Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Tobacco products continue to kill eight million people a year who get hooked via a $9 billion a year marketing strategy, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday, noting that even during a global pandemic, the tobacco and nicotine industry has continued to promote [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mic Commhelle Bachelet on Thursday condemned the killing of George Floyd, an African American man whose death in police custody on Monday was captured on video and has led to serious ongoing protests in Minneapolis, in the United States. “This is [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- The Gambian Ministry of Justice says the Bill for an Act to promulgate the new Constitution of The Republic of The Gambia, 2020, and repeal the old Constitution, 1997, was published Thursday in the Gazette. A statement made available to PANA on Friday said this is the first [...]Full text...
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced on Friday the lifting of the health curfew with effect from midnight on May 30. The measure was introduced in March 2020 following the outbreak of the coronavirus in the island. Speaking on the national radio and television, Jugnauth said most [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - No case of coronavirus was reported on Friday in Burkina Faso, while the number of confirmed cases since 9 March remained at 847, the Government Information Service (SIG) said. According to the GIS, 83 samples tested were negative for coronavirus infection. Since the beginning of the pandemic, [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded three new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) infection from returnees and placed them in mandatory health quarantine, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,071, the Ministry of Health announced on Friday. It said the new cases were diagnosed after laboratory tests [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Thirty-seven Malians infected with coronavirus, who were expelled from Mauritania, have disappeared while on their way to Bamako. The patients were being transported on an air-conditioned bus hired by the Malian government, and it is reported that they disappeared into the wild during a stopover at Diema, [...]Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) have agreed to set up a framework for sharing experiences in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. This resolution follows a meeting which on Thursday brought together DR Congo's deputy Minister of the Interior and Security Innocent Bokele [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal on Friday recorded 81 new cases of coronavirus and 52 cured patients, the Minister of Health and Social Action announced at his daily press briefing on the epidemiological situation. According to the ministry, out of 1,236 tests carried out, 81 were positive, including 66 contact cases, [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - After almost five decades of existence, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), arguably Africa’s most successful Regional Economic Community, should be proud of its modest achievements, especially in the political, peace and security domain. But any celebration could be muted by the realisation that the [...]Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA) on Friday launched urgent legal proceedings to challenge the government’s decision to extend the ban on tobacco sales during Level 3 of the nationwide lockdown. From Monday, the sale of alcohol will be allowed, but the continued tobacco restrictions [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Sports Disputes Tribunal has ruled that Football Kenya Federation (FKF) president Nick Mwendwa remains in office minus executive powers because the term of the federation he heads ended in February 2020. The court was responding to contempt of court charges levelled against the Mwendwa administration. Sports [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan Government has written to a local hotel chain seeking clarification on its justification to sack all staff over what it attributed to uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic. Solicitor Gebneral Ken Ogeto said the move by Fairmont Hotels was generating a lot of public interest. He [...]Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Rwandan Franc as issued by the National Bank of Rwanda. Currency Buying Selling US Dollar 924.30 [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has granted a budget support of 21.6 billion CFA francs to Mali, to enable the African country to meet the urgent budget funding needs resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic and its spending in response to the urgent needs of the population in [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ethiopian security forces committed horrendous human rights violations including burning homes to the ground, extrajudicial executions and rape,in response to attacks by armed groups and inter-communal violence in Amhara and Oromia, a human rights body said on Friday. Amnesty International, in a new report, said arbitrary arrests [...]Full text...
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has eased and is under control in Niger, the Minister of Public Health, Dr. Idi illiassou Mainassara, has said at a meeting of the Inter-ministerial Committee to Combat the Coronavirus pandemic. During the meeting on Thursday chaired Prime Minister Brigi Rafini, [...]Full text...
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 41.44 41.85 1 US Dollar 37.66 38.03 1 Pound Sterling [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – President Uhuru Kenyatta has advised world leaders to expand financial support to enhance the free flow of capital to arrest the shortage of liquidity, address debt vulnerability affecting poor nations and increase foreign aid to support global growth. The Kenyan President said providing external financing will ensure inclusive [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The delivery life-saving medical supplies needed to support the treatment of coronavirus patients was done successfully in all African countries except Egypt and Morocco, where supplies were interrupted due to airspace lockdown, a senior African Union official said on Thursday. Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Director [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Despite the causes and solutions to Libya’s political and military crises being an open secret, the citizens of the North African country, which has vast oil resources, have continued to be subjected to years of insecurity and deprivation. Foreign interferences by regional and international powers are at [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says six new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 105. The number is made up of 59 active cases, 41 recoveries and five deaths, after one more patient passed away on Thursday. The six new [...]Full text...
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 2,280.47 2,303.28 Pound Sterling 2,794.72 2,822.90 Euro 2,509.89 2,535.91 Canadian Dollar 1,657.56 1,673.65 Kenya Shilling [...]Full text...
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee as published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius. Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 25.74 27.09 Canadian Dollar 28.03 29.60 Euro [...]Full text...
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 [...]Full text...
