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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Between 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from COVID-19 between January of 2020 and May of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.  That grim estimate features in a new WHO working paper based on the 3.45 million coronavirus-related deaths reported globally to the UN health agency up to May, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Mohamed Al-Sabah Thursday reiterated his country's support for a permanent ceasefire in Libya, stressing the need to hold parliamentary and presidential elections on 24 December. In his speech at the opening of the Conference in Support of the Stability of Libya [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded four new coronavirus (COVID-19)-related deaths and 157 new confirmed infections, the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced Wednesday evening. These new deaths bring to 25,107 the total number of deaths recorded in the country since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, the same [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Thousands of police have been deployed in Khartoum since the early hours of Thursday while the army has blocked all roads leading to vital military areas in downtown Khartoum and outside in anticipation of planned demonstrations by two different Sudanese political forces from the same root. Political [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangouch has  emphasised the deep symbolism of the international Ministerial Conference on the Libya Stability Initiative, which opened on Thursday in Tripoli. In her speech she told participants: "You are writing with us the first chapter of Libya's stability." Ms. al-Mangouch said that there [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's interim government has mandated the High Islamic Council (HCI), the highest religious authority, to negotiate with  two Malian jihadist leaders, Amadou Kouffa and Iyad Ag Ghaly, to stabilise the country, which has been plagued by extremist attacks in several regions of the centre and north. Although [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former President Jacob Zuma on Thursday laid criminal charges against State advocate Billy Downer, who has led a two-decade long prosecution against him for his alleged involvement in South Africa’s multi-million-dollar arms procurement programme. The Jacob Zuma Foundation issued a statement saying Downer leaked affidavits [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A Tunisian navy unit on Tuesday evening rescued 53 Tunisian illegal migrants who had asked for help after their boat broke down 38 km off the coast of Kerkannah island, in the north-east, the Tunisian Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Wednesday. The navy initially [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba said  on Thursday that the holding in Tripoli of the international conference in support of Libya's stability confirms the willingness and ability of citizens to reach "a purely Libyan solution". Addressing the opening of the Ministerial Conference on the Initiative to Support [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The International Conference on the Initiative for the Stability of Libya opened on Thursday in Tripoli with the participation of dozens of countries, international organisations and Libyan officials. The ministerial conference aims at of mobilising support for the completion of the political process in the country and [...]

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Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The second COVID-19 wave has delayed Uganda’s economic recovery, with growth remaining close to half the country’s historical average as downside risks continue to prevail. According to a staff team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that recently concluded a virtual mission to Uganda, the recent COVID-19 [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency                  Buying   Selling  Australian Dollar      31.12     32.76 Canadian Dollar        33.56     35.43 Euro              [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Thursday’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                          [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Kingdom has renewed its commitment to support Sudan’s transition to democracy. UK Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford, made the commitment following a meeting with senior government officials on Wednesday, including the President of Sovereign Council, Lt. Gen. Abdul Fatah Burhan and Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdouk. The [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Wednesday inaugurated in Port-Louis, the Intercontinental Slavery Museum (ISM) that aims to give more visibility to slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean. He said the Mauritian government pays tribute, through the ISM, to "the hard work, perseverance, and sacrifice [...]

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Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - State security forces in South Sudan have been responsible for imposing new and potentially arbitrary restrictions  against the country’s most prominent civil society leaders, issuing  “credible” death threats that have undermined peace efforts, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Wednesday.  In an alert, the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan alleged that “overzealous” security forces had prevented dissent so [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region in Africa, Huang Xia, has told ambassadors of the Security Council that the countries concerned now stand “at a crossroads”.  Speaking at a Security Council meeting on Wednesday on the situation in the region Mr. Xia said the main threat to [...]

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