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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, in a video conference with the US Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, said his government is committed to holding elections in his country. He said his government will provide all the necessary support for the election [...]

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 Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - World Health Organization (WHO) Member States on Tuesday re-elected Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term as Director-General of the world's leading public health agency.  Dr Tedros was first elected in 2017. A WHO statement said his re-election was confirmed during the 75th World Health [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The monkeypox outbreak that has been reported in 16 countries and several regions of the world can still be contained and the overall risk of transmission is low, the UN health agency said on Tuesday. “What we know from this virus and these modes of transmission, this [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 500 illegal migrants were rescued by a Libyan coast guard and port security during nine successful operations off the Libyan coast, a statement issued on Tuesday by the Libyan Naval Forces Headquarters said here. The latest rescue operation was carried out by a coast [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday hosted his German counterpart Chancellor Olaf Scholz during an official visit at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Scholtz, who was elected chancellor in December, succeeding former chancellor Angela Merkel, was expected to discuss increased trade relations, German companies investing in [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of the Interior of the Government of National Unity, Khaled Mazen, has agreed with his Spanish counterpart, Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez, to prepare a memorandum of joint cooperation on security matters. During a meeting on Monday on the sidelines of a workshop in Toledo, Spain, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister for International Cooperation and Organisations of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Omar Ketti, has stressed the need to establish a comprehensive national plan for reintegration, demobilisation of combatants and weapons collection. This should be under national leadership and ownership, with conditional [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Eleven people, including three fighters of the Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP), were killed on Sunday in a double attack on two localities in the Seno province, in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso. This was announced by the governor of the region, [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) has expressed disappointment over the Sudanese authorities' refusal to renew the residence permit of a senior UN official, Dame Rosalind Marsden. In a statement on Monday, UNITAMS said "it is disappointing that after considering the application for many [...]

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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                                 50.95    [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – African Union (AU) member countries should use their upcoming summit to commit to addressing human rights issues underlying armed conflict and political upheaval on the continent, a human rights advocate said on Tuesday. The Extraordinary Summit on Terrorism and Unconstitutional Changes of Government will take place on 25-28 [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and Labor on Monday issued a business advisory on Sudan, highlighting the growing reputational risks to U.S. businesses and individuals associated with conducting business with Sudanese State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) and military-controlled companies. A press statement in Washington said these [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The recovery of the global jobs market is going into reverse, the UN labour agency, ILO, said on Monday, blaming COVID-19 and “other multiple crises” that have increased inequalities within and between countries.  In its latest update on the world at work, International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director-General Guy [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The recent conclusion of the electoral process in Somalia offers a long-awaited opportunity to make progress on other urgent national priorities, the UN Special Representative for the county told the Security Council on Monday.  James Swan, who also heads the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), [...]

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