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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Twenty-two doctors are currently undergoing training in public hospital management at the Regional Institute of Public Health (IRSP), Alfred Qunum in Ouidah, sources close to the Ministry of Health told PANA on Tuesday. Initiated by the government, the training of 22 doctors aspiring to be hospital directors, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Najla Al-Mangouch, has expressed Libya's strong condemnation and denunciation of the "terrorist" attack on civilian areas and facilities in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Abu Dhabi. On Monday, the Yemeni rebel Houthis launched attacks on civilian [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Najla Al-Mangouch, and the Turkish Ambassador to Libya, Kanan Yilmaz, rose from their meeting on Tuesday at the ministry's headquarters in Tripoli, agreeing "to strengthen relations between the two friendly countries". During the meeting, the two officials reviewed the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The plenary session of the House of Representatives held in Tobruk (East) to discuss the parliamentary committee on the roadmap for the next stage in Libya was Tuesday suspended following an altercation among members of parliament (MPs) during the debate. The Libyan parliament had formed a parliamentary [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba Tuesday stressed the importance of coordination between the National Council for Economic and Social Development and the different ministries to start joint executive projects and programmes. This assertion was made during the participation of Mr. Al-Dbaiba in a symposium on the role [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Monday began a regional virtual workshop on policy frameworks for corporate sustainability and reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The five-day workshop, organized in collaboration with the government of Cameroon, will promote regional collaboration and experience sharing [...]

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Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Senegal and Guinea on Tuesday picked up the two tickets for the Round of 16 from Group B in the 2021 Africa Cup of  Nations (AFCON) competition in Cameroon. The Senegalese went through on 5 points after a 0-0 draw against Malawi  who had 4 points but [...]

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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema left here Tuesday for the United Arab Emirates where he is expected grace the National Day of the Republic of Zambia at the World Expo 2020 Dubai on Thursday. According to Foreign Affairs Minister Stanley Kakubo,  President Hichilema accepted an invitation from Sheikh [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN High Commission said here Tuesday the human rights situation in Sudan “continues to be of serious concern”, with peaceful protesters killed or injured on a near-daily basis by security forces. Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, pointed out that credible [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Since 2021, Burundi has been hit by a resurgence of diseases with epidemic potential, mainly due to malaria, coronavirus (COVID-19) and cholera, the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a recent report on the country's health situation. The prevalence of measles also remains at [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe army announced here Tuesday it neutralized several suspected terrorists in security operations carried out during the week of 10-16 January. In a statement, the National Armed Forces said it conducted offensive actions in several parts of the eastern region. "These actions, which are still ongoing, [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) -Senegal has recorded three new deaths linked to the coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 1,912, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Tuesday at its daily press briefing on the epidemiological situation. The ministry also announced 188 new cases, comprisng 10 monitored contact cases, one [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A Malian delegation on Monday called on the head of the Guinean junta, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, a statement from the Guinean presidency has announced. The Malian delegation is in Guinea to strengthen ties between the two countries following the sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded two new deaths linked to COVID-19 and 3,905 new confirmed infections in the past 24 hours, the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. These bring the death toll to 25,817, the ministry said, indicating that the total number of recoveries is 706,291. In another [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Ousted Guinean president Alpha Condé left Conakry on Monday for Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to undergo a medical check-up. The head of the military junta, which overthrew him on 5 September last year, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, announced on 31 December that Conde, 83, had been granted permission [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Ten new deaths linked to COVID-19 have been recorded in Libya bringing the death toll to 5,863. There were also 885 new infections out of 5,619 samples tested, representing a positivity rate of 15.7%, the National Centre for Disease Control said on Tuesday, adding that 618 recoveries were [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, and various Egyptian officials have agreed on maintaining the electoral momentum in Libya by supporting the holding of free, fair, inclusive and credible elections. She undertook a two-day official visit to Cairo, during which she met separately with [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - An international conference bringing together a number of Western and Gulf Arab countries has kicked off in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aimed to see how Sudan could be helped to overcome its current crisis. Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) for Sudan, on Tuesday [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union on Tuesday warned that violence against civilians and the continued detention of activists and journalists, put Sudan on a dangerous path away from peace and stability and jeopardise the opportunity for a peaceful solution which UN-led consultations could bring. A statement by the EU [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday that at least seven people were killed and dozens injured, including policemen, during demonstrations that took place on Monday. A statement by the Police Department said its efforts to coordinate with youth and resistance committees for the smooth procession [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that  three new deaths related to COVID-19 have been recorded bringing the death toll to 347, a fatality ratio of 3.0%. It said in a statement that 450 news cases were also been recorded in the past five days bringing [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - UN agencies operating in the Sudan have strongly denounced attacks on UN operations in Darfur, the region that has yet to overcome unrest and communal conflicts since 2003 A statement by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) pointed out that during a [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by the Central Bank of The Gambia. Currency                                 Buying            Selling US Dollar                                   51.50             52.30 Pound Sterling                    [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Addressing the virtual World Economic Forum, on Monday, the United Nations’ Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, told world and business leaders that “global solidarity is missing in action”. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, for the second year in a row, the Forum scrapped its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for a series of online plenaries and discussions [...]

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