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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - A new political party,  Pan-African Union for Democracy and Change (UPDC), was launched at the  weekend in Lomé, PANA learnt on Tuesday from informed sources in the Togolese capital. Led by a teacher-researcher at the University of Lomé, Komla Apla, hitherto unknown in the political arena, the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Nine patients have died in Libya from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours. The country has also recorded 489 new cases out of 2,826 samples tested during the period, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Tuesday. In a statement, the Centre said that 897 recoveries [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo on Monday recorded 29 new cases of coronavirus, down from 97 cases on Friday, 86 on Saturday and 51 on Sunday. The 29 cases recorded on Monday bring the total number to 6,348, while the number of recoveries is 5,323 after nine new recoveries reported on [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Following more than 10 years of delays, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday heard that former President Jacob Zuma's multi-million dollar corruption case is finally ready for trial. The final hurdle was cleared earlier this month when the same court dismissed French arms [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - A thick layer of dust from the Sahara Desert has enveloped the Guinean capital, Conakry, and inland prefectures for the past few days, where aircraft landings were stopped due to lack of visibility. The Guinea national director of Meteorology, Lamine Bah, told PANA that the phenomenon is [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday completed the second and the third reviews of Mali’s economic performance supported by the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and allowed an immediate disbursement of US$57.6 million to help the country meet financing needs and support [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency                                 Buying     Selling Australian Dollar                   30.54    [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian health authorities announced on Tuesday that they detected seven new imported cases of Covid-19 in quarantine last weekend. The patients, five men and two women, who arrived in the island after transiting through Dubai, have been admitted to a dedicated Covid-19 hospital. Their state of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Coast Guard has rescued some 94 illegal migrants, who were travelling in an inflatable boat off the Libyan coast, the Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) announced on Monday. In a statement, the Interior Ministry's Information Office said a boat of the [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Tuesday’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                     [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the three people who were killed on Monday during an attack on a UN convoy in the east of DR Congo.  The Italian ambassador to DR Congo, a World Food Programme (WFP) staff member, together with [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on manufacturers to prioritise contracts with the UN-led equitable vaccines initiative, COVAX, declaring that it’s “not a matter of charity, it’s a matter of epidemiology”. A UN statement said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at WHO's regular bi-weekly briefing [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Increased “brinkmanship, pressure tactics, and tests of strength” are threatening progress in Somalia, the country’s UN envoy told the Security Council on Monday, warning that they must be resolved “through dialogue and compromise”.  “Growing political tensions threaten Somalia’s State-building progress and even security,” Special Representative and [...]

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