Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian journalist, Mohamed Fall Ould Oumere, the Editorial Director of the private weekly, La Tribune, won the Maghreb contest of the best opinion article, which prize will be awarded 3 May in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital
©- - 28 april 2010 - 16:54:00 - thread Union africaine (134 words)


Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping on Wednesday congratulated the people of Sudan for the peaceful conclusion of national elections, which took place from 11-15 April
©- - 28 april 2010 - 13:56:00 - thread Union africaine (338 words)


Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Head of the observer mission of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)parliamentary forum, Angolan parliament first deputy speaker Joمo Lourenço, has arrived in Mauritius for the 5 May parliamentary election
©- - 28 april 2010 - 13:26:00 - thread Union africaine (142 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius Wednesday
©- - 28 april 2010 - 09:14:00 - thread Union africaine (117 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Japanese government has donated to Guinea-Bissau rice valued 1
©- - 27 april 2010 - 23:00:00 - thread Union africaine (153 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as issued here Tuesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 27 april 2010 - 09:58:00 - thread Union africaine (118 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Owners of Sahara Media, an online news site in A rabic, have decided to transform the body into a sub-regional news agency with t h e introduction of a French language service, PANA learnt Monday from sources clo s e to the group
©- - 26 april 2010 - 17:43:00 - thread Union africaine (175 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as published Monday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 26 april 2010 - 12:49:00 - thread Union africaine (117 words)


Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, on Sunday in Sirte, centr al Libya, received in audience the Guinea Bissau army chief, Antonio Indjai, who arrived Saturday in Libya, heading his country's delegation, according to an off i cial Libyan source
©- - 26 april 2010 - 12:46:00 - thread Union africaine (134 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLA M), a Diaspora organisation, has deplored the condition of the refugees who were repatriated from Senegal fro m January 2008
©- - 26 april 2010 - 12:21:00 - thread Union africaine (142 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian Justice minister, Abidine Ould E l Kheir, has vowed to improve conditions in the country's prisons and accelerate procedures for equitable trial for everybody
©- - 23 april 2010 - 21:33:00 - thread Union africaine (176 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian police have seized 63 kilograms of c annabis and arrested several alleged drug dealers in several areas in Nouakchott in a two-day operation that security sources say broke up a drug ring
©- - 23 april 2010 - 20:26:00 - thread Union africaine (114 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as issued Friday by the Mauritian commercial bank
©- - 23 april 2010 - 08:59:00 - thread Union africaine (119 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, on Wednesday named Hbibi Ould Ham as the country's new Commissioner for Promotio n and Investment, according to an official statement issued in the Mauritanian ca p ital, Nouakchott
©- - 22 april 2010 - 14:46:00 - thread Union africaine (88 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as published here Thursday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 22 april 2010 - 11:03:00 - thread Union africaine (118 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The euro and the British pound appreciated Tuesda y against the rupee, while the US dollar remained stable, according to the exchange rates published by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 20 april 2010 - 08:53:00 - thread Union africaine (170 words)


Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) has granted US$50,000 to the Uni on of the Comoros to support reproductive health through the purchase of delivery kits, especially for Cesare an Sections, sources in Moroni, the Comorian capital, told PANA
©- - 19 april 2010 - 12:34:00 - thread Union africaine (150 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Extension works on the mineral port of Nouadhibo u, the economic capital of Mauritania located 465 km from Nouakchott, started Sunday in the presence of Pri me Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
©- - 19 april 2010 - 11:43:00 - thread Union africaine (196 words)


Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Australia will help improve food security in ea stern and southern Africa through a new US$20 million programme to substantially boost agricultural production and i mprove market opportunities for farmers, the Australian Governmentâ?s Overseas Aid Programme (AusAID) said Frid ay
©- - 16 april 2010 - 11:23:00 - thread Union africaine (370 words)


Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angola and Guinea Bissau have signed a co-operation acco rd in the areas of defence, according to the Angola Press Agency, ANGOP
©- - 16 april 2010 - 11:14:00 - thread Union africaine (101 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as issued here Friday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 16 april 2010 - 11:07:00 - thread Union africaine (114 words)


Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- African Union's Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra Wednesday evening arrived in Bujumbura at the start of a four-da y visit to Burundi
©- - 15 april 2010 - 12:55:00 - thread Union africaine (105 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as issued here Thursday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 15 april 2010 - 11:17:00 - thread Union africaine (121 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Chairman of the Opposition party, Rally of D emocratic Forces (RFD), in Mauritania, Ahmed Ould Daddah, has denounced the "dum p ing of toxic industrial wastes" in the country
©- - 14 april 2010 - 16:33:00 - thread Union africaine (184 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as issued here Wednesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 14 april 2010 - 09:57:00 - thread Union africaine (122 words)


Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Defence Minister of Guinea Bissau, Arestides Ocante da Silva, arrived in Luanda Wednesday for a four-day official visit to Angola
©- - 14 april 2010 - 08:38:00 - thread Union africaine (159 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A Mauritanian party, National Rally for Reform a nd Development (RNRD-Tawassoul), has cautioned that the controversy over national identity, whi ch has been raging throughout Mauritania over several weeks now, must not be all o wed to go out of hand
©- - 13 april 2010 - 21:39:00 - thread Union africaine (305 words)


Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Guinea Bissau Defence Minister, Arestides Ocante da Silva, is due here Wednesday to start a four-day visit to Angola, PANA reported T uesday, quoting the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP)
©- - 13 april 2010 - 19:22:00 - thread Union africaine (80 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Barrister Sghair Ould M'Bareck was Monday appoin ted Chairman of Mauritania's Constitutional Council, according to a decree issue d in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital
©- - 13 april 2010 - 18:42:00 - thread Union africaine (132 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The euro and the British pound depreciated agains t the Mauritian rupee, while the US dollar remained stable, according to the lat e st exchange rates issued Tuesday by Mauritius Commercial Bank
©- - 13 april 2010 - 15:08:00 - thread Union africaine (177 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Managing Director of Mauritania Airways, Mon cef Bedi, announced here Monday that the company would extend services to the Mi d dle East and Europe from 14 April and start operating new routes in Africa from J une
©- - 12 april 2010 - 16:13:00 - thread Union africaine (164 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- African Union's Peace and Security Commissioner Ramdhane Lamamara has said there is a general agreement among African nations to establish the Uni ted States of Africa, saying the only difference is the issue of timing and the modality for the creat ion
©- - 12 april 2010 - 07:58:00 - thread Union africaine (328 words)


Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Ghana's former President John Agyekum Kufuor, who is le ading the African Union (AU) observer mission to Sudan's national election, on S u nday toured some voting centres in the capital, Khartoum, and Omdruman, the larg e st city
©- - 11 april 2010 - 16:48:00 - thread Union africaine (330 words)


Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- Rounding off a three-day visit to the Comoros after a s econd meeting with President Ahmed Sambi, the AU Commissioner for Peace and Secu r ity, Ramtane Lamamra, left Moroni, the Comoran capital, to return to Addis Ababa , Ethiopia, PANA reported from here
©- - 11 april 2010 - 09:58:00 - thread Union africaine (282 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian post services Friday launched postmarks to hail the World Cup, to be hosted by South Africa from June this year, local s ources told PANA
©- - 10 april 2010 - 10:30:00 - thread Union africaine (122 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania is set to produce 240,000 tonnes of g rains during the 2010-2011 crop year, against the 190,000 tonnes produced in 200 8 -2009, according to a statement issued by the government here Friday
©- - 09 april 2010 - 15:20:00 - thread Union africaine (128 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee against some major foreign currencies, as released here Friday by the Comm ercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 09 april 2010 - 11:08:00 - thread Union africaine (125 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Several leaders of Mauritanian political parties from the nationalist Arab and Islamist sphere of influence on Thursday afternoon in Nouakchott announced the setting up of an umbrella group w hose ideological reference is the Libyan leader, Mouamar Kadhafi
©- - 08 april 2010 - 23:17:00 - thread Union africaine (124 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)- â" A French couple on Wednesday night escaped a k idnap attempt by two unknown armed men near the French embassy in Nouakchott
©- - 08 april 2010 - 22:24:00 - thread Union africaine (139 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Lawyers from the five member countries of the Ar ab Maghreb Union (UMA) have formed a regional judicial bloc, the Union of the Ar a b Maghreb Lawyers (UAMA), they said in a statement after their meeting Wednesday in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital
©- - 08 april 2010 - 18:47:00 - thread Union africaine (107 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Lawyers from the five member countries of the Ar ab Maghreb Union (UMA) have formed a regional judicial bloc, the Union of the Ar a b Maghreb Lawyers (UAMA), they said in a statement after their meeting Wednesday in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital
©- - 08 april 2010 - 18:07:00 - thread Union africaine (107 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)-- Students at the University of Nouakchott demonstr ated Thursday morning across the streets of Mauritania's capital to demand what t hey called "Arabization" of the country's education system and administration
©- - 08 april 2010 - 17:02:00 - thread Union africaine (110 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania was Wednesday connected to the submar ine optical fiber between Europe and Africa, the Mauritanian Information Agency ( AMI) reported on Thursday, quoting the Minister of Vocational Training and new T e chnologies, Mohamed Ould Khouna
©- - 08 april 2010 - 14:53:00 - thread Union africaine (95 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as issued here Thursday by the Commercial Bank of Mauri tius
©- - 08 april 2010 - 11:46:00 - thread Union africaine (124 words)


Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Seeking to quickly restore normalcy to his country after last week's mutiny by a section of its military, President of Guinea Bissau Bacai Sanha has solicited Angola's support for the West African nation
©- - 08 april 2010 - 08:40:00 - thread Union africaine (290 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as issued here Wednesday by the Commercia l Bank of Mauritius
©- - 07 april 2010 - 10:03:00 - thread Union africaine (124 words)


Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- ECOWAS defence chiefs will discuss the situation in Guinea Bissau at their meeting in Cotonou, Benin, 13-15 April, as part of the continuing efforts to resolve the crisis, according to a statement from the ECOWAS Commission
©- - 07 april 2010 - 07:51:00 - thread Union africaine (443 words)