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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has awarded a grant of US$320,535 to the West African Monetary Agency (WAMA) to mainstream gender in ECOWAS’ core digital financial services (DFS) regulatory frameworks. The funds will support a gender gap analysis of several WAMA [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has allayed social media reports that purports that 120 rhinos with and without horns have been slaughtered in the past 18 months. Dr. Kabelo Senyatso, Director, Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP), Tuesday said the motive for the post was unclear, but bordered on economic [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Ministry of Health announced in a brief statement here Tuesday the discovery of the UK strain of SARS-Cov-2 known by the scientific name B.1.1.7 variant from lineage. The press release did not provide details of the number of infections with this variant of the Coronavirus [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The prime minister-designate of Libya, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, discussed with the German Ambassador to Libya, Oliver Owcza, "the importance of summoning the deputies to hold an extraordinary session in order to express confidence to the government and developments in this regard". A plenary session was convened on 8 [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Tuesday began mass vaccination of the population under its National Vaccine Deployment Plan after receiving 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine under the COVAX Facility. With scepticism about the vaccine still prevalent in the West African country, President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo assured his compatriots in [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - FIFA has reportedly asked three candidates to back South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe in this month’s Confederation of African Football (CAF) presidential election. Motsepe last month unveiled a 10-point action plan in Johannesburg to steer the continent's football body in the future. He has the backing [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Economic Commission for Africa has launched a report on Building Forward for an African Green Recovery, which highlights strategies to drive Africa towards a post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery. The report seeks to bolster the continent’s quest for the realization of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), attainment [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 21 new deaths linked to the coronavirus (Covid-19) bringing the death toll to 8,022. It has also recorded 392 new contaminations making the total number 233,669 after 982,163 tests, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday evening. The number of recoveries is 198,778 and the [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Tuesday’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                                  2,736.00                    2,866.00 Japanese YEN                       19.31                         24.31 Pound Sterling                 3,174.00                    3,304.00 Swiss Franc                     2,534.75                     2,584.75 Canadian Dollar           [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is working to relocate thousands of Central African Republic (CAR) refugees away from dangerous conditions in remote border areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into safer sites further into the interior. UNHCR and DRC’s National [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded eight new coronavirus-related deaths, bringing to 888 the number of patients who have succumbed to the pandemic since its emergence in the country on 2 March 2020, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced at its daily press briefing on Tuesday. The ministry [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says it is alarmed at surging violence in north-west Nigeria which has fuelled displacement into neighbouring Niger’s Maradi region, where violence is also on the rise. Fearing armed groups and communal clashes, more than 7,660 refugees have fled Nigeria into Maradi this [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 134,967 confirmed coronavirus infections have been diagnosed so far in Libya, after recording 840 new cases out of 4,241 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The National Centre for Disease Control said on Tuesday that 963 recoveries and six deaths related to coronavirus [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Here are the fixtures of Day 3 of Mali's First Division national football championship, which will be played from Tuesday to Thursday. Tuesday, March 2 USFAS vs Yeelen Olympique Wednesday, 3 March Djoliba vs COB AS Black Star vs ASKO US Bougouni vs ASOM Nianan vs Sonni de Gao AS Bakaridjan vs Onze Créateurs Thursday, [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea on Monday recorded two coronavirus deaths sending the death toll to 91, the National Health Security Agency (ANSS) announced in its daily bulletin. It said 76 new confirmed cases were recorded out of 1,466 people tested, bringing the total to 16,081. ANSS stated that 77 patients have [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - After six consecutive weeks of decline, COVID-19 cases worldwide increased last week for the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.  Four of the agency’s six regions reported a rise in numbers, with Africa and the Western Pacific excluded, a UN statement said.  “This is [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Criminal Chamber on terrorism has sentenced 44 people convicted of terrorist acts to sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment, the spokesperson of the Tunis Court of First Instance, Mohsen Dali has said. He said 16 people have been sentenced to life, adding that [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed on Monday received the heads of the African diplomatic missions accredited in Tunis, a statement issued by the Tunisian presidency at the end of the meeting announced. The statement said the Tunisian head of state stressed the importance of bilateral and multilateral relations [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - One new coronavirus-related death has been recorded in Burkina Faso, bringing the total number of deaths since 9 March 2020 to 143, the Government Information Service (SIG) announced on Tuesday. In addition, six new infections have also been recorded, bringing the total to 12,030. There were 53 [...]

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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       30.05       31.63 Canadian Dollar         30.44      32.14 Euro      [...]

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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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