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Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cape Verde’s National Electoral Commission (CNE) on Friday formally declared José Maria Pereira Neves, 61, as winner of the 17 October presidential election with 51.75% or 95,974 of the valid votes. Neves, three-time Prime Minister from 2001-2016, defeated his closes rival Carlos Alberto Veiga, 72, who [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 127 Gambian migrants were voluntarily repatriated to their country on Thursday from Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced here Friday. This came after the IOM voluntary repatriation programme received permission from the Government of National Unity to resume humanitarian flights. The 127 migrants, [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's minister for Youth and Sports, Mustapha Usif, has described Africa's youth as her greatest asset, and urged the continent's leaders and policymakers to assign them strategic roles in their developmental planning activities, local media reported here Friday. Usif, was addressing the opening ceremony of the Youthconnekt African [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The reinforcement of cooperation in promoting youth welfare was the focus of talks here Friday between Moroccan minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, and his visiting Libyan counterpart, Fathallah Abdel-Latif Al-Zini. The two parties highlighted the solid historical relations between Morocco and Libya, which [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A UN Security Council mission is expected in Bamako on Saturday for an official two-day visit, the Permanent Mission of Mali in New York announced in a statement. "The main objective of this mission is to assess the political, security, humanitarian, human rights, development and transitional timetable [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Twenty new patients have died from coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 4,982, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Friday. A statement from the centre said that 689 new infections were detected out of 4,431 samples tested in the last 24 hours, a positivity rate [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - French President Emmanuel Macron has invited the Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, to a conference in November in Paris on how best to expel mercenaries and foreign forces from Libya. The invitation was delivered by the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, during a [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Sudanese Foreign Minister Ms. Mariam el Sadiq el Mahdi has admitted the presence of Sudanese mercenaries in Libya. Responding to a question from PANA on the sidelines of Thursday's international conference on supporting the stability of Libya, Ms. El Mahdi said: "Yes, Sudanese who work as mercenaries [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba is sending a government team to the eastern city of Benghazi for a week during which it will assess public services. The action is aimed at settling the dispute with members of the government from the eastern region (Cyrenaica) who have accused [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),on Friday urged the Libyan government to immediately address the dire situation of asylum-seekers and refugees in a humane and rights-based manner. Raids and arbitrary arrests by the authorities this month targeted areas largely populated by refugees and asylum-seekers that resulted in several deaths, thousands detained, [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank: Currency                  Buying   Selling Australian Dollar      30.97     32.60 Canadian Dollar       33.45     35.42 Euro                [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Friday’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 on Saturday launch the latest Non-communicable Disease (NCD) survey, whose main objective is to determine the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and their associated risk factors in the country. According to Health and Wellness Minister Dr Kailash Jagutpal, the NCD survey could [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities said on Friday that they identified 91 positive cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, including 5 patients with severe symptoms who were admitted to hospital. The other 86 patients are asymptomatic. In addition, the vaccination campaign for adolescents is continuing in public and private colleges on [...]

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New York, US (PANA)  We can no longer exclude half of humanity from international peace and security matters, the UN chief told the Security Council on Thursday, emphasising the need to fully address the challenges and gaps that continue to prevent women having an equal say. “Today, women’s leadership is a [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The suffering of survivors of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by World Health Organization staff during the 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is going to be “the catalyst for a profound transformation” of WHO’s culture.  The assurance came on Thursday from WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while announcing [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Plastic pollution in oceans and other bodies of water continues to grow sharply and could more than double by 2030, according to an assessment  released on Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).  The report highlights dire consequences for health, the economy, biodiversity and the climate. It also says a drastic reduction in unnecessary, avoidable and problematic plastic, is crucial [...]

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Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).  The region has been hit hard by successive years of severe drought, forcing families in rural communities to [...]

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