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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (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 Union africaine (199 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A French national, Eric M'Benga, the presumed br ain behind a cocaine trafficking network of which several members were arrested i n Mauritania about 18 months ago, was extradited from Dakar, Senegal, to Nouakch o tt, Mauritania, Thursday night, PANA learnt from judicial sources
©- - 01 may 2009 - 17:42:00 - thread Union africaine (194 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius has intensified surveillance measures i n response to the pandemic alert on swine influenza, a PANA correspondent has learnt from the Health Ministry on Friday
©- - 01 may 2009 - 08:01:00 - thread Union africaine (401 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Foreign Affairs Minister Arvin Boolell has announced that Mauritian citizens will be travelling visa-free to Europe for a maximum period of three months duri ng a six-month period starting 1 June
©- - 01 may 2009 - 07:56:00 - thread Union africaine (189 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Six political parties, which between them have a big majority in the two chambers of the Mauritania parliament, announced on Thu r sday in Nouakchott that they would support the candidacy of junta leader General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz for 6 June presidential election
©- - 30 april 2009 - 23:03:00 - thread Union africaine (192 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian police Wednesday arrested 73 sus pected illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, in Nouadhibou (port city and M auritania's major economic centre located 465 km away from Nouakchott), official sources told PANA on Thursday
©- - 30 april 2009 - 14:55:00 - thread Union africaine (120 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Cheikh Mohamed Salem Ould Abdel Wedoud, a great scholar of Islamic law widely renowned in the Muslim world, has died, official s o urces told PANA
©- - 30 april 2009 - 13:21:00 - thread Union africaine (82 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Several Mauritanian ministers have taken "tempor ary leave of absence" to work for the erstwhile military junta leader and presid e ntial hopeful, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is gradually setting up his p olitical campaign office, authoritative sources told PANA here Wednesday
©- - 29 april 2009 - 16:58:00 - thread Union africaine (160 words)


Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- Fifteen candidates, including former president Ku mba Yalla, and former chair of the national assembly, Malam Bacai Sanha, have su b mitted their papers to take part in the presidential elections in Guinea Bissau s lated for June, sources close to the Bissau Supreme Court told PANA here
©- - 29 april 2009 - 15:01:00 - thread Union africaine (227 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as published by the Mauritian Commercial Bank on Wednesday
©- - 29 april 2009 - 10:12:00 - thread Union africaine (109 words)


Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The ECOWAS Commission and Member States have rallied sup port for Guinea Bissau by making significant pledges, at a one-day Roundtable fo r the Restructuring and Modernisation of the country’s Security Sector
©- - 28 april 2009 - 16:03:00 - thread Union africaine (337 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Two senior Mauritanian army officers, Lieutenant -Colonels Mekhalla Ould Dellali and Moctar Ould Kehel, were arrested here Monday , official sources told PANA on Tuesday
©- - 28 april 2009 - 14:46:00 - thread Union africaine (221 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) --­ The US dollar gained slightly against the Maurit ian rupee Tuesday, while the euro fell, according to the latest exchange rates p u blished by the Mauritian commercial bank
©- - 28 april 2009 - 11:42:00 - thread Union africaine (127 words)


Bambous- Mauritius (PANA) -- Curepipe Starlight won the Mauritian soccer league f or the third consecutive time, despite drawing with Savannes SC in the last matc h on Sunday
©- - 27 april 2009 - 11:45:00 - thread Union africaine (194 words)


Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A delegation of the AU peace and security counci l will visit Cote d'Ivoire from 28 April to 1 May on a fact-finding mission foll o wing the political crisis in that West African country, the AU liaison office sa i d here
©- - 26 april 2009 - 16:45:00 - thread Union africaine (158 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Prominent Mauritanians, bent on finding an inter nal solution to the Mauritanian political crisis following the 6 August coup on S aturday, said they had failed to get all the stakeholders, especially those in p o wer, to a round table
©- - 26 april 2009 - 16:06:00 - thread Union africaine (246 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian Health Ministry will conduct a nati onal survey on non-communicable diseases among its citizens this year, official s ources said here on Saturday
©- - 26 april 2009 - 09:52:00 - thread Union africaine (205 words)


Paris- France (PANA) -- A demonstration march was held in Paris, France, to deman d the return, in decent conditions, of Mauritanians who had taken refuge in Mali and Senegal since the 1989 inter-communal riots
©- - 25 april 2009 - 19:26:00 - thread Union africaine (276 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Min-ister Navin Ramgoolam will rep ly to 13 parliamentary questions at the next sitting of the Parliament on Tuesda y , including one on the Somali pirates, PANA learnt from the Parliament Secretari a t Saturday
©- - 25 april 2009 - 16:49:00 - thread Union africaine (193 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius, Friday, called for an immediate ceasef ire in Sri Lanka and the evacuation of civilians from war areas between the army and the Tamoul rebels, an official source told PANA here
©- - 24 april 2009 - 18:41:00 - thread Union africaine (92 words)