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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The current international environment marked by the coronavirus pandemic is expected to weigh on Mauritania owing to commodity price volatility and a slowdown in global growth, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team warned on Friday at the end of a two-week visit to the northwest Africa country

©- - 13 march 2020 - 14:08:52 - thread African Union (489 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The members of the Contact Group of the High Level Committee of the African Union (AU) on Libya, who met on Thursday in Oyo, about 400 km from Brazzaville, have decided to hold the Intra-Libyan national conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, next July

©- - 13 march 2020 - 11:30:14 - thread African Union (625 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 13 march 2020 - 09:17:08 - thread African Union (124 words)


Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) on Thursday issued a cautionary statement on the political situation in Guinea-Bissau following the country’s presidential elections which took place in on 24 November and 29 December 2019

©- - 12 march 2020 - 12:20:01 - thread African Union (205 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius on Wednesday disclosed that the island's population decreased by 162 or -0

©- - 11 march 2020 - 18:10:37 - thread African Union (348 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 11 march 2020 - 09:19:37 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian ministry of Health and Well-being on Tuesday said that so far, no case of coronavirus was detected on the island, ‘’contrary to fake news circulating on the internet about the disease’’

©- - 10 march 2020 - 19:04:17 - thread African Union (174 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has announced cancellation of the 2020 National Day celebrations due to meteorological forecasts predicting the deterioration of weather in the island in the coming days

©- - 10 march 2020 - 14:10:35 - thread African Union (169 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 10 march 2020 - 08:56:40 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Minister of Commerce and Consumer Protection, Mr Yogida Sawmynaden, on Monday said “there is no shortage of supply of basic commodities such as rice, oil, flour, milk and petrol on the market

©- - 09 march 2020 - 18:31:28 - thread African Union (285 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 09 march 2020 - 09:04:12 - thread African Union (124 words)


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

©- - 07 march 2020 - 12:41:27 - thread African Union (137 words)


Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) – The Secretary-General of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), Hamada Madi, and the European Union ambassador, Vincent Degert, on Friday signed the financing convention of a new project ‘’Entrepreneurship and commercial cooperation’’ for the entrepreneurs of the Indian Ocean, sources close to the IOC said in the Mauritian city of Ebene

©- - 06 march 2020 - 20:04:06 - thread African Union (294 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania shared its experience of dialogue with elements of radical Islamist groups detained during 2010, which led to the renunciation of violence on the part of several terrorists, it was revealed on Friday in Nouakchott at a meeting of the Colorado Network for Penitentiary Emergence in West and North Africa (RECEPAON)

©- - 06 march 2020 - 17:45:45 - thread African Union (291 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 06 march 2020 - 09:03:27 - thread African Union (124 words)


Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The government of Niger on Thursday expressed its support for the action of the government of Saudi Arabia, regarding the temporary suspension of the rites of Oumra (small pilgrimage) and the visit to the mosque of Prophet Mohamed in Medina, intended to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus

©- - 05 march 2020 - 20:48:49 - thread African Union (222 words)


Paris, France (PANA) - The French Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged the Bissau-Guinean military to refrain from interfering in the post-electoral crisis the country is experiencing with two candidates claiming victory in the presidential election

©- - 05 march 2020 - 20:40:41 - thread African Union (225 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The British High Commission in Mauritius and the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) on Thursday launched the DIT Africa Investment DealRoom, which is a direct follow-up to the UK-African Investment Summit that took place in London on 20 January 2020, PANA reported from here

©- - 05 march 2020 - 14:15:19 - thread African Union (325 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Entry into Mauritania has not been prohibited for foreign nationals, but those arriving are subject to a protocol for health surveillance of the coronavirus outbreak in accordance with the rules of the World Health Organization (WHO), an official source said on Thursday

©- - 05 march 2020 - 11:58:30 - thread African Union (138 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 05 march 2020 - 08:34:24 - thread African Union (126 words)


 

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) –  Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Wednesday announced that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was  invited as Chief Guest at the 52nd National Day celebrations to be held on 12 March 2020, has postponed his trip to Mauritius “due to the prevailing difficult economic situation"

©- - 04 march 2020 - 14:47:56 - thread African Union (118 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on Wednesday said that there has been no case of Covid-19 reported in Mauritius, following a meeting on the “alarming situation of this disease which is spreading at a fast pace across around the world and its impact and gravity on both international and national fronts

©- - 04 march 2020 - 14:06:14 - thread African Union (288 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Wednesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 04 march 2020 - 09:07:42 - thread African Union (124 words)


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

©- - 03 march 2020 - 11:37:19 - thread African Union (136 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Tuesday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 03 march 2020 - 08:28:12 - thread African Union (124 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius, a governmental institution, said on Monday that the number of tourist arrivals in the country in 2019 decreased by 1

©- - 02 march 2020 - 14:24:03 - thread African Union (300 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Monday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 02 march 2020 - 09:31:38 - thread African Union (124 words)


Ebène, Mauritius (PANA) - The Media Trust, an umbrella organization of the Mauritian government, honoured the best journalists of the year 2019 at a ceremony held Saturday evening in Ebène, 20 km north of the capital, PANA noted

©- - 01 march 2020 - 12:08:41 - thread African Union (284 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - In a statement published on Saturday, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) of Mauritania denounced "arbitrary arrests and detentions without reason" having touched the defenders of human rights "in the exercise of their right to freedom of expression and assembly " in recent years

©- - 29 february 2020 - 16:34:07 - thread African Union (129 words)


Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - President Alpha Condé Friday evening announced a “slight postponement” of the double referendum and parliamentary elections scheduled for Sunday and boycotted by several opposition parties, an official source told PANA here

©- - 29 february 2020 - 00:03:57 - thread African Union (359 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA)  - The Mauritanian minister of the Interior, Mohamed Salem Ould Merzough, has warned all those “breaching the country’s unity, national cohesion and stability” on social networks at a press briefing here Thursday

©- - 28 february 2020 - 22:22:00 - thread African Union (251 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has agreed to sign the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on the Inter-State Transfer of prisoners, official sources told PANA Friday in the Mauritian capital, following the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers

©- - 28 february 2020 - 16:44:53 - thread African Union (119 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A total of 42 flights connecting Tunisia to Saudi Arabia were canceled following the decision of the Saudi authorities to suspend the entry of pilgrims into Saudi territory due to the spread of the coronavirus in the world, the Secretary General of the Tunisian Federation of travel agencies and tourism, Dhafer Latif, announced

©- - 28 february 2020 - 16:39:47 - thread African Union (147 words)


​Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Health authorities have prepared a national Action Plan comprising preventive and control measures aimed at assisting stakeholders to intervene efficiently as regards Covid-19, official sources told PANA on Friday in Port Louis

©- - 28 february 2020 - 15:56:32 - thread African Union (179 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Thousands of Mauritanians have been deprived of Internet access for nearly 48 hours, PANA learnt on Friday

©- - 28 february 2020 - 14:21:58 - thread African Union (128 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Friday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 28 february 2020 - 09:19:49 - thread African Union (124 words)


Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The vote recount, requested by the Supreme Court in the Guinea Bissau presidential election, has confirmed winner of the 29 December, 2019, polls, Umaru Sissoco Embalo, as the president-elect

©- - 27 february 2020 - 17:29:08 - thread African Union (428 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Monica Juma, on Thursday, called on Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth in Port Louis, the Government Information Services (GIS) said

©- - 27 february 2020 - 13:22:29 - thread African Union (288 words)


Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Following are Thursday’s foreign exchange rates for the Mauritian Rupee as issued by the Mauritian Commercial Bank

©- - 27 february 2020 - 09:03:34 - thread African Union (124 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - On the sidelines of its 6th Summit of Heads of State, the G5 Sahel Permanent Secretariat and the Union of G5 Sahel Chambers of Commerce (UCCG5S) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on economic, social challenges and strengthening the resilience of populations of the sub-region, according to a document sent to PANA on Wednesday

©- - 26 february 2020 - 17:07:58 - thread African Union (200 words)