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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Speaker of the House of Representatives in Libya (Parliament), Aguila Saleh, Wednesday expressed surprise at the lack of understanding of the meaning of the law establishing a Constitutional Court in Benghazi (East). In a statement, Saleh defended the draft law establishing a Constitutional Court, saying that [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Forum of the first social track for national reconciliation started on Wednesday in Tripoli, in the presence of a large number of Libyan sheikhs, notables and sages. In a speech at the opening ceremony, the chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, stressed that national [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Armed Forces (FAMAs) said they arrested 26 suspected terrorists last Saturday during an air-land operation in the Commune of Boré, not far from Konna, Douentza region, in central Mali, a press release announced on Tuesday. During the same operation, 10 bags of silicate (chemical fertilizer [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan High State Council, Khaled al-Mechri, Wednesday announced the suspension of communication between the chairman of the State Council and the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Parliament), Aguila Saleh, and the work of the joint committees until the cancellation of the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Experts from a dozen African countries opened here Wednesday a sub-regional seminar on the security crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is under the theme "Electoral processes and security crisis in sub-Saharan Africa: resilience of election management bodies". This seminar brings together about 150 participants and experts from [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister of the National Unity Government Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba discussed on Wednesday in Tripoli with the vice president of the French company, Total, Laurent Vivier, the strengthening of cooperation in the field of energy. During the meeting, Vivier expressed his gratitude for the Libyan Ministerial Council's [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Captain Ibrahim Traoré late Tuesday appointed Abdoulazize Bamogo as president of the Supreme Council of Communication in Burkina Faso, thereby ending the crisis the institution has been experiencing for several months. The situation persisted for several months and its functioning was blocked by legal proceedings. Indeed, the crisis within [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan High State Council, an advisory body, has rejected the decision of the House of Representatives (Parliament) to pass the bill establishing a Constitutional Court, saying it is a violation of the constitutional basis. On Tuesday, the spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Abdallah Blihak, announced [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 633 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya between 27 November and 3 December, bringing the total number of migrants returned to Libyan shores since the beginning of 2022 to 21,457, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Tuesday. In a tweet on [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Tunisians Abroad, Othman Jarandi, discussed how to find a way out of the crisis to holdi elections as soon as possible in Libya. In a tweet published on [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has denounced the "irresponsible actions" of the Greek authorities in signing contracts with international companies carrying out oil and gas exploration and research on the Libyan-Greek maritime borders. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the ministry condemned the [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Electricity has been restored to Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region of Ethiopia, after more than one year, Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), the state-owned electricity provider, has said. Ethiopian news outlet, Addis Standard, quoted the Communications Director at Ethiopian Electric Power, Moges Mekonen, as saying that “power is [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Polish immigrant Janusz Walus, who nearly sparked a full-blown race war in South Africa ahead of the 1994 first democratic elections, was officially placed on parole and released from prison on Wednesday. Walus assassinated South African Communist Party leader, Chris Hani, in April, 1993, one [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's President Adama Barrow says Africa has been the object of infiltration and various forms of exploitation leading to the fluidity of cultures and values. It has also been a battleground for contending world powers and the epicentre of ethnic rivalry and conflict, he said at the [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team has reached a staff-level agreement with the authorities of the Republic of Congo on the completion of the second review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), which is subject to the approval of the IMF Executive Board. A statement by [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The clock is ticking to the end of the year, a deadline set by the Ghanaian government to secure a staff level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to halt the steep deterioration of the economy and begin a journey of growth. Ghana's President Nana Addo [...]

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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 Gambia. Currency                                 Buying           Selling US Dollar                                   59.75          62.25 Pound Sterling                          [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Supreme Court of Mauritius has jaild two Mauritians after finding them guilty of drug trafficking and importation, PANA reports on Wednesday from judicial sources in the capital. Rudolf Derek Jean Jacques, known as Gro Derek, considered to be the mastermind of a heroin trafficking network, was [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Spiralling debt in low and middle-income countries has compromised their chances of sustainable development, the head of UN trade facilitation agency, UNCTAD, has warned. Speaking in Geneva, Rebeca Grynspan said that between 70 and 85 per cent of the debt that emerging and low-income countries are responsible for [...]

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