Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has developed a Road Safety Charter in a bid to reduce the number and severity of road accidents by 50% by 2025, Land Transport and Light Rail minister Alan Ganoo announced on Wednesday following a Road Safety March in the capital, Port Louis Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar         28 Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar         28 Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Tourist arrivals in Mauritius have declined by 72 Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A total of 114 people have lost their lives in road accidents in Mauritius this year as compared to 144 in the whole of 2019, PANA learnt on Tuesday from the Land Transport and Light Rail Ministry in the Mauritian capital Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The Royal Armed Forces of Morocco (FAR) from Thursday to Friday set up a security cordon to secure the flow of goods and people  through the buffer zone of Guerguarat, linking Morocco to Mauritania, a statement from the FAR general staff said here Friday Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank:

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1 Euro                            43 Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar          28 Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Mauritanian Minister of National Defense, Hanana ould Sidi, was received Tuesday in Bamako by the Malian Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane, at a ceremony watched by the Malian Minister of Defense and Veterans, Col Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar       28 Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Kane Hamidou Baba, leader of the Coalition Vivre Ensemble (CVE), who failed in the Mauritanian presidential election of June 22, 2019, has launched a distress call to the leaders of West Africa, the Maghreb and Europe, to unite their efforts and put an end to the tragedy of illegal immigration Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar    28 Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Sunday renewed Mauritius' proposal for a long-term lease of Diego Garcia as a military base by the United States Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar         28 Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Guinea-Bissau President Umaru Cissoko Umballo is on a three-day friendly visit to Mauritania since Saturday, official sources told PANA on Sunday Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani on Saturday sent a message of  congratulations to U Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The press in Mauritania this week covered a variety of issues, including the closure of the Guergarate border crossing (55 kilometers north of Nouadhibou and 500 km from Nouakchott) which separates Mauritania from Morocco Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Saturday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya, as issued by the Mauritanian central bank:

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1 Euro               43 Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius registered a negative population growth rate of -0 Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Friday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank:

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1 Euro                          43 Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Eleven imported cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Mauritius this week, bringing the number of positive imported cases to 37 since the opening of the island's borders on 1 October Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar        28 Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius exports and manufacturing sectors have  declined by 33% from January to May 2020 and 22% for the period of January to August 2020  respectively due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has hit hard on the world economy Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank:

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1 Euro                           43 Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Newly re-elected Tanzania’s president, Dr John Pombe Magufuli, will be sworn in on Thursday at a ceremony to be staged in the capital, Dodoma Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Tuesday said Mauritius is determined to pursue its fight for the restitution of the Chagos archipelago to the island and to supporting the eventual resettlement of Chagossians on some of the islands of the archipelago, a Mauritian territory located a thousand kilometres north of the mainland Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, current chairman of the African Union (AU), Tuesday underlined the need to give Libyans the opportunity to reach a Libyan solution to the ongoing crisis without foreign interference during the Forum for the Libyan political dialogue to be hosted in Tunisia on 9 November Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The son of former Mauritanian President Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz has been is summoned by the police as part of a preliminary corruption investigation during the decade of his father's reign (2008-2019), the local press reported on Tuesday Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank:

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1 Euro                         42 Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Moussa Faki Mahamat, has strongly condemned the killing of innocent civilians following inter-communal violence in Ethiopia Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar       27 Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - FC Tevragh-Zeina of Nouakchott on Sunday won the Mauritania National Football Cup, beating AS SNIM of Nouadhibou 2-0 in the final played at the Cheikha ould stadium Boidiya of the capital Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Monday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The press published in Mauritania this week devoted most of its comments to the global crisis emanating from cartoons in France of the Prophet of Islam, Mohamed (PSL) Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Blue Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping Ministry would promulgate the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Harmful Substances Carried by Sea in Packaged Form) Regulations 2020 to prevent sea pollution from harmful chemical substances, the Government announced on Saturday morning, following its weekly Cabinet meeting Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – After its weekly Cabinet meeting, the Mauritian Government on Saturday announced a project called “Greening of the Public Sector” designed to engage in the greening of public-sector organisations Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian minister of Defence, Hanana ould Sidi, Friday received a Libyan military delegation chaired by the army chief of staff, Army general Mohamed Ali Hadad, the state-run news agency (AMI) reported here Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - In a statement released on Friday, the Mauritanian government has condemned Thursday's terrorist attack on the Notre-Dame church in Nice, a city in southern France, saying it was "a barbaric act" Full text...

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           27 Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The final of the President's Football Cup between FC Tevragh-Zeina and ASC SNIM will be played  on November 1 before public spectators at  Cheikha ould Boidiya Stadium in Nouakchott Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar         27 Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Samba Thiam, leader of the Progressive Forces for Change (FPC-black nationalist movement) in Mauritania, advocates for the official introduction of national languages, Pulaar, Sooninké and Wolof into the education system in a document released Wednesday Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's foreign exchange rates for the Mauritanian Ouguiya as issued by the Mauritanian central bank:

Currency                   Buying         Selling

1 Euro                       43 Full text...

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             27 Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Commission President, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has called for a peaceful vote in Tanzania, ahead of Wednesday's Presidential elections Full text...

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

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Australian Dollar      27 Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Health authorities in Mauritius announced on Tuesday the detection of four new imported cases of COVID-19 among the passengers who arrived from Dubai last Saturday Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government Monday strongly condemned acts of provocation against Islam reported in France for several days, an official statement issued here said Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's fruit and vegetable market is experiencing serious disruptions, leading to high scarcity and soaring prices on Monday, PANA noted Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Tfeil Laha, a banker, and Mohamed Abdallah Ould Yaha, two personalities close to Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, former Mauritanian president (2008/2019), appeared before the police panel investigating Aziz for economic and financial crimes, PANA learned Monday from judicial sources Full text...