Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A 57-year-old French citizen, Pierre Martin Viator, was Thursday sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by a Court in Port-Louis, after he was found guilty of drug trafficking, PANA learnt from judicial sources in the Mauritian capital
©- - 05 february 2015 - 11:29:11 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (110 words)


Le Réduit, Mauritius (PANA) - The University of Mauritius has launched a six-point strategic plan for the period 2015 to 2020, in a bid to provide quality education to students and promote knowledge creation and dissemination through research and innovative teaching while responding to the developmental needs of the country and the global community, PANA learnt Wednesday from official sources
©- - 04 february 2015 - 15:31:06 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (514 words)


Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal will play host to the African Higher Education Summit which runs here from 10-12 March, the country’s Minister of Higher Education and Research, Prof
©- - 04 february 2015 - 13:53:18 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (789 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 351
©- - 03 february 2015 - 11:10:20 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (129 words)


Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Mahen Seeruttun Monday said despite their value wetlands are the most declining and devastated ecosystem in Mauritius and elsewhere in the world
©- - 02 february 2015 - 18:26:36 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (249 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1-Euro 349
©- - 02 february 2015 - 18:09:21 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (131 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, said here Saturday that he respects the decision of African leaders, who Friday appointed Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe chair of the 54-member Pan African organization for a one-year term
©- - 31 january 2015 - 10:43:42 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (408 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian media this week turned attention to the new government’s five-year programme for the period 2015 to 2019, presented to the nation Tuesday by President Kailash Purryag in which the government said “it will govern for the People with the People
©- - 31 january 2015 - 09:24:17 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (573 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - It is incomprehensible that the Kingdom of Morocco continues to occupy Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba, told African Union (AU) leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday
©- - 30 january 2015 - 20:26:11 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (235 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has challenged the African Union (AU) member countries to deliberate and find lasting solutions to the scourge of terrorism in the coming year
©- - 30 january 2015 - 19:33:01 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (487 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – “African countries have been the backbone and leading Member States of the United Nations since the day they achieved independence,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Africa leaders gathered Friday at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
©- - 30 january 2015 - 18:38:44 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (713 words)


Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have hailed the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency for the important role it plays in transforming the continent, the African Union (AU) said in a statement received here by PANA Friday
©- - 30 january 2015 - 16:37:27 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (550 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - In marking 2015 as the year of women's empowerment and development, Africa should take its continental programme of gender equality and women's empowerment to a higher level, African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma told the AU leaders gathered in Addis Ababa for their 24th Ordinary Summit
©- - 30 january 2015 - 15:14:28 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (360 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Amnesty International on Friday accused the African Union Peace and Security Council of standing in the way of Justice in South Sudan, having failed to make public the report of the Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan
©- - 30 january 2015 - 14:43:33 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (491 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 349
©- - 30 january 2015 - 11:12:42 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (140 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 24
©- - 30 january 2015 - 10:20:08 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (98 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian President Béji Caïd Essebsi will attend the 24th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union to be held 30-31 January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Office of the Presidency announced here Thursday
©- - 29 january 2015 - 17:12:03 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (148 words)


Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola will be represented at the 24th Summit of African Heads of States and Government, scheduled to run from 30 to 31 January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by its vice-president, Manuel Domingos Vicente, who is expected in the Ethiopian Capital Thursday
©- - 29 january 2015 - 13:31:12 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (120 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, due in Addis Ababa shortly, will participate in the 24th summit of African Union (AU) heads of State and government, opening there Friday, the Congolese public radio reported here
©- - 29 january 2015 - 13:23:32 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (131 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - African States should include a provision in their national legislation that all men, women and children have the right to a nationality, as a fundamental prerequisite for the enjoyment and exercise of the human rights recognized by the African Charter and the other African human rights treaties that they have ratified, a new human rights report has urged
©- - 29 january 2015 - 13:15:02 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (835 words)


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


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©- - 29 january 2015 - 11:24:27 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (109 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritania Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 351
©- - 29 january 2015 - 11:22:21 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (130 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is expected to play a key role at the 24th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) which gets underway in Addis Ababa on Thursday
©- - 29 january 2015 - 10:32:17 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (240 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Youth and Sports Minister Yogida Sawmynaden Thursday launched a research report on "Determinants of Youth Behaviour in Mauritius" in a bid to improve the welfare of the youth population in the island, PANA reported from here
©- - 29 january 2015 - 09:54:11 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (333 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As civil society organizations express concern over fulfillment of pledges, the African Umiom (AU) Wednesday said situations in the three Ebola affected countries were improving
©- - 28 january 2015 - 17:05:35 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (518 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian Ouguiya has shown a slight decline against major currencies (Euro, US dollar and Franc CFA), according to Wednesday's foreign exchange rates released by the Mauritanian Central Bank
©- - 28 january 2015 - 15:42:12 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (162 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and current Chair of the East African Standby Force, has informed the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr
©- - 28 january 2015 - 10:30:21 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (292 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 24
©- - 28 january 2015 - 09:09:41 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (109 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The National Forum for Democracy and Unity (FNDU), a coalition of several Mauritanian opposition parties, trade unions, civil society organizations and independent personalities, have accepted an appeal for dialogue by president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, reliable sources told PANA on Tuesday
©- - 27 january 2015 - 21:13:14 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (166 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The newly-elected Mauritian President, Rajkeswur Purryag, Tuesday presented a five-year (2015-2019) programme of his new administration, set up a month ago following the last general elections held mid-December 2014, PANA reported from the Mauritian capital
©- - 27 january 2015 - 13:33:04 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (308 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 351
©- - 27 january 2015 - 11:43:24 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (130 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Buying Australian Dollar 24
©- - 27 january 2015 - 09:41:53 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (109 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Kevin Parker, Senator of Brooklyn, State of New York, who is visiting Nouakchott, on Monday called for the consolidation of ties between the United States and Mauritania at all levels
©- - 26 january 2015 - 20:34:10 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (240 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - External debts of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the three West African countries which endured dramatic suffering as a result of the Ebola Virus Disease -- should be written off, UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes, said Monday
©- - 26 january 2015 - 18:41:46 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (323 words)


Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Greenpeace, an independent global campaigning organisation acting to protect and conserve the environment, on Monday urged African leaders to adopt emergency and concrete measures for greater transparency aimed at elimination of illegal maritime fishing
©- - 26 january 2015 - 17:53:10 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (220 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Central Bank of Mauritania (BCM) issued the following Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Ouguiya: Currencies Buying Selling 1 Euro 363
©- - 26 january 2015 - 16:01:18 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (135 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - After completing its work on Agenda 2063 flagship integration projects, the African Union Commission (AUC) is preparing the first 10-year plan for a concerted shift towards focusing on implementation of this continental vision, the Commission's Chairperson, Dr
©- - 26 january 2015 - 13:56:26 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (610 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The NEPAD Agency of the African Union (AU) has said it is placing emphasis on mobilising African countries to put in place conducive and enabling environment for conducting clinical trials to test the candidate vaccines and other therapies against the Ebola virus
©- - 26 january 2015 - 12:08:45 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (483 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 24
©- - 26 january 2015 - 09:41:30 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (109 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth has expressed the deepest condolences of the government and people of Mauritius to Saudi Arabia following the demise of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, PANA reported on Sunday
©- - 25 january 2015 - 15:28:17 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (134 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has extended condolences to the bereaved family of Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the King of Saudi Arabia, the government and people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
©- - 25 january 2015 - 10:26:13 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (202 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Edgar Lungu on Sunday took the oath of office as President of Zambia in Lusaka becoming Zambia’s sixth head of state following his victory in Tuesday’s by-election
©- - 25 january 2015 - 10:24:31 - thread الإتحاد الإفريقي (308 words)