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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Here are the standings after Day 4 matches in the African qualifiers.                                            Group AEgypt - 10 pointsGuinea Bissau - 6Burkina Faso - 5Sierra Leone - 5Ethiopia - 3Djibouti - 1Group BSudan - 10 pointsSenegal - 8DR Congo - 7Togo - 3South Sudan - 2Mauritania - 1Group CRwanda [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's acting Minister of the Interior, General Imad Mustafa Trabelsi, and his Tunisian counterpart, Khaled Nouri, signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding witnessed by Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid Al-Dbaiba, which provides for the partial opening, from Thursday, of four common [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the government of Ethiopia, in partnership with the Netherlands, fertilizer company OCP-Africa, and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), have launched an ambitious project to transform Ethiopia from a wheat importer to a self-sufficient producer and exporter.  The [...]

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Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Nestled in the southeastern region of Africa, Malawi is blessed with diverse landscapes, from the plains of the central region to the Shire Highlands in the south, and the Nyika and Viphya Plateau in the north.  However, behind its natural beauty lies a pressing issue: water [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Gambian Dalasi as published by the Central Bank of Gambia.Currency                   Buying                SellingUS Dollar                   65.057  [...]

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Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed Chioma Angela Onukogu as the Director of Board Affairs and Proceedings in the Office of the Secretary General and the General Secretariat, effective 16th April 2024.  Onukogu, a Nigerian national, brings over 25 years of expertise in corporate [...]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has launched a series of training programmes to support 22 transition or fragile states in Africa to manage their debt more effectively.  The Public Finance Management Academy for Africa (PFMA), an initiative of the Bank Group’s African Development Institute, [...]

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Maputo, Mozambique  (PANA) - The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism  will launch the Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management Project on Friday, designed to boost access to fertilizer for 300,000 smallholder farmers in Mozambique.  The official launch will feature several distinguished speakers:     Oligário Banze, Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Rural [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Economic growth in Senegal proved resilient in 2023 amid political tensions and persistent, albeit declining, inflation, according to the World Bank’s 2024 Economic Update for the West African country.Senegal’s vibrant primary and secondary sectors supported economic activity despite disruptions in the services sector and a slowdown [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - This year and last have seen historically high levels of forced displacement worldwide according to the UN refugee agency’s (UNHCR) 2024 flagship Global Trends Report published on Thursday. The report found that forced displacement rose to 120 million in May 2024, marking the 12th consecutive annual increase [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The following are exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling on Thursday as issued by the Bank of Tanzania.Currency              Buying        SellingBurundi Franc  0.9021          0.9074Euro                   2813.2506   2841.9084British Pound  [...]

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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his solidarity with the people of Gaza and the global body’s deep commitment to the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) on Wednesday, while also issuing a stark message to the world’s richest nations ahead of the G7 Summit in Italy [...]

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