Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The much-advertised debate between selected Presidents and Editors of Africa may not hold unless the organisers can resolve the scheduling problem that has dogged the meeting. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – Journalists covering the 9th- ordinary summit of the AU in Accra, Ghana have lodged a protest with the organisers after security agents barred media practitioners from covering the opening ceremony at the Conference Centre Sunday. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guehenno, has called on member states to contribute troops, police and civilian personnel to the UN-AU hybrid force for the war-torn Darfur region in western Sudan. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- American civil and human rights campaigner, Rev. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Colonel Moammar Kadhafi, acting chairman of the Community of Sahel Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Saturday held a telephone conversation with Niger's president Mamadou Tandja, whose country is a CEN-SAD member, an official Libyan source reported. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) – President Thab-o Mbeki left for Accra, Ghana, Saturday where he will lead the South African government delegation at the African Union (AU) Summit scheduled for 1-3 July. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- About 40 Heads of state and government are expected to participate at the 9th ordinary session of the African Union (AU) scheduled to start Sunday in Accra, Ghana. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Five new members, comprising four women and one man, have been elected into the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR). Full text...

Kumasi- Ghana (PANA) -- Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi during his stay in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi (about 300 kilometres north of capital Accra) late Friday paid a courtesy call on the king of Otomgor Osei Tutu of the Ashantis. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki left his country for Accra, Ghana, early Saturday to attend the 9th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) summit promising to push for a wider use of the Kiswahili language on the African continent, according to official sources. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – The African Union's Permanen-t Representatives' Committee (PRC) demands that the six board members of the continental organisation's Parliament returns all monies received for per diems, air tickets, communication allowances in fiscal 2004, 2005 and 2006 in breach of the regulatory provisions. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – The talks on the economic pa-rtnership with the European Union (EU) cannot be completed by the end of this year, according to the final report of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) of the African Union, a copy of which PANA obtained Thursday in Accra. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) – Libyan leader Moammar Kadh-afi, who is currently on a visit to Ghana to participate in the AU heads of state and government summit on 1-3 July, had a phone discussion on Friday with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, who stressed the importance of African unity for France. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – The Ernst Young consultancy -firm, in charge of the audit of the conference of African Intellectuals and the Diaspora, organised in 2004 by the African Union (AU) in Dakar, Senegal, revealed a gap of US$3 million in the accounts presented at the end of that meeting. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Chief Executive Officer of the NEPAD Secretariat, Firmino Mucavele, Friday played down Senegalese President's characterisation of the programme as a failure, saying he (Wade) remained a part of the NEPAD despite the criticism. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- An African Civil Society Solidarity public hearing on democracy and human rights in Zimbabwe, ended here Thursday in disagreement. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The uncompetitive remuneration package offered by the African Union (AU) Commission and limitation imposed by its quota system have hampered efforts to recruit competent staffers for the Commission, sources at the Commission told PANA Friday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Abdoulie Janneh, has described as "most timely" the planned debate on the union government in Africa during the African Union (AU) summit in Accra, Ghana, 1-3 July 2007. Full text...

Accra- Ghana, June 28, (PANA) -- Zimbabwe opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, on Thursday accused the ruling ZANU- PF party of intimidation prior to next year's election and called for an independent monitoring team from the AU four months ahead of the election. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Visiting Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi met separately here Thursday with Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A women's rights group said Thursday the debate on a Union Government for Africa must be a commitment to unite Africa's peoples irrespective of gender by upholding respect for women's rights and equality of opportunities for both men and women. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A group of civil society organisations has issued symbolic 'African citizens' passports to African Ministers attending the Executive Council meeting of the AU which opened Thursday in Accra, Ghana as a way of sensitising African leaders to recognise African citizenship as a precursor to attaining a United States of Africa. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The magnitude and complexity of the challenges facing Africa compel its leaders to strengthen continental unity and solidarity, according to Ghana's Vice President, Aliu Mahama. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Media and civil society organisations have asked the African Union (AU), during it summit in Ghana 1-3 July, to include an additional protocol in its African Human Rights Charter on the freedom of expression. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – The African Union (AU) Perma-nent Representatives Committee (PRC) has maintained sanctions against six countries which failed to pay their membership contribution arrears by 14 June 2007, an official source disclosed here Thursday. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angolan head of state, José Eduardo dos Santos, took the view Tuesday in Luanda that African heads of state must, after colonisation, reassert and consolidate their independence at political and economic levels, before creating supranational structures. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The International Federation of Human Rights and allied organisations have urged African leaders attending the African Union summit in Accra to ensure an immediate deployment of a hybrid UN-AU force to restore peace in Darfur, as agreed upon by UN Resolution 1706 ten months ago. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Libyan leader, Col. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The repeated failures of the summits of the African Union (AU) heads of states have resulted in a fiasco of this organisation, and this can be seen in the dysfunctioning of its main bodies, Libyan leader, Moammar Kadhafi said in Conakry. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi has expressed the wish to see Africa adopt a common stance concerning the achievement of federal government during the African Union (AU) Summit scheduled 1-3 July in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana has made a strong case for the political and economic integration of Africa, with the ultimate goal of the emergence of a United States of Africa, saying it is in line with the trend around the world. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- At least 20 African First Ladies have indicated intentions to attend a meeting of the African First Ladies scheduled in Accra 2 July on the sidelines of the 9th ordinary summit of the AU summit, according to Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD, Nana Akufo-Addo, hinted Wednesday that the tenure of AU Commission Chairperson, Alpha Oumar Konare, might be extended till the next AU summit in January to ensure a smooth transition. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A Darfur human rights advocate, Salih Mahmoud Osman, has called on African leaders to be courageous and ask Sudan to stop the torture, killings and other forms of human rights abuse in the country's province of Darfur. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) summit scheduled 1-3 July in Accra, Ghana is likely to be difficult and controversial, judging by the divergences of African leaders concerning their positions on the sole agenda item -- the establishment of the United States of Africa. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Libyan leader, Col. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) - – Africa "is going through a new era marked by the involvement of the popular masses in the quest for unity," Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi said here. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Rights group Amnesty International (AI) has urged African leaders to seize the opportunity offered by the 9th ordinary summit of the African Union (AU) in Accra 1-3 July to make good their promises and commitments on human rights issues. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi has castigated the African Union (AU) structures, saying they have failed in their missions and were therefore ineffective. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The 10th pre-summit consultative meeting on gender mainstreaming in the African Union (AU), which ended here Sunday ahead of the African Unit Summit, has thrown its support for the proposal to impose US$5 tax on each ticket bought for inter state travels and US$10 on each ticket for travellers between Africa other continents as a viable funding for the proposed African Union Government. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi, here Monday, reiterated his call for an African union government. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – The African Union (AU) has -boycotted the Paris international conference on Darfur, which opened here Monday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) - – The African Union (AU) ministerial delegation that met in Comoros Sunday to resolve the new crisis in the autonomous island of Anjouan has demanded free and fair presidential elections in compliance with the AU security plan. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) – Labour unions from the Sahel--Saharan States Community (CEN-SAD) member states have pledged to mobilise all their members to support the formation of a unity government for Africa, in line with their declaration at the African Popular Actors Forum held 20- 21 in the Libyan capital. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The 10th African Union (AU) Pre-summit Consultative Meeting on gender and promotion of women's rights, opened here Saturday, ahead of the 9th AU Ordinary Summit. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chair of the African Union (AU) Ministerial Committee on Comoros, will on Saturday lead a delegation of Ministers from Tanzania, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya and Mozambique to Comoros, the Foreign Affairs Department said here Friday. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, is to address the July African Union (AU) summit in Accra, Ghana, the UN spokesperson Michele Montas, said here Friday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan secretary in charge of the African Union (AU) affairs Dr. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Senegalese Foreign Affairs Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said in Tripoli that whether they are 10, 15 or 20, African countries supporting a Pan-African government should try this "greater political unity" and invite others to join them when they are ready. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Despite obstacles, the formation of an African federal government is "inevitable," Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi said in Tripoli, Wednesday. Full text...