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Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) has welcomed the agreement si gned in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, by Mauritanian political foes following the mediation efforts of President Abdoulaye Wade of Se negal in collaboration with the African Union (AU), the United Nations (UN) and the International Contact Group (ICG) on Mauritania
©- - 08 june 2009 - 19:55:00 - thread African Union (216 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A four-day meeting on the development of sea tran sportation and prevention of coastal pollution in the western part of the Indian Ocean is due to start here on Monday, according to official sources
©- - 07 june 2009 - 13:18:00 - thread African Union (127 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Parties to the Mauritanian peace pact meet here on Sunday under the watchful eyes of representatives of the International Contac t Group (ICG) on the Mauritanian crisis, official sources told PANA
©- - 07 june 2009 - 12:53:00 - thread African Union (185 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A Mauritanian anti-slave NGO, 'Initiative pour l a Résurgence du mouvement Abolitionniste (IRA) (Initiative for the resurgence of the abolitionist movement), fiercely criticised Saturday the framework agreement for a negotiated return to constitutional order, signed this week by the stakeho l ders in the crisis prevailing in the country
©- - 06 june 2009 - 14:27:00 - thread African Union (192 words)


Praia- Cape-Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde's government Friday expressed deep concern over the alleged coup plot in Guinea Bissau, which was marked by the assassinat i on of a presidential candidate, Baciro Dabo and the former defence minister, Hél d er Proença, official sources in Praia told PANA Saturday
©- - 06 june 2009 - 13:10:00 - thread African Union (122 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Some intense negotiations are on-going in Maurit ania within the various stakeholders in the crisis to set up a transitional inte r im government, after Tuesday and Thursday signing in Dakar and Nouakchott, of a f ramework agreement for an inclusive return to constitutional order in the countr y , PANA reported Saturday
©- - 06 june 2009 - 12:59:00 - thread African Union (273 words)


Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea Bissau's armed forces promised to hand ove r to court, all the presumed authors of the attempted coup in which four people w ere killed, including Baciro Dabo, an independent candidate for the forthcoming p residential election
©- - 06 june 2009 - 12:28:00 - thread African Union (496 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The General Secretary of the Francophone International O rganisation (OIF), Abdou Diouf hailed the signing of the consensual peace agreem e nt concluded Thursday in Nouakchott, between political parties in Mauritania
©- - 06 june 2009 - 09:42:00 - thread African Union (261 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Guinea Bissau's Minister of Internal Administration Baci ro Dabo, and former defence minister Hélder Proença were Thursday night killed i n an alleged attempted coup in Bissau, official sources said Friday
©- - 06 june 2009 - 09:25:00 - thread African Union (476 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Health Minister Rajesh Jeetah announced Friday that 10 suspected cases of dengue fever were reported in the Island this week, explaining that blood samples from the patients were sent to South Africa f or analysis and that the results were expected in a few days
©- - 05 june 2009 - 18:26:00 - thread African Union (147 words)


Bambous- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Education and Culture Minister Vasant Bunw aree announced Friday that environmental education would be introduced in the sc h ool curriculum as from January 2010
©- - 05 june 2009 - 16:53:00 - thread African Union (231 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian politicians Friday welcomed the peace agreement aimed at ending the country's political crisis, triggered by last year's military coup in the African nation
©- - 05 june 2009 - 13:11:00 - thread African Union (298 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The three parties involved in the Mauritanian po litical crisis Thursday signed an agreement aimed at restoring constitutional or d er in the country
©- - 05 june 2009 - 11:59:00 - thread African Union (159 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as published by the Mauritian Commercial Bank here on Friday
©- - 05 june 2009 - 10:00:00 - thread African Union (110 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA)- – Former Mauritanian Prime Minister, Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghef, and three others, who had been detained since 2008 for alleged emb ezzlement at the defunct national airline, Air Mauritania, were freed on Thursda y , judicial sources told PANA
©- - 04 june 2009 - 21:54:00 - thread African Union (194 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, who brokere d the political agreement between Mauritanian factions that led to the postponem e nt of the controversial 6 June election, arrived in Nouakchott on Thursday to ho l d talks to firm up the deal
©- - 04 june 2009 - 20:52:00 - thread African Union (207 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The official signing ceremony of the Mauritania peace pact, brokered by African Union Facilitator and Senegalese President Abdou l aye Wade, was postponed from Wednesday to Thursday to give time for the Facilita t or to witness the signing, official sources told PANA here Thursday
©- - 04 june 2009 - 12:38:00 - thread African Union (244 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian former junta leader and now presiden tial candidate for the 18 July elections, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, annou n ced Wednesday the suspension of his electioneering campaign during a rally in Ak j oujt, a town located 250 kms north of Nouakchott, the country's capital
©- - 03 june 2009 - 15:34:00 - thread African Union (197 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the M auritian rupee against some foreign currencies, as published here Wednesday by t h e Mauritian commercial bank
©- - 03 june 2009 - 12:39:00 - thread African Union (111 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The International Contact Group (ICG) on the Mauritanian crisis has called on all Mauritanian parties to be positive and and sincere in the implementation of the agreement signed here after six day of talks
©- - 03 june 2009 - 09:34:00 - thread African Union (254 words)


New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Mauritanian parties to cooperate with international mediators to agree on the date for presidential elections in the country
©- - 03 june 2009 - 06:57:00 - thread African Union (194 words)


Paris- France (PANA) -- An agreement was reached in Dakar, Senegal's capital, by protagonists in the Mauritanian crisis for the establishment of a transitional g o vernment in their country, the spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, Eric C h evallier, announced Tuesday in Paris, France
©- - 02 june 2009 - 18:31:00 - thread African Union (152 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A mission of the Arab Organisation for the Guara ntee of Investments and Credits in Favour of Exports (OAGICE), led by its Genera l Manager Sahd Rachid Al Ibrahim, arrived in Mauritania's capital, Noukchott, on T uesday, official sources told PANA
©- - 02 june 2009 - 14:00:00 - thread African Union (156 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A high-level trade delegation from Turkey is due in Mauritius Tuesday to discuss expansion of trade relations between the two cou n tries, a PANA correspondent gathered from official sources here
©- - 01 june 2009 - 14:18:00 - thread African Union (230 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the immediate e x-leader of Mauritania and head of the military junta that took power in 2008, o n Saturday denied rumours that the 6 June presidential elections, in which he is a candidate, had been postponed
©- - 31 may 2009 - 15:21:00 - thread African Union (166 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A court in Mauritius capital, Port-Louis, on Frid ay four policemen of abuse of authority and conspiracy following the death of a p risoner in January 2006
©- - 30 may 2009 - 17:12:00 - thread African Union (89 words)


Floréal- Mauritius (PANA) -- About 40 Mauritian muslims, members of the Hizb-ut-T ahrir organisation, demonstrated peacefully on Friday afternoon in front of the p remises of the High Commission (Embassy) of Pakistan in Mauritius, to demand the end of the war in Pakistan's Swat Valley, PANA reported from here
©- - 29 may 2009 - 17:50:00 - thread African Union (155 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A series of demonstrations involving Mauritania' s ruling party members and those of the anti-putsch forces here on Thursday in m a ny venues, which were violently suppressed by the national anti-riot police, hav e heightened tension across the country
©- - 29 may 2009 - 14:39:00 - thread African Union (207 words)


New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Security Council has called for enhanced collaborat ion with the African Union (AU) to promote peace and security in Africa
©- - 29 may 2009 - 14:13:00 - thread African Union (244 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade on Thursday urged al l Mauritanian political forces to work for “a consensus likely to give a concert e d solution which would enable everybody to express themselves in a democratic wa y ”
©- - 28 may 2009 - 23:38:00 - thread African Union (344 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Envoys of parties involved in the Mauritanian political crisis left Nouakchott separately on Wednesday afternoon for Dakar, the Senegalese capital, where they are to take part on Thursday in a meeting organised within the framework of the Senegalese mediation backed by the African Union (AU), according to official sources in the Mauritanian capital
©- - 27 may 2009 - 21:37:00 - thread African Union (207 words)


Port-Louis- Maurice (PANA) -- An Islamic association based in Mauritius, Hizb-ut- Tahrir, announced that a peaceful demonstration would be held Friday before Paki s tan's High commissioner's residence in Mauritius, in a bid to call for the end o f the war between Muslims in the Swat Valley, a source told PANA here on Wednesda y
©- - 27 may 2009 - 17:50:00 - thread African Union (243 words)


N'Djaména- Chad (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) and the Chadian government will create the first African museum for peace, human rights and non-violence here, H e ad of the Culture and Sports Section of the AU, Daraïtivo Ralaïbo, said at a pre s s conference held in the Chadian capital city
©- - 27 may 2009 - 14:33:00 - thread African Union (191 words)


Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Malam Bacai Sanha, leader of the African Party for the I ndependence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), and presidential candidate f or the elections scheduled for June 2009, said here Tuesday that, if elected, he would organize a national conference at which viewpoints of the people would be c ollected with a view to finding a lasting solution to the country's political pr o blems
©- - 27 may 2009 - 10:49:00 - thread African Union (278 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Association of Female Heads of Families (AFC F) wants Mauritanian authorities to investigate the existence of a "large networ k involved in under-18 girls' sex trafficking between Mauritania and Saudi Arabia " in a statement made available to PANA here on Tuesday
©- - 26 may 2009 - 15:52:00 - thread African Union (137 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The National Front for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD) which supports President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah, ousted from p o wer in the 6 August 2008 coup, and the Union of Democratic Forces (RFD), the cou n try's main opposition party before the coup, will take part in mediation talks t o be held in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, between all the stakeholders in the l i ngering Mauritanian political and institutional crises, opposition sources told P ANA here
©- - 26 may 2009 - 15:12:00 - thread African Union (278 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The National Front for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD) which supports President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah, ousted from p o wer in the 6 August 2008 coup, and the Union of Democratic Forces (RFD), the cou n try's main opposition party before the coup, will take part in mediation talks t o be held in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, between all the stakeholders in the l i ngering Mauritanian political and institutional crises, opposition sources told P ANA here
©- - 26 may 2009 - 15:12:00 - thread African Union (278 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Key stakeholders in the Mauritanian crisis have been invited to Dakar, Senegal's capital, Tuesday for a third round of negotiati o ns under Senegalese mediation, backed by the African Union and all partners of t h e International Contact Group on Mauritania (GCIM), diplomatic sources told PANA Sunday
©- - 24 may 2009 - 18:53:00 - thread African Union (189 words)


La Chaumière- Mauritius (PANA) -- An estimated 1,000 Mauritians Sunday marched fi ve kilometres from the village of St-Martin to Camp Levieux in western Mauritius in protest against a Waste-to-Energy project to be implemented in the region, PA N A reported
©- - 24 may 2009 - 13:20:00 - thread African Union (341 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The chairman and presidential candidate of Mauri tania's Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Reconciliation (AJD/MR), Ibrahima Moctar Sarr, has lodged a complaint of defamation against an online new s agency, Taqadoumy, reliable sources told PANA on Saturday
©- - 23 may 2009 - 14:29:00 - thread African Union (144 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian former junta leader, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Friday promised several reforms in the country if voted presid e nt at the 6 June election
©- - 23 may 2009 - 14:11:00 - thread African Union (344 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius has announced a programme to audit ener gy use in all ministries, with a view to reducing wastage and promoting solar en e rgy, PANA reported Saturday
©- - 23 may 2009 - 10:08:00 - thread African Union (358 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Finance Minister Ramakrishna Sithanen i ntroduced a new budget into Parliament Friday night, calling it "an action plan t o rid the global economic crisis"
©- - 23 may 2009 - 08:40:00 - thread African Union (611 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Leaders of Mauritania's National Front for the D efence of Democracy (FNDD) and the Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD), both oppose d to the military incursion into the Mauritania's political history, on Thursday u rged Mauritanians to massively take to the street to demand a political dialogue as a way to resolve the political problem in that country
©- - 22 may 2009 - 14:27:00 - thread African Union (214 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A 22-year old South African, Thelma Van Voyen, was sentenced to seven years in jail Thursday in Mauritius, after being found guilty of complicity in heroin import, legal sources said Friday in Port- Louis
©- - 22 may 2009 - 11:22:00 - thread African Union (96 words)


Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the latest exchange rates for the Mauritian rupee against some major foreign currencies, as published Frid ay by the Commercial Bank of Mauritius: Currency Buying Selling Australian dollar 24
©- - 22 may 2009 - 11:15:00 - thread African Union (117 words)


Grand Bay- Mauritius (PANA) -- A two-day extra-ordinary meeting of the committee on peace and security of member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Sout h ern Africa (COMESA) opened here Thursday
©- - 21 may 2009 - 14:36:00 - thread African Union (341 words)


Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Electioneering campaign for the 6 June, 2009, pr esidential election in Mauritania kicked off Thursday midnight without the main f avourite, the former president and junta leader, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz , who decided to delay his campaign
©- - 21 may 2009 - 13:59:00 - thread African Union (222 words)