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Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The leader of the Mauritanian junta, General Moh amed Ould Abdel Aziz, is still keeping mum on his possible candidacy in the president ial elections to be held 6 June 2009
©- - 11 february 2009 - 14:38:00 - thread African Union (183 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Four countries - Libya, Qatar, France and Spain - have evolved an ambitious plan to end the political crisis in Mauritania, caused by the 6 Aug
©- - 10 february 2009 - 12:30:00 - thread African Union (199 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A referendum on some amendments to the Mauritanian constitution has been slated for 20 June 2009, according to a statement from the Mauritanian home ministry
©- - 09 february 2009 - 08:58:00 - thread African Union (218 words)


Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Guinea-Bissau's Head of State, Joao Bernado Vieira, has endorsed Guinea's ruling military junta, following a two-day private visit to Guinea
©- - 08 february 2009 - 17:14:00 - thread African Union (228 words)


Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Sale of new vehicles in Gabon inched up by 3% in 2008 to 5,015 from 4,857 in 2007, according to figures published by Gabonese car dealers, Union of Automobile Representatives (URAI) on Friday
©- - 06 february 2009 - 23:10:00 - thread African Union (215 words)


Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) Chairman Maummar Kadhafi h as vowed to push for a permanent seat for the Union within the United Nations Se c urity Council during his year-long tenure at the helm of the organisation
©- - 06 february 2009 - 15:45:00 - thread African Union (493 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Central Bank of Mauritius on Friday morning published the latest exchange rates of the local rupee against some foreign currencies
©- - 06 february 2009 - 11:02:00 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius and South African on Thursday signed an agreement on economic cooperation in Cape Town, South Africa, an offic ial communiqué in Port-Louis said
©- - 05 february 2009 - 23:34:00 - thread African Union (99 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius and South Africa Thursday signed a Mem orandum of Understanding (MoU) on economic cooperation, PANA learnt from officia l sources here
©- - 05 february 2009 - 15:26:00 - thread African Union (253 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Central Bank of Mauritius Thursday issued the exchange rates for the local rupee against some foreign currencies
©- - 05 february 2009 - 10:01:00 - thread African Union (116 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Central Bank of Mauritius on Wednesday issued the latest exchange rates for the local rupee against some major foreign currencies
©- - 04 february 2009 - 12:09:00 - thread African Union (119 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania's opposition United Democratic Forces (RFD) has called on all stakeholders to engage in a dialogue aimed at ending the country's political crisis, triggered by last year's military coup
©- - 04 february 2009 - 07:40:00 - thread African Union (134 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius(PANA) -- Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam left here on Monday for Washington DC, where he will attend the National Prayer Breakfast from Wednesday to Friday
©- - 02 february 2009 - 12:11:00 - thread African Union (99 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius(PANA) -- The Central Bank of Mauritius on Monday issued the latest exchange rate for the local rupee against some foreign currencies
©- - 02 february 2009 - 11:34:00 - thread African Union (113 words)


Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Bafata FC of Guinea Bissau has withdrawn from the 2009 CAF Champions League match with Club Africain of Tunisia, according to African soccer's governing body CAF
©- - 01 february 2009 - 15:05:00 - thread African Union (75 words)


Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Australia has donated humanitarian assistance worth US$2 million to mitigate the current food crisis facing Kenya, the Kenyan government said in a statement here
©- - 01 february 2009 - 10:27:00 - thread African Union (208 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian presidential election, schedule d for 6 June 2009, as well as plans by the overthrown President Mohamed Ould Che i kh Abdallahi's to break the political deadlock hit the headlines of the country' s main media
©- - 31 january 2009 - 16:15:00 - thread African Union (250 words)


Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir on Friday reasserted the commitment of his country to the immediate setting up of an African federal government
©- - 30 january 2009 - 23:25:00 - thread African Union (104 words)


Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) foreign ministers on Friday received the Commission's analysis report in Addis Ababa, which outlined three different patterns for the setting up of a continental government, the Senegalese Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told PANA
©- - 30 january 2009 - 23:20:00 - thread African Union (410 words)


Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Forum of the kings, sultans, princes, sheiks and African traditional chiefs have urged African leaders who meet from Sunday in Addis Ababa, to proclaim a federal government for the continent
©- - 30 january 2009 - 21:19:00 - thread African Union (228 words)


New York- US (PANA) – Guinea Bissau faces destabil-ization without the willingness of top leaders the country to work together, according to an International Crisis Group report
©- - 30 january 2009 - 20:46:00 - thread African Union (226 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) – Deputy Prime Minist-er Rashid Beebeejaun will lead the Mauritian delegation to the 12th African Union (AU) Summit due in Addis Aba b a, Ethiopia, 1-3 February, PANA learnt here Friday
©- - 30 january 2009 - 15:48:00 - thread African Union (182 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Ten Mauritanian political parties Wednesday held a meeting in the capital Nouakchott, at the instance of the Alternative Party, t he main party supporting the 6 August 2008 military coup in the country, as part of an effort to establish a permanent framework for dialogue, PANA was told
©- - 29 january 2009 - 14:09:00 - thread African Union (208 words)


Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The aeronautics sector in Morocco, which is made up of a bout 50 companies employing more than 2,000 workers, intends to triple its turno v er to one billion euros by 2012, authoritative sources told PANA here
©- - 28 january 2009 - 14:42:00 - thread African Union (171 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A Court in Nouakchott, Mauritania's capital, has ordered that nine suspected members of a drug trafficking network, who were arrested 10 days ago, be remanded in prison custody, pending their trial, judicial sources told PANA here Wednesday
©- - 28 january 2009 - 12:44:00 - thread African Union (122 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The National Front for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD), an alliance of 13 political parties opposed to the 6 August 2008 coup in Mauritania, has rejected the plan to hold presidential election in the country on 6 June
©- - 27 january 2009 - 14:35:00 - thread African Union (114 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian football champion Curepipe Starlight fc is preparing for the next African champions league by recruiting two new Nigerian players
©- - 26 january 2009 - 13:01:00 - thread African Union (99 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) – Dozens of senior members of the pro--junta Maurit anian Party of Union for Change (HATEM) have resigned citing a failed leadership of the party
©- - 25 january 2009 - 13:21:00 - thread African Union (162 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)- – Mauritania will hold presidential elections 6 Ju ne 2009, the military junta announced on Friday
©- - 23 january 2009 - 22:53:00 - thread African Union (99 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian National Assembly Speaker, Messaoud Ould Belkheir, Thursday expressed his "determination to thwart the country's rul i ng military junta led by Gen
©- - 23 january 2009 - 18:05:00 - thread African Union (151 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Central Bank of Mauritius Friday published th e day's exchange rates of some foreign currencies against the local rupee
©- - 23 january 2009 - 14:08:00 - thread African Union (114 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- One of Mauritania's political parties, the Alternative Party, has nominated its president, Mohamed Yehdi Ould Moctar Hacen, as its flag bearer in the 30 May 2009 presidential election in the country, the party said in a statement here Thursday
©- - 22 january 2009 - 13:26:00 - thread African Union (97 words)


Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Malian press Wednesday devoted most of their pages to Tuesday's investiture in Washington, of the 44th President of the United States o f America, the Afro-American, Barack Hussein Obama
©- - 21 january 2009 - 18:42:00 - thread African Union (480 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The 10th edition of the mini-marathon aimed at p romoting friendship between European and Mauritanian runners, organised by the l o cal Athletics Federation, will be held here 13 March, sports sources told PANA W e dnesday
©- - 21 january 2009 - 15:54:00 - thread African Union (115 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Frenchman Marc Collat has been appointed National Technical Director (NTD) for Mauritian football teams, sports sources told PANA here
©- - 21 january 2009 - 08:03:00 - thread African Union (71 words)


Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- President of Guinea Bissau Joao Bernardo "Nino" V ieira Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the Amilcar Cabral statute, saying a t the ceremony that the nation would for ever remember its founding father
©- - 20 january 2009 - 19:57:00 - thread African Union (110 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian Senate will reconvene in May with ab out a third of its 53 members, PANA learnt here on Tuesday from parliamentary so u rces
©- - 20 january 2009 - 14:27:00 - thread African Union (74 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates of the Mauritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as published here Tuesday
©- - 20 january 2009 - 11:10:00 - thread African Union (110 words)


Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Chiefs of Defence Staff (CDS) from five ECOWAS member states have arrived in Bissau, capital of Guinea Bissau, on a joint ECOWAS/African Union/UN mission to assess Guinea Bissau's requirements for its security sector reforms, PANA reported Tuesday
©- - 20 january 2009 - 09:54:00 - thread African Union (348 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian national football premier league will kick off 30 January with 12 teams, PANA reported Monday
©- - 19 january 2009 - 13:42:00 - thread African Union (75 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian political circle and civil society f avourably welcome the government decision Saturday to suspend diplomatic relatio n s with Israel in protest against the current situation in Gaza Strip
©- - 17 january 2009 - 15:09:00 - thread African Union (238 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Papers in Mauritania this week devoted most of t heir comments to the political future of the country after the adoption by Parli a ment of a road map setting the date of the presidential election at 30 May
©- - 17 january 2009 - 14:11:00 - thread African Union (324 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian government has suspended diploma tic relations with Israel following the bloody offensive launched against Palest i nians in the Gaza Strip, official sources in Nouakchott revealed
©- - 16 january 2009 - 23:40:00 - thread African Union (143 words)


Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The International Finance Corporation, the private s ector funding arm of the World Bank, has announced that it will invest in projec t s in Mozambique being run by the Australian mining company Baobab Resources
©- - 16 january 2009 - 22:25:00 - thread African Union (155 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- President of the High Council of State (HCE), th e leading authority of Mauritania since the putsch of 6 August, 2008, General Mo h amed Ould Abdel Aziz, left Nouakchott Thursday morning for Doha, capital of Qata r , PANA learnt from official sources
©- - 15 january 2009 - 18:12:00 - thread African Union (150 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania(PANA) -- Many disabled persons Wednesday took part in demo nstrations and sit-in in front of the UN representative office here, protesting a gainst the Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip
©- - 14 january 2009 - 19:53:00 - thread African Union (79 words)