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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Percious Boah, Ghana’s top scorer at the 2021 Total Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), hopes he can steer Ghana to the title in Mauritania when they take on Uganda in the final on Saturday in Nouakchott. The forward has scored three goals so far and is [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government has received the first batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine consignment, with the vaccine rollout expected to begin shortly on Friday during a Presidential launch event, health ministry officials said. Kenya's Health Cabinet Secretary Senator Mutahi Kagwe received the first batch of the 1.02 million [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Republic of Congo has decided to concentrate on building its agricultural sector to attain food security and better equip itself to combat hunger, a senior adviser to the government said here Wednesday. “We have declared that the soil must take over the subsoil,” said Mukena Bantu, [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The forthcoming Magical Kenya Open Golf Championship in Nairobi has attracted 156 participants. The organizers of the annual event, slated for March 18-21 at the Karen Country Club, will bring together golfers from 30 countries. The tournament is part of the elite European Tour. Kenya Open Golf Limited (KOGL), [...]

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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The country has recorded almost 60 per cent reduction in the daily numbers of patients admitted to coronavirus (COVID-19}isolation centres, Health Minister Jonas Chanda disclosed here Wednesday. Chanda said the development had indicated that Zambia had made positive strides in fighting the pandemic. He has however urged Zambians [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Ministers of Health from Guinea – which is combating a new Ebola outbreak – and neighbouring countries have agreed on a unified front to combat the virus that re-emerged about three weeks ago. A UN statement Wednesday said this was at a meeting held in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In Nigeria, too little is being done to help teenagers left traumatised by the recent spate of attacks on schools and mass abductions, UN-appointed independent rights experts said here Wednesday.  In an alert issued on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council's 46th session in Geneva, more than a dozen UN-appointed independent experts said that, without assistance,  victims who have been released were “at  increased risk [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The opposition Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP has urged former President Jacob Zuma to appear before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.  Zuma, who publicly defied a Constitutional Court order to appear before the inquiry chaired by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo, called for Zondo [...]

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Lome, Togo (PANA) - The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), the regional development bank for the Economic Community of West African States, and ODDO BHF AG, the Franco-German financial  services group with a longstanding track record and expertise in Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing, have signed a framework [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Three patients have died from COVID-19 infection and 618 new cases have been recorded in Libya out of 3,764 samples tested in the last 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the Centre said that 924 recoveries have also been [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian police have arrested three individuals accused of setting up a personal business specialising in the production of all kinds of fake documents, PANA learned from a security source. On a complaint from the head of the Centre II of Taxation at the Hippodrome, eastern district of [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded eight new deaths related to the coronavirus, bringing to 896 the number of patients who have died from the pandemic, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Wednesday, during its daily press briefing. The ministry also indicated that 205 out of 2,017 [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo announced in a statement on Tuesday that he was considering returning home after a 10-year absence following his acquittal by the International Criminal Court (ICC). "After 10 long years of absence from the country and following my acquittal by the International [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Libya and Head of his Support Mission (UNSMIL), Jan Kubis, has continued his efforts in recent days to mobilise regional and international support for the Libyan-led dialogue process in its three tracks -- security and military, political, financial and economic [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Gambia has received its first shipment of 36,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COCAX Facility, less than a week after the Ministry of Health submitted the required documentation for the delivery of the vaccines to the country. The AstraZeneca vaccines were shipped by the UN Children's [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Six people were killed on Tuesday in the explosion of an ambulance that ran over a mine between Gaskindé and Namissiguia, in the Sahel region, the Burkinabe government said in a statement. "This cowardly and barbaric incident, which occurred while the ambulance was on a medical [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - An Italian plane has landed at Nfedha international airport in Hamammet, Tunisia, with 26 Tunisian illegal migrants repatriated from Italy on board, a Tunisian security source said. This repatriation is part of the operations to send back Tunisian illegal migrants from Italy at the rate of two [...]

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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          30.23      31.82 Canadian Dollar           30.49  [...]

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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                     [...]

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Ghana have a chance to clinch a fourth Total Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations title on Saturday in Mauritania when they take on Uganda’s Hippos at the Olympic Stadium in Nouakchott. Coach Abdul Karim Zito says the Black Satellites will be motivated by the chance to make [...]

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