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 43.78 [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe government on Tuesday warned political actors, especially those in the opposition, against possible abuses related to the electoral process of last Sunday's presidential and parliamentary polls, whose compilation and validation of provisional results is underway. The five members of the opposition sitting in the [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A police officer died on Tuesday when suspected drug traffickers crushed her with their car. The incident happened during a controlled delivery operation at the Beau Vallon shopping centre in Mahébourg, southern Mauritius, according to the police. When police officers arrived at the site of the operation, two [...]Full text...
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 28.49 [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by Central Bank of The Gambia. Currency Buying Selling US Dollar 50.40 52.00 Pound Sterling 64.20 66.00 Euro [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian parliamentarians on Tuesday passed the Climate Change Bill whose objective is “to make of Mauritius a greener economy while responding to the adverse effects of climate change”. According to the Environment Minister, Kavi Ramano, the bill responds to the island's environmental commitments, such as the Paris [...]Full text...
London, UK (PANA) – Major jewelry companies are improving their sourcing of gold and diamonds, but most cannot assure consumers that their jewelry is untainted by human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday in advance of the holiday shopping season. The 84-page report, “Sparkling Jewels, Opaque [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Following the recommendation of CAF's Medical Committee, the Emergency Committee has decided that next month’s session of the CAF Ordinary General Assembly will be held via videoconference. In a story on its website, the African football governing body said the meeting, initially scheduled for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, [...]Full text...
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Two senior UN officials on Tuesday welcomes the war crimes conviction and life sentencing of an armed combatant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, and her counterpart on Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, lauded the [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed deep concern over the unfolding situation in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia where fighting between the local Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian National Defence Force is continuing. A statement in New York on Tuesday by UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric after [...]Full text...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - At least 600 people were killed in Maikadra in Southwestern Tigray state on the night of 9 November and hundreds more were wounded, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said in a new report Tuesday. "While it is not possible yet to verify the exact numbers of [...]Full text...
