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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan election official has mysteriously gone missing in the middle of a tense tallying of the results from the 9 August General election, the elections body said on Friday. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati said the Returning Officer of Embakasi East Constituency, [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - European Union election observers said Thursday they sighted at least 13 cases of unauthorized people inside some of the 124 Constituency Tallying Centres visited by the observer mission as the tallying of the election results continued after the 9 August general election. The preliminary election report released [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin will proceed in the coming days to reforms in the management of its markets, official sources said here Friday. This reform is based on the categorization of sales markets and the creation of an agency in charge of their management, in accordance with a law of [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has teamed up with Hyundai Rotem to enhance the applied skills of young people in Egypt by providing certified training in the maintenance of transport infrastructure and rolling stock. In a press statement, the Bank said on Friday that [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The presidential press praised Friday the Burundian head of state, Evariste Ndayishimiye, for dismissing by decree 40 magistrates deemed "corrupt". It is "a real earthquake in this sector of justice in Burundi, which is as feared as it is respected", says an article online on the Burundian [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – There are attempts to compromise the servers, databases and information systems of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) but none of those attempts have succeeded and the polls body is constantly monitoring its systems, a polls official said  on Friday. IEBC Chief Executive Officer Hussein Marjan [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The production capacity of the public electricity grid in Libya has reached 5,900 megawatts, announced the official spokesperson of the Libyan General Electricity Company (GECOL), Wiam Al-Tayeb, here Friday. He said this level did not take into account the units for emergency power plant projects while the [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Constitutional Council published on Thursday evening the official and final results of the legislative elections of 31 July 2022 in Senegal, confirming those already published by the National Commission for the Census of Votes (CNRV). The coalition of the presidential majority, Benno Bokk Yaakaar, is in [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that International Youth Day celebrates “the power of partnerships across generations”. The UN chief, in his message for the day commemorated annually on 12 August, noted that this year’s theme – “Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages” – reminds us [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The former Guinean prime minister of the government overthrown by the junta on September 5, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, in prison since last April for "embezzlement of public funds", is facing new legal troubles for the same reason, a judicial source said. The minister of Justice, Alphonse Charles [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – A complex legal process for verifying and announcing the results of the 9 August presidential election in Kenya has kept the citizens of the East African nation anxious for days. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) instructed its clerks to prioritise the counting of the votes [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe Minister of Reconciliation, Yéro Boly, announced on Friday at a press conference that a dozen terrorist fighters had laid down their arms and joined the reintegration centre, following a dialogue initiated by the Burkinabe authorities and regional leaders. Mr. Boly explained that the president [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has detected 76 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) out of 323 samples analysed during the last 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control revealed on Friday. A statement from the centre on the local daily epidemiological situation said that 173 recoveries had also been recorded [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan prime minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, said Friday that the electronic voting elections for the Youth Parliament in Libya are an important precedent that can be built upon in referendums, and even replace traditional elections whenever necessary. In a speech during [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -Ethiopia said on Friday that it has completed the third filling of the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), whose second turbine officially started generating electricity on Thursday. The official Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) quoted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as saying that "Ethiopia has successfully attained its [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Twenty-two people alleged to have instigated the violent rioting in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces in July last year following the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma appeared in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Friday. The elite Hawks anti-crime unit made the arrests simultaneously across the [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Commision of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has joined in the chorus of condemnation of the bloody anti-government protests in Sierra Leone and asked for the perpetrators to be identified and punished. The protests over rising cost of living and corruption have resulted [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by the Central Bank of Gambia. Currency                                 Buying           Selling US Dollar                                   53.00          54.50 Pound Sterling                          [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has expressed deep concern about violent protests in Sierra Leone over rising cost of living and corruption, which have resulted in deaths and destruction of property. In a statement issued in Addis Ababa on Thursday, he [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of young people globally who can’t find a job this year is set to reach 73 million – that’s a full six million more than before COVID-19 – the UN labour agency said on Thursday. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the pandemic has caused many additional [...]

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