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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Thousands of Malians again took to the streets of Bamako to demand the resignation of Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, accusing him and his administration of mismanagement and bad handling of the crises shaking the country, PANA reported. This followed a call from opposition political parties and [...]

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 Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Security chaos, suffering and impoverishment of Libyans remain among the most visible characteristics of life in Libya, nine years after the 17 February revolution that overthrew former Libyan leader Mouamar Kaddafi.  Due to continued conflict and the eternal return to the starting point, the living conditions of [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali Friday recorded 34 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), 29 recoveries and one death, the ministry of Health said here. The new cases take to 2,404 the total number of cases, 1,650 recoveries and 72 deaths since 25 March when the first two cases were detected. The new [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese government on Friday in Brazzaville announced that the country recorded 207 new positive cases of coronavirus and 64 recoveries, according to the epidemiological report established by the technical coordinator of the response to the COVID-19, Dr Gilbert Ndziessi. According to Ndziessi, this is the heaviest [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - After online courses, introduced in May to enable higher education students to catch up with lectures in the current school year, public and private universities will soon be opened for a "face-to-face resumption" to complete the 2019-2020 academic year, PANA learned from official sources on Friday [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - When torrential rains and flash floods deluged parts of Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital, Abidjan, an African Development Bank (AfDB) investment in weather data becomes critical in the disaster response efforts. While heavy rainfall is not unusual for Abidjan from May to July, the sheer volume experienced [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday advised against building and farming on waterways to avert floods and the negative impact of heavy rainfall in the country. Air Vice Marshal Muhammadu Mohammed, Director-General of NEMA, said in Abuja while briefing Journalists on the agency’s plan for [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius on Friday indicated that tourist arrivals in the island dropped from 92,398 in June 2019 to only 9 in June 2020. In its latest bulletin published in Port-Louis, the governmental organisation said the island welcomed 650,082 tourists for the period of January to June 2019 [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Lawyers, under the banner of Gambia Bar Association (GBA), on Friday criticized President Adama Barrow’s emergency extension orders because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it contradicted Gambia’s constitution. The GBA members argue that it is their view that the declaration of “the State of Public Emergency (SOPE) [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Guinean government to pay US$ 47,500,000 as compensation to an energy company, K. Energie SA, for the violation of the company’s property rights in depriving it of the use of its assets. Delivering judgment on Thursday, 9 July 2020, [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Federal Republic of Nigeria to repeal or amend its law on cybercrime to align with its obligation under Article 1 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Delivering [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The embassies of the United States and France in Libya on Friday welcomed the announcement by the Libyan Oil Company (NOC) lifting the state of force majeure on oil exports and the resumption of oil production. In a statement, the U.S. Embassy hailed the cooperation between the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At their meeting on Friday with the the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, Siméon Sawadogo, Opposition leader, Zéphirin Diabré, and the leader of the ruling party, Simon Compaoré, rejected the proposal to postpone the legislative elections made by the MPs in a report submitted [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Strengthening bilateral cooperation between Tunisia and Libya in various fields and ways of consolidating relations between the two countries were the focus of the audience granted by Tunisian President Kaïs Saied on Friday to Faraj Boumatari, the Libyan Finance Minister of the Government of National Accord [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The London-based International free expression body, Article 19 on Friday called on Gambian authorities “to immediately drop charges of false information and broadcasting” against a leading human rights activist, Madi Jobarteh, and commit to repeal all laws that restrict the rights to freedom of expression. “These controversial [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday handed over a large consignment of equipment, materials and health kits, worth more than 700 million CFA francs, as part of the fight against coronavirus, PANA learned from official sources. The donation, consisting of 27 oxygen extractors and 15,000 [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A medical doctor has succumbed to coronavirus, bringing into sharp focus the safety of healthcare workers in the country. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced the death of Dr Doreen Adisa at a daily media pandemic briefing on Friday. He asked for a minute's silence in respect to [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  The owners of one of major independent newspapers in Rwanda, 'The Chronicles', on Friday announced the suspension of their operations until further notice, they said in a statement obtained by PANA in Kigali. The statement, released on Friday, gave no further details, but said "We hope to [...]

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