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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA)  - Tanzania national football team (Taifa Stars) head coac Etienne Ndayiragije Wednesday named a 27-man squad in preparation for Group J 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers against Equatorial Guinea and Libya on November 15 and 19. Taifa Stars will kick off their AFCON group [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Cotonou Wednesday began hosting an international technical conference on the “Efficient Approaches to fight against Malnutrition and scale-up Potential” within the framework of the world programme on “Food Security and Resilience Strengthening”, PANA reported here. The programme was initiated by the German federal ministry of Cooperation and [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA)  -  The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Wednesday trading up, compared with the previous session, as the BRVM 10 index rose from 133.94 points to 135.09 points or a 0.86 percent increase, while the BRVM Composite index gained 0.85 percent to 141.94 points against 140.75 points [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -  The eighth edition of Africa’s industrialization Day will be held from 29 November to 2 December at the Bamako exhibition park, organisers told PANA here on Wednesday. The theme for this edition at the African level is: “Positioning African industry to supply the African continental free-trade area [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA)  - The Beninese international intellectual and politician, Professor Albert Tévoédjrè, died Wednesday in his native town of Porto-Novo, his relatives announced here. Benin’s first ombudsman Tévoedjrè died days before the celebration of his 90th anniversary on10 November. Politician, university professor and economist, his political career was remarkable in the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  -  The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, Wednesday reaffirmed the request made by the court to the Libyan authorities to hand over to three Libyan personalities facing arrest warrants to respond to criminal charges against them. Th court gave their names as Seif Al-Islam [...]

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New York, USA (PANA)   -  The president of the United Nations (UN)General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Wednesday dismissed charges that several developing countries were given unfair time slots during the September meeting. At this year’s UN General Assembly, many low-income countries were given time slots during the general debate that stretched into [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Local elections think tank, Election Resource Centre (ERC), Wednesday bemoaned the lack of comprehensive plans by the Zimbabwean government to initiate electoral reforms after over a year of disputed national elections. In the buildup to last year’s disputed polls, the country’s opposition parties demanded electoral reforms with [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 13th edition of the US-Africa business summit initiated by Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) will be held in June, next year, in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, a statement issued and received by PANA here Wednesday said. The CCA chairwoman, Florizelle Liser, said the Marrakesh [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The coach of the Ivorian national football team, Ibrahim Kamara, Wednesday released the list of 24 players for matches against Niger and Ethiopia in the qualifiers for the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations to be hosted in Cameroun in 2021. Côte d'Ivoire receives [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s Prime Minister, Abdallah Hamdouk, who returned from a rare visit to the restive region of Darfur said he would be satisfied only if his government is able to reach an all inclusive peace and the victims of the conflicts have felt that transitional justice was [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Libya remains entangled in a “cycle of violence, atrocities and impunity”, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, told the UN Security Council on Wednesday, nearly a decade since the Court began its work in the country. “There has been an escalation of violence,” she stated, [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Central Africa’s Defense minister, Marie-Noëlle Koyara, on Wednesday concluded an official visit to Khartoum where she conferred with top officials, including the president of the interim Sovereign Council, Lt.-Gen. Abdul Fatah Al Burhan, and other senior military leaders. According to the official media, Ms Koyara discussed with [...]

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Athens, Greece (PANA) - Migrants arrivals on the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean are “unmanageable” and “explosive,” Greek Citizens' Protection Minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis, said on Wednesday. Speaking at a committee of the European Parliament, the minister said that even if the EU's entire mechanism has been mobilized “it wouldn't be [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ethiopia's Selemom Berega and Lamecha Girma are among the five athletes shortlisted  for the 2019 IAAF Male Rising Stars Award. The world athletics governing body, IAAF, says they are among the five finalists for the category ahead of the 2019  World Athletics Awards, set for  Monaco on [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Prime Minister, Youssef Chahed, will Thursday embark on an official visit to Algeria at the request of Tunisia's new president, Kais Saied, according to a statement issued by the prime minister's communication services. During the visit, Mr. Chahed will meet with the Algerian President, Abdelkader [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government will adopt a holistic approach in dealing with doping in the country which will involve casting the net beyond athletes to all other actors in the sports industry, the government says. “The era of holding only athletes responsible for doping is drawing to an [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Unity, Fayez a-Sarraj, on Wednesday chaired a meeting to assess measures taken to support military zones in the country and plans in place to prevent terrorist organizations from exploiting the current insecurity resulting from the [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the multilateral institution for financing infrastructure development in Africa, has issued a fourth Euro-bond worth US$ 500 million, with a maturity of ten years, according to a communiqué sent Wednesday to PANA. It said it is a senior unsecured euro-bond with [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Dismas Indiza Wednedsadya shot an impressive score of 4-under par, 68 to storm to the top of the leaderboard at the Lake Victoria Golf Resort Open,Kampala, Uganda. The Kenya Golf Union says this is the the fifth event on the 2019/20 Safari tour calendar.  Indiza leads an [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Young people from eight African countries are currently participating in the second edition of the French Forum for Sharing Good Practices on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Health (DSSR). Launched on Monday in Cotonou, the meeting focused on the theme "Sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of the Presidential Council of the National Unity Government, Fayez al-Sarraj, met Wednesday in Tripoli with Italy's Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Maria Buccino Grimaldi, and discussed the question of illegal immigration, which is on the increase again in the country. The meeting focused on "the [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Participants in one-day North-East Security Summit, held in the epicentre of Boko Haram violence in Maiduguri, have called on the Federal Government to urgently increase the funding of the Nigerian Armed Forces, the Nigerian Police and other security agencies involved in the fight against Boko Haram [...]

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Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - Former Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Umaro Sissoco Embalo, a candidate for the presidential election of November 24, supported by the Movement for Democratic Change in Guinea-Bissau (MADEM), declared on Tuesday in Bissau, that the country is on its knees and that he is concerned about the current [...]

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