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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Members of the Libyan House of Representatives (Parliament) at a meeting here Monday rejected any individual and collective attempts to transfer the Libyan issue outside the UN framework without the consent and “participationontained in  of all regional parties in accordance with the constitutional declaration and the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chargé d'affaires at the Philippines’ embassy in Libya, Mardamel Melikuru, Monday expressed his country’s desire to learn from Libya’s experience in fighting against terrorism, an official source told PANA here. The envoy referred to Libya’s experience in the fight against the Daech organization in Sirte, saying [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Bloomfield Investment is to provide assistance to Congo, Stanislas Zézé, its managing director (MD), said here Monday at a meeting with the Congolese minister of Finances and Budget, Calixte Ngonongo. The appraising agency will help Congo to improve the management of its public finances, Zézé, said. “So far, [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) - The Secretary-General of the International Francophonie Organisation (OIF), Louise Mushikiwabo, Monday appointed Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, former Senegalese minister of foreign affairs, as special envoy for monitoring the situation in Mali, a statement reaching PANA here said. This is in line with the resolution adopted on 25 August [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso Monday recorded 50 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), taking to 1,896 the total number of people infected since 9 March, the Government information service (SIG) here said. In addition, two new recoveries were recorded, taking to 1,189 the total number of recoveries but [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Five people were killed and several others injured in a road accident Monday between the small cities of Ngo and Etdouali, department of The Plateaux, Congolese public radio reported here. The same source said a vehicle of the private transport company ‘Océan du Nord’, from the northern [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Council on Monday imposed targeted restrictive measures on two persons responsible for human rights abuses in Libya and three entities involved in violating the UN arms embargo in place for Libya. In a press release, made available to PANA, the Council said the persons were [...]

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Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta received on Monday a delegation of Special Envoys of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and emphasized the need for the full implementation of the country's permanent ceasefire agreement. President Kenyatta applauded President Kiir and the people of South Sudan for the progress achieved [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nine cases have been listed for judgment by the ECOWAS Court between the 7 and 28 October 2020, following the resumption of court sessions after the two-month vacation of the judges of the Court. The cases are part of the 19 cases filed against eight Member States, [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Monday in its daily bulletin that the 6,332 tests carried out on September 18 and 19, 2020, revealed positive cases of 996 people, bringing the total number to 10,732 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Retired Colonel-Major Bah N'Daw was named President of the Mali Transition on Monday. "The college set up for the appointment of officials to lead the transition has appointed Bah N'Daw President of the transition and Colonel Assimi Goita, Vice President," said the National Council for the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe army announced on Monday that it "neutralised" at least 25 suspected terrorists in operations between September 11 and 13 in the Sahel and the north of the country. On September 11, following the ambush against an intervention unit on a reconnaissance mission in Mentao [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - A group of banks has put in place 300 billion FCFA to support Congolese companies, the CEO of BGFI, Henri Claude Oyima, announced on Monday a meeting with President Denis Sassou-Nguesso. According to Oyima, these banks are united in an economic interest group called Club de Brazzaville.  According [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso registered 30 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, bringing to 1,446 the number of people infected since the virus first appeared in the country on March 9, the Government Information Service (GIS) reported on Monday. In addition, 11 patients have been declared cured of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Countries attending the 64th session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference on Monday elected Libya as Vice President for the Africa. This election took place during the morning session in the Austrian capital, Vienna, according to a statement issued by the Foreign ministry of [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A fire broke out early Monday in the National Assembly building and caused significant damage, the Communication Department of Parliament announced. It said the fire has affected the main building housing the offices of the cabinet of the Speaker of the National Assembly. Two offices were [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Three individuals drowned at the weekend as a result of adverse weather in three eastern and southern regions of Mauritania -- Assaba, Guidimakha and Gorgol, located in the east and south, the Emergency Commission of the Ministry of Interior announced on Monday. Following a downpour, a child [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 847 new cases of coronavirus infections have been recorded in Libya out of 3,598 samples tested in the last 24 hours, the National Center for Disease Control announced on Monday. In a statement, the Center said that 316 recoveries and 16 deaths have been [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Rwandan Franc as issued by the National Bank of Rwanda. Currency                      Buying      Selling US Dollar                943.11          [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Five terrorists were killed last Wednesday in Tolodje, a locality of Nampala in central Mali, by the Malian Armed Forces, said a press release from the Army's information service on Monday. The armed forces also seized a batch of equipment including machine pistols, shotguns, bulk ammunition, motorcycles [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mobile Internet users in Mauritania have no access to the service from September 19 to 22 September 2020, due to the organisation of the baccalaureate exams. The measure, intended to prevent cheating in the conduct of the examination, is applied by the three mobile operators, namely MAURITEL [...]

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