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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's military prosecutor's office says it has opened an investigation into the devastating attacks in the country on 25 March that saw several cities and towns attacked by rebels and jihadists.The coordinated attacks claimed the lives of several civilians and military personnel, including the Minister of [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – Gambian President Adama Barrow on Saturday received Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Ayokor Botchwey at the State House in Banjul, where they discussed ways to deepen cooperation and strengthen engagement.The talks reviewed progress in relations between The Gambia and the Commonwealth of Nations, while identifying priority areas for [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya generated a total of $2.82 billion in oil revenues in April 2026, the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced.In a statement, published Friday, the NOC explained that the value of the letters of credit for fuel imports issued through the Libyan Foreign Bank will be [...]

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Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Abdelkader Hassan Yahya, a member of Libya's eastern-based House of Representatives and the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), has been elected rapporteur for the North African Group in the Pan-African Parliament.This election took place during the first extraordinary session of the seventh legislature of the PAP, which was [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday completed the Article IV Consultation for Angola.A press release by the IMF Communications Department said this also included a discussion of the findings of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) exercise for Angola.It said [...]

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New York, US (PANA)  The threat of nuclear Armageddon, a constant worry for many who grew up during the tense decades of the Cold War, is becoming a cause for concern for a growing number of young people.For decades, the possibility of the Soviet Union and United States starting a [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - War in the Middle East has made Lebanon the deadliest country for media workers so far this year, but practically no country offers a safe environment in which to be a journalist, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Volker Türk highlighted growing threats to the [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 60 days after the start of the conflict in Iran, the war in the Middle East has had repercussions far beyond that region and is disrupting the delivery of humanitarian aid to areas such as the African continent, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) [...]

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