Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Two journalists of Cameroon's private 'Mutations' daily arrested by police Tuesday were released after three hours of questioning, the paper reported Wednesday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Haman Mana, editor-in-chief of the private Mutations newspaper and a colleague, Leger Ntiga were arrested Tuesday by police in Yaounde following publication of an article critical of the police force in Cameroon. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- The World's first English language Islamic Satellite TV channel, Al Majd 2, would begin transmissions this Ramadan from studios in Dubai Media City, Riyadh and Cairo. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Armed robbers stormed into the Greenside offices of the South Africa Press Association (SAPA) and tied up two journalists before they made off with several computers, police said Sunday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France-based Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), a world media watchdog, has appealed to members of the Francophonie to suspend Equatorial Guinea and Tunisia from the organisation for violating press freedom. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The private Monitor newspaper, which Ugandan authorities shut down last week for publishing a story alleging the crash of an army helicopter during fighting with rebels, was Friday back on newsstands with an apology to the government. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The Ugandan journalist behind a controversial story that led to the closure of The Monitor newspaper was Thursday charged with publishing false information prejudicial to state security. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The National Media Institute of Southern Africa's (NAMISA) Malawi Chapter has launched a legal defence fund (LDF) to help media houses and journalists hire lawyers whenever they are sued or they intend to take legal action themselves. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- A press centre for Malagasy journalists opened at the weekend at the premises of the US Cultural Centre in Antananarivo. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The authorities in Kampala has dismissed claims that a search on the offices of a local newspaper, The Monitor, constituted a violation of press freedom in Uganda. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Professional staff of the private media in Niger have for the first time set up a trade union, determined to defend their rights and interests. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's new draconian media laws have begun to impact negatively on regional media growth. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UNESCO Director General Koïchiro Matsuura Tuesday expressed grave concern about the murder of yet another journalist in Brazil. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Workers at public printing plants in Algeria have announced a strike for 15 October to protest against working conditions and precarious finances. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal's Union of Journalists (SYNPICS), has described the 26 September boat tragedy as "unprecedented" in the country's history and expressed its condolences to the families of the estimated 1,000 people that died in the disaster. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Constitutional Court in Mali has withdrawn its complaint against two newspapers and Alliance for Democracy in Mali (ADEMA) chairman, Diouncounda Traore, following mediation by the Mali Association of Griots. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The media rights defender group, Reporters without Borders (RSF), on Thursday expressed grave concern about the bleak situation of press freedom in Cote d'Ivoire since some 750 soldiers mutinied 19 September to resist dismissal. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- State-run Zambian Daily Mail Wednesday accused the US of "pampering" Israel in its actions against the Palestinians. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Deputy President Jacob Zuma has extended his stay in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to continue mediating cease-fire negotiations between the transitional government in Burundi and armed political movements. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema and journalists from the private media held a weekend meeting at the president's private residence, official sources have said. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA) is currently under investigation by the national Anti-corruption Commission, the Director of Information Adewally Bell, confirmed Saturday in Freetown. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon's Communications minister Jacques Fame Ndongo has ordered the country's press to stop interfering in the private lives of citizens, an act which could result in disturbing public order and peace. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The rebel Movement for the Liberation of (DR) Congo (MLC) led by Jean Pierre Bemba, has detained Franklin Moliba Sese, a Correspondent of UN 'Okapi' radio in Gbadolite, UN Secretary General's special envoy Amos Namanga Ngongi, said in Kinshasa. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Vice-President Jacob Zuma left Wednesday for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for the resumption of negotiations aimed at achieving a cease-fire agreement between the transitional government in Burundi and armed opposition movements. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has urged media owners and managers to desist from exposing journalists working in their organisations to situations that could make them compromise professional ethics. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The Burundi government is mounting pressure on the private media through the National Communication Commission Council (NCC) and the Telecommunication Regulation and Control Agency (ARCT), in moves critics see as designed to check reports hostile to the transitional establishment. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched in Dakar a Journalism for Tolerance award "to promote tolerance and fight against discrimination and racism in the media. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, with French acronym RSF, Thursday expressed concern over "a worsening situation of press freedom in Sierra Leone," following government's closure of a private newspaper and denial of broadcasting licence to a private radio station. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Sudanese government to end its crackdown on the press. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- An Ivorian government delegation led by Communications Minister Zacharie Sery Bally, has expressed regrets and sympathy to journalists of the country's two private newspapers -- 'Le Patriote' and 'Tassouman' -- over police raid of their offices, official sources said in Abidjan Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK), has threatened to sue the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) for alleged bias in its coverage of electoral and political activities. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's High Audiovisual and Communication Authority (HAAC) has published a list of 88 new private radio and television stations authorised to operate in the country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) opened its 10th congress in Dakar Tuesday to "review how it can efficiently fight against impediments to freedom of speech. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) Tuesday congratulated the government, NGOs and civil society organisations for what it judged was the successful hosting of the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe, under incessant international media attack for its controversial land policies, said Tuesday it would no longer permit foreign journalists to be resident in the country, but allow them short working visits of a maximum of 30 days. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- The Gabonese Press Club has criticised the National Communication Council (CNC) for suspending two local independent dailies and warning two others. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Police in Abidjan on Monday raided the editorial offices of two local dailies, one of which was accused of false reporting. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A private newspaper, the "Daily Mirror," was launched in Zimbabwe Monday, which its publishers said would pursue an editorial policy independent of business or political interests. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), the umbrella group for the country's editors, will hold a one-day meeting of media stakeholders in Lagos Tuesday, NGE President Remi Oyo said. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Forty Burundian newspaper owners as well as some civil society members staged a round table in Bujumbura during which they undertook to serve the cause of peace, in a society where ethnic hatred is still rampant. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) plans to set up a radio and television station to help publicise subregional integration programmes, the ECOWAS Director of Communications, Adrienne Diop, said in Dakar. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- A media regulatory board in Gabon has suspended two independent newspapers for three months, accusing them of "breach of public order, bringing the State into disrepute and attacking the dignity of senior officials in the country," government daily L'Union reported on Friday Libreville. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togo's opposition Pan-African Patriotic Convergence (CPP), led by former OAU Secretary General Edem Kodjo, Thursday rejected the country's new press code, which it said was against pluralistic and independent press. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Three journalists working for State-owned Liberia Broadcasting System, were acquitted Wednesday by a Monrovia Magistrate's Court of sabotage charges. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia's Zarzis Cantonal Tribunal (South) Wednesday sentenced Islamist journalist Abdallah Zouari to eight months in prison, according to Samir Ben Amor, one of his lawyers. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Eight Beninese journalists were Friday awarded a total of 3 million CFA francs for their outstanding investigative reports on corruption in this West African country. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, facing impeachment threat from the parliament, has met Ghana's former President Jerry Rawlings in an attempt to resolve the dispute between Rawlings and President John Kufuor's government, a source close to Rawlings said in Accra Friday. Full text...

Mbabane- Swaziland (PANA) -- The Mbabane residence of a Swaziland's State Television journalist, Bheki Mazibuko, was raided by plain clothes policemen early Friday, the journalist said. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Police in Niger have detained the director of a private radio station that the public acclaims for enabling them to follow events related to the recent army mutiny. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan's press watchdog, the Council for the Press and Publications, has slammed a one-day suspension on a Khartoum daily for use of "indecent language" in an article on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Full text...