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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  - Tunisian President Kais Saied has charged the Tunisian engineer and politician Elyes Fakhfakh to form the new government as soon as possible, a communiqué issued by the Tunisian presidency said here Monday. Fakhfakh should form the government within a period not exceeding one month from 21 January, [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA)  - The Mauritanian government and British Petroleum (BP) Monday signed a partnership agreement on the “production of proper energies and their integration in the production of liquid natural gas, to reduce the emission of CO2 resulting from exploitation”, the state-run Mauritanian news agency (AMI) reported here. The agreement [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  - The second round of the 2020 Handball AFCON began here Monday, with host nation Tunisia qualifying for the semi-finals, after beating Morocco 31-24. After a difficult start, the African champions took control of the game and extended their lead 17-12 at half time. The second half was only [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  Tunisian President Kaïs Saied Monday appointed former Minister of Finances Elyès Fakhfakh, 47, to form the new government, a statement issued here by the presidency said. According to the provisions of the constitution, President Kais Saied had ten days to choose the personality he judged “the fittest” [...]

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On the eve of the deadline set by the constitution, Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  Tunisian President Kaïs Saied Monday appointed former Minister of Finances Elyès Fakhfakh, 47, to form the new government, a statement issued here by the presidency said. According to the provisions of the constitution, President Kais Saied had ten [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA)  -  The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Monday trading up, with the BRVM rising from 139.12 points to 139.82 points or a 0.50 percent increase while the BRVM Composite index gained 0.60 percent to 151.80 points as against 150.89 points previously. The volume of transactions stood at [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)  - The special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, Monday announced that the political component of the Libyan political dialogue would begin on 27 January at the UN Palace in Geneva, saying this section would deal with “all political issues suspended for years”.  "The political [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA)  -  Victims of exiled former Gambia dictator Yahya Jammeh Monday hailed Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou for vowing that Jammeh would face “immediate arrest and charges of the most serious kind” should he return home. Speaking to the annual meeting of Gambian judges and lawyers in Banjul on January [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA)  - The draw for the groups of the qualifiers for the Africa zone of the “Qatar 2022” World Cup will be carried out on Tuesday at 17h GMT in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. A first round between the less classified nations has determined the 40 teams that will [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia Centre for Human Rights Violations has vowed to stage a protest to demand Jammeh to justice on 25 January as they frowned at former president Yahya Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party calling for his return. The victims described the call as a [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – The Guinean president, Alpha Condé, on Monday signed an agreement with the United Kingdom on the sidelines of the first UK-Africa summit on investment, a communiqué issued by the Guinean government and sent to PANA said. The Guinean minister of Mines and Geology, Abdoulaye Magassouba, and the [...]

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Davos, Switzerland (PANA) - The world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 percent of the planet’s population, a new report from Oxfam on Monday ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has revealed. Global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast and [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger needs some 77.3 million euros from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for the period 2020-2024, which includes the financing of the Education and Training Sector Transition Plan (ETSP) for the period 2020-2022, as well as the validation of the 2020 Annual Action Plan. The documents [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai, on Monday reassured Nigerians that the Counter Insurgency operations against Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the North East and other ongoing operations against “our common enemies across the country" are still on course with [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday met with President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana in London on the sidelines of UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020, saying that Nigeria’s land border closure was not solely caused by smuggling of food products but to stop the smuggling of arms and [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The 11th session of the public hearings of the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, the first in 2020, began on Monday. It will end on Thursday, February 6, said Commission Chairman, Dr. Lamin J. Sise. The Commission had initially planned to start this year’s hearings with [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Egypt have qualified for the semi-finals of the African Cup of Nations, currently taking place in Tunisia, by beating Gabon on Monday 36-17.   Egypt led by 20-7 in the first half in the match at the hall of Rades in Tunis.   With this victory, Egypt obtained 4 points [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The World Bank's Vice President for the Africa Region, Hafez Ghanem, has reaffirmed his institution's commitment to support Niger's development objectives by contributing to sustainable economic growth, the Niger News Agency (ANP) reported on Monday. According to the Agency, the commitment involves improving access to basic social [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kais Saied, is scheduled to unveil the name of the person most capable of leading the government, in accordance with the Constitution which gives him 10 days (the deadline ending this Monday) to appoint a Prime Minister to form a government.   A statement posted on [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The National Union of Teacher-Researchers and Researchers in Higher Education (SNECS) on Monday began a one-month strike to demand the settlement of all statutory rights of Teacher-Researchers and Researchers of Niger's public universities outstanding since 2016. According to the general secretary of the union, Na-Balla Adaré, quoted [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan and Ethiopia on Monday stressed the need for tighter cooperation between the two states to make utmost use of their resources in the interest of their two peoples. Sudan’s Minister of Defense, Lt.-Gen. Jamal-eddin Omar Mohamed, on Monday received Ethiopia’s ambassador to the Sudan, Shiferaw Jarso, [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) - France on Monday called for the swift implementation of the decisions taken on Sunday at the Berlin Summit on Libya which brought together the main protagonists of the Libyan crisis and the international community.   “The priority must now go to the rapid implementation of the priorities defined [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudan has welcomed the support expressed by the recent high-level roundtable initiative, co-hosted by the UK, Sweden and OCHA on 17 January 2020 in London. On Friday, international donors affirmed the importance of scaling up their humanitarian assistance to Sudan in 2020 and of frontloading resources early [...]

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