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New York, US (PANA) - Kenyan President William Ruto is calling for reforms of the United Nations Organisation saying the world body must “renew or decay”.Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, he asked whether the UN is relevant to the needs of the time. UN News quoted [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Seventeen African governments on Wednesday committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access as part of Mission 300—an ambitious partnership led by the World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group that aims to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030.At the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The municipality of Zliten, about 130 km east of Tripoli, has hosted the launch of the Libyan-Tunisian Business Forum, which aims to strengthen economic relations between the two countries.In a speech, the Minister of Economy and Trade of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU), Mohamed [...]

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 Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Trust Bank of Gambia.Currency                   Buying                SellingUS Dollar                      [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Millions more people at risk of HIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) will have access to a powerful new prevention option: a low-cost, generic version of lenacapavir, the world’s first twice-yearly injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).A new partnership announced on Wednesday between the Gates Foundation [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Relative calm has returned to the Libyan city of Zaouia, 45 kms west of Tripoli, after the deployment of troops following clashes between two armed groups.  Reports said there is relative calm with the deployment of the 52nd Brigade and the 103rd battalion responsible for intervening [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Haimanot Teferra, mission chief for Kenya, will visit Nairobi from 25 September to 9 October to initiate discussions with the authorities on a possible IMF-supported programme.In a press statement issued on Wednesday ahead of the visit, [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has held “a constructive” meeting with the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ms. Allison Hooke on the margins of 80th UN General Assembly in New York, to review AU–U.S. cooperation.A statement by [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Senior oficials of 10 countries and the United Nations have met on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week to discuss building economic foundations for unity and security in Libya.The meeting convened by the United States (the chair) comprised senior officials representing Egypt, France, Germany, [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Floods in South Asia, wildfires across North America, and record-breaking heat in Europe have underscored what scientists have warned for years: climate change is escalating faster than the political response.Against this backdrop, the UN Secretary-General is holding a climate summit during the high-level week of [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared that Africa is a continent “irreversibly on the rise”.However, many of the Sustainable Development Goals remain elusive due to a lack of financial resources, he said, pointing out that many developing countries spend more on debt servicing than [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Morocco's Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch has called for peaceful solutions to conflicts in Middle East and Africa. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, he called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a return to negotiations to end the war.  Humanitarian assistance [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, has noted increasing global conflict warning that “the rhetoric of war is gaining ground, and we are seeing the return of old demons”.Delivering his speech on Tuesday at the UN General [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Liberia's President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has highlighted his country's upcoming Security Council term saying "while the nameplate during this two-year term will read ‘Liberia’, the seat, however, belongs to Africa”.In his speech on Tuesday at the UN General Assembly, he welcomed the election of his [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Mozambican president Daniel Francisco Chapo has called for inclusive multilateralism so the UN is not seen as “assembly of shareholders”.“Indeed, our presence in this podium is the result of a free and transparent process,” he said in his speech to the UN General Assembly in [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço of Angola on Tuesday warned that world powers’ aggression and interference were endangering global order.“With such a dangerous precedent, no regional, continental or global institution will henceforth have the moral authority to call to order any State when it breaches [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 1.4 billion people worldwide live with hypertension, yet only one in five have the condition under control.The new World Health Organisation (WHO) report on chronic high blood pressure – launched during the 80th UN General Assembly at an event co-hosted with Bloomberg Philanthropies and [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has responded to remarks made on Monday by US President Donald Trump in Washington, suggesting that paracetamol use in pregnancy may cause autism.Spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said that while some observational studies had raised questions, many others found no such link, and [...]

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