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Oslo, Norway (PANA) - The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP). An announcement on the website of the Committee said this is "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas [...]

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Oslo, Norway (PANA) - The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP). An announcement on the website of the Nobel Committee said this is "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Two ships of the Libyan Navy, the "P300 and the P301", arrived Thursday at the port of Tripoli, after eight years of maintenance in Tunisia, a source from the Libyan Interior Ministry said. The ships were received by the Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Two new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been recorded in Rwanda in the past 24 hours, bringing the total count to 4,885, the Ministry of Health announced on Friday. It said 3,542 patients have recovered while the number of active cases is 1,314. The national recovery rate [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank: Currency                       Buying            Selling 1 Euro                        [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - One of the startups in Rwanda has developed a mobile platform that will be used effective 1 November in teaching and learning at primary and secondary levels amid the COVID-19 situation. Via SMS technology, the platform developed by 'Eneza Education', one of the local startups in Rwanda, [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - French multinational RUBiS Energie has officially launched into the Kenyan market following the successful acquisitions of KenolKobil Plc and Gulf Energy Holdings Ltd. These acquisitions saw RUBiS Energie Kenya become a leader in the Kenyan oil industry with a market share of over 21 per cent and a [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Friday’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                                2,659.00                 2,789.00 Japanese Yen                     19.39                      [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Rwandan Franc as issued by the National Bank of Rwanda. Currency                      Buying      Selling US Dollar              949.86          968.85 Euro  [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cissé, who was released on Thursday after seven months in captivity, arrived in the capital, Bamako, later in the day to a warm welcome. Cissé, president of the Union for the Republic and Democracy (URD) party, was abducted on 25 March by gunmen [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya will support Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the final round for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General post. Kenya is backing the Nigerian after its own candidate, Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed was beaten in the second  round of the vote. Mohammed is a also former foreign minister. The Kenyan [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) construction sector will sharply slide into recession as COVID-19’s impact on economic activity and investment growth deepens, says analysts. GlobalData, a data and analytics company, said on Friday that the construction output growth forecast for SSA in 2020 has been cut down to [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian commercial bank: Currency                       Buying          Selling Australian Dollar          27.74            29.20 Canadian Dollar  [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by Trust Bank Gambia Ltd: Currency                                 Buying                        Selling US Dollar                                   51.50                        52.30 Pound Sterling                         64.50                       66.65 Euro                                             58.50                        60.90 CFA Franc (5000)                     400.00                      425.00 Swedish Kroner (100)             500.00                     550.00 Australian Dollar                       34.50                       37.50 South African Rand                  12.00                       14.00 Canadian Dollar                          35.00                     [...]

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Algiers, Algeria (PANA) – Algerian authorities have expelled thousands of migrants and asylum seekers to Niger during waves of roundups of mostly sub-Saharan Africans across at least nine cities in recent weeks, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday. The human rights advocate said in a statement that security personnel have separated children [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan national football team captain Victor Wanyama is one of two foreign-based players locked out of Friday evening's friendly match between Kenya and Zambia. Attacking midfielder Wanyama, turns out for Canada's Montreal Impact FC, which he joined earlier in 2020 from English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspurs. Also locked [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Critical funding gaps are halting and disrupting crucial mental health services in Africa, as demand for these services rise amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a new World Health Organization (WHO) survey shows. The survey of 28 African countries was undertaken as part of the first global examination of the [...]

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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, Thursday announced his decision to drop all actions against Minembwe. At a news conference at the end of his visit to Goma, administrative district of the North-Kivu province, President Tshisekedi stated: “For me, the [...]

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