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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Ouguiya, as issued by the Central bank of Mauritania
©- - 24 august 2017 - 11:19:09 - thread Union africaine (150 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday’s exchange rates for the Rupee, as issued by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 24 august 2017 - 10:38:28 - thread Union africaine (123 words)


Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Tuesday, 22 August, 2017, debarred Chongqing International Construction Corporation (CICO), a Chinese construction and engineering company, for a minimum period of 12 months for fraud
©- - 23 august 2017 - 13:17:14 - thread Union africaine (443 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius and Tanzania are to sign three agreements in a bid to strengthen the existing relations between the two countries, PANA learnt on Monday from official sources in the Mauritian capital
©- - 21 august 2017 - 15:21:12 - thread Union africaine (140 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius and Burkina Faso will embark towards steering the existing bilateral and multilateral relations in view of boosting and giving a fresh impetus to the economic cooperation between the two countries, PANA learnt Monday from official sources in the Mauritian capital
©- - 21 august 2017 - 15:17:42 - thread Union africaine (158 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African Union (AU) election observers said Wednesday they reserved the right to make further comments on the outcome of the Kenyan Presidential election, but affirmed the credibility of the process had not been brought into doubt despite challenges posed by the opposition
©- - 16 august 2017 - 18:47:29 - thread Union africaine (431 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The official inauguration of Rwanda's President-elect, Paul Kagame, will be held on Friday, according to an official source, which indicated on Wednesday that several African Heads of State and Government will attend the inauguration
©- - 16 august 2017 - 13:28:57 - thread Union africaine (130 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has made great strides over the last decade to top the competitiveness rankings in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), but still lags emerging market peers as lackluster productivity and rapid real wage growth in recent years have reduced cost competitiveness, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to the island has observed
©- - 15 august 2017 - 07:57:14 - thread Union africaine (759 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, reacting to the the official announcement of the final results of the presidential election in Kenya on 11 August, 2017, by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), has called on all those wishing to challenge the results to do so through the channels provided for by the law
©- - 12 august 2017 - 19:23:48 - thread Union africaine (194 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have commended the Mauritanian authorities for their strong economic policy response to the challenging external environment of low metal prices, but noted that macroeconomic and financial stability as well as the incipient recovery remain fragile
©- - 10 august 2017 - 08:25:30 - thread Union africaine (597 words)


New York, US (PANA) – Following Mauritania's 5 August constitutional referendum, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has encouraged all stakeholders to ensure that disagreements are addressed peacefully within the confines of the law and respect for the rights to freedom of assembly and expression
©- - 09 august 2017 - 06:02:50 - thread Union africaine (155 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat on Tuesday announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Leonard Muriuki Ngondi of Kenya as Force Commander for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID)
©- - 08 august 2017 - 16:24:30 - thread Union africaine (270 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Jacob Zuma is enroute back to South Africa after visiting Zambia's former President Kenneth Kaunda at his home in Lusaka
©- - 06 august 2017 - 13:38:08 - thread Union africaine (127 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Preparing to deploy its short-term election observers to the field, the African Union Election Observer Mission (AUEOM) in Kenya ran a three-day orientation and briefing programme from 3- 5 August, 2017
©- - 05 august 2017 - 10:27:03 - thread Union africaine (212 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United Nations human rights office has expressed concern about the ongoing unrest in Mauritania, ahead of the constitutional referendum scheduled for Saturday, particularly the apparent suppression of dissenting voices and the reported use of excessive force by the authorities against protest leaders
©- - 03 august 2017 - 16:52:17 - thread Union africaine (300 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB), collaborating with other partners, is undertaking preparatory arrangements for the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET)-Africa Hydromet Forum, which is scheduled to take place at the headquarters of the African Union Commission, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 12 to 15 September, 2017
©- - 03 august 2017 - 15:28:44 - thread Union africaine (169 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The United Nations human rights office on Thursday expressed concern about the ongoing unrest in Mauritania, ahead of the constitutional referendum scheduled for Saturday, particularly the apparent suppression of dissenting voices and the reported use of excessive force by the authorities against protest leaders
©- - 03 august 2017 - 13:40:35 - thread Union africaine (306 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Countries in the Lake Chad Basin have worked together very well in dealing with the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency and the consequent humanitarian crisis, Nigeria’s Acting President Yemi Osinbajo told a delegation from the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) on Monday
©- - 31 july 2017 - 18:31:11 - thread Union africaine (384 words)


Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Amadou Sanneh, has categorised money laundering and financing of terrorism as financial crimes with significant negative economic effects on the stability of a country's financial sector or undermine its political stability and development
©- - 26 july 2017 - 12:18:30 - thread Union africaine (575 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the current Chairman of the Assemblies of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) and President of Guinea, Alpha Conde, accepting his nomination as leader of the “2018 AU Theme on the Fight Against Corruption”
©- - 25 july 2017 - 15:11:58 - thread Union africaine (275 words)


Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF) has advocated the establishment of a regional information hub to advertise bankable projects in Africa, proposing that each country should have a window linked to the centralised hub as part of an overall objective to unlock bankable investment opportunities in Africa
©- - 25 july 2017 - 05:19:29 - thread Union africaine (1166 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Following an invitation from the Senegalese Government, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Moussa Faki Mahamat, has deployed an African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM) to Senegal’s legislative elections, scheduled for 30 July 2017
©- - 23 july 2017 - 07:00:45 - thread Union africaine (291 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) on Friday decided to renew the mandate of the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) for 12 months, until 31 July 2018, after noting with “serious concern that that Al-Shabaab terrorist group continues to represent a threat to peace, security and stability in Somalia, to the region and, to the wider international community
©- - 21 july 2017 - 20:02:35 - thread Union africaine (346 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Briefing the Security Council on their strengthened collaboration, top officials from the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) on Wednesday highlighted their joint work on peace and security in the Gambia, Somalia and South Sudan, as well as other African countries, and urged adequate, timely and predictable funding
©- - 19 july 2017 - 19:23:27 - thread Union africaine (222 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius aims at positioning itself as a secure platform with a strong value proposition for channeling investment into Africa through the Mauritius-Africa Fund that has been revised since 2015 with a view to having bigger impact on facilitation of Mauritian private sector investment in Africa
©- - 17 july 2017 - 10:55:06 - thread Union africaine (459 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A group of African health volunteers have been deployed to north-eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to carry out Ebola surveillance to prevent a possible spread of the virus to Central African Republic (CAR), the AU said on Wednesday
©- - 12 july 2017 - 17:29:16 - thread Union africaine (370 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Moussa Faki Mahamat, says the dedication of a specific African Continent’s fight against corruption marks an important step towards "the Africa we want"
©- - 11 july 2017 - 15:18:00 - thread Union africaine (337 words)


Hamburg, Germany (PANA) - Globalisation and technological change have contributed significantly to driving economic growth and raising living standards across the globe, but besides the challenges it has created, its benefits have not been shared widely enough, Leaders of the G20 said in a declaration at the end of their two-day meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday
©- - 08 july 2017 - 17:41:17 - thread Union africaine (925 words)


Vienna, Austria (PANA) - With the support of its Investment and technology promotion office (ITPO) in Tokyo, Japan, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has arranged a study tour for African food processing industry representatives to demonstrate to them adaptation technologies for better climate resilience and low-carbon growth
©- - 07 july 2017 - 13:42:02 - thread Union africaine (361 words)


Hamburg, Germany (PANA) - Illegal migration across the Central Mediterranean route from Libya to Europe calls for solidarity and cooperation of the international community to stop it, European Council President Donald Tusk told the two-day G20 Summit that opened on Friday in Hamburg, Germany
©- - 07 july 2017 - 11:35:07 - thread Union africaine (445 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as issued by the commercial bank of Mauritius
©- - 06 july 2017 - 09:59:07 - thread Union africaine (124 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union (AU) Summit has slammed the UN Security Council for passing a “weak” resolution backing the deployment of a military force to combat Islamist terrorism in the Sahel region, saying the growing terrorism threat in the region could not be tackled conventionally
©- - 04 july 2017 - 16:42:20 - thread Union africaine (513 words)


Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian President Adama Barrow, has pledged his backing to the African Union (AU) reform process, saying the reform is compelled by the need to change the norm in which the continental organization is being governed
©- - 04 july 2017 - 14:19:15 - thread Union africaine (446 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Japan have signed a Letter of Intent to launch the Japan-Africa Energy Initiative (JAEI) to provide significant support to the New Deal on Energy for Africa, aimed at achieving universal access to energy by 2025, using available energy sources and the most advanced technologies
©- - 04 july 2017 - 13:21:40 - thread Union africaine (445 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African leaders rose from two days of talks on pressing developmental matters, peace, security and administrative matters affecting the continent at their 29th session of the Heads of State Assembly with a call for the UN reform and the reform of global peacekeeping operations
©- - 04 july 2017 - 12:55:15 - thread Union africaine (546 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – East African foreign ministers have called on the African Union (AU) Summit to immediately authorise the deployment of troops to the border of Djibouti and Eritrea to fill the power and security vacuum created by the withdrawal of Qatari forces there
©- - 04 july 2017 - 09:16:18 - thread Union africaine (382 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat on Monday outlined his five-point vision for a peaceful continent, calling on the civil society to play a more proactive role in ending conflicts and calling for justice, peace and cooperation of all players
©- - 03 july 2017 - 16:46:31 - thread Union africaine (656 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, urged African leaders on Monday to demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and announced that his country was ready to accept a US peace plan for a two-state solution to the standoff with Israel
©- - 03 july 2017 - 15:48:15 - thread Union africaine (318 words)