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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reaffirmed his resolve to  stop illegal mining dubbed 'galamsey', describing it as an 'evil activity'. The president, who was addressing a sod-cutting ceremony for the construction of a Law Village Project in Accra Wednesday, declared that "the presence of charlatans [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The US-based Senegambian Queen, Binta T.E. Goudiaby Sarr, on Thursday urged African Presidents to display leadership in the decolonization process of African minds at home and abroad. “Our presidents and other leaders must set examples by communicating our culture, history and the spirits of our ancestors or [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese Foreign Affairs Minister, Ms. Mariam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, left Khartoum on Thursday, leading a high-level delegation on a three-leg tour that will take her to Ghana, Senegal and Niger. The tour, the Sudan official news agency, SUNA, reported, is aimed to mobilize African support for Sudan in [...]

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Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - The following are the latest FIFA rankings for African countries, published in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday. World ranking    African ranking    Countries 22                            1                     Senegal 26                             2                    Tunisia 32                             3                     Nigeria 33                             4                    Algeria 34                             5                    Morocco 46                             6                    Egypt 49                            7                    Ghana 55                            [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan presidential council, Mohamed El Menfi, will pay an official visit to Tunisia, from May 29 to 31, 2021, at the invitation of President Kaïs Saied. According to a press release from the Tunisian presidency, the visit is part of efforts to strengthen [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The debates between members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (FDPL) ended Thursday afternoon after two days of discussions on the draft constitutional basis for the December 24 elections. According to reports, the debates revealed the differences on certain essential points relating to the primacy of the referendum [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Constitutional Court on Thursday dismissed former President Jacob Zuma's attempt to appeal the estimated US$720,000 costs order issued against him for his challenge against the constitutionality of the State Capture Inquiry. The Economic Freedom Fighters and Democratic Alliance  opposition parties as well as [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN has urged Sudanese parties, currently engaged in peace talks in Juba, South Sudan, to shun vested interest and participate with “goodwill and determination” for reaching peace in their country. A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said the Secretary-General “welcomes the start of peace [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Former top leaders of the Transition Government of Mali who resigned on Wednesday have been released from custody by the military. Transition President Bah N'Daw and Prime Ministe, Moctar Ouane were arrested just after the announcement of a new government team and taken to Kati military camp, [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - African countries strengthened their ability to recover funds held offshore, directly boosting national tax revenues, according to the latest Tax Transparency in Africa report released Wednesday. The trend signals continuing progress in the fight against illicit fund flows out of Africa, worth an estimated $50 billion [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the Government of Tanzania have signed loan agreements totalling US$140 million to finance the construction of the 50-megawatt Malagarasi hydropower plant in the country’s western Kigoma Region. The agreements cover a $120 million sovereign loan from the Bank [...]

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Athens, Greece (PANA) - Greece will always be an active partner of Africa, Nikos Dendias, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, said at Africa Day celebration in Athens. "Greece will be a partner to Africa and will continue working for the enhancement of our long and strong ties of friendship and cooperation," Dendias [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA)-  Gambia's Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, on Thursday confirmed detecting the West African nation's first cases of the so-called Indian variant of the COVID-19 virus in two persons who arrived in the country on 18 April 2021.    “Ministry of Health  in response to COVID-19 continues to [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - With COVID-19 vaccine supplies to Africa slowing down, the continent is working to boost its own manufacturing capacities for vaccines, medicines and vital health technologies.  Africa suffers more than its fair share of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Over 90% of the world’s malaria deaths and 70% [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has recorded 231 new COVID-19 cases, detected from 2,864 samples over the past 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Thursday. In a statement, the Centre also announced 238 new recoveries and affirmed that there was no death related to the disease in [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid al-Dabaiba paid tribute to Libyan lawyers, praising their role since the 17 February 2011 revolution and their contribution in building the Libyan state. Speaking at the 1st General Congress of Lawyers in Khoms, 120km west of Tripoli, on the theme: 'Lawyers bring the country [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Members of Parliament are attending 5th ordinary session of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand, South Africa, where a Speaker and four Deputy Speakers will be elected on Thursday, a Libyan Parliament statement said. Libyan MP Saleh Guelma, who chaired the meetings of the North African [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), facilitated by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), on Thursday began the second day of deliberations on the constitutional basis for the 24 December elections. Members are discussing the draft document prepared by its Legal Committee. The Libyan political process [...]

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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       30.40      32.00 Canadian Dollar         32.30      34.10 Euro        [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all who received a first dose within the 8—12-week interval between doses recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).  A single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine gives [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The following are Thursday’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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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Health authorities in Mauritius on Wednesday announced the detection of nine new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 1,342, the number of infections recorded in the island since March 2020. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, screening is continuing in the various medical centres. It said that [...]

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Washington DC, US (PANA) - US President Joe Biden has expressed deep concern at the escalating violence and the hardening of regional and ethnic divisions in multiple parts of Ethiopia and called for a ceasefire. "Belligerents in the Tigray region should declare and adhere to a ceasefire, and Eritrean and Amhara [...]

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