Photo: Rob Handfield – Jones PANA Cape Town, South Africa – An uneasy calm has returned to Diepsloot, a sprawling settlement in South Africa’s city of Johannesburg, 24 hours after the murders of two female cousins aged two and three, … Read More
Photo:Deborah Louden PANA Lagos, Nigeria – Nigeria’s foremost teaching hospital, the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, in South West Oyo State, has successfully carried out its first open heart surgery to correct a leaking heart valve in a 19-year-old secondary … Read More
Photo: Wright State University PANA New York, US – The UN and US-based ELS Educational Services have signed an agreement to foster multilingualism among the youth, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said on Tuesday. Mr. Nesirky, who spoke with a PANA … Read More
Photo: Andrew W. McGalliard PANA New York, US – A partnership between public and private sector, the GAVI Alliance, is was on track to meet its targets of supporting developing countries to immunize nearly 250 million children by 2015. The … Read More
Photo: UN PANA New York, US– The UN on Tuesday called on people around the world to always engage in hand-washing to help prevent the spread of diarrhoeal disease and to ensure their health and well-being. PANA in New York, … Read More
Photo: UN PANA Blantyre, Malawi- Malawi president Joyce Banda, who last Thursday sacked her entire cabinet, has constituted a new one comprising mostly her former team with a few surprising additions. Banda, southern Africa’s first female president and Africa’s second, … Read More
Photo: M. Tawsif Salam PANA Lagos, Nigeria – Muslims in Nigeria Tuesday joined their counterparts from across the world in celebrating Eid Eil-Kabir, otherwise known as the feast of sacrifice, with a call from clerics to remain steadfast, obey and … Read More
Photo: UN PANA Lagos, Nigeria – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has responded to the criticism of his planned national conference, saying those who described it as diversionary or aimed at promoting certain political ambitions ”are in error.” The President used … Read More
Photo: Remy Steinegger PANA Lagos, Nigeria- Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido has been named by the Emerging Markets Magazine as the Central Bank Governor of the Year for sub-Saharan Africa. The local media reported Monday that the … Read More
Photo: Reuters PANA Tripoli, Libya- Last week’s abduction of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan is further evidence of the weakness of the Libyan state and its security and military institutions, the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), … Read More
Photo: Tefo Mohapi PANA New York, US- An International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report, released on Tuesday, projects that by the end of the year, 40% of the world’s population, about 2.7 billion people, will be online, as mobile broadband has … Read More
PANA Lagos, Nigeria- Some 3,000 residents of Nigeria’s northern Borno state, regarded as the spiritual base of the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram, have fled the state for neighbouring Adamawa for fear of attacks by the sect. The local media … Read More
African Union Summit Photo: UN PANA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- A top official of the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused African leaders of undermining the African Union (AU) Charter through their decision that no sitting African leader should … Read More
Ms. Nabila Abdilkarim, member of the High Committee for UN Security Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Photo: Albert González Farran PANA Khartoum, Sudan-Some 40 women representatives of civil society organizations from North Darfur have met in Fashir where … Read More
Captain Ajaya Rana serving with UNAMID, takes part in the commemoration of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers Photo: UN PANA Khartoum, Sudan-A UNAMID Military Observer from Zambia died 11 Oct. in Al Fashir in Sudan’s North Darfur state, following … Read More
Madagascan highland plateau Photo: Anlance PANA New York, US- Some four million people in rural Madagascar are food insecure after rice and maize production took a bad hit this year due to weather conditions and a locust invasion, according to … Read More
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister for Foreign Affairs for Ethiopia- Photo: UN PANA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-The International Criminal Court (ICC) should not be allowed to continue treating Africa and Africans in a condescending manner, the chair of the AU Executive Council, … Read More
President Uhuru Kenyatta PANA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The African Union (AU) is in the process of expanding the mandate of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (AfCHPR) to try international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity … Read More
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – Photo: UN PANA New York, US – Following reports of a second ship capsizing off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday called on the international community to … Read More
PANA Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – At least 1.5 million pilgrims from across the world will, on Sunday, 13 October, perform the Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, one of the five pillars of Islam, sources told PANA here Saturday. For two … Read More
