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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for Burkina Faso, Mahamadou Issoufou, arrived here on Friday. He was welcomed at the Ouagadougou International Airport by the minister of Foreign Affairs, Olivia Rouamba. Issoufou, who is in Ouagadougou to assess the situation before the [...]

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Lisbon, Portugal (PANA) - Following a week of discussions and events in Lisbon, Portugal, the UN Ocean Conference concluded on Friday, with governments and heads of state agreeing on a new political declaration to Save Our Ocean. Recognising the past “collective failure” in the Conference’s final declaration, world leaders called for greater ambition to [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Prime Minister Albert Ouédraogo, in accordance with the guidelines of the president of Burkina Faso, has taken concrete measures to reduce the cost of living, an official statement said here Friday. Instead, it will devote more government efforts to the priorities of the moment, especially in [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian president, Kais Saied, unveiled Thursday evening the content of the draft of a new Constitution that will be submitted to a referendum on July 25. This comes one year to the day of arrogating to himself full powers to "save the country" from the crisis [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 95 asylum seekers and refugees were evacuated on Friday via a flight organized from Libya to Italy by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In a statement, the UNHCR said the refugees and asylum seekers included "children, women at risk, survivors of [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea's military junta leader, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, has issued a decree creating Business Guarantee Fund (FGPE), public television announced on Thursday. The FGPE is a limited liability company with a Board of Directors with financial autonomy and management. Its objective is to share risk with financial sector actors in [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian navy units fished out three unidentified bodies of migrants off the coast of Djerba island, southeast of Tunisia, and rescued 11 others, while the search for three others is continuing, a security source said Friday. A boat carrying 17 people, probably illegal migrants trying to reach [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government says it regrets that some of its strong reservations on operations of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were ignored in the final version of the resolution passed to extend its mandate on Wednesday. In a eeaction to the UN resolution Mali said [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) has declared force majeure on the oil ports of al-Sidra and Ras Lanouf, in the central Gulf of Sirte region. In a statement, it noted that more than 16 billion dinars (about US$3.3 billion) has been lost as a result of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Parliament will convene immediately after the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha following the failure of three rounds of meetings of the two chambers of the legislature in Cairo, Egypt, and three days of talks between their leadership in Geneva to agree a legal basis for elections.  A [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday urged the Justice Department and Department of International Relations and Co-operation to facilitate without further delay the translatiion into Arabic of the official extradition request of South Africa’s most wanted fugitives. The Gupta brothers, Atul and Rajesh, are [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana is heading to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for economic support, as President Akufo-Addo directs the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to begin formal engagements with the Bretton Woods institution. This follows months of dismissal by government officials of suggestions by many academics, economists, civil society organisations and opposition [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by the Central Bank of The Gambia. Currency                                 Buying           Selling US Dollar                                 51.50      [...]

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Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – The government of Morocco is taking measures to develop a strategic wheat stock as the North African country faces low wheat production in marketing year 2022/23 due to drought. The Ministry of Agriculture forecasts total wheat and barley production at 3.2 million metric tons, about 62 percent [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases plunged 4.6 percent in 2020, as lockdowns in the first half of the year restricted global mobility and hampered economic activity, according to a blog published on Friday by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Though many had [...]

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Washington, US (PANA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to discuss the government of Kenya’s efforts to address the continued violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  A readout posted on the website of the US State Department said Mr. Blinken [...]

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Zanzibar, Tanzania (PANA) - The high demand for sea cucumbers in China is leading to their over-exploitation along the East African coast, besides the potentially devastating consequences for locals, who use them for food and to make a living, and for the sensitive marine biodiversity. Sea cucumbers are marine animals with [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Road traffic accidents claim nearly 1.3 million lives each year, cost some countries up to three per cent of their annual GDP, and are the biggest killer of five to 29-year olds globally, the UN General Assembly President told a High-level meeting on Improving Global [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN-appointed rights investigators announced on Thursday that they’ve launched a probe into an alleged massacre of at least 200 people in Ethiopia’s Oromia region.  Kaari Betty Murungi, chair of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, was speaking on the sidelines of the Human Rights [...]

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