Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Two Libyan soldiers, who are taking part in a military training in Great Britain, have been sentenced by a Cambridge Court to 12 years imprisonment for rape on Saturday. Mokhtar Ali Saad Mahmoud, 33, and Ibrahim … Read More
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Amid growing cases of white-collar crimes in the world, there is the need to prosecute those who commit such crimes, which feed into more serious crimes, according to the World President of the Association of Chartered … Read More
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Western Union and Money Gram operators in the Gambia have complained that the government’s decision to fix the exchange rates for the local currency, the Dalasi, is having a negative effect on their business. “We lost … Read More
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The first case of Ebola has been recorded in Italy last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced. ”On May 12, 2015, WHO received notification of a laboratory-confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Italy. … Read More
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu is hopeful that Saturday’s African Union (AU) summit, held in Livingstone, southern Zambia, will help in securing Africa a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. President Lungu, who spoke Friday ahead … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has slammed the executors of Nelson Mandela’s estate for associating themselves with “racist and colonialist” view that civil laws are superior to customary laws. This was after Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, … Read More
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Oraganisation (WHO) has declared Liberia free of Ebola virus transmission. A WHO statement obtained by PANA on Saturday said 42 had passed since the last laboratory-confirmed case was buried on 28 March 2015 … Read More
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Three journalists from Botswana’s private media have been arrested for allegedly publishing a story on an ongoing investigation by the country’s anti-corruption law enforcement agency. Botswana’s Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) agents on Thursday … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Mmusi Maimane, parliamentary leader of the official South African opposition Democractic Alliance, on Sunday became the new head of the party. Delegates at the party’s congress in Port Elizabeth voted for the first black … Read More
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has expressed shock at the recent wave of tragedies on the Mediterranean sea that has claimed hundreds of lives. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, especially West Africa, … Read More
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A young Cameroonian female student who is to be deported from Mauritius because of her HIV-positive status on Friday took the matter to the Supreme Court in a bid to have the decision from the Passport … Read More
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – Thousands of demonstrators took Saturday to the streets of Burkina’s capital, Ouagadougou, and the western city of Bobo-Dioulasso to show their support for the electoral code which has banned pro-Compaoré officials from taking part in … Read More
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The designer of Ghana’s national flag, Theodosia Salome Okoh, is dead, according to family sources. She died on Sunday in Tema, about 25km east of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, aged 92. Okoh was honoured for designing … Read More
By Segun Adeyemi Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – On April 14, 2014, 276 girls were abducted from their school, the Government Secondary School in Chibok, in Nigeria’s North-east Borno State, in the early hours of the day by Boko Haram terrorists. One … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Just 20 years ago, South Africa was a moral beacon for the entire planet. Its prisoner-turned world statesman Nelson Mandela had confounded millions around the world with his message of reconciliation that saw the … Read More
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – A 109-year-old woman who trekked to a polling booth to cast her vote in Sudan’s ongoing presidential and parliamentary polls made newspaper headlines in the North African nation last week. Fatima Ismail Mohamed Ali voted the … Read More
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The government of Burkina Faso has said it will on May 30, pay tribute to the victims of the popular uprising that toppled the country’s long-time President Blaise Compaoré last October. The plan to remember the … Read More
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – The United Nations has called for entries for the first edition of the Nelson Mandela Prize for persons who distinguish themselves in the promotion of reconciliation, social cohesion and community development, all of which align … Read More
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – “The night of the blind moon”, presented by Tunisian film director, Khadija Mkacher, won on Saturday the first prize of the fourth edition of the North African Film Festival, held on April 7-11, 2015, in Oujda, … Read More
Geneva,. Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said Caesarean Section should only be performed when medically necessary in order not to put women and their babies at risk of short- and long-term health problems. The advisory was … Read More
