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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – As the Nigerian military reels out stories of its triumphs against the Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists, the insurgents are frequently attacking, testing the strength of the military, killing soldiers and civilians and dislocating the citizens, thus creating further [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan and Canada have agreed to upgrade their diplomatic relations to ambassadorial level, a few month after the United States of America made a similar move. The visiting Canadian Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affair, Ron Oliphant, called on the Sudanese Prime Minister, Dr. Abdalla [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Following are the results of Day 17 matches of Rwanda's football league played on Saturday and Sunday. Friday's results: Police FC 1-1 Musanze FC Saturday's results: AS Kigali 0-0 Rayon sports Marines FC 2-0 Gasogi Utd AS Muhanga 0-1 Gicumbi FC Sunday's results: APR FC 2-1 Bugesera FC Mukura VS 4-1 Sunrise FC  Etincelles FC 0-1 [...]

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Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – The Ugandan government has borrowed US$200 million from the UK government to develop infrastructure in a gazetted industrial park, the Ugandan minister of investments, Evelyne Anite, has revealed. The minister was speaking at a ground-breaking function for the construction of access roads through the Namanve Industrial Park, [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  The Chairperson of the Rwanda Council of Veterinary Doctors, Dr. Charles Nkuranga, on Sunday stressed the need to increase public awareness and education around the "Rift Valley fever", a vector-borne disease representing a threat to human health, animal health and livestock production that never existed in [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Kenya on Sunday asked Sudan to help it stave off the threat of locusts that crossed the Red Sea from Arabian Desert down to South Sudan and into Kenya. In December last year, international organizations warned that swarms of desert locusts which entered into Ethiopia and Somalia [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Joint patrols of the maritime guards of the regions of Tunis, Binzerte and Sfax on Saturday evening arrested 46 people (30 Tunisians and 16 Sub-Saharans) who were attempting to illegally cross the maritime borders from the coasts of the three regions to Italy, a communiqué issued [...]

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Tunis Tunisia (PANA) – More than 88% of Tunisians say that the economic crisis in the country has forced them to face, on a monthly basis, the financial difficulties to meet the needs of their families and about 60% judge their economic and material situation as bad, a survey carried [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe dollar is technically valueless. This is because the Zimbabwe dollar has lost well over 500 percent of its value since it was brought back last year. While some will argue that a currency cannot lose over 100 percent of its value, when a currency starts off [...]

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 Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Immigration authorities from North Kivu province in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have deported 16 Rwandan nationals after they were arrested in the city of Goma without valid travel documents, an official source confirmed Sunday to PANA in Kigali. According to Muisa Kense Timothée , Mayor [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Two suspected drug smugglers were killed late Saturday by Rwandan security agents in Rubavu, a district in North Western Rwanda along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a senior local administrative official in the region confirmed Sunday to PANA in Kigali.  Rubavu district vice-mayor in [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, is visiting Zimbabwe to discuss areas of further cooperation and support between the governments of China and Zimbabwe. Yi arrived in the country late Saturday night as part of a wider visit to African countries. Traditionally, the Chinese foreign ministry's [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The UN support mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said it is pleased that the two warring parties in Libya have accepted to cease fire end their military confrontation. hours after the entry into force of a truce brokered by the Turkish and Russian presidents, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – More than 100 "unrepentant" armed bandits were killed by the Joint Task Force (JTF) of Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) in two Northwest States of Zamfara and Katsina between December 2019 and January 2020. The JTF, in collaboration with the Defence Forces of Niger Republic, also apprehended a high-profile [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday described the death of Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said of Oman as "a great loss not only to his country, but also the entire humanity.” President Buhari extolled the late Sultan’s record “as a peace maker and tireless mediator for peace [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian federal government says it has commenced moves to stop the illegal activities of Chinese and other artisanal miners across the country. Mr Fran Odom, Director of Department of Mines Inspectorate, Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, lamented that illegal mining activities ”are killing Nigeria’s economy [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin is planning to set up a school of fibre in order to compensate for the lack of human resources in the field, official sources in Cotonou said on Sunday. To achieve this, the Beninese government has decided to carry out a feasibility study with recommendations that [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Senior U.S. officials met separately with the Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord, Fathi Bachagha, and the head of the Libyan National Army, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, in Rome on January 9 "to reiterate to all Libyan parties the critical importance of forging a lasting [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government says it plans to build a university hospital centre of reference in Abomey-Calavi, a dormitory town located about 15 km from Cotonou, PANA reported on Saturday, quoting sources close to the Ministry of Health. The reference hospital will have a capacity for 400 beds [...]

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Cotonou, Benin(PANA) - The Beninese government has decided to evaluate the management of medical evacuations in order to sanitize the sector, which is plagued by dysfunctions, sources close to the Ministry of Health told reporters in Cotonou on Sunday. Based on a recent decision of the Council of Ministers, this sanitation [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The President of the Republic of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, is chairing an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council on Sunday, after the death on Thursday of 89 Nigerien soldiers in an attack on the border with Mali, PANA learned from official sources. The meeting is [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - A total of 89 Nigerien soldiers have been killed in the terrorist attack on their camp in Chinagodar, not far from the Malian border, according to a new report released Saturday by security sources. Early reports by official sources show that 25 soldiers killed and six others [...]

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