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Munyonyo- Uganda (PANA) -- Bracing to overcome its underdevelopment, Africa on Sa turday launched a multi billion-dollar programme for infrastructure development j ointly sponsored by the African Union Commission (AUC), the New Partnership for A frica's Development (NEPAD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) while Africa n heads of state are the programme's key stakeholders
©- - 24 july 2010 - 15:02:00 - thread African Union (442 words)


Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's President John Evans Atta Mills left Accra on Satu rday for Kampala to attend the 15th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads o f State and Government of the African Union (AU), which would be held in the Ugan d an capital between 25 and 27 July
©- - 24 july 2010 - 12:50:00 - thread African Union (129 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- African leaders kicked off debate on Saturday on role o f the New Partnership for Africaâ?s Development (NEPAD) in ensuring the economic success of the continent
©- - 24 july 2010 - 11:08:00 - thread African Union (596 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- African Union Commission President Jean Ping said Friday a formal request had been sent to South African President Jacob Zuma for the deployment of peacekeeping troops to Somalia, the growing hotbed of terrorist cells in East Africa
©- - 23 july 2010 - 18:27:00 - thread African Union (449 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- As pressure mounts on African leaders to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the arrest of the Sudanese President Omer El Bashir on genocide charges,the leaders are expected to review their stand on the issue at their summit in Kampala, Uganda, this weekend
©- - 23 july 2010 - 17:54:00 - thread African Union (370 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- As pressure mounts on African leaders to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the arrest of the Sudanese President Omer El Bashir on genocide charges, the leaders are expected to review their stand on the issue at their summit in Kampa l a, Uganda, this weekend
©- - 23 july 2010 - 17:51:00 - thread African Union (372 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian army Thursday attacked a base of the Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), located in the south-east of the country, killing six terrorists, the Minister of Interior and acting Minister of Defence, Mohamed Ould Boilil, said here Friday
©- - 23 july 2010 - 15:47:00 - thread African Union (112 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- As pressure mounts on African leaders to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the arrest of the Sudanese President Omer El Bashir on genocide charges, the leaders are expected to review their stand on the issue at their summit in Kampa l a, Uganda, this weekend
©- - 23 july 2010 - 15:17:00 - thread African Union (372 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- As pressure mounts on African leaders to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the arrest of the Sudanese President Omer El Bashir on genocide charges, the leaders are expected to review their stand on the issue at their summit in Kampala, Uganda, this weekend
©- - 23 july 2010 - 15:12:00 - thread African Union (365 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- As pressure mounts on African leaders to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC)on the arrest of the Sudanese President Omer El Bashir on genocide charges, the leaders are expected to review their stand on the issue at their summit in Kampala, Uganda, this weekend
©- - 23 july 2010 - 13:47:00 - thread African Union (361 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Six African leaders were due here Friday for a series of talks leading up to the African Union Summit, just days after a devastating terrorist attack at the heart of the capital, Kampala, killed 76 people and wounded scores of others
©- - 23 july 2010 - 13:24:00 - thread African Union (412 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- African Union Commission President Jean Ping said Frida y a formal request had been sent to South African President Jacob Zuma for the deployment of peacekeeping troops to Somalia, the g rowing hotbed of terrorist cells in East Africa
©- - 23 july 2010 - 12:52:00 - thread African Union (453 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Six African leaders were due here Friday for a series of talks leading up to the African Union Summit, just days after a devastating terrorist attack at the heart of the capital, Kampala, killed 76 people and wounded scores of others
©- - 23 july 2010 - 07:50:00 - thread African Union (412 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Kampala, the Ugandan capital city, is bedecked with national colours to host the 15th Summit of African Heads of State and Government, scheduled for 25-27 July
©- - 22 july 2010 - 17:24:00 - thread African Union (176 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A Malian citizen found guilty of terrorism by the Criminal Court in Nouakchott, Mauritania, was Wednesday sentenced to 12 year s' imprisonment
©- - 22 july 2010 - 12:30:00 - thread African Union (97 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, according to the Mauritius Commercial Bank Thursday
©- - 22 july 2010 - 11:56:00 - thread African Union (111 words)


Munyonyo- Uganda (PANA) -- Uganda Thursday called on African Union (AU) member st ates and the international community in general to marshal collective action against perpetrators of international lawlessness, as the East African country mourns the loss of lives and damage of property caused b y terrorist attacks on 11 July 2010
©- - 22 july 2010 - 11:23:00 - thread African Union (278 words)


Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea-Bissau's army chief of staff, General Anto nio Indjai, on Tuesday warned that any solder who would refuse to bow to politic a l power would be excluded from the armed forces
©- - 21 july 2010 - 20:58:00 - thread African Union (186 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- No fewer than 300,000 people living in desert re gions of central-eastern and south-eastern Mauritania are being threatened by fa m ine, according the UN office for Humanitarian Action
©- - 21 july 2010 - 18:48:00 - thread African Union (96 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) is facing a strong opposition ahead of a special Peace and Security Council (PSC) meeting here Wednesday to renew the mandate of the UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)
©- - 21 july 2010 - 09:05:00 - thread African Union (465 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, as published Tuesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 20 july 2010 - 12:18:00 - thread African Union (114 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The trial of the 12 hostage takers, accused of kidnapping three Spaniards, opens Tuesday before the constitutional court of Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital
©- - 19 july 2010 - 19:46:00 - thread African Union (86 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as published here Monday by the Mauritian Commercial Bank
©- - 19 july 2010 - 11:19:00 - thread African Union (114 words)


Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union Commission President Jean Ping has rejected fresh genocide charges against Sudanese President Omer al Bashir, s a ying they were counterproductive and a set-back to peace efforts in the country
©- - 17 july 2010 - 14:59:00 - thread African Union (574 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Heavy rains that fell Thursday and Friday in the village of Oulou M'boni, Guidimakha region, East-South of Mauritania, 600 kilom e tres from Nouakchott, causing floods and huge material damage, rendered 147 fami l ies homeless, state-owned press agency, AMI disclosed
©- - 17 july 2010 - 14:41:00 - thread African Union (136 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Two persons died this week of H1N1 flu in Mauriti us and more than a hundred are infected, Health Minister Maya Hanoomanjee said h e re Friday
©- - 17 july 2010 - 12:04:00 - thread African Union (109 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Arts and Culture Minister Mukeshwar Choonee, will introduce a bill to the National Parliament on Tuesday, seeking to promote four foreign languages -- Arabic, Bhojpuri, Mandarin and Sanskrit, a PANA correspondent reported from here
©- - 16 july 2010 - 16:09:00 - thread African Union (144 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Euro and the British Pound appreciated against t he Mauritian rupee while the US Dollar depreciated against the local currency, a c cording to the latest exchange rates published here on Friday by the Mauritian c o mmercial bank
©- - 16 july 2010 - 12:46:00 - thread African Union (145 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Central Statistics Office (CSO) in Mauritius announced Thursday that the inflation rate in the country for financial year 200 9 /2010 reached 1
©- - 15 july 2010 - 14:38:00 - thread African Union (185 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Euro and the British Pound appreciated agains t the Rupee while the US Dollar stabilized against the Mauritian currency, according to the latest exchange rates published here Thursday by the Mauritian commercial bank
©- - 15 july 2010 - 12:08:00 - thread African Union (141 words)


Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- The first local government elections in Guinea Bi ssau will be held in November or December, Minister of Territorial Administratio n Luis Oliveira Sanca, announced here Tuesday
©- - 14 july 2010 - 17:49:00 - thread African Union (100 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi and President of Guinea B issau, Malam Bacai Sanha, met Wednesday in Tripoli to discuss ways to consolidat e progress made by the African Union (AU) and the Community of Sahel-Saharan Stat e s (CEN-SAD), PANA learnt from official sources
©- - 14 july 2010 - 17:47:00 - thread African Union (184 words)


Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- World-class Mauritian sprinter, Stephan Buckland, on Wednesday ended his athletics career spanning over 10 years, PANA reported f r om here
©- - 14 july 2010 - 15:24:00 - thread African Union (103 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian Ministry of Mines and Industry has o rdered the closure of eight mineral water producing factories, directing them to comply with health standards, sources told PANA here Tuesday
©- - 13 july 2010 - 16:40:00 - thread African Union (88 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Health and Quality of Life Minister May a Hanoomanjee, briefed Parliament Tuesday of an on-going plan to keep the A H1N1 virus under control in the island, PANA reported from here
©- - 13 july 2010 - 15:25:00 - thread African Union (257 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, according to the exchange rates issued Tuesday morning by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 13 july 2010 - 10:46:00 - thread African Union (121 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan revolutionary leader Mouammar Kadhafi held talks on Monday in Tripoli with the Malian president, Amadou Toumani Toure, on prepara t ions for the summit of the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) in Ndjam e na, Chad, and the African Union (AU) summit in Kampala, Uganda, this month
©- - 12 july 2010 - 20:56:00 - thread African Union (128 words)


Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union vowed Monday to push for stiffe r measures to fight terrorism worldwide after Sundayâ?s World Cup-related bombin g which killed 64 people in Kampala, the Ugandan capital
©- - 12 july 2010 - 18:53:00 - thread African Union (292 words)


Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius has registered 124 cases of Influenza A (H1N1) since the beginning of the year, Health Minister Maya Hanoomanjee said Monday in Port Louis
©- - 12 july 2010 - 16:42:00 - thread African Union (73 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, according to the Commercial Bank of Mauritius on Monday
©- - 12 july 2010 - 10:21:00 - thread African Union (117 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam will, du ring the next session of the Parliament scheduled for Tuesday, respond to questi o ns bothering on drugs and religion, PANA reported from here Sunday
©- - 11 july 2010 - 08:32:00 - thread African Union (121 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian National Assembly on Wednesday adopted a new anti-terrorism law
©- - 08 july 2010 - 15:18:00 - thread African Union (215 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Coordination of the Democratic Opposition (DOC), which consists of a dozen Mauritanian political parties, has denounced the "interference" by France in the African nation's affairs and demanded an investigation into the French role in the putsch of August 2009, according to a statement issued here Thursday
©- - 08 july 2010 - 14:48:00 - thread African Union (250 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan leader, Mouamar Kadhafi, chairman of the Arab summit, on Tuesday evening in Tripoli, received a delegation of Algerian ac tivists who came to congratulate him on his accession as chairman of the Arab summit
©- - 07 july 2010 - 22:37:00 - thread African Union (191 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee, according to the Commercial Bank of Mauritius on Wednesday
©- - 07 july 2010 - 12:36:00 - thread African Union (117 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee, as published Tuesday by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 06 july 2010 - 11:17:00 - thread African Union (116 words)


Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The African Union human rights body, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, has ordered the Nigerian government to stay impending execution of more than 800 prisoners on death row in prisons across the country, pending the determination of a petition brought by the NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)
©- - 06 july 2010 - 07:36:00 - thread African Union (186 words)


Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- In a bid to recapture lost positions to Islamist militants, Uganda on Thursday lost two soldiers serving as peacekeepers in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, Ugandan military authorities confirmed here on Monday
©- - 05 july 2010 - 17:07:00 - thread African Union (252 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritian telecommunications governing body on M onday announced that telephone numbers in the country would go from seven to eig h t digits as from January 2011
©- - 05 july 2010 - 14:45:00 - thread African Union (78 words)