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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has given a clean bill of health to Guinea's presidential election that took place last Sunday. ECOWAS, which deployed a 116-strong electoral observer mission, said on Tuesday evening that "the ballot was not marred by any irregularity".  This was after [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Rwandan Franc as issued by the National Bank of Rwanda. Currency                      Buying      Selling US Dollar              952.11       971.16 Euro      [...]

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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                                 2,682.27                     2,812.27 Japanese Yen                      19.44                          24.44 Pound Sterling                2,945.26                 [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo on Tuesday recorded 33 new cases of coronavirus, after tests carried out on 1,427 samples. This brings the total number of cases to 2,104, the National Office in charge of the response against Covid-19 said on Wednesday in Lomé. It said there were 14 new recoveries, bringing [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea recorded 61 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday in after tests were carried out on 775 samples, the daily bulletin of the National Health Security Agency (ANSS), received by PANA on Wednesday said. The total number of confirmed cases is 11,599, including 10,461 recoveries, against 70 [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian commercial bank: Currency                          Buying          Selling Australian Dollar             27.39          [...]

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Copenhagen, Denmark (PANA) - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says 24 donors pledged more than US$1.7 billion to scale up life-saving humanitarian aid to millions of people in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. This was at a high level ministerial conference held on the Central [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Wednesday’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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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International has slammed African governments for "grossly undermining regional human rights bodies". It said in a report that African governments have failed to comply with decisions of rights bodies, and also ignored their urgent appeals, neglected to report to them on national human [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Young Libyans taking part in the dialogue initiated by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Tuesday recommended holding elections within appropriate deadlines. The have also called “for true participation of youths in the existing dialogue, in their different paths and organs that will result from the [...]

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