26 april 2024 - 14:49:26
New York, US (PANA) - Making Gaza safe again from unexploded bombs could take 14 years, UN demining experts said [...] Full text...
24 april 2024 - 11:09:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year - the fifth [...] Full text...
24 april 2024 - 05:03:08
New York, US (PANA) - The head of the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday reiterated that [...] Full text...
23 april 2024 - 05:38:24
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Middle East envoy has expressed concern about increased levels of violence in the [...] Full text...
19 april 2024 - 05:14:16
New York, US (PANA) - Recent escalations in the Middle East make it even more important to support efforts towards [...] Full text...
16 april 2024 - 09:49:38
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Committed to stay engaged in Sudan and support the wellbeing of the people, in an effort [...] Full text...
15 april 2024 - 16:37:11
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As UN chief António Guterres on Monday reiterated his appeal for “maximum restraint” in the Middle [...] Full text...
15 april 2024 - 10:54:08
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – As global and regional leaders meet in Paris to spotlight Sudan and mark the one-year anniversary of the [...] Full text...
14 april 2024 - 07:07:30
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan was plunged into an ongoing, devastating war one year ago on 15 April 2023, [...] Full text...
12 april 2024 - 21:57:03
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Almost 55 million people are facing further food and nutrition insecurity in West and Central Africa [...] Full text...
05 april 2024 - 17:53:44
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Two aid convoys carrying lifesaving supplies have reached Sudan’s Darfurs for the first time in [...] Full text...
04 april 2024 - 05:30:57
New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarians in Gaza have suspended operations at night for at least 48 hours in response to [...] Full text...
03 april 2024 - 06:02:41
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Aid teams in Malawi are appealing for an additional $70 million to those affected by serious [...] Full text...
02 april 2024 - 05:45:23
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Israeli forces are blocking aid deliveries into famine-stricken northern Gaza as the five-month-long war grinds on [...] Full text...
29 march 2024 - 17:29:27
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have opted to strengthen [...] Full text...
28 march 2024 - 05:17:38
Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Vital food assistance to refugees in Cameroon may cease unless funding shortfalls can be filled, UN [...] Full text...
26 march 2024 - 16:18:01
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Intense hostilities in Gaza continued on Tuesday between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces with a “double-digit number [...] Full text...
26 march 2024 - 06:26:54
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Israel’s ongoing restrictions and its new ban on aid deliveries by the largest United Nations agency [...] Full text...
21 march 2024 - 05:27:10
New York, US (PANA) - Eleven months of brutal fighting is driving a hunger crisis in Sudan, with some areas [...] Full text...
19 march 2024 - 18:48:15
Washington DC, USA (PANA) - With more than half the population of Gaza on the brink of famine—including children and [...] Full text...
19 march 2024 - 14:57:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Records were once again broken for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea [...] Full text...
19 march 2024 - 11:22:31
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday [...] Full text...
18 march 2024 - 13:00:57
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid reports that the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Monday in search [...] Full text...
13 march 2024 - 13:22:34
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Amid reports of fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight into Wednesday, the UN agency for Palestinian [...] Full text...
13 march 2024 - 06:55:05
New York, US (PANA) - A top European Union (EU) official on Tuesday emphasised the crucial role of the United [...] Full text...
13 march 2024 - 05:57:14
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - UN humanitarians are working around the clock to pre-position aid in Chad for Sudanese refugees fleeing [...] Full text...
13 march 2024 - 05:51:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Enough aid for 25,000 people has reached Gaza City for the first time in weeks, the [...] Full text...
12 march 2024 - 13:14:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN aid officials welcomed the news on Tuesday that an aid ship had left Cyprus for [...] Full text...
06 march 2024 - 09:37:03
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) – Sudan’s war has shattered millions of lives and created the world’s largest displacement crisis.
Now this [...] Full text...
06 march 2024 - 06:54:00
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Efforts by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver desperately needed food supplies to northern [...] Full text...
04 march 2024 - 06:14:07
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - A senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appealed for wider and safer humanitarian [...] Full text...
03 march 2024 - 07:56:05
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - An initiative to rapidly develop villages in some of the most drought-prone and poorest rural areas [...] Full text...
02 march 2024 - 05:48:40
N'djamena, Chad (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, raised increasing concern on Friday that more refugees will cross into Chad [...] Full text...
01 march 2024 - 23:46:09
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Aid agencies in Ethiopia have put up a joint appeal for US$3.2 billion required in [...] Full text...
24 february 2024 - 10:25:41
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - UN agencies continue to sound the alarm over the escalating violence and worsening humanitarian needs [...] Full text...
21 february 2024 - 17:49:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An “inhumane” health and humanitarian situation now prevails across Gaza with conditions continuing to deteriorate, the [...] Full text...
20 february 2024 - 17:21:17
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN emergency food relief agency (WFP) has warned that Gaza is “hanging by a thread”, [...] Full text...
20 february 2024 - 13:16:20
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Education and Chairman of the National Committee for Education, Culture and Science, [...] Full text...
20 february 2024 - 05:39:14
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - An extension of Israel’s military operation in Rafah, where over a million internally displaced Palestinians have [...] Full text...
20 february 2024 - 05:25:50
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as [...] Full text...
19 february 2024 - 07:41:25
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - In an era of overlapping crises, fragility, conflict and violence remain among the greatest global [...] Full text...
09 february 2024 - 16:41:28
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The unrelenting war in Gaza hasn’t spared hospitals, their staff or the people sheltering there, the [...] Full text...
08 february 2024 - 18:10:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid further fighting across Gaza on Thursday, including reports of deadly airstrikes in Rafah governorate, the UN’s [...] Full text...
07 february 2024 - 05:52:01
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As severe hunger ripples across northern Ethiopia, the World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up [...] Full text...
05 february 2024 - 16:17:29
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is calling for the mass mobilization of the international community [...] Full text...
05 february 2024 - 12:32:46
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - UN humanitarians reported on Monday that a food convoy in Gaza had been hit by shelling [...] Full text...
02 february 2024 - 18:50:47
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The number of hungry people in Sudan has doubled over the past year, the World Food [...] Full text...
31 january 2024 - 12:19:56
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Deadly clashes and shelling continued in Khan Younis in southern Gaza overnight into Wednesday as top [...] Full text...
27 january 2024 - 13:01:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the risk of famine grows, and more people are exposed to deadly disease outbreaks, a [...] Full text...
23 january 2024 - 13:26:32
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid continuing heavy fighting in Gaza on Tuesday morning including reported attacks on hospitals in the [...] Full text...
22 january 2024 - 12:54:36
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - “Intense” Israeli bombardment in Gaza continued on Monday along with rocket fire into Israel by Palestinian [...] Full text...
18 january 2024 - 16:17:47
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Medicines for Israeli hostages were reportedly allowed into Gaza for the first time on Thursday along [...] Full text...
14 january 2024 - 07:24:40
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Despite the immense dangers and obstacles, the UN continues to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid in [...] Full text...
04 january 2024 - 16:53:49
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Amid reports of continued Israeli airstrikes overnight in southern and central Gaza and more rocket fire [...] Full text...
02 january 2024 - 15:05:30
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - UN humanitarians on Tuesday repeated dire concerns for civilians caught up in the war in Gaza.
This [...] Full text...
29 december 2023 - 16:57:51
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In Gaza, at least 100,000 displaced people have poured into Rafah in recent days, UN humanitarians [...] Full text...
29 december 2023 - 05:29:23
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the looting of life-saving food supplies from its [...] Full text...
22 december 2023 - 21:07:47
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed the hope that a Security Council resolution to get [...] Full text...
21 december 2023 - 06:51:51
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Wednesday that it has temporarily suspended assistance in some parts of Al [...] Full text...
18 december 2023 - 07:21:56
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza [...] Full text...
13 december 2023 - 18:16:56
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - A ceasefire in Gaza is “the only way forward” and “in the interest of everybody” as the [...] Full text...
13 december 2023 - 11:39:40
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Senior United Nations official in Sudan has warned that far too many people are struggling [...] Full text...
13 december 2023 - 08:40:03
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Food insecurity has continued to worsen in West and Central Africa with the number of hungry [...] Full text...
08 december 2023 - 06:34:54
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - More than a billion Africans cannot afford a healthy diet and close to one in [...] Full text...
07 december 2023 - 13:17:10
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Two months to the day since Hamas fired rockets into Israel prompting a massive Israeli military retaliation [...] Full text...
05 december 2023 - 05:50:10
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated his call for a sustained humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza [...] Full text...
27 november 2023 - 17:39:06
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The conflict in Sudan has entered its eighth month, and while aid access remains extremely challenging, [...] Full text...
27 november 2023 - 14:53:46
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Desperate Gazans in the north of the enclave had their first sip of clean water in [...] Full text...
23 november 2023 - 13:15:17
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Humanitarian agencies preparing to go into Gaza continued to build up stocks of desperately needed aid [...] Full text...
21 november 2023 - 19:41:26
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Funding constraints and rising humanitarian needs could force the World Food Programme (WFP) to halt assistance [...] Full text...
18 november 2023 - 13:20:24
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aimed at [...] Full text...
18 november 2023 - 06:34:06
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has expressed concern about ongoing violence in Amhara, Oromia and elsewhere in Ethiopia.
A statement [...] Full text...
18 november 2023 - 06:03:13
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Fierce hostilities continue across Gaza from the air, sea, and on the ground, the UN’s top [...] Full text...
17 november 2023 - 06:55:22
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In drought and conflict-affected Ethiopia, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday it was [...] Full text...
14 november 2023 - 11:54:27
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday that conflict, high food prices and climate [...] Full text...
10 november 2023 - 12:09:04
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – About 26.5 million Nigerians are expected to grapple with high levels of food insecurity in 2024, [...] Full text...
06 november 2023 - 17:42:58
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Children in flood-affected areas in South Sudan are at risk of extreme malnutrition in the [...] Full text...
05 november 2023 - 18:05:51
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The head of UN’s emergency food relief agency on Sunday issued an urgent appeal from the [...] Full text...
03 november 2023 - 19:49:53
New York, US (PANA) - Political negotiations to get aid into Gaza have yielded results but much more is needed, [...] Full text...
02 november 2023 - 06:16:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) added Palestine on [...] Full text...
30 october 2023 - 07:09:31
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Relief agencies warned on Sunday that civil order is starting to break down in Gaza after [...] Full text...
28 october 2023 - 07:45:20
New York, US (PANA) - With the humanitarian system in Gaza on the verge of "total collapse", UN Secretary-General António [...] Full text...
22 october 2023 - 10:54:05
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The aid that entered Gaza on Saturday "is only a small beginning and far from enough", five [...] Full text...
21 october 2023 - 18:37:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Education, Moussa al-Magaryef, has affirmed the Ministry's commitment to ensuring optimal nutrition [...] Full text...
13 october 2023 - 06:16:00
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Gaza is on the brink of running out of food, water, electricity and critical supplies, UN [...] Full text...
11 october 2023 - 05:44:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The top UN humanitarian official on Tuesday called for an end to the escalating violence in [...] Full text...
10 october 2023 - 06:10:17
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun rolling out food distributions to nearly 900,000 refugees [...] Full text...
08 october 2023 - 18:16:53
New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials engaged key actors amid the spiraling Israeli-Palestinian conflict while UN peacekeepers detected [...] Full text...
04 october 2023 - 05:34:26
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - A hunger emergency is looming for scores of South Sudanese families fleeing the war in [...] Full text...
22 september 2023 - 05:30:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Post-traumatic stress and anxiety has become a daily challenge for thousands of Libyans who survived Storm [...] Full text...
18 september 2023 - 11:23:01
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Teams from nine UN agencies have been on the ground delivering aid and support to those [...] Full text...
15 september 2023 - 05:19:29
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - UN humanitarians are working flat out on the ground in Libya, providing desperately needed aid to [...] Full text...
14 september 2023 - 05:35:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN system is providing aid to areas in eastern Libya impacted by the weekend floods [...] Full text...
08 september 2023 - 08:07:17
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Dwindling resources amidst growing needs have forced humanitarian agencies to prioritise the delivery of vital [...] Full text...
02 september 2023 - 10:38:12
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African leaders convening in Nairobi for the African Climate week and inaugural Climate Summit must pursue [...] Full text...
01 september 2023 - 15:27:35
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A nexus of protracted armed conflict, internal displacement and limited humanitarian access threatens to plunge nearly [...] Full text...
29 august 2023 - 15:34:51
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The political crisis in Niger has created uncertainty for scores of vulnerable displaced people, with restrictions [...] Full text...
23 august 2023 - 05:40:29
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is grappling with a dire humanitarian crisis fuelled by [...] Full text...
19 august 2023 - 05:23:43
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on Friday for Niger’s democratically elected [...] Full text...
19 august 2023 - 05:10:20
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and partners are responding to disease outbreaks and an ongoing food insecurity crisis [...] Full text...
17 august 2023 - 06:30:18
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday issued a call for continued “humanitarian and resilience [...] Full text...
11 august 2023 - 17:50:52
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Dire predictions about escalating hunger in Sudan have tragically come true, as conflict-induced food scarcity has [...] Full text...
06 august 2023 - 07:47:39
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Christine, her son, and her mother are among 100,000 refugees, mostly women and children, living in [...] Full text...
01 august 2023 - 18:13:06
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - UN food security agencies on Tuesday warned that South Sudan faces a severe humanitarian crisis [...] Full text...
29 july 2023 - 08:46:59
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Humanitarian operations, development support and peace programmes in Niger continue in the wake of the military coup this [...] Full text...
22 july 2023 - 06:43:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The ongoing conflict in Sudan is impacting food security and migration across West and Central Africa, [...] Full text...
19 july 2023 - 06:02:13
New York, US (PANA) - Nearly 200,000 people were displaced by fighting inside Sudan over the past week, the UN [...] Full text...
18 july 2023 - 07:19:05
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world, says the latest update of the [...] Full text...
13 july 2023 - 19:46:14
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Spain presented Mali with a cheque for 2.9 million euros, or nearly 2 billion CFA francs, [...] Full text...
12 july 2023 - 15:51:01
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As many as 783 million people faced hunger worldwide in 2022 in the wake of the [...] Full text...
11 july 2023 - 12:33:40
Adré, Chad (PANA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly scaling up its response on the Chad-Sudan [...] Full text...
06 july 2023 - 05:53:37
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Funding constraints mean that the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to limit emergency [...] Full text...
27 june 2023 - 06:05:21
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Climate, armed conflict, high food prices and post-COVID-19 economic fall-out have caused record food insecurity [...] Full text...
23 june 2023 - 05:57:54
New York, US (PANA) - Despite gains made in tackling terrorism and advancing the electoral process in Somalia, top UN [...] Full text...
21 june 2023 - 06:14:12
New York, US (PANA) - The cross-border impact of the crisis in Sudan is unfurling along multiple fronts, and action [...] Full text...
20 june 2023 - 16:46:54
New York, US (PANA) - Refugees deserve support and solidarity, not closed borders and pushbacks. That’s a reminder from UN [...] Full text...
20 june 2023 - 16:36:38
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN humanitarians issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday to help millions of people in the Democratic [...] Full text...
18 june 2023 - 04:48:16
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Just before noon in Satara, a remote village in Niger’s southwestern Tillaberi region, the thermometer is [...] Full text...
09 june 2023 - 13:07:51
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that it is temporarily halting food [...] Full text...
06 june 2023 - 11:32:06
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world, according to the latest Food [...] Full text...
05 june 2023 - 17:11:08
Cotonou, Benin(PANA) - Dakar will host a regional forum of intergovernmental organizations from West Africa next year to promote regional [...] Full text...
04 june 2023 - 11:25:19
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - As the crisis in Sudan rages without an end in sight, UN agencies and partners have [...] Full text...
02 june 2023 - 18:37:40
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday strongly condemned the looting of one [...] Full text...
31 may 2023 - 14:30:32
Tripoli, Liby (PANA) - Deputy Special Representative, Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator Georgette Gagnon led a multi-agency UN delegation to [...] Full text...
30 may 2023 - 16:01:08
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - For the first time since fighting broke out in Sudan on 15 April, humanitarians have been [...] Full text...
29 may 2023 - 18:11:24
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hunger is set to worsen in 18 “hotspots” worldwide including Sudan, where fighting is putting people [...] Full text...
26 may 2023 - 16:20:52
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With hunger spreading worldwide and tobacco responsible for eight million deaths each year, countries should stop [...] Full text...
26 may 2023 - 06:08:10
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and humanitarian partners are mobilising to reach as many people as possible while [...] Full text...
24 may 2023 - 05:36:05
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Following widespread diversion of lifesaving food aid in Ethiopia last month, the World Food Programme [...] Full text...
18 may 2023 - 14:46:31
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Japan, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Malian Food Security Commission on Wednesday in Bamako [...] Full text...
17 may 2023 - 05:58:11
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN and humanitarian partners continue to scale up the aid response for the millions in [...] Full text...
12 may 2023 - 12:07:18
N’Djamena, Chad (PANA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says it urgently requires US$162.4 million to support the [...] Full text...
09 may 2023 - 16:53:25
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of internally displaced (IDPs) in Sudan has more than doubled in just the last [...] Full text...
09 may 2023 - 05:17:34
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned the looting of the World Food Programme’s (WFP) main offices [...] Full text...
05 may 2023 - 05:23:53
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Ethiopia has said it is “deeply concerned” over reports [...] Full text...
03 may 2023 - 17:13:56
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Fighting in Sudan must stop now before the conflict and the spreading humanitarian catastrophe further ravage [...] Full text...
02 may 2023 - 16:03:27
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has made cash transfers to 3,260 Burundian households or nearly 16,300 [...] Full text...
01 may 2023 - 15:14:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has lifted a temporary suspension of operations in Sudan as fighting [...] Full text...
30 april 2023 - 16:35:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - It all started with a comment from a South African radio station presenter: “How come you [...] Full text...
28 april 2023 - 17:40:46
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Civilians in Sudan, including scores of internally displaced people and refugees, are scrambling for safety and [...] Full text...
21 april 2023 - 20:07:21
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday it had suspended its operations in the Sudan [...] Full text...
21 april 2023 - 06:03:03
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres, on Thursday appealed to the warring parties in Sudan to observe [...] Full text...
20 april 2023 - 05:42:49
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres continues efforts towards ensuring an end to the hostilities in Sudan, [...] Full text...
19 april 2023 - 18:28:54
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Acute food insecurity is set to reach a 10-year high in West and Central Africa [...] Full text...
19 april 2023 - 09:20:20
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Tuesday called for an immediate end [...] Full text...
19 april 2023 - 08:50:41
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Food insecurity and malnutrition in West and Central Africa are on track to reach a 10-year [...] Full text...
18 april 2023 - 07:44:06
New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials on Monday urged rival military factions in Sudan to protect civilians and [...] Full text...
17 april 2023 - 15:33:20
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has temporarily suspended all its operations following fighting between rival [...] Full text...
16 april 2023 - 16:43:49
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition [...] Full text...
15 april 2023 - 08:43:03
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A dire lack of humanitarian funding has left hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced [...] Full text...
14 april 2023 - 08:35:15
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Levelling the playing field for women working in the food and agriculture sectors can bring growth [...] Full text...
06 april 2023 - 07:07:35
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Cindy McCain of the United States takes the helm of the UN emergency food relief agency [...] Full text...
02 april 2023 - 17:32:14
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Over the next six months, US$7.1 million will be needed "urgently" to restore full food rations [...] Full text...
30 march 2023 - 15:56:02
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The wife of Burundi's Head of State, Angéline Ndayishimiye Ndayubaha, left Bujumbura Wednesday for Rome at [...] Full text...
30 march 2023 - 05:04:25
New York, US (PANA) - The UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned the Security Council on Wednesday [...] Full text...
23 march 2023 - 05:20:48
Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - UN agencies and partners are seeking $116 million to support Somalis escaping violence that erupted last month in the [...] Full text...
21 march 2023 - 15:33:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly 420 million children across the globe receive school meals – that’s 30 million more than [...] Full text...
20 march 2023 - 16:15:58
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Humanitarians have strongly condemned the latest deadly assault on aid workers in South Sudan, urging [...] Full text...
19 march 2023 - 05:22:44
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has stepped up an emergency response to help an [...] Full text...
27 february 2023 - 12:56:15
Algiers, Algeria (PANA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a €1 million contribution from the Government [...] Full text...
25 february 2023 - 06:16:18
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Tropical cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting systems in the southern hemisphere, slammed into Mozambique on [...] Full text...
22 february 2023 - 06:25:52
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - A contribution of US$288.5 million from the United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for [...] Full text...
22 february 2023 - 06:09:47
New York, US (PANA) - Upcoming local elections represent a “significant opportunity” to advance the peace and political process in [...] Full text...
20 february 2023 - 14:34:00
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A global law firm has requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) to begin an immediate inquiry [...] Full text...
14 february 2023 - 11:10:53
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Monday bestowed one of its highest presidential honours on David Beasley, the Executive Director [...] Full text...
11 february 2023 - 08:20:03
Goma, DRC (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has for the first time in four months delivered [...] Full text...
09 february 2023 - 06:14:53
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As millions worldwide continue to go hungry, leaders of five international humanitarian, banking and trade organisations [...] Full text...
09 february 2023 - 05:28:45
New York, US (PANA) - Although investing in school health and nutrition has a positive effect on children’s academic outcomes, [...] Full text...
04 february 2023 - 12:30:31
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has strongly denounced the recent release of a Sudanese [...] Full text...
30 january 2023 - 05:29:19
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will in 2023 implement a progressive shift to needs-based [...] Full text...
28 january 2023 - 05:25:00
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a EUR 62.5 million contribution from the European [...] Full text...
27 january 2023 - 16:55:51
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - An essential and timely contribution of €65.5 million from the European Union, received through its [...] Full text...
25 january 2023 - 07:14:01
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - A contribution of US$4.1 million from the Government of Canada will provide more than 23,000 [...] Full text...
22 january 2023 - 05:22:33
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$7.2 million from the [...] Full text...
21 january 2023 - 07:33:03
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - An innovative project seeking to develop climate resilience, self-sufficiency and the empowerment of vulnerable rural communities [...] Full text...
19 january 2023 - 05:20:54
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a US$ 10.7 million grant from [...] Full text...
18 january 2023 - 18:01:34
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and Burkinabe Abroad, Olivia Rouamba, led a working [...] Full text...
16 january 2023 - 15:02:12
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The prices of agricultural products rose by 5.8% for the month of December 2022, against 0.04% [...] Full text...
13 january 2023 - 05:59:54
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Several United Nations agencies are calling for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable children in [...] Full text...
10 january 2023 - 15:20:49
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, has released US$3.5 [...] Full text...
01 january 2023 - 07:38:58
Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of 4.2 million euro from [...] Full text...
31 december 2022 - 09:56:35
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing life-saving food assistance to an increasing number [...] Full text...
31 december 2022 - 09:46:28
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received 7.2 million Euro in funding from the [...] Full text...
26 december 2022 - 06:21:18
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Some 100 million people were forced to leave their homes in 2022, the UN High Commissioner [...] Full text...
23 december 2022 - 05:56:38
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths on Thursday released from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) [...] Full text...
19 december 2022 - 14:47:54
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A delegation of humanitarian and development experts from the European Union (EU) reiterated their support for [...] Full text...
16 december 2022 - 06:42:50
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Three agencies have joined forces to help parliamentarians act on child hunger by working with governments [...] Full text...
09 december 2022 - 05:23:00
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The number of hungry people in West and Central Africa could reach a record high of [...] Full text...
30 november 2022 - 10:30:38
N’djamena, Chad (PANA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have warned [...] Full text...
30 november 2022 - 07:33:52
New York, US (PANA) - The first shipment of fertilizer donated by Russian producers to countries hit hard by rising [...] Full text...
22 november 2022 - 05:49:39
Algiers, Algeria (PANA) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a €5.8 million (US$ 6 million) humanitarian [...] Full text...
16 november 2022 - 20:08:59
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's former President Uhuru Kenyatta, who arrived Tuesday in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
04 november 2022 - 18:53:10
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Prime Minister Appolinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela granted an audience on Friday to the Deputy [...] Full text...