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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's interim Prime Minister Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga returned home Tuesday from the 77th UN Genereeal Assembly, New York, to an enthusiastic crowd. He immediately went to the presidential palace of Koulouba where he reported on his mission to the President of the Transition, Colonel Assimi Goïta. Col. Maiga [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The newly appointed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily of the Republic of Senegal, will arrive in Libya in early October to officially take up his duties, UNSMIL announced. In a statement issued Wednesday [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libya Audit Office (LAO) launched on Wednesday, in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, a project for a professional certificate specializing in auditing, an official source said. It is being organized in partnership with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Arab International Complex of Forensic [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 581 Libyan citizens and migrants were killed extrajudicially between January 2020 and March 2022 by "Libyan law enforcement elements and armed groups", the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) revealed in a report published Monday. It said the victims were tortured and ill-treated before being [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, has received an invitation from Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to participate in the Arab Summit scheduled for early November in Algiers, the Moroccan Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. The Algerian Minister of Justice, Abderrachid Tabi, handed over to the Moroccan Minister [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, said here Tuesday he was working to make tourism an essential pillar of the national economy and one of the main objectives of his government. He made this statement during celebration of International Tourism Day [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya detected three new cases out of 45 samples analyzed during the last 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Wednesday. A statement from the Centre on the daily epidemiological situation said that two recoveries were also recorded in the country. Confirmed coronavirus infections detected [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With an estimated 12 billion workdays lost annually due to depression and anxiety, costing the global economy nearly $1 trillion, more action is needed to tackle mental health issues at work, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday.  The UN [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is calling on the humanitarian community to respond to the emergency needs of people in  northwest Nigeria as a malnutrition crisis continues at catastrophic levels. It has also called for the region to be included in the UN’s humanitarian response plan, [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has welcomed the renewal of his mandate by the UN General Assembly, saying he was “humbled” by the decision. On Monday, the UN General Assembly renewed the mandate for a further two-and-a-half years and he said he was [...]

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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 Gambia. Currency                                 Buying           Selling US Dollar                                   53.00          54.50 Pound Sterling                          [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, on Tuesday met with Mr. Bernard Gomou, Prime Minister of Guinea, in New York with their discussions focusing on the political transition in the West African country. A statement from the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General said the [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has welcomed the opening of trial proceedings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the prosecution of Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, a former Séléka commander in the Central African Republic (CAR). This case marks the first Séléka-rebel defendant to face charges at the [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - International tourism is showing strong signs of recovery, with tourist numbers rising to 57 per cent of pre-pandemic levels. And on World Tourism Day, marked on Tuesday, the UN has called for a major global rethink of the sector, to ensure that tourism is sustainable, and benefits [...]

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