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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The health situation in Niger linked to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has stabilized for some time, the sate-run Niger news agency (ANP) reported here Tuesday. However, the authorities have called for continuous respect for all health precaution measures to keep the disease under check. Laboratory tests carried out [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – One of Kenya’s top-most human rights defenders has been hunted down and arbitrarily arrested after leading other human rights defenders in blocking the grabbing of a public asset in Nairobi’s iconic Jamhuri estate in the capital, Amnesty International said Tuesday. The Police failed to show up in [...]

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Bamako, Mali, (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday insisted on a transition government in Mali chaired by a civilian president and prime minister, reliable sources told PANA here. According to the same sources, the sub-regional organisation however accepted the duration of an [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) - The International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) and Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights), Tuesday strongly condemned the harassment of civil society in the management of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the government.  “In a context marked by the great discontent for the management of the health crisis, [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Tuesday insisted that the military junta in Mali accepts its conditions, including a civilian leader for the transition, for sanctions to be lifted. A one-day consultative meeting on Mali held at the Presidential Lodge at Peduase, just outside [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN) have unveiled a position paper calling upon African Heads of State and Government to ensure that financing for nutrition is included in their country’s COVID-19 response and recovery plan. The position paper, titled “Embedding Nutrition within the COVID-19 Response and [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has reinstated Sydney Gata to his position as executive chairman of ZESA Holdings, the nation's power utility firm, over a month after firing former Energy minister Fortune Chasi. As previously reported, Chasi's firing was linked to him suspending Gata and his board over [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's pandemic death toll rose to 634 on Tuesday after ten more virus-related fatalities were reported within 24 hours. The new figure reported by the Health Chief Administrative Secretary, Mercy Mwangangi, represents a case fatality rate of 1.74 per cent. Speaking during a regular coronavirus media briefing, Mwangangi [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has targeted Zineb Souma Yahya Jammeh (Zineb) and Nabah LTD (Nabah) for their roles in providing support to persons previously indicted for their own corrupt behavior. A press release, obtain  by PANA on Tuesday from the [...]

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Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The government and other education actors in South Sudan should intensify the fight against sexual violence and child marriages as schools re-open in the country, an aid agency said on Tuesday. Rama Hansraj, Save the Children’s Country Director in South Sudan, said the barriers to children’s [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Twice, Burundian international Falone Sumaili had made the decision to quit her football career; first, following the demise of her mother and second, when she got a career threatening injury, followed by another loss in the family, her sister. For her, she didn’t believe the game she [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Former Mali president, General Moussa Traoré, died on Tuesday at the age of 84, PANA learned from official sources. Traoré, born September 25, 1936, in Sébétou, in the Kayes region, was a soldier and a Malian statesman, President of the Republic from 1968 to 1991. On November [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – United States President Donald Trump has addressed claims that Iran is considering assassinating US ambassador to South Africa by tweeting that any attack would be met with a response "1 000 times greater in magnitude". As previously reported by PANA, US intelligence sources on Monday [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An Islamic State Organisation (Daech) cell comprising seven elements was eliminated on Monday in the Abdelkafi neighbourhood of Sebha city (800 km south of Tripoli) by forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar. The LNA Military Information Division  announced in a statement on [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia will be represented by the No Yes film of Tunisian director Mahmoud Jemni in the official feature-length documentary competition of the 16th edition of Montreal International Black film to be held in an online version, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, from September 23 to October [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has confirmed a total of 24,144 coronavirus infections after 629 new cases were registered on Tuesday out of 3,137 samples tested in the last 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control announced. In a statement, the Centre said that 490 recoveries and 15 deaths were [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso recorded 16 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections since March 9 to 1,733, the Ministry of Health announced. Four new recoveries have been reported, bringing the number of cured patients to 1,141 while the number of deaths [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal on Tuesday recorded a new coronavirus-related death bringing to 298 the number of patients who have died from the virus since the first case appeared in the country on March 2, Ministry of Health and Social Action announced. It also indicated that out of 727 tests [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya celebrated Martyr's Day on Wednesday, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the execution by Italian occupiers of Libyan resistance deputy commander Omar Mokhtar. On this occasion, the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord declared Wednesday a holiday. Sheikh Omar Mokhtar is a hero of the Libyan [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations marked the annual International Day of Democracy on Tuesday calling on world leaders to build a more equal, inclusive and sustainable world, with full respect for human rights.  A UN statement said against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underlined [...]

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