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Brazzaville, Cong0 (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said here Thursday coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa are surging by over 20 per cent week-on-week. This revelation, it says, comes at a time the continent's third wave gains pace and nears the first wave peak of more than 120,000 weekly cases [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Bandits continued their rampage against schools in Northern Nigeria with the invasion of the Federal Government Girls College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, in Northwest Nigeria, where they abducted many students. Though details of the invasion and abduction of students are still sketchy, sources said at least 30 [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Maiduguri, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, assured citizens of the Federal Government's presence in fighting terrorism to the end. He also said he will ensure that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are fully returned to continue their normal lives, and commended Governor Babagana Umara [...]

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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu, has declared 21 days of national mourning in honour of the country’s first President Kenneth Kaunda, who died on Thursday. Secretary to Cabinet, Simon Miti, announced on the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) television that all activities of entertainment nature are suspended with [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Ace Magashule, the suspended Secretary General of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, and former President Thabo Mbeki are embroiled in a bitter spat that continues to divide the party. In a public speech last month, Mbeki took aim at Magashule’s leadership [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA)- United States Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a Level One (1) Travel Health Notice for The Gambia in its recent global risk assessment level for COVID-19, the Gambian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad announced here Thursday. According to a statement made available [...]

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  Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) and its alliance partners has announced the suspension of all campaign activities ahead of the 12 August elections following the death on Thursday of the country’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda. Kaunda, 97, died Thursday after being admitted to [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – In a bid to boost the professional capacities, incomes and access to finance of thousands of Ivorian women smallholder farmers in the staple food sector, IFC and the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative announced Thursday a new partnership [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso is committed to rehabilitating 5.16 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, as part of the Neutrality in Land Degradation (NDT), and create green jobs for economic recovery, the Ministry of Environment said on Thursday. Environment, Green Economy and Climate Change minister Simeon Sawadogo [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia's food trade balance recorded a deficit of 688.3 million dinars during the first five months of 2021 against 171.6 million dinars during the same period of 2020, according to figures published by the Tunisian National Observatory of Agriculture (ONAGRI). The rate of coverage of imports by [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The national political dialogue between the majority and the opposition started on Thursday in Burkina Faso, in the presence of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, PANA reports. "The political dialogue is driven by the common will to permanently consolidate a strong national consensus on political issues [...]

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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia's founding father, Kenneth Kaunda, has died aged 97, it was officially announced in the country's capital, Lusaka, on Thursday. Kaunda, also popularly known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. -0- PANA MM/AR 17June2021 [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded two new deaths linked to the coronavirus, bringing to 1,158 the country's toll since the pandemic started in March 2020, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Thursday. According to the ministry, 88 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed by tests [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Tripoli, the Libyan capital, was on Wednesday proclaimed the Arab media capital for the year 2022 by the Council of Arab Ministers of Information, according to an announcement at the end of a meeting held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League in [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on Wednesday that national reconciliation and stability in Libya are "priorities of Italian foreign policy" and that their achievement requires "the departure of mercenaries and foreign forces from Libyan soil. Mattarella was speaking at a meeting with his Tunisian counterpart, Kais Saeid, [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo is due in Abidjan on Thursday, after 10 years of absence, local media reported. For several days, thousands of supporters of Mr. Gbagbo, who were impatiently waiting for his return to his country, stormed [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - President of the Transition in Mali, Col. Assimi Goïta, unveiled on Wednesday four essential missions assigned to the new governmental team of the Transition, PANA learned from an official source. He told  the first council of ministers of the new government, these four equally important tasks concern the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Four new patients have died of coronavirus infection and 258 new cases have been detected out of 3,368 samples tested in the last 24 hours in Libya, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Thursday. In a statement, the Centre also said there were 216 cured [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -  Libyan Presidential Council member Abdallah al-Lafi has underlined the importance of science, technology and innovation in development that brings economic prosperity, saying, "Libya today, more than ever, has an urgent need for science and technology in the era of the information economy, which is experiencing a [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kais Saeid and his Italian counterpart, Sergio Matterella, signed on Wednesday in Rome a memorandum of understanding on development for the 2021-2023 period, during which 200 million euros will be set aside for financing development projects, economic recovery, agriculture, employment, training and youth integration. President [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB)’s Board of Directors has approved an €83 million loan to finance the second phase of Egypt’s Electricity and Green Growth Support Programme seeking to enhance the power sector’s financial sustainability, governance and operations. According to a press statement issued by the Bank, [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) – The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a severe toll on the economic and humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, despite timely actions taken by the country’s authorities to support the most vulnerable groups and businesses, according to staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At the conclusion of a two-week [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Thursday’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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