Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian Research Council (MRC) Friday unvei led an engine running on coconut oil that is already being used to pump drinking water in the region of E bene, PANA reported
©- - 03 september 2010 - 12:37:00 - thread Union africaine (87 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Friday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 03 september 2010 - 11:40:00 - thread Union africaine (116 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Finance and Economic Development Minist er Pravind Jugnauth said Thursday that the need for financing in the island is e x pected to grow at a fast pace over the next 10 years, depending on the impact of the euro-zone crisis and other such global events, PANA reported from here
©- - 02 september 2010 - 15:03:00 - thread Union africaine (367 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Fisheries Minister Joseph Von-Mally, Th ursday launched a national action plan for the prevention of unregulated fishing at the Albion Fisheries Research Centre, near the capital, Port-Louis, PANA repo r ted from here
©- - 02 september 2010 - 14:44:00 - thread Union africaine (205 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as issued Thursday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 02 september 2010 - 12:00:00 - thread Union africaine (115 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The special representative of the UN secretary-g eneral in West Africa, Said Djinit, on Wednesday began a visit to Mauritania dur i ng which he called on President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Nouakchott
©- - 01 september 2010 - 22:24:00 - thread Union africaine (162 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Special Representative of the Secretary Gene ral of the United Nations (UN) in West Africa, Said Djinit, arrived in Nouakchot t Wednesday for a working visit to Mauritania, an official source said
©- - 01 september 2010 - 16:13:00 - thread Union africaine (147 words)


Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon's national football team, the Indomitable Li ons, has arrived in Mauritius ahead of this weekend's 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier against the host nation
©- - 01 september 2010 - 12:00:00 - thread Union africaine (83 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Wednesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 01 september 2010 - 10:01:00 - thread Union africaine (116 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Tuesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 31 august 2010 - 12:00:00 - thread Union africaine (116 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania newspapers this week devoted front pa ges to developments in terrorist events in the Sahelian-Saharan sub-region, with the release by Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), of the Spanish hostages Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta, kidnapped on the Nouadhibou-Nouakchott road in Novem b er 2009
©- - 28 august 2010 - 17:57:00 - thread Union africaine (407 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Algerian government has donated 60 tonnes of foodstuff, medicines, blankets and tents to the victims of the floods that foll o wed the down-pour in Mauritania, PANA reported Saturday
©- - 28 august 2010 - 13:30:00 - thread Union africaine (76 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Seventy people have been killed in road accidents that occurred between January and June this year, compared to 65 for the same p e riod last year, a 4
©- - 28 august 2010 - 12:41:00 - thread Union africaine (295 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Central Statistics Office (CSO) in Mauritius said here Friday that tourist arrivals for the first half of 2010 increased by 6
©- - 27 august 2010 - 13:57:00 - thread Union africaine (296 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Friday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 27 august 2010 - 11:49:00 - thread Union africaine (116 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian Opposition group, under the aegis of the Coordination of the Democratic opposition in Mauritania (COD), on Thursday c alled for a collective action against terrorism in member States of the Sahel-Sa h ara region
©- - 26 august 2010 - 19:30:00 - thread Union africaine (147 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A new mobile phone network, the third in the cou ntry, will be launched in Mauritania in September, Mohamed Abderrahman Ahmed Eth m ane, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, Chinguitel (a subsidiary o f the Sudanese outfit, Sudatel), announced here Thursday
©- - 26 august 2010 - 17:43:00 - thread Union africaine (112 words)


Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union Commission President Jean Ping on Wednesday condemned the terrorist attack in Mogadishu, near the presidential p alace, which killed 31 persons, including six Somali MPs and vowed to continue t h e AU peacekeeping operation there
©- - 26 august 2010 - 16:17:00 - thread Union africaine (382 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as issued Thursday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 26 august 2010 - 10:14:00 - thread Union africaine (115 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The four-wheel drive (4X4) vehicle that exploded outside the Mauritanian military garrison in Nema, 1,200 kilometres east of Nou a kchott, the capital, early Wednesday, killing the lone occupant, believed to be a suicide bomber, bore the registration number "3022 MD" from Mali, PANA learnt f r om official sources here
©- - 25 august 2010 - 15:35:00 - thread Union africaine (135 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)-- A suspected suicide bomber died when his car expl oded in front of a military garrison in Mauritania's city of Nema, 1,200 kilometres from the capita l city of Nouakchott overnight Tuesday, eyewitnesses told PANA Wednesday
©- - 25 august 2010 - 12:13:00 - thread Union africaine (154 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian on Tuesday expressed the wish to div ersify its energy sources, especially by developing renewable energy sources
©- - 24 august 2010 - 23:34:00 - thread Union africaine (206 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)-- After pulling out of the qualifying series of the 2012 African National Cup tournament a few days ago, Mauritania now says it wil l soon unveil plans to revive football in the country under a new sports policy
©- - 24 august 2010 - 17:06:00 - thread Union africaine (167 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The euro and British pound depreciated against th e rupee on Tuesday, while the U
©- - 24 august 2010 - 09:29:00 - thread Union africaine (186 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Secretary-General of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA-section Mauritania), Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, on Monday called for a revolution by "slaves and former slaves" in Mauritania to halt the growing practice of "slavery" in the country
©- - 23 august 2010 - 18:53:00 - thread Union africaine (242 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Press in Africa is committed to the Successful Year of Peace and Security, proclaimed by African Heads of State and Government at th e ir summit in February 2010 in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital
©- - 22 august 2010 - 14:04:00 - thread Union africaine (341 words)


Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Mauritania has withdrawn from the qualifiers for the 201 2 Cup of Nations (CAN 2012), to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, the African Football Confederation (CAF) has announced
©- - 22 august 2010 - 13:12:00 - thread Union africaine (194 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)- – The novel, “Les nouvelles du désert”, written by Mauritanian journalist M'Bareck Ould Beyrouck, is among the five works selected for the 2010 edition of the Prize “Ivoire de la Littérature africaine d'expression francophone”
©- - 20 august 2010 - 21:32:00 - thread Union africaine (142 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian Government will on Saturday lau nch a big reforestation operation aimed at building a green belt of about one mi l lion trees in four years around Nouakchott to halt the advancement of the Sahara desert
©- - 20 august 2010 - 21:16:00 - thread Union africaine (180 words)


Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Cameroonian Football Federation (FECAFOOT) has un veiled a list of 23 players for the 4 September CAN 2012 qualifying match agains t Mauritius in Port-Louis, PANA learnt from sports sources here
©- - 20 august 2010 - 17:57:00 - thread Union africaine (286 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Euro, US dollar and the British pound appreci ated on Friday against the Mauritian rupee, according to the exchange rates bull e tin published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 20 august 2010 - 09:42:00 - thread Union africaine (177 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- About 250 Mauritian medical and paramedical staff will on Monday attend a conference in Mauritius aimed at the management of cardiovascular diseases in the country
©- - 19 august 2010 - 20:36:00 - thread Union africaine (220 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- France has granted Mauritania 500,000 euros (abo ut US$ 643,400) through the World Food Programme (WPF) to contribute to the figh t against malnutrition in the African country, PANA learnt in Nouakchott Thursday
©- - 19 august 2010 - 18:39:00 - thread Union africaine (185 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The US dollar and the British pound appreciated Thursday against the rupee, while the euro lost ground, according to the latest exchange rates bulletin published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 19 august 2010 - 09:21:00 - thread Union africaine (179 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius is poised to attain the eight Millenniu m Development Goals (MDGs) on poverty, education, gender equality, infant mortal i ty, maternal health, diseases, environment and the global partnership for develo p ment, according to the latest figures issued by the Central Statistics Office (C S O) on Wednesday
©- - 18 august 2010 - 20:35:00 - thread Union africaine (398 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Libyan freighter carrying 13 tonnes of flour, 250 equi pped tents, 500 rescue kits and 600 mats, departed Tripoli Wednesday to Nouakcho t t to assist the Mauritanian people hit by the recent floods in the country, PANA reported from here
©- - 18 august 2010 - 19:29:00 - thread Union africaine (105 words)


Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will meet next month to discuss the political situation in Guinea Biss a u, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed Wednesday
©- - 18 august 2010 - 18:44:00 - thread Union africaine (550 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth, told Parliament on Wednesday that on the basis of the latest estimate, the country's trade deficit for 2010 was expected to reach 67 billion rupees (US$ 2
©- - 18 august 2010 - 16:56:00 - thread Union africaine (321 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Health and Quality of Life Minister May a Hanoomanjee, told Parliament Wednesday that the prevalence rate of diabetes, h y pertension and obesity was very high in the country
©- - 18 august 2010 - 16:38:00 - thread Union africaine (162 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania has withdrawn from the qualifiers of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2012) and notified the Confederation of African F o otball (CAF) of its decision on Wednesday, the state television disclosed
©- - 18 august 2010 - 15:46:00 - thread Union africaine (164 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The euro and the US dollar appreciated against the rupee on Wednesday morning, according to the exchange rates bulletin published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius in Port- Louis
©- - 18 august 2010 - 11:34:00 - thread Union africaine (165 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The newly-elected Volleyball Federation of Mauri tania (FVBRIM) will revive the sport and take it to greater heights at both the n ational and regional levels, its chairperson, Brahim Ould Bacar Ould Sneiba, sai d Tuesday
©- - 17 august 2010 - 19:03:00 - thread Union africaine (247 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Acting Prime Minister of Mauritius, Rashid Beebee jaun, has called on all Mauritians to help in the national crusade against drug t rafficking and consumption by collaborating with the police and assisting in the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts, a PANA correspondent reported from here
©- - 17 august 2010 - 16:06:00 - thread Union africaine (204 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Malian national Omar Sid'Ahmed Hamma, nicknamed Omar Sahraoui, who was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for terrorism by the M a uritanian judiciary, was extradited to Mali Monday, official sources in the Maur i tanian capital, Nouakchott, told PANA
©- - 17 august 2010 - 15:44:00 - thread Union africaine (136 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian Police on Monday seized 18 kilos of cocaine in a house in the capital, Nouakchott, and arrested a group of suspe c ted traffickers
©- - 16 august 2010 - 20:38:00 - thread Union africaine (68 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Euro and British pound have depreciated again st the rupee, according to the exchange rates bulletin published on Monday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 16 august 2010 - 11:30:00 - thread Union africaine (163 words)