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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian and Libyan officials on Tuesday engaged in talks over issues relating to the Ras Jedir border crossing between the two countries. The talks centred on security coordination between the two countries and the issue of sub-Saharan migrants. Tunisian and Libyan Interior Ministers Kamel Feki and Imed Mustapha [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs in the Government of National Unity Walid Ellafi Tuesday discussed a number of programmes relating to the ICT industry with Directors of the Technology Development and Communications Policy Departments of the US Department of Commerce. On the second [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid al Dbaiba, held talks on Tuesday with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Prime Minister's Office in Tripoli, on ways of promoting bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Following talks attended by delegations from both [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid al-Dbaiba, has stressed the need to organize the situation of entities affiliated to the Ministry of Economy and Trade and to prepare a proposal for the import budget based on the necessary requirements for food, [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Security Council has called on the Secretary-General to appoint a successor as soon as possible to the resigning Special Representative in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, reiterating its continued support for the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and its leadership. It also stressed the [...]

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Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - Social registries, defined as information systems that support intake, registration, and eligibility assessment processes for social protection programmes, are being developed and expanded in sub-Saharan Africa. In environments where data is scarce and informality is high, collecting and centralizing information on households or individuals offer significant potential [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid ongoing uncertainty about a ceasefire in Gaza and an escalation of the military operation in Rafah, UN aid agencies expressed deep concerns on Tuesday that the two main access points into the enclave remained closed, while families are scared and “hanging on psychologically and physically by a [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council has adopted the first-ever law to combat violence against women, giving the green light to an EU directive to stop violence against women and domestic violence. Taking decisive action against these acts of violence is essential to ensure the values and fundamental rights of [...]

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Windhoek Namibia (PANA) – Namibia on Monday marked the approval of its first ever World Bank financed energy project, aimed at improving the reliability of the country’s transmission network and enabling increased integration of renewable energy into the country’s electricity system.  The US$138.5 million project will be implemented by the national [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Mondli Gungubele along with the Premier of Northern Cape, Dr Zamani Saul, on Tuesday launched a major Free WiFi hotspot project in the township of Nonzwakazi in the Northern Cape. The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies in 2023 made [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Tuesday'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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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling on Tuesday as issued by the Bank of Tanzania. Currency           Buying        Selling Burundi Franc     0.892         0.9002 Euro                   2,771.777   2,800.5331 British Pound      3,235.1534    3,268.5432 Japanese [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Less than a month remains before Zanzibar kicks off the much-anticipated 2024 CAF African Schools Football Championship finals as 12 teams equally split between Under-15 boys and girls representing the six CAF Zonal Union champions will compete for the ultimate African crown. The CAF African Schools Football [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved a disbursement of SDR 53.55 million (about US$71 million) to Guinea under the Exogenous Shocks Window of the Rapid Credit Facility to help the West African country address immediate needs associated with the explosion [...]

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Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - Namibia has become the first country in Africa and the first high-burden country in the world to reach a key milestone in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and hepatitis B, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Monday. WHO has awarded the southern African country “silver [...]

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Dar es Salaam (PANA) - Hundreds of thousands of lives have been impacted by recent heavy rainfall and massive floods in parts of Eastern Africa as the UN continues to offer support to governments across the region.  Reports from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicate that close [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The 19th session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF19) opened on Monday with focus on achieving Global Forest Goals and increasing progress towards sustainable development by 2030.  The UNFF serves as a body under the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and aims to support the [...]

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