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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, reviewed with the prime minister of the national unity government, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, a statement issued by the deputy prime minister, a number of ministers and deputy ministers from the eastern region and ways to resolve the problems [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Cooperation and International Organizations, Omar Keti, Wednesday reviewed with the Chargé d'Affaires at  the Japanese here, Masaki Amadera, the support provided by Japan in the field of scholarships, training and qualification of Libyan executives in the public and private sectors. During [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Basheer Nafia Abouazzoum, the Director of Libya-based International NGO, World Islamic Call Society (WICS), Wednesday urged Gambians to put peace and national unity first before other considerations ahead of their December presidential polls. The new WICS Director, who recently arrived in Gambia to start his assignment, made [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Seddik Al-Kabir, discussed on Wednesday with the minister of Economy and Trade of the National Unity Government, Mohamed Al-Haweij, the prime minister's "Back to Life" initiative on a programme of service projects for Libyans. At the end of August, [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Although coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths continue to decline, vaccine inequity persists, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, calling for greater support for developing countries. WHO Chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that the death toll from the disease was at its lowest level in almost a year.  “But [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Many developing nations remain unprotected against disaster, even though it is accepted that building community resilience has many benefits, beyond saving lives and livelihoods.  That’s the alert from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who on Wednesday – the International Day fir Disaster Risk Reduction – urged greater international solidarity for the many countries that [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - More than 100 countries on Wednesday committed to develop, adopt and implement an effective post-2020 global framework, that aims to put biodiversity on a path to recovery, by 2030 at the latest.   The Kunming Declaration, adopted at the end of the UN Biodiversity Conference's latest High Level Segment, which took place in Kunming, China, calls on the States Parties to act urgently on biodiversity protection in decision-making and [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has announced a decision to restrict importation of school uniform to promote local production. Potso Thari, the spokesperson of the ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry on Wednesday informed the nation that government had taken a decision to impose restriction on the importation of school uniforms. She [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Adrien Quélin, a 29-year-old mechanic with the Roc Noir desert battle group of the Barkhane force, died accidentally on Tuesday in Timbuktu while carrying out a maintenance operation on a truck, the Malian Press Agency (AMAP) reported on its website, citing a statement from the French [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - For once in several months, Tunisia has not recorded any new death linked to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Tunisian Ministry of Health said here Wednesday. It said the country had recorded as at 11 October, 230 new confirmed infections following laboratory tests carried out on a sample [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Three new deaths linked to coronavirus were recorded on Tuesday in Burkina Faso, bringing the death toll to 203, the Government Information Service (SIG) announced. It said 40 new infections have also been recorded, bringing the total number to 14,586, while 14,028 patients have recovered. The number [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal on Tuesday recorded one new death linked to coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 1,869, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Wednesday. The ministry also announced six new infections, all from community transmission and confirmed by tests carried out on 1,648 samples. In addition, [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Representatives of French-speaking countries on Tuesday agreed "by consensus" to postpone the 18th International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF) summit scheduled for next month in Tunisia. The decision was taken at an extraordinary session in person and by video conference, under the chairmanship of the Secretary General of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 1,000 women and children, five of them unaccompanied, and at least 30 infants held in migrant detention centres in Tripoli, are at immediate risk to their safety and well-being, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned. In a statement issued on Tuesday, UNICEF said that [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Twenty-four new patients have died of coronavirus infection in Libya, bringing the death toll to 4,832, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Wednesday. A statement from the Centre also announced that 724 new infections were detected out of 4,953 samples tested over the last 24 [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of the Libyan State Council, Khaled al-Mechri, has asked the High National Electoral Commission to suspend the use of the electoral laws recently approved by Parliament for the presidential and parliamentary elections, saying they are "contrary to the Political Agreement and the Constitutional Declaration". On [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency                 Buying   Selling Australian Dollar     30.40     32.00 Canadian Dollar       33.16     35.02 Euro                    [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities said on Wednesday that 35 new positive cases of COVID-19, of which 28 are asymptomatic, have been identified in the country. The 28 people have been placed in isolation at home for 10 days while the seven severe cases were admitted to hospital. Meanwhile, the [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by Central Bank of The Gambia. Currency                                 Buying          Selling US Dollar                                   51.50         52.30 Pound Sterling                         67.00           69.50 Euro                                             59.00      62.50 CFA Franc (5000)                     400.00      [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Inclusion is fundamental to rebuild societies in the wake of war and achieve durable peace, UN Secretary-General told world leaders, ambassadors and prominent global citizens meeting in the Security Council on Tuesday.  The UN chief addressed an open debate on diversity, state-building and the search for peace, organised by Kenya, which holds the [...]

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