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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – A Tunisian navy unit on Monday foiled an attempt of illegal migration of 100 people from sub-Saharan African countries off the northeastern coast of Sidi Mansour, a suburb of Sfax, Tunisia’s second biggest city, according to a statement issued by the Tunisian Ministry of Defence.   The migrants, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Five unidentified bodies were exhumed on Monday from mass graves in the so-called 'Agricultural Project' area of Tarhouna town, 5 km southwest of Tripoli, by teams from the Excavation Department of the General Authority for the Search and Identification of Missing Persons. This discovery came after the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, has met with a delegation from the UK Ministry of Defence, led by the ministry's Adviser for North Africa and the Middle East, Jan Martin Smeaton. The two sides discussed a number of important issues, including support for [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Council of Ministers of the National Unity Government on Monday approved at its regular meeting the construction of the first oil refinery in the southwest of the country. The proposed refinery at Al-Sharara oilfield will have  a processing capacity of 300,000 barrels per day and a [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Climate envoys from the European Union on Monday arrived in South Africa to address the feasibility of implementing a coal retirement plan ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November. The trip has been convened by the British High Commission and [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Tourism “touches almost every part of our economies and societies”, enabling the historically marginalised, and “those at risk of being left behind, to benefit from development”, declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday, marking World Tourism Day.   The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism could result in a more than $4 [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) will on Tuesday launch Defeating Meningitis by 2030: A Global Road Map as an essential component in achieving universal health coverage. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and partners will officiate at the function. Despite successful efforts to control meningitis in several regions, the disease [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Alassane Bala Sakanadé, Speaker of the Burkinabe parliament, was on Sunday elected as head of the ruling People's Movement for Progress (MPP). This was at the second extraordinary congress of the party held from 24 to 26 September in Ouagadougou. He succeeds Simon Compaore at the head [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso's political actors resumed political dialogue on Monday after a three-month suspension when the opposition demanded the resignation of the defence and security ministers. "We came to discuss in the best interest of the nation, and you will have the results by the end," said [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA ) - Senegal has recorded five new cases of coronavirus, confirmed by tests carried out on 1,432 samples and divided into one monitored contact case and four cases resulting from community transmission. The Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Monday at its daily press briefing on [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has announced its intention to create more opportunities for citizens in the tourism sector. Speaking on commemoration of World Tourism Day 2021 on Monday, the Minister of Environment Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Ms. Philda Kereng, said through legislation and policies, government commits to facilitating equal [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba has formed a Central Commission to study applications for Libyan nationality. This follows a meeting with the Minister of the Interior and some relevant agencies and departments, an official statement said on Monday. The commission is under the chairmanship of the head of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation, Ali al-Abed, says an initiative would be launched on 23 October to rehabilitate and reintegrate young people affiliated with armed groups into the labour market. In a televised statement, then Minister said the initiative will be on National Liberation Day. "We have [...]

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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   30.02      31.60 Canadian Dollar    32.54      34.36 Euro                     48.46  [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two years after toppling President Omar Bashir, Sudanese military and civilian wings in government, are still unable to blend with each other within a national interim government that has a mandate to lead the country to a free and fair election and full-fledged civilian democracy. At present [...]

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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)                     [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius will produce 270,000 tons of sugar in 2021, down 0.3% as compared to 270,875 tons in 2020, according to Statistics Mauritius in a review of the agriculture sector in the first half of this year. Regarding the tea sector, it said at the end of June, [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Health authorities in Mauritius announced on Monday that 95 positive cases of COVID-19 were detected on Sunday. They said 12 patients had severe symptoms and were admitted to hospital. According to media counts, 15,508 people have been infected with the virus since it emerged in March 2020 on [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) is accusing the Rwandan authorities of rounding up and arbitrarily detaining gay and transgender people, sex workers, street children, and others in the months before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) planned for last June. The human rights advocate said in a report on Monday [...]

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Washington, US (PANA) - The United States has condemned unequivocally the militant attack last Friday that led to the death of a French soldier of the Barkhane force near Gossi in northern Mali. A statement by the Spokesperson of the US State Department, Ned Price, said the tragic loss underscores the sacrifice [...]

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