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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togolese President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé Wednesday evening declared a state of health emergency and curfew from 19h to 6h, PANA reported in Lomé. Faure Gnassingbé, who said he took the decisions seeing the “gravity of the situation” of the pandemic, in an address on national television (TVT), [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Former Somalia Prime Minister, Nur Hassan Hussein, known popularly as Nur Adde, has died in a London hospital after contracting coronavirus, the local media reported Wednesday. Somali President Mohamed Abdallah Farmajo, has declared three days of mourning for the late former Premier, whose exit from the powerful [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Wednesday warned that Libya was “facing a big danger about the spread of the new coronavirus because of the high level of insecurity, the weak health systems and a large number of migrants, refugees and displaced". In [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA)  -  The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Wednesday trading up, with the BRVM rising from 125.44 points to 125.58 points or a 0.11 percent increase while the BRVM Composite index gained 0.13 percent to 134.27 points as against 134.09 points previously. The volume of transactions stood at [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA)  - Gabon Wednesday recorded two new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections, the country’s monitoring committee of the alert and response plan against the pandemic said here. This brings to 18 the number of people who have so far tested positive to the disease as against 16 the previous [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  The number of dead due to coronavirus  Wednesday rose to 12 as 30 new cases of infection were recorded in Tunisia, taking to 423 the overall number of persons infected with the COVID-19, a communiqué issued by the health ministry said. With 104 cases, the region of [...]

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Banjul, Gambia(PANA)  - Two Gambians who were diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) disease last month have finally recovered and been discharged from hospital, health minister Dr. Ahmadou Samateh declared here Wednesday. They are the West African nation’s first COVID-19 patient, a 28-year-old woman and the third case, a 71-year-old man [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya 2020, (PANA) - Kenyan  President Uhuru Kenyatta invited coronavirus survivors for a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday after an interactive session via a videolink to thank them for coming out against all odds to be tested for the virus.   President Kenyatta met Brenda and Brian, who were among the first [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania has confirmed one more Covid-19 case, bringing the nation’s count to 20, Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu announced in a  statement on Wednesday.   “The patient is an American national, a 42-year-old woman who had been in contact with a person who travelled abroad and later [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank on Tuesday approved  US$2 million in emergency assistance for the World Health Organization (WHO) to reinforce its capacity in helping African countries contain the Coronavirus pandemic and mitigate its impacts.   The grant is in response to an international appeal by the WHO [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Madi Jobarteh, one of the leading human rights activists in the Gambia, on Wednesday hailed the country’s newly-drafted constitution while canvassing for a “yes vote” ahead of an expected referendum which should have followed shortly after its finalization but for Coronavirus. “Let me begin my ‘YES Campaign’ [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Kenya rose sharply to 81 on Wednesday after 22 new cases were confirmed at the start of  mass testing of people kept in mandatory quarantine, health officials said.   Health Ministry Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the new cases [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Peace keeping mission in Darfur has donated 10 off-road vehicles to the Sudanese Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to be used for combating desert locusts UNAMID said the joint Special Representative/Joint Chief Mediator (JSR/JCM), Jeremiah Mamabolo, handed the equipment to Mr. Eisa Osman Sharief, the [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe (Concourt) has rejected an amendment to the country's Constitution giving President Emmerson Mnangagwa sole powers to appoint the Chief Justice, his deputy and the Judge President of the High Court. On Tuesday evening, amid a countrywide lockdown, the Concourt declared as unconstitutional the [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Tuesday renewed the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Darfur up to the end of May this year. The current mandate ended on 31 March. A press release received by PANA in Khartoum said the UN Security Council on [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Interior Ministry spokesman, Khaled Lahyouni, on Wednesday announced that 17,380 driver's licenses were seized and 1,258 people arrested for violating the curfew (6:00 p.m. at 6:00 am) imposed at as part of the fight against the spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19).   Nearly 1,000 means of [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana's President, Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi, has been cleared from self isolation, following his visit to Namibian last week. Press Secretary to the President, Batlhalefi Leagajang, said on Wednesday that the medical authorities have cleared the head of state. "The Director of Health Services has released His Excellency, Dr. Mokgweetsi [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) has invoked public procurement systems to respond to the requirements of state entities in combating the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Early this week, Treasury announced it had instructed Praz to review its procurement regulations with a view to facilitating speedy [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger has recorded 34 cases of the coronavirus, 31 of them are being treated while three have died of the disease, according to a press release from the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health, dated March 31.   The state of health of the patients is stable, said the [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) –  The World Bank has ultimately endorsed the $500 million education loan to Tanzania, which was earlier deferred due to pressure from civil society organizations over schoolgirls’ rights concerns. A statement issued by the World Bank on Wednesday said the loan would benefit at least 6.5 [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -  States must immediately step-up their measures to protect the 40 million internally displaced people worldwide from the COVID-19 threat, a UN expert said on Wednesday. “Internally displaced persons are at heightened risk of exposure to COVID-19 due to limited access to healthcare, water, sanitation, food and adequate [...]

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