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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The government of The Gambia has signed a 30-year oil and gas exploration deal with PetroNor, an Axis of Oslo listed Stock Exchange Market Oil and Gas Company, the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum said here in a statement on Sunday.   The signing of the deal brought [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambia's opposition Citizens’ Alliance (CA) party has urged all members of the National Assembly to put national interest first and vote for passing the bill of a new Constitution for the Republic of The Gambia.   Constitutional Bill 2020 has passed the first  and second reading before the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) –  German Ambassador in Libya, Oliver Owcza, has hailed the announcement by the Libyan Presidential Council Chairman, Fayez al-Sarraj, on his intention to hand over duties to the new executive authority supposed to be formed by the national dialogue committee, and called on "all Libyan parties to [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- Gambia's Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) will resume public hearings on October 12 after a long break due to the Covid-19 pandemic.   The decision to resume public hearings was taken after careful consultations and considerations of the Covid-19 situation in the country, according to an official announcement [...]

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Banjul, Gambia(PANA) - Banjul International Airport (BIA) will reopen by the end of October but under tight health-related regulations against the spread of the coronavirus, the Ministry for Transport, Works and Infrastructure said on Sunday.   In a report, a copy of which was made available to PANA, the ministry noted that [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Reactions are trialing the declaration of Mr Godwin Obaseki of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Saturday’s Governorship election in Edo State, Niger Delta region of Nigeria.   Obaseki polled 307,955 votes to defeat his closest rival, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the All Progressives [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights has strongly condemned racist aggression against Sub-Sahara African workers in Sousse region, 140 km southeast of Tunis, and called for sanctions against the perpetrators of the behaviour.   In a statement issued on Sunday, the Forum denounced the recurrence of different [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - In the second quarter of this year, Benin recorded an increase in legume prices compared to the previous quarter, according to a survey by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Analysis (INSAE).  "The producer price index for pulses is 129.6 in the second quarter of 2020, [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Regional Expert Committee on Traditional Medicine for COVID-19, formed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the African Union Social Affairs Commission, has approved a protocol for Phase III clinical trials of herbal medicines for COVID-19 [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change -Tsvangirai (MDC-T) opposition faction party led by Thokozani Khupe has said it will adopt the MDC Alliance brand with immediate effect setting up another legal showdown with MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa. Armed with a March Supreme Court ruling that returned the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The plethora of civil servants in Libya's public administration represents one of the greatest challenges facing successive Libyan governments, the Audit Office has announced. It confirmed that the number of employees in the government sector has continued to increase to reach "about 40% of the population working [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 128 illegal migrants aboard several inflatable boats were rescued off the coast of Libya by coast guard patrols from the Interior ministry of the government of national accord. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Tripoli Anti-Illegal Immigration Board announced that it received 128 [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has seen a record 625 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in a day, bringing the total number of infections in the country since the beginning of the pandemic to 9,736. According to the epidemiological situation report published on Sunday by the Ministry of Health, the number [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's new Head of State, Evariste Ndayishimiye, made his first official visit to Tanzania on Saturday, dominated by economic issues between the two neighbours of the East African Community (EAC), said the final communiqué issued on Sunday. The meeting between President Ndayishimiye and his Tanzanian counterpart, John [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Parliament of Zimbabwe says the central bank should increase the frequency of foreign currency auction to daily rather than weekly to further strengthen the 'stability' of the Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL). Over the last three weeks, the ZWL has appreciated against the US dollar to a current [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Almost three quarters of the Zimbabwe urban workforce remains jobless owing to the deteriorating economy made worse by the COVID-19 restrictions, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The joblessness can be blamed on the depreciating Zimbabwe dollar that has brought back hyperinflation and thus eroded wages [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 189 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 57,145. The NCDC said via its official Twitter handle that as of September 19, it recorded 189 new confirmed cases [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana has recorded 20 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the lowest single day rise in many weeks, bringing the total confirmed cases to 45,877, as the spread of the virus slows down. The Ghana Health Service  (GHS) announced on Saturday that there were two deaths sending [...]

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Kumasi, Ghana (PANA) - Six members of a youth football team in Ghana, aged between 12 and 16 years, died on the spot on Saturday when the bus on which they were travelling back home after a football match veered off the road and plunged into a river. Police said four [...]

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