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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - African heads of state are expected here Friday to attend the summit on counterfeit drugs, official sources told PANA here Thursday. President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville, President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, President Adama Barrow of Gambia, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)  -  Fourteen new confirmed cases were reported from 8-14 January in the ongoing Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed here Thursday. All new confirmed cases (100%) reported in the past seven days were registered contacts prior [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA)  -  A roundtable on the funding of transports infrastructure organised by the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) will be held on 19 March in the Congolese capital, Brazzaville, a statement issued on Thursday to PANA here said. The objective of the roundtable is to raise [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  The first day of the handball Africa Cup of Nations (2020) played on Thursday in Tunis has given the following results. Group B: - Angola 30 Nigeria 24; Gabon 22 Libya 22 Group C: Côte d'Ivoire 19 Cameroun 28; Tunisia 33 Cape Verde 21. Group D: Morocco 34 Congo [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)    -   Sudanese authorities on Thursday released Sami Magdi Gasim, an Egyptian journalist working for Associated Press(AP)after he was detained for taking pictures of what authorities said were military areas.  The ministry of information issued a statement saying the Egyptian national was arrested on 13 January when he was [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA)  -  The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Thursday trading down, with the BRVM dropping from 138.10 points to 136.92 points or a 0.85 percent decrease while the BRVM Composite index lost 0.31 percent to 149.12 points as against 149.58 points previously. The volume of transactions stood at [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA)  -  The Senegalese president, Macky Sall, will leave here Sunday for British capital, London, to take part on Monday in the Great Britain-Africa summit on investment, an official communiqué issued to PANA here Thursday said. The meeting will bring together decision-makers from the two sides and African and [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)   -   The Rwanda Football Federation has extended the contract of head coach Vincent Mashami until 2021, sports sources confirmed here Thursday. The Ministry of Sports and Culture, through the Football Federation (Ferwafa), has concluded talks with Mashami to continue with the national football team, Amavubi, in the capacity [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese president, Macky Sall, leaves Dakar on Friday for the Togolese capital, Lomé, to take part on Saturday in an African summit on the fight against counterfeit drugs, an official communiqué issued to PANA here Thursday said. The meeting, organised on the initiative of the Brazzaville [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Scientists have created a new embryo out of an artificial fertilisation of eggs taken from one of the last male northern white rhinos in Kenya. The fertilisation revives hope that the extinction of the white rhinos could be stopped permanently, the team overseeing the process said Thursday. In [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Amadou Damaro Camara, member of the governing board of the ruling Rally for Guinean People (RPG), said here Thursday the main Guinean opposition political party should have undertaken negotiations with the government to register its candidates for the 16 February’s parliamentary election. Camara, president of the parliamentary [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Following are fixtures for Day 5 matches of Rwanda's second Division league to be played on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday: Kirehe FC vs Sorwathe FC  Pepiniere FC vs Interforce FC Impeesa FC vs Aspor LTD  Vision FC vs Alpha FC  Gasabo UTD vs Rwamagana City  Sunday: Amagaju FC vs Rutsiro FC Gollira FC vs Intare [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  -  The Berlin peace conference, launched in September 2019 in line with the action plan of the UN Envoy in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, and sponsored by the Summit of G7 Group to find solution to the Libyan crisis, comes off at last Sunday. This re-ignites hope for political [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Following are fixtures for Day 18 matches of Rwanda's football championship league to be played on Friday,  Saturday and Sunday: Friday: Bugesera FC vs AS Kigali FC Saturday: Etincelles FC vs APR FC  Heroes FC vs Marines FC  Rayon Sports vs Espoir FC  Sunday: Gasogi United vs AS Muhanga  Gicumbi FC vs Police FC  Musanze FC [...]

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New York, USA (PANA) – The United Nations (UN) says despite the gross domestic product (GDP) of Africa inching up for 2020, it is inadequate to meet development needs in most sub-regions. According to the UN’s ‘World Economic Situation and Prospects 2020’ report, released on Thursday, Africa’s economy remains challenging amid [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The Tunisian football federation has appointed Cameroonian international referee, Alioum Sidi, to handle the derby match between Esperance Sportive of Tunis and Club Africain, to be played on Sunday 19 January, at the Rades Stadium in the Tunisian capital. The Cameroonian referee led the last final of [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa made two key senior appointments in the country's dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) on Wednesday, despite being on leave, PANA has learned. Mnangagwa appointed Gatsha Mazithulela, the former pro-vice chancellor at the National University of Science and Technology, the second largest public research [...]

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Athens, Greece (PANA) - Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of eastern Libyan forces, arrived on Thursday evening in Athens, Greece, PANA learnt from diplomatic sources. He is expected to hold talks on Friday with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and meet with Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias. Haftar had expressed his discontent over Germany’s [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The African Cup of Nations Handball tournament started on Thursday in the Rades Hall in Tunis. It will run till 26 January. Here is the program of matches on Thursday: - Morocco - Republic of Congo (group D) - Angola - Nigeria (group B) - Tunisia - [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - In collaboration with the army, the Tunisian authorities have strengthened the presence of security units along the border with Libya because of the developments thee, the Tunisian Minister of the Interior, Hichem Fourati, announced on Thursday. But, "the situation must not distract our attention from the need [...]

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Khartoum Sudan (PANA) - The head of the Sudanese National Intelligence service, Lt.-Gen. Abu Bakar Damblab, resigned from his post and Gen. Jamal Abdul Mageed took over, it was officially announced in Khartoum on Thursday. The Sudanese collective Presidency, known as the Sovereign Council, met on Thursday and accepted the resignation [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Airways (SAA) which has lost more than US$1.5 billion over the past 13 years, on Thursday confirmed that it will sell nine of its commercial planes and 15 spare engines in an attempt to recoup some money and save 10,000 jobs. The sale [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara has pardoned 3,155 prisoners out of the 21,186 held in the country's jails, it was announced after the Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday. Specifically, the pardon targets offenders who committed minor offenses, excluding prisoners who have repeated crimes as well [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The National Union of Journalists of Côte d'Ivoire will  organize in Yamoussoukro on Saturday the traditional annual evening to honour outstanding journalists in reporting, investigation, review and interview. The Union president has said that this year, the best journalist from the different journalistic genres, the 'Super [...]

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Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - Esperance Sportive de Tunis won Wednesday's game at the expense of Etoile Sportive du Sahel de Sousse on the score of 1-0, a goal netted by Libyan international Hamdou El Houni. With this result, Esperance share first place in Tunisia's professional Ligue 1 with Union Monastir, 28 [...]

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