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Libreville, Gabon (PANA)   -   The Gabonese capital, Libreville, will from 17 - 19 September host the 22nd session of the fishes’ committee for Central-Eastern Atlantic (Copace), with the cooperation of the European Union, PANA reported here Tuesday. Copace is a regional fishes organisation set up in 1967 by virtue of Article [...]

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New York, US (PANA)  -  Heads of state, representatives from the private sector, and the teenage activist Greta Thunberg are expected in New York to tackle climate change or what the UN considers ‘the defining issue of our time’. Amina J. Mohammed, UN deputy Secretary-General, outlined some of the expectations at [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA)   -   A delegation of the National Association of Libyan Municipalities Tuesday arrived here on a visit to learn about the various cooperation programs of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG-Africa), especially those related to the support and consolidation of the capacities of local authorities, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)   -   Stakeholders have lately intensified diplomatic efforts at engaging the various partners to end the Libyan crisis.   This followed the unveiling of the date of the International Conference on Libya which will be held next October in Berlin, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations, to find [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA)   -   Professor Sylvain BOKO of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Tuesday listed opportunities of the planning system in Benin as part of the Workshop on Accountability in Development Planning in Africa being organized in Cotonou. The workshop, which is focusing on the case of Benin, is on [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The growing number of international migrants has now reached 272 million, outpacing the growth rate of the world’s population, according to new data from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) released here Tuesday. The figures reflect a jump from 2010, when the global [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe judiciary Tuesday launched an SMS messaging system on acts issued by  it to make information on services offered in the jurisdictions more accessible. "The accessibility of justice presupposes that provisions are made so that any person can easily seize the public service of justice [...]

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 Niamey, Niger (PANA) – The Nigerien Environment minister, Almoustapha Garba, has called for the preservation of the global and the living environment of populations, as part of a message on the occasion of the international ozone layer protection day, celebrated every 16 September. In his message, Garba stressed that the threats [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Angolan ethno-ecologist specialist in wildlife, Adjany Costa, has been named winner of the Young Earth Champions for Africa Award for her contribution to the protection of water resources and biodiversity in her country, an official statement transmitted Tuesday to PANA. The 29-year-old Costa environmentalist conducted her [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – DR Congolese president, Felix Tshisekedi, who arrived on Monday in Brussels for a four-day official visit to Belgium, was received on Tuesday at Egmont Palace by the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel, surrounded by his minister of foreign affairs, Didier Reynders, and the minister of Cooperation, [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The completion of the construction of the largest Kaburantwa National Hydropower Dam (20 megawatts) will be in 2020, the Energy and Mines Minister, Como Manirakiza, said on Tuesday at the construction site around Bujumbura, the economic capital of Burundi. Sources said this is the most recent site [...]

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Kigali,Rwanda (PANA) - The primary Court of Nyarugenge, in Kigali City, on Tuesday  postponed the hearings for the decision of preventive detention against one senior manager of a media house in Rwanda, Dr Francis Habumugisha, who was charged last week for intentionally assaulting his female employee. The presiding judge who announced [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Rwanda’s men's national football team has arrived in Kinshasa ahead of a friendly match with the Leopards of DR Congo in Kinshasa on Wednesday. The game is part of preparations for both nations ahead of the 2020 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) final qualifying matches scheduled for later this [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on Tuesday received the commander of US Africa Command (Africom), General Stephen Townsend, who assured that his country is engaged to support Burkina Faso which is currently being rocked by terrorism. According to a statement from the Burkina Faso [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) – The 2nd edition of the international forum on labour safety and health (FISST) opened on Tuesday in Niamey under the theme: ‘’Prevention, productivity and sustainable development’’. Initiated by Afrik PrEvent, Niger’s labour medicine center (CMT-Niger) and the Nigerien labour medicine organization (SONIMET), the forum sets among other [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Vicious air strikes on Tuesday targeted the airport of Maitigua, closed to air traffic for more than two weeks, and Zouara airport (130 km west of the Libyan capital), in a new escalation of the armed clashes that broke out near the Libyan capital on 4 [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Party Convergence for Rupture (CPR) in Guinea, a group of opposition political parties, on Tuesday slammed the date (December 28), set 24 hours earlier by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) to organize the legislative elections.   The president of the CENI, Me Salifou Kébé, revealed this [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Malian president, Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, on Monday received in audience in Bamako the US General Stephen J. Townsend, the 5th commander of the American military command for Africa (AFRICOM), a statement issued by the Malian presidency and sent to PANA on Tuesday said. Appointed to the post [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A total of 22 Malian medical doctors from the West African College of Doctors in Bamako on Monday received their diplomas at a ceremony at the Peacekeeping School Alioune Blondin Bèye of Bamako, PANA learned on Tuesday from reliable sources. The graduation ceremony was witnessed by the [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Residents of Ramokgonami in central Botswana have been assured that the ongoing US$28 million Mahalapye water treatment plant expansion project would improve the water situation in the Sefhare/Ramokgonami constituency. The project, which is about 196.9 km from the capital, Gaborone, commenced June 2019. The water supply will [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Four people were killed when their boat capsized in a lake on Monday in the commune of Fourou, circle of Kadiolo, in the Malian southern region of Sikasso, the Malian news agency (AMAP) reported on Tuesday, quoting reliable sources. The boat carrying eight passengers, two motorcycles and [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Niger’s president, Issoufou Mahamadou, on Tuesday in Koulele, Diffa region (more than 1,500 km east of Niamey), flagged off work on the international Niger-Benin pipeline for the export of Nigerien crude oil to the Atlantic maritime coast. The pipeline is 1,982 kilometers long, of which 1,298 is [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development, Tshekedi Khama has applauded the importance of national archives and records facilities. Speaking at the closing of the 25th biennial Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) in Gaborone on Tuesday, Khama [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The Tunisian national independent electoral commission (ISIE) on Tuesday proclaimed the preliminary official results of the first round of Sunday’s presidential election, with the victory of independent candidate Kais Saied and detained media magnate Nabil Karoui, who obtained the largest number of the 3,370 million votes. Saied [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Stakeholders in The Gambia on Tuesday wrapped up a two-day technical review of the Draft Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill, 2019. The forum brought together about two dozen experts from government, civil society, media and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Right. Mr John Charles Njie, chairman [...]

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