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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  -  The Special Representative for Central Africa and head of the United Nations Regional Office, François Louncény Fall, has expressed satisfaction with the approach taken by the National Council for Dialogue (CND), following a meeting with its permanent secretary, Martin Mberi, state-run radio announced here Monday. The consultations [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA)  -  A joint United Nations (UN) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mission has called for ‘’credible and fair’’ presidential election, official sources told PANA here Monday. The call by the mission, led by Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special representative of the UN Secretary General for West [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA)  -  The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Monday trading down, compared with the previous session, as the BRVM 10 index dropped from 135.01 points to 133.49 points or a 1.13 percent decrease, while the BRVM Composite index lost 0.65 percent to 140.90 points against 141.82 points [...]

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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA)  -  A campaign launched on 30 October, 2019 in Beni by the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) to eradicate armed terrorist groups active in eastern DR Congo has resulted in a huge success, a reliable source told PANA here Monday. This led [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA)  -  The Ngor Diarama Hotel in the Senegalese capital will host the 2nd edition of the international Dakar boules Open scheduled for 15-17 November. Altogether, 100 three-person teams from more than 20 countries are expected for that event which is to be organized annually.  After the brilliant success of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  - The chairman of the presidential council of the Libyan government of national accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, Monday presided over two separate meetings on ways of promoting Libyan investments abroad, an official statement said here. The meetings brought together the chairman of the board of directors, the executive director [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA)   -  The Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) has depreciated by over 520 percent since its introduction in February, this year, to date as it lacks adequate foreign currency or market confidence backing, a new report said here Monday. In February, government adopted electronic money as a local currency and called [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA)  - Five players of the Ivorian U23 national football team, including captain Ibrahim Sangaré, held by their respective clubs in the first match of the Elephants against Nigeria 1-0, will feature in the second match against South Africa at the Africa Cup of Nations U23 tournament [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  Day 8 matches of the Tunisian football league played Saturday and Sunday did not bring any significant changes to the rankings, except the first draw recorded by champion title holder Esperance de Tunis against Stade Tunisien (0-0). Following are full results: Saturday 9 November: US Monastir 3 JS Kairouan [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA)  - The Malian government Monday strongly denied armoured vehicles of the Malian armed forces (FAMAs) were seized during the offensive by the national defence forces the past few days against terrorist bases in Mondoro, Boulkessy and Indelimane, in central Mali. This was contained in a communiqué issued here [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A coalition of pro-life non-governmental organizations and activists on Monday held a demonstration against what they termed "a pro-abortion agenda" at the forthcoming International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) conference in Nairobi. Demonstrating in Nairobi Central Business District, they called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to reject [...]

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New York City, USA (PANA) - The Zimbabwean government can expect no monetary support from the World Bank as engagement will be limited to strategic dialogue, technical assistance, analytical work, and Cyclone Idai recovery aid, PANA reports from here. During this year’s 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Zimbabwe's Finance [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Pneumonia, a preventable disease, kills more children than any other infection, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five last year, or one child every 39 seconds, according to a new analysis. Most deaths occurred among children under the age of two, [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) - Several African heads of state and government will take part in the UN agency's General Conference on Tuesday at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, to discuss new multilateral approaches to most pressing current issues, ranging from higher education to artificial intelligence. The meeting, which decides on [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Ministry of the Interior has described as "unsubstantiated and designed to 'terrorize' public opinion", the information circulating lately on social networks and some websites that some Tunisian members of "terrorist organizations" have returned to the country.. The ministry said on Monday in a statement that [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 450 people died in 368 accidents in July, August and September this year, the Libyan Ministry of Interior of the Government of National Unity announced on Monday in a report on traffic statistics recorded by the security directorates. The number of accidents considered serious [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The first Libyan International Economic Forum began on Monday in Rabat, Morocco, with 400 participants representing the public and private sectors of 12 countries, as well as various Libyan economic sectors, participating. Organized by the Libyan Presidential Council, in collaboration with the Moroccan Ministry of Industry, Commerce, [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The Moroccan Prime Minister, Saâdeddine El Otmani, on Monday reaffirmed Morocco's continued support for stability and development in Libya. In a speech made on his behalf by his Minister of Employment and Professional Integration, El Otmani recalled, at the opening of the Libyan Economic Forum and Investment [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PAN) - The Canadian mining company, SEMAFO, whose convoy has been the target of an armed attack in which 39 people were killed, on Monday asked the authorities to guarantee adequate security measures before it will resume its activities in the West Afrrican country. "We cannot talk about [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Development Bank’s African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI) will host its 8th annual workshop on local currency bonds in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from November 19. The Bank said in a news dispatch on Monday that the three-day workshop will deliberate on capital markets. AFMI’s goal is to [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia will participate in the 10th edition of the International Film Festival of Algiers (FICA) in Algiers, with the film "Fatwa" and directed by Mahoud Ben Mahmoud. In addition to the his film, the Tunisian director will moderate a workshop on script writing at the event which [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese athletes have emerged winners of the first African roller skating games that ended in Kinshasa on Saturday, said sports sources in Cotonou on Monday. The Beninese athletes won with 56 medals - 25 gold, 19 silver and 12 bronze. During the competition, Benin was represented in the [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Following are results from Day 13 matches of the Burundi League A National Football Championship, played Saturday and Sunday: Bujumbura City - Inter Star 0-0 Lydia Ludic Burundi - The Messenger Ngozi 0-1 Musongati FC - Bumamuru FC 0-0 Athletico Olympic - Les Lierres 2-0 Ngozi City - Black Eagle 2-0 Olympic [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Prime Minister, Youssef Chahed, is due in Paris on Monday to deliver a message from President Kais Saied to his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, and to attend the Conference on Peace to be held in the French capital, next Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a [...]

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