Rome. Italy (PANA) - Proposals to send warships to police Libyan territorial waters are a shameful attempt by the Italian authorities to circumvent their duty to rescue refugees and migrants at sea and...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - A report by the Libyan Express newspaper on Thursday quoted the Libyan eastern commander of Operation Dignity, Gen. Khalifa Haftar, as ordering his air force and navy to destro...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Human Rights group Amnesty International has slammed the Italian Parliament for voting in favour of deploying warships in Libyan waters to support the Libyan coastguard in the inte...

Pirates have returned to the waters off Somalia, but the spike in attacks on commercial shipping does not yet constitute a trend, senior U.S. officials said Sunday. ......

New York, US (PANA) - In famine-hit countries in Africa and the Middle East, unsafe water is as dangerous for severely malnourished children as lack of food, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on W...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has condemned Friday's forcible eviction by security services of residents of a waterfront community in Nigeria's main city of Lagos....

Solving the water crisis for South Sudanese refugees.

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Access to water is a fundamental need for food security, human health and agriculture, and its looming scarcity in the North Africa and Middle East region is a huge challenge requ...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's oil conglomerate, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has announced its plan to explore for crude oil in the Gulf of Guinea waters, as a way of shoring up ...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? A four-day multinational naval exercise involving France and six west and central African countries kicked off Tuesday in Nigeria?s territorial waters. Society