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Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Eid El Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim f asting month of Ramadan, will be celebrated Friday in Mauritania, according to a statement from the National Commission for the Observation of the Moon
©- - 09 september 2010 - 09:00:00 - thread African Union (71 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A Taiwanese boat has been boarded and inspected f or illegal fishing off the West coast of Madagascar by a patrol squad from the Centre of Surveillance of Fishing of this country, th e Indian Ocean Commission (COI) based in Mauritius said Wednesday
©- - 08 september 2010 - 10:45:00 - thread African Union (212 words)


Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- The prices of foodstuffs have risen in Guinea-Bis sau since mid-August, the chairman of the Association of Consumers of Goods and S ervices (ACOBES), Bambo Sanha, has said
©- - 07 september 2010 - 21:40:00 - thread African Union (161 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A Mauritanian, Ould Ahmedou Hadramy, was arreste d after raising a false alert with the police through SMS, warning them of a car bomb, a deputy public prosecutor to the regional court of Nouakchott disclosed T u esday on the national television
©- - 07 september 2010 - 17:49:00 - thread African Union (148 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Tuesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 07 september 2010 - 12:27:00 - thread African Union (116 words)


Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Guinea Bissau, Lieutenant Gen
©- - 05 september 2010 - 15:03:00 - thread African Union (274 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The three mobile phone operators in Mauritania j ointly paid to the Public Treasury some 100 billion ouguiyas (about US$ 357 mill i on), while the number of subscribers went from 0
©- - 05 september 2010 - 08:26:00 - thread African Union (145 words)


Belle Vue- Mauritius (PANA) â" Cameroonian striker- Samuel E'too on Saturday pow ered his country to a 3-1 victory over Mauritius (half-time 1-1) in their Group E CAN 2012 qualifying match played at the Anjalay Stadium in Belle Vue, in the no r thern part of the island
©- - 04 september 2010 - 17:02:00 - thread African Union (149 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian Research Council (MRC) Friday unvei led an engine running on coconut oil that is already being used to pump drinking water in the region of E bene, PANA reported
©- - 03 september 2010 - 12:37:00 - thread African Union (87 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Friday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 03 september 2010 - 11:40:00 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Finance and Economic Development Minist er Pravind Jugnauth said Thursday that the need for financing in the island is e x pected to grow at a fast pace over the next 10 years, depending on the impact of the euro-zone crisis and other such global events, PANA reported from here
©- - 02 september 2010 - 15:03:00 - thread African Union (367 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Fisheries Minister Joseph Von-Mally, Th ursday launched a national action plan for the prevention of unregulated fishing at the Albion Fisheries Research Centre, near the capital, Port-Louis, PANA repo r ted from here
©- - 02 september 2010 - 14:44:00 - thread African Union (205 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as issued Thursday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 02 september 2010 - 12:00:00 - thread African Union (115 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The special representative of the UN secretary-g eneral in West Africa, Said Djinit, on Wednesday began a visit to Mauritania dur i ng which he called on President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Nouakchott
©- - 01 september 2010 - 22:24:00 - thread African Union (162 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Special Representative of the Secretary Gene ral of the United Nations (UN) in West Africa, Said Djinit, arrived in Nouakchot t Wednesday for a working visit to Mauritania, an official source said
©- - 01 september 2010 - 16:13:00 - thread African Union (147 words)


Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon's national football team, the Indomitable Li ons, has arrived in Mauritius ahead of this weekend's 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier against the host nation
©- - 01 september 2010 - 12:00:00 - thread African Union (83 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Wednesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 01 september 2010 - 10:01:00 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Tuesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 31 august 2010 - 12:00:00 - thread African Union (116 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania newspapers this week devoted front pa ges to developments in terrorist events in the Sahelian-Saharan sub-region, with the release by Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), of the Spanish hostages Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta, kidnapped on the Nouadhibou-Nouakchott road in Novem b er 2009
©- - 28 august 2010 - 17:57:00 - thread African Union (407 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Algerian government has donated 60 tonnes of foodstuff, medicines, blankets and tents to the victims of the floods that foll o wed the down-pour in Mauritania, PANA reported Saturday
©- - 28 august 2010 - 13:30:00 - thread African Union (76 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Seventy people have been killed in road accidents that occurred between January and June this year, compared to 65 for the same p e riod last year, a 4
©- - 28 august 2010 - 12:41:00 - thread African Union (295 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Central Statistics Office (CSO) in Mauritius said here Friday that tourist arrivals for the first half of 2010 increased by 6
©- - 27 august 2010 - 13:57:00 - thread African Union (296 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Friday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 27 august 2010 - 11:49:00 - thread African Union (116 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian Opposition group, under the aegis of the Coordination of the Democratic opposition in Mauritania (COD), on Thursday c alled for a collective action against terrorism in member States of the Sahel-Sa h ara region
©- - 26 august 2010 - 19:30:00 - thread African Union (147 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A new mobile phone network, the third in the cou ntry, will be launched in Mauritania in September, Mohamed Abderrahman Ahmed Eth m ane, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, Chinguitel (a subsidiary o f the Sudanese outfit, Sudatel), announced here Thursday
©- - 26 august 2010 - 17:43:00 - thread African Union (112 words)


Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union Commission President Jean Ping on Wednesday condemned the terrorist attack in Mogadishu, near the presidential p alace, which killed 31 persons, including six Somali MPs and vowed to continue t h e AU peacekeeping operation there
©- - 26 august 2010 - 16:17:00 - thread African Union (382 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as issued Thursday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 26 august 2010 - 10:14:00 - thread African Union (115 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The four-wheel drive (4X4) vehicle that exploded outside the Mauritanian military garrison in Nema, 1,200 kilometres east of Nou a kchott, the capital, early Wednesday, killing the lone occupant, believed to be a suicide bomber, bore the registration number "3022 MD" from Mali, PANA learnt f r om official sources here
©- - 25 august 2010 - 15:35:00 - thread African Union (135 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)-- A suspected suicide bomber died when his car expl oded in front of a military garrison in Mauritania's city of Nema, 1,200 kilometres from the capita l city of Nouakchott overnight Tuesday, eyewitnesses told PANA Wednesday
©- - 25 august 2010 - 12:13:00 - thread African Union (154 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian on Tuesday expressed the wish to div ersify its energy sources, especially by developing renewable energy sources
©- - 24 august 2010 - 23:34:00 - thread African Union (206 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)-- After pulling out of the qualifying series of the 2012 African National Cup tournament a few days ago, Mauritania now says it wil l soon unveil plans to revive football in the country under a new sports policy
©- - 24 august 2010 - 17:06:00 - thread African Union (167 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Secretary-General of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA-section Mauritania), Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, on Monday called for a revolution by "slaves and former slaves" in Mauritania to halt the growing practice of "slavery" in the country
©- - 23 august 2010 - 18:53:00 - thread African Union (242 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Press in Africa is committed to the Successful Year of Peace and Security, proclaimed by African Heads of State and Government at th e ir summit in February 2010 in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital
©- - 22 august 2010 - 14:04:00 - thread African Union (341 words)


Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Mauritania has withdrawn from the qualifiers for the 201 2 Cup of Nations (CAN 2012), to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, the African Football Confederation (CAF) has announced
©- - 22 august 2010 - 13:12:00 - thread African Union (194 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)- – The novel, “Les nouvelles du désert”, written by Mauritanian journalist M'Bareck Ould Beyrouck, is among the five works selected for the 2010 edition of the Prize “Ivoire de la Littérature africaine d'expression francophone”
©- - 20 august 2010 - 21:32:00 - thread African Union (142 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian Government will on Saturday lau nch a big reforestation operation aimed at building a green belt of about one mi l lion trees in four years around Nouakchott to halt the advancement of the Sahara desert
©- - 20 august 2010 - 21:16:00 - thread African Union (180 words)


Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Cameroonian Football Federation (FECAFOOT) has un veiled a list of 23 players for the 4 September CAN 2012 qualifying match agains t Mauritius in Port-Louis, PANA learnt from sports sources here
©- - 20 august 2010 - 17:57:00 - thread African Union (286 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Euro, US dollar and the British pound appreci ated on Friday against the Mauritian rupee, according to the exchange rates bull e tin published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 20 august 2010 - 09:42:00 - thread African Union (177 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- About 250 Mauritian medical and paramedical staff will on Monday attend a conference in Mauritius aimed at the management of cardiovascular diseases in the country
©- - 19 august 2010 - 20:36:00 - thread African Union (220 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- France has granted Mauritania 500,000 euros (abo ut US$ 643,400) through the World Food Programme (WPF) to contribute to the figh t against malnutrition in the African country, PANA learnt in Nouakchott Thursday
©- - 19 august 2010 - 18:39:00 - thread African Union (185 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The US dollar and the British pound appreciated Thursday against the rupee, while the euro lost ground, according to the latest exchange rates bulletin published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 19 august 2010 - 09:21:00 - thread African Union (179 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius is poised to attain the eight Millenniu m Development Goals (MDGs) on poverty, education, gender equality, infant mortal i ty, maternal health, diseases, environment and the global partnership for develo p ment, according to the latest figures issued by the Central Statistics Office (C S O) on Wednesday
©- - 18 august 2010 - 20:35:00 - thread African Union (398 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Libyan freighter carrying 13 tonnes of flour, 250 equi pped tents, 500 rescue kits and 600 mats, departed Tripoli Wednesday to Nouakcho t t to assist the Mauritanian people hit by the recent floods in the country, PANA reported from here
©- - 18 august 2010 - 19:29:00 - thread African Union (105 words)


Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will meet next month to discuss the political situation in Guinea Biss a u, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed Wednesday
©- - 18 august 2010 - 18:44:00 - thread African Union (550 words)