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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Women from the National Rally for Reform and Development Organization (RNRD/TAWASSOUL/Islamist Movement) held a sit-in protest in front of the General Directorate of the National Security (DGSN) in Nouakchott, demanding the release of journalist and politician, Mohamed Ould Wedia, PANA learned Tuesday early afternoon.   Speaking on behalf [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe macro-economy remains highly volatile and continues to deteriorate, an updated outlook report from FEWS NET states.   FEWS NET, a US Agency for International Development department that provides information and analysis on food insecurity, says the main driver of economic challenges are foreign currency shortages in [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A school was burned on Monday by unidentified gunmen in Goenega in Barsalogho commune in north-central Burkina Faso, security sources said on Tuesday.   People do not know where to turn and displacement continues, said a city councilor.   "Today 35 out of the 75 villages have been deserted [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Botswana Ministry of Environment Natural Resources and Tourism has cancelled the installation of a proposed non-lethal game proof electric fence. The 53-km electric fence was to erected at Makgadikgadi Game Reserve to curb the current prevalent animal-human conflict.  The Department of Wildlife and National Parks which is [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A light aircraft built and flown by a group of South African teenagers landed safely in Cairo on Monday following an epic journey across the continent. As previously reported by PANA, the four-seater Sling 4 aircraft departed from Cape Town last month and travelled to Namibia, [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian navy units rescued 71 migrants of different nationalities on Monday, the Tunisian National Guard has announced. Their boat capsized off the southeastern Tunisian island of Kerkennah when they tried to reach Europe from the coast of the Libyan town of Zaoura, the spokesperson of the Tunisian [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Forty-seven African migrants, including 10 women, landed at the Sicilian port of Pozzallo in Italy on Monday evening, Italian authorities said. They had been rescued off the Libyan coast by a boat of an Italian humanitarian NGO, Mediterranea. After the Sea-Watch, piloted by Captain Carola Rackete, which forced [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 44 illegal migrants have been rescued by the German non-governmental marine rescue organization "SA" in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the NGO said on Monday. This is the second operation it has carried out in less than 24 hours near Libya and [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Central Bank of Mauritania. Currency                                                Buying            Selling 1 Euro                                                       41.05              41.46 1 US Dollar                                       [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Barely a week after early elimination from the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt, the Tanzania Football Association (TFF) has parted ways with the national team head coach, Nigerian Emmanuel Amunike. TFF and Amunike have agreed to part ways by mutual consent, according [...]

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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 (BoT): Currency                          Buying                       Selling US Dollar                         2,277.54                    2,300.32 Pound Sterling               2,853.08                    2,882.53 Euro                                2,559.50                    2,586.01 Canadian Dollar             1,737.65                    1,754.49 Kenya Shilling                     22.23                          [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi has published a list of 26 players selected to prepare for the qualifiers of the 2020 African Nations Championship (CHAN) reserved for local footballer. Here is the list: Onésime Rukundo (Messager Ngozi) Bosco (Rukinzo) Joseph Rugerinyange (Vital’O) Eric Ndizeyé (Musongati) Faustin Ndikumana (Rukinzo Fc) Hussein Hicuburundi (Kayanza Utd) Abdoul Amini (Messager Ngozî) Chris Ndikumana [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN health agency on Tuesday published its updated Essential Medicines List that adds 28 medicines for adults and 23 for children and specifies new uses for 26 already-listed products. This brings the total to 460 products deemed essential for addressing key public health needs, a WHO [...]

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

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank. Currency                                                    Buying            Selling Australian Dollar          [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese leaders should facilitate the establishment and cooperate with the work of an effective international investigation into the killings of and abuses against protesters since December 2018, Human Rights Watch has said. On 5 July, a coalition of opposition groups and the Transitional Military Council, which took power [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Some 464,000 people across the world were victims of homicidal violence in 2017, more than five times the number killed in armed conflict over the same period, UN researchers said on Monday. According to a study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), [...]

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