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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's ministry of health has called for increased vigilance at all airports and increased screening following the discovery of a new coronavirus variant. Kenya is currently witnessing a decreased number of confirmed COVID-19 disease with 254,862 cases reported as of 26th November 2021, a total of 5,333 [...]

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Washington-US (PANA) - United States President Joe Biden said here Friday the US would bar entry to most travellers from eight southern African countries over concerns about a new coronavirus variant found in South Africa, reports Reuters. The restrictions "do not ban flights or apply to U.S. citizens and lawful U.S. [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya manufacturing companies will use technology to link the youth interested in working in the manufacturing sector to the right jobs in the industry using an online database, industry players said on Friday. Designed to match the skills of job seekers with the right companies in the [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of people in need of humanitarian food assistance across northern Ethiopia has spiked as a direct result of ongoing conflict, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.  “Today, 9.4 million people are living their worst nightmare,” Tomson Phiri, the agency’s spokesperson, told journalists in Geneva.  Of the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, has announced a deployment of an EU expert election mission to Libya, ahead of the 24 December elections. Borrell congratulated the vice-president of the Libyan Presidential Council, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US embassy in Libya said it shared with the United Nations Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) its "concerns" about election-related violence, stressing the need to "protect the electoral process" in the North African country. An armed group attacked the Court of Appeal in Sebha (800 km south [...]

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Athens, Greece (PANA) - Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, on Friday in Libreville donated 200,000 vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic, on behalf of the Greek government, to Gabon. According to a statement by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dendias is visiting Gabon, in the context of the ongoing upgrade of [...]

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Athens, Greece (PANA) - Greece on Friday imposed travel restrictions on travelers from South Africa and its neighboring countries due to concerns over a new COVID-19 variant. The Greek Health ministry said that the ban concerns South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Eswatini, Zambia and Malawi. Only essential travel will be [...]

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Exchange rate US Dollar     51.50          52.30 Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Buah Saidy, Governor of Central Bank of The Gambia, has revealed that the West Africa nation's total outstanding domestic debt rose by 2.77 billion Dalasis at the end of October 2020, compared to D34.55 billion in the corresponding [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The 8th meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation of African Press Agencies (FAAPA) opened on Thursday in Dakar, Senegal, attended by Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, FAAPA President and Director General of the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP). Speaking at the opening of the meeting, the FAAPA president [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, Nasser Bourita, held talks on Thursday in Rabat with his Sierra Leonean counterpart, David Francis, focusing on bilateral and regional issues. During a joint press briefing, Bourita described as "very positive" the meeting which confirms the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ján Kubiš, on Thursday received representatives of the Youth Dialogue Forum at the mission's headquarters in Tripoli, who handed him an invitation to the UN to attend the National [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - No new case of coronavirus has been recorded in the last 24 hours in Senegal out of 1,329 samples tested, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Friday. Similarly, no death linked to Covid-19 has been announced, which maintains the death toll at 1,885. The Ministry [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Five new patients have died of coronavirus infection, bringing the death toll to 5,430, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Friday. A statement from the centre said 600 new infections were detected out of 4,442 samples tested in the last 24 hours, a positive rate [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - In the face of the demonstrations observed in recent days and those announced to protest against the growing insecurity in Burkina Faso, President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré addressed his compatriots on Thursday evening, calling for unity against terrorism. "There are moments in the lives of men [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed alarm at Thursday's reported attack on the court in the southern town of Sebha. In a statement on Friday it recalled  UN Security Council resolution 2570/2021, the Paris conclusions and, most recently, the Security Council's presidential statement [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 93 asylum seekers, who were living in precarious conditions in Libya, were evacuated to Italy on Thursday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced. According to a statement issued by the UNHCR, this group of evacuees, the first of 500 under a [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Interior Minister Khaled Mazen has promised to prosecute the perpetrators of Thursday's attack on the court in the southern city of Sebha, calling it a "crime punishable by law". An armed group attacked the Sebha Court of Appeal on Thursday as the court was due to [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency                Buying.   Selling Australian Dollar    29.92      31.49 Canadian Dollar      32.84      34.67 Euro                [...]

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

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The United Kingdom has halted all passenger flights from South Africa and surrounding countries with immediate effect. Five other countries in the region are now on the UK's red list for travel - Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe. "From midday on Friday 26 November, non-UK [...]

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Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius on Thursday launched the Africa Small Medium Business (SMB) Report on Economic Impact and Recovery by Genesis Analytics and commissioned by Meta, formerly known as Facebook. The report, with the theme ‘Unlocking Africa’s Potential: How social media is powering small business in Africa,’ examines how social [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities detected 161 positive cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing to 20,913 the number of positive cases in the island since last March, when the second wave struck. According to the authorities, 19,034 patients have recovered during the period. Regarding the vaccination programme, 921,052 people have [...]

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