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 29.62 31.18 Canadian Dollar 29.91 [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan and Ethiopia are accusing each other of incidents on their common border with Sudan appealing to the international community and regional organizations to condemn criminal acts carried out by Ethiopia. Ethiopia, on its part, said Sudan has been inflaming the situation on the border. The official Sudan [...]Full text...
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The U.S. on Wednesday announced that it will not be an observer of Uganda's election scheduled for Thursday following the cancellation of 75% of accreditations requested. The US ambassador in Uganda, Natalie E. Brown, in a statement on the Embassy's website said: "It is with profound disappointment [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Twenty-one persons lost their lives on Tuesday in two separate road accidents in Niger and Oyo States in Nigeria. In Niger State, 13 people were killed and 14 others injured in a road crash along Kutugi-Bida road. In Oyo State, eyewitnesses said eight persons lost their lives in [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 1,270 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections to 102,601. The NCDC said via its official website that 12 new COVID-19 related deaths were recorded on Tuesday, driving the death toll to [...]Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) – Strong fiscal and monetary policy support have helped bolster the health system and cushion the economic shock from the COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal, but led the projected 2020 fiscal deficit to increase from 3 to about 6 ½ percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Wednesday’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 67.00 69.50 Euro 59.00 62.50 CFA Franc (5000) 400.00 425.00 Swedish Kroner (100) 480.00 520.00 Australian Dollar 34.50 37.50 South African Rand 12.00 14.00 Canadian Dollar 37.00 [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Despite important strikes against terrorism over the past two decades, including bringing perpetrators to justice and disrupting additional attacks, countries cannot afford to let down their guard, the UN’s counter-terrorism chief told a virtual meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday. “Terrorist activity has shown that [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday underscored that “no effort should be spared” to keep children in school, as the coronavirus pandemic continues into a second year. “Despite overwhelming evidence of the impact of school closures on children, and despite increasing evidence [...]Full text...
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - In southern Madagascar, “famine-like conditions” have doubled the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance compared with last year, to more than 1.3 million. the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. And successive droughts and a lack of jobs linked to COVID-19 restrictions are to [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) scheduled for Wednesday in Geneva may lead to the formation of the executive authority to select candidates to manage the country’s political process. The authority is entrusted with the task of forming a national unity government in charge of supervising the [...]Full text...
