UN chief says WHO ‘absolutely critical’ to neutralising coronavirus threat

08 april 2020 - 21:54:09
New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) must be supported across the world, United Nations Secretary-General António [...] Full text...

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Congolese researchers, traditional practitioners ready to tackle coronavirus

08 april 2020 - 14:09:10
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Researchers and the National Union of Traditional Practitioners of Congo have said they are ready to [...] Full text...

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Congo: Brazzaville International Athletics Meeting cancelled

08 april 2020 - 13:37:51
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Brazzaville International Athletics Meeting scheduled for May has been cancelled due to the health crisis [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo's confirmed cases up by 11 to 60

08 april 2020 - 09:24:46
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo recorded 11 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the number of patients to 60, [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Civil society organizations call for release of journalists imprisoned in 10 African countries

08 april 2020 - 07:57:13
Paris, France (PANA) - Eighty-one civil society organizations grouped in a coalition on Tuesday sent a letter to 10 African [...] Full text...

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AI decries conflicts, cocktail of rights violations in Africa

08 april 2020 - 07:30:17
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The London-based global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), on Tuesday released a report saying, armed [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Africa's positive cases top 10,000 with more than 500 deaths

08 april 2020 - 05:44:43
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases in Africa has risen to more than 10,000 and caused [...] Full text...

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COVID-19: Congolese prime minister calls for compliance with barrier measures in markets

07 april 2020 - 22:23:10
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  -  Congolese Prime Minister Clément Mouamba Tuesday calledon vendors of Total's market, the largest in the capital, [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Three companies offer more than 220 million CFAF for the fight against virus in Congo

07 april 2020 - 21:16:47
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  -  Three Congolese companies Tuesday gave 220 million CFAF to the Congolese prime minister, Clement Mouamba, to [...] Full text...

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Congo: Africa Emergence calls for transparent management of National Solidarity Fund

07 april 2020 - 15:39:46
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) -Africa Emergence, a non-governmental organisation, on Tuesday called on the Congolese government in Brazzaville to ensure transparent [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: DR Congo MPs, Senator call for repatriation of compatriots stranded at foreign airports

06 april 2020 - 05:50:49
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Three DR Congo MPs and one Senator on Sunday reiterated their appeal to the government [...] Full text...

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Peacekeepers help fragile countries navigate conflict and COVID-19

05 april 2020 - 08:49:22
New York, US (PANA)  -  Even as UN peacekeepers adapt to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 (coronavirus), they continue [...] Full text...

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AU pursues debt forgiveness to address coronavirus impact

04 april 2020 - 20:10:58
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African Union's top organ, the Bureau of Heads of State, has called for a global debt [...] Full text...

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World Bank Group launches first operations for COVID-19 emergency health support

04 april 2020 - 17:57:33
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved on Friday a first round of emergency [...] Full text...

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Covid-19: Congo registers 45 cases, 5 deaths

04 april 2020 - 16:19:50
Brazzaville, Congo - The number of deaths linked to COVID-19 has risen to 5, while number of infected persons is [...] Full text...

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Rwandan papers focus on response to the coronavirus economic crisis

04 april 2020 - 13:11:14
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan newspapers this week largely focused on ongoing  efforts in the country to deal with the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: WHO worried over rising cases of COVID-19 in Africa

03 april 2020 - 18:43:49
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, on Friday expressed concern [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo sets up committee of experts to fight the pandemic

03 april 2020 - 18:25:33
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government on Friday in Brazzaville, set up a committee of experts to the National [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo's confirmed cases up by 19 to 41

03 april 2020 - 10:20:15
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo registered 19 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the total number to 41, [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: WB approves first set of emergency support operations for developing countries

03 april 2020 - 05:53:00
Washington, US (PANA) -  The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Thursday approved a first set of emergency support [...] Full text...

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Africans rise against armed conflict, repressive regimes

02 april 2020 - 19:13:38
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Protesters across sub-Saharan Africa have braved bullets and beatings to defend their rights in the face [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: UNHCR steps up activities to fight COVID-19 in DR Congo

02 april 2020 - 16:49:46
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has intensified its preparedness, prevention and response [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: DRC health system needs urgent help, says UNICEF

02 april 2020 - 16:36:46
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The DRC's health system needs urgent help to cope with measles and cholera epidemics that [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: MSF preparing hospitals, health centers in DR Congo to face rush of COVID-19 patients

02 april 2020 - 00:10:07
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA)  -  Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which is operating in 16 provinces of DR Congo, including North-Kivu [...] Full text...

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Congo: 20 people electrocuted as high voltage electric cables snapped

01 april 2020 - 15:11:40
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA - Twenty people were electrocuted on Wednesday in Kintélé, a northern suburb of Brazzaville, when lightning snapped [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo records first two deaths

01 april 2020 - 09:57:53
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo recorded its first two coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, Health and Population Minister Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo, has [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus poses latest threat to battered health system in DR Congo, says UNICEF

01 april 2020 - 05:40:56
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The looming threat of the new coronavirus disease COVID-19 is just the latest challenge to [...] Full text...

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COVID-19: President Sassou-Nguesso sets 20-day state of health emergency in Congo

31 march 2020 - 14:15:18
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has set 20  instead of 30 days, as announced two days ago, [...] Full text...

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Lightning kills at least two people in Rwanda

31 march 2020 - 14:04:47
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least two people were killed by lightning in Rwanda's North Western district of Rubavu on [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo announces cure of 2 out of 19 confirmed cases

30 march 2020 - 22:50:34
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese government has announced that two cases of COVID-19 infection have been cured out of [...] Full text...

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Congo budgets 12.669 billion CFAF for 782 business plans

30 march 2020 - 17:59:29
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The business plan validation committee for the Commercial Agriculture Development Support Project (Pdac) has validated 782 [...] Full text...

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Police enforce coronavirus induced curfew in Kenya, seven new cases confirmed

28 march 2020 - 20:48:59
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Police fired teargas canisters and beat scores of people rushing home on the second day of [...] Full text...

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Former Congolese minister dies in Brazzaville

28 march 2020 - 18:58:06
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's former sports minister and ambassador to China, Jean-Claude Ganga, died at his home on Saturday [...] Full text...

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Peacekeeping radio station provides COVID-19 information to vulnerable communities in South Sudan

28 march 2020 - 08:44:29
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - UN Peacekeeping radio stations are playing a vital role – getting information to vulnerable communities [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo records 15 new cases for a total of 19

27 march 2020 - 22:50:48
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The total number of people contaminated by the Covid-19 in the Republic of Congo rose from [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Life-saving vaccinations must not ‘fall victim’ pandemic – UNICEF chief

27 march 2020 - 06:09:46
New York, US (PANA) - Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is overstretching health services, medical goods are in short [...] Full text...

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Congo sets aside CFAF 35.6 million for burial of bodies abandoned in Brazzaville morgues

26 march 2020 - 14:24:04
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government has released FCFA 35,675,000 for the burial of 570 bodies abandoned in three [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: No case of coronavirus recorded in Burundi, says Health ministry

25 march 2020 - 23:51:30
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – In a new communiqué issued Wednesday, the Burundi ministry of Public health has reaffirmed that the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus kills popular Cameroonian musician, Manu Dibango

25 march 2020 - 19:36:45
Paris, France (PANA) - Several radio stations broadcasting in France, including RFI, FIP and France Musique, as well as the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus cases rise to 14 in Uganda

25 march 2020 - 17:17:39
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Two out of six Chinese nationals arrested in a random swoop for reportedly violating self-quarantine rules [...] Full text...

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President Félix Tshisekedi declares a state of health emergency in DR Congo

25 march 2020 - 14:36:04
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - President Félix Tshisekedi has declared a state of emergency due to the current sanitary situation [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congolese traders urged not to inflate prices

25 march 2020 - 12:57:00
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Philippe Nsonde-Mondzie, Director General of Competition and Trade Fraud Enforcement at the Congolese Ministry of Trade [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congolese businesses count their losses after govt.'s measures against coronavirus spread

24 march 2020 - 20:16:21
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Some Congolese traders on Monday deplored the loss of income in view of the measures taken [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Three patients test negative after treatment in DR Congo

24 march 2020 - 05:38:09
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – DR Congo's Health minister, Dr. Eteni Longondo, on Monday announced that three people who were [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congolese public urged to fight virus together

23 march 2020 - 10:56:11
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The president of the Congolese opposition federation, Claudine Munari, on Sunday called on the general public [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: DR Congo suspends cabinet meetings

23 march 2020 - 05:41:02
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – DR Congo Senior Minister, minister of Communication and Media, Jolino Makelele, on Sunday announced that [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Second case of death recorded in Kinshasa

22 march 2020 - 19:42:18
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The DR Congolese minister of Health, Dr Eteni Longondo, announced that a second case of [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo orders immediate closure of all borders until further notice

22 march 2020 - 14:36:12
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Prime Minister, Clément Mouamba, on Saturday evening in Brazzaville, ordered the immediate closure of [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Uganda confirms first case amid border closure

22 march 2020 - 14:11:06
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - A 36-year-old Ugandan citizen, who arrived on a flight from Dubai on Saturday, tested positive for [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Uganda bans all incoming passengers flights, shuts borders

22 march 2020 - 11:05:59
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, has banned international passenger flights except air cargo and humanitarian flights. The Ugandan [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congolese lawmakers to ask court whether they can sit in defiance of ban on large meetings

21 march 2020 - 17:06:02
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese National Assembly and Senate are heading to the court determine whether they can continue [...] Full text...

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Covid-19: Price hike for products related to Coronavirus prevention in Congo

20 march 2020 - 17:36:09
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Prices of products related to Covid-19 prevention, including masks, bibs and hydro-alcoholic gels, have tripled since [...] Full text...

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Covid-19: U.S. Ambassador to Congo in 14-day quarantine

20 march 2020 - 17:06:11
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - U.S. Ambassador to Congo, Todd Haskell, announced on Thursday in Brazzaville, via  Twitter, his quarantine for [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: More than 600 cases confirmed in Africa

20 march 2020 - 09:03:32
Brazzaville (Congo) – More than 600 cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) have been confirmed in 34 countries in Africa as of 19 [...] Full text...

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ICRC strengthens capacity of Congolese parliamentarians on human rights

20 march 2020 - 06:03:43
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for Central Africa is considering strengthening the capacities [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Round table for the financing of infrastructure projects in Central Africa postponed

20 march 2020 - 00:19:07
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The round table for the financing of infrastructure projects in Central Africa, scheduled for March 19 [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: DR Congo confirms seven new cases

19 march 2020 - 09:11:23
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo registered seven new coronavirus cases in Kinshasa on Wednesday, bringing to 14 the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: China offers to assist DR Congo better respond to virus

19 march 2020 - 09:06:03
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - China is ready to offer assistance to the Congolese government and people to help them [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: DR Congo suspends flights from countries at high risk of disease

19 march 2020 - 08:51:56
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo has suspended flights from high risk or transit countries as part of a [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: DRC's national assembly suspends activities

18 march 2020 - 22:23:43
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The national assembly of the DR Congo have suspended, from 18 March to 5 April, [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo tightens new measures after two other cases tested positive (official)

18 march 2020 - 21:29:15
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese Prime Minister, Clement Mouamba, has announced that as from Thursday 19 March, all schools, [...] Full text...

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DRC repatriates 1,593 ''irregular'' Burundians

18 march 2020 - 21:17:34
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 1,593 Burundians were escorted on Wednesday to the border post at Gatumba (northwest of Bujumbura) [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Visits to patients at Brazzaville University Hospital Center suspended

18 march 2020 - 20:35:43
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The general manager of the University Hospital Centre of Brazzaville (CHU-B), the largest hospital in the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Second case established in Guinea

18 march 2020 - 19:39:56
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - A Guinean businesswoman in her forties tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday after a stay in [...] Full text...

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Covid-19: Two new cases registered in Brazzaville

18 march 2020 - 18:51:41
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Two new cases of Covid-19 were notified on Wednesday in Brazzaville, after tests on a U.S. [...] Full text...

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Russia donates US$200,000 to Congo flood victims

18 march 2020 - 12:00:53
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Russia has donated US$200,000 to flood victims in Congo, PANA learned on Wednesday from the Ministry [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: A fourth case confirmed in DR Congo

17 march 2020 - 20:41:18
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – A fourth new case of coronavirus was recorded on Monday in Kinshasa, the Congolese minister [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congolese football federation confirms suspension of mass competition

17 march 2020 - 20:25:35
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese football federation (Fecofoot) on Tuesday confirmed the suspension of the League 1, League 2, [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Government says schools in Congo will not close

17 march 2020 - 18:19:44
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government announced Tuesday in Brazzaville it will not close schools to complete examinations of [...] Full text...

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'Cameroon 2020' postponed due to coronavirus

17 march 2020 - 18:02:16
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The African Championship of Nations (CHAN), originally scheduled for 4-25 April 2020, has been postponed to [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo announces preventive measures to curb disease

17 march 2020 - 09:16:59
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's Prime Minister Clément Mouamba on Monday announced a series of measures to raise the level [...] Full text...

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Congolese minister calls for calm after confirmation of first case of Covid-19

16 march 2020 - 22:53:59
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese minister of Health, and Population, Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo, on Monday in Brazzaville called on [...] Full text...

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Burundian illegal immigrants in North-Kivu repatriated to their country

16 march 2020 - 21:47:35
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – About 2,000 Burundian illegal immigrants in Goma, North-Kivu, were repatriated to their country by the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo suspends flights from countries with high risk

16 march 2020 - 20:53:07
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Congolese Prime Minister, Clement Mouamba, on Monday in Brazzaville announced a series of measures aimed to [...] Full text...

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Congolese consumers regret the lack of legal framework for their protection

16 march 2020 - 20:28:20
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Observatory for Consumer Rights, on Monday in Brazzaville, deplored the lack of a legal [...] Full text...

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With closure of land borders, the problem of food supplies to Gabon begins (Analysis)

16 march 2020 - 18:13:13
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - In response to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, Gabonese authorities have decided to close the [...] Full text...

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Chadian President warns against "balkanization" of Libya

16 march 2020 - 17:43:48
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has warned of "the balkanization of Libya, a danger we are [...] Full text...

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Roundup: Coronavirus: African gov'ts take stringent measures to contain virus

16 march 2020 - 10:38:00
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - With confirmed cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on the rise in Africa, several countries at the weekend [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Third case confirmed in Kinshasa

16 march 2020 - 03:47:28
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – DR Congo’s minister of Health, Dr Eteni Longondo, on Sunday confirmed the third case of [...] Full text...

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More than 1,400 Burundian illegal immigrants arrested in Goma

15 march 2020 - 19:16:01
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The provincial security authorities have arrested more than 1,400 Burundi illegal immigrants in Lake District, [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Congo confirms first positive case

15 march 2020 - 14:36:47
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government on Saturday announced the confirmation of the first case of a new coronavirus [...] Full text...

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. Libyan media focus on Contact Group meeting in Congo, France's attempts to resume mediation

14 march 2020 - 19:15:17
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan newspapers this week focused on France's attempts to fill the void in United Nations-supervised mediation [...] Full text...

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. Covid-19: DRC health minister reassures about treatment of 2 confirmed cases in Kinshasa

14 march 2020 - 18:43:05
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo's health minister, Dr Eteni Longondo, has reassured the Council of Ministers that everything [...] Full text...

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DR Congo president urges efficient government response to Coronavirus cases

14 march 2020 - 18:24:41
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi of DR Congo has instructed top officials in the government to [...] Full text...

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Brainforest, FRMI enter partnership for management of the Congo Basin

14 march 2020 - 16:43:06
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - A non-governmental organization (NGO), Brainforest, and Forest Resources Management Engineering (FRMI) have signed a partnership agreement [...] Full text...

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Pope appoints new Archbishop of Libreville

14 march 2020 - 16:38:32
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The Holy See has appointed Monsignor Jean-Patrick Iba Ba  head of the Archbishopric of Libreville to [...] Full text...

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Congo’s coach names 23 players for Congo-eSwatini double confrontation

13 march 2020 - 21:53:51
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The coach of the Congolese national team, Valdo Candido, on Friday in Brazzaville released the final [...] Full text...

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A second case of coronavirus confirmed in Kinshasa

13 march 2020 - 21:48:29
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The DR Congolese minister of Public health, Dr Eteni Longondo, has confirmed a second case [...] Full text...

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Three injured in new shell attack on the outskirts of Tripoli

13 march 2020 - 20:00:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Three people were injured in a new shell attack in the area of ​​"Tarik al-Chowk", on [...] Full text...

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Congo, WB to finance local SMEs

13 march 2020 - 19:32:22
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government and the World Bank, plan to release 7 billion CFA francs to finance [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Catholic Church in Rwanda asks worshippers to stop receiving Communion on the tongue

13 march 2020 - 14:02:15
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's Catholic Archbishop Antoine Kambanda has urged worshippers to stop some worship practices due to the [...] Full text...

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Intra-Libyan national conference scheduled for July in Addis Ababa

13 march 2020 - 11:30:14
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The members of the Contact Group of the High Level Committee of the African Union (AU) [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Rwanda advises Sports clubs against participating in international games

12 march 2020 - 22:11:52
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  The Rwandan ministry of Sports on Thursday advised fans, players and national federations to cancel their [...] Full text...

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Congo to enhance access to drinking water in Pointe-Noire

12 march 2020 - 20:57:13
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Minister of Energy and Works,  Serge Blaise Zoniaba, said on Wednesday in Pointe-Noire, the [...] Full text...

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Congo's pharmacists' association sets up early warning cell for the response against coronavirus

12 march 2020 - 20:41:34
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Pharmacists' Association (L'Ordre des pharmaciens du Congo) on Thursday set up a cell as [...] Full text...

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National reconciliation and the appointment of an African envoy to Libya, issues of the AU Contact Group meeting in Congo

12 march 2020 - 19:55:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Member countries of the African Union (AU) High-Level Committee on Libya met for the second time [...] Full text...

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Rwanda imposes quarantine for travellers from countries with confirmed cases of COVID-19

12 march 2020 - 15:57:59
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  All travellers  arriving in Rwanda from countries with confirmed cases of coronavirus will be isolated at [...] Full text...

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South African president arrives in Congo for Libyan crisis summit

12 march 2020 - 09:35:08
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived on Wednesday in Oyo, some 400 km north of Brazzaville, [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: No hugs, handshakes at stadiums during Rwanda's football Leagues

11 march 2020 - 22:27:08
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  As the novel coronavirus outbreak was declared a global pandemic, Rwanda Football Federation issued an advisory [...] Full text...

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Chairman of Libyan High Council of State welcomes Algerian president’s mediation initiative in Libya

11 march 2020 - 21:19:42
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The chairman of the Libyan High Council of State, Khaled Al-Machri, on Wednesday welcomed ‘’the initiative [...] Full text...

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356 Burundian refugees repatriated from Tanzania

11 march 2020 - 15:50:17
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 356 Burundian refugees from the 2015 electoral crisis, including 234 men and 122 women, were [...] Full text...

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U.S. Ambassador, Fayez al-Sarraj discuss efforts to find a political solution to the Libyan crisis

11 march 2020 - 13:35:34
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - International efforts for a political solution to the conflict in Libya were at the centre of [...] Full text...

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Congo allocates more than 694 million CFA francs budget to fight sickle cell disease

11 march 2020 - 11:33:01
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The executive committee of the Antoinette Sassou Nguesso National Reference Centre for Sickle Cell, on Tuesday [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: DR Congo confirms first case in Kinshasa

11 march 2020 - 05:04:29
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – DR Congo on Tuesday confirmed the first case of Covid-19 coronavirus in the Central African [...] Full text...

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Congo coach names 30 players for Eswatini match in 2021 AFCON qualifiers

10 march 2020 - 19:33:16
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The coach of Congo’s national football team, Valdo Candido, has unveiled a list of 30 players [...] Full text...

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Congo's First Lady highlights urgency for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission

10 march 2020 - 18:41:23
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's First Lady Antoinette Sassou Nguesso has underlined the urgency for prevention of pediatric mother-to-child HIV [...] Full text...

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Ramaphosa says Libya is among his priorities as AU Chair

10 march 2020 - 18:07:02
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, current Chair of the African Union (AU), has  reaffirmed "his country's [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Ghana president suspends foreign travel for all public

10 march 2020 - 17:34:11
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ordered the temporary suspension of all foreign travels for [...] Full text...

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Germany committed to project facilitation in the Congo Basin

10 march 2020 - 16:01:49
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Federal Republic of Germany has agreed to resume technical and financial assistance under the Congo [...] Full text...

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Congo sets up interministerial commission to ensure compliance with maritime fishing law

09 march 2020 - 20:18:24
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese minister of state for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Henri Djombo, at the weekend announced [...] Full text...

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Central African States urged to communicate on benefits of new financial market

09 march 2020 - 15:36:02
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - In a bid to encourage financial actors to play an increased role in the newly unified [...] Full text...

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Congo sets up inter-ministerial commission to ensure compliance with maritime fishing law

09 march 2020 - 13:55:19
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese minister of state for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Henri Djombo, at the weekend announced [...] Full text...

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Gender equality remains priority in SADC region – Executive Secretary

08 march 2020 - 16:05:43
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Gender equality remains a priority in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region as [...] Full text...

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Congo signs deal with Danish firm to revive river transport

08 march 2020 - 12:44:00
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - A memorandum of understanding has been signed in Brazzaville between the Congolese government and the Danish [...] Full text...

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Congo: Government, Fécofoot concerned about future Red Devils meetings

08 march 2020 - 10:56:14
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese Minister of Sports, Hugues Ngouélondélé, and the Congolese Football Federation (Fécofoot) decided on Saturday in [...] Full text...

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2019-20 CAF Champions League: All semi-finalists emerge

08 march 2020 - 06:24:10
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - All the four semi-finalists have emerged in the 2019-20 CAF Champions league after the second-leg, quarter-final [...] Full text...

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The resignation of UN envoy to Libya, AU intentions to appoint a joint envoy highlighted in the news

07 march 2020 - 17:57:42
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The surprise resignation of the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, in the midst [...] Full text...

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Passengers from coronavirus-affected countries to be quarantined on arrival in Burundi

07 march 2020 - 13:29:07
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Travellers from countries affected by coronavirus will be placed in "strict quarantine" for 14 days upon [...] Full text...

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President Sassou Nguesso opens Sembe-Souanke-Ntam road in northwest Congo

07 march 2020 - 05:42:59
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Built at a cost of 38 billion CFAF, co-financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and [...] Full text...

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2019-20 CAF Champions League: Zamalek, first to reach semi-finals

07 march 2020 - 05:33:49
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Although they lost the second-leg, quarter-final match 1-0 on Friday, five-time champions Zamalek of Egypt have [...] Full text...

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Agencies appeal for funding for refugee support and Ebola response in DR Congo

06 march 2020 - 20:07:59
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Urgent resources are needed to support countries in southern Africa and the Great Lakes region which [...] Full text...

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EU funded timber laboratory in DRC enhances study on tropical forests

06 march 2020 - 17:57:53
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Tropical forests are gradually losing their capacity to store carbon, according to a study carried out [...] Full text...

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WFP completes agricultural rehabilitation in south Congo

06 march 2020 - 14:37:06
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Food Program (WFP) representative in Congo, Jean-Martin Bauer, on Thursday signed in Brazzaville the [...] Full text...

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Congo: More than 400 bodies abandoned in Brazzaville morgues

06 march 2020 - 14:11:01
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The president of Congo's Union of Mayors (Usymco), Bertin Essami, on Thursday lamented in Brazzaville the [...] Full text...

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2019-20 CAF Champions League: Second-leg, quarter-final matches this weekend

06 march 2020 - 05:19:31
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Here are the second-leg, quarter-final matches, to be played on Friday and Saturday, in the 2019-20 CAF [...] Full text...

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Tunisia: African women leaders network to be launched in June

05 march 2020 - 22:15:20
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Altogether, 40 African active women leaders in different walks of life (civil society, Parliament, information and [...] Full text...

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Rwanda, DR Congo agree to co-operate in exploitation of methane gas from Lake Kivu

05 march 2020 - 18:14:19
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Officials of Rwanda and DR Congo on Thursday agreed to start concrete action on a joint [...] Full text...

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New summit of AU contact group on Libya scheduled for March 12 in Congo

05 march 2020 - 15:57:40
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - A new summit of the African Union contact group on Libya will take place on March [...] Full text...

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Congo: UNCTAD supports Congo's trade facilitation committee

05 march 2020 - 15:36:27
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) -  UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi announced on Thursday in Brazzaville, the support of his institution for the [...] Full text...

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Congolese government warns ex-ninja combattants in the Pool region

05 march 2020 - 11:25:02
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) -  Congolese Minister of Primary, Secondary  Education and Literacy Anatole Collinet Makosso warned ex-ninja combattants on Wednesday [...] Full text...

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Nigerian group Dangote plans new cement factory in Gabon

04 march 2020 - 18:42:03
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote has announced the upcoming construction in Gabon of a  cement production plant [...] Full text...

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Congolese government restricts official missions abroad

04 march 2020 - 16:02:08
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese Minister of Health and Population, Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo, announced on Wednesday in Brazzaville, the restriction [...] Full text...

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Congo: Social security fund pays CFAF 58 billion in social benefits in 2019

04 march 2020 - 14:42:42
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's Director-General of the National Social Security Fund (CNSS), Evariste Ondongo, announced on Tuesday that the [...] Full text...

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Financial players urged to mobilise to boost Central Africa's new unified market

04 march 2020 - 12:06:52
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - In order to boost Central Africa's new unified financial market, countries, as well as banks, have been [...] Full text...

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With Ebola on the wane in DR Congo, UN agencies prepare to combat coronavirus

04 march 2020 - 05:15:59
Beni, DR Congo (PANA) - After more than a year of battling an Ebola virus outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people, UN officials [...] Full text...

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Congo: Taxpayers urged to respect fiscal calendar

03 march 2020 - 13:33:02
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's  Director-General of tax administration, Ludovic Itoua, on Monday in Brazzaville, urged taxpayers to fulfil their [...] Full text...

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Belgium gives 462,000 euros to aid fight against locusts in Africa

03 march 2020 - 11:54:42
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium has released 462,000 euros to support the fight against locusts that have invaded several countries [...] Full text...

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DR Congolese archbishops urge president Tshisekedi to continue peace efforts

03 march 2020 - 05:34:19
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The Permanent Committee of the Congolese National Episcopal Conference (CENCO) has urged DR Congo’s president [...] Full text...

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DR Congo: CENCO concerned over crisis within ruling coalition

02 march 2020 - 22:20:58
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Members of the Permanent committee of the Congolese National Episcopal Conference (CENCO) have expressed concerns [...] Full text...

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Congo: Travelers from China, other countries quarantined

02 march 2020 - 22:13:57
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese government on Monday in Brazzaville decided to place in quarantine travelers not only from [...] Full text...

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Countries express concern about climate threats to Africa

02 march 2020 - 21:46:29
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Participants in the Sixth African Regional Forum for Sustainable Development (ARFSD) have expressed concern about [...] Full text...

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Kenya picks team to Turkish Women Cup

02 march 2020 - 20:30:23
Nairobi, Kenya(PANA) - Kenya's senior national women team to the  forthcoming Turkish Women Cup has been named. Coach David Ouma named [...] Full text...

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Congo: WHO urges Congo government to take necessary measures to prevent coronavirus

02 march 2020 - 17:52:20
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Faced with the risk of the Covid-19 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday advised   [...] Full text...

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26 killed in CODECO militia incursion into DR Congo village

01 march 2020 - 15:02:41
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Twenty-six people were killed and eleven others wounded, following an incursion by CODECO militia in [...] Full text...

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President Felix Tshisekedi instructs the Congolese govt. to undertake tax reforms

01 march 2020 - 12:20:08
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, addressing the 23rd Council of [...] Full text...

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2019-20 CAF Champions League: All results from first-leg, quarter-final matches

01 march 2020 - 03:48:23
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - With two first-leg, quarter-final matches decided on Saturday, here are all results from that round in the [...] Full text...

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President Tshisekedi orders inquiry into the death of FARDC deputy chief of staff

29 february 2020 - 19:14:45
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo  President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo has demanded a prompt inquiry to determine the [...] Full text...

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2019-20 CAF Champions League: Some results from first-leg, quarter-final matches

29 february 2020 - 06:07:48
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Here are some results from the first-leg, quarter-final matches played on Friday in the 2019-20 CAF [...] Full text...

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ECCAS delegates meet in Brazzaville to discuss gender, agricultural action plan

28 february 2020 - 21:59:52
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  - Delegates from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) met here Friday to validate the [...] Full text...

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International community mobilizes US$ 11 million to fight the Congo floods

28 february 2020 - 17:39:41
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Humanitarian, technical and financial partners have been able to mobilize nearly US$ 11 million or 26 [...] Full text...

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WHO warns risk of Ebola remains high in eastern DR Congo

28 february 2020 - 13:14:16
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Although there have no new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reported this week for [...] Full text...

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Locust plague spells catastrophe for millions in East Africa, warns humanitarian charity

28 february 2020 - 05:15:10
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A humanitarian charity has added its voice to warnings that grossly underfunded humanitarian responses across East [...] Full text...

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Congo: Total Group to promote gas production

27 february 2020 - 21:43:40
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Africa director of the French oil group Total, Nicolas Terraz, Thursday expressed the determination of [...] Full text...

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Kinshasa, Bangui agree on technical and military cooperation

27 february 2020 - 21:23:33
Kinshasa, Bangui agree on technical, military cooperation   Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) -  The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African [...] Full text...

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Congo, DR Congo work together in response to Coronavirus

27 february 2020 - 19:42:55
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The two Congolese governments, Brazzaville and Kinshasa, on Thursday expressed their determination to coordinate their operations [...] Full text...

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MONUSCO chief attends 2020 Fragility forum in Washington

26 february 2020 - 23:43:55
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The special representative of the UN Secretary General in DR Congo, Leila Zerrougui, Tuesday left [...] Full text...

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2020 humanitarian response plan to be launched Friday

26 february 2020 - 23:01:11
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government and the humanitarian community will Friday launch the 2020 humanitarian response plan [...] Full text...

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DRC, CAR establish common surveillance system at their border

26 february 2020 - 21:44:06
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo and Central African Republic Wednesday agreed to establish a surveillance system to deal [...] Full text...

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Congo: Towards validation of action plan to accompany ECCAS women

26 february 2020 - 21:30:13
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA)  - Representatives of different departments of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and experts from [...] Full text...

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High AIDS prevalence rate in young people rising in Congo

26 february 2020 - 18:14:30
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Minister of Health and Population, Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo, announced on Tuesday in Brazzaville that [...] Full text...

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Rwanda prepares friendly encounter with Congo Republic in Kigali

26 february 2020 - 17:34:13
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  A week after holding Cameroon to a 1-1 draw in Yaounde, Rwanda national football team on [...] Full text...

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AfDB notes lack of reform coordination in Zimbabwe government

26 february 2020 - 14:48:23
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said the Zimbabwe government lacks reform coordination and urged the [...] Full text...

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IMF team cautions DRC authorities on lacklustre revenue performance

26 february 2020 - 14:26:32
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – DR Congo’s budget execution until mid-February raises concerns owing to spending pressures and lacklustre revenue [...] Full text...

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Kenya's Safari Golf Tour to spread wings to Tanzania, Rwanda

26 february 2020 - 12:30:19
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Safari Tour owners and organizers of the Safari Golf Tour Series will spread wings of the [...] Full text...

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More funding needed to combat locust swarms ‘unprecedented in modern times’ - UN officials

26 february 2020 - 05:37:39
New York, US (PANA) - Along with climate shocks, conflict and acute food insecurity, the East Africa region now faces [...] Full text...

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Congo, UN agencies launch joint programme for social protection of indigenous people

25 february 2020 - 17:33:51
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government and United Nations agencies on Monday launched a joint programme for the social [...] Full text...

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No Congolese in China affected by coronavirus - Chinese ambassador reassures

25 february 2020 - 14:38:25
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - China's ambassador to Congo, Ma Fulin, on Monday reassured Congolese authorities in Brazzaville that preventive measures [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus 'not yet' a pandemic, says UN health agency chief

25 february 2020 - 05:55:33
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - While a sudden increase in new cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) is of concern, the spread of [...] Full text...

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Congo launches project to combat yaws

24 february 2020 - 13:11:38
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Ministry of Health and Population has launched a yaws control project in the departments [...] Full text...

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Provisional results give Togolese President Gnassingbé landslide victory

24 february 2020 - 09:30:16
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togolese President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé has been reelected in a landslide victory in Saturday's presidential election [...] Full text...

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Will the Libyan military talks achieve positive results? (News analysis by Youssef Ba, PANA correspondent)

24 february 2020 - 03:28:27
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – As talks of the Libyan military committee in Geneva grind on, the question on the lips [...] Full text...

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Quadripartite meeting between Rwanda and Uganda highlighted by Rwandan media

22 february 2020 - 12:36:35
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan newspapers this week commented on the fourth quadripartite summit between the Heads of State of [...] Full text...

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Polls open in Togolese presidential election with President Gnassingbe seeking fourth term

22 february 2020 - 12:02:48
Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togolese began voting on Saturday to elect their next president with seven candidates, including outgoing President [...] Full text...

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RD Congo: The FARDC track new armed group, the FIRP, in Ituri

21 february 2020 - 21:53:28
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of Congo armed forces (FARDC) have launched a hunt against the new [...] Full text...

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Congo: World Bank estimates "moderately satisfactory" disbursement rate of 14 per cent

21 february 2020 - 21:28:01
Pointe-Noire, Congo (PANA)  -  The World Bank Thursday in Brazzaville rated as "moderately satisfactory" Congo’s urban development and restructuring of [...] Full text...

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Kagame, Museveni trying to mend fences over feud between Uganda and Rwanda

21 february 2020 - 19:26:09
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweli Museveni, met Friday at Gatuna border crossing [...] Full text...

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Uganda given 30 days to verify allegation of supporting dissident forces hostile to Rwanda

21 february 2020 - 19:12:43
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Friday's fourth quadripartite summit involving Heads of State of Angola, DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda has [...] Full text...

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Rwanda's national team off to Cameroon for friendly game

21 february 2020 - 16:00:45
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A 26-man squad of Rwanda's national team on Friday departed to Cameroon to play an international [...] Full text...

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World Bank presents five-year partnership framework with Congo

21 february 2020 - 14:51:59
Pointe Noire, Congo (PANA) - The World Bank's Resident Representative, Korotoumou Ouattara, has said in Brazzaville that the five-year partnership [...] Full text...

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Central African states seek 20 billion euros for integrated projects

21 february 2020 - 11:12:30
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - A donor roundtable will be held in Brazzaville, Congo, on 19 March to raise funds to [...] Full text...

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Industry contributes only 8 pct of Congolese national wealth - Official

20 february 2020 - 23:39:32
Vindoulou, Congo (PANA)  -  The Congolese minister of Economy, Industry and Public portfolio, Gilbert Ondongo, Thursday announced here that industry [...] Full text...

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US gives Congo reagents to diagnose coronavirus epidemic

20 february 2020 - 23:18:54
Pointe-Noire, Congo (PANA)  - The US embassy Thursday in Brazzaville gave the Congolese national public health laboratory reagents to help [...] Full text...

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Roundtable on 19 March for funding of infrastructure projects in Central Africa

20 february 2020 - 22:43:25
Pointe-Noire, Congo (PANA)  - The Congolese minister of planning, territory equipment and big works, Jean-Jacques Bouya, Thursday announced the holding [...] Full text...

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IMF mission arrives in Congo

20 february 2020 - 21:29:13
Pointe-Noire, Congo (PANA)  - A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived Thursday in Brazzaville for a new evaluation, [...] Full text...

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European Parliament discusses "Luanda Leaks"

20 february 2020 - 17:33:43
Brussels, Belgium (PANA)-The "Luanda Leaks" scandal, revealed by the report of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, is on the [...] Full text...

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DR Congo: New confirmed case of Ebola reported in North-Kivu

19 february 2020 - 22:28:36
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The health zone of Benin in North-Kivu region Tuesday recorded a new confirmed case of [...] Full text...

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DR Congo’s president expresses need for country to resort to new ICTs

19 february 2020 - 21:52:43
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, Wednesday expressed the need for [...] Full text...

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Tunisia to host two African table tennis competitions

19 february 2020 - 18:06:55
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Table Tennis Federation announced on Wednesday the organization, from February 24 to 29 in [...] Full text...

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No suspected cases of Coronavirus in Burundi

19 february 2020 - 15:45:24
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - No suspicious case of coronavirus has been identified so far in Burundi, Public Health minister Thaddée [...] Full text...

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Congo's Power Plant capacity increases by 484 MW

18 february 2020 - 18:41:46
Pointe-Noire, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese head of state, Denis Sassou Nguesso, on Tuesday in Pointe-Noire, the second city and [...] Full text...

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Senegal: Draws for the groups of the 2020 African Nations Championship (CHAN)

18 february 2020 - 18:00:16
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The draw for the African Nations Football Championship (CHAN) "Cameroon 2020" was carried out on Monday [...] Full text...

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DRC’s president orders government to follow up victims of road accident

17 february 2020 - 22:31:20
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi Monday ordered the payment of all fees related to the [...] Full text...

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Algeria urges the international community to support Libya to resolve its crisis

17 february 2020 - 17:46:17
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Algerian Foreign Minister, Sabri Boukadoum, has called on the international community to support efforts to enable [...] Full text...

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EU maintains arms embargo on Zimbabwe Defence Industries

17 february 2020 - 17:16:26
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has renewed its arms embargo and asset freeze on the Zimbabwe Defence [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Chinese Embassy reassures on safety of Burundian students

17 february 2020 - 17:11:48
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - China is a "hospitable" and "responsible" country which attaches "great importance to the health and safety [...] Full text...

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Follow-up committee of Berlin conference reaffirms determination to achieve commitments

17 february 2020 - 02:29:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The ministers of foreign affairs participating in the international follow-up committee meeting on Libya have reaffirmed [...] Full text...

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Brazzaville hosts mini tournament as warm-up for CHAN Cameroon 2020

15 february 2020 - 16:30:00
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese Football Federation (FECOFOOT) will host from February 17-22, in Brazzaville, an international mini-football tournament for [...] Full text...

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WHO Managing Director calls for development of DRC’s health system

14 february 2020 - 23:01:47
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA)  - The managing director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Friday called for the [...] Full text...

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Coronavirus: Special team established to assist Congolese students in Wuhan

14 february 2020 - 21:54:15
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA)  - The People’s Republic of China has established a special team to deal with the problems [...] Full text...

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Third round of ministerial talks between Rwanda, Uganda opens in Kigali to diffuse tensions

14 february 2020 - 20:15:40
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The third round of talks by an Adhoc committee involving Rwandan top officials, including diplomats, intelligence [...] Full text...

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