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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The next Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU ) will take place 1-3 July, in Sirte, Libya, the AU Commission said here Tuesday
©- - 19 may 2009 - 10:32:00 - thread African Union (120 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as published Tuesday by the Mauritian Commercial Bank
©- - 19 may 2009 - 09:42:00 - thread African Union (109 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Senegalese minister of foreign affairs, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, arrived on Monday in Nouakchott as part of the mediation efforts of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to find a consensus to the political and institutional crisis that has prevailed in Mauritania since the military coup on 6 August 2008
©- - 19 may 2009 - 00:09:00 - thread African Union (254 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania's industry and mining ministry and th e African Intellectual Property Organization (AIPO) began a four-day seminar on M onday in Nouakchott on the descriptive memoirs of patents
©- - 18 may 2009 - 21:38:00 - thread African Union (77 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Swine raisers in Mauritius Monday threatened to t ake to the streets to protest against what they called an “unfair competition”, o n the part of pork importers, an official source told PANA here
©- - 18 may 2009 - 17:47:00 - thread African Union (246 words)


Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) said here M onday it was on high alert following revelations that fraudsters posing as City C ouncil of Nairobi (CCN) public health officers were defrauding its members of hu g e sums of money through bribery without giving details of the sums of money invo l ved
©- - 18 may 2009 - 15:11:00 - thread African Union (283 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for some foreign currencies against Mauritian Rupee as published by the Mauritian Commercial Bank Monday
©- - 18 may 2009 - 11:36:00 - thread African Union (107 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- the National Front for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD), which is opposed to last year's military coup in Mauritania, has decided to suspend its demonstrations against the junta's electoral programme, official s ources told PANA here Sunday
©- - 17 may 2009 - 12:16:00 - thread African Union (203 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania this week lodged at the UN headquarters in New York a file on the extension of its continental shelf, the state-owned daily Horizon, reported on Saturday quoting a source from the Foreign Affairs and Cooperation ministry
©- - 16 may 2009 - 18:07:00 - thread African Union (142 words)


Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) – An Angolan company,- Bauxite Angola, is to build a nd manage a deep water harbour in Buba, south west of Bissau, under an agreement signed with the Guinea Bissau company on Thursday
©- - 15 may 2009 - 22:33:00 - thread African Union (131 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius is constructing its first refinery that will enable the island to process its sugar before selling on the European mark e t, a source close to the FUEL Refinery Ltd
©- - 15 may 2009 - 18:48:00 - thread African Union (286 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade arrived Thur sday in Nouakchott, leading a joint Senegal/African Union mission to mediate the political crisis in Mauritania since the 6 August 2008 coup
©- - 14 may 2009 - 20:21:00 - thread African Union (274 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius and the US Thursday signed a grant agre ement providing for financial support of US$325,000 for the island's efforts to i mprove its energy efficiency through the financing of a feasibility study on the proposed transmission grid and transformer network monitoring system project
©- - 14 may 2009 - 15:09:00 - thread African Union (233 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Saudi Arabia Thursday donated some 50 tons of dat es - the edible fruits from date palms that are common in the Middle East - to Mauritius as a gesture of goo dwill between the two countries, PANA reported
©- - 14 may 2009 - 14:23:00 - thread African Union (194 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian opposition has decried the repre ssion tactics being used by the country's caretaker government against oppositio n protesters
©- - 14 may 2009 - 12:42:00 - thread African Union (155 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A joint mission from Senegal and the African Union (AU) made up of President Abdoulaye Wade and the chairman of the African U nion Commission Jean Ping is expected on Thursday in Nouakchott, sources told P A NA
©- - 13 may 2009 - 22:55:00 - thread African Union (277 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Health and Quality of Life Minister Raj eshwar Jeetah has said he will ensure that cancer care provision is fully optimi s ed in the island, thereby helping to reduce the impact of the disease in the cou n try
©- - 12 may 2009 - 19:13:00 - thread African Union (293 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The World Bank has granted Mauritius a third Deve lopment Policy Loan to the tune of US$ 100 million in order to stimulate trade a n d competitiveness on the Island, a PANA correspondent has learnt
©- - 12 may 2009 - 14:22:00 - thread African Union (297 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania has joined the International Renewabl e Energies Agency (IRENA) at a ceremony in Berlin, Germany, according to a commu n iqué of the Mauritanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation issued here M onday
©- - 11 may 2009 - 15:59:00 - thread African Union (118 words)


Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Mauritius has teamed up with Botswana, Mozambiq ue, Namibia, Swaziland and host South Africa in a top line-up of accommodation p r oviders for the 2010 World Cup
©- - 11 may 2009 - 12:18:00 - thread African Union (291 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania's deposed president Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has called for a "national, open and constructive dialogue" involving all Mauritanian political stakeholders and any foreign entit y likely to facilitate the dialogue
©- - 10 may 2009 - 13:49:00 - thread African Union (180 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian government will Tuesday submit to t he Parliament, a draft law aiming at fighting more efficiently against juvenile d elinquency, PANA learnt Saturday from a parliamentary source
©- - 09 may 2009 - 16:58:00 - thread African Union (90 words)


New York- US (PANA) -- The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Jean Ping, on Saturday strongly condemned Thursday's killing of a Nigerian peacekeep e r with the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)
©- - 09 may 2009 - 16:30:00 - thread African Union (262 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Bank of Mauritius will hold a conference on t he prospects of the development of a capital market based on the principles of t h e Sharia on 19 and 20 May in Pointe-aux-Piments, northern Mauritius, PANA learnt from sources at the bank
©- - 09 may 2009 - 10:06:00 - thread African Union (235 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian Information and Communication Techn ologies Authority (ICTA) will soon instruct licensed dealers in mobile phones to enforce rigorous obligations with regard to the sale of radio communication/tele c ommunication equipment in an attempt to curtail the theft of mobile phones and b e tter protect consumer interests, PANA learnt from the telecommunications authori t ies
©- - 09 may 2009 - 09:13:00 - thread African Union (247 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian minister of Housing and Lands, Abu Kasenally, announced on Friday that the Saudi authorities have agreed to grant 500 additional visas to Mautitians who wish to go to Mecca on pilgrimage
©- - 08 may 2009 - 21:23:00 - thread African Union (93 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritians who wish to travel to Europe will be exempt from short stay visa in Schengen area from 1 June and the agreement on the decision will be signed on 28 May, Mauritian Forei gn Affairs ministry official told PANA on Friday
©- - 08 may 2009 - 21:16:00 - thread African Union (190 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian Health Ministry has opened a new u nit dedicated to the care of children suffering from cancer, especially leukemia , at Victoria Hospital, in Quatre-Bornes, 25 kilometres south of the capital, PAN A learnt Friday from health authorities
©- - 08 may 2009 - 15:58:00 - thread African Union (345 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rate for the Ma uritian rupee against some foreign currencies
©- - 08 may 2009 - 13:09:00 - thread African Union (108 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal, Chei kh Tidiane Gadio, arrived on Thursday in Nouakchott, the capital Mauritania, to s ubmit to Mauritanian factions a plan designed by Senegalese President Abdoulaye W ade to help them out of their current crisis
©- - 08 may 2009 - 08:10:00 - thread African Union (385 words)


Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Fourth Conference for African integration ministe rs (COMAI) opened on Thursday in Yaounde with a call on African leaders to be united in int ernational forums in the face of the crisis facing the world
©- - 08 may 2009 - 07:50:00 - thread African Union (356 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Mamouni Ould Moctar, a reporter with the Agence Nouakcho tt d' Information, a newswire service in Mauritania, has been manhandled by some politicians, the sub-regional press freedom body, Media Foundation for West Afri c a (MFWA), said Thursday
©- - 07 may 2009 - 18:36:00 - thread African Union (149 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A three-day international meeting bringing together expe rts on gender and related issues organised by the African Union (AU) and Gambian government gets underway in Banjul official sources confirmed to PANA Thursday
©- - 07 may 2009 - 18:31:00 - thread African Union (157 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Senegal's Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, also special emissary of Senegalese President Ab d oulaye Wade, a mediator in the political and institutional crisis which has been prevailing in Mauritania since the 6 August 2008 coup, arrived here Thursday aft e rnoon, PANA reported
©- - 07 may 2009 - 18:15:00 - thread African Union (182 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The following are the latest exchange rates for t he Mauritian rupee against some foreign currencies as published here Thursday
©- - 07 may 2009 - 11:33:00 - thread African Union (106 words)


Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- African ministers in charge of integration are expect ed to meet Thursday in Yaounde, Cameroon, as part of the fourth edition of the C o nference of African Ministers of Integration (COMAI IV) on the theme “Partnershi p s and Integration in Africa”
©- - 06 may 2009 - 19:08:00 - thread African Union (257 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Information and Communication Technolog y Minister Asraf Dulull has deplored that though Africa has around 50 million in t ernet users, internet penetration in the continent accounts for only five per ce n t, eight times less than in Europe
©- - 06 may 2009 - 17:56:00 - thread African Union (255 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Information and Communication Technolog y Minister Asraf Dulull has deplored that though Africa has around 50 million in t ernet users, internet penetration in the continent accounts for only five per ce n t, eight times less than in Europe
©- - 06 may 2009 - 17:53:00 - thread African Union (255 words)


Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- The third mission of the African Union International Co ntact Group on Guinea ended its third mission to the West African country on Tue s day with co-chairman Ibrahima Fall expressing satisfaction with preparations for the organisation of parliamentary and presidential elections
©- - 05 may 2009 - 22:31:00 - thread African Union (337 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan revolutionary leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, who is al so the current chairman of the African Union (AU), on Tuesday received the visiting Jor danian Prime Minister, Nader Dhahbi, in Tripoli
©- - 05 may 2009 - 21:54:00 - thread African Union (117 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan revolutionary leader Mouammar Kadhafi who is the current chairman of the African Union (AU), on Tuesday received Guinea Bissau's P rime minister, Carlos Gomez Junior, in Tripoli
©- - 05 may 2009 - 21:54:00 - thread African Union (148 words)


New York- US (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) and Interpol are working to strengt hen cooperation in a move to better counter threats from transnational criminal g roups and terrorists
©- - 05 may 2009 - 18:28:00 - thread African Union (227 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Sixty delegates from 12 African countries will pa rticipate in the 29th Southern Africa Telecommunications Association (SATA) annu a l conference scheduled to hold 6-8 May at Pointe aux Piments in northern Mauritius
©- - 05 may 2009 - 11:57:00 - thread African Union (218 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Several thousand people marched on Monday aftern oon in Nouakchott to register their rejection of the scheduled 6 June presidenti a l election
©- - 04 may 2009 - 23:18:00 - thread African Union (203 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Several dozens of Mauritanians demonstrated Sund ay in front of the headquarters of the National Television (TVM) to denounce “th e usurpation” of public media in their country, PANA reported from here
©- - 04 may 2009 - 18:17:00 - thread African Union (199 words)