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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A former Malian Minister of Health and current Director General of the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), Professor Samba Sow, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the United States, PANA learned on Saturday from a medical source in Bamako. This [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal recorded Friday one new coronavirus (COVID-19)-related death, bringing to 1,877 the number of patients who have died from the pandemic since 2 March, 2020, an official source said here Saturday. The Ministry of Health and Social Action, during its daily press briefing on the epidemiological situation, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The International Ministerial Conference on the Initiative to Support Stability in Libya ended here Thursday with declarations of intent and reaffirmation of general principles. It also marked the return of Libya to the world stage, giving Libyans pride in their country over its ability to regain its [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government Friday denied reports that it had decided to conduct negotiations with terrorist groups through the High Islamic Council (HCI), the country's highest religious organization. "No national or international organization has been officially mandated to carry out such an activity," said an official statement read [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A new mass grave has been discovered in the area of the Agricultural Project at km 5 of the town of Tarhouna, about 80 km south of Tripoli, the General Authority for Search and Identification of Missing Persons announced. In a statement issued here Friday, the Authority [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 1,477,293 people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) since the national vaccination campaign was launched in April, the National Centre for Disease Control said in a statement. In the statement issued Friday on the daily epidemiological situation in the country, the Centre said [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The U.S. Department of State has urged various Sudanese political groups, particularly those in the transitional government in Khartoum, to work out a way for overcoming the current political impasse. “We urge progress on key transitional benchmarks necessary to stabilize the transition and resolve political differences, solidifying [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius will encourage the use of renewable and clean energy to reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels and decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2030, the minister of Energy and Public Utilities, Georges Lesjongard, said here Friday. Speaking at a workshop on World [...]

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Brazzaville, DR Congo (PANA) - More than 80 million children have been vaccinated with the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) in six countries in Africa, the world’s first region to roll out the vaccine just months after the World Health Organization (WHO) gave it Emergency Use Listing status in [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Health and Wellness Minister Kailesh Jagutpal announced here Friday the death of 19 patients from coronavirus (COVID-19) within one week. Briefing the media, Mr. Jagutpal said six of the deceased were aged less than 60, with 14 unvaccinated but four fully vaccinated, including two people with [...]

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