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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali Wednesday recorded 51 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) out of 1,234 tests, 20 recoveries but no death, the health services said here. Altogether, the country has recorded 7,738 positive cases, including 303 deaths due to the pandemic and 5,374 recoveries. So far, 2,319 contact persons are the [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The death toll due to road accidents dropped slightly in Benin in 2020, according to statistics released by the National Grouping of firemen. The grouping recorded 352 deaths in 2020 as against 392 in 2019 and answered 10,744 rescue calls between 1 January and 31 December 2020, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the presidential council of the Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, Wednesday held talks with some members of the Chamber of Representatives (Parliament) on the formation of a national unity government, an official source said here. The discussion centred on the creation of a [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Beninese political parties and personalities, led by the Front for the Restoration of Democracy (FRD), Wednesday asked President Patrice Talon to return the gains acquired from the National conference of lifeblood in February 1990. "Against the democratic challenge and the emergency for change on top of the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The joint finance committee, bringing together representatives of the Government of National Accord seating in Tripoli and the interim government based in the eastern city of Beidha, met here Wednesday to discuss the mechanisms and criteria for the preparation of the unified budget, official sources said [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, Stephanie Williams, Wednesday called on parties of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to jointly help resolve the deadlock over the mechanisms for choosing the executive authority. In a speech at the opening of the meeting of [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo on Tuesday recorded a record number of 67 cases of COVID-19 contaminations, reaching the mark of 4,000 cases, a communiqué issued by the ministry of Health, Public hygiene and universal access to indicated on Wednesday. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Togo in March 2020, [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A dozen people have been abducted over the past few days in eastern Burkina Faso, PANA learned from official sources. "Eight people, including a septuagenarian, were abducted in Nassougou (Matiakoali, East) on January 6 and 10, 2021, by individuals whose motives are still unknown," reports the [...]

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Gambia, Banjul (PANA) - The Gambian government is set to take measures to prevent the country from the outbreak of highly-pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) of the type H5N1 in neighbour Senegal. A joint statement, made available to PANA here on Wednesday by the Ministry of Agriculture, through the department of [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - In the evening of January 5, 2021, following intelligence reports, Nigerien and Burkinabe units of the Joint Force G5 Sahel (JC-G5S), in coordination with partners, repelled terrorists in the villages of Kolman and Takabougou in Niger and Burkina Faso, the force announced in a statement [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia will Thursday commemorate a low-key 10th anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled the autocratic regime of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who ruled the country with an iron fist for 23 years. This anniversary is taking place in a climate of disenchantment with [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A fish feed manufacturing plant, with a capacity to produce 30,000 tons of seedlings per year was inaugurated Tuesday in Dialakorobougou, in the rural commune of Mountougoula, near the capital, Bamako, by Mali's Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mahmoud Ould Mohamed, PANA learned from official [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The mayor of the rural municipality of Doukouria, in the Timbuktu region of northeastern Mali, Aboubacrine Ag Mohamed Ahmed Aboutta, was abducted on Monday at about 5:00 pm, the Malian News Agency (AMAP) reported on Wednesday on its site. The mayor, who was rushing back to his [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Consultative Committee emanating from the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LDPF) began its work on Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland, to address differences over the choice of a mechanism to select candidates for the executive authority responsible for managing the transition and overseeing the organization of general [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Vice-President of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Ahmed Omar Maitig, and the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, at a meeting on Tuesday in Rome, discussed the "activation of the agreements concluded between Libya and Italy, including the [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Increasingly, the surge in coronavirus-related deaths in Senegal is a cause for concern as nine patients died Tuesday from the pandemic, bringing the total number of the dead to 489 since March 2, when the virus first appeared in the country. At its daily press briefing on [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 59 new Covid-19 deaths, against 1,553 new recoveries, the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday evening. The country has also recorded 2,586 new confirmed infections, bringing to 164,936 the total number of cases recorded in the country since the start of the pandemic [...]

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Bangui, Central African Republic (PANA)  – The Covid-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on the economy of the Central African Republic (CAR) but it appears to be somewhat contained, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director, Mitsuhiro Furusawa. Mr. Furusawa made the remark on Tuesday after the IMF [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Efforts should be stepped up to quickly identify and study emerging variants of the COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, UN World Health Organization (WHO) scientists said on Tuesday.  Alongside monitoring, virus and serum samples should be shared via globally agreed mechanisms so that critical research can be promptly initiated each [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Wednesday’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                                2,766.73                     2,896.73 Japanese YEN                     19.76                           24.76 Pound Sterling               3,108.00                     3,338.00 Swiss Franc      [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Switzerland and The Gambia have signed cooperation agreements on migration and civil aviation to open up new opportunities for both countries, a statement made available to PANA in Banjul said on Wednesday. The agreement was signed during the official visit to Bern, Switzerland, by a Gambian delegation [...]

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