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Lomé, Togo (PANA)  -  The Democratic Convention of African Peoples (CDPA), an opposition political party, has asked its militants to vote for former Prime Minister Gabriel Messan Agbéyomé Kodjo, a candidate for the 22 February presidential election, official sources told PANA here Wednesday. CDPA, which is member of the Coalition of [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA)  -  The campaign for the 16 February parliamentary elections in Guinea begins on Thursday at midnight and will end on 14 February, a decree issued by President Alpha Condé and read on national television (RTG) said  here Wednesday. Less than 50 out of the 100 recognized political parties [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  -  The German minister of foreign affairs, Heiko Maas, said Wednesday that “the Berlin deal” that will be adopted during the International Berlin Conference on Libya aims “to sap the capacity of the warring parties in Libya to carry on the military conflict in the mid and [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA)  -  The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Wednesday trading up, with the BRVM rising from 136.36 points to 138.10 points or a 1.28 percent increase while the BRVM Composite index gained 1.18 percent to 149.58 points as against 147.83 points previously. The volume of transactions stood at [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)   -  President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Dr Rick Machar, Wednesday agreed to form a unity government within the 100-day time frame set by the mediator, the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The African Union has left the mediation between the rival south Sudanese parties to the [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   The Tunisian minister of big reforms to the head of government and acting minister of vocational training and employment, Taoufik Rajhi, Wednesday tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Youssef Chahed. Rajhi attributed his departure from the Chaded government to “issues of professional conscience because of the duration [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Ongoing instability in Sudan’s West Darfur region has left the lives, health and safety of thousands of women hanging in the balance, according to the  United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA.  Since 28 December, intercommunal disputes in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) have left more than 40,000 [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Implementation of the 2015 peace agreement in Mali provides the only pathway for stabilization there, the head of UN peacekeeping told the Security Council on Wednesday.  Jean-Pierre Lacroix updated ambassadors on developments in the West African country, where a UN operation, known by the French acronym MINUSMA, supports political processes and restoration of state authority against a [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Wednesday named Charles Kwabla Akonnor as head coach of the senior national team, the Black Stars. Akunnor, 45, a former Black Stars captain, will be assisted by David Duncan, a GFA statement said. He replaces Kwesi Appiah, whose contract was not renewed [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA)  -  Ministers of foreign affairs, diplomats and experts from different horizons at the 7th high level seminar on peace and security in Africa here Wednesday agreed to make all arrangements to silence guns in Africa. The two-day session featured discussions on peace and security in Africa on the [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Statistics Botswana (SB) has indicated that the country’s inflation recorded an increase in December. The data authority on Wednesday said the annual inflation rate in December was 2.2 percent, registering a rise of 0.1 of a percentage point on the November rate of 2.1 percent. “The inflation rates for regions [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will launch the 2020 edition of its flagship African Economic Outlook (AEO) report on Thursday, 30 January, 2020, at its headquarters in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Bank Group President, Akinwumi A. Adesina, will unveil the report in the presence of African ministers, [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has allocated a 1.2 million-euro grant to provide training to help resource-rich countries improve their mining revenues. The Bank’s Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex approved the first-of its kind grant from the Transitional Support Facility for the project on [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, on Wednesday approved credit risk participation by the Private Sector Credit Enhancement Facility (PSF) for projects in Kenya, Sudan and Senegal. The agreement covers operations cumulatively [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Seven traffickers were arrested and 65 trophies of protected species seized as part of the fight against wildlife crime in the second half of 2019 in Benin, PANA learned this Wednesday from official sources in Cotonou. In the north of the country, a total of six traffickers [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian Ministry of Justice announced on Twitter on Wednesday that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will deliver its decision on January 23 on whether emergency measures should be imposed on Myanmar over alleged genocide against its Rohingya Muslims. The West African nation had brought a [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Organizers of the next African Football Cup of Nations (AFCON) will take place in Cameroon from January 9 to February 6, 2021. The announcement was made this Wednesday in Yaoundé by the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fécafoot) whose officials met a delegation from the Confederation of African Football [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) - Amnesty International said on Tuesday that the postponement of the trial of the "red berets" of General Amadou Haya Sanogo and several other soldiers over the killing of 21 paratroopers, whose bodies were found in a mass grave in 2012 is prolonging the suffering of the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of the Presidential Council of the Libyan Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, received an official invitation from the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Heiko Maas, to attend the Berlin conference which will be held next Sunday. In a telephone conversation on Wednesday with al-Sarraj, [...]

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Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - During the last season, a total of 55,311 tonnes of cashew nuts were exported from the port of Ziguinchor, in southern Senegal, the Senegalese Minister of Commerce, Aminata Assome Diatta, indicated on Tuesday in Ziguinchor, . She made this revelation during a special regional development committee meeting, [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A woman and a child were killed on Tuesday in the explosion of an improvised device in the  Nagré locality, province of Gourma, in eastern Burkina Faso, informed sourcse told PANA.   According to local sources, another child was injured in the attack. A local elected representative said [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Wednesday successfully concluded the first National Consultation on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The consultation, held in Khartoum from 13 – 14 January 2020, had active participation of all stakeholders drawn from Sudanese institutions with relevant mandate [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The regional stock exchange of Abidjan presented on Tuesday the balance sheet for financial year 2019, judged generally positive, according to the director general of the West African bourse. "Most international stocks are in the green. And the BRVM is doing just as well, with prospects [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Marshal Khalifa Haftar's refusal to sign the Ceasefire Agreement in Moscow on Monday has not affected the Libyan truce four days after its proclamation at midnight local time on Saturday. The truce was in response to the call by Russian and Turkish presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep [...]

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