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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with a South African consortium to establish its first COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub, an official statement said here Monday.  The consortium comprises Biovac, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a network of universities, and the Africa Centres for [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean government says it banned the logging and transport of wood before July 2, the start of the three-month reforestation period, because of "the damaging effects of climate change", a result of man's actions on the country's vegetation cover. In a note from the Ministry of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Following the lingering electricity in Libya, Prime Minister Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Electricity Company (GECOL), Wiam Al-Abdali, have examined issues bothering on power shortages. A statement from the Prime Minister's Information Office said that the meeting between Al-Dbaiba [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Polls have officially closed in Ethiopia's general elections where voters cast their ballots to elect their representatives to the Federal Parliament and Regional Councils. The official closing time was extended from 6 pm (15:00 GMT) local time to 9 pm (18:00 GMT) because many polling stations opened [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Commander of U.S. Africa Command, Gen. Stephen Townsend, met with several African leaders in Morocco where he attended the closing ceremony of "Exercise African Lion 21" from June 17-19. “African Lion is our largest and most important exercise in Africa. It helps us build readiness as [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan, the European Union (EU) and France have launched a joint project aimed at increasing and improving the quality of Gum Arabic production in the Sudan, the main producer of Gum Arabic in the world. A press release by the EU in Khartoum said, "together with [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The UN refugee agency's special envoy, Angelina Jolie, has called for solidarity with refugees around the world. "We are not doing half of what we could and should be doing to find solutions for refugees to return home - or to support host countries like Burkina [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Twenty young Malians who were trying to reach Spain via the Mauritanian coast perished when their makeshift boat capsized, Mali's bi-weekly, Le Challenger reported on Monday. The paper mentioned three survivors, including two Malians and one Ivorian. According to one of the survivors, Moussa Sacko, who was collected [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 78 new deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the country's toll to 14,038 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, the Ministry of Health has announced. It added that Tunisia has also confirmed 1,775 infections of coronavirus, following laboratory tests [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Twenty trainee officers, including four women, from Mali (14), Burkina Faso (1), Côte d'Ivoire (1), Guinea (1), Niger (1), Senegal (1) and Chad (1), received their diplomas on Saturday at a ceremony presided over by Malian Minister of Defence and Veterans, Col. Sadio Camara, at Koulikoro [...]

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Benin City, Nigeria (PANA) – The African population is at risk of a more lethal strain of the coronavirus disease outbreak unless efforts to create a vaccine to protect its 1.3 billion people are completed urgently, scientists warned on Sunday. Prof. Godwin Bazuaye, Chief Medical Director at Nigeria’s privately-run Igebinedion University [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 33 new cases of coronavirus from tests on 1,429 samples, comprising 19 contact cases being treated and 14 cases resulting from community transmission, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Monday. The ministry also announced that 39 patients tested negative and were [...]

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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s first President Kenneth Kaunda will be buried on 7 July, 2021 in the capital Lusaka at the Presidential Burial Site, Vice President Inongwe Wina announced on Monday. Wina said  the burial programme for Dr. Kaunda will be proceeded by a Ceremonial State Funeral on 2 July [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Council on Monday appointed three new EU special representatives (EUSRs) whose task is to promote EU policies and interests in specific regions and countries, as well as on issues of particular concern or interest for the European Union Emanuela Claudia Del Re has been appointed [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Council on Monday changed the decision currently in place concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya, with the aim of specifying  the criteria used to decide on sanctions on persons and entities whose acts threaten the peace, stability or security of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -Four new patients have died of coronavirus infection in Libya, bringing the country's toll  since the outbreak of the pandemic to 3,178, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Monday. In a statement, the Centre said 290 new infections were detected out of 3,378 samples tested over [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a free and peaceful election in Ethiopia.  In a tweet, he urged "Ethiopian authorities, political leaders, and their supporters, to ensure that all voters are able to cast their ballots freely and peacefully" He also called on "all stakeholders to [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The fifth meeting of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission started on Monday in Sirte, 450 km east of Tripoli,. The meeting is taking place the day after the reopening of the coastal road linking the east to the west of the country, one of the clauses of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Fourteen illegal migrants of various African nationalities, who were heading for the European coast in a rubber dinghy, were rescued on Sunday evening by a Libyan coastguard patrol boat, a Libyan naval source said. In a statement, the Libyan navy spokesperson said that as soon as it [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - World Athletics has committed an extra US$1 million prize money for athletes at World Athletics Championships, the global athletics governing body has announced. Getty Images World Athletics announced it was substantially increasing the prize money for athletes at its flagship world championships. It will start with the World [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Dr. Ibrahim Badji, a Senegalese diplomat on Monday questioned French policy in Africa, arguing, that "the politics of two weights two measures" must stop now when the former is dealing with the latter. Dr. Badji, a Senegambian diplomatic adviser and expert made the remarks, during an exclusive [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya on Sunday recovered the presidential plane used by the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, which had been stranded in France for seven years. The Airbus A340 was immobilised since 2014 in the European country, after the fall of Gaddafi's regime in 2011, before being entrusted to an [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency                          Buying    Selling Australian Dollar             29.83      31.40 Canadian Dollar        [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by Central Bank of 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                          37.00                      [...]

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