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 Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - At least 12 million voters cast ballots for the candidates running in Kenya's competitive elections on Tuesday, making 56 per cent of the total voter turnout, the elections Commission said. The counting of the votes continued after the election officials converted the polling centres to vote counting [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian navy recovered on Tuesday the bodies of six illegal migrants, three women and three children, who died after their boat sank off Kerkennah Island, in the south of the country, said Ali Ayari, spokesperson for the coast guard in Sfax, the region's capital. According to [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Fifteen Burkinabe soldiers were killed on Tuesday in a double explosive device attack on the Bourzanga-Djibo axis during an escort mission led by a military unit of the 14th Inter-Arms Regiment (RIA), the army announced in a statement. One of the vehicles in the convoy carrying [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - About 3 million tourists have visited Tunisia since the beginning of this year until the end of last July, the Tunisian minister of Tourism, Mohamed Moez Belhassine, said on Monday. These tourists have spent some 7 million nights in Tunisia, Belhassine said, indicating that during the same [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amidst extreme heat, drought and wildfires, many parts of the world had just experienced one of three warmest Julys on record, the UN weather agency said on Tuesday. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), temperatures were close to 0.4℃ above the 1991-2020 average across much of Europe, [...]

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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi has recorded in the last 24 hours 515 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), comprising 466 from local transmission and 49 imported cases, after tests carried out on 8,449 samples, the ministry of Health announced here Tuesday. In addition, 353 patients have recovered, bringing the total number [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian and Algerian Foreign Ministers, Abdoulaye Diop and Ramtane Lamamra, had a tête-à-tête on Sunday in Algiers on the prospects of giving a new dynamic to the implementation of the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement in Mali, reported the Malian Press Agency (AMAP) on its webs.ite. According to [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Guinean government announced on Monday the dissolution of the National Front for the  Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) led by Oumar Sylla "Foninke Mengue". Sylla has been in prison since 1 August after the repression of the recent unauthorized march of the citizens' movement which, according [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Voting in Kenya's General Elections continued on Tuesday, with at least 6.5 million votes cast, equivalent to 30.66% of the 22 million registered voters as at midday, Deputy Chairperson of the electoral body Juliana Cherera said. The failure of the Kenya Integrated Election Management System (KIEMS), the [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 19 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), made up of one imported case and 18 cases resulting from community transmission confirmed by tests carried out on 696 samples. The Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Tuesday in its daily report on the epidemiological [...]

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Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday met in Pretoria with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to strengthen the enduring ties between their countries and advance shared global priorities through the U.S.-South Africa Strategic Dialogue. A statement issued by Mr Ned Price, Spokesperson for the [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A total of 17 Malian soldiers and four civilians were killed Sunday in a terrorist attack against the Malian Armed Forces (FAMAs) in Tessit, Ansongo Circle, Gao Region (North), the Directorate of Information and Public Relations of the Armed Forces (DIRPA) announced in a statement. "The General [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Five police officers were killed, one was wounded and three went missing on Sunday after suspected terrorists opened fire on a relief vehicle of the border police checkpoint, in Sona, near Ourkila, in the Region of Koutiala, (South). This was confirmed by the Directorate General of the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has recorded 54 new cases linked to the coronavirus (COVID-19) infection out of 344 samples analyzed over the last 24 hours, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Tuesday. In a statement, the centre said 273 recoveries had been recorded in the country, bringing the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A meeting of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission is scheduled in the next two days in the central city of Sirte. It will follow up on the decisions agreed upon during its previous meetings, especially regarding the ceasefire, the departure of mercenaries, foreign fighters and foreign forces [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A roundtable has agreed on the formation of a working group to develop a strategy for the regulation of foreign workers in Libya, in partnership with relevant Libyan institutions. The meeting was organised on Monday by the Directorate of Institutional Development and Capacity Building of the National [...]

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Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) -  South Africa’s annual consumer price index (CPI) surged to a 13-year high of 7.4 percent in June 2022, driven mainly by a rise in food and fuel prices, according to a new report published on Tuesday on the Global Agricultural Information Network. Fuel and food prices [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Ethiopian Government Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS) on Tuesday appealed for US$73 million to provide food rations to over 750,000 refugees in Ethiopia, over the next six months. WFP will completely run out [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) – United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken should publicly promote free and fair elections, respect for human rights, and anti-corruption efforts during his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 9-10 August, 17 US and DRC organisations and experts said on Monday. Blinken’s visit comes [...]

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 Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi (D) as published by the Central Bank of Gambia. Currency                                 Buying           Selling US Dollar                                   53.00          54.50 Pound Sterling                          [...]

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The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC)  last week made public an arrest warrant for a rebel leader in the Central African Republic (CAR), Noureddine Adam. The warrant, which was previously sealed and dated back to January 2019, states that Adam is wanted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, [...]

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