Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Health and Wellness Minister Kailesh Jagutpal said Tuesday Mauritius would offer an attractive and favourable environment for carrying out clinical research on a large scale with high standards of public transparency and safety

©- - 31 january 2023 - 17:11:52 - thread African Union (219 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania is strategically placed to become an important supplier of natural gas, particularly as countries seek to diversify their gas suppliers to reduce reliance on Russian gas, Extractives inSight, a monthly bulletin from the Extractive Industries Transparency International (EITI} reported on Monday

©- - 31 january 2023 - 13:03:21 - thread African Union (495 words)


Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) – A new credit support programme under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) aims to anchor macroeconomic stability in Guinea-Bissau, put the government's budget back on track and ensure medium-term debt sustainability

©- - 31 january 2023 - 11:02:59 - thread African Union (681 words)


Khartoum (Soudan) - The president of Sudan's Sovereign Transitional Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the president of Chad's Transitional Military Council, Mahamat Idriss Déby, agreed on Sunday to work together for the establishment of peace in Libya and stability in the Central African Republic

©- - 30 january 2023 - 19:17:33 - thread African Union (369 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso has pledged his full support for the UN's efforts, highlighting the dangers of maintaining the status quo in Libya, which is experiencing a deadlock in its political process

©- - 29 january 2023 - 15:26:38 - thread African Union (456 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities on Monday attributed the death of a 65-year-old woman to COVID-19

©- - 24 january 2023 - 06:29:36 - thread African Union (60 words)


 

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities said on Friday they did not record any death from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country over the period 12 -18 January 2023

©- - 21 january 2023 - 07:45:50 - thread African Union (82 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius said on Wednesday that the country's balance trade showed a deficit of 17,600 million rupees in November 2022, higher by 26

©- - 19 january 2023 - 07:55:25 - thread African Union (174 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Health authorities in Mauritius announced on Monday that for the first time the national Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination campaign, will target not only girls but also boys aged 9 to 15 years old

©- - 16 january 2023 - 10:42:40 - thread African Union (389 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Health and Wellness said on Friday that it has, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation and various stakeholders, developed a national action plan for 2023 to 2027 for sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

©- - 14 january 2023 - 07:23:55 - thread African Union (149 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian health authorities on Friday reported that one death attributed to COVID-19 was recorded in the island from 5-11 January 2023

©- - 14 january 2023 - 05:49:52 - thread African Union (82 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA ) -  The Mauritius Government announced Friday that the Environment Protection (Control of Single Use Plastic Products) Regulations 2020 will be amended to extend by two years, that is, from 15 January 2023 up to 14 January 2025, the moratorium for the banning of  certain non-biodegradable single use products

©- - 13 january 2023 - 17:24:20 - thread African Union (205 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The preparatory forum of the National Reconciliation Conference concluded its work on Thursday evening in Tripoli, in the presence of the deputy chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Abdallah Al-Lafi, and the United Nations Envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily

©- - 12 january 2023 - 20:14:10 - thread African Union (407 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian health authorities said on Tuesday that COVID-19 claimed a new life on the island last Sunday, a 88-year-old man who was not vaccinated

©- - 03 january 2023 - 06:20:33 - thread African Union (64 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, arrived Friday in Brasilia, Brazil, to represent the president of the Transition, Colonel Assimi Goïta, at the inauguration Sunday, 1 January, 2023, of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, an official source told PANA

©- - 31 december 2022 - 13:34:19 - thread African Union (261 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian health authorities said on Friday that COVID-19 claimed a new victim on the island, a 73-year-old woman who was vaccinated against coronavirus, but  tested positive

©- - 30 december 2022 - 09:37:04 - thread African Union (68 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A three-member mission was inaugurated on Thursday under the auspices of the African Union (AU) to monitor, verify and enforce the 2 November Cessation of Hostilities agreement that ended a two-year bitter war between the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front

©- - 30 december 2022 - 05:20:20 - thread African Union (695 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has told members of the diplomatic corps that his country and the United Kingdom (UK) have decided to start negotiations on the issue of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago in view to securing, by early next year, an agreement on the basis of international law

©- - 25 december 2022 - 06:35:49 - thread African Union (322 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Statistics Mauritius, a governmental organization, on Friday released the figures regarding the unemployment rate in the island which stood at 7

©- - 24 december 2022 - 12:32:24 - thread African Union (188 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius on Thursday said that the balance of visible trade showed a deficit of Rs 13,959 million in October 2022, lower by 23

©- - 22 december 2022 - 07:53:47 - thread African Union (172 words)


 

 

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius recorded one death due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), 82 active cases out of which 38 were admitted to a hospital over the period 8 -14 December 2022, health authorities said on Saturday

©- - 17 december 2022 - 07:51:51 - thread African Union (170 words)


Pte aux Piments, Mauritius (PANA) – The Acting Mauritian Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Mr Louis Steven Obeegadoo, on Thursday said that the number of tourist arrivals from October 2021 to November 2022 to the island amounted to 1,027,455

©- - 16 december 2022 - 09:02:45 - thread African Union (320 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union Member States renewed their commitments towards nutrition on the continent at a high-level event of the 2022 African Year of Nutrition, the AU Commission said on Thursday

©- - 15 december 2022 - 12:59:36 - thread African Union (354 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian health authorities reported on Monday that they have recorded three deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours

©- - 12 december 2022 - 09:16:03 - thread African Union (83 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Manfi, on Saturday met with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Mohamed bin Salman bin Abdelaziz, to discuss the political developments in Libya and the prospects for cooperation between the two countries

©- - 11 december 2022 - 14:42:12 - thread African Union (181 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Health authorities in Mauritius reported Saturday one death attributed to the coronavirus (COVID-19) over the period 1-7 December 2022

©- - 10 december 2022 - 08:08:18 - thread African Union (66 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, announced Thursday that the government will soon set up a Financial Crime Commission in a bid to ensure greater coordination among law enforcement agencies and to reinforce public-private partnership in combating financial crimes

©- - 09 december 2022 - 08:21:50 - thread African Union (366 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Supreme Court of Mauritius has jaild two Mauritians after finding them guilty of drug trafficking and importation, PANA reports on Wednesday from judicial sources in the capital

©- - 07 december 2022 - 08:05:06 - thread African Union (111 words)


Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) – The Ministry of Health and Wellness on Monday said it will institutionalise the National Health Observatory (NHO), which is an important tool for evidence-based policy making

©- - 06 december 2022 - 08:12:52 - thread African Union (366 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations, African Union and IGAD, known as the trilateral mechanism operating to end the Sudanese political crisis, on Monday welcomed the agreement signed between the military establishment and a grouping of political parties and former rebel movements

©- - 05 december 2022 - 14:46:12 - thread African Union (313 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius on Friday opened its first  community sexual health clinic in a bid to provide a panoply of services to further support  individuals suffering from Human Immuno Deficiency  Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immuno Deficiency  Syndrome (AIDS)

©- - 03 december 2022 - 06:29:41 - thread African Union (308 words)