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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said on Tuesday.  Francesca Albanese was speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where she presented her latest report, [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said on Tuesday.  Francesca Albanese was speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where she presented her latest report, [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - One in three migrant deaths happens while people flee conflict, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday. More than two in three migrants whose deaths have been documented remain unidentified.  Last year was the deadliest on record, with 8,541 migrant victims. Nearly 60 per cent of deaths were [...]

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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Intense hostilities in Gaza continued on Tuesday between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces with a “double-digit number of children killed overnight” and ongoing aid delivery obstacles that are responsible for near-famine conditions, UN humanitarians said. The continuing violence came despite an immediate ceasefire call for the remainder of Ramadan from the [...]

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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - With three weeks to go before legislative elections in Togo, members of parliament (MPs) voted on Monday evening to pass a law changing the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system, PANA learned on Tuesday from parliamentary sources. The proposed constitutional amendment was approved by 89 [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Committee set up by the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) Monday held its third meeting to select the member country that will host the headquarters of the African Energy Bank. It was chaired by the Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas in the Government of National [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Foreign Ministry of the Government of National Unity has welcomed the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during the holy month of Ramadan. It also expressed support for the arrival of humanitarian aid to alleviate the "tragic" suffering [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Al-Dbaiba has enquired about the latest preparations for the Dawlaty electronic services platform, which is due to be launched on 1 May, with the implementation of the electronic certificate retrieval service. A statement published on the government's Hakomitna platform said the Minister of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Finance, Khaled Mabrouk, has discussed two investment initiatives with a high-level delegation from the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development. The first initiative concerns the creation of a Libyan Investment Fund for Development and the second involves allocating land to be endowed to the [...]

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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Council has adopted a new law that will safeguard media freedom, media pluralism and editorial independence in the European Union (EU) member states. An official statement issued on Tuesday said that the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) will establish a common framework for media services [...]

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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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New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials, including the Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly on Monday paid tribute to the millions of men, women and children who suffered as a result of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, one of most devastating chapters in human history. Addressing a commemorative [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has hailed Monday’s UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza despite Israel’s response that suggested it would change nothing in its conduct of the war. The United States has previously vetoed three draft resolutions on Gaza, but on Monday it [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, has called for the immediate implementation of Monday's UN Security Council resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in the month of Ramadan as well as the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and greater humanitarian access. Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard, said [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are the exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling on Tuesday as issued by the Bank of Tanzania. Currency              Buying            Selling Burundi Franc     0.8843             0.8925 Euro                     2,754.0811       2,782.649 British Pound      3,214.4929       3,246.8946 Japanese Yen      16.8186           16.9835 Kenya Shilling     19.3331           19.3791 Rwanda Franc     1.9654       [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, announced on Monday that he is stepping down from the top aid job for health reasons. He informed the Secretary-General of his decision earlier in the day but he will remain in post until the end of June to [...]

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Mogadidhu, Somalia (PANA) - Cholera has killed nine people in the last week across Somalia and more than 50 in recent months, UN aid teams said on Monday. The alert from UN aid coordination office, OCHA, confirms that the preventable disease is spreading, with increasing numbers of infections reported in Hirshabelle, Puntland [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegal's president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, has pledged to govern with humility, with his priorities being national reconciliation and rebuilding institutions. “The Senegalese people have chosen rupture. I commit to governing with humility. I am committed to fighting against corruption,” Faye, who swept to a resounding first [...]

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