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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - There has been no Kenyan affected by the earthquake which hit Türkiye and Syria on Monday, killing over 5,000 people and leaving a trail of destruction, the Kenyan foreign ministry said Tuesday. "We share the pain and the devastating loss that is coming in the backdrop of [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN agencies working in Ethiopia have called for enhanced efforts to combat female genital mutilation and other harmful traditional practices affecting women in Ethiopia. The UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) and the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) called for a sustainable partnership and engagement with [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Meta, which owns social media platform, Facebook, is suitable to face trial before a Kenyan Court of law on allegations of poor labour practices and mistreatment of workers, a Court in Nairobi said Monday. Meta launched a bid to be freed from facing trial before the Kenyan [...]

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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja launched the the Second Country Review Report (CRR) and the National Programme of Action (NPoA) of Nigeria, calling on member States of African Union (AU) to imbibe the culture of peer review and peer-to-peer learning for proactive and strong [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkina Faso education authorities say as of 31 January, the number of schools closed in the country due to terrorism has risen from 6,253 to 6,383, an increase of 130 educational structures. The report underlines that these closures represent about 24.74% of the educational structures [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The House of Representatives in Libya, during its session held on Tuesday in Benghazi, approved the thirteenth amendment of the Constitutional Declaration, on the organisation of relationship between powers in Libyan. THis decision could facilitate the organisation of elections if supported by the High Council of State, [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov  has given the assured that his country will continue to help Mali strengthen its army. Speaking at a press conference his Malian counterpart, Abdoulaye Diop, the head of Russian diplomacy since 2004 said his country will continue to help Mali "to improve [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, has said that the  two-day meeting of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission in Cairo, Egypt, from Tuesday aims at activating the liaison committees agreed upon during its meetings in November 2021, as part of [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said it deeply regrets the decision of the Malian authorities to declare its Director of the Human Rights Division, Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali, persona non grata. In the statement issued on Monday, MINUSMA said it had been informed [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, has agreed with Marshal Khalifa Haftar, leader of the Libyan National Army (LNA) on the need for elections this year. They agreed that all parties should engage constructively and without delay in the development of a [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Italy on Monday handed over to the Libyan Coastguard a search and rescue boat for the fight against illegal immigration and human trafficking in the Mediterranean. A statement from the Libyan Foreign Ministry said the handover ceremony took place at the Vittoria shipyard in the Italian city of Adria, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan House of Representatives resumed sitting on Tuesday in the eastern city of Benghazi to elect the second Deputy Speader. The race is between MPs al-Hadi al-Saghir and Ahmed al-Sharif who polled 35 votes and 29 votes respectively in the first round of voting on Monday. The [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Arab Parliament has called on all Libyan parties and national forces to resume a constructive national dialogue and develop a clear and precise roadmap to hold elections this year. In a statement issued on Monday posted on the website of the Libyan Parliament, the Pan-Arab Parliament [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reshuffled his cabinet after two ministers resigned about a month ago to conest the presidential primaries of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2024 election. The president sent a letter to the Speaker of Parliament that was read [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba on Monday reaffirmed support to Turkey in a telephone conversation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria earlier in the day. A statement said Mr. al-Dbaiba expressed his condolences to the Turkish government and people for the [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Central Bank of Gambia. Currency                                 Buying           Selling US Dollar                                  59.75        [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu, who was reported to be among victims trapped under rubble after an earthquake hit Turkey and Syria at dawn on Monday, has been pulled from the rubble and sent to hospital, the local media reported in Accra on Tuesday. The reports quoted Mustafa [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are Tuesday’s exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling as issued by the Bank of Tanzania. Currency               Buying          Selling Burundi Franc       2.2002           2.2168 Euro                   2,475.1438       2,500.8236 British [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The UN Development Programme has in a report released on Tuesday stated that extremist groups exploit development failures to recruit new members or find sympathisers. "Whether it’s a lack of employment or livelihood opportunities, inequality or social exclusion, societal ills provide an opening for extremists to introduce [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) -  On World Cancer Day celebrated 6 February, the Mauritian Health and Wellness Minister, Kailesh Jagutpal, has said that cancer was the leading cause of deaths worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 or nearly one in six deaths. The Mauritian Minister was speaking at an [...]

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Washington, DC, (PANA) - The United States says it stands with the more than 200 million survivors of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) around the world in a posture of “zero tolerance” for the practice. "We stand resolutely against the practice of FGM/C as a form of gender-based violence and [...]

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Geneva, Ghana (PANA) – United Nations member countries have urged the Ghana government to address the shackling and inhumane treatment of people with mental health conditions in Ghana, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. These recommendations were made on 24 January, 2023, at the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Ghana. “Ghana has [...]

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