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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Tripoli Court of Appeal has rejected the appeals against the candidacy of Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba and issued a final verdict bringing him back into the race for the December 24 presidential election, sources in the Libyan capital said on Wednesday. "The Libyan news agency [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – President Muhammadu Buhari and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, ended their meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday with The presidency announcing the signing of new Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) between Nigeria and South Africa. The MoUs, in a statement by Nigerian Presidential Spokesperson, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Interior Minister Khaled Mazen reviewed during a meeting with the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Jan Kubis, the latest developments regarding the conduct of the electoral process and its security. According to a statement from the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, has expressed concern about threats to the holding of elections in Libya, calling on all parties to "defuse tensions" and respect the electoral process. Tensions have risen in Libya in the run-up to the presidential elections scheduled for 24 December, [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken a swipe at African countries which have implemented travel bans to South Africa over the COVID-19 pandemic, saying they should not act like former colonizers. Several countries enforced travel bans on South Africa and neighbouring countries, despite the new variant [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The executive secretary of the National AIDS Control Council (CNLS), Dr. Safiatou Thiam, has noted a decline in new HIV infections throughout Senegal. "New infections are falling everywhere in Senegal, except in the age group of young people from nineteen to twenty-four, but this is linked to [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Sixteen per cent of people living with HIV/AIDS in Senegal do not know their HIV status, the executive secretary of the National AIDS Council (CNLS), Dr. Safiatou Thiam revealed here Wednesday. "Sixteen per cent of people living with HIV do not know their HIV status because they [...]

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Cotonou, Benin PANA) - Benin plans to carry out 21 major road infrastructure projects by 2022, according to the projection presented to parliament by the ministry concerned. For 2022, eight road infrastructure projects are planned in the south of the country. They include the construction of a northern bypass of Cotonou [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian health authorities said on Wednesday that they had detected a total of 112 new positive cases linked to coronavirus (Covid-19) during the last 24 hours, official sources told PANA here. Out of this number, 66 infected people were admitted to regional hospitals and five others [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Twenty-four hours after easing the detention of former President Alpha Conde (83), the president of the Transition and the National Committee for Rally and Development (CNRD), Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, has authorized former presidents Moussa Dadis Camara and Sekouba Konate to return to Guinea. In a statement issued [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius commemorated on Wednesday World Aids Day with testing and counselling through a mobile caravan that would travel around the country to encourage more people to come forward to be tested. Speaking on the occasion, the minister of Health and Wellness, Kailesh  Jagutpal, said Mauritius responded rapidly [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the Presidential Villa here. The South African President inspected a guard of honour and was treated to a 21-gun salute. The two presidents then moved in for bilateral talks and were expected to hold a joint [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities announced  here Wednesday that 61 positive cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) were detected Tuesday in the country. According to the latest press release from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, nine persons were admitted to the main hospital on the island with severe cases while [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The United States and Egypt on Tuesday signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to continue the protection of Egypt’s cultural property for an additional five years.   It was signed in Cairo by U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Jonathan R. Cohen, and Secretary-General of the Supreme Council [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee Agency (UNHCR) is “appalled by a series of deadly attacks” on displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the agency’s spokesperson told journalists on Tuesday in Geneva. In the latest incident carried out by armed groups, UNHCR  spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov cited [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the UN health agency has criticised “blunt” and “blanket” measures taken by countries in the past few days to stop the spread of the Omicron variant.  In a statement on Tuesday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that it was “deeply concerning” that [...]

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New York, UA (PANA) - The early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic were “plagued by confusion, fear, isolation, and discrimination” against those infected or at high risk, the President of the UN General Assembly reminded a commemorative meeting on Tuesday marking World AIDS Day – 40 years after the first [...]

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