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Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Former Cameroon Indomitable Lions' captain, Rigobert Song, and Super Eagles' former great, Emmanuel Amunike, will be the draw assistants at the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Cote d'Ivoire 2023 Preliminary Round Draw on Friday, 21 January, 2022, in Douala. The draw will be conducted at 16h00 local [...]

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Garoua, Cameroon (PANA) - Nigeria made it full marks, after beating Guinea-Bissau 2-0 in the third and final round of Group D of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, thus breaking the dream of the Djurtus moving forward in the competition. The Nigerians, who had already guaranteed their presence in the [...]

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Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Egypt joined Nigeria in the knock-out stage of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) competition when they won their respective matches in Group D on Wednesday. Egypt beat Sudan 1-0, thanks to Mohamed Abdelmoneim's 35th minute goal, while Nigeria overcame Guinea Bissau 2-0 with Umar Sadiq [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The president of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Abdul Fatah Al Burhan, has announced a caretaker government at a time the UN and other stakeholders are preparing for talks on overcoming the current crisis. He has delegated current Undersecretaries at the various ministries to run the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The deputy chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Moussa Al-Kouni, Tuesday received the ambassador-designate of the Republic of Niger to Libya, Isyad Ag Kato with fraternal messages from President Bazoum. The "fraternal messages from President Bazoum underlined the depth of the historical relations uniting the two neighbouring [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba Wednesday called on the ministry of Labour to identify and check the health and professional skills of foreigners wishing to work in Libya. He also welcomed the establishment of an electronic platform to bring foreign labour [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The secretary general of the Council of Ministers in Libya, Ali Challak, Wednesday announced the beginning of activation of the system of granting entry visas to foreign non-governmental organizations. The announcement came during a meeting attended by the deputy head of the Passport Authority, General Zarrouk Al-Saghir, [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The group of Western, EU and Arab states meeting in Saudi Arabia to try help the Sudan overcome its crisis has said the government and opposition have to amend two major documents the initiated in 2019. “We encourage Sudanese stakeholders to consider carefully whether to amend the [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A Malian delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Abdoulaye Diop, arrived on Tuesday in Nouakchott for a two-day visit as it searches for ports and transport corridors for its imports and exports following sanctions slapped on it by West African leaders. The [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo on Tuesday reported 63 new cases of COVID-19, a press release from the Ministry of Health published on Wednesday in Lomé. said. The infections were detected following tests carried out on 1,756 samples, bringing the total number of positive cases to 3,606. In addition, 311 recoveries were [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed,has extended the state of emergency throughout the country by one month from 20 January to 18 February, the Official Gazette of Tunisia announced. The late Tunisian president Beji Caid el Sebsi declared a state of emergency on 15 November 2015, following an attack [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Last year joined the list of the seven warmest years on record, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday. It was also the seventh consecutive year when the global temperature has been more than 1°C above pre-industrial levels, edging closer to the limit laid out under [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded one new death linked to the coronavirus, which brings the death toll to 1,913, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Wednesday during its daily press briefing on the epidemiological situation. The ministry also announced 313 new infections, comprising 14 monitored contact [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Eleven new patients have died from COVID-19 infection in Libya bringing the death toll to 5,874, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Wednesday. According to a statement from the Centre, 1,173 new infections were detected out of 5,980 samples tested in the last 24 hours, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya and Tunisia on Tuesday agreed to form a joint commission to resolve difficulties at their land and maritime borders, the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation announced. A statement issued by the Ministry said this was at a meeting in Tripoli on the instructions of [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African-born pharmaceutical billionaire on Wednesday launched a plant that will produce one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses in Cape Town by 2025, fulfilling his pledge to help bring greater health equity to the continent. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who was raised in Nelson Mandela Bay [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Four French soldiers of the Barkhane Operation were injured on Tuesday in an explosion of their vehicle in an airfield in Ouahigouya, northern Burkina Faso, PANA learned from security sources. According to the general staff of the French army, one soldier was seriously injured and was [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Russia says it will not accept the "imposition of external solutions" on Libyans stressing the need to respect the Libyan-led and owned comprehensive political process. This should be facilitated by the United Nations in accordance with its Security Council mandate. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - More than a dozen humanitarian NGOs are warning that new sanctions against Mali could have a devastating impact on the country, where one in three people are already dependent on humanitarian aid. A statement posted by the Norwegian Humanitarian Council (NRC) said 13 NGOs are urging all [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's President Adama Barrow, who won his re-election bid on 4 December last year after beating long time opposition leader Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party, will be inaugurated for his second five-year term on Wednesday. The 56-year-old former real estate developer will take the oath of [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by the Central Bank of The Gambia. Currency                                 Buying            Selling US Dollar                                 50.95    [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Niger State Police Command in northcentral Nigeria has confirmed the killing of three police officers and two local vigilantes in an ambush by terrorists in Kwanan Dutse, Mariga Local Government Area. State Commissioner of Police, Mr Monday Bala Kuryas, said in Minna on Tuesday that the [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari has denounced as "worrisome escalation", the drone strikes in the United Arab Emirates that caused explosions and a deadly fire outside the capital, Abu Dhabi. In a reaction to the Monday incident, President Buhari said such attacks targeting innocent people and civilian infrastructure, leading [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The United States has delivered 3.2 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria, the U.S. Mission in Nigeria announced in a statement on Tuesday. Altogether, the U.S. has provided over 24.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nigeria. The U.S. government has also provided over $130 million of technical [...]

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