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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The new military leaders in Burkina Faso on Saturday said ousted Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is planning to launch a counter-attack. In a statement read on state television on Saturday, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the new military leader, said Lt. Col. Damiba had "taken refuge" at the French military [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Moroccan Minister of Habous and Islamic Affairs, Ahmed Toufiq, and the Malian Minister of Religious Affairs, Worship and Customs, Mahamadou Koné, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the training of Imams in Rabat, Morocco, the Malian Ministry in charge of Religious Affairs told [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Seddik al-Kebir, on Friday discussed the bank's efforts to improve transparency and disclosure of financial operations and the stability of the Libyan economy with the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Joshua Harris. The meeting, which took place in [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Gunshots were heard again on Saturday morning in Ouagadougou, the Burkina Faso capital, one day after the announcement of the seizure of power by a group of soldiers, as France denied involvement in Friday's coup that ousted Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. Residents say soldiers again blocked [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre for Disease Control has announced that 2,304,757 people have received at least one dose of vaccines against COVID-19 in the country. The announcement comes, as the country recorded a significant drop in the rate of infections although it is still classified as having a [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The UN envoy for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday denounced the recent violence against the Organisation’s stabilisation mission in the country, which has been the target of “manipulation and stigmatization”. Special Representative Bintou Keita told the UN Security Council that following a resurgence of the [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has condemned the coup in Burkina Faso and called on the military to refrain from violence. The AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki "unequivocally" condemned the second takeover of power by force in Burkina Faso on Friday, a statement on the website of [...]

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Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Amnesty International has slammed the conviction of Zimbabwean author and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga and fellow protester Julie Barnes describing it as a "travesty of justice". They were each convicted for “inciting violence” and handed a six-month suspended sentence for participating in the 31 July 2020 protest against economic [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A human rights watchdog says Burkina Faso’s second military coup in 2022 heightens concerns for the country’s human rights situation. In a statement on Friday nigh's accouncement of the the coup, Corinne Dufka, Sahel director at Human Rights Watch noted that armed Islamist groups control vast [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The quarantine period for COVID-19 disease in Mauritius and the existing sanitary measures would be extended up to 30 November 2022, the Government announced on Friday, following the weekly meeting of the Cabinet in Port-Louis. It added there were 14 active cases this week as at 28 [...]

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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Friday withdrew Guinea's rights to host the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament. The president of CAF, Patrice Motsepe, who met with the president of the transition, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, told him that due to delays in completing the [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A new group of soldiers in the West African state of Burkina Faso on Friday night announced that it has ousted the junta leader Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, accusing him of failing to end terrorist attacks, especially in the north, that have claimed hundreds [...]

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