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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Only 369 tourists visited Mauritius in September 2020 as compared to 100,837 in the same month last year, representing a decline of 99.6 percent, Statistics Mauritius said on Monday. The government statistical agency said the island received 305,618 tourists from January to September 2020 as compared [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa is this week expected to unveil a massive stimulus package to help turn South Africa’s COVID-19 battered economy around. He will present the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan during a special joint address to Parliament on Thursday. His 48-page draft document, which is being [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 22 new deaths and 1,297 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19), the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced in its latest statement on the epidemiological situation. The death toll is now 478, the ministry said. Faced with this situation, a curfew from 9:00 pm to 5:00 [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Units of the Tunisian Navy have recovered 11 bodies of migrants whose boat capsized early on Sunday off the coast of Sfax, with nearly 30 people on board. The search by divers is continuing to find possible survivors, a security source said on Monday. It added that the [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank: Currency                    Buying            Selling 1 Euro                        43.35  [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Interior Minister of the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Bachagha, has affirmed the readiness of the ministry to use its full potential to end all bloodshed in the war-torn North African country. He also praised the efforts of the United Nations Support Mission [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Seven Indian engineers and technicians working for a Libyan oil company were freed on Sunday after 25 days of captivity by a gang, the authorities in the east of the country announced. In a statement, the Interior Ministry of the interim government in the east, which is [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ghana's president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday welcomed the political progress in Mali saying the country is "on the right track". Speaking in Bamako after having lunch with the President of the Malian Transition, Colonel Major [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Monday’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                               2,699.00                  2,796.00 Japanese Yen                    19.40                        24.40 Pound [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the CFA Franc as issued by the bank of the Central African States: Currency                   Buying        Selling Euro                          629.71  [...]

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