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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Wednesday night announced that three cases of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) have been registered in the island

©- - 19 march 2020 - 09:45:11 - thread African Union (210 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Mauritanian minister of Health, Mohamed Nadhiri ould Hamed, on Wednesday afternoon announced the discovery of a second positive case of the coronavirus fever (COVID-19) on a foreign woman employee at the house of a couple of expatriates

©- - 18 march 2020 - 21:13:47 - thread African Union (71 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government has decided to suspend all weekly markets organized in the east of the country, especially in the 2 Hodh regions bordering Mali, as part of the implementation of measures to prevent and control coronavirus (COVID-19), the local press reported on Wednesday, quoting a source at the interior ministry

©- - 18 march 2020 - 20:58:05 - thread African Union (140 words)


Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - President  Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau has ordered immediate closure of all land, air and sea borders of the country due to the coronavirus pandemic

©- - 18 march 2020 - 15:18:00 - thread African Union (242 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister Maneesh Gobin, on Wednesday, said that despite no case of Covid-19 (coronavirus) has been reported in Mauritius, the island remains vulnerable to such a threat, hence self-sufficiency is a necessity to generate an increase in local production

©- - 18 march 2020 - 13:00:15 - thread African Union (397 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 18 march 2020 - 09:44:18 - thread African Union (124 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The UN system in Mauritania has denies the allegations that it closed its services to the public, saying ‘’we keep our doors open regarding the hygiene and preventive measures recommended by the Mauritanian government

©- - 17 march 2020 - 22:40:41 - thread African Union (122 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Taking advantage of an audience with historic opponent Ahmed Ould Daddah, leader of the Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD) and several times unsuccessful candidate in  presidential election, Mauritanian President Mohamed ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has appealed to his compatriots for a sacred union around the fight against the coronavirus

©- - 17 march 2020 - 15:10:16 - thread African Union (181 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius will extend travel restrictions for a period of two weeks on foreign travellers coming from or having transited countries of the European Union, including United Kingdom and Switzerland, during the last 14 days as from 20:00 GMT on Wednesday, the Government Information Services (GIS) announced on Tuesday

©- - 17 march 2020 - 15:01:05 - thread African Union (304 words)


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

©- - 17 march 2020 - 11:43:42 - thread African Union (136 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 17 march 2020 - 08:47:28 - thread African Union (124 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government on Sunday announced eight new measures as part of the fight against the global coronavirus pandemic

©- - 16 march 2020 - 17:55:12 - thread African Union (151 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius Meteorological Services on Monday issued a Class II cyclone warning for the island nation as well as for Rodrigues Island

©- - 16 march 2020 - 17:34:05 - thread African Union (173 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A 33-year-old Nigerian was intercepted on Friday at the SSR International Airport of Mauritius by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Section (CANS) of the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) with 66 pellets of heroin, official sources at the MRA said on Monday

©- - 16 march 2020 - 13:50:55 - thread African Union (170 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 16 march 2020 - 08:40:42 - thread African Union (126 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania has recorded its first case of coronavirus, Health minister Mohamed Nadhiri ould Hamed announced on state television on Friday

©- - 14 march 2020 - 11:07:25 - thread African Union (112 words)


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

©- - 14 march 2020 - 11:02:15 - thread African Union (137 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The current international environment marked by the coronavirus pandemic is expected to weigh on Mauritania owing to commodity price volatility and a slowdown in global growth, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team warned on Friday at the end of a two-week visit to the northwest Africa country

©- - 13 march 2020 - 14:08:52 - thread African Union (489 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The members of the Contact Group of the High Level Committee of the African Union (AU) on Libya, who met on Thursday in Oyo, about 400 km from Brazzaville, have decided to hold the Intra-Libyan national conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, next July

©- - 13 march 2020 - 11:30:14 - thread African Union (625 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 13 march 2020 - 09:17:08 - thread African Union (124 words)


Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) on Thursday issued a cautionary statement on the political situation in Guinea-Bissau following the country’s presidential elections which took place in on 24 November and 29 December 2019

©- - 12 march 2020 - 12:20:01 - thread African Union (205 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius on Wednesday disclosed that the island's population decreased by 162 or -0

©- - 11 march 2020 - 18:10:37 - thread African Union (348 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 11 march 2020 - 09:19:37 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian ministry of Health and Well-being on Tuesday said that so far, no case of coronavirus was detected on the island, ‘’contrary to fake news circulating on the internet about the disease’’

©- - 10 march 2020 - 19:04:17 - thread African Union (174 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has announced cancellation of the 2020 National Day celebrations due to meteorological forecasts predicting the deterioration of weather in the island in the coming days

©- - 10 march 2020 - 14:10:35 - thread African Union (169 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 10 march 2020 - 08:56:40 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Minister of Commerce and Consumer Protection, Mr Yogida Sawmynaden, on Monday said “there is no shortage of supply of basic commodities such as rice, oil, flour, milk and petrol on the market

©- - 09 march 2020 - 18:31:28 - thread African Union (285 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 09 march 2020 - 09:04:12 - thread African Union (124 words)


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

©- - 07 march 2020 - 12:41:27 - thread African Union (137 words)


Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) – The Secretary-General of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), Hamada Madi, and the European Union ambassador, Vincent Degert, on Friday signed the financing convention of a new project ‘’Entrepreneurship and commercial cooperation’’ for the entrepreneurs of the Indian Ocean, sources close to the IOC said in the Mauritian city of Ebene

©- - 06 march 2020 - 20:04:06 - thread African Union (294 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania shared its experience of dialogue with elements of radical Islamist groups detained during 2010, which led to the renunciation of violence on the part of several terrorists, it was revealed on Friday in Nouakchott at a meeting of the Colorado Network for Penitentiary Emergence in West and North Africa (RECEPAON)

©- - 06 march 2020 - 17:45:45 - thread African Union (291 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 06 march 2020 - 09:03:27 - thread African Union (124 words)


Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The government of Niger on Thursday expressed its support for the action of the government of Saudi Arabia, regarding the temporary suspension of the rites of Oumra (small pilgrimage) and the visit to the mosque of Prophet Mohamed in Medina, intended to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus

©- - 05 march 2020 - 20:48:49 - thread African Union (222 words)


Paris, France (PANA) - The French Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged the Bissau-Guinean military to refrain from interfering in the post-electoral crisis the country is experiencing with two candidates claiming victory in the presidential election

©- - 05 march 2020 - 20:40:41 - thread African Union (225 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The British High Commission in Mauritius and the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) on Thursday launched the DIT Africa Investment DealRoom, which is a direct follow-up to the UK-African Investment Summit that took place in London on 20 January 2020, PANA reported from here

©- - 05 march 2020 - 14:15:19 - thread African Union (325 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Entry into Mauritania has not been prohibited for foreign nationals, but those arriving are subject to a protocol for health surveillance of the coronavirus outbreak in accordance with the rules of the World Health Organization (WHO), an official source said on Thursday

©- - 05 march 2020 - 11:58:30 - thread African Union (138 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 05 march 2020 - 08:34:24 - thread African Union (126 words)