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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire will join forces to effectively combat terrorism that is spreading in the region, the Ivorian Defense minister, Hamed Bakayoko, said on Friday evening in Ouagadougou when delivering a message from President Alassane Ouattara. "We are in contact. Together we are going [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Foreign Affairs and international cooperation minister of the government of national accord, Mohamed Taher Siala, on Friday had a telephone conversation with the Spanish Foreign Affairs minister, Fernando Martín Valenzuela, on ways of ending the military escalation in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. In a statement, [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Floods, caused by heavy showers that fell for several days across the island, causing considerable material damage, made newspaper headlines in Mauritius this week.  "Nightmare awake" was the title of the daily L'Express, reporting that the floods affected a lot of areas across the island. In another [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Saturday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D), as published by the Trust Bank Gambia Ltd:   Currency                                 Buying                        Selling US Dollar                                   48.50                        50.30 Pound Sterling                          57.50                       54.50 Euro                                            54.50                       58.50 CFA Franc (5000)                     400.00                      425.00 Swedish Kroner (100)                 500.00                     550.00 Australian Dollar                         34.50                       37.50 South African Rand                    12.00                       14.00 Canadian Dollar                          [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the second-leg, quarter-final matches in the 2018/19 CAF Champions league, to be played across Africa on Saturday. First-leg results are in brackets. TP Mazembe, DR Congo vs Simba, Tanzania (0-0)         Al Ahly, Egypt vs Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa (0-5)           Espérance de Tunis, Tunisia [...]

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