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Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Espérance Sportive de Tunis head coach, Miguel Cardoso has heaped praise on the electrifying atmosphere displayed at African football stadiums, the Communications Department of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said. The Portuguese-born coach was speaking in Pretoria ahead of his side’s highly anticipated TotalEnergies [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Zanzibar has been selected as the host nation for the CAF African Schools Football Championship finals 2024. The second season of Africa’s largest youth football competition finals will be hosted at the recently refurbished Amaan Stadium between 21 – 24 May 2024, a statement issued by the [...]

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Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has called for increased capital flows to developing countries at the 10th African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, which began on Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In her speech at the forum, which is intended to prepare Africa's position at the World [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, who is visiting Ethiopia, on Thursday discussed bilateral issued with his host Abiy Ahmed. Highlights of the talks were the organisation of Ethiopian expatriate workers, the return of airlines to Libya, Libyan loans granted to Ethiopia [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, has announced his candidacy in the presidential election scheduled for 29 June in Mauritania, several media outlets have reported. "I have deemed it appropriate to address you directly, dear compatriots, through this letter, to inform you of my [...]

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Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - A Women's Platform of the Great Green Wall (PFGMV) will soon see the light of day, following a workshop to validate the initiative, which starts on Thursday in Bamako, Mali, sources close to its initiators tell us. The overall aim of the Bamako workshop is to officially [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Prime Minister, Dr Apollinaire Joachimson Kyélèm de Tambèla, is paying a visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran from 24 April to 1 May 2024 during which will hold bilateral talks and attend the opening ceremony of the 2nd Iran-Africa Economic Forum and Iran [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed al-Haweij, has stressed the importance of investment, trade and exports with Malta to achieve economic development and open up horizons for joint commercial cooperation. In a speech at the opening ceremony of the Libyan-Maltese Trade and Export Forum and [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya, Algeria and Tunisia have signed an agreement to set up a consultation mechanism for the joint management of groundwater between the three North Saharan countries. The agreement was initialled on Wednesday in Algiers by the Libyan Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Mohamed Guenidi, and the Algerian [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Smoking and drinking is on the rise among teenagers in Europe, Central Asia and Canada, and girls now match or even exceed boys when it comes to substance use, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a new report on Thursday. Data covering all three areas revealed that more [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Africa's football governing body, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), has awarded Moroccan football club, RS Berkane, 3-0 victory over Algerian side USM Alger, in their first leg TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup first-leg match semi-final match in Algiers which did not take place. A statement said the [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Central Bank of Gambia. Currency               Buying            Selling US Dollar               65.057               67.50 Pound Sterling       82.62              [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Burkina Faso military summarily executed at least 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages on February 25, 2024, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. These mass killings, among the worst army abuse in Burkina Faso since 2015, appear to be part of a widespread [...]

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EMBARGOED: NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024, AT 11:00 AM UTC. Washington, United States (PANA) - Global commodity prices are levelling off after a steep descent that played a decisive role in whittling down overall inflation last year, which could make it harder for central banks to cut interest [...]

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Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - On 10 October 1980 a magnitude 7.1 earthquake destroyed the town of El Asnam (known today as Chlef) in Algeria, causing several thousands of casualties and leading to considerable economic losses.  It was followed 3 hours later by a magnitude 6.3 aftershock, making it one of the [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are the exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling on Thursday as issued by the Bank of Tanzania, Currency            Buying         Selling Burundi Franc     0.8921       0.9003 Euro                   2,747.0557    2,775.564 British Pound      3,197.8769    3,230.1152 Japanese Yen      16.5813       16.7461 Kenya [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, launched a $1.2 billion appeal on Wednesday to address the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip and to respond to needs in the West Bank as violence there increases.  A UN statement said the funding will cover humanitarian response through the end of [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two UN agencies alongside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the global vaccine alliance Gavi on Wednesday launched a campaign to scale up programmes to save lives, marking the start of World Immunisation Week, celebrated annually during the last week of April. The Humanly Possible joint global communication [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - A new mechanism for getting lifesaving aid into Gaza will start in the coming days, UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator Sigrid Kaag announced in a briefing to the Security Council on Wednesday. “The operationalisation of the mechanism will allow for pipeline prioritisation, predictability, visibility and [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PA A) - The United States is calling on all armed forces in Sudan to immediately cease attacks in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, North Darfur. A statement issued by Mr. Matthew Miller, Spokesperson for the Department of State, said the US was "alarmed by indications of [...]

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Djibouti city, Djibouti (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is offering medical care, food, shelter and psychosocial support to 33 migrants who survived a shipwreck off the coast of Djibouti on Monday, as local authorities continue search and rescue operations.  The migrants were on a boat carrying at least [...]

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