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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Satish Faugoo said Thursday that African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries should prepare themselves to address challenges arising from the abolition of sugar production quota in the European Union, scheduled for September 2017 in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
©- - 25 september 2014 - 16:58:51 - thread Union africaine (341 words)


Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius International Trade Minister Arvin Boolell, on Thursday said that Africa is the current frontier of growth and represents great potential for Private Equity firms across the world
©- - 25 september 2014 - 14:56:18 - thread Union africaine (468 words)


Beau Bassin, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Prison Service (MPS) Thursday released a ten-year plan devised by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to bring down the current rate of repeated crimes in the island by arranging for additional support structures and providing for a more structured form of release
©- - 25 september 2014 - 14:15:15 - thread Union africaine (355 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 386
©- - 25 september 2014 - 11:42:38 - thread Union africaine (128 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Cape Town's plans to host Africa’s first summit of Nobel Peace Laureates have been dealt a major blow with the confirmation that three laureates have withdrawn in protest over Pretoria’s refusal to grant the Dalai Lama a visa
©- - 25 september 2014 - 11:24:06 - thread Union africaine (392 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 387
©- - 24 september 2014 - 11:51:54 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 386
©- - 23 september 2014 - 12:33:49 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 23 september 2014 - 08:24:09 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of this week's opening of the UN General Assembly's annual high-level session, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr
©- - 22 september 2014 - 18:31:53 - thread Union africaine (189 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Arts and Culture Minister Mookhesswur Choonee, on Monday said the Mauritian government wants to promote the “Indentured Labour Route”, a project that relates to the movement of a mass of people based on inter-cultural exchanges across the continents
©- - 22 september 2014 - 14:16:42 - thread Union africaine (273 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 389
©- - 22 september 2014 - 14:03:42 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 22 september 2014 - 08:50:30 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's Ouguiya appreciated against the Euro and the CFA Franc but remained stable against the US Dollar, according to Sunday's foreign exchange rates issued by the Mauritanian central bank
©- - 21 september 2014 - 11:17:49 - thread Union africaine (154 words)


Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) – The ruling Labour Party (PTR) in Mauritius and the main opposition Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM) on Saturday signed a deal ahead of the parliamentary elections due shortly on the island
©- - 20 september 2014 - 10:31:42 - thread Union africaine (217 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Commercial Bank of Mauritius has issued the following exchange rates of the Mauritian Rupee for Friday: Currency Buying Selling Australian 
Dollar 26
©- - 19 september 2014 - 18:55:44 - thread Union africaine (121 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) The Western troika member countries Friday welcomed efforts being made to reinvigorate the process of an inclusive national dialogue in Sudan and reiterated their support to the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) for facilitation of the process
©- - 19 september 2014 - 15:26:30 - thread Union africaine (260 words)


Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - President Issa Hayatou of the African Football Confederation (CAF) and African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma met Thursday in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital and seat of the AU, to discuss CAF's contribution to the realisation of the AU's "Agenda 2063"; the continental body's vision for Africa for the next 50 years
©- - 19 september 2014 - 12:23:59 - thread Union africaine (184 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Climate-related disasters in the five years since global leaders last met to discuss climate change have cost almost half a trillion dollars (US$490 billion) - three times more than for the whole of the 1970s, international agency Oxfam said Friday
©- - 19 september 2014 - 08:36:07 - thread Union africaine (922 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Chinese government has offered Mali medical facilities, worth 80 million CFAF, in support of the West African nation's efforts to prevent the deadly Ebola disease, official sources told PANA on Thursday
©- - 18 september 2014 - 15:36:58 - thread Union africaine (94 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Health Minister Lormus Bundhoo said that the use of psychoactive substances is a source of significant health and social problems for people who use them as well as for others in their family and community
©- - 18 september 2014 - 13:53:50 - thread Union africaine (304 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling 

Australian Dollar 26
©- - 18 september 2014 - 12:10:06 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 390
©- - 18 september 2014 - 10:11:55 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Former Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo on Wednesday assumed the leadership of the Panel of the Wise, a critical pillar of the African Union's Peace and Security Architecture
©- - 18 september 2014 - 07:49:34 - thread Union africaine (358 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday received here in audience Gambia's Interior minister, Ousmane Sonko, who delivered a message from President Yahya Jammeh, the Mauritanian news agency (AMI) reported
©- - 17 september 2014 - 17:40:44 - thread Union africaine (105 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 390
©- - 17 september 2014 - 11:24:30 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 17 september 2014 - 08:56:32 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 389
©- - 16 september 2014 - 12:08:08 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Ebène, Mauritius (PANA) - The creation of a Western Indian Ocean Maritime Crime Forum that will make it possible for island states in the region to better coordinate their response to maritime crime concerns at the diplomatic, strategic and capacity-development levels was formulated at a high-level meeting held here Monday
©- - 16 september 2014 - 12:06:50 - thread Union africaine (320 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 16 september 2014 - 10:00:11 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Réduit, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian President Kailash Purryag on Monday named Pravind Jugnauth, leader of Mouvement Socialiste Militant (MSM), to the post of leader of the Opposition in parliament following the resignation of Paul Raymond Bérenger, PANA learnt from official sources
©- - 15 september 2014 - 16:27:18 - thread Union africaine (100 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currencies Buying Selling 1 Euro 389
©- - 15 september 2014 - 11:21:12 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currencies Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 15 september 2014 - 10:24:35 - thread Union africaine (111 words)


Réduit, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius' opposition leader Paul Raymond Bérenger resigned Monday from the post he had occupied since April 2010, PANA learnt from official sources
©- - 15 september 2014 - 08:15:07 - thread Union africaine (111 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Mauritanian Ouguiya remained stable as the US dollar rose, according Sunday’s foreign exchange rates issued by the central bank of Mauritania (BCM)
©- - 14 september 2014 - 12:52:56 - thread Union africaine (135 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Residents of countries affected by the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) - Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - are temporarily barred from entering Mauritius, the Mauritian government announced
©- - 14 september 2014 - 08:44:56 - thread Union africaine (177 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Bumi-Mauritania, a mining company and a subsidiary of the international corporation Bumi Tamago Plc, has dragged the Mauritanian government to an international conflict resolution centre “for abusive breach of contract”
©- - 12 september 2014 - 12:22:00 - thread Union africaine (164 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currencies Buying Selling 1 Euro 388
©- - 11 september 2014 - 12:38:01 - thread Union africaine (131 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currencies Buying Selling Australian dollar 27
©- - 11 september 2014 - 12:02:51 - thread Union africaine (111 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius Post Ltd Thursday launched its first postcode directory that will enable faster sorting and delivery of mails, packets and parcels, PANA reported from here
©- - 11 september 2014 - 10:30:44 - thread Union africaine (253 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Fourteen Indonesian sailors were arrested at Trou Fanfaron in the port area of the Mauritian capital, Port Louis, Thursday morning, following violent clashes in which a hundred of them were involved, PANA reported from here
©- - 11 september 2014 - 09:57:25 - thread Union africaine (134 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Industry and Commerce Minister Cader Sayed Hossen Wednesday indicated that Mauritius will soon set up a National Export Strategy to address trade opportunities and challenges as a result of erosion of trade preferences in a bid to formulate a roadmap for key sectors with export potential
©- - 10 september 2014 - 17:26:22 - thread Union africaine (307 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir has declared his support to the agreement recently reached in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between the National Dialogue preparatory committee and the Paris Declaration Group on their participation in the National Dialogue and Constitutional Process in Sudan
©- - 10 september 2014 - 17:08:08 - thread Union africaine (345 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, was plunged into darkness from 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm (local) on Tuesday due to what officials here explained as "a technical problem" at Manantali hydroelectric power station in Mali
©- - 10 september 2014 - 16:49:18 - thread Union africaine (104 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya, as published here Wednesday by the nation’s central bank: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 388
©- - 10 september 2014 - 12:11:43 - thread Union africaine (141 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as published by the Mauritian commercial bank: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 27
©- - 10 september 2014 - 11:06:06 - thread Union africaine (117 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Senegalese Animal Husbandry and Resources Minister, Mrs Aminata M’Bengue N’Diaye said here Tuesday that her country needs more than 700,000 sheep for the next Muslim Tabaski festival
©- - 09 september 2014 - 17:53:53 - thread Union africaine (109 words)