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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - On Monday evening, 30 May, 2022, the world attention will move to Casablanca when two of Africa’s finest clubs, Al Ahly and Wydad Athletic Club, play in the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League final. Umbro, the CAF technical sponsors, on Tuesday revealed the official match ball that will [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The draw for the qualifiers of TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN), Algeria 2022, will be done on Thursday, 26 May 2022 in Cairo, Egypt.   Algerian legend, Djamal Menad, top scorer and winner of 1990 AFCON with Algeria, will be the draw assistant. He will be joined [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, says preparations for parliamentary elections will start from June, suggesting that elections will take place at the end of this year. In his speech at a consultative meeting of election supporters, held under the slogan, "All [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC), Mustapha Sanalla, discussed with the Managing Director of the Italian oil company, ENI, for North Africa, Antonio Panza, ways to develop and strengthen joint cooperation to invest in the discovered and undeveloped [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 141 Malian migrants, in an irregular situation in Libya, have been repatriated via a charter flight to Mali, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Wednesday. A flight, chartered by the UN agency, took off from the city of Sebha (800 km south [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya is proud of its membership of Africa and its support for the process of development and complementarity between countries of the continent, the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said on the occasion of the celebration of Africa Day on 25 May. The north [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian coast guard on Wednesday recovered a body and rescued 24 migrants, while 75 others are missing following the sinking of a boat of illegal migrants that sailed from Zouara, Libya. According to a statement from the National Guard in Sfax, a port in south-eastern Tunisia [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded six new cases of coronavirus, comprising one imported case and five cases resulting from community transmission. These were confirmed by tests carried out on 956 samples, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Wednesday in its daily communiqué on the epidemiological situation. The [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's junta leader, Colonel Assimi Goîta, on Tuesday launched the Integrated Management System of Human Resources of State and Territorial Collectivities (SIGRH) project aimed at ensuring a more efficient management of the State and Territorial Collectivities civil service, an official said. The launch of the project in [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Consular Affairs, Mourad Ahmeima, and a delegation from the Russian Federation on Tuesday discussed arrangements for the reopening of the Russian embassy in Tripoli. During the meeting in Tripoli with the Russian delegation led by Haidar Rashid Aghanid, director [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A small Cape Town brewery has won first prize at the 2022 African Beer Cup competition, beating out 250 entries from 14 other African countries. Produced by Soul Barrel Brewing, Live Culture Grand Cru is a barrel-aged farmhouse ale fermented with wild yeast indigenous to [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some US$16 million of the Libya-Africa Investment Portfolio illegally invested with the Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, in 2011 has been recovered thanks to a court decision, the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation announced on Tuesday. The ministry explained in a statement that the Supreme Court [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-month extension of the Extended Credit Facility for Somalia. The date on which the arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) will automatically expire has been extended to 17 August, 2022, a statement by the [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius on Tuesday said that the balance of trade deficit showed a high deficit of Rs 16.6 billion in March 2022, up 52.8% compared to the previous month and by 63.3% compared to the corresponding month of 2021. It said total imports increased by 47.5% in [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President. Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has outlined the Bank's plans to address the looming food crisis threatening Africa as a result of the war between Ukraine and Russia. "I'm optimistic. Africa will not experience a food crisis. We have the means to overcome [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Governments of 49 of the world’s most populous countries harmed children’s rights by endorsing online learning products during COVID-19 school closures without adequately protecting children’s privacy, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Wednesday. The report was released simultaneously with publications by media organisations around [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Over-consumption in the world’s richest countries is creating unhealthy, dangerous and toxic conditions for children globally, according to a new report published on Tuesday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “Not only are the majority of rich countries failing to provide healthy environments for children within [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - For the first time, a Zimbabwean peacekeeper has been chosen to receive the prestigious 2021 Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award, UN Peacekeeping announced on Tuesday. Commending Military Observer Major Winnet Zharare, 39, as “a role model and a trailblazer”, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, will present her with [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Time is short for Sudan to reach a solution to its protracted political crisis, the Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday, warning that if the impasse is not urgently overcome, the consequences will be felt beyond national borders, impacting a whole [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - On Africa Day, the world celebrates the diverse and dynamic continent’s “enormous promise and potential”, the UN chief said in an upbeat message to mark the day on Wednesday. “Africa is a home for hope,” said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, citing the continent’s “growing and vibrant youth [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, says she has agreed with members of the Libyan Joint Military Commission 5+5, on the importance of demobilisating combatants to build peace in Libya. She said the agreement was reached in Toledo, Spain, on the margins of the [...]

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