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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The Cairo-based apex business body, Egyptian African Businessmen Association (EABA), Saturday organized an online conference which attracted its members and students. The meeting which came on the heels of another event organized by EABA barely five days ago took the form of marketing and business development workshop [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The president of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, on Saturday in Tripoli received the Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, carrying a written message from the Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani, conveying his congratulations on the election of the Presidential Council [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The elections to choose a municipal council in Souk Jumaa, an eastern suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, recorded a low participation rate on Saturday with 6 per cent of voters registered at midday, the Central Elections Committee announced on its Facebook page. The 52 polling stations [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso on Friday recorded one new death linked to the coronavirus, bringing to 150 the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic on 9 March 2020. According to health authorities, 17 new confirmed cases have also been recorded, bringing the total to [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The curve of the coronavirus pandemic is not slowing down in Togo, which recorded 194 new confirmed cases on Friday, bringing the total number to 10,848, official sources told PANA on Saturday in Lomé. However, 100 new recoveries were also recorded, making a total of 8,096 recoveries, [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded seven new coronavirus-related deaths, bringing to 1,063 the number of patients who have died from the pandemic since its appearance in the country on 2 March 2020, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Saturday at its daily press briefing. The ministry [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Sacca Lafia, has spoken out against acts of vandalism and disruption of the electoral campaign for the 11 April presidential election in Benin. "I heard that individuals in organised gangs are disrupting the normal course of the electoral [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - On the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony of the Nigerien president on Friday in Niamey, the president of the Libyan High State Council, Khaled al-Mechri, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, agreed on the need to hold national elections in Libya exactly [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - About 91 people were declared positive to the coronavirus on Friday in Guinea, after 1,656 tests, being a positivity index of 5.5 p, the daily bulletin of the National Agency of Health Security (ANSS), transmitted to PANA said. Forty patients were, however, declared cured at the same [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kais Saeid on Friday played host to the Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Mauritanians Abroad, Ismael Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who handed him a message from his Mauritanian counterpart, Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani. According to a statement issued by the Tunisian presidency, the meeting [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Two Malian soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded on Friday in an attack that targeted the security post of Diafarabé, in the Tenenkou circle, in the Mopti region of central Mali, a security source told PANA on Saturday. "The security post of the Malian Armed Forces [...]

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Banjul, Gambia  (PANA) – The following are Saturday’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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Washington DC, US (PANA) – Safely exiting the COVID-19 crisis and returning Africa to its pre-crisis convergence path require carefully-calibrated domestic policies and stronger support from the international community, according to heads of the African Caucus and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Minister Domitien Ndihokubwayo, Chairman of the African Caucus, and [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday approved 38-month arrangements of US$2.34 billion for Kenya under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to support the next phase of the  COVID-19 response and reduce the country’s debt vulnerabilities. Approval [...]

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