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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Angola, Wednesday condemned the activism of the negative forces in the Great lakes sub-region, official sources said here. This was contained in a communiqué read by the Congolese minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs Ntumba Nzeza, [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) -  The Mauritanian president, Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani, Wednesday received France’s special envoy for the Sahel, Frederic Bontemps, Secretary-General of the Coalition for Sahel, the state-run news agency reported here. At the end of the meeting, Bontemps explained the reasons for his visit to Mauritania. “I have come here [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Members of the constituent assembly in charge of drafting the Libyan Constitution Wednesday called on UN Secretary-General António Guterres to list obstacles to holding the first constitutional referendum in Libya, official sources said here. The draft constitution, adopted in 2014 by the constituent authority under confused circumstances [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The Moroccan minister of Foreign Affairs, African cooperation and Moroccans living abroad, Nasser Bourita, Tuesday welcomed the consensus reached by delegations of the Libyan High Council of State and Parliament at the end of their talks in Bouznika. He described the second session of the Libyan Bouznika [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - In line with the CAF Guidelines to resume Football in Africa and public health measures in Morocco due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be restricted media attendance for the first-leg, semi-final matches of the Total CAF Champions League and the final four of the Total [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Morocco legend, Mohamed Timoumi, and Egyptian Moamen Zakaria, have been named ambassadors for the Total CAF Champions League 2019/20 final, scheduled for 6 November, 2020. The appointment of the duo is in recognition of their achievements and contribution to the development of the game across the continent, [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - the Nigerien government on Wednesday adopted a bill extending the state of emergency in the Diffa region (far-eastern part of the country) and in certain departments of the Tahoua and Tillabéri regions (west), indicates an official statement made public at the end of the meeting of [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe High Court Judge, Esther Muremba, has ordered the immediate release of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance youth leader and legislator for the Harare West constituency, Joana Mamombe, from the Chikurubi Maximum Prison. On September 24, Mamombe, who is Zimbabwe’s youngest ever Member of Parliament, [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Eighteen Burkinabès were killed Wednesday morning in a road accident at the entrance to the town of Bouaké, northern Côte d'Ivoire, lPANA earned from official source. A public transport bus having made a defective overtaking left the road, causing the accident which left 18 Burkinabè dead [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Authorities in Botswana have invited freelance guides to register for wage subsidy, as government makes efforts to assist the ailing industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism on Wednesday issued a communiqué inviting individuals to register for wage subsidy [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) factional leader, Thokozani Khupe, was late Wednesday sworn in as a Member of Parliament and declared herself leader of the opposition. Khupe’s return to parliament comes after she forced the expulsion of the over two dozen MDC Alliance members, the other [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi has registered 29 new confirmed cases of coronavirus from a total of 3,066 tests performed in the last seven days, the Ministry of Health and the Fight against HIV/AIDS said on Wednesday. In its weekly status report on the response to the pandemic, the ministry said [...]

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Washington, US (PANA) — Global extreme poverty is expected to rise in 2020 for the first time in over 20 years as the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic compounds the forces of conflict and climate change, which were already slowing poverty reduction progress, the World Bank said Wednesday. The COVID-19 pandemic [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso recorded 13 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number of people infected since March 9 to 2,197, the Government Information Service (GIS) reported. In addition, 21 new recoveries were recorded, bringing the number of cured persons to 1,441, with no [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo recorded on Tuesday a new coronavirus-related death and 17 new confirmed cases, PANA learned Wednesday from official sources. The new cases bring the total number of infections to 1,881 since the first case appeared in March. The virus has claimed 49 lives but 1,410 have been [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal's Ministry of Health and Social Action on Wednesday announced a death related to the coronavirus, bringing to 313 the number of people who have died from the pandemic since its emergence in the country on March 2. The ministry also indicated that out of 1,042 tests [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least 15 people were killed on Sunday in the commune of Pissila, north-central Burkina Faso, by as yet unidentified armed people, PANA learned on Wednesday from local security sources. "Villagers returning from a fair were intercepted Sunday by terrorists in the locality of Pissila. About [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The epidemiological situation due to the coronavirus continues to deteriorate in Tunisia where 43 deaths and 2,312 new infections were recorded in two days. According to a statement released on Wednesday by the Ministry of Health, the number of positive cases has climbed to 24,542 since the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Three Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush on Tuesday by an armed terrorist group in the central Mopti region, the army said in a statement. According to the Malian Armed Forces (FAMA), on October 6, 2020 at around 9 p.m Birga village was attacked and [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has 39,513 confirmed cases of coronavirus after the detection of 1,045 new cases out of 4,339 samples analysed on Tuesday, which attested the resumption of the upward trend of the pandemic in the country . As of Tuesday, Libya had recorded 1,031 new coronavirus infections, a [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA)_ Schools in Gambia will reopened for grades 7 to 12 on October 14 after six months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, as parents weighed whether it was safe for children to resume lessons.   Children attending nursery up to grade 6 will go back to school on [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Malawi President Lazarus Chakwerwa arrived in Tanzania on Wednesday for a three-day state visit that seeks to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries, according to a statement issued by the  Tanzanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation. He was received by his [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has urged Japanese investors to collaborate with local partners in Africa in order to stimulate growth on the continent.   The invitation came during a recent webinar to provide information to the Japanese private sector on doing business in Africa. About 250 [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Central Bank Governor al-Seddik al-Kabir has warned about "catastrophic" consequences of a continued halt in oil production and exports. During a hearing on Tuesday before the House of Representatives (Parliament) in Tripoli, the Governor cited the unprecedented decline in reserves of the Central Bank and the [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Wednesday’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                               2,651.00                  2,781.00 Japanese YEN                    19.49                        24.49 Pound Sterling             2,917.00                   3,047.00 Swiss Franc                  2,502.61                   [...]

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