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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  For the first time in the annals of the African Cup of Nations, five Tunisian referees have been selected to participate in a training that will take place in Rabat (Morocco), from April 28 to May 5, 2019, learned PANA on Tuesday from sports sources in [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)   -   Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has taken note of a letter from former President Blaise Compaoré reaffirming his readiness to support all initiatives to promote peace and national cohesion, Burkinabe government spokesman Rémis Dandjinou said Tuesday evening. “On Friday, April 12, 2019, the Head [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) -  Guinean pilgrims who wish to perform the Hadj will have to pay 43 million Guinean Franc (4,800 US dollars), according to a communiqué issued by the Islamic League, made available to PANA here Tuesday. Registrations begin this Wednesday and will end on 24 June all over the [...]

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Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – The government of Japan will contribute $ 7.5 million to the United Nations agencies that support refugees and host communities in Uganda over the coming year, the ambassador of Japan to Uganda, Kazuaki Kameda, announced on Tuesday while addressing journalists at the Uganda Government Media Centre [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – At least 174 have been killed and 758 others injured, including civilians, since the beginning of the military offensive carried out by the Libyan army led by Marshall Khalifa Haftar near the capital, Tripoli, the World health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday. A previous death toll released [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Nigerien president, Issoufou Mahamadou, on Monday laid the foundation stone for the building of the Pipeline for refined products and the creation of an oil tower, the Nigerien news agency (ANP) reports. According to the agency, the pipeline will carry oil products of the Refinery Company from [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia and Libya will soon hold a working session between the technical services of their two ministries of social affairs to examine areas of bilateral cooperation in the social field, a statement from the Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs said on Tuesday, This decision was taken at [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese civil society organizations have called on the Malian government and the international community to ensure the safety of the Malian populations and to find a political solution to the crisis that has been shaking the country since 2012. "What worries us most is that we are [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwean Government has commissioned 25 new buses it hopes will ameliorate transport woes and force down rising public transport fares. Rising transport fares are as a result of Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa hiking fuel by over 150% back in January, leading to public transport operators increasing [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 370 Burundians returned to their country on Tuesday with logistical assistance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from neighbouring Tanzania, where they had fled, following the violence that marked the electoral crisis in 2015 in Burundi, the public radio reported. They were welcomed [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Five new dengue cases have been reported since last weekend in Mauritius, including two at Cité La Cure, a suburb of the capital, Port Louis, according to the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life. About 60 cases of dengue fever had been recorded during the [...]

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Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - The president of the Algerian Constitutional Council, Tayeb Belaiz, resigned on Tuesday, tendering his letter to the acting head of State, Abdelkader Bensalah, the Council announced in a communiqué. Mr. Belaiz was appointed as president of the Algerian Constitutional Council in February. Algeria has been facing massive popular [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian capital will host the second forum on gender equity from 24-26 April, organized by the Tunisian government, UN Women and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The first such forum was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2018, according to an official source. The Tunis forum is [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The European Union (EU) Special Representative for the Sahel, Angel Losada of Spain, who was received on Monday in Bamako by Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, has expressed EU's willingness to assist in unveiling the perpetrators of the recent massacres of 160 people in Ogossagou, Central [...]

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Marrakech, Morocco (PANA) - The director of the division of technology, climate change and natural resources management of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Olivier Chinganya, on Tuesday in Marrakech, Morocco, called on African countries to meet timeframes of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).  "The goals must be met on time! [...]

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Tunis Tunisia (PANA) – Clashes between security forces and demonstrators resumed on Monday evening in Bizerte, following the arrests of supporters of the local club, Athletic Club of Bizerte, after a match played against Club Africain. The supporters first denounced the technical staff and the players of Athletic Club of Bizerte before [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the country’s inflation, measured by Consumer Price Index (CPI), in March was 0.06 per cent points lower than the rate recorded in February. The NBS said, in its “CPI and Inflation Report’’ released on Tuesday in Abuja, that the CPI, [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday said that it has received another batch of 136 stranded Nigerians from Libya. Mr Idris Muhammed, Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, told journalists on Tuesday in Lagos that the Nigerians arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – United Airlines has confirmed that it will launch a new route between Cape Town and New York, making it the first non-stop route to the popular African city. Once approved by the US Department of Transportation, flights will depart from Newark Liberty International Airport in [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Parliament and the Council of member States have agreed to recruit 10,000 agents for Frontex, the European coastal guards and border guards agency, by the year 2027, according to an EU communiqué issued Tuesday which added that for now, an initial deployment of 5,000 [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Cameroonian Hamad Kalkaba Malboum was reelected chairman of the Confederation of African athletics (CAA), at the end of its 28th conference on Monday in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan. His only challenger, Tunisian Khaled Amara, scored 7 votes against Malboum's 44. Malboum was first elected CAA chairman in 2003 when he [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea is planning to set up a brigade for combating  the illicit sale of drugs, an official source said Tuesday in the country's capital, Conakry. 'Medicrime' , the proposed structure, will coordinate repression and enforce  compliance with the rules of the pharmaceutical profession. Guinea Pharmacists Association president , [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling as published by the Bank of Tanzania: Currency              Buying                    Selling US Dollar            2,278.14               2,300.93 Pound Sterling  2,985. 96               3,016.97 Euro                     2,576.35               2,602.81 Canadian Dollar  1,712.63               1,729.24 Kenya Shilling          22.57                    22.75 Uganda Shilling          0.57                      0.61 Rwanda [...]

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