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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian president, Kaïs Saïed, affirmed here Wednesday his country's willingness to strengthen its cooperation with the member countries of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). This, he said, was "to ensure real and sustainable development to African countries and guarantee prosperity and social [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 76.91% of the pass rate in the secondary school leaving certificate exams (baccalaureate) for the 2020-2021 academic year in Libya, the Libyan Ministry of National Education announced on Wednesday. It would be recalled that 106,774 candidates took the secondary school leaving examination for the [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded five new deaths linked to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and 145 new confirmed infections, the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. These new deaths bring to 25,354 the total number of deaths recorded in the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) has announced the locations for receiving appeals against persons who have filed their papers for the presidential election, as well as appeals against the procedures of the electoral commission. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the commission said that the sections [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Airways has announced that it will stop flying to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, from 1 December due to low demand. The airline has also lowered its projections for Lusaka, Zambia, reducing its weekly flights to five from seven. The national carrier resumed operations [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Eleven new patients have died of coronavirus infection in Libya, bringing the death toll to 5,414, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Wednesday. According to a statement from the centre, 468 new infections have been detected out of 4,266 samples tested in the last 24 [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal on Tuesday recorded three new cases of coronavirus, all from community transmission and confirmed by tests carried out on 1,153 samples, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Wednesday, during its daily press briefing on the epidemiological situation. The ministry did not announce any [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - An International Conference dubbed "Nexus Science and Diplomacy" scheduled for 29 November to 1 December 2021 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, has been postponed to the end of February 2022, the Presidency of Burkina Faso announced on Wednesday. According to a statement from the Presidency of Faso, [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean government received on Tuesday 496,800 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine donated by Germany, as part of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in the country. According to the Guinean News Agency (AGP) the German ambassador to Guinea, Ulrich Meier-Tesch, expressed his country's solidarity with [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations, Taher Al-Sonni, has affirmed that the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is complementary to the work of the Libyan judiciary and does not replace it, stating that some cases before the ICC are subject to [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has confirmed that the Secretary-General's Special Envoy and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Jan Kubis, has submitted his resignation to the Secretary-General, who accepted it "with regret". At a press conference in New York, the UN spokesperson said on [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has said that the court is still investigating cases related to the 2019 Tripoli war, stressing the need to investigate crimes committed in Tarhouna, 80km south of Tripoli, as well as mass graves. On 4 April 2019, [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations is temporarily relocating all eligible dependents of staff in Ethiopia because of the increasing insecurity in the country, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, annouced in New York on Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference, he said: "...given the security situation in 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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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - West and Central Africa have emerged as the regions in the world with the highest number of children verified as recruited and used by armed forces and non-state armed groups and the highest number of children verified as victims of sexual violence. This is since 2005, when a United Nations mechanism for monitoring and reporting [...]

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Rome, Italy (PANA) - Approximately three billion people, almost 40 per cent of the world’s population, cannot afford a healthy diet and another one billion people would join their ranks  should further unpredictable events reduce incomes by one-third, the UN food agency said, launching a new report on  Tuesday.   The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 2021 State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report – Making agrifood systems more [...]

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