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Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) - Authorities in Seychelles Friday launched an initiative dubbed 'The Shark Fin Soup Project' to raise public awareness on myths and realities of sharks in view of global concerns in recent years about the sustainability of the current exploitation of the carnivorous fish
©- - 26 june 2015 - 18:12:30 - thread Union africaine (342 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Dozens of African Union (AU) troops were killed Friday in a dawn raid on the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Base situated in Leego town, 130 km south of Mogadishu, when an Al Shabaab terror group attacked the camp using a car bomb, an AU official confirmed
©- - 26 june 2015 - 17:17:08 - thread Union africaine (386 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are the foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius Friday
©- - 26 june 2015 - 11:10:15 - thread Union africaine (120 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 25 june 2015 - 10:35:48 - thread Union africaine (111 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Wednesday’s exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 24 june 2015 - 10:55:13 - thread Union africaine (112 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The growing populations and economies in the Western Indian Ocean region are increasing risks to the world’s least ecologically disturbed coasts, where ecosystem services are conservatively valued at US$25 billion a year, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), released Tuesday in Seychelles
©- - 24 june 2015 - 08:11:37 - thread Union africaine (528 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – An international human rights organisation, Act Together for Human Rights (AEDH), has expressed concern about the continued imprisonment of three anti-slavery activists in Mauritania
©- - 23 june 2015 - 21:38:30 - thread Union africaine (243 words)


Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The second edition of the Global African Investment Summit (TGAIS), which showcases business opportunities and investments in Africa, will be held on 1-2 December 2015 in London, the organizers said
©- - 23 june 2015 - 10:54:32 - thread Union africaine (209 words)


Port-Louis, Maurice (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 25
©- - 23 june 2015 - 09:40:26 - thread Union africaine (109 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 22 june 2015 - 09:47:30 - thread Union africaine (109 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Women Affairs on Saturday launched a sensitization campaign for the production of ecological bags as the government moves to ban the use of plastic bags in the island as from January 2016
©- - 20 june 2015 - 15:28:05 - thread Union africaine (199 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius has become the first Small Island Developing State (SIDS) to acquire a '2050 Pathways Calculator', a groundbreaking tool that allows policy makers to consider feasible energy demand and supply pathways for reducing emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) by the year 2050
©- - 19 june 2015 - 17:18:13 - thread Union africaine (271 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - France will help Mauritius in the preparation for an Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), measures, both mitigation and adaptation, that countries intend to undertake towards achieving the objective of the United Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), especially in greenhouse gas emissions reduction and limiting global warming to below 2°C, relative to pre-industrial levels
©- - 19 june 2015 - 15:32:36 - thread Union africaine (380 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 19 june 2015 - 08:57:56 - thread Union africaine (110 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Government will plans to launch three schemes under which subsidies will be offered to the population to enable them develop composting, rainwater harvesting and producing hot water with solar panels in a bid to promote sustainable development in the island, PANA learnt Thursday from official sources here
©- - 18 june 2015 - 12:45:51 - thread Union africaine (281 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A court in Nouakchott has jailed three Mauritanians after they pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, PANA reported from here Thursday
©- - 18 june 2015 - 11:10:31 - thread Union africaine (130 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian 
Dollar 26
©- - 18 june 2015 - 08:43:29 - thread Union africaine (112 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius will host, from 24 to 26 June 2015, the fifth meeting of Health ministers of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region, PANA learnt Wednesday from official sources at the Health Ministry in the Mauritian capital
©- - 17 june 2015 - 14:03:04 - thread Union africaine (370 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Wednesday’s exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 17 june 2015 - 09:12:35 - thread Union africaine (111 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A Kenyan woman, Luzy Atieno Orinda, 45, has been arrested in Mauritius with about 800 grams of heroin in his luggage, PANA learned on Tuesday from police sources in Port Louis, the capital
©- - 16 june 2015 - 19:02:19 - thread Union africaine (100 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Despite government intervention, grain-eating birds have wreaked havoc in the Kaedi region, 430 kilometres south of Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, threatening rice farms, particularly in the Lexeiba I and Ganki communities, PANA learned Tuesday from farmers
©- - 16 june 2015 - 14:39:14 - thread Union africaine (184 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The 25th session of the African Union (AU) Summit ended in the early hours of Tuesday with delegates pledging to fulfill “Agenda 2063”, a blueprint for future development of the continent
©- - 16 june 2015 - 07:41:10 - thread Union africaine (266 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius' ruling coalition was Monday declared outright winner of urban elections held Sunday for the administration of the five towns in the island, including the capital, Port Louis
©- - 15 june 2015 - 16:35:38 - thread Union africaine (173 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Monday wrote to both the Ministers of Finance and International Relations and Cooperation, to request that they itemisze South Africa’s US$70 million per year contribution to the African Union (AU)
©- - 15 june 2015 - 13:44:58 - thread Union africaine (187 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir left South Africa on Monday, despite the decision of a court barring him from leaving South Africa in connection with his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC)
©- - 15 june 2015 - 12:25:54 - thread Union africaine (307 words)


Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian NGO has called on the African Union (AU) leadership and Nigeria to put pressure on the South African authorities to swiftly transfer President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against him during the Darfur conflict
©- - 15 june 2015 - 09:25:13 - thread Union africaine (346 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has slammed both South Africa and Nigeria at the African Union Summit because they had both voted for a United Nations Security Council Resolution in 2011 which authorised military action against Libyan leader Muammar Khadafi and his regime
©- - 14 june 2015 - 14:37:14 - thread Union africaine (173 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The High Court in Pretoria on Sunday granted an interim order preventing Sudanese president Omar Bashir from leaving South Africa, pending an urgent application for his arrest
©- - 14 june 2015 - 13:37:58 - thread Union africaine (465 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Around 86% of the total primary energy requirement was met from imported fossil fuels in Mauritius in 2014 as against 85% in the preceding year, Statistics Mauritius revealed on Sunday
©- - 14 june 2015 - 13:08:47 - thread Union africaine (387 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese newspapers on Sunday expressed relief that President Omar Bashir landed peacefully in South Africa for the AU summit as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs played down the row over the president’s participation
©- - 14 june 2015 - 09:45:09 - thread Union africaine (749 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The African Union Summit, which is underway in Sandton, has been overshadowed by the arrival of Sudanese President and International Criminal Court (ICC) fugitive, Omar al-Bashir
©- - 14 june 2015 - 09:03:28 - thread Union africaine (240 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita left Bamako on Saturday for Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the 25th ordinary summit of the African Union (AU), a government official here confirmed
©- - 13 june 2015 - 18:01:14 - thread Union africaine (71 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – Twenty African leaders who make up the membership of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee (HSGOC) met Saturday at Sandton Conference Centre in Johannesburg to deliberate on economic empowerment of African women, financing of Africa’s regional infrastructure and Agenda 2063
©- - 13 june 2015 - 15:04:29 - thread Union africaine (254 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Bashir on Saturday left Khartoum for Johannesburg to attend the 25th African Union (AU) Summit due to open Sunday
©- - 13 june 2015 - 13:07:59 - thread Union africaine (71 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The continent's largest free-trade zone, covering 26 countries, will be unveiled at this weekend’s African Union Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, officials said here Saturday
©- - 13 june 2015 - 12:41:33 - thread Union africaine (203 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian urban electorate go to the polls Sunday to elect their representatives in regional administration who will manage the affairs of the island's five towns over the coming six years
©- - 13 june 2015 - 11:21:08 - thread Union africaine (168 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The issue of African leaders extending their terms in office is under the spotlight at the AU summit where several heads of state who are guilty of the so-called “third-termism” are attending
©- - 13 june 2015 - 09:23:31 - thread Union africaine (282 words)


Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – African leaders’ attempts to change constitutions to allow them to stand for third terms will become the next big threat to peace and security on the continent, according to the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
©- - 12 june 2015 - 20:13:52 - thread Union africaine (625 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The International Contact Group on Libya on Friday began meeting on the sidelines of the 25th ordinary session of the AU Assembly
©- - 12 june 2015 - 16:25:21 - thread Union africaine (217 words)


Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – Democratic Alliance MP Stevens Mokgalapa on Friday called for the “immediate arrest” of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he arrives in Johannesburg on Saturday for the African Union (AU) Summit
©- - 12 june 2015 - 15:50:02 - thread Union africaine (215 words)