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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Council of ministers Thursday adopted two fundamental draft bills related to African integration, the spokesperson for the Tunisian government, Asma Shiri, said. The first draft bill focuses on the treaty governing the creation of the African drug agency with its headquarters in Tunis. The second text concerns [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia and Kuwait Thursday reviewed projects and programmes executed through their joint cooperation in the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19), a statement issued by the Tunisian ministry of Health said. The Tunisian minister of Health, Abdelatif Mekki, Kuwaiti ambassador in Tunisia Ahmed Dhefiri, and the director of the [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania Thursday went a second consecutive day without recording any death related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, health officials said here. However, the daily situation released by the ministry of Health indicated 134 new confirmed cases and 50 recoveries. The country has recorded a total of 4,406 cases [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Ivorian Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly arrived Thursday in Abidjan from Paris where he spent two months on medical checkup, Ivorian national television (RTI) announced here. Coulibaly, 61, was elected candidate of the ruling Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) for next October’s presidential election.   -0-    PANA [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria and the Republic of Indonesia Thursday resolved to explore new templates to consolidate military training and manpower development, official sources said here. The two countries will also review and refocus their bilateral military ties towards mutually beneficial defence goals. Minister of Defence Major General Bashir Magashi (Rtd) [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) - Amnesty international (AI) Thursday called on Ethiopian authorities to open immediate, impartial, and independent investigations into the assassination of Oromo singer Hachalu Hundesa and prosecute the killers. The incident has triggered deadly demonstrations across the country leading to the death of several persons. For more than two days, [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The health crisis linked to the spread of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) caused a drop by 46.4 per cent in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the first quarter of this year, an official source said here Thursday. This was contained in a report issued by the Tunisian [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on Thursday announced the appointment of Abubacarr Marie Tambadou, former minister of justice of The Gambia, as the Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT). Tambadou succeed Olufemi Elias of Nigeria, to whom the Secretary-General paid glowing tribute [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia recorded three new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) following laboratory tests carried out on a sample of 574 people, including 24 from former patients. This brings to 70,614, the total number of tests carried out in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, the Tunisian [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) on Thursday warned that data on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana show that the country is going in a worse direction and called for a review of safety protocols. Dr Titus Beyuo, who is a member of [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow of Gambia has appealed for unity in preserving peace and stability of the country. He was speaking when he swore in the new Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Banjul on Thursday. The President said maintaining peace and stability in the country hinges on [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in a telephone conversation with the Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Fayez al-Sarraj, expressed "his country's concern over the current tense situation" in Libya, assuring that "France is determined to ensure stability in Libya". "The interests of Libyans and of [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The EYN Church says it lost over 8,370 members to Boko Haram/Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist attacks in the Nigeria's Northeast. EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, otherwise addressed in Hausa as Ekklesiyya Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN), told journalists in Yola, capital [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda  (PANA) - Rwanda's trade performance plunged into a deficit in May after two straight months of surpluses amid persistent drops of exports and imports as the COVID-19 pandemic has been ravaging the global economy, according to an official report obtained Thursday by PANA in Kigali. Official data, released by [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Fifty-eight new cases of COVID-19 infections were detected on Thursday in Mali, bringing to 2,260 the total number of cases recorded there since the first two cases were discovered on 25 March. According to the health services, 19 patients were also registered on Thursday cured and one [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) - Victor Osimhen, a Nigerian striker for the French Ligue 1 club, Lille, and winner of the Marc-Vivien Foe 2020 Award, is in hot demand by several European clubs, including Napoli, Inter Milan, and Liverpool. Osimhen, 21, who on Monday won the Prix Marc-Vivien Foe 2020 organized by Radio [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has called for support for the candidacy of Nigerian Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the post of Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In a statement, the community called on both African and non-African countries to support her [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's producer price index (PPI), which measures the average change over time in prices received by domestic producers for the production of their goods and services, increased 1.8 percent year-on-year in May, the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) said Thursday. The reading declined from the 3.6-percent increase [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will launch its African Economic Outlook 2020 Supplement in a live Zoom event from on Tuesday, 7 July 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in economic disruptions that have changed the strong growth projections the African Development Bank reported in January [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A ministerial round table on the humanitarian situation in the Sahel, particularly in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, is scheduled for late October in Copenhagen, Denmark. This indication was given on Wednesday in Bamako, following an audience granted by the Malian Prime Minister, Boubou Cissé, to a [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Alarmed by the lack of respect for international humanitarian law (IHL) in Burkina Faso, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says "All the people must respect life and human dignity at all times and without discrimination." ICRC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), said in a [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan health officials on Thursday began testing residents in a one-week drive to screen for novel coronavirus infections across Kigali city, with officials using a random sampling targeting nearly 5,000 individuals. Rwanda's Minister of State in Charge of Primary Healthcare, Dr Tharcisse Mpunga, explained that using random [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo is preparing to reopen its air space to traffic, suspended for more than three months due to coronavirus, PANA learned in Lomé following several consultations between stakeholders in the aviation sector. Since last week, the authorities in charge of air transportation as well as the supervisory [...]

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