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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                                2,691.00                      2,821.00 Japanese Yen            [...]

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Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Friday that large populations of Desert Locust in Somalia have moved towards southern parts of the country. It said the widespread hatching and hopper band formation continues with Sool, Nugal, Mudug regions in Puntland and most of Galmudug areas [...]

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

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Kenya and telco firm Safaricom have signed a new partnership to help Kenyan children in a range of areas including education, child protection and emergencies. The new partners have pledged to work together to ensure children – especially the poorest and most marginalised [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Egypt’s economy has performed better than expected despite the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to a swift, balanced and comprehensive stimulus package, monetary policy response, targeted financial sector initiatives, and a timely financing request from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Rapid Financing Facility and Stand-by Arrangement of nearly [...]

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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             28.16           29.64 Canadian [...]

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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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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked the police to immediately provide 24-hour protection for the former Special Prosecutor, Mr. Martin Amidu, who has alleged several threats on his life. The Communication Director for the President, Eugene Arhin, in a Facebook post, asked the former anti-graft [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An advisory body of the UN health agency is not recommending the use of the high-profile antiviral drug Remdesivir for hospitalised COVID-19 patients, saying on Thursday there is insufficient evidence that it improves survival outcomes or cuts down on the need for patients to be put [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A senior UN humanitarian official in Sudan has recounted moving testimony from refugees who are crossing the border from Ethiopia in their thousands, fleeing fighting in Tigray province. "Many of the refugees left behind children, and parents. They did not have time to assemble their families and [...]

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