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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Tuesday asserted here that subjecting the work of the media to scrutiny or criticism did not amount to an attack on media freedom. Addressing the African Journalists’ Leaders Conference in Ghana's capital, President Akufo-Addo referred to critiques by the citizenry and [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization Tuesday validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine produced by the Beijing-based pharmaceutical company Sinovac, a press released issued and copied to PANA said. It has thus given the vaccine approval for emergency use, giving countries, funders, procuring agencies and communities the assurance that it [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 203 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 166,518. Nigeria recorded 31 new infections on Saturday and 30 on Sunday. The NCDC said via its official Twitter handle that Nigeria also [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the newly-appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya. The request comes five days after the appointment of General Yahaya was announced via a statement by Director of Defence Information, Brigadier [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Republic of Korea has given Tunisia a loan of US$ 60 million for the project to digitize the Tunisian land system and support regional and decentralized investment in Tunisia. The signing ceremony for loan agreement was jointly chaired by Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, and the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on Tuesday in Paris, France, discussed their joint effort to hold the second phase of the Berlin Conference on Libya as well as the next session of the UN Security Council, chaired [...]

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Goma, DR Congo (PANA)  – The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano, in eastern DR Congo,  has forced more than 415,000 people, nearly half of whom are children, to leave Goma, according to thousands of individual assessments carried out by the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix.  An estimated 86 per cent of the internally displaced, [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - French Prime Minister Jean Castex will pay an official visit to Tunisia from June 2-3, heading a ministerial delegation and several heads of French companies, to take part in the third session of the High Franco-Tunisian Cooperation Council, the Tunisian Prime Minister's Office announced in a [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Asia External Representation Office of the African Development Bank (AfDB), in coordination with the African Diplomatic Corps in Tokyo, will host the Third Japan-Africa Business Forum from 29 June to 8 July 2021, to promote Africa as an investment and trade destination. To be held [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) are joining forces to strengthen growth opportunities for Tunisian small businesses, with a new export programme called ‘Insadder’. The initiative aims to boost the export potential of local enterprises by helping them to penetrate [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The 74th World Health Assembly closed on Monday agreeing to hold a special session before the end of this year, looking at the merits of developing a pandemic treaty. In its intervention, Chile, a co-sponsor of the resolution calling for a special session, urged member countries to start [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Office of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Burundi closed on Monday, six years after it was set up to help resolve the violent 2015 electoral crisis in the African Great Lakes country, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. The other UN office in charge of human [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Revenue from Libya's net oil sales for April amounted to a record US$1.311 billion, comprising US$1.304 billion and €6.221 million, the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) announced. Libya's oil production currently stands at 1.3 million barrels per day, and is back to its usual levels, after falling [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Navy says 101 illegal migrants of various African nationalities have been rescued by the Libyan coast guard in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach European shores on board an inflatable boat. The Libyan Navy spokesperson said in a statement issued on Monday that the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Assistant Secretary-General and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya, Georgette Gagnon, has reaffirmed the UN's support for the Libyan authorities to establish a comprehensive and inclusive national reconciliation process. Speaking at the opening ceremony in Tripoli on Monday of a series of workshops on national [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency                     Buying    Selling Australian Dollar       30.48       32.08 Canadian Dollar         32.51       34.32 Euro      [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is continuing to assist thousands of people affected by the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano, near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 22 May. UNHCR spokesperson Jackie Keegan told a news [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by Central Bank of The Gambia. 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                          [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) have signed a grant agreement to support the project to support the unified financial market of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC). The deal was signed on May 28 in [...]

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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved US$ 84.22 million in loans and grants to provide electricity to nearly 80,000 rural households in south Rwanda. The project will advance the country’s goal of universal electrification and benefit small businesses and youth. [...]

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