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Washington DC, USA (PANA) - Almost a year ago, Credit Suisse, a globally systemic bank with $540 billion in assets and the second-largest Swiss lender, founded in 1856, failed and was sold to UBS.
In the United States, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank failed at around the [...]Full text...
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Government of Rwanda has published a new biosafety law providing requirements for the transit and utilisation of living modified organisms (LMOs) produced through modern biotechnology techniques.
According to a report published Monday on the Global Agricultural Information Network, the law enters effect immediately. It was actually [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister who is alao the Chairman of the Supreme Council for Energy and Water, Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba, has stressed the need to follow through on the plan to increase oil production to 2 million oil barrels per day (b/d) on schedule.
He also stressed [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday condemned the “unprovoked” killing of soldiers attached to 181 Amphibious Battalion of 63 Brigade, at Okuama community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.
The president, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, [...]Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's Ministry of Economy and Finance has imposed financial sanctions on six terrorist and rebel leaders for period "6 renewable months", PANA learned from an official source on Monday.
According to the decision taken on 8 March and published on 13 March, Iyad Ag Ghaly, head of [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, has called on institutions involved in the abolition of fuel subsidies to urgently come up with solutions to spare citizens the consequences of their action.
In a post on Sunday on the X social media platform, Mr al-Manfi [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya on Sunday reiterated support for legitimacy in Yemen and everything that guarantees the security and stability of the people.
The Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Al Dbaiba said this during a telephone conversation with the Yemeni Prime Minister, Ahmed Awad ben Mubarak, according to a statement from [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid al Dbaiba, on Sunday visited the headquarters of the Civil Status Authority to monitor the measures taken as part of a project aimed at organising and matching electronic data with archived data.
The Intilaka project was launched by the Government and the [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amid reports that the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Monday in search of Hamas fighters, UN humanitarians have warned that new food insecurity data indicates that famine could happen “anytime”.
“Famine is projected to occur anytime between now and May 2024 in the northern governorates,” the [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 6,659 cancer patients have been registered in Libya out of a total of 20,000 targeted in the country, the director of the Libyan National Cancer Authority, Haider el-Saeh, has said.
In a statement reported on Sunday by the government platform Hakomitna, Mr al-Saeh said [...]Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al-Dbaiba, has denied rumours circulating about the deteriorating economic situation of Libya and its bankruptcy.
In a speech on Sunday at a Muslim fast-breaking banquet attended by the Chairman of the High State Council, Mohamed Tekkala, he set out in figures the [...]Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Cape Town International Jazz Festival will return this year after a four-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite South Africa’s hard lockdown ending in 2020, the annual festival has gone through numerous postponements.
It usually takes place in March, but this year’s mega event [...]Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - FIFA has awarded 10 editions of its Under-17 World Cups, to be hosted by Qatar and Morocco, starting in 2025 when they become annual tournaments.
Qatar will hold each 48-team edition of the men's Under-17 World Cup from 2025 through 2029.
In the same period, Morocco will hold [...]Full text...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - A delegation of seven Executive Directors from the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has arrived in Sierra Leone on a five-day consultation mission aimed at deepening the partnership between the Bank and the West African nation.
Led by Mette Knudsen from Denmark, the delegation includes Jonathan [...]Full text...
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Monday'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...
N’djamena, Chad (PANA) – Hepatitis E is spreading through refugee camps in eastern Chad where more than 550,000 Sudanese fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan have taken shelter, warns medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
It said the spread of hepatitis E is being exacerbated by poor sanitation and a desperate [...]Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Hosts Ghana are set to clash with Senegal in what promises to be a captivating semi-final encounter on Tuesday in the men's football competition at the 13th edition of the African Games.
Both teams, renowned powerhouses in youth football across Africa, are gearing up for a showdown [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – South Africa’s Krugersdorp-based Afri-Tech Mining Supplies is destined for export of its award-winning Power Nozzle to Ghana, Mali, Tanzania, Botswana and Namibia before mid-year, with at least 10 other sub-Saharan African countries expected to be export destinations by the end of 2024.
Online Engineering News [...]Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Mobile network companies in Ghana are working hard as they slowly reconnected the country to the Internet after a massive disruption to data services as a result of undersea cable cuts last Thursday wreaked havoc.
There has been frustration, and sometimes anger, as businesses and services that rely [...]Full text...
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The war in Gaza has left a staggering almost 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave, UN humanitarians said at the weekend.
In a fresh alert about the disastrous humanitarian emergency still unfolding in the enclave, the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, [...]Full text...
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Irate Nigerian soldiers have razed Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, Niger Delta region, where local youths masterminded the abduction, beheading and killing of 16 soldiers on Saturday evening.
Sources confirmed that the total number of soldiers, who died in the cause of [...]Full text...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling on Monday as issued by the Bank of Tanzania.
Currency Buying Selling
Burundi Franc 0.8812 0.8891
Euro 2755.6186 2784.1975
British Pound [...]Full text...