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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union leaders ended their 26th Ordinary Session here Sunday agreeing to hold an emergency Summit on Migration because they could not remain unmoved by the plight of the African youth, many of whom have fallen victims of boat tragedies in attempts to cross the Mediterranean to Europe
©- - 31 january 2016 - 15:14:32 - thread African Union (466 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -The African Union (AU) has approved a stabilization mission to protect civilians, human rights workers and disarm militias in Burundi, but the crisis-hit country immediately rejected an AU Summit declaration on sending a high-level delegation to negotiate for Bujumbura’s consent
©- - 31 january 2016 - 14:38:11 - thread African Union (602 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Musical piracy, whereby unscrupulous vendors copy the works of local artists and sell them to the public at large, dominated the media headlines this week in Mauritius
©- - 30 january 2016 - 15:29:41 - thread African Union (518 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - In his farewell speech at the African Union Simmit here on Saturday, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe vowed to stay on as President “until God says come”, electrifying the usually-dull moments at the Summit, which premiered a new style of conducting its affairs
©- - 30 january 2016 - 14:19:36 - thread African Union (562 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African leaders gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, late Friday to discuss a plan to stop the spread of terrorism with a call to all states to volunteer resources to combat the spread of the Boko Haram across the Lake Chad Basin and the Al Shabaab in East Africa
©- - 30 january 2016 - 07:10:17 - thread African Union (499 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has approved a US$446 million budget for 2016, slightly higher than the US$416 million budget for 2015, PANA reported Friday
©- - 29 january 2016 - 15:15:40 - thread African Union (447 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -The African Union (AU) has sounded a warning to Burundi, which insists it would accept talks with rival political camps, but would not accept the deployment of foreign troops on its soil to protect key state officials and stop the killing of political opponents
©- - 29 january 2016 - 10:42:40 - thread African Union (513 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Health and Quality of Life Ministry will be conducting a Global Youth Tobacco Survey among students aged 13 to 15 years old to develop appropriate health strategies for this particular age group to reduce any risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
©- - 29 january 2016 - 10:04:24 - thread African Union (257 words)


Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi is due in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Friday to attend the 26th ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union to be held over the weekend
©- - 28 january 2016 - 19:11:58 - thread African Union (119 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu left Lusaka Thursday for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend the 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU)
©- - 28 january 2016 - 18:23:36 - thread African Union (217 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African foreign ministers on Thursday elected new members of the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) bringing on board Congo Republic, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia to hold seats on the 15-member Council for three years, PANA reported Thursday
©- - 28 january 2016 - 18:03:35 - thread African Union (296 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee
©- - 28 january 2016 - 08:52:14 - thread African Union (115 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) called for the formation of a unity government for South Sudan at the start of a ministerial meeting on Wednesday to fine-tune an agenda for the African leaders meeting this week in Ethiopia, PANA reported
©- - 27 january 2016 - 22:26:07 - thread African Union (289 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A “silent financial crisis” is sweeping across Africa, ignited by sluggish prices of major exports and an increment in the amount of foreign debt owed by African countries due to the rapid weakening of national currencies, according to the African Union (AU) Commission
©- - 27 january 2016 - 17:36:22 - thread African Union (432 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Here are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currencies Buying Selling Australian 


Dollar             24
©- - 27 january 2016 - 13:46:53 - thread African Union (115 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Foreign ministers forming the Executive Council of the African Union met on Wednesday to prepare the main agenda of the AU Summit at a ministerial meeting dominated by the need to address conflicts which have made Africa unattractive for foreign investments
©- - 27 january 2016 - 10:56:51 - thread African Union (564 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Attorney-General Ravi Yerrigadoo on Tuesday said despite the new emerging challenges and the increasing difficulties that police officers have to encounter in upholding law and order, "time has come where they need to acquire new skills and knowledge in order to be able to perform efficiently while respecting human rights"
©- - 26 january 2016 - 11:48:26 - thread African Union (370 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Speaker of the Mauritius National Assembly, Mrs Santi Bai Hanoomanjee, says the proposed setting up of a Parliamentary Gender Caucus in Mauritius is a strong signal of Government’s political will for women’s empowerment and gender equality agenda at the highest level of decision-making
©- - 25 january 2016 - 13:30:24 - thread African Union (345 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee
©- - 25 january 2016 - 09:16:38 - thread African Union (115 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Friday’s exchange rates for the Rupee as announced by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 22 january 2016 - 10:02:18 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee
©- - 21 january 2016 - 08:25:34 - thread African Union (115 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee as announced by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius
©- - 19 january 2016 - 09:12:51 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee
©- - 18 january 2016 - 08:56:44 - thread African Union (115 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan military has mounted a major military offensive against the Al Shabaab in the Gedo region of Somalia in an effort to rescue and recover the bodies of an undisclosed number of soldiers killed during Friday’s attack at the El-Adde military base in Somalia, a top Kenyan army General said Sunday
©- - 17 january 2016 - 16:39:05 - thread African Union (427 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari, will Sunday begin a three-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to a press statement from his Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu
©- - 17 january 2016 - 08:04:32 - thread African Union (321 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The appeal case involving Pravind Jugnauth, son of the Mauritian Prime Minister, Sir Anerood Jugnauth, who was jailed one year by an Intermediate Court here on 11 July, 2015, after he was found guilty of conflict of interest in the purchase by the State of a private hospital in which his sister was a shareholder, dominated headlines this week in Mauritius
©- - 16 january 2016 - 15:32:17 - thread African Union (545 words)


Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Members of the Sudanese National Dialogue Conference (NDC) committee on administration, representing Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, have demanded an autonomous rule within a united Sudan
©- - 16 january 2016 - 11:56:34 - thread African Union (617 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the terrorist attack perpetrated by Al Shabaab on Friday against an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base in the town of El Adde, Gedo region in Somalia
©- - 15 january 2016 - 19:33:18 - thread African Union (201 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee
©- - 14 january 2016 - 08:50:54 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) — Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Mahen Seeruttun on Tuesday launched a non-sugar strategic plan to boost the agricultural sector and reduce imports of basic foodstuffs in the island
©- - 13 january 2016 - 17:51:24 - thread African Union (331 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) — Mauritian Health Minister Anil Gayan on Tuesday said that for the first time in 30 years, the prevalence of diabetes has stabilised in Mauritius with figures standing at 22
©- - 13 january 2016 - 12:47:02 - thread African Union (360 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Mauritanian government has "strongly" condemned the terrorist attack perpetrated on Tuesday in the Turkish city of Istanbul
©- - 13 january 2016 - 11:05:04 - thread African Union (74 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee
©- - 13 january 2016 - 08:35:04 - thread African Union (115 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee
©- - 12 january 2016 - 08:39:54 - thread African Union (115 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - After Ugandan Minister of Defence Crispus Kiyonga stressed that there is goodwill in Burundi to accept the deployment of African Union (AU) peacekeepers, Burundian authorities have now the biggest interest in welcoming the 5,000 strong force as the only effective solution toward lasting peace in the tiny East African nation, analysts say
©- - 11 january 2016 - 11:07:54 - thread African Union (728 words)