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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Coastal guards of the Tunisian navy rescued 37 Algerians on board three wooden boats off the Tunisian coasts from drowning as they were attempting to migrate illegally to Italy, Tunisian security sources said here Friday. The migrants were rescued at a time when their boats were sinking [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - American entrepreneurial pre-accelerator, Draper University and Smart Africa, Friday announced a partnership aimed at strengthening start-up and innovation ecosystems in Africa. A statement obtained by PANA here said it was meant to support the work that the Smart Africa Secretariat was doing around start-ups and innovation ecosystems [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Central Bank (LCB) based in Tripoli Friday denied any link with “any agreement concerning the sharing of Libyan oil revenues”, official sources told PANA here. This comes in the wake of an announcement by Marshall Khalifa Haftar and the vice-president of the presidential council, Ahmed [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Rwanda recorded two coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths Friday involving two people aged 29 and 80, according to the bulletin of the ministry of Health here. The number of daily COVID-19 deaths has never exceeded one since the outbreak of the viral disease in March, this year. The two deaths [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kaïs Saied Friday pleaded for the protection of journalists and the freedom of speech, a statement issued here by the presidency said. The president made the call when the chairman of the national trade-union of Tunisian journalists (SNJT), Néji Bghouri, called on him. President Saeid lauded [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Following the detention Tuesday of Léandre Nzué, the mayor of Libreville, Serge Williams Akassaga Okinda, 43, has been appointed acting central mayor. This was after the governor of the city had notified the Senior minister in charge of Interior of the vacant position of the mayor of [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo Thursday recorded six new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), 28 new recoveries and one death, the technical coordinator of the response committee to the pandemic, Dr Gilbert Ndziessi, said here Friday. “We recorded on Thursday 6 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, 28 recoveries and one death,” [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Rising water levels in the Niger River has displaced more than 8,000 families in the commune of Malanville in the northeast border with Niger, official sources said here Friday. “The floods have affected about 8,022 families or some 56,254 victims in Malanville. Nearly 5,644.75 ha of crops [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – Mr Carlos Adohouannon, ex-director of the Tax General Management, who is wanted for one year for the disappearance of four billion CFAF from the government coffers, will soon be repatriated by Senegal, official sources said on Friday in Cotonou. The wanted director was arrested by Senegalese justice [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) on Friday announced that Esperance de Tunis is officially the winner of the African Champions League 2019 and this, after the rejection of the appeal by Wydad Casablanca (Morocco). In a communiqué, the international body rejected the appeal of the [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday approved a US$500,000 emergency assistance grant to support international recovery efforts after a significant oil spill earlier this year off the coast of Mauritius. The funding, to be sourced from the Special Relief Fund, [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The regional office of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) was inaugurated on Wednesday in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, via videoconference due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The African Development Bank (AfDB) will host GCA Africa, whose ambitious objectives seek to improve the effectiveness [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Mission of Support in Libya (UNMIL) announced on Friday it had organized via videoconference the third meeting of the Libyan Economic Dialogue under the chairmanship of the acting special representative of the UN Secretary-General, Stephanie Williams. The meeting, held Thursday with the participation of [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Sweden's Armand Duplantis on Thursday broke the 26-year-old pole vault record of Russia's Sergei Bubka (6.14m) with a 6.15m performance at the Diamond League meeting in Rome. Bubka's record was set in July 1994 in Sestriere, but the Swedish prodigy Duplantis did a centimetre better, adding the world [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The 70th FIFA Congress Friday at a videoconference adopted a revolutionary new law aimed at making the rules for changing sports nationality for footballers more flexible. From now on, it will not be enough for a player to play even a part of an official match (excluding [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has announced the resumption of oil production and export after lifting the blockade on sites imposed since last January. The latest move followed an agreement he reached with the vice-president of the Presidential Council, Ahmed Maitig. In [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Japan has offered Mali ultra-modern airport security equipment, worth nearly 1.9 billion CFA francs, PANA learned on Friday from the Malian Ministry of Transport. The donation also includes buses, pick-up vehicles and off-road motorcycles. According to the ministry, the equipment will contribute not only to the modernization of [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkinabè President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, said on Thursday, upon his return from Nigeria, that the two countries would strengthen their cooperation. On September 17, 2020, Mr. Kaboré paid a working visit to Nigeria and met with the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari. "We have agreed to work [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) is seeking court orders to quash the transfer of the  Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) to the Ministry of Defence. It filed an urgent application on Friday, seeking the quashing of the transfer. President Uhuru Kenyatta gave the directive through an Executive Order. It [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's national soccer team is ranked 9th on the continent and 57th in the world, according to the monthly ranking of national teams by FIFA, released on Thursday. Senegal holds the top position in Africa, ranking 20th in the world. The Lions are followed by Tunisia (26th), [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Twelve people including 11 women, who were returning from a weekly market in southern Guinea, died in a traffic accident late Wednesday, according to a statement from the Ministry of Security and Civil Protection. It said the accident occurred in Mafran, about 50 km from the southern [...]

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