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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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (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 الإتحاد الإفريقي (92 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian Constitutional Council (electora l body) has received four of the six nominations submitted Thursday by president i al candidates for the forthcoming elections in the country, official sources tol d PANA here on Friday
©- - 24 april 2009 - 15:14:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (210 words)


Paris- France (PANA) -- The Mauritanian Diaspora will stage a demonstration here on Saturday against the country's ruling military junta, which toppled its democratically-elected government on 6 August 2008, organisers said in a stateme n t made available to PANA here Friday
©- - 24 april 2009 - 12:36:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (163 words)


Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- The strike by teachers of the four main senior hi gh schools in Bissau entered day four on Thursday, sources close to the Educatio n Ministry told PANA
©- - 23 april 2009 - 16:05:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (318 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Six candidacies have met the deadline to submit their papers to the Mauritania's Constitutional Council, and are now set to cont e st the 6 June presidential elections in the country, official sources told PANA h ere Thursday
©- - 23 april 2009 - 13:03:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (266 words)


Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A roundtable on Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Guinea B issau has outlined a number of measures to jump-start the reform and help bring s tability to the crisis-ridden West African nation
©- - 23 april 2009 - 07:50:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (622 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Education and Culture Minister Vasant B unwaree, launched a public outreach campaign on Intellectual Property Rights (IP R ) on Wednesday aimed at sensitizing the business community and the public on th e need to protect and enforce IPR
©- - 22 april 2009 - 23:24:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (352 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Several dozen MPs affiliated to the National Fro nt for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD) and the Democratic Forces Rally (RFD), wh i ch are opposed to 6 August 2008 coup in Mauritania, on Wednesday protested in Pa r liament to condemn police violence against female MPs and human rights activists
©- - 22 april 2009 - 23:05:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (265 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Education- and Culture Minister, Vasant Bunwaree, Wednesday launched a public outreach campaign on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), whose aim is to sensitize the business community and the public on the need to protect and enforce IPR and on the dangers of counterfeited products
©- - 22 april 2009 - 14:26:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (338 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Sid' Ahmed Ould Habott, a member of Mauritania's independent national electoral commission (CENI) and chair of the country's bra n ch office of the African association for the defence of human rights, has resign e d his membership of the electoral body
©- - 22 april 2009 - 12:57:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (155 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The vice-chair of the Democratic Forces' Rally ( RFD), the main opposition party in Mauritania before 6 August 2008 coup, Kane Ha m idou Baba, who is also vice-chair at Parliament, has declared his intention to c o ntest the 6 June 2009 presidential election
©- - 22 april 2009 - 00:05:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (157 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Sarr Ibrahima Moctar, chairperson of the Allianc e for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Reconciliation (AJD/MR), on Tuesday ann o unced his candidacy in the 6 June presidential election in Mauritania
©- - 21 april 2009 - 22:30:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (257 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Secretary General of the World Association of the Islamic Call (AMAI), Dr Mohamed Chérif, on Tuesday had talks in Tripoli with the Mauritanian minister of Islamic orientation and original teaching, Mohamed Mahmoud Abu Maali, on cooperation between Libya and Mauritania in the field of Islamic call
©- - 21 april 2009 - 22:29:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (105 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Senegalese State Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs C heikh Tidiane Gadio, has called on African States to find a mechanism to ensure s table financial resources in the African Union (AU), explaining that the organis a tion was facing serious financial problems and that subscription from member cou n tries would not be sufficient to finance the institution
©- - 21 april 2009 - 20:13:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (255 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Senegalese Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affair s, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, commended the commitment of Libyan leader and Chairman o f the African Union (AU), Mouammar Kadhafi, to the achievement of the unity of t h e African continent, noting that the decision to establish the Authority of the U nion and the appointment of the Libyan leader as chairman of the continental org a nisation were "happy events"
©- - 21 april 2009 - 18:34:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (444 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, acting AU President, on Sunday evening met the Chadian Prime Minister, Youssef Salah Abbas, in Tripol i
©- - 20 april 2009 - 23:38:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (210 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who resigned re cently as the Mauritanian head of state, has officially entered the country's pr e sidential race, scheduled for 6 June, an official source told PANA here Monday
©- - 20 april 2009 - 19:36:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (156 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian police Sunday dispersed a march join tly held by women of the National Front for the Defence of Democracy (FNND, oppo s ition party opposed to the coup of 6 August 2008) and the Union of Democratic Fo r ces (RFD, major opposition party before the coup), PANA reported
©- - 20 april 2009 - 15:36:00 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (220 words)