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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Opposition candidates here Monday issued a joint statement saying they "will not accept results tarnished by irregularities" from Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. "The signatory of the opposition political accord will not accept results tarnished by irregularities and which do not reflect the will of the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Stephanie Williams, Monday announced that the second virtual meeting of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) was set for Wednesday. Mrs, Williams , who is also chief of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL),  said the meeting would [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Former Togolese minister of Security and former vice-president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) General Seyi Mèmène passed on here Saturday following a short illness, reliable sources told PANA here Monday. Gen. Mèmène, officer of the Togolese armed forces (FAT), had problems with late President Eyadéma [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanians Monday paid glowing tribute to Sidi Mohamed ould Cheikh Abdallahi, former president of the Republic (2007/2008), who died here Sunday. The government has declared a three-day national mourning for President Abdallahi. The late president was buried Monday in the presence of incumbent President Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani, [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International (AI) Monday night asked parties to the Ethiopian conflict in Tigray region to protect civilians. The humanitarian organization, in a press release in Nairobi, said the conflict in the Tigray region was on the brink of a deadly escalation. This was after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya U-20 National football team kicked off their Cecafa Championships campaign with a 3-0  win over Ethiopia on Monday at the Sheikh Amri Abeid grounds in Arusha, Tanzania. The Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) is an 11-member regional football body. Forward Benson Omala’s [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – For the third consecutive year, Kenya Equity Bank has won the 2020 SME Bank of the year – Africa Award. Equity was declared winner at the recent Global SME Finance Awards virtual Gala. Speaking after receiving the award, Equity Group MD and CEO, Dr. James Mwangi, said the win, [...]

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NairobI, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya recorded 12 new coronavirus fatalities on Monday, raising the country’s death toll linked to the virus to 1,392. The new deaths is a low since Kenya started experiencing a second wave of the infections in October. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, in a daily pandemic update, said [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Davos Agenda is a pioneering mobilization of global leaders to rebuild trust to shape the principles, policies and partnerships needed in 2021, an NGO said Monday. According to the World Economic Forum, the virtual meeting will build momentum ahead of the Special Annual Meeting next year. The [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) on Monday denounced the attempted attack on the headquarters of the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) in Tripoli, promising to crack down on the attackers with the most severe measures. The Libyan National Oil Company announced [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei is the only African to make the 2020 Male World Athlete of the Year final list. He is among the five finalists named by the world athletics governing body ahead of the World Athletics Award in Monaco on December 5. Among other achievements, Cheptegei broke [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom have welcomed the results of the first round of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) and the conclusions of the Berlin Conference on Libya, assuring their readiness to take sanctions against anyone obstructing the realisation of inter-Libyan dialogue under [...]

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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo has recorded 329 deaths and 11,386 recoveries from COVID-19 since the pandemic hit the county in March 2020, according the technical secretariat of the national multi-sectoral committee on the response to the disease. The committee said in its bulletin that one death was recorded [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a terrorist link in the Sahel, has appointed Mibrak Yezid aka Abu Oubeida Youssouf Al-Annabi as its new leader, according to a video released by Sheikh Ghouteiba Abu No'Oman, a Mauritanian senior official of the  movement, and broadcast by [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's national Baccalaureate exam success rate for 2020 has dropped by 3.6 per cent, or 21.56 per cent compared to 25.12 per cent in 2019, according to results released by the Ministry of Education's National Centre for Education Examinations and Competitive Examinations (CNECE). Out of 122,096 candidates, [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's former football national defender Anele Ngcongca was killed in a car accident early Monday in KwaZulu-Natal. A female passenger, reportedly involved in the same crash, is in a critical condition in a Richards Bay hospital.  After representing Mamelodi Sundowns for four seasons, the Cape Town-born player [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 15 new cases of coronavirus, confirmed by tests carried out on 684 samples, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Monday.  It said that four are contact cases being treated and 11 cases resulted from community transmission. In addition, the ministry announced [...]

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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                                 2,687.00                     2,817.00 Japanese YEN                      19.84                          24.84 Pound Sterling                3,012.00                     3,142.00 Canadian Dollar              1,761.01              [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Thirteen coronavirus-related deaths and 650 new infections have been recorded in Libya, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Monday. Also, the Centre said that 678 recoveries have  been recorded in the country. In a statement, the Centre said it received 4,678 samples for testing and 4,028 [...]

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Addis Ababa Ethiopia (PANA) - At a time when COVID-19 cases are increasing in a second wave in many parts of the world and people are fatigued with the public health and social measures, #AfricaMaskWeek is being launched to sustain and increase mask-wearing as a protective measure among populations in [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Monday’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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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The former Mauritanian president (2007-2008), Sidi Mohamed ould Cheikh Abdallahi, died on Sunday night at the age of 82 years, following a long illness, according to official sources. The sources said a national mourning of three days will be observed. An economist by training, Cheikh Abdallahi was a [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is working with more than 350 logistics partners, including major airlines, shipping lines and logistics associations from around the world, to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to over 92 countries, as soon as doses become available, the UN agency said on Monday.  Etleva Kadilli, [...]

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Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - Football's governing body, FIFA, has banned Ahmad Ahmad, the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and a FIFA Vice-President, for five years for breaching some of its codes.  He has been sanctioned with a ban from all football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 69 new deaths due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and 1,240 new infections, the Tunisian Health Ministry announced on Sunday. The total number of deaths is now 2,821 while that of infections is 88,711 since the beginning of the pandemic in the country, the ministry [...]

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