Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Namibia on Friday became the 8th African Union (AU) member state to ratify the protocol to the treaty establishing the African Economic Community (AEC) relating to the Pan-African Parliament. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Amara Essy, the Interim President of the African Union Commission, has condemned the September 9 massacre of 183 people, including 112 civilians in Burundi's Gitega Province, as an "odious act". Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Commission's interim President Amara Essy has warned Ivorian political and military actors to avoid any form of unconstitutional change in Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The East African Community secretariat is studying proposals for the establishment of a council of elders to guide the integration process envisaged by the EAC. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The African intergovernmental conference on prevention and combating terrorism ended here Saturday with adoption of a plan of action that will be submitted to the cabinet meeting of the African Union for approval. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- Ghana's High Commissioner in the UK, Isaac Osei, has stressed the need to build a world in which mass poverty would exist only as a reminder of the harm it has inflicted on humanity. Full text...

Mbabane- Swaziland (PANA) -- South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma, says the African Union (AU) will not interfere in Swaziland's internal politics. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The interim President of the African Union (AU) Commission, Amara Essy, says the African inter-governmental meeting on the prevention and fight against terrorism opening Wednesday in Algiers would boost continental actions against the crime. Full text...

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Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Interim AU commission chairman Amara Essy has cautioned that the land issue in Zimbabwe should not be reduced to the person of President Robert Mugabe, arguing that whoever rules the country would have to face up to these problem. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Interim AU Commission chairman Amara Essy pleaded Sunday in Johannesburg for halt to subsidies that give agricultural exports from developed countries an edge on the world market, to the detriment of African producers. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) has not changed its position calling for fresh elections to resolve the political crisis in Madagascar, Amara Essy, interim President of the AU's Commission, said Sunday in Johannesburg, South Africa. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Madagascar's new government of President Marc Ravalomanana has been invited to participate in activities of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) in spite of its non-recognition by the African Union, it was officially disclosed on Friday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The chairman of the African Union Commission Amara Essy on Friday highlighted the important role of the African civil society in the newly launched continental body. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The outcome of the Johannesburg summit will be valid for sustainable development only if it agrees on satisfactory fundamental issues affecting Africa, Amara Essy, chairperson of the Commission of the African Union said here Thursday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A four-day high level African Union (AU) meeting opens in Algiers on 11 September to discuss measures for curbing and fighting terrorism, says a news release issued by the Algerian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- A delegation of Cape Verdean MPs is expected to leave Praia Friday for Abuja (Nigeria) to take part in the 4th ordinary session of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a reliable source said Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African rights activist Pierre Sane has called for a people-driven African Union, saying the continental integration project enunciated in July would not be realised if it is not people-driven. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the Dutch auction system of foreign exchange allocation recently introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is a temporary measure to stem the worsening exchange rate of the naira currency. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The executive council of the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) has said in Tripoli it was pleased that the mutiny, which broke out in the extreme east of Niger in early August, has ended. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Executive Council of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) has stressed the key importance of upgrading the region's road, airport and maritime infrastructure during its just-ended meeting in Tripoli, Libya. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The general secretariat of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) have briefed the Executive Council in Tripoli on the competition of a study on the ramifications of forming a conflict prevention, management and resolution mechanism. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Community of Sahelian-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) is setting up its own finance house whose start-up capital has been fixed at 250 million euros. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A two-day meeting of the executive council of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) ended Friday night in Tripoli after reviewing the political, economic and security situation in the region. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The evolution of the peace process in Sudan was discussed at length during proceedings of the eighth session of the executive council of the Community of Sahelo- Saharan States (CEN-SAD) which ended Friday night in Tripoli. Full text...

Bangui- Central African Republic (PANA) -- An observer mission from the Central African Economic and Monetary Union (CEMAC) and the African Union (AU), charged with resolving the dispute between Chad and the Central African Republic, arrived in Bangui Thursday and met with President Ange-Felix Patasse. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The secretary of the Libyan general popular committee on African Union, Dr Ali Triki has underscored what he said was the "very important" role the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) now plays in Africa and the world at large. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The first edition of the African Integration Stars festival (SICA) will hold on Saturday in Cotonou, the organisers indicated on Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The adoption of the New Basle Capital Accord on global banking by West African countries will accelerate the process of monetary integration in the sub-region, according to the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Joseph Sanusi. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee (CIP) of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) have expressed support for the creation of a federation grouping eight member-countries of UEMOA. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Senior Tanzanian leaders Thursday poured out their support for an expedited customs union of the East African Community (EAC) and urged Amanya Mushega, secretary general of the Arusha-based organisation to ensure the process remained on course. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Upper organs of the African Union (AU) are examining prospects of Madagascar's membership and recognition of President Marc Ravalomanana's government, an official source in Antananarivo revealed Wednesday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Swedish truck manufacturer Scania announced Monday it would reopen a bus assembly plant it closed in Zimbabwe several years ago due to low demand. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The leader of the Libyan revolution, Colonel Moammar Kadhafi, Sunday night received Gambian vice president Issatou Njie Saidy and her delegation, official sources said in Tripoli. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan daily, Al-Jamahiriya, says that the African Union (AU) has changed the socio-politico- economic landscape of Africa. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Foreign Minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has expressed confidence that the African Union (AU) will deal effectively with political challenges of peace, stability and security issues on the continent. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Thirty years on, the project launched way back 1971 for the construction of the trans-Saharan highway linking Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Mali to the Algerian and Tunisian ports on the Mediterranean Sea is still afoot. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- A programme for the reintegration of former Congolese fighters into social and economic life has stalled for want of funding, official sources conceded Wednesday in Brazzaville. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- A programme for the reintegration of former Congolese fighters into social and economic life has stalled for want of funding, official sources conceded Wednesday in Brazzaville. Full text...

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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A South African business executive has described the recent peace agreement signed by Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a positive development for the future of the African Union (AU) launched in Durban, South Africa in July. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Visiting South African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad held discussions with French officials in Paris Tuesday on efforts to promote stability in Madagascar. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Deputy minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said here Tuesday that poverty eradication and conflict resolution would be the major focus of South Africa's chairmanship of the African Union. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade expressed the wish Monday, to see the creation of a federation of the member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) which, in the long run, would merge with Nigeria to form the Confederation of the West African States. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- South African President and current chair of the African Union (AU), Thabo Mbeki, is to lead an AU delegation to Madagascar soon, Mauritian press reported at the weekend quoting Louis Mnguni, South African Ambassador to Mauritius. Full text...

Bangui- Central African Republic (PANA) -- The Secretary General of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) Mohamed Al Madani of Libya is in Bangui to witness the incineration of arms collected in the strife-torn Central African Republic (CAR). Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- After years of a formally structured alliance, African countries are about to launch an economic and political union. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A tripartite meeting of ECOWAS, EU and the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA), opened in the Senegalese capital Wednesday focusing on poverty alleviation and economic integration. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor said Monday that regional integration would help West Africa deal with globalisation. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The guide of the Libyan revolution, Col. Full text...