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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)-The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya and Chairman of the National Committee against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, Siddik Al-Kebir, and the Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Bachagha, on Monday signed a cooperation agreement to fight against corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing

©- - 10 august 2020 - 18:03:52 - thread African Union (186 words)


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

©- - 10 august 2020 - 11:20:21 - thread African Union (139 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius(PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian commercial bank:

Currency                   Buying        Selling

Australian Dollar     27

©- - 10 august 2020 - 09:30:41 - thread African Union (123 words)


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

©- - 08 august 2020 - 11:12:17 - thread African Union (130 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth Friday signed an Environmental Emergency Declaration under the Environment Protection Act to contain oil leakage from a wrecked Panama-flagged vessel, MV Wakashio, PANA reported here

©- - 08 august 2020 - 08:28:29 - thread African Union (352 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Organisation for International Migration (OIM) and the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) Friday expressed great disappointment at the tragic death of 27 persons off the West African coast between Nouadhibou and Dakhla, a statement issued here said

©- - 07 august 2020 - 19:35:34 - thread African Union (280 words)


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

©- - 07 august 2020 - 10:21:23 - thread African Union (137 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius

©- - 07 august 2020 - 08:52:50 - thread African Union (124 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Two persons have been arrested in Pointe-Noire, Congo's main economic and industrial center, for illegal possession, movement and trade in panther skins and giant pangolin scales weighing seven kilograms, Congolese public radio reported here Thursday

©- - 06 august 2020 - 20:06:16 - thread African Union (219 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian President, Mohamed El Ghazouani, on Thursday named Mohamed ould Bilal as the New Prime Minister following the resignation of the former Prime Minister, Ismail Bedde ould Sheikh Sidya

©- - 06 august 2020 - 17:01:34 - thread African Union (128 words)


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

©- - 06 august 2020 - 10:38:19 - thread African Union (137 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius

©- - 06 august 2020 - 08:25:16 - thread African Union (124 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani Wednesday sent his condolences to his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Aoun, following a series of explosions in Beirut Tuesday which claimed the lives of dozens and caused huge material damage

©- - 05 august 2020 - 19:24:00 - thread African Union (138 words)


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

©- - 05 august 2020 - 12:26:33 - thread African Union (137 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - For providing effective online press briefings for the World Health Organization (WHO), the African Union (AU) has placed APO Group at the centre of Africa's response to the pandemic

The African Union's Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is joining forces with the APO Group (www

©- - 04 august 2020 - 14:01:40 - thread African Union (654 words)


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

©- - 04 august 2020 - 11:58:25 - thread African Union (138 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius

©- - 04 august 2020 - 09:15:40 - thread African Union (124 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The board of governors of the World Bank (WB) Monday approved a donation of 70 million dollars from the International Development Association (IDA) for Mauritania to help strengthen its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

©- - 03 august 2020 - 23:51:29 - thread African Union (290 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Heavy rains that caused flooding left four people dead in the Assaba region of eastern Mauritania and caused the collapse of 22 houses in the Brakna region (located further west), according to the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Interior, obtained by PANA on Monday

©- - 03 august 2020 - 17:11:08 - thread African Union (73 words)


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

©- - 03 august 2020 - 12:02:34 - thread African Union (139 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius

©- - 03 august 2020 - 08:33:34 - thread African Union (124 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The human rights organization, Human Right Watch (HRW), on Saturday urged the Mauritanian President, Mohamed Cheikh el Ghazouani, to initiate action towards repealing what it called "the repressive laws" which muzzle the freedom of expression and to take decisive action to advance women's rights

©- - 01 august 2020 - 15:21:26 - thread African Union (317 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided a COVID-19 Crisis Response Budget Programme of 188 million euros to Mauritius, the Government announced Friday evening, following the weekly meeting of the Cabinet

©- - 01 august 2020 - 08:20:09 - thread African Union (97 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The National Rally for Reform and Development (RNRD/Tawassoul/Islamist Movement), the main opposition party in Mauritania, says it welcomed the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CEP), formed in January 2020 to carry out broad investigations into a decade of governance of the regime of President Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz (2006-2019), according to an official statement received by PANA on Friday

©- - 31 july 2020 - 17:36:15 - thread African Union (281 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) -Mauritius has received a loan of 300 million euros from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to help the island strengthen its capacity for the reduction and management of risks of natural and health disasters

©- - 30 july 2020 - 08:16:55 - thread African Union (343 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Kailesh Jagutpal, on Wednesday said that the aim of Government is to trace and eradicate Hepatitis in the island

©- - 30 july 2020 - 07:14:08 - thread African Union (294 words)


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

©- - 29 july 2020 - 11:20:20 - thread African Union (137 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The report of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CEP), formed last January to investigate "decades of bad governance by the former Mauritanian head of state, Mohamed Abdel Aziz (2008/2019)," says it discovered several “anomalies and dysfunctions of the administration apparatus"

©- - 28 july 2020 - 17:40:56 - thread African Union (524 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The National Assembly of Mauritania has approved a draft organic law establishing the High Court of Justice and its rules of operation during a plenary session held on Monday

©- - 28 july 2020 - 14:28:14 - thread African Union (172 words)


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

©- - 28 july 2020 - 11:45:31 - thread African Union (139 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Stephanie Williams , the acting special representative of the UN Secretary-General and chief of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), announced here Monday “the finalisation of the process of the launching of an international audit of the two branches of the Libyan Central Bank”

©- - 27 july 2020 - 23:47:13 - thread African Union (629 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanians are paying tribute to Senegalese journalist, CEO of Groupe Sud, founder of SUD-FM, Senegal's first privately-owned radio station, and former president of the National Broadcasting Regulatory Council (CNRA), Babacar Touré, who died Sunday evening in Dakar

©- - 27 july 2020 - 18:03:45 - thread African Union (314 words)


​Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Deputy Prime Minister Steven Obeegadoo on Monday said the tourism sector will not be able to rely indefinitely on Government assistance, PANA reported from the country's capital Port Louis

©- - 27 july 2020 - 13:31:46 - thread African Union (445 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Second High-Level Policy Dialogue on Climate Change between Mauritius and the EU opened on Monday in Port Louis, with the Mauritian Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change, Mr Kavydass Ramano, highlighting that the island, due to its geographical position and topography, is among the most vulnerable countries in the Indian Ocean

©- - 27 july 2020 - 12:02:02 - thread African Union (313 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius

©- - 27 july 2020 - 11:55:35 - thread African Union (124 words)


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

©- - 27 july 2020 - 11:38:29 - thread African Union (140 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania recorded 20 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Sunday out of 394 tests, no deaths and 131 recoveries, Health Director-General Dr

©- - 27 july 2020 - 09:44:34 - thread African Union (75 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Several unplanned buildings in Tevragh-Zeina commune of Nouakchott are due for demolition in the next eight days, Mauritania's Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning and Land Management announced on Saturday

©- - 26 july 2020 - 13:35:10 - thread African Union (150 words)


Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) - The World football governing body, FIFA, has handed a 10-year ban to Guinea-Bissau Football Association (FFGB) President, Manuel Nascimental,  on Friday, over an incident of mob justice

Nascimento, who was set to defend his seat on Saturday elections, was also hit with a 100,000 Swiss francs (US$108,000) fine by judges at FIFA’s independent ethics committee

©- - 26 july 2020 - 06:20:42 - thread African Union (286 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The media in Mauritania this week devoted most of their comments to the difficulties of the former head of state, Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz (2008-2019), whose decade of governance was the subject of extensive investigations by a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CEP)

©- - 25 july 2020 - 12:55:06 - thread African Union (340 words)