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Tokyo, Japan (PANA) - World Health Organiation (WHO) Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebrejesus has said that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pademic will end when the world chooses to end it. Dr. Tedros said this in his opening remarks at the WTO - WHO high level dialogue - Expanding COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacture [...]

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Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Home appliances maker, LG, plans to expand video gaming and film-making industries in Angola, which is emerging as a popular destination for gaming. The plan to expand the distribution of the electronics equipment is expected to impact on the local industries and drive the creation of new [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - After eight consecutive weeks of a fast-moving surge, new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa have slowed down, driven by a sharp drop in South Africa,  new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows.   The data also said the new case numbers in Africa fell by 1.7 [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a US$20 million flexible loan to finance Seychelles’ Governance and Economic Reforms Support Programme. The programme is expected to help drive the island nation’s macroeconomic stability and recovery from Covid-19 in the medium-term. The [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - As President Joseph R. Biden committed earlier this year, vaccines donated by the American people have arrived in The Gambia, a statement made available to PANA indicated on Thursday. According to the statement, on July 20, 151,200 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 single-shot vaccine donated by [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - In response to the windstorm which hit The Gambia earlier this month, the European Union (EU) is providing 200,000 euros (about 12,053,000 Gambian Dalasis) in humanitarian funding to assist the most affected people. A  statement, made available to PANA on Thursday, said the funds will help the Gambia Red Cross [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former South African President Jacob Zuma, who was jailed two weeks ago, on Thursday attended the funeral of his younger brother Michael amid tight police security. Zuma was granted permission earlier in the day and was required to return to his Estcourt jail later on [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - COVID-19 vaccine inequity will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low- and lower-middle income countries without urgent action to boost supply and assure equitable access for every country, including through dose sharing, according to new data released on Thursday by the United [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA)  – The first United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) passenger flight, managed by the United Nations World Food Programme, touched down at Tigray’s Alula Aba Nega International Airport in the regional capital Mekelle on Thursday. It was the first passenger flight into the region since commercial flights [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank has launched and priced a $2.75 billion 5-year Global Benchmark bond due 22 July 2026, its second of the year. With this issue, the Bank announced on Thursday that it continues to carry out its funding strategy of issuing large liquid benchmark [...]

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Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The World Bank on Thursday approved the Improving Healthcare Services in Somalia Project, known as ‘Damal Caafimaad’, which is financed by a US$75 million International Development Association (IDA) grant and an additional US$25 million grant from the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF). This project, which [...]

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Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Rwanda has sent a thousand soldiers and police for combat and security operations in Mozambique’s gas-rich northern Cabo Delgado province, which has been hit by terrorism and violent extremism since 2017. The deployment came a few weeks after the Southern African Development Community (SADC) announced it would [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritius rupee as announced by the Mauritius Commercial Bank. Currency                         Buying        Selling Australian Dollar            30.42         32.02 Canadian Dollar          [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) —The African Development Bank (AfDB) has scored the highest ever rating of triple A, as a result of the success of a historic capital increment and improved shareholder confidence on its lending activities, according to a bank statement. The Fitch Ratings Agency, an American-British company, said the AAA [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will continue to be "a source of cooperation for the Nile River riparian countries, including the downstream states". The state-owned Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported that this was in a [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian women live some 6.8 years longer than men, Statistics Mauritius said on Thursday in its latest bulletin on genders statistics released in Port Louis. Statistics Mauritius, a governmental organisation, said that in 2020, life expectancy at birth for women was 77.8 years compared to 71.0 years [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Maneesh Gobin on Wednesday launched the 2021 potato harvesting season with a call to citizens to reduce food wastage. He said potato consumption is about 25,000 tons a year in the island, with local production amounting to 11,000-12,000 tons while [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities on Wednesday detected a total of 111 new positive cases of COVID-19, the majority of which were in two dormitories of foreign workers. According to a communique issued by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, these dormitories are under strict sanitary surveillance and operate [...]

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Tokyo, Japan (PANA) - The head of the UN World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welcomed the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as a chance to spread “hope to the world”. Speaking in the Japanese capital Tokyo, he said the world must  unite with “determination, dedication and discipline” to triumph over the [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has called on Tanzanian authorities to stop targeting the opposition and immediately release all opposition members arrested in a swoop on Wednesday. "Tanzanian authorities must end escalating crackdown on opposition party and leaders. Unless the authorities have clear legal grounds [...]

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Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Millions of people in southern Angola are facing an existential threat as drought aggravated by climate change continues to ravage the region, International has warned. The organization highlighted how the creation of commercial cattle ranches on community land has driven pastorallist communities from their land since the end [...]

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