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Genève, Switzerland (PANA) - The 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council, meeting on Thursday in Geneva (Switzerland), called on the international community to "hold the Polisario accountable for the massive violations committed against the residents of the camps" of Tindouf. It labelled the Polisario "as a non-State entity and [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - US Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, Friday spoke of "new ideas and great interest" in Libya to try to reinvigorate the electoral process. Speaking on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Norland said: "The United States [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya recorded five new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) out of 105 samples analyzed during the last 24 hours but no death, the National Centre for Disease Control announced on Friday. A statement from the Centre on the epidemiological situation said that two recoveries had also been recorded [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita Friday expressed his country's support for the international position in favour of national elections as the only solution to the political crisis in Libya. This position was reaffirmed at the end of high-level meetings and talks on the sidelines of the 77th [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at an extraordinary session on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on 22 September 2022, imposed gradual sanctions on Guinea at the diplomatic, economic and financial [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, discussed with Senegalese President Macky Sall, who is also the current Chairperson of the African Union (AU), their support for international efforts to achieve reconciliation and stability in Libya. The efforts of the international community and the United [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities reported on Friday the death of 74-year-old woman from the coronavirus (COVID-19) this week. A statement from the Ministry of Health and Welfare said this patient was partially vaccinated and also suffered from comorbidities. The ministry also reported 57 active cases while 10 patients were [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The situation for Sudan’s most vulnerable children is so desperate that half of the most severely malnourished youngsters are expected to die without urgent humanitarian intervention, UN agencies said on Friday. “As we speak today, 650,000 kids are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. If not treated, half of [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – On 28 September, the final version of the Expropriation Bill, which is aimed at addressing Apartheid-era laws which saw the majority of South Africans denied the right to own land, will be tabled in Parliament for adoption. The draft legislation is proposing instances where the [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – The long-delayed trial of 11 men accused of responsibility for the 2009 Guinean security forces’ massacre of more than 150 peaceful demonstrators and the rape of scores of women in a stadium in Conakry, is scheduled to open on 28 September. The commencement of the trial is a major step towards [...]

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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 Gambia. Currency                                 Buying           Selling US Dollar                                   53.00          54.50 Pound Sterling                          [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Abdel-Fattah Al Burhan Abdelrahman Al-Burhan, the President of the Transitional Government of Sudan, has reiterated his commitment to peaceful transition to establish real democracy that includes fair, free and transparent elections at the end of the transition period, in order to establish a civilian regime [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine war and rising costs are "severely and disproportionately affecting" Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the President of the UN General Assembly told their annual ministerial meeting on Thursday. “Even before the pandemic, many least developed countries were off-track in achieving the [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Rising insecurity, including the proliferation of terrorist and other non-State armed groups, coupled with political instability, is creating a crisis in the Sahel that poses a “global threat”, the UN chief warned on Thursday at a high level meeting on the vast African region, which [...]

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