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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs Khemaies Jhinaoui Monday received the document titled "Prerequisites" of the Francophonie Summit to be held in Tunisia in 2020. The summit coincides with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), official sources told PANA here. The [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   Tunisian swimmer Mohamed Khalil Ben Ajmia won gold medal in the 5 km freestyle event at the 13th African Junior Swimming Championship on Sunday in Bizerte. The silver medal went to Egyptian Mahmoud Mohamed, while Seychelles' Damien Payet won the bronze. For girls, Tunisian Rihem Ben Slama finished [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)   -   Colonel Mabrouk Abdelhafid, head of the agency to Combat Illegal Immigration in Libya, Monday urged African countries to help Libya stem the phenomenon.  In a statement to the 5th African Forum on Migration held in Cairo, Colonel Abdelhafidh said the number of illegal migrants inside Libyan territory [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Pan-African activist Kemi Seba  has called on African peoples to mobilize against neo-colonialism, the CFA franc and French politics in Africa, reliable sources told PANA here at the weekend. Seba, who arrived here last Thursday, said this when he addressed a press conference shortly on arrival that [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA)   -   FairMoney, a Paris-based French Fintech, announced here Monday a ten-million-euro fundraiser from Flourish Ventures, the US venture capital fund, partners of DST Global, and historical investors - Newfund, Speedinvest and The VC Studio, said official sources here. This fund will be used to begin a rapid [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 12.2 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2019 to 2,255 Billion Frw (about 2,5 Billion USD), up from 2,001 Billion Frw (2,2 Billion USD) during the same period of 2018, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) showed [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Anzisha Prize Selection Committee released Monday the list of the top 20 candidates. The winner of the 2019 edition will be announced on 22 October in Johannesburg, South Africa. This award, initiated by the African Leadership Academy (ALA) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, recognises [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi is preparing to sign the amendment to the Montreal (Canada) Protocol on the Protection of the Ozone Layer and Climate, the Burundian Minister of the Environment, Déo Guide Rurema, said Sunday on the Public Broadcasters (RTNB), on the eve of the celebration of the World [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A collision between a van and a public transport vehicle on Monday morning has claimed the lives for three and wounded about 20 slightly.   The bodies and the wounded were evacuated in the different hospital centers of the city by firemen.  The accident happened at a crossroad, in [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The partial results released on Monday afternoon by the Tunisian national independent electoral commission (ISIE) following Sunday’s early presidential election say independent candidate Kais Saied and the detained media magnate, Nabil Karoui, emerged leaders in that order in the first round of polls. After the counting of [...]

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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - About 30 people are missing in a boat disaster on Sunday on the Congo River. The whaleboat boat sank on the River near the town of Mambukuta, in the urban-rural commune of Maluku, a suburb of Kinshasa, the Minister of Humanitarian Actions and National Solidarity, Stève [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) – The Gabonese government and Chinese investors on Monday in Brazzaville announced the building of a production unit of 300,000 tonnes of bio-ethanol every year from cassava, costing 620 million US dollars, or about 354 billion CFAF.   The Gabonese minister in charge of Investment promotion, Jean-Fidèle Otandault, [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ms. Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, says she will apply to the Appeals Chamber to reconsider the acquittal of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and Youth leader Charles Blé Goudé.   She has until 16 October to file her appeal.   On [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Fifteen students from Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire and Gabon are beneficiaries of the BGFIBank Foundation Excellence Scholarship, the eponymous banking group for the academic year 2019-2020, according to a communiqué sent to PANA.   This scholarship of excellence, worth nearly 50 million CFA francs, is awarded [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received Mr Jeff Radebe, Special Envoy of President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja over the violent xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals living in South Africa, especially Nigerians. President Buhari, described the attacks as “very unfortunate”, [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Some 87 directors of the General Education College have been relieved of their duties, for shortcomings in the examinations of the past academic year, according to a decree of the Minister of Secondary, Technical Education and Professional Training, published on Friday. According to the decree obtained by [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – Guinea's parliamentary elections will be held on 28 December, Mr Salifou Kébé, chairman of the national independent electoral commission (CENI), said at the end of an audience with Prime Minister, Dr Ibrahima Kassory Fofana. Shortly after they talked behind closed doors last week, the CENI president told [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria and Gambia have condemned Sunday's drone attacks against two oil installations in Saudi Arabia. The attacks against the Khurais and Abqaiq refinery plants knocked out about 5 million barrels per day of Saudi Arabia's production that sent oil prices rising. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe’s doctors from both the private and public sectors have withdrawn their services following the alleged abduction of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors’ Association (ZHDA) president, Peter Magombeyi, this past Saturday. The withdrawal of services was contained in a letter sent to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office on Monday morning [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) Appeals Board has rejected the appeal by Wydad Athletic Club on Morocco with respect to the second leg final of the Total CAF Champions League 2018/19, thereby upholding and confirming that Tunisia's Esperance win the trophy in May. At its meeting [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nelson Mandela’s widow, Graça Machel, is attempting to block his former physician from revealing sensitive information about his final years in his book Mandela’s Last Years.  This includes the claim that he died in the arms of his former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and that Machel [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has disclosed "the killing and liquidation of dozens of people in several parts of Tarhouna", calling on the international community and the International Sanctions Committee to take a firm stand and measures that are needed to [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Africa Oil & Power (AOP), the continental platform for investment and energy policies, on Monday expressed in a statement issued on its behalf and its partners, condemnation of the violent attacks against foreign nationals living in South Africa.   "Africa Oil & Power and its partners strongly [...]

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