Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Seddik Al-Kebir, briefed the US special envoy and ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, on the steps taken by the bank to increase transparency in public spending in the country. In a tweet, the US embassy in Libya wrote [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, on Friday sent a message of condolence to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the death of President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He expressed his solidarity and sympathy with the Emirati people, saying: "We have received [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Abdou Diouf International Conference Centre in Dakar is currently hosting a meeting of African experts in finance, planning and development on the financing of Africa's recovery after COVID-19. This meeting is part of the 54th session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and [...]Full text...
Cotonou, Benin PANA) - The 2021 Economic Report on Africa will be launched on Saturday in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, official sources told PANA on Friday. It will be launched on the sidelines of the 54th Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Economic Planning and Development (CoM 2022) being held from [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan coast guards on Thursday rescued 153 illegal migrants of various African nationalities north of Zouara and Sabratha in western Libya in two inflatable boats. Earlier on Wednesday, 146 illegal migrants were rescued and returned to Libya after two rescue operations carried out by the Libyan Navy, a statement [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United States has stressed the right of all Libyans for free elections to elect their leaders. This was stated by US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Yael Lambert, during a meeting on Thursday in Tunisia with the Chairman of the Libyan High National Electoral Commission Imad al-Sayeh, in [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Here are the scheduled second-leg, semi-final matches to be played on Friday and Saturday in the 2021/22 CAF Champions league. First-named teams are hosts with first-leg results in brackets. Wydad AC, Morocco vs Petro de Luanda (3-1) on Friday. ES Sétif, Algeria vs Al Ahly, Egypt (0-4) on Saturday. -0- [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Friday’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 [...]Full text...
Plaisance, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) last Friday arrested two Ugandan passengers carrying drugs in their stomachs, at the SSR International airport, southern Mauritius. The two women passengers, aged 27 and 43 years, arrived in Mauritius on board Kenya Airways flight KQ 270 from Nairobi, Kenya. The MRA said that [...]Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The 2022 Mining Indaba summit wrapped up in Cape Town on Friday with delegates from around the world addressing issues impacting on the multi-billion-dollar industry across the continent. And the burning issue of multinationals siphoning mining revenue from African countries was brought into sharp focus. "Let's [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Minister of Gender Equality and Family Welfare, Mrs. Kalpana Devi Koonjoo-Shah, on Thursday, presented the Gender Country Profile (GCP) for the period 2021-2027. The profile seeks to catalyse progress on empowering women and girls, and safeguard gains made on gender equality since the adoption of [...]Full text...
Rome, Italy (PANA) - On the very first International Day of Plant Health, marked on Thursday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called for more investment in innovation to boost food security, especially for the billions worldwide living close to the bread line. Healthy plants have the power to [...]Full text...
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating ways of slowing it down must happen “urgently, using every tool we can”, said the head of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) on Thursday, calling for a global commitment to [...]Full text...
