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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian minister of Economy, Finances and Investment support, Ali Kooli, and the Director of the European investment bank, Tunisia, Jean-Luc Révereault, Wednesday signed a financing agreement of 38 million Euros. The financing comes in two components, the first of which is meant for the National water [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya and Tunisia Wednesday agreed in principle to formulate an emergency unified health protocol for the prevention of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, official sources said here Wednesday. This will be followed by the opening of the air space between the two countries, the Libyan foreign affairs ministry [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Units of the Tunisian navy Wednesday foiled eight attempts of illegal migration from the Tunisian coasts, security sources said here. Some 111 persons, including 28 originally from Sub-Saharan countries, and the rest of Tunisian nationality, including two women, were arrested during the exercise. The general prosecution ordered legal [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The European Union (EU) ambassador in Congo, Raul Mateus Paula, said here Tuesday his organisation would give about 1.096 million Euros to agro-pastoral groupings in the departments of Bouenza and Pool, the state-run radio reported here Wednesday. Paula, who is on a working visit to the departments [...]

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Tripoli, Liby0a (PANA) - The Libyan minister of Interior of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Bachagha, held talks Wednesday with the Italian minister of Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, on security and the creation of a common front to fight illegal migration, an official source said here. Bachagha arrived early Wednesday [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - At the end of their two-day meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, delegates from the "warring" parties who attended the 5+5 Joint Military Commission, under the aegis of the United Nations Support Mission (UNSMIL), have agreed on a number of points to resolve the Libyan crisis. The agreement recommended [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Violent clashes have broke out on Wednesday in Lambagni, a northern neighbourhood in the upper suburbs of the Guinean capital, between groups of young people claiming to be from the ruling People's Rally of Guinea (RPG, Arc-en-Ciel) and the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Teams from the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG), operating in Rwanda, have successfully commissioned a High Voltage station with a capacity of 100MW/220KV, as part of the electricity transmission project currently being implemented in this East African country. This is a first for STEG, says the [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The coach of the Stade Malien de Bamako, Djibril Dramé, has been sacked and replaced with Nigerian technician, Augustine Owen Eguavoen, former international player and winner of CAN 94 in Tunis with the Green Eagles of Nigeria, PANA learned from a sports source. Eguavoen has been given [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe government and an American Group, African Global Development, are putting final touches to a final agreement under which the American firm, specialized in aeronautics, will acquire the Burkinabe national airline, Air Burkina. Following this development, the Burkinabe Prime Minister, Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré, on [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission on Wednesday urged Nigerian security operatives to exercise restraint and act professionally in the handling of the protests against the notorious and now abolished Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). A statement issued by Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - German Parliamentary Secretary of State Thomas Silberhorn, on a visit to Mali since Monday, on Tuesday met with the President of the Transition, Bah N'Daw, and the Vice President, Col. Assimi Goïta, to discuss the priorities of the authorities in charge of the Transition in Mali, [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded a new coronavirus-related death, bringing to 321 the number of patients who have already died from the virus since its appearance in the country on March 2, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Wednesday. The Ministry also indicated that out of [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The immediate past President of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), Mr. Bashir Mamman Ifo, passed on in Lomé on Tuesday, following a short illness. He was 61. A statement from the bank said Mr. Ifo joined EBID, which is the financial arm of the [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Nigerians in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, converged on the Nigerian High Commission on Wednesday in solidarity with their compatriots protesting against the brutality of the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) but were stopped from staging a demonstration. They had gathered in solidarity with the raging #EndSars movement sweeping [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday said he was closely following recent developments across Nigeria, in the wake of reports that protesters had been shot dead and wounded, and called for “an end to reported police brutality and abuses”.  António Guterres said in a statement issued by his Spokesperson, that he condemned “the violent escalation on [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo's school year, initially scheduled to start October 26, has been postponed to November 2, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education announced in a statement made available to PANA on Wednesday at PANA in Lomé. Lessons will start on November 2 with the effective presence of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Media Authority president Mohamed Baiyou was abducted Tuesday night in Tripoli after receiving threats from the leader of an armed group based in the Libyan capital, informed sources said. The abduction followed publication by Mr Baiyou of a telephone conversation with the commander of "Tripoli Revolutionary [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -Delegations from the Libyan Government of National Accord and forces of the Libyan National Army led by Marshal Khalifa Haftar agreed to preserve the truce in Libya during the 5+5 Joint Military Commission meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, UN Secretary-General's Acting Special Representative Stephanie Williams announced on Wednesday. At [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, has concluded a three day official visit to Khartoum observing that “there is an urgent need for justice in Sudan." "Sustainable peace and reconciliation are built on the stabilizing pillar of justice,” she said. In a lengthy statement summarising [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Tuesday launched the first phase of the Intercontinental Slavery Museum (ISM) project, which envisions to be a “Site of Conscience” devoted to deeper understanding of the history of Mauritians and the impact of slavery and the international slave trade [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Six people are dead after a three-storey church building collapsed on them on Tuesday at Akim Batabi in Ghana's Eastern Region. The police said the bodies were retrieved from the scene on Tuesday night.  The rescue team made up of the police, military, National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), fire personnel and local volunteers [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 719 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Libya after tests were carried out on 3,707 samples over the past 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the centre said 608 recoveries and 19 deaths have [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The total number of COVID-19 cases in Rwanda has increased by four to 4,996 in the last 24 hours, according to a statement from the Health Ministry on Wednesday. The country has so far reported 34 fatalities due to COVID-19, it said. Rwanda reported its first two confirmed [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank: Currency                    Buying      Selling 1 Euro                        43.46        [...]

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