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Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - The number of passengers in the nine ports of Cape Verde increased by almost 9% in 2019, surpassing the mark of a million people transported for the first time. According to a statistical report of the public company Enapor (Ports of Cape Verde), quoted by the [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Central African Network for Clinical Research plans to create a drugs vigilance unit in Congo, with the aim of monitoring and evaluating medicines to avoid diseases linked to drug abuse by the Congolese population. This was revealed during a training workshop on drug awareness as an [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) - France's Permanent Representative to the UN, Nicolas de Rivière, on Wednesday argued before the  Security Council that the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Mission for the Stabilization of Mali ( MINUSMA) remains a very important tool and it will continue to need support, while the United States [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Armed Forces (FAMAs), through the Director of Equipment, Hydrocarbons and Transport of the Armies, Brig-Gen. Moustapha Drabo, on Thursday received at President Modibo Keïta international airport -Sénou-Bamako, seven typhoon-type armoured vehicles, for the fight against terrorism, PANA learnt from the FAMAs communications service. These machines [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - When people hear about Sudan’s current peace talks in Juba, South Sudan, they will immediately think of three areas: Darfur, the Blue Nile and the Nuba mountains areas. These are the areas associated with rebellion and grim stories of suffering, crimes related to the International Criminal Court [...]

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Athens, Greece (PANA) - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said Friday that his country encouraged Commander of the Libyan National Army Khalifa Haftar to participate in the Berlin Conference in a constructive spirit. Speaking to the press after his meeting in Athens with Haftar, Dendias hoped that this conference could achieve [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean government reacted strongly on Thursday to statements by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who denounced President Alpha Condé's decision to change the constitution. Speaking to French MPs, the minister said his country did not support the proposed change to the constitution, which President Condé [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday said that the country’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures inflation rate, increased by 11.98 per cent year-on-year in December 2019.   The national statistics body stated that the CPI report for December recorded an inflation rise by 0.13 per [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A security officer at an oil facility was injured on Thursday evening when several shells fell on a fuel warehouse on the road to the airport south of Tripoli, owned by Brega Oil Marketing Company, caused fire on seven tankers,  the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Police has said that 14 people were killed when armed bandits invaded a remote village of Babban Rafi in Gummi local government area (LGA) near Danko in the northwest Kebbi State early Wednesday.   Sources said that the bandits arrived on motorbikes and carried AK 47 [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Fifteen civilians were killed and several others wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Sindi, 12 km from the town of Douentza in the Mopti region of central Mali on Wednesday evening, the Malian News Agency (AMAP) reported on Friday. The attackers arrived between midnight and [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has called for closer ties between Nigerian and Egyptian military in the fight against terrorism and other emerging security threats facing Africa. General Buratai said on Thursday when the Ambassador of Arab Republic of Egypt to Nigeria, [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Nigerian bank, Access Bank, has completed 100 per cent acquisition of Kenyan Tier 3 lender, Transnational Bank. The deal will be effective 1 February, 2020. Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) reports that the deal went through following approvals by relevant bodies. CBK gave the nod on 24 December [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A top Kenyan athlete ran away from anti-doping testers who had visited their training camp unannounced to take samples,  a senior Athletics Kenya (AK) official says. AK Executive Committee member, Barnabas Korir, told the media the athlete literally took off upon picking wind of the World Athletics Athletics [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan opposition parliamentarian was on Friday arrested for shooting a disc jockey (DJ) at a club in Nairobi. Embakasi East MP, Babu Owino, was arrested for opening fire on the DJ, whom the police say is well known to the youthful first time legislator who represents the [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The symposium on the political situation in Cameroon, an initiative of the African Forum, an organization of former African heads of state and government and prominent African figures, will be held next April in Kenya. According to a statement obtained by PANA on Friday, the aim [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese banks are increasingly participating in funding the economy through the ease of access to business loans, the Central Bank has said. It said in the last quarter of 2019, BGFI Bank, Credit du Congo and The Congolese Banks are the top three banks in the country. At its [...]

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Casablanca, Morocco (PANA) - Moroccan national carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), on Thursday announced the launch of a new route from Casablanca to the Chinese capital, Beijing. It will connect Morocco to China for the first time in less than 13 hours by direct flights operated by 302-seat B787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The World Bank has granted Morocco a US$275 million loan for the risks related to natural disasters. The agreement was signed on Thursday by Morocco's minister of economy, finance and administration reform, Mohamed Benchaâboun, and the director of the Maghreb and Malta department of the World Bank, [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese minister of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation, Martin Parfait Aimé Coussoud Mavoungou, and the CEO of the centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), Michel Edi, signed on Thursday, in Brazzaville, a framework agreement for the relaunch of scientific cooperation between Congo [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling as published by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT): Currency                         Buying                       Selling US Dollar                       2,277.18                     2,299.96 Euro                                2,540.43                    2,566.75 Canadian Dollar             1,747.24                   1,764.17 Kenya Shilling                    22.55                       [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, has invited Tunisian President Kais Saied to visit his country, according to the Tunisian presidency's website. It said the invitation was extended during a telephone conversation in which the two men spoke about the "historic and excellent relations between their countries". The [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Rwandan Franc as issued by the National Bank of Rwanda. Currency              Buying                  Selling US Dollar             915.29          [...]

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