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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Rwanda has risen to 1,194 after a single day increase of 22 infections, the ministry of Health said here Wednesday. The latest official data points to 15 recoveries from the virus in the last 24 hours while the total number [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The executive committee of the Senegalese football federation (FSF) Wednesday suspended all leagues from regional divisions to the League 1, officials said here. The decision which also affects the National 1, National 2 and League 2, was taken to keep at bay the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  In this [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo Wednesday recorded 64 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) and three deaths, an official source announced here. Dr Gilbert Ndziessi, Congolese national coordinator of the response committee to the coronavirus (COVID-19), said the epidemiological situation established by the response coordination to the pandemic had recorded 1,821 [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The US embassy here Wednesday said it was deeply concerned with allegations of summary executions by the Burkinabe army under he guise of fighting terrorism, an official source said here. "The United-States is deeply concerned with the increasing number of allegations of abuses and extrajudicial killings [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinean President Alpha Condé Wednesday sent a message of condolence to his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara, following the death of his Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly in the economic capital, Abidjan, the state-run television reported. President Condé, who said he was ‘strongly affected’ hailed the memory of [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Cyber criminals purporting to be government officials are using fake social media accounts and emails to solicit money from unsuspecting citizens, official sources said here Wednesday. The authorities have therefore warned the public of fraudulent Facebook and Gmail accounts operating in the name of Presidential Affairs, Governance [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan officials and representatives of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Rwanda on Wednesday signed a 10-million-euro (about US$11.3 million) financing agreement under which the EU will support private-sector development and job creation in the African country. The funding for which the agreement was signed [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government has extended the state of health emergency for 20 days with effect from July 10, its spokesman, Thierry Lezin Moungalla, announced on Wednesday after the meeting of the Council of Ministers and of the National Coordination of the response to the coronavirus pandemic. He [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian authorities on Tuesday allowed 350 Tunisians living in Algeria and Algerians living in Tunisia and married to Tunisian women to enter Tunisia through the "Oum Taboul" border crossing where the Tunisian ambassador to Algeria supervised, in collaboration with the Algerian authorities, the different stages of [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government has issued directives to law enforcement agencies, including the Police Service, to activate their contingency plans in all provinces to ensure that a planned national truck shutdown is policed. This follows a wave of attacks on trucks on various national roads [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Federal Government says it plans to review the operations of some of its embassies abroad as well the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme, meant to assist less endowed countries through manpower development and support. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffery Onyeama, said in Abuja [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Federal Government has reversed itself on the re-opening of schools, saying that no school should open or participate in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSE), earlier scheduled for August 5 to September 5. The examinations were postponed indefinitely due to the spread of [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – After celebrating the killing of 17 Boko Haram/Islamic State's West African Province terrorists “and their collaborators” in the Damboa axis in Borno State, Nigerian troops were ambushed by another batch of terrorists along the Maiduguri-Damboa Road on Tuesday, losing at least 23 soldiers. Sources said that the [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice has received the instrument designating Ghana’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice,  Miss Gloria Akuffo, as the Competent National Authority for the enforcement of the decisions of the court in Ghana. President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the appointment on 21st October 2019 while [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Sitting behind closed doors on Monday, the 127 deputies of the Burkinabè Parliament suggested a postponement of the November 22 polls to 2021, effectively extending their mandate by one year. Reporting from Ouagadougou, PANA quoted the state daily "Sidwaya" as saying that the MPs suggested that [...]

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Zinder, Niger (PANA) - Four poachers caught in the act were arrested last week by the Defense and Security Forces (DSF) inside the Termite National Nature Reserve (1,300 km north of Niamey), after massacring gazelles "dorcas", a globally protected species. The poachers and their products were presented to the Governor of [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Fund (FAO) have signed an emergency intervention agreement, worth US$ 400,000, aimed at supporting small breeders and farmers in the face of the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), PANA learned on Wednesday from official [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A detachment of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMAs) on Tuesday apprehended 15 terrorists in Kouroukanda, Mopti region, the Malian Press Agency (AMAP) reported, citing a local source. It specified that the FAMAs were informed of the presence of the terrorists who came on board eight Pick-up vehicles [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday said that seven people were killed in an explosion incident which occurred at Gbetiokun, Oil Mining Lease (OML 40), operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), its subsidiary. NPDC operates the OML on behalf of the NPDC/Elcrest Joint [...]

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Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - The football family in Sierra Leone is mourning the death of iconic footballer, James Strasser, who passed away on June 10 in Freetown. He was 83. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all times in Sierra Leone, having played as a defender, [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - What are some of the barriers preventing small farmers in Africa from adopting digital advisory services? What do we mean by big data? What can governments do to encourage greater digital uptake? These were some of the questions addressed during the second of four Transforming Agriculture [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda intends to use its own planes to evacuate citizens stranded in the United Kingdom, local media reported on Wednesday Rwandair will carry out flights from London and Brussels for Rwandan citizens, legal residents and students currently stranded in the UK, the semi-private KT Press reported. Rwanda has [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Africa’s economic growth could rebound in 2021, provided that governments manage the COVID-19 infection rate well, according to updated forecasts from the African Development Bank (AfDB), released on Tuesday. In a comprehensive socio-economic assessment of the pandemic’s impact, the Bank said growth was now projected to [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative, in collaboration with ImpactHER and UN Women, will host a virtual high-level panel discussion on empowering women entrepreneurs in the fight against COVID-19. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, 15 July, 2020, [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea and France, through the French Development Agency (AFD), on Tuesday signed a funding agreement worth 33,581,000 euros for the African nation's education sector, an official source said on Wednesday. According to a statement, sent to PANA, the Guinean Economy and Finance Minister, Mamadi Camara, and the [...]

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