Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Close to one million Rwandans from 192,000 families live in sub-standard settlements, according to an official study. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- A special fund-raising programme on Algerian television last Thursday collected 101,000 million Algerian dinars (about 1,500 million US dollars) to help victims of the floods that hit the country on 10 November 10. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Some 400 experts on oceans and the coastal marine environment, including 20 ministers, are expected to attend a five-day stock-taking conference at UNESCO headquarters from Monday. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia's black rhinoceros population has dramatically increased to more than 100 after being severely threatened by poachers in the 1970s and 1980s. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican government has elevated Coutada 16 game reserve in the southern province of Gaza to the status of a national park, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi told reporters in Maputo on Thursday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya's training centre for scouts this week held a national training day on the protection of turtles and the environment along the country's 2000-km Mediterranean Sea coast. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan Boy Scouts training centre held at the Jouddayim Woods (30 km west of Tripoli), a national training day for the protection of sea turtles and their 2,000-km long habitat alongside the Mediterranean Sea. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Dutch government has boosted the coffers of the Nairobi-based UN Development Programme with an additional donation of 2. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian State Television Wednesday launched a fund-raising telephone show in support of the country's recent flood victims. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Two Kenyan environmentalist have undertaken a unique project which they say is set to revolutionalise the waste plastic paper recycling industry and combat the wanton decimation of the country's forest cover at the same time. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius has commissioned a study to identify the causes of increasing erosion, the Indian Ocean island nation's environment minister Rajesh Bhagwan told parliament Tuesday night. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- US Ambassador to Mali, Michael Ranneberger has donated 20 million CFA francs to victims of the recent flood disaster in Mali's southern town of Selingue, some 160-km from Bamako. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Wildlife Division of Ghana's Forestry Commission Tuesday called for the protection of marine turtles in the country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Lake Victoria Environment Management Programme, or LVEMP, intends to introduce a fast-maturing eucalyptus species in Kenya but the seed price could prohibit its plan. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Nairobi-based United Nations Centre for Human Settlement (UNCHS) or HABITAT is currently involved in efforts to salvage Nakuru town's lost glamour. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Residents near Meru National Park on the eastern part of the country are opposed to the government's plan to translocate more than 6,000 elephants from Laikipia district, in Rift Valley, to their area. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's Environment, Housing and Town Planning Ministry will organise, with other concerned services, a two-week campaign on air pollution starting Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Authorities in Kenya's Central province have announced stringent measures aimed at conserving and managing forests threatened with extinction due to illegal logging. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The African Development Fund, an arm of the African Development Bank (ADB), has loaned Benin about 12. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme (UNEP), has been re-elected for a second term. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Klaus Toepfer, has been re-elected for a second four-year term at the helm of the Nairobi-based agency. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is to relocate more than 6,000 elephants in Marmanet and Rumuruti forests areas of Laikipia district in the Rift Valley, to Meru Game Reserve on the east. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Africa needs to pay greater attention to its marine environment, given the strategic role of the prime ecosystem in efforts to achieve sustainable development of the continent. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Environment ministers from the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) are scheduled to meet in Maputo Thursday to discuss, among other matters, priorities for future co-operation within the body. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya's director of environmental resources and urban planning, Dr Htewish Faraj Htewish Tuesday held talks in Tripoli Tuesday with a visiting UNDP environmental official, Safyane Al-Tal, who is leading a delegation of ecological experts. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Clearing operations are expected to last three months in the aftermath of the devastating flood that killed at list 729 people, with 170 others still missing in Algeria, officials said in Algiers. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- A wildlife specialist has warned that the last giraffe populations in West Africa, notably in Niger, are in danger of extinction following the termination of a project to protect them. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has expressed concern over the dumping of prohibited and outdated pesticides in Africa and other developing regions of the world. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- As the rain season begins in Southern Africa, Mozambique's Southern Regional Water Board (ARA-Sul) has warned people living near river banks to take precautionary measures against possible floods affecting them. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Over 30 gold prospectors were buried alive at Gueguere in Burkina Faso last week when a pit from which they were extracting the mineral caved in, the country's news agency, AIB, has reported. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Angry farmers in Kenya's central district of Laikipia have slaughtered three rogue elephants after hundreds of the jumbos wreaked havoc in the area. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Scores of families were rendered homeless after many homes were submerged in heavy rains that hit the Botswana capital Gaborone Saturday. Full text...

Kinshasa- RD Congo (PANA) -- Authorities in Kinshasa have blamed the devastation of the country's forest reserves on the absence of alternative energy sources. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The Organisation of African Unity (OAU), has donated 100,000 US dollars to Algeria to help alleviate the effects of the flood disaster that has claimed more than 750 lives in that country, an official said in Algiers. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Meteorological Services (MMS) predicted Saturday that there was a high probability that cyclonic activity during the 2001/2002 season would be a normal one. Full text...

Porto Novo- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's Parliament Friday unanimously voted in favour of the country's membership of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Experts from the World Union for the Conservation of Nature (WUCN) and the Senegal River Development Organisation (OMVS) have warned that far from attaining the desired goals, irrigation dams often impact rather negatively on the riverine populations. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), says the just-concluded World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial talks in Doha, Qatar, offer real hope for delivering a fairer and more environmentally friendly trade. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Four days after deadly floods hit Algeria, search operations are still continuing in Bab-el-Oued and its surrounding areas, making the death toll rise every hour. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union has granted 758,800 Euro (about 852,580 US dollars) to Algeria to help victims of the flood disaster in that country. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Fifteen African meteorologists Tuesday ended a training course on tropical cyclones, held in Reunion. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Libyan cargo plane left Tripoli late Monday with unspecified quantities of food and tents for the flood victims in Algeria, the Libyan Red Crescent sources said Tuesday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia says it is sending relief materials, including blankets, drugs and food stuffs to flood victims in Algeria. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerians have expressed impatience with the slow pace of government's relief action following last weekend's floods left over 600 persons dead and hundreds of others wounded and homeless, observers in Algiers said. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has declared three days of national mourning beginning Tuesday following unprecedented floods which killed 575 people, 538 of them residents of Algiers, according to the death toll issued Monday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The death toll from the flood that hit Algeria has risen to 575, with 538 in Algiers, the nation's capital, the Civil Protection Services announced Monday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Moroccan King Mohammed VI Monday condoled President Abdelaziz Bouteflica and the Algerian people over the flood disaster that has reportedly killed some 575 people in Algeria, the State Television (TVM) reported in Rabat. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Amanya Mushega Monday called for a regional initiative to stem environmental pollution at Lake Victoria. Full text...

Nakuru- Kenya (PANA) -- Nakuru, Kenya's fourth largest metropolis after Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu and once rated the cleanest town in Eastern Africa, is feared on the brink of an environmental catastrophe. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Twenty-four hours after Saturday's torrential rains across the country, Algeria is still counting its casualties, estimated Sunday at some 314 dead from flooding and landslides. Full text...