Rabat- Morocco(PANA) -- Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa is due here next Sunday for talks with Moroccan officials, notably Foreign minister Mohamed Benaïssa, the Moroccan News Agency (MAP) reported Thursday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Moroccan leader, King Mohammed VI has in telephone discussions with his Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts insisted on the urgency of an Arab League summit, according to the Moroccan news agency (MAP). Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa is due here on Friday for discussions with Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali as part of a tour with similar stops in Morocco and Algeria, sources affirmed Tuesday at the Arab League secretariat in Cairo. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia on Saturday night announced the cancellation of the Arab League summit initially scheduled to open here Monday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A group of Ivorian youths on Tuesday killed three Burkinabe peasants in Duékoué, a government-held area about 500 km west of Abidjan, an informed source said here Wednesday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The number of mountain gorillas in the DR Congo's Virunga National Park has risen from 324 in 1989 to 380 in 2003, according to a study conducted by organisations for the defence of the nature in DR Congo, Uganda and Rwanda. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- A cabinet minister in Congo has publicly pleaded for the return of ex-Prime Minister Bernard Kolelas "in a concerted framework" of a comprehensive resolution of the politico-military crisis in the Pool district. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- An Arab summit will be held here from 29-30 March, a Tunisian official source revealed in Tunis Friday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Cameroonian government has appealed to the international community to help repatriate four gorillas illegally exported to Malaysia by tourists from the central African country, Environment Ministry sources said in Yaounde Wednesday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa and President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia held discussions here Wednesday on preparations for the next Arab summit slated to hold here next March, according to the Tunisian News Agency (TAP). Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa is due here Tuesday, sources affirmed Monday, saying the visit was in connection with preparations for the next Arab summit. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Environment Minister Rajesh Bhagwan said Wednesday that only biodegradable plastic bags that conformed to quality specifications, would be authorised for production in the country in 2004. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Col. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Belgian police reportedly arrested about 15 Mauritanians during clashes Saturday between partisans of the ruling Republican Democratic and Social Party (PRDS) and opponents of the Nouakchott regime in Brussels, a rights group disclosed here. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- For want of toilet tissue, inmates at Masaka Prison in Uganda have resorted to tearing off pages from the Bible and Koran received from religious organizations seeking to help reconcile them with God and society, press accounts affirmed Thursday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Kenya has invited the League of Arab States to set up a mission in Nairobi, a League official has said. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese army and police had to be summoned Tuesday to quell a clash between two warring groups that left two dead and 13 others injured, some seriously, according to the interior ministry. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- At least 30 rebels and an undisclosed number of government troops were killed during fighting in western Sudan near the border with Chad, according to senior government officials here. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Sources close to the Arab League affirmed Sunday that the body plans to submit a project at the African Union summit to revive Afro-Arab cooperation. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan public watchdog Friday called for legislation banning the manufacture, sale and use of polythene bags and plastics products in the country. Full text...

Juba- Sudan (PANA) -- Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa is in Sudan to boost efforts to end two decades of war between the Khartoum government and the rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two Western lowland gorillas, among the rarest and most endangered species in the world, were flown out of Lagos on Friday to their native Cameroon after being rescued from the clutches of illegal pet traders. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A fresh bomb blast at the site of last year's deadly military armoury explosion in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos killed three unidentified people, press accounts indicated Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) on Friday launched report on ethnic clashes which ravaged the country between 1991 and 1997 and rendered about 300,000 as internally displaced persons. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Libya has decided to freeze relations with the Arab League in what pundits saw as a prelude to breaking ranks with the body, according to the Libyan News Agency (JANA). Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African shoppers will have to find other ways of carrying the items they buy when the law banning thin plastic carrier bags comes into effect in May. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Violent clashes have occurred in Uvira between Mai-Mai traditional fighters and Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD/Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu Province. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- An unspecified number of civilians were killed and hundreds of cattle got stolen after fighting broke-out late Thursday between Ugandan troops and ethnic Lendu militias on the outskirts of Ituri provincial town of Bunia in eastern DR Congo, a Ugandan military spokesman confirmed Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Many members of the banned Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in Nigeria were feared killed Saturday in a clash with armed policemen in Okigwe, southeast Imo state, according to local press accounts. Full text...

Charm Al-Cheikh- Egypt (PANA) -- Participants at the just-ended Arab League Summit in Charm Al-Cheikh, Egypt were sharply divided over a proposal made Saturday by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) delegation calling for the Iraqi leadership to step down, delegates said. Full text...

Sharm el-Sheikh- Egypt (PANA) -- The Libyan leader, Col. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- The Ebola virus has killed some 500 gorillas in Lossi Plain, a 320-km square natural reserve located between the northwest Congolese districts of Kelle and Mbomo, informed sources in Libreville indicated Monday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Thirty people died and more than 400 heads of cattle were stolen in renewed cattle raids within the Karamojong "warrior" community in Uganda's north-eastern region, according to local administration officials. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Arab League Ministerial Committees on the peace processes in Sudan and Somalia as well as the proposals by Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi on the League's future, Tuesday ended two days of discussions in Khartoum, with the adoption of several recommendations. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Clan fighting Friday left at least five people dead and nine others injured in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, according to witnesses. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Two people were killed and three others were injured in a violent religious clash between Orthodox and Protestant Christians in Ethiopia's Mekele town, police said Wednesday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Green Watch, an environmental NGO has petitioned a Kampala High Court accusing the Ugandan government of failure to control the manufacture and use of polythene bags in the country. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi held talks Monday evening in Tripoli with Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa on the situation in the Arab region and the new Arab summit. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghana government said Monday it had accepted the findings and recommendations of the Commission that investigated the March bloody clashes in the country's Northern Region and would prosecute two men for the alleged murder of a prominent King during the violence. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Wildlife authorities in Uganda, Rwanda, and DR Congo have jointly petitioned Interpol to investigate the increased wave of poaching of the highly endangered mountain gorillas species along their common borders. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The followers of a small charismatic Christian ministry, simply called Apostles, clashed with Muslims in Blantyre's outskirts township of Machinjiri after their pastor attacked the Muslim faith. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The body of a South African who died in the 12 October terrorist attack on Bali, Indonesia, will be returned home on Sunday, the Foreign Affairs ministry has announced. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Every weapon, including military, diplomatic, economic and political means, should be used to cut out the causes of terrorism, according to South African opposition leader Tony Leon. Full text...

Port-Louis Maurice (PANA) -- The manufacturing and import of plastic bags will be banned in Mauritius from 1 October 2003, to protect the island's environment, according to Environment Minister Rajesh Bhagwan. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least 10 people were confirmed dead and property of unknown value destroyed Monday when flash floods swept a settlement in central Kenya following a heavy rainfall. Full text...

Kinshasa- RD Congo (PANA) -- More than 250 mountain gorillas living in the Virunga National Park in the province of North Kivu and in the Kahuzi-Bilega National Park in South Kivu province have survived the war that has destroyed the eastern part of the DR Congo, according to a local official from the Congo Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN). Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who made a brief visit to Libya Thursday apparently failed to convince the country to reverse its recent decision to withdraw from the Arab League. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Local newspapers commented at length Sunday on the visit to Tripoli of Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa, in the wake of the country's decision to pull out of the Arab concert. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan el Bashir has expressed concern about Libya's withdrawal from the League of Arab States. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya has officially asked for withdrawal from the League of Arab States, the Libyan News Agency (JANA) reported Thursday quoting sources at the African Unity Ministry in Tripoli. Full text...