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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has expressed the optimism that the Cultural Property Implementation Act (CPIA) Agreement, signed by Nigeria and the United States of America on Thursday, will reduce the pillage of Nigeria's ancient arts. The Minister expressed the optimism when he signed [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Najla Al-Mangouch, met on Thursday in Tripoli with the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Libya, Stephanie Williams, on the latest developments in Libya, including challenges and obstacles facing the political process in the country, and ways [...]

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Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Mali and Gambia on Thursday picked up the last tickets for the Round of 16 in the 2021 Africa Cup of Natons in Cameroon after winning their respective final group F matches. Mali beat Mauritania 2-0 and Gambia beat Tunisia 1-0. Mali and Gambia ended up with 7 [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United States has called on the military leaders in the Sudan to immediately lift the state of emergency in the country. It also warned that America would not resume paused assistance to the Sudanese government absent unless it puts an end to violence and restores a [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Many people are feared dead in an explosion that occurred at Apiate, a town between Bogoso and Bawdie, a mining area in Ghana's Western Region on Thursday. Accra-based Joy FM quoted the police as saying preliminary investigation shows that a vehicle carrying mining explosives from Tarkwa to Chirano [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The effective process of reunification of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) was launched here Thursday during a meeting between the governor of the Tripoli branch, Seddik Al-Kebir and his deputy, Ali Al-Hebri, head of the Beidha (East) branch, the CBL announced. It should be noted that [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan and the US agreed on Thursday that a cabinet led by a civilian be formed  in Khartoum to help overcome the current crisis, the Sudan’s Republican Palace said in a statement here Thursday. The statement said the Sudanese government and a visiting United States State Department [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A unit of the Tunisian navy rescued on Wednesday 23 illegal migrants of different African nationalities on board a boat facing difficulties at sea eight km east of Sidi Mansour in the region of Sfax, the Tunisian Ministry of Defence announced in a statement. The migrants, 13 [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 14 new deaths linked to COVID-19 and 12,698 new confirmed infections, the Health Ministry announced on Thursday. The number of patients currently on admission in health facilities is 632, including 145 in intensive care units and 33 on ventilators. The death toll since the beginning [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Customs Anti-Narcotics Section (CANS) of the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) at the SSR International Airport in Mauritius last Saturday seized 1.4 kilograms of heroin from a passenger who arrived from Dubai. The MRA said in a press release on Thursday that the drug was found in [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded four new deaths linked to the coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 1,917, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Thursday. It said during its daily press briefing that it has also recorded 265 new cases composed of 45 cases of contacts [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Senior US State Department officials have embarked on hectic meetings with Sudanese stakeholders to resolve the raging crisis in the East African country. This is at a time political and security developments on the ground are moving fast, even though a robust meeting of the "Friends of Sudan", [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A technical team from the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Wednesday discussed with Parliament's Roadmap Committee the technical support it may need in its work. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Parliament section in Tripoli. The UNSMIL technical team comprised Ines Ahmed, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Fifteen new deaths linked to COVID-19 have been recorded in Libya, bringing the death toll to 5,889, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Thursday. It said 1,331 new cases were also recorded out of 6,594 samples tested, representing a positivity rate of 20%. Confirmed COVID-19 infections have [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC), Mustapha Sanalla, has said that oil production went up by 310% last year despite challenges, including low budget allocation. He said production hit 440.110 million barrels in 2021, compared to 140 million barrels [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Thursday’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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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Wednesday launched the Police Strategic Plan 2022–2025 to combat drug trafficking, internal and external threats, transnational and organised crimes, money laundering and cybercrimes. Launching the plan at Abercrombie, north Port-Louis, Mr Jugnauth assured the Mauritius Police Force of his continuing support [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Despite a ban of alcohol sales during South Africa’s COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the wine industry has seen exports to foreign markets soar. The organisation Wines of South Africa (WoSA) on Wednesday noted that total wine export volumes grew by 22% to 388 million litres last [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius' imports increased by 61.7% in one year from November 2020 to November 2021, Statistics Mauritius announced on Thursday. It said exports were up by 35.6% during the same period. The figures show that imports increased by 30.6% in November 2021, compared to October 2021 while exports increased [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities said on Thursday that 88 new positive cases of COVID-19 were registered in the last 24 hours. It said 19 people who presented severe symptoms of the infection were admitted to hospital. Regarding the 19 vaccination programme, it said 924,343 are fully vaccinated while [...]

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