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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  Tunisia is currently working to hold a meeting of heads of diplomacy of three north African countries to seek an end to the military escalation in Libya, a communiqué from the Tunisian foreign affairs ministry said here Friday. According to the communiqué, the foreign affairs ministers Tunisia, [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA)   -   Armed individuals on motorcycles Thursday attacked a team of researchers from Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey, local media reports monitored by PANA said here Friday. The team was on a mission at the Toukounous Breeding Station in the Filingué department of the Tillabéry region of southwestern Niger, [...]

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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA)   -   The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Friday called on the United States of America to lift sanctions it imposed on its leaders, a statement issued here and obtained by PANA said. CENI said its call stemmed from what it [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)    -   Tripoli citizens wearing yellow jackets took to the streets en mass for the second consecutive day Friday to protest against the offensive launched by the Libyan national army led by Marshall Khalifa Haftar against the city, denouncing France’s support to the attackers, according to reports monitored [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  -  Tripolitans spontaneously demonstrated Friday against France after night rocket attacks on residential areas in Abu Slim and al-Hadhba in Tripoli killed 12 people, injured 26 others and displaced over 400, sources told PANA here. The demonstration against France stemmed from its troubled relationship with Hafter, thereby putting [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA)  - Gambian journalist Pap Saine and co-founder of the private newspaper -The Point - praised the progress in press freedom recorded in his country since President Adama Barrow came to power in January 2017. “The situation has improved significantly. For 22 years of Yahya Jammeh regime, we were [...]

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Paris, France (PANA)  -  The French foreign affairs ministry said here Friday that France supported the government of national accord led by Prime Minister Fayez Al Serraj, an official source told PANA here.  “France’s position is without ambiguity. It support the government of national accord chaired by Mr al-Sarraj, with whom [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Africa recorded the smallest deterioration in the world press freedom index but some of the most significant developments over the past year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its annual report published Thursday in Dakar and received by PANA. The most significant advances in press freedom were [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -  Ethiopia's parliament on Thursday approved the appointments of Gedu Andargachew and Lemma Megerssa as foreign and defence ministers respectively as the country’s young Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, consolidates power filling key cabinet positions with his confidants. In what many see as further consolidation of his power, [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso’s president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, on Friday granted audience to the French Secretary of State to the Prime Minister in charge of gender equality and the fight against discriminations, Mrs Marlène Schiappa, the Burkinabe presidency said. "I have had the opportunity to share with [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Embattled former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has rejected the judgement of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) which convicted him of six counts of false declaration of assets preferred against him by the Federal Government.  This is just as the Nigerian Presidency expressed [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Local officials in Taraba State, Northeast Nigeria on Friday said that 22 persons have died in fresh attacks between ethnic Jukun and Tiv communities of Wukari local government area in southern Taraba State. Nigeria Police Spokesperson in Taraba State, Mr David Misal, confirmed the attacks but could [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - At least 213 people have been killed and 1,009 injured in clashes in the capital Tripoli since the military offensive launched on April 4 by the Libyan National Army, led by Khalifa Hafter, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday. In a tweet, the WHO Libyan [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe needs US$1,2 billion in yearly funding to effectively support the agricultural sector towards growth, a new agricultural sector survey has shown. Agriculture plays a key role in Zimbabwe, contributing 11% to the total gross domestic product and remains the main source of livelihoods for around 67% [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) – The French foreign affairs minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, held talks on the phone with the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, during which they discussed, among other issues, the situation prevailing in Libya. They also called for immediate end to the fighting that broke out on 4 [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared war on businesses which deliberately hike prices of products,  threatening to ‘restore the purchasing power of all workers’. As the local currency continues to devalue since its introduction in February, businesses are finding it increasingly difficult to continue importing critical raw [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Armed group, Daech, saysits affiliated organization, "Jundu Al Khilafa", slit the throat of a Tunisian it held captive for more than a month in the Jebel "Gharbata" in the Kasserine governorate in West-Central Tunisia. The spokesperson of the Tunisian interior ministry, Sufyane Zaâq, said on Friday that [...]

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Plaisance, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian airline, Air Mauritius, on Friday launched a new aircraft, the A330neo, at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport in Plaisance, in the south of the island. Dubbed the Aapravasi Ghat, this two-class aircraft with 28 seats in business class and 260 seats in the economy class, [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian foreign affairs minister, Khemaies Jhinaoui, on Thursday reiterated, in a telephone contact with the commander of the Libyan national army, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, his call for an immediate ceasefire in Libya. According to a statement issued on Friday by his department, Mr Jhinaoui insisted on the [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the MDC Alliance, says Zimbabweans are still fighting for social, economic and political freedoms 39 years after gaining independence. On Thursday, April 18, Zimbabwe celebrated its Independence Day at a time when the social economic climate in the country has severely deteriorated to [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United States says it supports demands by Sudanese protesters for a quick return to civilian government that observes human rights and the rule of the law. “The United States supports a transition to a peaceful and democratic Sudan led by civilians who represent the diversity of [...]

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