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 Full text...

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 Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian General Prosecutor's Office under the Supreme Court, on Wednesday announced the opening of a preliminary investigation into 11 years of governance of former President Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz Full text...

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

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

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A Panama-flagged bulk carrier, MV Wakashio, is grounded 11 Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan national committee of fight against corruption Wednesday agreed to set up a working group to fight against corruption, money laundering and terrorism, an official source said here Full text...

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 Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian President, Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani, says he is open to consultations with the opposition, indicating that he will dialogue on all the major important questions on the political life of the country Full text...

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

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 Full text...

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

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

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 Full text...

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 Full text...

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

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

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 Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – India has donated US$ 30 million to Mauritius towards the funding of a 4,770 m2 building in Port-Louis to be used as the New Supreme Court, in the Mauritian capital, PANA reported from here Full text...

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 Full text...

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 Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius on Thursday released the official statistics regarding the environment of the island, indicating that in 2019, coal (47 Full text...

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 Full text...

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 Full text...

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

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Kais Saeid Tuesday received the Saudi minister of foreign affairs, Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, an official statement issued here said Full text...

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" Full text...

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 Full text...

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

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” Full text...

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 Full text...

​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 Full text...

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 Full text...

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

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

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 Full text...

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 Full text...

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 Full text...

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) Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Health and Wellness Ministry is to launch different activities to control and reduce the harmful use of alcohol in the island Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – One new imported case of COVID-19 was detected in Mauritius on Friday on a repatriated passenger who came a day earlier on board a flight from the United Kingdom, PANA learnt from the health authorities in Port Louis Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The National Assembly of Mauritania has approved a bill to repeal and replace certain provisions of Law 93 Full text...

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

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

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The parliamentary commission investigating former President Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz said here Thursday it “has information related to serious allegations of breach of national territory” Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has warned that access to the coronavirus vaccine in Africa may be delayed unless countries emphasise on developing local manufacturing capacity Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade minister, Mr Nandcoomar Bodha, on Thursday said the Government is working arduously to take Mauritius out of the European Union tax haven blacklist (EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions) at the earliest Full text...

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

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

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Environment ministry has on Wednesday issued a new regulation to control use of plastic material Full text...