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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                    Buying  Selling

Australian Dollar      31

©- - 06 july 2021 - 09:31:01 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade Minister, Mr Alan Ganoo, on Monday said it is important to revise the country's Africa strategy so that it contributes to swift economic recovery

©- - 06 july 2021 - 05:57:48 - thread African Union (416 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                  Buying    Selling

Australian Dollar    31

©- - 05 july 2021 - 09:30:48 - thread African Union (116 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Friday led foreign heads of state and other dignitaries in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, in paying their last respects to the nation's founding father and first President Kenneth Kaunda who died on 17 June

©- - 02 july 2021 - 13:38:43 - thread African Union (629 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                   Buying   Selling

Australian Dollar    30

©- - 02 july 2021 - 10:02:22 - thread African Union (115 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Parliamentarians on Thursday passed the Mauritius Emerging Technologies Council law which is to provide for the establishment of the Mauritius Emerging Technologies Council and to promote high quality research in emerging technologies

©- - 02 july 2021 - 08:13:38 - thread African Union (356 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities said on Friday that they have detected a total of 29 new cases of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours

©- - 02 july 2021 - 07:34:56 - thread African Union (146 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius on Thursday ratified the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Violence and Harassment Convention No 190 and its accompanying Violence and Harassment Recommendation No 206, thereby becoming the first country in the Indian Ocean and the third in Africa to ratify the labour standard developed by the ILO on violence and harassment in the world of work

©- - 02 july 2021 - 07:31:54 - thread African Union (424 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                    Buying  Selling

Australian Dollar      31

©- - 01 july 2021 - 10:55:58 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has received US$4 million from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), under the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for the funding of a project to safeguard globally significant biodiversity in vulnerable ecosystems, through the prevention, control, and management of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) which is of a devastating nature in the country

©- - 01 july 2021 - 08:37:32 - thread African Union (388 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius said on Wednesday that crime rate (excluding contraventions) per 1,000 population, increased from 35

©- - 01 july 2021 - 07:21:08 - thread African Union (228 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                    Buying  Selling

Australian Dollar      31

©- - 30 june 2021 - 08:26:51 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                     Buying    Selling

Australian Dollar       31

©- - 29 june 2021 - 09:11:07 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                   Buying  Selling

Australian Dollar     30

©- - 28 june 2021 - 09:22:58 - thread African Union (117 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaru Sissoco Embalo, on Friday began his second visit to Mali since the 18 August 2020 the coup that ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

©- - 26 june 2021 - 11:59:15 - thread African Union (145 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian commercial bank:

Currency                   Buying    Selling

Australian Dollar     30

©- - 25 june 2021 - 10:40:36 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius will begin to recover in 2021, with its economic growth forecast at about 5 percent, while tourism flows are expected to slowly resume in the second half of the year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

©- - 25 june 2021 - 10:18:22 - thread African Union (595 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Thursday announced that restrictions imposed in March 2021 because of the second wave of the Covid-19 in the island will be eased from 1 July

©- - 25 june 2021 - 08:23:36 - thread African Union (412 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Election Observation Mission to Ethiopia's General Elections on 21 June, 2021 has concluded that the vote was conducted in an "orderly, peaceful and credible manner"

©- - 24 june 2021 - 09:21:49 - thread African Union (433 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian health authorities said on Wednesday that eight new positive cases of COVID-19  were detected out of 2,416 PCR tests carried out on Tuesday

©- - 23 june 2021 - 09:01:28 - thread African Union (238 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                   Buying   Selling

Australian Dollar      30

©- - 23 june 2021 - 08:50:56 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The first Mauritian nanosatellite, Mauritius Imagery and Radiocommunications Satellite -1 (MIR-SAT1), was launched into low orbit on Tuesday from the International Space Station (ISS), Kennedy Space Centre in the United States

©- - 23 june 2021 - 07:40:12 - thread African Union (264 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Minister of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change, Mr Kavydass Ramano, on Monday announced the introduction of new fixed penalties for littering and illegal dumping

©- - 22 june 2021 - 07:48:19 - thread African Union (260 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                          Buying    Selling

Australian Dollar             29

©- - 21 june 2021 - 09:35:22 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities said on Monday that 12 new cases of COVID-19 were detected on Sunday bringing the number of people who have contracted the disease since the second wave hit the country on 5 March to 1,147

©- - 21 june 2021 - 07:00:23 - thread African Union (264 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The government of Mauritius has announced several measures to prevent the entry of the African Horse Sickness following its outbreak in South Africa

©- - 20 june 2021 - 11:10:14 - thread African Union (137 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Messages of tribute are been sent in as world leaders mourn Zambia’s founding President Kenneth Kaunda, also popularly known as KK, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 97

©- - 18 june 2021 - 14:46:48 - thread African Union (920 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius on Thursday launched the Partnership for Action on Green Recovery Fund project (PAGE) and the National Food System Dialogue

©- - 18 june 2021 - 07:01:08 - thread African Union (280 words)


 

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s main opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) and its alliance partners has announced the suspension of all campaign activities ahead of the 12 August elections following the death on Thursday of the country’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda

©- - 17 june 2021 - 16:01:25 - thread African Union (443 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities announced on Thursday that 16 new cases of Covid-19 were detected on Wednesday in the island bringing to 1,098 the number of cases since the second wave began on 5 March, 2021

©- - 17 june 2021 - 06:27:27 - thread African Union (171 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan expressed to his Libyan counterpart Najla al-Mangouch the Kingdom's support for any national initiative that will contribute to establishing security and stability in Libya

©- - 16 june 2021 - 11:19:41 - thread African Union (298 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                      Buying    Selling

Australian Dollar        30

©- - 16 june 2021 - 09:24:44 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Tuesday said that a total of 2,224 expatriates, comprising of 2,126 males and 98 females have been reported missing in the country

©- - 16 june 2021 - 06:47:03 - thread African Union (238 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - World Bank President David Malpass and senior managers, including Axel van Trotsenburg and Makhtar Diop, met with the African Union’s COVID-19 Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) to discuss a partnership to accelerate vaccine deployment to Africa, the UN Economic Commission for Africa said on Tuesday

©- - 15 june 2021 - 16:18:58 - thread African Union (610 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The African Union and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have wished Zambia’s first  president Kenneth Kaunda well following his hospitalization at the military Maina Soko Medical Centre in Lusaka

©- - 15 june 2021 - 14:33:32 - thread African Union (214 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                        Buying    Selling

Australian Dollar          30

©- - 15 june 2021 - 10:48:55 - thread African Union (116 words)


Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) of the G7 member countries have for the first time come together to make a collective partnership commitment to the African continent, the African Development Bank (AfDB) announced on Monday

©- - 14 june 2021 - 13:15:11 - thread African Union (1074 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank:

Currency                          Buying    Selling

Australian Dollar            30

©- - 14 june 2021 - 08:56:54 - thread African Union (116 words)