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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Speaker of the House of Representatives (Parliament) in Libya, Aguila Saleh, has convened a plenary session for next Monday to adopt the draft general finance law 2021, an official source said here Tuesday. The session will also be devoted to the promulgation of the law on [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Mohamed Al-Kani, head of the Al-Kaniyat militia affiliated to the head of the Libyan National Army, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, wanted by the prosecutor general for committing murders in the city of Tarhouna (south of Tripoli), was killed on Tuesday in Benghazi (east) by armed men, sources [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kais Saeid received here Tuesday Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, special envoy, with a verbal message from Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The meeting reaffirmed the ties between leaders of the two countries, "bound by relations of shared respect and consideration and animated by a constant [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The High State Council has formed a committee to communicate with the committee formed by the House of Representatives (Parliament) to examine proposals for preparing laws for the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for 24 December. A statement issued Monday by the press office of the High [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The United States has applauded Nigeria for its approach to end violent extremism through the procurement of the American Sierra Nevada Corporation/Embraer Defence and Security A-29 Super Tucano Light Attack aircraft. It said the procurement of the aircraft would help defeat the Boko Haram/Islamic State in West Africa [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The leading opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday described as appalling President Muhammadu Buhari's travel to London for the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025  which is scheduled to be virtual. The PDP also berated The Buhari Presidency for trying to hide [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's State House Tuesday administered the Oath of Secrecy and Declaration of Secrecy to 42 of its staff, warning that disclosing confidential information without authorization would attract penalties under the public service rules. Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar, said the oaths were administered by Justice Hamza Muazu [...]

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Rome, Italy (PANA) – Creating sustainable and equitable food systems that benefit the world’s most vulnerable people will require substantial investments – by some estimates as much as US$350 billion per year over the next decade. Public Development Banks (PDBs) have the potential to help finance this, and generate exponential [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Cape Town woman has been caught in an FBI sting for allegedly selling explicit photographs of her four-year-old daughter on the Internet. After a major global operation, the bureau and US Homeland Security established that the suspect was receiving payment for the images via [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) – The Covid-19 pandemic crisis and the security situation continue to undermine the Nigerien economy, wiping out years of hard-won gains in poverty reduction, says a new World Bank report. “A number of fiscal policy options are, however, available to help the country enhance public expenditure efficiency and [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Co-Chairs of the Economic Working Group (EWG) of the International Follow-Up Committee have encouraged Libya’s Government of National Unity, the House of Representatives, and other Libyan actors to find realistic compromise solutions and lay the groundwork for measures to advance the unification of the country and [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)- Libya has recorded 24 new coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours sending the death toll to 3,422. The National Centre for Disease Control announced on Tuesday that 3,348 new cases were recorded out of 10,151 samples tested during the period brining the number of confirmed infections to 240,309.  In a [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinean President Alpha Conde has extended the state of health emergency in the country for three months from Tuesday, according to a decree published on Monday. Last week, President Condé asked cabinet to strengthen surveillance at the country's borders, particularly with Liberia and Sierra Leone, because of [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian president Kais Saied and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune have spoken by phone on the political situation in Tunisia, the Algerian presidency has said. It provided no details of their discussion. The United States, United Nations, European Union, Russia, Libya and Arab League and human rights groups [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian commercial bank: Currency                     Buying   Selling Australian Dollar        30.51      32.12 Canadian Dollar          32.86      34.59 Euro  [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has asked Tunisian President Kais Saied to publicly commit to respecting and protecting human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, after he suspended parliament and assumed some judicial powers. Concerns that human rights are at risk [...]

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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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Plaisance, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian anti-drug smuggling unit (ADSU) on Monday found two packages containing heroin, which had been airlifted from Johannesburg, South Africa, police sources said in the Mauritian capital. The drug, weighing approximately 1.3 kilograms, were concealed in a cradle. No arrests have so far been made but police [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Negotiations began on Monday to approve a UN science report which will anchor high level summits later this year, charged with boosting climate action worldwide. The assessment comes as record-breaking heat waves, devastating floods and drought struck across three continents in recent weeks. “This report has been prepared in [...]

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Rome, Italy (PANA) - Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed [...]

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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities announced on Monday that they had detected 52 new positive cases of COVID-19, but all are asymptomatic. The majority of these positive cases concern foreign workers, all vaccinated against COVID-19, accommodated in dormitories that their employers have made available to them. "They are all [...]

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Antananarivo, Mozambique (PANA) - At least half a million children under five in drought-afflicted southern Madagascar are on the verge of acute malnourishment, two UN agencies warned on Monday. The number of acutely malnourished children is likely to “increase fourfold” since the previous assessment conducted last October, including 110,000 in severe [...]

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