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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Monday appointed football legend Didier Drogba its Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Drogba, from Côte d’Ivoire, will support WHO to promote the Organization’s guidance on the benefits of physical activity and other healthy lifestyles, and highlight the value of sports, particularly [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, met Monday here with the British Ambassador to Libya, Caroline Hurndall, who handed him an invitation from the Britimsh Prime Minister to attend the "Global Climate Change Conference" to be held in Glasgow and expected [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan prime minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, and the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding, Rosemary Di Carlo, Monday discussed the political situation in Libya. They spoke particularly on the steps taken by the Government of National Unity, the active role [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) on Monday renewed the existing restrictive measures against ISIL/Da'esh and Al-Qaeda movements and persons, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them, prolonging the duration of the sanctions regime for a further 12 months until 31 October 2022. Currently, six individuals are subject to [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Vice President Alain Pilloux is on a four-day visit to Egypt since Sunday for for high-level meetings with government officials to discuss the upcoming country strategy, meet the business community and sign projects. According to the announcement issued by the [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Two men have been arrested for the murder of former football star Lucky Maselesele who was allegedly beaten to death last week after being accused of stealing electrical cables. Born in 1980, Maselesele was a product of the Football School of Excellence before being spotted [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) -Tunisia has recorded three new coronavirus-related deaths, bringing the death toll to 25,098 since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Sunday. The country has also recorded 133 new confirmed infections, following laboratory tests of 2,706 samples, the ministry said. [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal recorded seven new cases of coronavirus on Sunday following tests carried out on 1,307 samples, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Monday. The ministry also announced that five patients tested negative and were declared recovered. However, 26 patients are still under treatment, including six [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Several dozen people in favour of extension of the duration of the transition in Mali demonstrated on Sunday in Bamako  when the current chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ghana's president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, arrived for talks with the authorities. As his [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 100 illegal migrants of different African nationalities who were on board two boats heading for the European coast have been rescued by Libyan coastguards. A statement from the Information Office of the Libyan Naval Forces General Staff said on Monday that the coastguards carried out the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The much advertised international conference on the "Initiative for Stability in Libya" to be held in Tripoli on Thursday is to build "a promising and new future" for the North African country, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Najla al-Mangouch, said on Sunday. In a [...]

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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          30.68      32.29 Canadian Dollar           33.34    [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Indian State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shri V. Muraleedharan, arrived in Khartoum on Monday for a two-day visit to Sudan for talks with the authorities and the business community. The visit is the first by a senior Indian official in over a decade despite the strong economic [...]

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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) - Mauritian health authorities on Sunday recorded 36 positive cases of COVID-19, one of who has severe symptoms and was admitted to hospital. Giving details of the current vaccination programme in the island, the Ministry of Health said that to date, 891,593 people have received their first dose [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's council of ministers is expected to hold an emergency meeting on Monday as the tense political atmosphere highlighted by numerous feuds continues. The official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported that the council of ministers Chaired by the Prime Minister, Dr. Abdallah Hamdouk, will hold an emergency [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Sunday stressed on the importance of education in the struggle against poverty and highlighted the various schemes offered to the needy. These include free school materials and a child allowance with a monthly allowance of about 1,000 rupees (about US$23) to [...]

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Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cape Verde's opposition candidate Jose Maria Neves has won Sunday's presidential election in the first round, according to official figures released by the country's electoral authorities. With results of 97% of the polling stations declared Neves, 61, and former Prime Minister for 15 years, has defeated [...]

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