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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced on Tuesday night a complete lockdown of all supermarkets, shops and bakeries till 31 March, effective Wednesday morning, to protect citizens from the deadly COVID-19 (coronavirus)

©- - 25 march 2020 - 06:40:58 - thread African Union (175 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Mauritanian and Malian governments have agreed to close their 2,000-kilometers common border, within the framework of the prevention and fight against the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), said the Mauritanian Interior ministry

©- - 24 march 2020 - 21:18:57 - thread African Union (113 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian Central Bank

©- - 24 march 2020 - 11:38:20 - thread African Union (137 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 24 march 2020 - 09:24:37 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Finance, Economic Planning and Development minister Renganaden Padayachy on Monday announced the introduction of a Wage Support Scheme to limit the socioeconomic impacts of coronavirus on the island

©- - 23 march 2020 - 13:16:52 - thread African Union (266 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritius Government has imposed a 10-day curfew on the country from 20:00 hours on Monday 23 March to 20:00 hours local time on Thursday 2 April 2020 in a bid to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 (coronavirus)

©- - 23 march 2020 - 10:37:24 - thread African Union (233 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 23 march 2020 - 08:44:46 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Dr Vasant Rao Gujadhur, Director of Health Services in Mauritius, announced on Sunday that four new cases of Covid-19 infections have been recorded in the island in the last 24 hours

©- - 22 march 2020 - 14:29:26 - thread African Union (141 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The spokesperson of the National Communication Committee on Covid-19, Dr Zouberr Joomaye, on Sunday said Mauritius has stepped up a protective plan to fight the propagation of Covid-19 in the wake of the increasing number of cases that are being detected in the island

©- - 22 march 2020 - 13:46:57 - thread African Union (363 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Saturday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian Central Bank

©- - 21 march 2020 - 11:50:43 - thread African Union (135 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian national carrier, Air Mauritius, has been granted special authorization by the authorities to operate three inbound flights on Saturday despite the suspension of commercial flights to check the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus)

©- - 21 march 2020 - 09:55:22 - thread African Union (143 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Health and Wellness Minister of Mauritius, Dr Kailesh Jagutpaul, on Saturday confirmed the death of one patient from COVID-19 (coronavirus), but gave no details about this case

©- - 21 march 2020 - 08:29:19 - thread African Union (294 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 20 march 2020 - 09:02:57 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Wednesday night announced that three cases of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) have been registered in the island

©- - 19 march 2020 - 09:45:11 - thread African Union (210 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Mauritanian minister of Health, Mohamed Nadhiri ould Hamed, on Wednesday afternoon announced the discovery of a second positive case of the coronavirus fever (COVID-19) on a foreign woman employee at the house of a couple of expatriates

©- - 18 march 2020 - 21:13:47 - thread African Union (71 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government has decided to suspend all weekly markets organized in the east of the country, especially in the 2 Hodh regions bordering Mali, as part of the implementation of measures to prevent and control coronavirus (COVID-19), the local press reported on Wednesday, quoting a source at the interior ministry

©- - 18 march 2020 - 20:58:05 - thread African Union (140 words)


Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - President  Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau has ordered immediate closure of all land, air and sea borders of the country due to the coronavirus pandemic

©- - 18 march 2020 - 15:18:00 - thread African Union (242 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister Maneesh Gobin, on Wednesday, said that despite no case of Covid-19 (coronavirus) has been reported in Mauritius, the island remains vulnerable to such a threat, hence self-sufficiency is a necessity to generate an increase in local production

©- - 18 march 2020 - 13:00:15 - thread African Union (397 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 18 march 2020 - 09:44:18 - thread African Union (124 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The UN system in Mauritania has denies the allegations that it closed its services to the public, saying ‘’we keep our doors open regarding the hygiene and preventive measures recommended by the Mauritanian government

©- - 17 march 2020 - 22:40:41 - thread African Union (122 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Taking advantage of an audience with historic opponent Ahmed Ould Daddah, leader of the Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD) and several times unsuccessful candidate in  presidential election, Mauritanian President Mohamed ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has appealed to his compatriots for a sacred union around the fight against the coronavirus

©- - 17 march 2020 - 15:10:16 - thread African Union (181 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius will extend travel restrictions for a period of two weeks on foreign travellers coming from or having transited countries of the European Union, including United Kingdom and Switzerland, during the last 14 days as from 20:00 GMT on Wednesday, the Government Information Services (GIS) announced on Tuesday

©- - 17 march 2020 - 15:01:05 - thread African Union (304 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian Central Bank

©- - 17 march 2020 - 11:43:42 - thread African Union (136 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 17 march 2020 - 08:47:28 - thread African Union (124 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government on Sunday announced eight new measures as part of the fight against the global coronavirus pandemic

©- - 16 march 2020 - 17:55:12 - thread African Union (151 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius Meteorological Services on Monday issued a Class II cyclone warning for the island nation as well as for Rodrigues Island

©- - 16 march 2020 - 17:34:05 - thread African Union (173 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A 33-year-old Nigerian was intercepted on Friday at the SSR International Airport of Mauritius by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Section (CANS) of the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) with 66 pellets of heroin, official sources at the MRA said on Monday

©- - 16 march 2020 - 13:50:55 - thread African Union (170 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 16 march 2020 - 08:40:42 - thread African Union (126 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania has recorded its first case of coronavirus, Health minister Mohamed Nadhiri ould Hamed announced on state television on Friday

©- - 14 march 2020 - 11:07:25 - thread African Union (112 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Saturday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian Central Bank

©- - 14 march 2020 - 11:02:15 - thread African Union (137 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The current international environment marked by the coronavirus pandemic is expected to weigh on Mauritania owing to commodity price volatility and a slowdown in global growth, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team warned on Friday at the end of a two-week visit to the northwest Africa country

©- - 13 march 2020 - 14:08:52 - thread African Union (489 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The members of the Contact Group of the High Level Committee of the African Union (AU) on Libya, who met on Thursday in Oyo, about 400 km from Brazzaville, have decided to hold the Intra-Libyan national conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, next July

©- - 13 march 2020 - 11:30:14 - thread African Union (625 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 13 march 2020 - 09:17:08 - thread African Union (124 words)


Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) on Thursday issued a cautionary statement on the political situation in Guinea-Bissau following the country’s presidential elections which took place in on 24 November and 29 December 2019

©- - 12 march 2020 - 12:20:01 - thread African Union (205 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius on Wednesday disclosed that the island's population decreased by 162 or -0

©- - 11 march 2020 - 18:10:37 - thread African Union (348 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 11 march 2020 - 09:19:37 - thread African Union (124 words)