Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 41 new deaths linked to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 9,039, the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced in a statement on Tuesday. The country has also recorded 1,866 new confirmed infections following laboratory tests on a sample [...]Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso on Tuesday recorded 20 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing to 12,845 the total number of people infected since 9 March 2020, the Government Information Service (SIG) announced. In addition 39 new recoveries were recorded, bringing the total number to 12,516. The death toll [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba is to visit a number of Gulf Arab states, government spokesperson Mohamed Hamouda announced on Tuesday. This tour is intended to unify the positions of these countries towards Libya, after the assumption of office of the new Executive Authority and the unification [...]Full text...
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 30.02 31.60 Canadian Dollar 31.09 [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Industrial Development, SMEs and Cooperatives Minister, Mr Soomilduth Bholah, on Tuesday told the National Assembly that around 10,000 people have lost their jobs since March 2020 due to the COVID-19n pandemic. Mr Bholah said a report on the impact of COVID 19 on businesses in Mauritius [...]Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - As the world marks the grim anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, during which Hutu and others who opposed the massacre were also killed, the United Nations Secretary-General has called for concerted efforts to defeat hate-driven movements to prevent history from [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities announced on Tuesday that they had detected 22 new local cases of Covid-19, bringing the number of cases since the start of the second wave on 5 March to 401. At a media briefing in Port Louis, the Minister of Health and Welfare, Kailesh [...]Full text...
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the terrible legacy of deliberately divisive and destructive policies that have perpetuated inequality, discrimination, and oppression across sub-Saharan Africa, Amnesty International said in its annual report published on Wednesday. Across the region, the devastating impact of armed conflict in countries such [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The benefits of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are still “largely positive” and outweigh risk of rare but serious blood clots, according to an official with the World Health Organization (WHO), speaking on Tuesday during the agency’s regular press briefing from Geneva. Dr Rogério Pinto de Sá Gaspar, [...]Full text...
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Days of tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur have left scores dead and thousands fleeing their homes, the UN envoy to the country said on Tuesday. The bloodshed is the latest in a resurgence of violence since the Juba Peace Agreement was signed in October, and UN peacekeepers [...]Full text...
Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Levels of hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are at a “staggering” record high, now affecting one-in-three people, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP), 27.3 million people face “acute” [...]Full text...
