Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- Brazil, one of South America’s expanding economies, is pla nning to spread its growing industrial influence across Africa with projects ran g ing from industrial plants which will produce ethanol, motor-vehicle assembly pl a nts (in Mozambique) and a drug-manufacturing plant in Africa. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The upsurge in violent conflicts in Africa over the last s ix months, culminating in the assassination of Guinea Bissau President Joao Bernado 'Nino' Vieira, the killings in Somalia and the increased insecurity in Darfur, Sudan, dominated the opening session of the African Union (AU) talks in Sirte, Libya, on Wednesday. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- East African foreign ministers have agreed on a series of new resolutions, paving the way for a regional military intervention in Somalia. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- East African foreign ministers have agreed on a series of new resolutions, paving the way for a regional military intervention in Somalia. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, will addres s the 13th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU), scheduled for 1-3 July, in Sirte, Libya. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The issue of the transformation of the African Union (AU) into an Authority is expected to be top of the agenda at the proceedings of the A U Executive Board, which opened on Sunday in Sirte, Libya, official sources told PANA on Monday. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The issue of the transformation of the African Union (AU) into an Authority is expected to be top of the agenda at the proceedings of the A U Executive Board, which opened on Sunday in Sirte, Libya, official sources told PANA on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki will Tuesday depart for Sir te, Libya, for the 13th session of the African Union (AU) Heads of State Assembl y , slated for 1-3 July, during which he is expected to appeal for Africa's interv e ntion in Somalia to save the interim government there, officials said on Monday. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- African leaders are expected to make a final commitment on the status of agricultural production and work towards the creation of an Afric a n food market to tap the US$ 33 billion spent annually on food imports, a senior African Union (AU) official said here Monday. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The International Contact Group on Guinea (GICG) has expressed its concern over the lack of progress towards the restoration of constitutional order and the holding of elections in Guinea in 2009, according to a GICG statement made available to PANA here Sunday. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi opened the 15th session of t he African foreign ministers meeting here Sunday with an explosive speech, calli n g for a radical transformation of the African Union (AU) key organs in an effort to achieve the desired dream of an African government. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) sub-committees have prepared a repo rt that paints an alarming picture of the state of subscriptions of member state s with debts in excess of US$120 million over the past two years. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) – Libya is asking the African -Union (AU) Assembly to include the establishment of an African Defence Council in the agenda of next month’s 1 3 th ordinary session, according to an official document of the AU obtained by PAN A on Saturday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The African Union should urge the United Nations Securit y Council to set up a commission of inquiry to document the worst human rights a b uses in Somalia, an essential first step in creating justice and accountability, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- African envoys meeting to discuss the political and econom ic climate in the continent were due to end three days of discussions on the effects of transforming the African Union Commission into an Authority on Friday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The Director General of the United Nations Educational, S cientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Koïchiro Matsuura, will attend the summit of the African Union (AU), slated for 1-3 July in Sirte, Libya, the UN ag e ncy told PANA here on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya’s Equity Bank and the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) have buoyed the Ugandan and Rwandan bourses after the shares of the two giant banks were listed in both countries as efforts to integrate the region’s stock markets continue. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

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. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The next Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU ) will take place 1-3 July, in Sirte, Libya, the AU Commission said here Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan newspapers this week highlighted the new African strategy unveiled by the current president of the African Union (AU), Libyan lea d er Mouammar Kadhafi, founded on the rational exploitation of the potentials of t h e continent. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré will Monday launch t he week devoted to African integration, to end 25 May, a statement from the Mini s try of Foreign Affairs and African Integration issued here on Friday said. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Head of Division of Economic Policies and Research a t the African Union Commission, Dr. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade arrived Thur sday in Nouakchott, leading a joint Senegal/African Union mission to mediate the political crisis in Mauritania since the 6 August 2008 coup. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Jean Ping, on Saturday strongly condemned Thursday's killing of a Nigerian peacekeep e r with the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Fourth Conference for African integration ministe rs (COMAI) opened on Thursday in Yaounde with a call on African leaders to be united in int ernational forums in the face of the crisis facing the world. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A three-day international meeting bringing together expe rts on gender and related issues organised by the African Union (AU) and Gambian government gets underway in Banjul official sources confirmed to PANA Thursday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- African ministers in charge of integration are expect ed to meet Thursday in Yaounde, Cameroon, as part of the fourth edition of the C o nference of African Ministers of Integration (COMAI IV) on the theme “Partnershi p s and Integration in Africa”. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- The third mission of the African Union International Co ntact Group on Guinea ended its third mission to the West African country on Tue s day with co-chairman Ibrahima Fall expressing satisfaction with preparations for the organisation of parliamentary and presidential elections. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan revolutionary leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, who is al so the current chairman of the African Union (AU), on Tuesday received the visiting Jor danian Prime Minister, Nader Dhahbi, in Tripoli. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan revolutionary leader Mouammar Kadhafi who is the current chairman of the African Union (AU), on Tuesday received Guinea Bissau's P rime minister, Carlos Gomez Junior, in Tripoli. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) and Interpol are working to strengt hen cooperation in a move to better counter threats from transnational criminal g roups and terrorists. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A delegation of the AU peace and security counci l will visit Cote d'Ivoire from 28 April to 1 May on a fact-finding mission foll o wing the political crisis in that West African country, the AU liaison office sa i d here. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The deadline for the creation of the United States of Africa is 2017 with the organisation of a constitutional conference on a new constitution of the Federal State, Senegalese foreign minister, Cheikh Tidia ne Gadio, said in Tripoli on Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Senegalese State Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs C heikh Tidiane Gadio, has called on African States to find a mechanism to ensure s table financial resources in the African Union (AU), explaining that the organis a tion was facing serious financial problems and that subscription from member cou n tries would not be sufficient to finance the institution. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Senegalese Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affair s, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, commended the commitment of Libyan leader and Chairman o f the African Union (AU), Mouammar Kadhafi, to the achievement of the unity of t h e African continent, noting that the decision to establish the Authority of the U nion and the appointment of the Libyan leader as chairman of the continental org a nisation were "happy events". Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, acting AU President, on Sunday evening met the Chadian Prime Minister, Youssef Salah Abbas, in Tripol i. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) - – An Australian tourist was arrested in Luxor last week afte r he attempted to enter a restricted security zone and allegedly photographed ot h ers, security sources reported here on Sunday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PAN) -- Libyan papers this week focused on the 12th extraordinary session of the African Union's Executive Council and the proposal of the Libyan leader and president of the AU, Mouammar Kadhafi, relating to the functioning of the Authority that will replace the AU Commission. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Senegalese minister of foreign affairs, Cheikh Tidiane G adio, announced on Thursday in Tripoli that the technical commission formed by t h e 12th extraordinary session of the African Union (AU) Executive Council has ado p ted the principle of the formation of an AU Authority. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The ministerial Committee set up by the executive Board of the African Union (AU) in the course of its 12th extraordinary session devoted to considering the setting up of the AU's Authority, started work on Wed n esday evening in Tripoli. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Jean Ping, said on Thursday in Tripoli that the 12th extraordinary meeting of t he AU Executive Council does not encroach on the sovereignty of states. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African Foreign Ministers Tuesday settled down on their first day of deliberations on the process of transforming the African Union Comm i ssion (AUC) into a Union Authority, at an extra-ordinary meeting in Sirte, Libya . Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian head of state, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, on Monday received an African Union (AU) mission, made up of the Lib y an Secretary for African affairs, Ali Abdel Salam Tryki, and the Commissioner fo r peace and security, Ramadan Lamamrana, official sources told PANA here. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Foreign Minister, Dr. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- African Union Commission (AUC) Chairman Jean Ping, on Tu esday appealed to all member states of the pan-African organisation and its part n ers to "refrain from any action likely to endorse illegality in Madagascar". Full text...