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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, on Monday announced that a follow-up meeting to the Berlin Conference on Libya will be held at the level of foreign ministers in early February. Maas said the conference was "just a starting signal", adding that from today (20 Jan.) "it will [...]

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Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - Algeria has offered to host a dialogue between Libyan warring sides, said Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, as quoted by the official APS news agency.   Speaking on Sunday to participants of the Berlin Conference on Libya, the Algerian head of state also reiterated his call to "the international [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Leaders and heads of delegation taking part in the Berlin International Conference on Libya have, at the conclusion of the meeting on Sunday, underlined their determination to refrain from intervening in armed conflicts or in Libyan internal affairs, and urged all international actors to do the [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese football federation will reinstate eleven referees suspended on suspicion of corruption and lightness during matches of top leagues championships, sources close to the federation told PANA on Monday.   A correspondence from the federation has just notified the president of the commission of referees on the [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has been challenged to promulgate a climate change policy, incorporating the mitigation and control of methane emission from livestock manure. Lindiwe Modise, Chief Environmentalist at a local Green Loop Environmental Consultants on Monday said methane production has been identified as the greatest threat to humans, forests [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Allah Thérèse, an emblematic figure of traditional Baoule music, an ethnic group from central  Côte d'Ivoire, passed away on Sunday following an illness. She was 70 years old.   The singer, one of the most popular in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1980s, she eventually put her voice [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The credibility of the apartheid-era judicial system came under the spotlight at the start of the inquest into the death of liberation hero Dr Neil Aggett in the South Gauteng High Court on Monday. Agget was found hanged in his cell at Johannesburg’s notorious Johan [...]

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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is to undertake a five-day official visit to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the invitation of the Government.   Bachelet is due to arrive in Bunia, in the north-eastern Ituri province on Thursday. There she will visit a [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Twenty people were killed by suspected terrorists on  Friday night in the locality of Pissila, Sanmatenga province, in north-central Burkina Faso, local sources told PANA on Monday. "About 20 civilians were murdered by unidentified armed individuals perched in pairs on motorcycles on Friday night in Rofènéga, [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Two matches were were played on Sunday on resumption of the Super League of Mauritius, PANA noted on the spot. In the first game, Roche-Bois Bolton City beat Savanne SC 4-1 and in the second match GRSE Wanderers defeated ASPL 2000 by a narrow 1-0 score. Here [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Here are the results of the 18th Day of Burundi National Men's Football League A Championship played on Saturday and Sunday: Ngozi City-Atletico Academy 2-1 Vital'O FC- Bumamuru FC 2-0 Rukinzo FC- Inter Star 1-0 Musongati FC- Olympic Star 0-1 Messenger Ngozi- Kayanza United 1-1 Bujumbura City- Burundi Sport Dynamic (Postponed) Les Lierres [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A Tunisian delegation led by Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sabri Bachtobji is attending the first UK-Africa Investment Summit in London on Monday, said an official Tunisian statement. The summit, attended by 21 African countries, aims to identify ways to promote partnership between Africa and the [...]

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  Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA ) –A total of 110 newly-recruited doctors will on Tuesday join the public health service in the five regional hospitals of Mauritius following a one-day orientation course that took place Monday at Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre in Bell Village, Port Louis.   Addressing the recruits, Health and Wellness [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyans abroad sent home $2.8 billion last year, a 3.7 percent rise compared to $2.6 billion transferred dispatched in 2018, the Central Bank of Kenya has said.   A huge chunk of the transfers was from Kenyans living in the United States.   Kenyans staying in the US accounted for [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Teungueth FC have maintained the lead in Senegalese League 1 football championship thanks to their 2-1 victory over  Diambars during Day 6 matches played at the weekend. As Douanes are now second thanks to their 2-0 victory over AS Pikine. But the defending champion, Generation foot lost 0-1 [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Babu Owino, a Kenyan legislator who shot a Nairobi club Disc Jockey in the neck in a gun drama last week, was on Monday committed to prison custody awaiting the determination of his bail application. A Nairobi court ordered that the youthful Embakasi East lawmaker be remanded [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) has challenged government to revamp the country’s ailing education system. “Our view is that up until government truthfully addresses the pains that inflict our education system, it will always remain under siege, and such, poor results will always be posted,” [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Nigeria will host the Guinness Pan African Football Championships on 31 January in Lagos, the organisers said in Nairobi on Monday. They said the event, sponsored by Diageo through their flagship brand, Guinness, unveiled the new development while announcing Edward Kamiru, as winner of the individual leg [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabon has opened a Consulate in Laâyoune, Western Sahara, which was inaugurated at the weekend in the presence of Gabon's foreign minister, Amlain Clude Bilie-By-Nze and his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita. The town is is located on the edge of the Atlantic, 500 km south of Agadir [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabon has obtained a 101 billion CFA francs loan from the French Development Agency (AFD) for the improvement of infrastructure in schools. The money will be used for the construction, rehabilitation and extension of certain schools, according to an agreement signed by the Minister of National Education, [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Indian High Commission in Nigeria on Sunday said that the 19 Indian sailors who were kidnapped by pirates near the Nigerian coast have been released. The High Commission, however, said that one sailor died during the period of captivity because of the deplorable conditions in which [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Gambian Justice Minsiter Abubacarr Tambadou has vowed that former dictator, Yahya Jammeh, will be prosecuted should he return to the West African country. “Crimes against humanity had been committed under the former regime presided over by Jammeh, going by the findings of the truth, reconciliation and reparation [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates of the CFA franc as published by the Bank of Central African States. Currency                                          Buying                Selling Euro                     [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank. Currency                                            Buying            Selling Australian Dollar                  [...]

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