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New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guteres is appalled by the escalation of Israeli military activity in and around Rafah in southern Gaza, his spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday.  “These developments are further impeding humanitarian access and worsening an already dire situation. At the same time, Hamas [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Karim Khan, has said that the Court's teams have been able to carry out 18 visits to Libya and collected 800 pieces of evidence, including audio and video, relating to crimes witnessed in the country during the period from 2014 [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Mine Action Centre (LibMAC) Thursday announced its intention to develop a national mine action strategy in collaboration with the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and the Mine Action Section of the United Nations Mission of Support in Libya (UNSMIL). The announcement was made [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Nearly 100 humanitarian, civil society, human rights organizations and members of the #KeepItOn coalition, have launched an urgent appeal for the re-establishment of telecommunications infrastructure across Sudan. In a press release published by humanitarian charity, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), 94 organisations noted that Sudan has become the [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Conflict and violence in Sudan, Palestine and elsewhere drove the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the world to 75.9 million at the end of 2023, a new record, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), which published its annual Global Report on Internal [...]

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Tripoli Libya (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has noted shortcomings in the Libyan financial sector and stressed the need for the authorities to carry out urgent reforms in the monetary sector. This was stated by , Mustapha Maani, a member of the Libyan delegation who took part in a meeting [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Acting Minister of Oil and Gas, Khalifa Abdel Saddok, and senior officials from US oil company ConocoPhillips, headed by Ryan Lance, held a meeting on Monday as part of the Libyan government's efforts to strengthen the energy sector and the strategic partnership with US oil [...]

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Lome, Togo (PANA) - The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) is to inject $200 million into the Ghanaian economy through strategic alliances with the Ghana Export-Import Bank (GEXIM) and GCB Bank PLC. This was contained in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by Dr. George Agyekum Donkor, President and [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Central Bank of Gambia. Currency               Buying            Selling US Dollar               65.057               67.50 Pound Sterling       82.62              [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has announced that the inquest into the death of former anti-apartheid activist Chief Albert Luthuli will be reopened. He also announced inquests into the mysterious deaths of activists Griffiths Mxenge and Booi Mantyi would be reopened. Luthuli became Africa’s first Nobel laureate [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday completed the fourth and fifth reviews under Guinea-Bissau’s Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement.  The three-year ECF-supported programme, approved on 30 January, 2023, aims to reduce poverty, secure debt sustainability, improve governance, and reduce corruption, while creating fiscal space [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Nouadhibou FC etched their name into the annals of Mauritanian football once again, clinching a record-extending seventh consecutive league title with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over ASAC Concorde on Sunday. The slender win was enough to seal Club Orange's domestic dominance, fending off a spirited challenge from [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - As the bloody war in Sudan rages on, the Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello has left Washington for Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to meet with key regional partners to advance efforts to end the conflict and avert further mass atrocities. His mission will [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new report jointly issued by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals a significant increase in the issuance of study, work, family reunification and sponsorship permits to refugees by OECD countries and Brazil. According to the report, Safe [...]

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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - A senior official with the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, appealed on Monday for urgent action to support diplomatic and long-term solutions to address the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Concluding a five-day visit to the region, UNICEF Deputy Director Ted Chaiban noted that [...]

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