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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Abdelhakim Al-Waer has been appointed deputy Managing Director, Permanent Representative of the Middle-East and North Africa to the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the Libyan ministry of foreign affairs of the Government of National Accord said here Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry added that [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The presidential council of the national unity government Wednesday congratulated the chairman of the managing committee of the Libyan national oil company (NOC), Mustapha Sanalla, for receiving the medal of "champion of fight against corruption" from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. In a statement, the Council [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Civil society organizations, traditional rulers, Christian and Muslim leaders have sounded a strong and uncompromising message that they will not entertain lesbian and homosexual practice in the country, local media reports said here Wednesday. The latest among them is Sheikh Dr Usumanu Nuhu Sharubutu, the National Chief [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President Adama Barrow og Gambia has called for stronger cooperation in the manufacturing and tourism industries, saying that such investments will create job opportunities for the youth, as well as curb illegal migration. He made the calls on Wednesday at State House in Banjul where he received [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Al Hilal Omdurman of Sudan drew 0-0 with TP Mazembe of DR Congo  in a Group B match played on Wednesday in the Group stage of the 2020/21 CAF Champions league. The other Group B match between Belouizdad of Algeria and Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa will [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 127 Burundian refugee households returned home on Tuesday from neighboring Tanzania where they had taken shelter from the violent electoral crisis of 2015 in their country, the Burundi public radio reported on Wednesday. The 127 households represent a group of 370 women, men and children, from [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, on Wednesday sent his message of congratulations to Mohamed Bazoum, who has been elected president of Niger. "I extend my warm and fraternal congratulations to the elected President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum. I assure him of my [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Wednesday expressed his sadness at the passing of respected Tanzanian economist, Prof. Benno Ndulu, saying Africa has lost a great thinker and visionary in the infancy of continental free trade.  Ndulu, aged 71, passed away in a hospital in Dar [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Ministry of Health reported two more coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday raising fatalities reported since April 2020 to 1,839. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe noted in a statement that cumulative cases reported in the country since March 2020 rose to 104,780 after 280 people tested positive for [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) on Wednesday called off a nationwide strike following a restraining order issued by Employment and Labour Court Judge Maureen Onyango.     Justice Onyango also stayed disciplinary measures that had been undertaken by nurses’ employers.   KNUN Secretary General Seth Panyako said the union will [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved 40-year old Abdulrasheed Bawa as chairman of the nation’s main anti-corruption body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Until the approval by a voice vote, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee was the regional head of the EFCC in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K  will establish the first OlympAfrica Centre in the country, it was disclosed here on Wednesday. Olympafrica is a programme of social development through sport. NOC-K  unveiled the proposed development during a courtesy call on Acting Nairobi County Governor Anne Kananu. NOC-K, also [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopa (PANA) – The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement should take into consideration the voices of women by eliminating practices which discriminate against them, a South African official said on Wednesday. South African Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, said [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Wednesday became recipient of first shipment of COVAX vaccine when it took delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine licensed to the Serum Institute of India. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative in Ghana, Ms. Anne-Claire Dufay and World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Ghana, [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday announced that  Algerian authorities had informed it of the closure of their common border as part of measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. "This decision concerns various Algerian borders and all travellers from all over the world," [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 32 new deaths linked to the coronavirus (Covid-19) and 844 new infections following laboratory tests on a sample of 4,489 suspect cases, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. This brings to 7,843 the total number of deaths and 229,781 the number of infections [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded eight new deaths from  coronavirus, bringing to 840 the number of patients who have succumbed to the pandemic since its appearance in the country on 2 March 2020, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Wednesday. The ministry also said that 221 [...]

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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                                  2,753.00                    2,883.00 Japanese YEN                       19.54                         24.54 Pound Sterling                 3,219.00                   3,349.00 Swiss Franc                      2,551.53                [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Two Malian soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in an ambush by armed terrorist groups on Tuesday in central Mali, the Malian Army Information Service said. At about 2 pm on Tuesday, a mission of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMAs) of the 53rd Rapid Intervention Company [...]

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Banjul, Gambia(PANA) - Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission (TRRC) is on Wednesday holding hearings at its current session, which began on 22 February, on the 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants. It was the largest loss of life during the rule of former president Yahya Jammeh, according [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Twenty-six new patients have died from COVID-19 infection in Libya, bringing the death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic in March to 2,151, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the centre said 561 new cases of emerging coronavirus infection had [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan High Council of State has called on the Prime Minister-designate of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, to speed up the formation of his government. It has also urged members of Parliament to show the highest level of responsibility to pass a vote [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Ambassadors of Belgium and Spain to Gambia on Tuesday presented their letters of credence to the Gambian Foreign minister, Dr. Mamadou Tangara. Mr. Hubert Roisin, ambassador of Belgium and Ms. Olga Cabarga Gomez, ambassador of Spain, at separate ceremonies pledged to strengthen ties with the West [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The COVID-19 pandemic and Ethiopia’s domestic security situation have created both social and economic challenges, requiring a reorientation of policies to support the economy and boost spending on emergency health care, social services, humanitarian relief and reconstruction, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has observed. “The pandemic [...]

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