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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  -  The Congolese minister of land affairs and public domains, Pierre Mabiala, Tuesday announced measures banning housing estate in peripheral zones, an official source said here. The minister gave the order at a meeting with the federation of land owners with a view to finding solutions to the [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA)   -  The trade-union of Mauritanian journalists (SJM) in a statement issued here Tuesday called on the government to review conditions of eligibility to the public fund for the private media. The fund is estimated at 20 millions Mauritanian Ouguiya, or about 600,000 US dollars, shared between 255 sites, [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  -  The Canadian minister of international development, Kirina Gould, Tuesday gave 290,000 USD worth of non-food aid to the World Food Programme (WFP) in response to floods in northern Congo, public radio reported here. The donation is meant to prevent deterioration in food and nutritional security after the [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)  - The Sudanese army and the rapid support forces, both known as the Regular Forces, Tuesday moved armoured vehicles and heavy guns to the area adjacent to Kafouri where an unspecified number of disgruntled security elements have taken refuge, eyewitness told PANA here. Roads, bridges and alleys leading [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA)  -  The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Tuesday trading down, with the BRVM dropping from 137.07 points to 136.36 points or a 0.52 percent decrease while the BRVM Composite index lost 0.21 percent to 147.83 points as against 148.14 points previously. The volume of transactions stood at [...]

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Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Uganda Revenue Authority, the body charged with collecting taxes in the country, is pushing for the inclusion of social media tax in the fees that users pay for Internet data. Uganda in July 2018 introduced a tax on social media users, dubbed over-the-top (OTT) tax, which users [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)  -  Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdouk Tuesday reassured Sudanese people that the limited insurgency in Khartoum by discontented security elements was “under control”. “We want to assure the Sudanese people that the incidents which took place today (Tuesday) are under control and they will not stop us from completing [...]

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Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – A man who pretended to be a woman and was wedded by another man was Tuesday arraigned before a court of law in Uganda. The man, named Richard Tumushabe, impersonated a woman wearing Islamic dress and was courted and wedded by a Muslim cleric, Imam Mohammed Mutumba, [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan  (PANA) - The Sudanese government on Tuesday said a limited insurgency for which the former security chief was accused, has been cornered but stopped short of saying it was totally contained. Since noon Sudan local time, people heard intermittent shooting in the quarter of Kafouri, an area known to [...]

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Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Desert locusts are ravaging the Horn of Africa, with Somalia, Ethiopia and parts of Kenya already badly hit. Uganda, which neighbours Kenya to the west, is on notice that the destructive insects, which attack in droves and eat away vegetation with frightening rapidity, have it in sight. The [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Office of the Inspector General of Police in Banjul, The Gambia, has decided to deny permit to the pressure group, ‘Operation 3 Years Jotna Movement’ (three years reached), due to compelling national security and public safety concerns. PANA reports that the group organised its first protest [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several political parties and trade union organizations have, on the occasion of the celebration of the 9th anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, called for national unity and the need to prioritize general interest to achieve the initial objectives of the popular insurrection at the [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Four member countries of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (Cemac), namely Gabon, Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic, are currently negotiating in Libreville, an extension of the three-year programs of economic recovery (PRE) signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to the [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Oil sector operators have begun meetings with the Minister of Petroleum, Vincent de Paul Massassa, to determine the final official transfer prices (OTP) for the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. The purpose of the meetings was to discuss the fiscal prices, which [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) – Over 5,000 members of Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) have unanimously resolved to stop reporting for duty until monthly salaries are increased in proportion to the hyperinflationary environment.  Since the second quarter of last year, Zimbabwe’s teachers have periodically embarked on strikes protesting measly wages that [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - A conflict linked to transhumance left one peasant dead and five gendarmes injured on Monday in Tchakpalakopé, Anié prefecture, a town located about 200 km north of Lomé, said a statement released on Tuesday by the Minister in charge of Security and Civil Protection, General Yark [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH), an advisory institution, sees the expulsion of Jean Marc Pelenc, president of the branch of the Resurgence Initiative of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), on Friday, while holding a valid visa, as "an isolated act". In a statement released Tuesday, the [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Deputy Spokesperson in Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Luke Tamborinyoka, says the party is "reviewing" whether it should continue to comply with the law. This comes as Tamborinyoka revealed at an evening press briefing at the MDC’s headquarters in Harare, on [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has urged the Libyan warlords to continue to respect the truce proclaimed between Saturday and Sunday despite the failure of Marshal Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), to sign the ceasefire agreement on Monday in [...]

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Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cape Verde will implement the second phase of the project for the conservation of its seabirds, starting next March, for three years, PANA learned from a reliable source. Speaking to the Cape Verdean press agency (Inforpress), Jacob Salvatore Gonzalez, specialist and professor of zoology at the [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Philippe Mvouo, president of the Higher Council for Freedom of Communication (CSLC), on Tuesday denounced in Brazzaville, the poor communication of political actors, noting that political communication was no longer a dream in the country. "Communication through political discourse as a whole is full of vulgar, discourteous, [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - A meeting on countering transnational organized crime spearheaded by the Strategic Studies Centre for Africa (CESA) in partnership with the National Centre for Strategic and Security Studies (CNESS) opened on Tuesday in Niamey. This meeting is taking place at a time when terrorism and transnational organized crime [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Four Chinese  kidnapped in December 2019 in Libreville, Gabon, regained their freedom last Thursday at the deep waters of Escravos in Warr, along the Nigerian high seas of Delta and Ondo States, Niger Delta region.   Informed sources said on Tuesday that the victims were rescued by a [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), David Muldrow Beasley, on Tuesday wound up his three-day working visit to Burundi noting that the UN food aid agency has been present in the country since 1968 on various humanitarian assistance projects. The projects include support for [...]

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