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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinean President Alpha Condé and his aides have  tested negative for coronavirus at the National Agency for Health Security (ANSS), said a press release from the presidency. However, 12 executives, working in various departments of the Presidency have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing to 52 the number [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the World Bank on Thursday approved a grant $5.2 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Mauritanian government "to help the health system in fighting the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19),” according to a statement made available to PANA. The grant "will [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian Army units were deployed on Thursday in the Zouérate region, bordering  Algeria and Mali, to stop irregular infiltration from the area, as part of the  measures to prevent the spread of the  coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the local press reported on Friday. Mauritania has taken several measures [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has been running a shortfall of about US$3.893 billion since the closure of ports and oil fields on January 17, the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) announced on Friday. In a statement, the NOC said the closure of oil sites led to a drop in crude [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)- Four people were killed on Thursday night in   Nafo village of north-central Burkina Faso by an armed group, corroborative sources told PANA on Friday. According to Burkina Faso News Agency (AIB), a volunteer position was attacked by an armed terrorist group in Nafo village, Bourzanga commune. A provisional [...]

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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                       2,278.85                     2,301.64 Pound Sterling               2,823.72                    2,852.88 Euro                                2,477.79                    2,503.49 Canadian Dollar             1,599.86                   1,615.41 Kenya Shilling                   [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal on Friday has registered 12 new confirmed cases of coronavirus to bring the total number to 207.  They are made up of seven imported cases involving Senegalese returning from an African country and intercepted at the border on 29 March and quarantined, and five contact cases, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Fayez al-Sarraj, has agreed with the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to coordinate the two countries' struggle to deal with the COVID-19 (coronavirus) and its effects. They expressed this in a telephone conversation on Thursday evening, according to a statement [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian Central Bank. Currency                                         Buying           Selling 1 Euro                                               40.71            41.12 1 US Dollar                                       37.28            37.65 1 Pound Sterling          [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by Trust Bank Gambia Ltd: Currency                                 Buying                        Selling US Dollar                                   50.00                        51.50 Pound Sterling                         64.00                       67.60 Euro                                             55.00                      57.50 CFA Franc (5000)                     400.00                      425.00 Swedish Kroner (100)             500.00                     550.00 Australian Dollar                       34.50                       37.50 South African Rand                  12.00                       14.00 Canadian Dollar                          37.00                     [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo registered 19 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the total number to 41, Congolese Health and Population Minister Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo announced. Two people have been cured, while three have lost their lives. -0- PANA MB/JSG/BBA/MA 3April2020 [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia is on the right track in the fight against the COVID-19 (coronavirus) given the current data, Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh has said. The Prime Minister said in an interview with Al Watanya television on Thursday night that the general health containment was beginning to bear [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwanda has secured US$109.4 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to address the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, as its impact rapidly unfolds, with the near-term outlook deteriorating quickly, according to a statement issued by the Fund on Friday. Approving the disbursement of the funds to be drawn [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates of the CFA franc as published by the Bank of Central African States. Currency                        Buying               Selling Euro                                629.71               655.95 US Dollar                        606.161             606.245 Pound Sterling              750.403              750.712 Canadian Dollar             [...]

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

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s army has killed four poachers in a shooting incident in the north-western corner of the country’s Chobe National Park, on the river-border with Namibia. Botswana Defence Force (BDF) spokesperson Colonel Tebo Dikole said the anti-poaching operation incident occurred on Thursday morning on the east of Linyati [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe has recorded a new confirmed case of COVID-19 (coronavirus) raising the total number to nine in the southern African nation. The ninth patient is a 50-year-old male resident of Harare, who had travelled to the United Kingdom and returned home on the 21 March.  The Ministry of [...]

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Washington, US (PANA) - The World Bank is providing $100 million to Ghana to assist the country in tackling the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The money will be made available to the government and the people of Ghana as short, medium and long-term support, the Wold Bank said in a statement on [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – Burkinabè president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on Thursday announced a series of measures estimated at about 394 billion CFAF to fight the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. "All the measures taken require the mobilization of about 394 billion CFAF representing 4.45% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Food insecurity levels in the Sahel region are “spiralling out of control”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday, as it expressed concerns about the potential impact on humanitarian supply chains because of restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.  Across the Central [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya Thursday evening recorded its first death linked to the coronavirus, a 85-year-old woman, the Libyan national disease center announced. "A first case of death was recorded by Libya: a 85 years old woman", added the center in a publication on its website dedicated to the evolution [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya’s decade of a deadly armed conflict and the 4 April Tripoli war have thrown the country into insecurity and chaos, seriously affecting the country’s economy and the productive sectors. As if these were not enough, Libya, like the other countries of the world, must brace itself [...]

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