Clairefontaine, France (PANA) - Guinea on Thursday picked up the final ticket of the 2024 Men’s Olympic Football tournament in France when they beat Indonesia 1-0 in their play-off match in Clairefontaine, France. Ilaix Moriba’s first-half penalty proved decisive in a tense encounter at Clairefontaine and was enough to send Guinea to be [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid Al-Dbaiba, Thursday followed up on a number of projects of the Ministry of Planning concerning specifications and standards as well as the general population census. During his meeting with the acting Minister of Planning, Mohamed al-Zaidani, [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A Libyan citizen died while rescuing children trapped in the bed of Wadi Al-Bib, in the town of Gharyan, 80 km south-west of Tripoli. He was swept away by torrents of water after a downpour, the Relief and Emergency Agency announced. In a publication on Thursday, the Relief [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) continued discussions Thursday as part of the Article IV consultations for the year 2024 between the Central Bank of Libya (BCL) team and the Fund's expert mission to assess the general economic and financial situation of the Libyan state. Thursday's [...]Full text...
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambian officials and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff have advanced technical work as part of their discussions for the Third Review under the Extended Credit Facility supported arrangement. In a statement on Thursday, the IMF said that discussions focused on analyzing recent economic developments and assessing [...]Full text...
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD) in Diass, Senegal, was closed on Thursday after a TransAir plane chartered by Air Sénégal overran the runway, the Senegalese news agency APS reported, citing an airport source. The Senegalese Minister for Infrastructure, Land and Air Transport, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, [...]Full text...
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Health charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says it has been forced to suspend work and withdraw staff from Madani Teaching Hospital, the only functional hospital for the hundreds of thousands of people in dire need of medical assistance in the capital of Al Jazirah state, [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Some 80,000 people have left Rafah since Monday amid continuing Israeli bombardment in and around Gaza’s southernmost city overnight and into Thursday, UN humanitarians reported. Most of those uprooted by Israeli military evacuation orders in eastern Rafah have already been displaced from other areas of Gaza; they are [...]Full text...
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 [...]Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Attacks by Sudan's paramilitary the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias in El Geneina, the capital city of West Darfur state, from April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Wednesday signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Africa’s leading higher learning institution, the University of Cape Town (UCT) in Cairo, Egypt. The agreement will see the University of Cape Town provide bespoke courses and programmes as an Africa [...]Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia's economic recovery slowed in 2023, due to a severe drought, tight financing conditions and a modest pace of reform, leaving the country's growth below pre-COVID levels, and making it one of the slowest recoveries in the Middle East and North Africa region, according to the [...]Full text...
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 0.8925 0.8996 Euro 2,761.9437 2,790.6016 British Pound 3,207.1449 3,240.2548 Japanese Yen 16.5174 [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - As war rages in Gaza, violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have also increased substantially, a senior official with the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Wednesday. “The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) is acting as if there is an armed conflict in the West Bank,” [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The H5N1 avian influenza virus has so far shown no signs of adapting to allow human-to-human transmission, the UN health agency said on Wednesday, urging continued surveillance. So far, one human case has been reported in the United States since the outbreak of bird flu among the [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Israeli military manoeuvres and shelling continued in and around eastern Rafah in southern Gaza on Wednesday morning as UN humanitarians stressed that “no fuel or aid” is getting into the enclave. “We’re not receiving any aid, the crossing area has ongoing military operations and is an active war [...]Full text...
