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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Two people were killed and three others injured Thursday in an armed attack on a vehicle of traders on the Markoye-Tokabangou axis in the province of Oudalan, in the Sahel region  in northern Burkina Faso, a security source told PANA here. "This Thursday, a dozen armed [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 19 people from Libyan judiciaries, police and financial institutions participated in a training workshop to combat corruption and money laundering, the European Union Mission in Libya said here Thursday. The workshop forms part of a three-year project titled "Strengthening National Capacities for Libya to [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal Thursday recorded three new deaths linked to the coronavirus (COVID-19) to bring to 1,073 the number of people who have succumbed to the pandemic since its appearance in the country on March 02, 2020, the Ministry of Health and Social Action said during its daily [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Thursday condemned the pre-election violence recorded in some areas of Benin a few days before the country's presidential election on 11 April . "ECOWAS condemns this violence prejudicial to peace, necessary for the holding of a credible, transparent and [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Faced with a  deteriorating epidemiological situation of the Covid-19, Tunisian authorities have  extended the nightly curfew by three hours from Friday until April 30. The curfew will now be in force from 7pm to 5am instead of 10pm to 5am, government spokesperson Hasna Ben Othman announced at [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba has discussed with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the strengthening of bilateral relations between the two countries and their development through intensified cooperation in various fields of development, investment, economy and security. During [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Twenty-seven new deaths linked to coronavirus infection and 869 new cases have been recorded in Libya out of 5,686 samples tested in the 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Thursday. In a statement, the Centre also announced 664 recoveries in the country. The [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Armed groups in Burkina Faso committed human rights abuses, including killings and abductions, in the context of the armed conflict in 2020, Amnesty International said in its annual report issued on Wednesday. The report also highlighted that Burkina Faso's security forces have carried out extrajudicial executions [...]

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  Banjul, Gambia  (PANA) – Following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi 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                      39.50 Swiss Franc  [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin's electoral platform of civil society organisations for the 11 April presidential election has denounced acts of violence in some cities during demonstrations announced as peaceful. Since the early hours of 6 April 2021, demonstrations turned violent with the destruction of public and private property, human rights [...]

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Paris, France (PANA) – UNESCO has launched a global survey on public access to information, putting into practice its status as the custodian agency in the UN for monitoring the right to access to information. Using Sustainable development indicator 16.10.2, the new survey will track progress on how states are adopting [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency     Buying     Selling Australian Dollar 29.90 31.47 Canadian Dollar 31.02 31.75 Euro 46.67 48.54 100 Japanese Yen 35.09 37.63 100 Malagasy Ariary 1.06 1.13 Malawian Kwacha 0.05 0.06 100 Kenyan Shilling 36.64 38.19 South African Rand 2.64 2.86 Pound [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities said on Wednesday that eight positive COVID-19 cases were detected in quarantine centres in Mauritius, after the 7th quarantine day out of some 684 PCR tests. Speaking at the daily press briefing of the National Communication Committee on COVID-19, in Port Louis, Minister of [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - As the world marked 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 called for concerted efforts to defeat hate-driven movements to prevent history from repeating itself.  In [...]

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New York, US (PANA)- Leaders across the world need to “move beyond platitudes” about young people, and deliver a better future for them all, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the 10th Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum on Wednesday.  He described the gathering online as “the UN’s foremost platform” for tackling the [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine could possibly cause rare blood clots in some people but further studies are required to confirm the link, experts with the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.  The opinion by the subcommittee of WHO’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) follows [...]

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Washington, DC US (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesoday launched a new Climate Change Indicators Dashboard—an international statistical initiative to address the growing need for data in macroeconomic and financial policy analysis to facilitate climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Dashboard is a single platform that brings together experimental [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The failure of Libya to investigate the unlawful arrest and torture of a women’s rights activist is a clear rights violation, the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), said on Wednesday. Magdulein Abaida fled Libya in 2012 after being harassed, tortured and forced to [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Addressing misinformation and countering vaccine hesitancy features prominently in a political declaration launched at the United Nations General Assembly, as countries pledged to “work together as one” to defeat the pandemic, and help people and the planet to recover better.  More than 181 Member States voiced [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The humanitarian situation in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region remains “dire”, the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said on Wednesday.   “While there has been substantial improvement in humanitarian access, active hostilities have been reported in the north-western, central, eastern, south-eastern and southern zones”, Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents at [...]

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