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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Since the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on 10 March, this year, the DR Congo has recorded 333 deaths and 11,585 recoveries, an official source told PANA here Monday. The daily bulletin released by the technical secretariat of the national multisectoral committee of response to the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso Monday recorded 30 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), taking to 2,886 the number of infected people since 9 March, the Government information Service (SIG) said. However, there were no recoveries or deaths, thus still maintaining the total number of recoveries at 2,593, and [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia Monday recorded 41 new cases of deaths due to coronavirus (COVID-19) and 518 new infections, the Tunisian ministry of Health here. The total number of infections recorded in the country since the beginning of the pandemic stands at 96,769 cases as against 70,851 recoveries, the ministry [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Collective of Orphans, an organization grouping widows and orphans of unresolved humanitarian issues of the years 1990/1991 in Mauritania, Monday expressed its determination to fight against the abrogation of the May 1993 amnesty bill. The bill, it said in a press briefing here Monday, sought to [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Interior minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Bachagha, Monday held talks with the Tunisian ambassador in Libya, Lassaad Lajili, on ways of facilitating travel procedures for Libyan and Tunisian citizens across their common land border post of Ras Jedir, an official [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The funeral of Ghana's late former president, Jerry John Rawlings, will be held on 23 December, his family announced on Monday. James Victor Gbeho, Head of the funeral planning committee, in a press release on Monday, said the family, in consultation with government, has agreed on the [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has launched an appeal for US$147 million to support as many as 100,000 people fleeing Ethiopia’s Tigray region into neighbouring Sudan, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday. More than 43,000 people have fled across the border to escape [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, on Monday met with a delegation from the Italian Oil and Gas Company (ENI), and they discussed the possibility of ''opening new investment horizons to help revive the Libyan economy''. As part of [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese swimmer, Mathieu Ousmane Sèye broke, the two national records in the 200-meter freestyle at the 12th Hortillons 50-meter meet in Amiens, France. On the second day of the 200-metre freestyle event, his time of 1'56''71 erased the former best mark of Senegal over the distance achieved [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The National Alliance for Change (ANC), one of Togo's leading political parties, in a statement in Lomé on Monday, called for the "immediate release" of Kafui Brigitte Adjamagbo-Johnson and Gérard Dodji Yaovi Djossou, detained last weekend at the gendarmerie for alleged violation of state security. Responding to [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Mr. Annadif Khatir Mahamat Saleh, on Monday condemned the attacks that targeted its international forces in several towns in Mali. Saleh, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for Mali, said [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - One in seven Libyans needs mental and psychological health care, the World Health Organization (WHO) said,  citing the ongoing political and security crises in the country, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a report published Sunday on its latest update of the epidemiological situation in Libya between [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Armed Forces of Nigeria on Monday disagreed with the United Nations Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, on the number of rice farmers killed by Boko Haram on Saturday, saying that far from the 110 killed as given by the UN, the actual figure [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius and Seychelles on Monday signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on cyber crime and security and crime combating. The agreements were initialled in Port Louis in the presence of Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan, who is on a State Visit to Mauritius, and Mauritian Prime Minister [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new report released Monday by the Norwegian Refugee Council and the UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency-led Global Protection Cluster (GPC) finds that millions of people internally displaced or affected by conflict could be missing out on humanitarian protection support due to insufficient funding. GPC data indicates that [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African medical assistant is being hailed for the role he played in rescuing Formula One driver Romain Grosjean who survived a horrific accident during Sunday night’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Former race driver Alan Van Der Merwe drives the medical car – a Mercedes-AMG [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 14 new cases of coronavirus after tests performed on 722 samples, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Monday, during its daily press briefing. The ministry also indicated that 10 patients tested negative and were declared cured.  It added that 148 patients are [...]

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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                                 2,700.00                     2,830.00 Japanese Yen                    [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Seventeen new coronavirus-related deaths  have been recorded in Libya in the last 24 hours. The health authorities also announced 379 new cases after testing 3,565 samples in the last 24 hours. In a statement released on Monday, the National Centre for Disease Control also announced 552 recoveries. Thus, the [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea on Sunday recorded 15 new positive cases of coronavirus following tests carried out on 194 samples, the National Health Security Agency (ANSS) announced on Monday in its daily bulletin. It said that 22 patients hospitalized in treatment centres have been declared cured. Since the declaration of the [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the ouguiya as published by the Central Bank of Mauritania. Currency                                      Buying          Selling 1 Euro        [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Forty widows, orphans, relatives of black military victims of extrajudicial executions in 1990-1991, and activists of various support movements, arrested on Saturday on the sidelines of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the independence of Mauritania, were released on Sunday afternoon, PANA learned from sources. They [...]

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Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the CFA franc as published by the Bank of Central African States (BEAC). Currencies                                 Buying                    [...]

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