Saly, Senegal (PANA) - Hosts Senegal on Saturday retained the African Beach Soccer nations cup title, beating Mozambique 4-1 as the event drew to a close in Saly, Senegal. The win is Senegal's third in a row and six in total. Earlier in the day Morocco claimed the third position when they [...]Full text...
Saly, Senegal (PANA) - For qualifying for the final of the 2021 CAF Beach Soccer nations cup, Senegal and Mozambique have qualified to represent Africa at the 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. Both teams qualified on Friday and winning their groups in the African event at Saly, Senegal. Senegal will be [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Army says its troops, under Operation Hadin Kai, have eliminated 10 Boko Haram terrorists during an attempted attack on troops’ location in Rann, Headquarters of Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno, Northeast Nigeria. The Director, Army Public Relation, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, in a statement [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Army says its troops, under Sector 2, Operation HADIN KAI, on Saturday raided another Boko Haram logistics base in Gujba, Yobe State. Last week, the troops raided a Boko Haram warehouse in the same Yobe State, confiscating mainly fuel and other consumables. Army Spokesperson, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says that Nigeria recorded 63 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections on Friday while 11 patients were discharged from various isolation centres across the country. With the 63 new infections, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country now stands at [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of its Sit-at-Home order to its followers, the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN), killed soldiers, burnt Police Stations and courts, according to reports. At least, five soldiers were allegedly shot dead along Wetheral Road, Owerri, in South [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - President Kaïs Saied of Tunisia on Saturday stressed Tunisia's willingness to support Libya in its transition period leading to general elections next December. President Saied gave this indication at a joint press conference he held with the President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Menfi, who began [...]Full text...
Amsterdam, Netherlands (PANA) - The International Federation of Professional Footballers (FIFPRO) and the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) are to provide health support to recently-retired football players. To this end, FIFPRO and FIFA have signed a three-year cooperation agreement to provide health support to hundreds of recently-retired professional footballers facing [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 35 new cases of coronavirus, confirmed from tests carried out on 1,937 samples - 11 contact cases followed and 24 cases resulting from community transmission, a statement released on Saturday by the Ministry of Health and Social Action indicated. In addition, 40 patients have [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has welcomed the resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish an independent international commission of inquiry into human rights violations on the occupied Palestinian territories. The Council is also to look into the root causes of these violations, including methodical segregation and repression [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The president of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, is in Tunis on a three-day visit to Tunisia, according to an official Tunisian press release, which also indicated that al-Manfi was received on arrival at Tunis-Carthage international airport on Saturday by Tunisian President Kais Saeid. After military [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Algerian Foreign Minister, Sabri Boukadoum, revealed on Saturday that Algeria is currently working on the final logistical and technical arrangements for the opening of the Debdab-Ghadames border crossing with Libya. In an intervention during the Algerian-Libyan Economic Forum in Algiers, Boukadoum announced that "the two parties are [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Constitutional Court of Mali on Friday installed Col. Assimi Goita, president of the transition and head of state, following the resignation of the former president, Bah N'Daw, dethroned in a second military coup in nine months, PANA learned from an official source. Goïta, the vice-president of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The European Union Border Assistance Mission in Libya (EUBAM) has signed a a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Libyan Ministry of Interior for border assistance. In a tweet published on Friday, EUBAM said that the deal followed a meeting of the Head of the European Mission, [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Turkish Vice President, Fouad Aktay, has reiterated his country's support for Libya and expressed its willingness to provide all its expertise in various fields to the Libyan people. This position was expressed during a meeting on Friday evening in Istanbul between Oktay and the Vice President [...]Full text...
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team have reached a staff-level agreement on a three-year, US$1.5 billion financing package, to help the country recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, preserve macroeconomic stability, and advance the reform momentum to raise [...]Full text...
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 [...]Full text...
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The 2021 African Economic Conference (AEC), jointly organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will be held virtually and anchored in Cabo Verde from 2 to 4 December, 2021. Since its inception in [...]Full text...
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Fund (ADF) has been ranked second among 49 international agencies for the quality of its development assistance, underscoring its relevance to the continent’s most vulnerable countries. The ADF is the concessional arm of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group. According to the fifth edition [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius on Friday reported that the number of tourist arrivals decreased from 304,842 in the first quarter of 2020 to a mere 2,772 in the first quarter of 2021. In its latest bulletin, it said tourist arrivals by air decreased from 275,418 in the first quarter [...]Full text...
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has been named winner of the 2021 Great Builder Super Prize, the Babacar Ndiaye Trophy, "for his personal leadership and efforts made to ensure road safety and the health of the population in the context of transport". The Nigerian president succeeded his [...]Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has extended the second phase of its lockdown by one month, to fall on 30 June 2021, according to a a communiqué issued on Saturday after the weekly meeting of the Cabinet. It said that the lockdown was to expire on Sunday, 30 May, 2021. According to [...]Full text...
