Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Cashing in on the ongoing sub-regional ministerial conference on the integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in Nigeria's capital Abuja, a South Africa-based firm is exhibiting a "low-cost, all-in-one personal computer" designed for education in Africa. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria has put in place necessary measures to facilitate the integration of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in education, Education Minister Fabian Osuji said in Abuja Wednesday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar Wednesday in Abuja opened the sub-regional ministerial conference on the integration of ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies) in education, with a call on participants to examine the use and the relevance of appropriate ICTs in Africa. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- US-based Nigerian scientist and Nobel Prize nominee Gabriel Oyibo Monday appealed to the African Union (AU) for a 10 million-dollar annual subvention for his Ofappit Institute of Technology whose work, he said would boost Africa's development. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Thirty-seven girls from nine West African countries are currently in Senegal attending the fifth camp for excellence in science and mathematics co-organised by the Malian intellectual, Cheikh Modibo Diarra and his Pathfinder Foundarion. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited (Ghana Telecom) Tuesday launched a new Internet project the "Broadband 4U," which officials said would enable customers access some of the fastest Internet connections available. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA) will in October establish the "Ghana Internet Exchange" (GIX), to make Internet reliable and affordable. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Palaeontologists from the National Museum of Kenya on Sunday excavated a Homo sapiens fossil in the northern Samburu National Reserve estimated to be over 200,000 years old. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Several months after the African Union decided to include Kiswahili among its official languages, the software giant has announced plans to translate its Office software into Kiswahili to cater for the growing number of computer users in Africa. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The head of nuclear medicine at the Dr George Mukhari Hospital in Pretoria, Professor Mike Sathekge, has been appointed advisor to the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine, becoming the first black South African to join the Federation. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Despite the expected stunning growth of mobile communications in Africa, wireless and copper or fibre-optic backbone installations will continue to be a major part of extending telephony services to sub-Saharan Africa's population. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- An automatic ballot box dubbed New Electoral Device (NOPEL), which instantly processes and registers the voter's choice has been invented by Alpha Alpha Sidiki Cissé, the young Malian inventor who hit the limelight in 1991 with a device for treating sickle cell sufferers. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The sixth edition of the National Forum of Scientific Research and Technological Innovations (FRSIT) convenes here 29 May to 5 June, organisers announced here Wednesday. Full text...

Kumasi- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ministry of Communications in Ghana said on Monday that it has begun reviewing policy implications and impacts of liberalisation and the marketing structure of the telecommunication industry to create competitive avenues for the industry to thrive and expand. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has indicated plans to place 29,000 Ghanaians living with HIV/AIDS on anti-retroviral therapy by 2005, under its global "three by five" initiative. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian government has budgeted three billion naira for the take-off of its communication satellite project called "NigeriaSat-II," according to Science and Technology Minister Turner Isoun (136 naira = 1 USD). Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- A group of 25 Niger journalists and students of the ICT Training Institute (IFTIC) Tuesday entered day two of a training workshop on "scientific extension for sustainable development" focusing on millet farming. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Microsoft Corporation Thursday launched a new initiative which will, for the first time, give computer users in Eastern Africa the opportunity to adapt their copies of Microsoft software products to display commonly used features in Kiswahili, the region's vernacular. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- African ministers in charge of New information and communication technologies (NICTs) ended a two- day meeting here Tuesday with the establishment of an eight- member ministerial committee to harmonise African initiatives, programmes and projects regarding the information society. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- As part of the Universal Salt Iodisation (USI) Programme, Ghana has promised to make the consumption of iodised salt by both humans and animals the norm by 2005. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal on Monday urged African countries to join the Numerical Solidarity Fund meant to mobilise resources to equip the continent with requisite modern technology. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- In its efforts to integrate with the global economy, Ethiopia is entering into partnership with several advanced countries to raise its capacity in science and technology, a senior government official disclosed here. Full text...

Shanghai- China (PANA) -- Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano declared on Friday that he is convinced China will transfer the modern technologies it possesses to Mozambique and other African countries to accelerate their development. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Teachers and researchers at Benin's public and private universities have requested the government to devote at least one percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) to the country's research and development activities. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Madagascar has appealed to Mauritius to help the island develop its information and communication technologies (ICTs), an official source revealed here Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organisation (EARO) said Tuesday that research projects since the beginning of the current fiscal year number 1,529 with an outlay of 34. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Top-flight scientists from UNESCO are due here soon to lay the grounds for a national conference on scientific research billed for May, organising sources confirmed Monday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Amidst a hue and cry by Ghana's research institutions about neglect, President John Kufuor Monday pledged government's full support to initiatives by public and private sector organisations aimed at mobilising resources for research bodies. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- NetMark, a public-private venture working to build commercial markets for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in Africa, is teaming with Vestergaard to bring long- lasting insecticide nets (LLINs) to six African countries. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A new and aggressive e-mail worm titled Bagle. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Cape Town student Nomathemba Kontyo, is to represent Africa at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) expedition, for winning an essay competition on space, South African officials said Friday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- A polyvalent satellite expected to cover the entire Africa south of the Sahara has left the French town of Toulouse ahead of its launch on 16 March 2004 from the Baikonour space station in Kazakhstan, its operator Eutelsat revealed Tuesday. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Microsoft experts are due here next week to help design the Angolan government's future web site, Vice- minister for Science and Technology Pedro Sebastiao Teta announced Wednesday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger Prime Hama Amadou said Tuesday that the government's new information and communications policy would boost access to new technologies through the expansion of the country's internet network. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- A world cyber-policy resource network dubbed (ePol-Net) has been officially launched at the Palexpo in Geneva to help policy-makers in developing countries use information technologies to tackle development projects. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali will Wednesday attend the first phase of a two-day World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Switzerland, under United Nations auspices, a Tunisian presidency spokesman said. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A payment dispute involving Network Computer Systems (NCS) Ghana's biggest Internet Service Provider (ISP) has created connection problems for hundreds of internet users in the country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya has formed a National Nuclear Science Agency whose aim is to prevent the loss of soil nutrients by using nuclear science technology, it was officially announced here Monday. Full text...

Matsapha- Swaziland (PANA) -- President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria has named retired University of Swaziland (UNISWA) Vice Chancellor, Professor Lyndia Makhubu among members of his Honorary Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Some 12 African ministers in charge of Information and Communication New Technologies (NTIC) began a meeting in Dakar, Senegal Friday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Democratic Republic of Congo's scientific research minister Gérard Kamanda wa Kamanda unveiled plans by his ministry to create a national nuclear security council. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France has selected Morocco, Mali, Senegal and the Comoros in a pilot project to develop countries in the South through their scientists living in the North, according to contents of "Scientific Diaspora", a book launched Thursday at a press conference here. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- DR Congo Scientific Research Minister Gérard Kamanda wa Kamanda said in Kinshasa the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed El Baradei had been visited to DR Congo to assess the country's co-operation agreements supported by the agency. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) announced here Wednesday a contribution of 3,850 million rand to foster science and technology development in Africa. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Transport and Communications Minister Tomas Salomao has urged rich countries to share information technologies with poor nations to help spread development. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A senior Ghanaian scientist, Walter Alhassan has been designated to co-ordinate the United States International Agency for Development (USAID)-funded Programme for Biosafety Systems (PBS) in West and Central Africa. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda's National University and the Western Kentucky University of the United States, Friday launched exploratory researches aimed at providing Rwanda with a giant space observation telescope in two years. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Finland and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have entered a partnership deal under which the former will provide 2. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A research breakthrough announced last Sunday by a team of Kenyan medical doctors on test-tube conception has sparked a heated debate, especially among the religious community, which condemned the move as "an abuse of mankind". Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- French President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday stressed the need to "enshrine" principles of cultural diversity "in law by means of a convention" Similarly, "we need to set out the principles of bioethics in international public law" in a "universally applicable instrument", Chirac told delegates attending UNESCO's 32nd General Conference, presided by Michael Abiola Omolewa of Nigeria. Full text...