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      Kampala, Uganda (PANA)  -  Uganda’s apex court, by a verdict of 4-3, Thursday ruled that the country’s parliament had legally amended the country’s constitution to remove the 75-year age limit for presidential candidates, an official source told PANA. The ruling thus gives President Yoweri Museveni an opportunity to extend his 35-year [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded a significant drop in the number of abuses against journalists in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) world press freedom index (+25), which fell from 97th in 2018 to 72nd in 2019 out of 180 countries. This announcement was made on Thursday in Tunis during [...]

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Diffa, Niger (PANA) -  The authorities of the city of Diffa, which borders Nigeria, Wednesday finally reviewed the curfew hours imposed on the movement of people and vehicles introduced three days earlier in this area. The curfew triggered mass protests from the population which they called operations ‘’dead cities’’. The curfew, which [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)  -  The cost of the 2019 Hadj in Burkina Faso is now 2.1 million CFAF or USD4,941, representing a drop of 153,000 CFAF or 360 dollars, compared to last year, a communiqué issued by the organising committee and received by PANA said here Thursday. Siméon Sawadogo, minister [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)  -  The European Union on Thursday signed two agreements totaling  7 billion CFAF or 12 million US dollars to finance several projects, including solar and domestic energy, the Burkina ministry of Energy said in a communiqué received by PANA.  In a bid to fill its energy gap, [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Cameroon on Thursday defeated Morocco 2-1, its second straight win at the ongoing Under-17 AFCON in Tanzania. In their Day 2, Group B match at the Chamazi Stadium, Mbagala, Cameroon beat the Moroccans to score 6 points from two wins and also grab a semi-final [...]

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Marrakesh, Morocco (PANA) – Africa must again make efforts to attain the target related to education for all, within the framework of the sustainable development goals (SGDs), according to a report submitted to participants in the fifth African regional forum on sustainable development (FRADD) that opened Wednesday in the Moroccan [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) – One hundred peacekeepers and police officers of the UN multidimensional integrated mission for Mali stabilisation (MINUSMA) were decorated on on Tuesday in Bamako with the United Nations medal, PANA reports, quoting a communiqué issued by MINUSMA on Thursday. The decoration, which comes after a year of service, [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), Mr Samaila Zubairu, on Thursday called on Mauritian Prime Minister, Mr Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, in Port Louis. In a press statement after the meeting, Mr Zubairu said that the discussions with the Prime Minister focused on [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The opposition Tunisian workers party (PT) has called the Tunisian people to rise up against what it describes as ‘’repressive tendency by the government’’ and to show their anger through street demonstrations to defend their rights breached by ‘’pro-government hidden groups’’. PT was reacting in a communiqué [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The Training Institute for Agro-Development (IFAD) will open its doors next May in the city of Elavagnon, in the Plateaux region, to a technical education exclusively dedicated to aquaculture, for the promotion of agro-development, PANA learned Thursday from reliable sources in Lomé, the capital of Togo. IFAD [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The president of the association Alzheimer Tunisia, Leila Alouane, said that the number of Alzheimer patients in Tunisia has increased in recent years among people over 65 years of age. According to Ms. Alouane, this number has reached 60,000 cases, increasing from 35,000 to 60,000 between 2012 and [...]

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  Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian textile and apparel industry, a major contributor to the island’s GDP with a share of 12.3% of national income, faces several challenges as official figures show a decline in exports, according to participants in a two-day workshop organised by the Economic Development Board (EDB) [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of the Malian Athletics Federation, Sangaré Aminata Keïta, last Monday joined the Executive Board of the African Athletics Confederation (AAC), representing Africa Zone 2, PANA learnt from sports sources in Bamako. The appointment took place at the end of its 28th Congress, which has just [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  The newly-appointed judges at both the supreme court and appeal court in Rwanda on Thursday took the constitutional oath before President Paul Kagame. "There is an oath you have taken and you should live by it. The law should treat all people equally and justice should be [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Béji caïd Essebsi, has emphasized the need "for Libyans to find themselves a political solution to the crisis in Libya under the auspices of the United Nations". The Tunisian head of State expressed this feeling on Wednesday during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Two new courses - Mining Geology and Analytical Chemistry Mines and Environment - have been introduced by the Faculty of Science of the University of Lome. The courses will be at Bachelor's degree level, official sources told PANA on Thursday in Lomé. The sources said the two courses [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Education workers are observing a 24-hour work stoppage this Thursday throughout Burkina Faso to demand better living and working conditions, PANA reported. The strike comes on the second day of a 48-hour work stoppage observed by health care workers since Wednesday for the same reasons. Since taking [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The National Assembly of Mauritania has adopted a bill on the General Tax Code (CGI), during a plenary session that took place on Wednesday afternoon.   The bill aims "to put an end to the multiplicity and scattering of texts in this area, bringing together all the legal [...]

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Rome, Italy (PANA) - Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Milanesi, said "the diplomatic process - not just Italy's - is still under control" with regards to a ceasefire in Libya.   In a Wednesday interview with a local radio station, the head of Italian diplomacy said that "the diplomatic process is the only [...]

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Marrakesh, Morocco (PANA) – The deputy executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mrs Giovanni Biha, has painted a gloomy picture of the attainment of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by African countries, saying eleven years to the deadline, there's a marked slowdown in the implementation process . At [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Rwanda's stock market closed lower on Thursday after several days of stability. The Rwanda's stock market's benchmark index RSI and ALSI were down 0.49 and 0.08 points, and closed the day with 124.81 and 135.81 respectively, compared to the previous trading session. The US dollar traded at an [...]

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