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Pointe-aux-Piments, Mauritius (PANA) – An international conference on energy, environment and climate change opened on Wednesday in the Mauritian northern island of Pointe-aux-Piments, with the participation of delegates from several German Universities, the islands of Fiji and Mauritius
©- - 08 july 2015 - 22:13:37 - thread African Union (229 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Some 100 people on Wednesday accompanied President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim during a street march in the capital, Port-Louis, to promote renewable energy, PANA reported from here
©- - 08 july 2015 - 10:08:33 - thread African Union (213 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 25
©- - 08 july 2015 - 09:52:57 - thread African Union (110 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 25
©- - 07 july 2015 - 07:59:19 - thread African Union (109 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Air Mauritius’ first flight to Chengdu in China, departed Monday afternoon from the island, making this destination the fourth in China after Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, PANA learnt from official sources here
©- - 06 july 2015 - 15:52:01 - thread African Union (285 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 25
©- - 06 july 2015 - 07:52:17 - thread African Union (109 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius has launched a project to rehabilitate 60 of the 120 caves that exist on the island in a bid to sensitize the population on the need to preserve them for their scientific, utility, educational and cultural values, according to the Environment Ministry in the Mauritian capital, Port Louis
©- - 05 july 2015 - 10:33:44 - thread African Union (161 words)


Réduit, Maurice (PANA) – Mauritian Business and Cooperatives Minister Sunil Bholah on Saturday said that the economic model based on cooperatives is a good democratic means to improve the quality of life of the population
©- - 04 july 2015 - 19:23:32 - thread African Union (269 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius intends to set up soon a poverty observatory under the aegis of the Ministry of Social Integration and Economic Empowerment to act as a repository for information on poverty in the country, a government official here told PANA Friday
©- - 03 july 2015 - 16:43:49 - thread African Union (110 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The following are Friday’s exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya: Currency Buying Selling 1 Euro 359
©- - 03 july 2015 - 11:10:17 - thread African Union (131 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling 
Australian Dollar 25
©- - 03 july 2015 - 07:43:40 - thread African Union (109 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - In the framework of the Pan-African Programme, the African Union Commission (AUC) and the European Union (EU) have signed an agreement for an amount of € 6million to support the strengthening of the AU's election observation capacity, the Commission announced Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
©- - 02 july 2015 - 19:38:26 - thread African Union (297 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Former ICT and Innovation Minister Pravind Jugnauth, who resigned from his post Wednesday after he was found guilty of conflict of interest, was Thursday jailed 12 months, PANA learnt from judicial sources in Port-Louis
©- - 02 july 2015 - 13:53:22 - thread African Union (122 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 25
©- - 02 july 2015 - 07:29:28 - thread African Union (109 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has appointed outgoing Secretary General of the Commission, Ambassador Jean Mfasoni, Special Advisor in her Office as from 1 July 2015, the Chairperson’s Office announced in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday
©- - 01 july 2015 - 20:21:24 - thread African Union (578 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) –The observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a programme jointly implemented by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), Wednesday denounced the temporary detention of two anti-slavery activists in Mauritania
©- - 01 july 2015 - 19:06:21 - thread African Union (243 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Minister of Information and Communication Technology and Innovation (ICT), Pravind Jugnauth, on Wednesday resigned from office after he was found guilty of conflict of interest by a court in Port Louis, PANA learnt from official sources
©- - 01 july 2015 - 15:48:35 - thread African Union (194 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian ICT and Innovation Minister Pravind Jugnauth Wednesday resigned from his post after a court in Port-Louis found him guilty of conflict of interest in the sale of a mediclinic, in which his sister was a shareholder, to the state in 2011
©- - 01 july 2015 - 08:43:50 - thread African Union (194 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 01 july 2015 - 08:26:33 - thread African Union (109 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Conditions are not yet met for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia, according to the Joint AU-UN Mission which has reviewed the benchmarks for deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission and operations of the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)
©- - 30 june 2015 - 20:46:15 - thread African Union (655 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The US embassy in Mauritania has welcomed the release, on medical grounds, of Sow Djibi, the chairman of a civil society organization, arrested in November last year together with the leader of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the abolitionist movement (IRA), Birame Ould Dah Ould Abeid
©- - 30 june 2015 - 14:04:24 - thread African Union (153 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling 
Australian Dollar 25
©- - 30 june 2015 - 08:04:18 - thread African Union (109 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling 
Australian Dollar 25
©- - 29 june 2015 - 08:56:22 - thread African Union (109 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius has decided to accede to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), an international treaty that addresses the humanitarian consequences and unacceptable harm to civilians caused by cluster munitions, through a categorical prohibition and a framework for action
©- - 28 june 2015 - 10:10:03 - thread African Union (135 words)


Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) - Authorities in Seychelles Friday launched an initiative dubbed 'The Shark Fin Soup Project' to raise public awareness on myths and realities of sharks in view of global concerns in recent years about the sustainability of the current exploitation of the carnivorous fish
©- - 26 june 2015 - 18:12:30 - thread African Union (342 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Dozens of African Union (AU) troops were killed Friday in a dawn raid on the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Base situated in Leego town, 130 km south of Mogadishu, when an Al Shabaab terror group attacked the camp using a car bomb, an AU official confirmed
©- - 26 june 2015 - 17:17:08 - thread African Union (386 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The following are the foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius Friday
©- - 26 june 2015 - 11:10:15 - thread African Union (120 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 25 june 2015 - 10:35:48 - thread African Union (111 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Wednesday’s exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 24 june 2015 - 10:55:13 - thread African Union (112 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The growing populations and economies in the Western Indian Ocean region are increasing risks to the world’s least ecologically disturbed coasts, where ecosystem services are conservatively valued at US$25 billion a year, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), released Tuesday in Seychelles
©- - 24 june 2015 - 08:11:37 - thread African Union (528 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – An international human rights organisation, Act Together for Human Rights (AEDH), has expressed concern about the continued imprisonment of three anti-slavery activists in Mauritania
©- - 23 june 2015 - 21:38:30 - thread African Union (243 words)


Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The second edition of the Global African Investment Summit (TGAIS), which showcases business opportunities and investments in Africa, will be held on 1-2 December 2015 in London, the organizers said
©- - 23 june 2015 - 10:54:32 - thread African Union (209 words)


Port-Louis, Maurice (PANA) - The following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 25
©- - 23 june 2015 - 09:40:26 - thread African Union (109 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Monday's exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 22 june 2015 - 09:47:30 - thread African Union (109 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Women Affairs on Saturday launched a sensitization campaign for the production of ecological bags as the government moves to ban the use of plastic bags in the island as from January 2016
©- - 20 june 2015 - 15:28:05 - thread African Union (199 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius has become the first Small Island Developing State (SIDS) to acquire a '2050 Pathways Calculator', a groundbreaking tool that allows policy makers to consider feasible energy demand and supply pathways for reducing emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) by the year 2050
©- - 19 june 2015 - 17:18:13 - thread African Union (271 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - France will help Mauritius in the preparation for an Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), measures, both mitigation and adaptation, that countries intend to undertake towards achieving the objective of the United Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), especially in greenhouse gas emissions reduction and limiting global warming to below 2°C, relative to pre-industrial levels
©- - 19 june 2015 - 15:32:36 - thread African Union (380 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Friday's exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian Dollar 26
©- - 19 june 2015 - 08:57:56 - thread African Union (110 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Government will plans to launch three schemes under which subsidies will be offered to the population to enable them develop composting, rainwater harvesting and producing hot water with solar panels in a bid to promote sustainable development in the island, PANA learnt Thursday from official sources here
©- - 18 june 2015 - 12:45:51 - thread African Union (281 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A court in Nouakchott has jailed three Mauritanians after they pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, PANA reported from here Thursday
©- - 18 june 2015 - 11:10:31 - thread African Union (130 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee: Currency Buying Selling Australian 
Dollar 26
©- - 18 june 2015 - 08:43:29 - thread African Union (112 words)