Full text...
26 april 2023 - 13:51:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Eleven bodies of illegal migrants, including that of a child, were Tuesday recovered off the coast [...] Full text...
25 april 2023 - 12:02:15
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The bodies of 35 illegal migrants have been recovered after boats carrying them sank off the [...] Full text...
17 april 2023 - 14:14:45
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Six migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between 9 -15 April, the International Organization for [...] Full text...
06 april 2023 - 20:16:09
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The latest report of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya to the Human Rights Council on [...] Full text...
16 march 2023 - 07:35:34
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Routed through new hubs and expanded criminal networks, cocaine trafficking has made a dramatic comeback following [...] Full text...
14 march 2023 - 13:16:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says 403 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya by the [...] Full text...
10 march 2023 - 05:22:54
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Moves by a small number of governments to legalise the non-medical use of cannabis have led [...] Full text...
24 february 2023 - 20:17:44
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 112 migrants were able to return voluntarily from Sebha, southern Libya, to Niger [...] Full text...
15 february 2023 - 17:51:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 400 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya by the Libyan Coast Guard between 5 [...] Full text...
14 february 2023 - 06:25:25
New York, US (PANA) - Preventing violations against children affected by war has never been more pertinent or urgent, the [...] Full text...
06 february 2023 - 14:59:07
Athens, Greece (PANA) - Four children and a woman died on Sunday when a dinghy carrying African migrants from the [...] Full text...
02 february 2023 - 05:43:02
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Trafficked medical products kill almost half a million sub-Saharan Africans every year, and action is needed [...] Full text...
01 february 2023 - 18:00:21
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 331 migrants were intercepted off the Libyan coast and returned between 22 and [...] Full text...
27 january 2023 - 18:55:13
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A natural and complex phenomenon that affects all human populations, migration, is intimately linked to the [...] Full text...
25 january 2023 - 16:22:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Parliament is to launch a joint work programme to build the capacity of staff [...] Full text...
15 january 2023 - 13:46:26
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The problem in Libya lies in the marginalization of 90% of Libyans who represent the overwhelming [...] Full text...
10 january 2023 - 14:51:34
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 1,067 migrants were intercepted off the coast of Libya and returned to the [...] Full text...
09 january 2023 - 14:28:46
Tripoli Libya (PANA) - Several towns, villages and hamlets in southern Libya are facing extreme hardships due to various factors [...] Full text...
06 january 2023 - 13:22:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 1,088 migrants were intercepted off the coast of Libya and returned to the country between [...] Full text...
29 december 2022 - 12:59:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Members of the Misrata City Council, 220 km east of Tripoli, has discussed with a team [...] Full text...
26 december 2022 - 06:21:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Some 100 million people were forced to leave their homes in 2022, the UN High Commissioner [...] Full text...
22 december 2022 - 16:08:00
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 290 migrants from Mali and Sudan were repatriated from Libya this week by [...] Full text...
18 december 2022 - 07:24:44
New York, US (PANA) - More than 280 million people have left their countries to pursue “opportunity, dignity, freedom, and [...] Full text...
10 december 2022 - 14:40:02
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Nineteen Libyan public defenders, including 16 women, participated in a training workshop on legal assistance to [...] Full text...
07 december 2022 - 13:55:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 633 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between 27 November and 3 [...] Full text...
03 december 2022 - 12:59:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Organisational Affairs, Omar Ketti, has [...] 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...
28 november 2022 - 14:06:06
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Ten Malian hostages, including three women and six children, held captive since 18 November by a [...] Full text...
04 november 2022 - 14:37:37
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 327 illegal migrants on board a boat were arrested on Thursday evening off Garabolli, east [...] Full text...
02 november 2022 - 06:18:16
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States Treasury has designated an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)-Somalia network [...] Full text...
21 october 2022 - 15:30:56
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An illegal migration operation to Europe involving 94 people from the beaches of Garabolli, west of [...] Full text...
20 october 2022 - 20:02:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Deputy Minister of Interior of the Government of National Unity, Major General Mahmoud Saied, [...] Full text...
11 october 2022 - 12:55:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Presidential Council has stressed the need to reveal the circumstances of the murder of [...] 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...
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...
08 october 2022 - 15:23:42
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Fifteen bodies of illegal migrants, most of them burnt, were discovered Friday off Sabratha, about 70 [...] Full text...
07 october 2022 - 05:24:10
New York, US (PANA) - The threat of terrorism and organised crime is becoming increasingly entrenched across Africa, the head [...] Full text...
29 september 2022 - 20:20:21
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Security Council has unanimously authorized member-states concerned to inspect vessels sailing on the high seas [...] Full text...
17 september 2022 - 05:20:02
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Burundi must engage more effectively in the rule of law and fight against impunity for violations [...] Full text...
22 august 2022 - 18:40:19
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A petition challenging the declaration of Deputy President William Ruto as president-elect was submitted on Monday [...] Full text...
18 august 2022 - 11:33:06
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has repatriated 174 Nigerians stranded in Libya back home, bringing to [...] Full text...
13 august 2022 - 20:12:59
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 15 bodies of illegal migrants of Sudanese nationality who were trying to reach [...] Full text...
08 july 2022 - 16:02:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, Yousef Al-Agouri, has expressed his "deep [...] Full text...
01 july 2022 - 19:07:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN migration agency on Friday deplored the deaths of at least 20 migrants in the [...] Full text...
29 june 2022 - 22:33:57
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The bodies of 20 illegal migrants who died of thirst in the desert in southern Libya [...] Full text...
28 june 2022 - 20:04:32
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Mali Central Narcotics Office (OCS) on Monday burned drugs valued at 140 million CFA francs [...] Full text...
27 june 2022 - 19:13:59
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 480 migrants were landed on Libyan shores on 19-25 June, the International Organization [...] 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...
03 june 2022 - 17:51:08
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 84 migrants of various nationalities who were heading for the European coastline on [...] Full text...
01 june 2022 - 15:52:32
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A Somali smuggler and five others are facing trial for committing crimes against migrants, smuggling them [...] Full text...
01 june 2022 - 15:10:32
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An anti-smuggling training workshop for more than 20 Libyan officers from three security agencies organised in [...] 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...
14 may 2022 - 14:45:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Two people in possession of a bag containing six pieces of artefects registered with the Libyan [...] 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...
29 april 2022 - 16:56:06
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's delegate to the United Nations, Taher el-Sonni, Friday affirmed that his country's national judicial institutions [...] Full text...
10 april 2022 - 13:18:06
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 195 illegal migrants, including 23 women and two children, were freed by a [...] Full text...
13 march 2022 - 16:19:24
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Najla Al-Mangouch, Sunday reiterated the support of [...] Full text...
10 march 2022 - 17:00:43
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Mohamed Khalil Issa stressed during the 157th Ordinary Session [...] Full text...
26 february 2022 - 17:12:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has since the revolution of 17 February 2011, become a breeding ground for drug trafficking.
It [...] 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...
14 february 2022 - 21:11:29
Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian national police have seized a package of several quantities of drugs, especially Indian hemp, police [...] Full text...
14 february 2022 - 16:09:49
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Edo State Command, Niger Delta region of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), [...] Full text...
11 february 2022 - 06:50:22
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Thursday declared a war on drugs, but said the Government cannot [...] Full text...
27 january 2022 - 18:58:08
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - At least 15 kg of cannabis resin, 1 kg of cocaine and 3,692 Tramadol tablets were [...] Full text...
20 january 2022 - 22:54:56
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has expressed the optimism that the Cultural Property [...] Full text...
19 january 2022 - 17:02:47
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The deputy chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Moussa Al-Kouni, Tuesday received the ambassador-designate of the [...] Full text...
14 december 2021 - 08:34:41
Washington, US (PANA) - The US Department of State has imposed visa restrictions on eight nationals from the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
13 december 2021 - 08:42:11
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The federal government of Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government of [...] Full text...
24 november 2021 - 11:45:50
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations, Taher Al-Sonni, has affirmed that the role [...] Full text...
01 november 2021 - 13:05:28
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Monday that 92 illegal migrants were [...] Full text...
27 october 2021 - 21:05:50
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Interior, Khaled Mazen, discussed with the Special Assistant to the Resident Coordinator, [...] Full text...
17 october 2021 - 18:42:38
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Vice President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Moussa Al-Kouni, has stressed the need to take [...] Full text...
14 october 2021 - 11:25:53
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya will next month host an international conference on the effects of drugs and psychotropic substances [...] Full text...
12 october 2021 - 16:48:44
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Migrants and asylum seekers in Libya have been facing increasingly heavy-handed treatment from targeted security operations [...] Full text...
04 october 2021 - 14:50:49
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – There are reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes have been committed in Libya, while violence [...] Full text...
08 september 2021 - 20:45:11
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said here Wednesday it had rescued [...] Full text...
04 september 2021 - 18:09:18
Tripoli Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbaiba has called a meeting on the bloody clashes that occurred on [...] Full text...
04 september 2021 - 17:07:10
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Commercial aviation has largely interfered with the conservation of wildlife species and promoted trade in rare [...] Full text...
02 september 2021 - 10:36:45
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Africa has positioned itself as a central actor in the implementation of the Global Compact for [...] Full text...
26 august 2021 - 17:38:53
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - In the face of a separatist conflict and violent extremism, Cameroon must secure help from neighbouring [...] Full text...
19 august 2021 - 07:31:56
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), say the deaths of 47 [...] Full text...
02 august 2021 - 05:35:16
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian president Kaïs Saied on Sunday underlined his determination to fight against human trafficking, warning against [...] Full text...
13 july 2021 - 22:45:55
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia remains on the Tier Two Watchlist – signifying that The Gambian government does not fully [...] Full text...
04 july 2021 - 15:53:41
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - "For the first time in the last six years, the Burundian government has made significant efforts [...] Full text...
01 july 2021 - 14:38:14
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Interior Minister Khaled Mazen has called on security services to counter new methods of drug [...] Full text...
26 june 2021 - 17:06:26
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday launched a "War Against Drug Abuse" (WADA) sounding an alarm [...] Full text...
25 june 2021 - 07:56:16
New York, US (PANA) - Around 275 million people used drugs worldwide in the last year of unprecedented upheaval caused [...] Full text...
08 june 2021 - 17:22:23
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Vice-President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Moussa al-Kouni, has announced measures to strengthen security in Libya's [...] Full text...
28 may 2021 - 13:45:12
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Najla al-Mangouch has stressed the need for collective [...] Full text...
17 may 2021 - 20:49:23
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - More than 650 illegal migrants were rescued Sunday at sea and brought back to the Libyan [...] Full text...
15 may 2021 - 16:24:58
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Twelve policemen, including an officer, were killed and 14 other injured when narcotics dealers ambushed a [...] Full text...
13 april 2021 - 05:45:16
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - The growing complexities of the world drug problem are hampering efforts to achieve sustainable development by [...] Full text...
05 april 2021 - 22:53:47
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Crimes linked to the exploitation of children and women in their different forms are on a [...] Full text...
11 march 2021 - 07:18:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, say they are "deeply [...] Full text...
04 march 2021 - 06:56:54
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - António Vitorino, Director-General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), has announced that at least 20 migrants [...] Full text...
07 february 2021 - 18:41:30
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian security units on Saturday arrested seven smugglers and traffickers who operated at the border between [...] Full text...
28 january 2021 - 11:30:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has urged the international community do more to save lives of [...] Full text...
25 january 2021 - 21:07:46
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The Director General of the Brazzaville Foundation, Richard Amalvy, presented last weekend to Togolese Head of [...] Full text...
20 january 2021 - 17:38:35
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) are deeply [...] Full text...
11 january 2021 - 23:26:51
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Thirty-two human rights organisations Monday expressed dismay over the poor handling of affairs of refugees and [...] Full text...
01 december 2020 - 13:52:11
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Conflict, insecurity, COVID-19 and deteriorating economic conditions are leading to a rise in trafficking of children, [...] Full text...
25 november 2020 - 16:56:18
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights has expressed concern about the alleged presence at [...] Full text...
25 november 2020 - 10:51:39
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A police officer died on Tuesday when suspected drug traffickers crushed her with their car.
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29 october 2020 - 17:08:34
Saint-Louis, Senegal (PANA) – At least 140 people have drowned after a vessel carrying around 200 migrants sank off the [...] Full text...
26 october 2020 - 22:02:50
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The bodies of three illegal migrants were recovered while five others were rescued by Libyan coastal [...] Full text...
23 october 2020 - 15:11:52
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Immigration and border management controls in Ethiopia are being improved to help secure the country’s [...] Full text...
16 october 2020 - 00:00:40
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 120 members of the Anti-Illegal Immigration Body are undergoing training in the use [...] Full text...
13 october 2020 - 18:38:09
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Nearly 10,000 illegal migrants trying to reach Europe have been rescued off the Libyan coast from [...] Full text...
06 october 2020 - 16:54:37
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Six alleged traffickers of wildlife products, accused of wildlife crime, will be arraigned in court on [...] Full text...
03 october 2020 - 18:57:55
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - President the Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo of DR Congo has welcomed local efforts to prevent [...] Full text...
26 september 2020 - 19:25:16
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Two traffickers of rhino horns have been arrested in Kenya after a three-month investigation into a [...] Full text...
17 september 2020 - 12:06:21
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Coastguards of the Moroccan Navy last Tuesday intercepted 186 illegal migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan countries, on [...] Full text...
03 september 2020 - 17:43:10
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Ethiopia's foreign ministry has denied reports it was refusing to take back hundreds of migrants [...] Full text...
02 september 2020 - 17:07:19
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Agents of the Departmental Directorate of Forest Economy, elements of the police and gendarmerie on Monday [...] Full text...
21 august 2020 - 05:11:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN agencies have called for search and rescue to be stepped up in the central Mediterranean, [...] Full text...
19 august 2020 - 21:54:04
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Organisation for International Migration (OIM) and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said here [...] Full text...
18 august 2020 - 23:35:13
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has mobilised 10 million Euros (32 million dinars) for Tunisia to help [...] Full text...
18 august 2020 - 23:06:50
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian gendarmerie Tuesday foiled several attempts of illegal migration and arrested 96 people attempting to [...] Full text...
17 august 2020 - 17:56:09
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - On a “working visit” to Tunis, senior Italian and European officials on Monday reiterated their determination [...] Full text...
15 august 2020 - 18:55:50
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A Tunisian customs unit operating in the Safara area in southern Tunisia on Saturday intercepted large [...] Full text...
12 august 2020 - 15:25:53
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Rapid growth in the smuggling and consumption of heroin is having a dangerous effect [...] Full text...
11 august 2020 - 16:01:01
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Customs last week discovered packages of tax stamps fraudulently printed abroad, worth more than 200 [...] Full text...
07 august 2020 - 19:35:34
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Organisation for International Migration (OIM) and the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) Friday expressed great [...] Full text...
06 august 2020 - 20:06:16
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Two persons have been arrested in Pointe-Noire, Congo's main economic and industrial center, for illegal possession, [...] Full text...
03 august 2020 - 12:58:40
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger needs strong democratic institutions for its long-term transformation, but especially in the immediate future to [...] Full text...
03 august 2020 - 11:32:14
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kais Saeid on Sunday denounced human traffickers who have been smuggling illegal migrants across [...] Full text...