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Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - This time the death was not caused by hanging or pulling the victim chained to a 4X4 truck or by a gunshot or whipping or hacking by tomahawk axe or slaughtering by knife or gang-raping. This time the young woman's hands were tied behind her back [...]

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Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) -The Sudanese Armed Forces on Thursday said it had retaken a strategic town, Bara, an area in the vicinity of the desert road that links central Sudan to greater Kordufan and Darfur region.A military communiqué said the SAF forces, alongside all components of the National Dignity [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has welcomed the announcement by the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) of the results for the 34 municipalities that participated in the second group of Municipal Council Elections, which ended on 16 and 23 August 2025.A statement on [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has called for the revival of the gas pipeline project linking Nigeria to Europe via Libyan.This was discussed at a meeting between the Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU), Khalifa Rajab Abdul-Sadig, and the Nigerian Minister of [...]

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Washington, DC, USA (PANA - Technology is reshaping capital flows and currency dominance; data integrity is essential for financial stability.Technology is poised to shake up the international monetary and financial system. How that happens depends on whether technologies are shaped by the public sector or the private sector sets standards [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade of the Government of National Unity, Mohamed al-Haweij, stressed the importance of developing a strategy for cooperation with the Libyan and Indian private sectors, in particular through the creation of a joint chamber of commerce and a Libyan-Indian business [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Côte d'Ivoire's economic growth is solid and remarkably resilient in the face of global shocks, according to the World Bank's latest economic update.However, to accelerate its economic transformation and sustainably reduce poverty, the West African country will need to strengthen its domestic resource mobilisation. 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              SellingBurundi Franc                    0.8097        [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Wednesday announced that it will officially reopen the inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.The liberation hero was brutally assaulted and murdered by apartheid-era security police in 1977.The NPA said the matter would be enrolled [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana received 14 West African nationals deported from the US after it was approached to accept third-party nationals being removed from that country, President John Dramani Mahama announced on Wednesday night.Speaking at a press conference in Accra, he said Ghana agreed to take the deportees from [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 720,000 people commit suicide every year and many more attempt it. Now the head of the UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for “shifting the narrative” on the issue “to challenge harmful myths, reduce stigma and foster compassionate conversations”.Speaking on World Suicide Prevention Day, [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - School meals are a crucial way out of poverty into “a new world of learning and opportunity”, according to the World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Cindy McCain.The number of children receiving school meals through government-led programmes has gone up by 20 per cent since 2020, found the latest [...]

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