Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Nineteen-year-old female French student, Deborah Marie Micheline Douglas, has been arrested with 6,000 tablets of Subutex at the Plaisance airport in the southern part of Mauritius, PANA learnt Tuesday from a police source
©- - 27 march 2012 - 18:32:49 - thread União Africana (115 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African Finance ministers Tuesday rose from their two-day meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, adopting a ministerial statement to commit to address the gap in financing Africa’s development by refocusing efforts on domestic resource mobilization
©- - 27 march 2012 - 18:26:21 - thread União Africana (260 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Minister of Public Infrastructure and Transportation Anil Baichoo Tuesday announced that the government will strengthen road safety on the Island by endorsing driver's licenses with penalty points in the event of a traffic offence
©- - 27 march 2012 - 13:08:18 - thread União Africana (165 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling Euro 387
©- - 27 march 2012 - 12:57:10 - thread União Africana (115 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian dollar 29
©- - 27 march 2012 - 11:18:32 - thread União Africana (117 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union (AU) has expressed its determination to restore law and order to Mali, the Chairman of the AU Commission, Jean Ping, indicated on Monday at a meeting of the African Ministers of Finance, Economy and Planning in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital
©- - 26 march 2012 - 16:56:46 - thread União Africana (175 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as published here Monday by the nation’s central bank: Currency Buying Selling Euro 382
©- - 26 march 2012 - 16:26:16 - thread União Africana (129 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Monday hailed outgoing President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal for conceding defeat in the country's presidential runoff on Sunday
©- - 26 march 2012 - 14:18:36 - thread União Africana (190 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 29
©- - 26 march 2012 - 10:14:37 - thread União Africana (116 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African countries have made progress in school enrolment, but struggle to get quality education, according to a paper on the continent’s economic and social situation for 2011, conducted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Commission of the African Union (AU)
©- - 23 march 2012 - 19:38:15 - thread União Africana (370 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Mauritanian government has condemned Thursday's coup d'etat in Mali and called for respect for the rules set by the Charter of the African Union (AU), according to an official government statement issued Friday in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital
©- - 23 march 2012 - 18:07:46 - thread União Africana (107 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Friday suspended Mali from the 54-member bloc, following the military coup that brought renegade soldiers to power on Thursday
©- - 23 march 2012 - 16:50:35 - thread União Africana (287 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has asked mutinous soldiers in Mali to surrender and restore President Amadou Toumani Toure to power, while promising an effective continental action against the coup they spearheaded
©- - 23 march 2012 - 07:28:18 - thread União Africana (274 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 29
©- - 22 march 2012 - 12:57:34 - thread União Africana (117 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling Euro 385
©- - 22 march 2012 - 12:56:34 - thread União Africana (118 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling Euro 386
©- - 21 march 2012 - 11:50:17 - thread União Africana (118 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has commended the people of Guinea Bissau for taking part in a peaceful and orderly polling process in their country’s presidential election last Sunday
©- - 21 march 2012 - 07:13:22 - thread União Africana (333 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are the latest forex rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as published here Tuesday by the nation’s central bank: Currency Buying Selling Euro 385
©- - 20 march 2012 - 14:16:08 - thread União Africana (127 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 29
©- - 20 march 2012 - 09:48:57 - thread União Africana (117 words)


Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said the presidential election held in Guinea Bissau last Sunday was conducted under ''acceptable conditions of freedom and transparency''
©- - 20 march 2012 - 08:19:47 - thread União Africana (395 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A Libyan government delegation, led by Mustapha Abou Chagour, was due in Nouakchott Monday to negotiate the extradition of a key Mouammar Kadhafi ally, the former head of Libyan Intelligence Services, Colonel Abdallah Senoussi, according to Mauritanian official sources
©- - 19 march 2012 - 19:08:20 - thread União Africana (126 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A ministerial meeting of the peace and security council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), designed to tackle terrorism and trans-border crime in the Sahel, opens Tuesday in Bamako, the Malian capital, official sources told PANA
©- - 19 march 2012 - 19:01:20 - thread União Africana (102 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – As African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development gather in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, next week, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, and the UN Under Secretary General and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Abdoulie Janneh, have said that Africa should be seen as a pole of global growth
©- - 19 march 2012 - 15:10:13 - thread União Africana (698 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 29
©- - 19 march 2012 - 11:50:46 - thread União Africana (116 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling Euro 381
©- - 19 march 2012 - 11:35:04 - thread União Africana (118 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Sunday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling Euro 381
©- - 18 march 2012 - 13:34:16 - thread União Africana (117 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked Mauritania to promptly surrender Libya’s former intelligence chief Abdullah Sanussi to the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is wanted for crimes against humanity
©- - 18 march 2012 - 11:27:56 - thread União Africana (393 words)


Bissau, Guinea Bissau (PANA) - The West African nation of Guinea Bissau is voting Sunday to elect a new President to succeed Malam Bacai Sanha who died in January
©- - 18 march 2012 - 10:06:36 - thread União Africana (413 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 29
©- - 16 march 2012 - 12:36:37 - thread União Africana (117 words)


Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Commission has launched a comprehensive staff audit, in line with the mandate given by regional leaders to the Commission to work with the best hands to deliver on the Organization’s objective of developing the region through a people-centred strategic approach, the Commission said in a statement obtained by PANA here
©- - 16 march 2012 - 08:17:35 - thread União Africana (264 words)


Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - A delegation of the Portuguese-speaking countries (CPLP), led by Cape Verdian Armindo Cipriano Mauricio, is expected in Guinea Bissau to observe Sunday's presidential election in the country, sources told PANA on Thursday in Praia
©- - 15 march 2012 - 20:37:11 - thread União Africana (159 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling Euro 380
©- - 15 march 2012 - 12:47:29 - thread União Africana (118 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 29
©- - 15 march 2012 - 09:48:14 - thread União Africana (116 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 Euro 381
©- - 14 march 2012 - 14:15:24 - thread União Africana (126 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 29
©- - 14 march 2012 - 08:49:59 - thread União Africana (117 words)


Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – A Belgian-born Mauritanian refugee, Idy Yero, has sued the former Mauritanian president Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a Brussels court for crimes against humanity
©- - 13 march 2012 - 20:12:07 - thread União Africana (108 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as published here Tuesday by the nation’s central bank : Currency Buying Selling Euro 381
©- - 13 march 2012 - 13:56:28 - thread União Africana (87 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Activists of the environmental NGO, Greenpeace, last Friday stopped the fishing activities of an EU trawler "Maartje Théodora" in Mauritanian waters for overfishing, a communiqué issued by the organization on Monday said
©- - 12 march 2012 - 22:54:58 - thread União Africana (214 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Thousands of members of the Democratic Opposition Coordinatioon (COD) in Mauritania, grouping 12 opposition political parties, mounted a massive demonstration here Monday, to press for an end to military rule
©- - 12 march 2012 - 19:50:34 - thread União Africana (144 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Chairman, Beninese President Boni Yayi, arrived in Abuja Monday afternoon on a brief visit to Nigeria, PANA reported
©- - 12 march 2012 - 15:12:50 - thread União Africana (133 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) is due to host a meeting of experts from the Sahel region at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week to intensify efforts to address the worsening humanitarian situation in the Sahel region, the AU Commission said in a statement obtained by PANA here Monday
©- - 12 march 2012 - 14:35:29 - thread União Africana (530 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Mauritanian gendarme, Ely Ould Moctar, kidnapped on 20 December by armed groups from Northern Mali, has been rescued, according to a statement from the Mauritanian military on Saturday
©- - 10 march 2012 - 14:18:41 - thread União Africana (98 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Welcoming the outcome of the recent London conference on Somalia, the African Union Peace and Security Council on Friday stressed the need to maintain the current international momentum towards the peace and reconciliation process in Somalia
©- - 09 march 2012 - 18:25:15 - thread União Africana (431 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as published here Friday: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 29
©- - 09 march 2012 - 10:44:42 - thread União Africana (122 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Several thousand Mauritanian women marched on Thursday in the capital, Nouakchott, to denounce violence and marginalisation as the country marked International Women's Day
©- - 08 march 2012 - 20:29:14 - thread União Africana (193 words)