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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) –  Leading human rights activist of The Gambia, Madi Jobarteh, has urged his compatriots to stand up, create and protect their future which begins with the final draft constitution.   The document was presented to Gambian President Adama Barrow on 20 March 2020 and the drafting process took the 11-member [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The East African Community (EAC) on Tuesday congratulated the Government and the people of Burundi for holding peaceful elections last week. In a press statement from its secretariat in Arusha, Tanzania, the bloc lauded Burundians for successful nominations, campaigns, and voting process. Burundi is a member of the [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission will on June 8  resume public hearings, which it suspended on March 18 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.    “The resumption of public hearings on June 8 is in accordance with the Commission’s schedule and work plan for 2020. It [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee as issued by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius (CBM). Currency                              Buying                        [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkinabe customs officers have seized 3.22 tons of cannabis worth 322 million CFA francs in Bobo-Dioulasso, the economic capital, in the west of the country, official sources said Tuesday. According to the Bobo-Dioulasso Mobile Customs Brigade, a truck carrying the drug was seized on 23 May [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A group of 149 Tunisians were repatriated on Monday from Libya via the Dhiba-Wazen border crossing point in the governorate of Tataouine, the Consulate General of Tunisia in Tripoli has announced on its Facebook page. Blocked for more than a month in the region of Djebel Al [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The "Make your Mask Challenge", a campaign to raise awareness among African communities of the importance of making their own mask in 30 seconds during this period of coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), starts on Tuesday in several African countries. Organised by BP and Castrol employees, it starts in [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 31 new cases of coronavirus bringing the case count to 3,161, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced during its daily press briefing on Tuesday on the epidemiological situation. It also announced 50 new recoveries bringing the total figure to 1,565.  The death toll [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritania ouguiya as published by the Central Bank of Mauritania. Currencies                            Buying                            [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana’s coronavirus case tally has risen to 6,964 with the addition of 156 new cases. The number of recoveries has also gone up to 2,097, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director General of the Ghana Health Service at a press briefing at the Information Ministry on Tuesday. Number of deaths [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Four people from he same family have died in Tunisia after drinking alcoholic product known in Tunisia as "el-Kaouaris". The incident occurred on Monday in the region of Sidi Bouzid, central Tunisia, a medical source said on Tuesday. Five other people, also seriously intoxicated after a party that [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The situation in Libya was the focus of a telephone conversation between Tunisian and Turkish Presidents Kais Saied and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who said the solution in Libya can only be within the framework of international, peaceful and Libyan-Libyan legality. According to a statement by the Tunisian [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several youths were arrested on Monday evening by police following protests in the Bizerte region north of Tunis, marked by stone throwing against security forces and tyre burning in the city centre, a Tunisian security source said. These acts of violence occurred during a peaceful march through [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - An operation to repatriate some 200 Tunisians stranded in the west Libyan region began Monday evening through the Dahabia border crossing in the Tataouine region of southern Tunisia, a local Tunisian security source said. Security and health teams at the crossing have taken all necessary measures to [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling as published by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT): Currency                          Buying                      Selling US Dollar                        2,280.37                    2,303.18 Pound Sterling               2,779.55                    2,807.57 Euro                               2,486.52                     2,511.61 Canadian Dollar             1,627.09                    [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 1.87 per cent (year-on-year) in the first quarter of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The NBS said on its website accessed on Monday night that the performance was recorded against the backdrop of significant global [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia on Monday recorded no new confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) after laboratory tests on a sample of 660 people, bringing to 48,476 the total number of tests carried out in the country since the start of the pandemic. As a result, the number of confirmed cases [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria on Monday recorded 229 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 8,068. Also on Monday, seven new deaths were recorded, taking the toll to 233. According to NCDC, 2,311 patients have been discharged. -0- PANA MON/MA 26May2020 [...]

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Sekondi, Ghana (PANA) - Some personnel of the Ghana Navy in the Western Naval Command in Sekondi in the Western Region have tested positive for the coronavirus, the Western Naval Commander, Commodre E. A Kwafo, has said. He did not disclose the number of infected personnel but said they have been isolated [...]

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