Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Finance Minister Rashid Beebeejaun Thursday said that economic growth in the island will reach 3
©- - 02 october 2014 - 16:33:20 - thread Union africaine (412 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 380
©- - 02 october 2014 - 11:31:11 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 02 october 2014 - 11:24:15 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has slammed the “lickspittle” South African government for buckling under Chinese pressure and barring the Dalai Lama from attending Africa’s first global summit of fellow prizewinners
©- - 02 october 2014 - 08:07:41 - thread Union africaine (196 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius aims to produce about 35% of its electricity needs from renewable sources, supported by several projects that include wind-farms and photovoltaic farms and Waste-to-Energy projects that are already in operation, according to the Executive chairman of the Maurice Ile Durable Fund (MID), Osman Mahomed
©- - 01 october 2014 - 14:19:25 - thread Union africaine (288 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 381
©- - 01 october 2014 - 10:34:31 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A two-day Africa Working Group meeting on disaster risk reduction opened Wednesday in Arusha, Tanzania, to discuss implementation of the new regional programme for Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa Region, Countries and Communities that is expected to be operational soon
©- - 01 october 2014 - 10:26:42 - thread Union africaine (627 words)


Réduit, Mauritius (PANA) - The School of Agriculture of Mauritius will celebrate its centenary this October, PANA has learned from the University of Mauritius
©- - 01 october 2014 - 08:40:25 - thread Union africaine (182 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 01 october 2014 - 08:25:12 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 383
©- - 30 september 2014 - 19:30:33 - thread Union africaine (131 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 30 september 2014 - 18:53:07 - thread Union africaine (110 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A Mauritian Imam, Moossa Beeharry, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of money laundering in the wake of a case of drug trafficking, PANA learnt from judicial sources
©- - 30 september 2014 - 12:58:25 - thread Union africaine (117 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Transparency Mauritius (TM) has launched a manual on investigative journalism which ''will help journalists go deep into their investigations to reveal what public figures and institutions hide from the population'', according to TM's Executive Director Rajen Bablee
©- - 30 september 2014 - 08:17:17 - thread Union africaine (138 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Sunday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 384
©- - 28 september 2014 - 13:13:04 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius Sugar Syndicate’s Secretary and CEO designate Devesh Dukhira, Friday told stakeholders in the island that the price of white sugar on the word market reached a five-year low of US$ 385 last week from a peak of about US$ 850 per ton on the London reference market in July 2011
©- - 26 september 2014 - 15:15:40 - thread Union africaine (354 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 26 september 2014 - 11:06:35 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Satish Faugoo said Thursday that African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries should prepare themselves to address challenges arising from the abolition of sugar production quota in the European Union, scheduled for September 2017 in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
©- - 25 september 2014 - 16:58:51 - thread Union africaine (341 words)


Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius International Trade Minister Arvin Boolell, on Thursday said that Africa is the current frontier of growth and represents great potential for Private Equity firms across the world
©- - 25 september 2014 - 14:56:18 - thread Union africaine (468 words)


Beau Bassin, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Prison Service (MPS) Thursday released a ten-year plan devised by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to bring down the current rate of repeated crimes in the island by arranging for additional support structures and providing for a more structured form of release
©- - 25 september 2014 - 14:15:15 - thread Union africaine (355 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 386
©- - 25 september 2014 - 11:42:38 - thread Union africaine (128 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Cape Town's plans to host Africa’s first summit of Nobel Peace Laureates have been dealt a major blow with the confirmation that three laureates have withdrawn in protest over Pretoria’s refusal to grant the Dalai Lama a visa
©- - 25 september 2014 - 11:24:06 - thread Union africaine (392 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 387
©- - 24 september 2014 - 11:51:54 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 386
©- - 23 september 2014 - 12:33:49 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 23 september 2014 - 08:24:09 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of this week's opening of the UN General Assembly's annual high-level session, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr
©- - 22 september 2014 - 18:31:53 - thread Union africaine (189 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Arts and Culture Minister Mookhesswur Choonee, on Monday said the Mauritian government wants to promote the “Indentured Labour Route”, a project that relates to the movement of a mass of people based on inter-cultural exchanges across the continents
©- - 22 september 2014 - 14:16:42 - thread Union africaine (273 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 389
©- - 22 september 2014 - 14:03:42 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 22 september 2014 - 08:50:30 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's Ouguiya appreciated against the Euro and the CFA Franc but remained stable against the US Dollar, according to Sunday's foreign exchange rates issued by the Mauritanian central bank
©- - 21 september 2014 - 11:17:49 - thread Union africaine (154 words)


Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) – The ruling Labour Party (PTR) in Mauritius and the main opposition Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM) on Saturday signed a deal ahead of the parliamentary elections due shortly on the island
©- - 20 september 2014 - 10:31:42 - thread Union africaine (217 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Commercial Bank of Mauritius has issued the following exchange rates of the Mauritian Rupee for Friday: Currency Buying Selling Australian 
Dollar 26
©- - 19 september 2014 - 18:55:44 - thread Union africaine (121 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) The Western troika member countries Friday welcomed efforts being made to reinvigorate the process of an inclusive national dialogue in Sudan and reiterated their support to the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) for facilitation of the process
©- - 19 september 2014 - 15:26:30 - thread Union africaine (260 words)


Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - President Issa Hayatou of the African Football Confederation (CAF) and African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma met Thursday in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital and seat of the AU, to discuss CAF's contribution to the realisation of the AU's "Agenda 2063"; the continental body's vision for Africa for the next 50 years
©- - 19 september 2014 - 12:23:59 - thread Union africaine (184 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Climate-related disasters in the five years since global leaders last met to discuss climate change have cost almost half a trillion dollars (US$490 billion) - three times more than for the whole of the 1970s, international agency Oxfam said Friday
©- - 19 september 2014 - 08:36:07 - thread Union africaine (922 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Chinese government has offered Mali medical facilities, worth 80 million CFAF, in support of the West African nation's efforts to prevent the deadly Ebola disease, official sources told PANA on Thursday
©- - 18 september 2014 - 15:36:58 - thread Union africaine (94 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Health Minister Lormus Bundhoo said that the use of psychoactive substances is a source of significant health and social problems for people who use them as well as for others in their family and community
©- - 18 september 2014 - 13:53:50 - thread Union africaine (304 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling 

Australian Dollar 26
©- - 18 september 2014 - 12:10:06 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 390
©- - 18 september 2014 - 10:11:55 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Former Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo on Wednesday assumed the leadership of the Panel of the Wise, a critical pillar of the African Union's Peace and Security Architecture
©- - 18 september 2014 - 07:49:34 - thread Union africaine (358 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday received here in audience Gambia's Interior minister, Ousmane Sonko, who delivered a message from President Yahya Jammeh, the Mauritanian news agency (AMI) reported
©- - 17 september 2014 - 17:40:44 - thread Union africaine (105 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 390
©- - 17 september 2014 - 11:24:30 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 17 september 2014 - 08:56:32 - thread Union africaine (108 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 389
©- - 16 september 2014 - 12:08:08 - thread Union africaine (129 words)


Ebène, Mauritius (PANA) - The creation of a Western Indian Ocean Maritime Crime Forum that will make it possible for island states in the region to better coordinate their response to maritime crime concerns at the diplomatic, strategic and capacity-development levels was formulated at a high-level meeting held here Monday
©- - 16 september 2014 - 12:06:50 - thread Union africaine (320 words)