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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   A prominent figure in Tunisian diplomacy, Slaheddine Jemmali, died here Friday after a long illness at the age of 72, diplomatic sources said. The last position he held was the representative of the Arab League in Libya. Holder of a postgraduate degree in Political Geography at the Faculty [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The government of Tanzania has allayed fears on Ebola, saying there has been no confirmed case of the disease in the country. Tanzanian health minister, Ummy Mwalimu, told journalists in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, on Saturday that it was widely rumoured that two [...]

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Praia, Cape Verde (PANA)   -   The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) pledges for sustainable development in Cape Verde, in terms of funding, are estimated at more than $65 million, official sources told PANA here Saturday. The announcement was made by a BADEA mission, led by A. Oumali, who [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA)   -  Harare’s citizens are planning to sue its city council on its proposal to increase water tariffs to source adequate funding to deal with the water challenges in the capital, officials told PANA here Saturday. Currently, Zimbabwe’s capital is facing water shortages from the ongoing drought that has [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)   -   Libyan newspapers this week continued coverage of efforts to resume the political process that has been halted since April 4, scrutinizing coordination between France and Germany for the holding of an international conference on Libya planned next Fall in Berlin. The one-year extension of the mandate of [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian media this week highlighted the 8-hour visit to the country last Monday, particularly his statement about Chagos, an archipelago owned by Mauritius, but occupied by the British and Americans for 50 years. "When we recognise international organizations and their capacity to give judgment, for [...]

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New York, USA (PANA)   -   International Rescue Committee (IRC) chief executive and former United Kingdom minister David Miliband says they are continuing to work in Zimbabwe months after Cyclone Idai. Cyclone Idai was a devastating category three storm that laid waste to parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in March, killing [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Officials of the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) met in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, on Saturday with officials of the US Embassy in Libya on decentralization. This was on the sidelines of a forum on local government relating to the implementation of a strategy on local [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will make a substantial injection of cash of about $1.77 billion Zimbabwe dollars (ZWL) into the market to alleviate shortages of hard cash. US$1:ZWL$13.32. Due to the re-introduction of the local currency in June as the sole legal tender from a [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The electoral campaign for the legislative election in Tunisia on 6 October started on Saturday. This coincided with the day of rest for Sunday's presidential election.   Candidates for the legislative elections will campaign for 21 days. There are 7,081,307 voters on the electoral register for both the presidential [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 474 cholera cases and two deaths have been recorded in Burundi since last June, according to a report issued on Saturday by the ministry of public health and the fight against HIV/AIDS. It said 285 of the 474 reported cases and both deaths were recorded in [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Asias Afwerki of Eritrea arrived in Khartoum on Saturday for a two-day visit to the Sudan, the first to the country since 2014 and following tense relations with the Sudan shortly before President Omar Bashir’s ouster in April 2019. President Afwerki was received by the airport [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Brussels prosecutor's office has initiated an investigation into the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence, Didier Reynders, who, according to an unnamed  former Belgian state security officer, was allegedly corrupted in the construction of the new Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, the Belgian newspapers, Echo and [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's warring parties, which have been fighting since 4 April on the outskirts of Tripoli, have stepped up air strikes, breaking another lull in recent days as efforts to resume the political process in search of a solution continues at various levels. The spokesperson for forces loyal [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least three people were killed on Friday night by gunmen in the village of Galwitanga, in Soum province in northern Burkina Faso.  According to local sources, the attackers also ransacked equipment in the village.   Burkina Faso has been in the throes of terrorist attacks since 2015. -0- [...]

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New York, USA (PANA) - Africa’s private sector and academia together with the Regional Bureau for Africa of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will launch the African Influencers for Development (AID), to bring Africans together towards the continent’s development. The AID initiative will be launched at the sideline of the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Several West African Heads of State are attending an extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on terrorism in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Saturday.  The President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who is also the acting President of the G5 [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - More than seven million Tunisians are expected to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a president for the next five years. The winner will succeed Béji Caïd Essebsi, the first democratically elected president, who died on 25 July at the age of 92, a few [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are Saturday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya, as issued by the Central Bank of Mauritania. Currency                                           Buying            Selling 1 Euro                                                 40.26              40.66 1 US Dollar                   [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Several present and past African leaders on Saturday eulogised former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, describing him as a defender of the rights of Africans. As his body lay in a casket draped in the national colours at a funeral service at the national stadium in Harare, the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)    -   Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), ahead of the G5 Sahel Summit here, has praised Burkina Faso’s president, Mark Roch Christian Kaboré, for his commitment, vision and leadership in agreeing to host the summit.  He stressed the importance of the political will [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA)   -   Senior officials from the world’s leading financial institutions have wrapped up their 20th annual meeting in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, at the headquarters of the African Development Bank (AfDB). According to the AfDB media channel, the corporate secretaries of international financial institutions (IFIs) met from 11 to [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA)   -   The funeral service for Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe, who passed on at a Singapore hospital on 6 September, began here Saturday. The programme is going ahead following an agreement between the government and the family of the late leader that his final resting place will be [...]

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Saturday’s forex rates for the Gambian Dalasi   Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Saturday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by the Trust Bank Gambia Ltd:   Currency                                 Buying                      Selling US Dollar                                    [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA)    -   Innovative thinking about Africa’s conventional employment issues marked the launch here Thursday of  the African Development Bank’s new policy research document entitled  “Creating Decent Jobs: Strategies, Policies, and Instruments”. The report elicited strong presentations and a lively debate during the event which took place in the [...]

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