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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Many wounded Libyans, victims of the clashes that have been taking place for more than a week in and around Tripoli, have been transferred to Tunisia to receive medical care appropriate to their state of health,  PANA learned from reliable sources on Thursday. Currently visiting Tunisia, the [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA )- Sudan has denied turning away a Qatari delegation that came seeking a meeting with the Transitional Military Council in Khartoum. Sudan’s ministry for foreign Affairs refuted the widely-circulated reports that a Qatari delegation that included officials from the ministry for foreign affairs and the council of ministers [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - According to a statement issued on Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO), the death toll from the armed clashes in the outskirts of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, has reached 205, including 18 civilians. Some 913 others have also been wounded.  The new death toll was recorded [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)-  The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and  Pratic Association, organiser of the International Fair of Information and Innovation Technologies (OSIANE), on Wednesday in Brazzaville signed a memorandum of understanding to support  Congolese start-ups and incubators through an innovation accelerator laboratory, in order to support the country to achieve [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are Thursday’s exchange rates for the Ouguiya as issued by the Central Bank of Mauritania.   Currency                                        Buying       Selling 1 Euro                                           [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A private club catering for white South African and Zimbabwean immigrants in the UK is under fire for promoting Apartheid-era images and stating that former president Nelson Mandela was an "evil terrorist” who should have been hanged.  The world statesman and Nobel Laureate who served [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) on Thursday said  its troops killed 39 Boko Haram terrorists and captured many equipment from them in the Lake Chad Basin.   About 20 soldiers were also wounded in the battle, the task force said. The MNJTF, a coalition of soldiers of Nigeria [...]

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Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Uganda's National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) has authorised oil company Total E&P Uganda to commence oil and gas extraction from Murchison Falls national park, a protected area. NEMA, the government agency in charge of managing the country’s ecological resources, has announced that it reached the decision to [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling as published by the Bank of Tanzania: Currency                         Buying                        Selling US Dollar                       2,278.15                    2,300.94 Pound Sterling             2,973. 22                    3,004.10 Euro                               2,574.54                     2,601.21 Canadian Dollar            1,708.02                    1,724.58 Kenya Shilling                    22.53                        [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Following are Thursday’s exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius. Currency                                                   Buying        [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) – Following are Thursday’s exchange rates for the CFAF as issued by the Bank of Central African States (BEAC). Currency                                 Buying                          [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s Transitional Military Council has ordered all companies, ministries or any entities in which the immediate past government holds shares or any form of involvement to “immediately” declare such possessions, accounts, deposits or shares within 72 hours or face ten years in jail. The council has vowed [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Heads of State, ministers, leaders of multilateral development banks, private sector executives, women entrepreneurs, and contributing governments of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) convened on Wednesday at the first We-Fi Regional Summit to discuss concrete ways to strengthen support for women-led small and medium-sized [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The following Day 2, Group B matches will be played on Thursday at the ongoing Under-17 AFCON in Tanzania. Cameroon v Morocco Senegal v Guinea -0- PANA VAO/AR 18April2019 [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Heavy shelling overnight on Tuesday which hit a densely-populated neighbourhood of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, was condemned “in the strongest terms” by the head of the UN Mission there, after “scores” of civilians were reportedly killed and injured. “Horrible night of random shelling of residential areas”,tweeted UN Special Representative [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Praising the “extraordinary courage and determination” shown by the Sudanese people in their quest for peaceful change, the High Representative of the European Union, Federica Mogherini, has said the Sudanese people “expect their legitimate demands to be addressed by all sides and in good faith.” “A swift and [...]

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