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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's powerful Catholic Church, which represents 65 percent of the population, has deplored "many irregularities" in the 20 May presidential, legislative, and communal elections in a statement it issued om Wednesday, based on reports from its 2,716 agents who monitored the poll. Signed by all bishops of [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Irked by the government's decision to leave them out of the  coronavirus economic stimulus package, Kenyan footballers have railed at the sports ministry for the decision. They have accused the decision makers at the ministry for being insensitive to their plight as they grapple with the adverse effects [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The World Bank Group on Tuesday approved two operations of the International Development Association (IDA), totalling US$346 million, to finance the strengthening of resilience and livelihoods in the Lake Chad region, bordering four countries, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad, the Bank  said.   These two new operations [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have teamed up to respond to the urgent call to boost local production of essential medicines in developing countries.   With more than 100 projects to develop a COVID-19 vaccine underway around the globe [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives has signed an agreement with five Coastal county governments to enhance incomes from fishing in the areas. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has signed the agreements  with County Executives Committee members from Lamu, Tana River, Kilifi, Mombasa and Kwale [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of Kenyans who have perished in ravaging floods in different parts of the country rose to 285 by Wednesday, the Devolution Ministry has announced. The rains started pounding Kenya and the larger East African region in October 2019. Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa told a press [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya, as issued by the Mauritanian Central Bank. Currency                                         Buying           Selling 1  Euro                                              41.29             41.7 1 US Dollar                                       37.69            38.06 1 Pound Sterling                              46.38           46.85 100 Swedish Kroner  [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal's Ministry of Health and Social Action on has announced 20 serious cases in resuscitation out of 92 new cases of coronavirus recorded in the country on Wednesday. At its daily press briefing on the epidemiological situation, the ministry reported that 92 of the 961 tests were [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - River transport on the Brazzaville corridor in Congo and Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR), vital for trade between countries, is expected to resume from 10 June, the coordinator of the Economic Interest Group and the Joint Waterway Maintenance Service (GIE-SCEVN), Alexis Dekoïsset, announced in the [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Public health officials in Kenya have been puzzled after the World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended the use of the malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, which has been used to treat coronavirus patients, citing risks associated with major heart diseases. Kenya’s acting Director-General of Health, Patrick Amoth, said studies had [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Ministers from Kenya and Uganda have unclogged the border crossing points at Busia and Malaba after removing trucks blocking cargo from crossing into Uganda in a protest over “painful” testing procedures carried out by the health authorities in Uganda, officials said. Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for East African [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling as published by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT): Currency                         Buying                     Selling US Dollar                       2,280.39                  2,303.20 Pound Sterling              2,814.92                  2,843.30 Euro                               2,501.36                   2,527.07 Canadian Dollar            1,647.92                   1,663.92 Kenya [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan Health officials reported three new lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday night, raising the total case count to 339. There are currently 95 active cases in the country, the ministry said. No patient has so far died from the virus in Rwanda  Last week, the government eased some [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Rwandan Franc as issued by the National Bank of Rwanda. Currency                   Buying            Selling US Dollar                 924.15        [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Air pollution dropped significantly in Tunisia during the general COVID-19 health containment, which lasted about six weeks, the Tunisian National Institute of Meteorology (INM) has said in a report. The general health containment was introduced on 22 March, as part of preventive measures against the spread of [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The latest developments in Libya were the focus of a telephone conversation on Tuesday between Tunisian President Kais Saied and the Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez Sarraj, a statement from the Tunisian presidency said. President Saied reiterated that Tunisia remains in [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee as published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius. Currency                                    Buying               Selling Australian Dollar                       25.76                  27.11  Canadian Dollar                        28.05                   29.62  Euro                     [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's exchange rates of the CFA franc as published by the Bank of Central African States. Currency                                    Buying               Selling Euro                                            629.71               [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Global human rights group, Amnesty International, on Wednesday accused the Nigerian military of subjecting children in the northeast region, ravaged by almost 11 years of Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorism, to unlawful detention and torture. In a 91-page report titled: “‘We [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria has recorded 276 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 16 more deaths bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 8,344 and deaths to 249. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said in its Twitter handle on Tuesday night that the total number of COVID-19 patients [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's coronavirus cases have increased to 7,117 with 153 new people testing positive, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced on Tuesday night. It said on its website that 220 more patients have recovered from the disease pushing the total recoveries to 2,317 while two more persons have [...]

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