Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The number of COVID-19 cases in Rwanda has increased by 41 over the last 24 hours, with 4 new recoveries, the Health ministry announced on Thursday. The number of cases registered throughout the country has risen to 4,770 with the death toll caused by the pandemic remaining [...]Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The second group of 511 Burundian refugees were repatriated on Thurday from Mahama Refugee Camp in Rwanda, the Ministry of Emergency Management confirmed to PANA in Kigali. The repatriation process started after 330 Burundian refugees appealed for a dignified and lawful return to their home country, in [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The Commission of Inquiry on Burundi has urged the international community to remain concerned about the situation in the East African country. In its final report to the UN Human Rights Council, the Commission has documented numerous serious human rights violations that had occurred from 2019 in [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling as published by CRDB Bank: Currency Buying Selling US Dollar 2,309.00 2,339.00 Euro 2,647.00 2,777.00 Japanese Yen 19.56 24.56 Pound Sterling 2,888.00 3,018.00 Swiss Franc 2,493.01 2,543.01 Canadian Dollar [...]Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Rwandan Franc as issued by the National Bank of Rwanda. Currency Buying Selling US Dollar 945.80 [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 1,219 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19), bringing to 5,581 the total number of infections recorded in the country since the start of the pandemic, the Health Ministry announced. Cumulative cases of death have reached 174, the ministry said, indicating that 256 patients are [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded on Thursday one coronavirus-related death, bringing to 304 the number of patients who have succumbed to the pandemic since the first case appeared in the country on March 2, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced. Also, the ministry said that 21 out [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Approval of the $1.96 billion contract for the construction of a railway linking Kano to Maradi in Niger Republic has drawn the ire of Nigerians. The 16th virtual Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, passed the contract on Wednesday. Transportation minister Rotimi Amaechi announced the [...]Full text...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian Central Bank: Currency Buying Selling Euro 43.13 43.56 US Dollar 36.85 37.22 Pound Sterling 46.88 47.35 100 Swedish Kroner 4002.73 4042.86 100 Norwegian Kroner 392.21 396.14 100 Danish Kroner 579.56 585.37 1000 CFA Franc 65.76 66.41 100 Moroccan Dirham [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs strongly condemned the "cowardly" terrorist attack on Wednesday against a patrol of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMAs) in Boulkéssi, in the central Mopti region, killing three soldiers and wounding four. About 15 suspected terrorists were injured in the incident. In [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has endorsed Sudan’s Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP) which was approved by the IMF Managing Director on 9 September 2020 as meeting the Upper Credit Tranche Conditionality (UCT) standard. A statement from the IMF on Thursday said the 12-month SMP [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) -Burkina Faso recorded on Wednesday 22 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing to 1,929 the number of people infected since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country on March 9, official sources said on Thursday. In addition, no recovery or death was reported. The total number of [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 111 new cases of coronavirus in the country on Wednesday. NCDC said that the total number of confirmed cases in the country is now 57,724. It disclosed that 149 persons were treated and discharged after being successfully treated and [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the death of 23 people, as confirmed by the Federal Road Safety Commission, “represents another disturbing and saddening incident in the litany of tragedies that have befallen our country." Reacting to the petroleum tanker explosion on Wednesday in Lokoja, Kogi [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN and partners have urged countries to take urgent action to address what they have described as the “infodemic” that has surfaced in tandem with the COVID-19 pandemic, both in the real world and online. The pandemic is the first in history in which technology [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Amidst a technological era that “beckons with vast opportunity”, new risks exist to global peace, stability and development, the UN chief told a side event of the General Assembly, aiming to help ensure access to digital technologies for all. The UN was founded 75 years ago, [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Learning its lessons from the Ebola outbreak, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took swift and decisive measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, when the first cases were detected in March, the country’s President told world leaders, gathered virtually, at the UN General [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - An independent UN human rights expert has called on Mali’s coup leaders to release former government officials, who have been detained for more than a month. According to a news release by the UN human rights office (OHCHE), at least 13 people, among the 18 arrested [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan ministry of foreign affairs of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Wednesday took part in a meeting of the academic committee of the 5+5 Group via videoconferencing devoted to the consultation and promotion of cooperation in the domain of training. The meeting, initiated by Malta [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré will Thursday join his Guinea-Bissau counterpart Umaro Sissoco Embalo to mark the 47th anniversary of that country’s independence anniversary, an official statement from the Faso presidency said here Wednesday. According to the statement, the 24-hour visit to Guinea Bissau witnesses the [...]Full text...
