Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius and Ghana signed Monday three agreements on mutual visa exemption, trade promotion and tertiary education in the Mauritian capital, Port Louis, in the presence of Mauritian Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth and visiting Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, PANA learnt from official sources here
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Plaisance, Mauritius (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama arrived in Mauritius Monday for a three-day official visit, PANA reported
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 24
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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation's director-general Preetam Parmessur has been sacked, eight months after his recruitment by the government, it was officially announced here Saturday
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Ebène, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth has encouraged Mauritian firms to expand their footprints across Africa in a bid to further enlarge the island’s economic space and its Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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Abuja, NIgeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has sent former NIgerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo as a Special Envoy to Guinea Bissau to mediate in the country's political crisis, the presidency said on Friday
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) -Three Ugandan soldiers have been indicted for the killing of civilians in Somalia’s southern port town of Marka in July ahead of their trial by an African Union-appointed military tribunal, the head of the AU peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Maman Sidikou said on Friday
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius Friday installed two fixed ambient air monitoring stations, acquired at the cost of some US$ 290,000, to monitor particle pollution/particulate matter (PM-10 and PM-2
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Here are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Ouguiya, as issued by the Central Bank of Mauritania (BCM)
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Amnesty International has condemned a Mauritanian appeal court's decision to uphold a harsh sentence slammed on three anti-slavery activists on Thursday evening
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
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Australian Dollar 24
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -The African Union (AU) has supported the immediate creation of an African Open Skies area within 11 countries to give African airlines a better operating environment to effectively deal with foreign airlines
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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza on Thursday took oath of office before Parliament and judges of the Constitutional Court for a third term following his controversial reelection on 21 July 2015
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 25
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Over 500 delegates from grassroots movements, community and faith-based organizations, women’s organizations, as well as labour and student unions who met in Gaborone, Botswana, this week have expressed their concern with the rising and unprecedented level of corruption in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
region
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Khartoum Sudan (PANA) - An African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council delegation arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, on Wednesday to get first hand information on the situation in Darfur
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Japanese government will finance a training programme in its universities for 1,000 youth from 54 African countries in different domains, like marine sciences, international relations and management, according to sources from the Japanese Japanese embassy in Nouakchott
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 25
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In furtherance of the efforts to bring all Sudanese disagreeing parties to the negotiating table, the Chairman of the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP), Thabo Mbeki, has invited leaders of the Darfur rebel movements and political opposition for a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, next week
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya:
Currencies Buying Selling
1 Euro 361
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New York, US (PANA) - Expressing concern over the current political developments in
Guinea-Bissau, the UN Security Council has called on leaders to seek dialogue and consensus in resolving the crisis in the interest of peace in the country
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 25
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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu has asked leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting in Gaborone, Botswana, to redouble efforts at harnessing strengths to collectively address the complex challenges confronting the region
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New York, US (PANA) - The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute,
which established the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr
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Pointe-aux-Piments, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth Monday announced the setting up of a Financial Crime Commission (FCC) as the country's apex anti-corruption agency
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Réduit, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Sugar Cane Industry Research Institute (MSIRI) has developed four new varieties of sugar cane plants that will help boost sugar production by 10 to 15% on the island, according to the Institute
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 25
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The projected power problems in Mauritius, as predicted by the World Bank, was the major story in the Mauritian media this week
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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A 40-year-old Malagasy national, Amina Houssen, was on Friday sentenced to 13 years imprisonment by a court in Port Louis after she was found guilty of importation and possession of drugs, PANA learnt from judicial sources in the Mauritian capital
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 25
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has stated its readiness to take part in meetings of the joint Sudanese-South Sudanese Political-Security Committee under the auspices of the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) to discuss the common border demarcation and the Zero Line separating the two countries
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has called on all of Guinea-Bissau’s political leadership to resume dialogue in order to work together in the governance of the country as it emerges from previous periods of instability
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Tasiast Mauritania Limited SA, a subsidiary of the Canadian Company, Kinross, which exploits a gold mine in northern Mauritania, on Wednesday announced the dismissal of between 200 to 500 employees, citing “economic reasons”
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance has called on SADC Heads of State to put their weight behind the review of the SADC Gender Protocol, especially in the proposed Monitoring, Evaluation and Results (MER) Framework
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 24
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The following are Wednesday’s exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya:
Currency Buying Selling
1 Euro 359
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has given the World Food Programme (WFP) 400,000 euros (about US$ 438,800) with which the European Commission on Civil Protection (ECHO) will provide humanitarian aid, including food assistance, to 50,000 Malian refugees accommodated in the Mbera camp in eastern Mauritania, the EU delegation in Nouakchott said on Tuesday
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Vacoas, Mauritius (PANA) - An Early Warning System (EWS) to detect storm surges on a 24-hour basis is now operational at the Mauritius Meteorological Services in Vacoas, in the centre of the island, officials said here Tuesday
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 25
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New York, US (PANA) - UN human rights expert Maina Kiai has called on the Mauritanian
parliament to reject a draft law on civil society associations that, without public consultations,
was approved last month by the country's Council of Ministers
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius indicated on Monday that coal is becoming increasingly a major component in the production of electricity in the island with around 43% of electricity generated from coal, 37% from diesel and fuel oil and 20% from renewable sources in 2014
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee:
Currency Buying Selling
Australian Dollar 25
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Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The 9th Indian Ocean Islands Games (IOIG) ended Sunday with the closing ceremony attended by athletes and leaders of different sports federations at Paul Julius Bénard Stadium in Saint Paul, Réunion
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The President of the Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, will pay a three-day official visit to Mauritius from 24 to 26 August, the Mauritian Government announced in a communiqué released on Saturday in Port-Louis
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Port-Louis, Maurice (PANA) – The media in Mauritius was this week dominated by the 9th Indian Ocean Islands Games (IOIG) that end in the island of La Reunion on Sunday
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