Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Heavy rains in the Cape Verdean island of Santiago have seriously damaged property, particularly in the town of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Mayor Orlando Sanches said Monday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Current downpours in Rwanda have killed 20 people and displaced 1,200 families in different regions of the country, official sources reported on Monday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan capital hosted this week a conference on building and construction technologies which focused on the realities of the industry and technologies of construction materials in the Arab world. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya will transport two southern white Rhinos to Uganda this weekend. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Heavy rains in north-west Rwanda have claimed two lives, killed five cows, four goats and left 953 families homeless, official sources in Kigali reported Friday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- UNICEF and the Niger Basin Authority have signed an agreement on implementation of a project aimed at producing cheap and non-polluting energy from biogas. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya's first national conference on the environment has called for a national environment protection strategy. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- With the rains taking long to come, water reserves in Mauritius' three main tanks are depleting drastically, the MATERA agency reported Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya will require at least 480 million US dollars to recover from the unprecedented drought that hit the country last year, according to a report on the disaster launched in Nairobi Tuesday. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius experienced its first strong tropical wind of the season, dubbed "Andre," Sunday, north-east of the country, according to the Meteorological Services. Full text...

Victoria- Seychelles (PANA) -- Intergovernmental consultations are under way in Seychelles to set up a regional organisation for promotion of sustainable development, conservation and management of fish resources in the Indian Ocean region, MATERA news agency has reported. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Kadhafi has commended his country's capacities, experience, scientific and academic potentialities, saying they are "a source of pride before the world which thought that Libya was an illiterate country with no scientists or experts". Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A National conference on environmental issues opened Saturday in Tripoli, chaired by Faraj Htewech, Libyan Secretary in charge of Resources, Environment and Urban Planning. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The National Water and Sanitation Authority in Burkina Faso (ONEA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) have signed a financial agreement to the tune of 4. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The National Water and Sanitation Authority in Burkina Faso (ONEA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) have signed a financial agreement to the tune of 4. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The population of mature fish stocks in Lake Naivasha, experts warn, is still too meagre for commercial exploitation eight months after the government banned fishing in the lake. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- An alarming drop in Tanzania's rhino population has led authorities to seek a breeder stock from South Africa and set up a sanctuary for black rhinos that is protected by armed guards round the clock. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A special task force has been formed to look into modalities for lifting a fishing ban imposed on Lake Naivasha, one of the two only fresh water lakes in the Rift Valley. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African Ministers and other stakeholders have started discussions on a continental position ahead of the September 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities Wednesday appointed a task force to evaluate and make recommendations on the management of Lake Naivasha to ensure that the fish stock and waters were not depleted. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Large foreign fishing Companies, capitalising on the decade-long chaos in Somalia are plundering the country's rich marine life and destroying its aquaculture, a Somali civic leader revealed in Nairobi Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A giant cargo ship which sank off Scarborough near Cape Town six weeks ago, was refloated following some dramatic rescue operations early Wednesday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- An environmental awareness campaign on the theme "civil society and environment", dubbed Environment Fortnight, started Tuesday on Benin radio and television. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- An international conference to strengthen the protection of the earth's fast depleting Ozone Layer opens in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme said Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African experts and NGOs began wide-ranging consultations in Nairobi Monday, to prepare a continental position for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) scheduled September 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Full text...

Benguela- Angola (PANA) -- Three humanitarian agencies in Angola, have provided relief materials to some 430 families affected by floods in Dombe Grande Commune of the coastal Benguela province. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The virgin rain forest of the Equator province in DR Congo is the unique habitat of the big monkey, locally called "bonobo", a naturalist association said Wednesday in Kinshasa. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Conservationists and environmentalists in Namibia have begun a campaign to save the Cape Griffon vulture, one of the country's most endangered species currently threatened with extinction. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- For the driest country in southern Africa, there is indeed a reason to celebrate. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Scientists in a chartered helicopter Monday began recording and photographing all whale sightings along South Africa's Cape coastline to monitor trends in numbers and reproductive parameters of this once severely depleted population. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Polish company has introduced a novel house construction method using plastic, which promises to revolutionise the building industry and save receding national forests. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Zambezi valley ecosystem has been selected as one of a group of ecosystems world-wide to benefit from the 600 million US dollar Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) project of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP). Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- DR Congo is currently implementing the framework Convention on climatic changes, project coordinator Maurice Matanda Kafunda hinted earlier this week. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Retired South African President Nelson Mandela opened the giant Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park on Thursday saying the world could use it as an example of how to improve relations between nations. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Municipal authorities in Zimbabwe's capital Harare Thursday introduced stringent environmental pollution checks, and stiffer penalties for offenders. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde is reviewing its poverty reduction strategy with the aim of integrating desertification control and biodiversity preservation as essential components of the national plan, a government source said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Lack of spatial information is partly to blame for unplanned settlements, slum dwellings, pollution and poverty in Africa, experts meeting in Nairobi have observed. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Arab Environment Ministers were gearing up for the 13th session of their council meeting slated to convene in Cairo 24 October to develop environment friendly actions in the Arab world. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Delegates from member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are currently reflecting in Abidjan on ways to lasting development in the sub region, organisers said Tuesday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Within 10 years, Cameroon has experienced 75 natural disasters which cost the state five billion CFA francs, the secretary of state for regional administration, Adamou Modi, said in Yaounde Monday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Some 10,000 ancient date palms in the Ingall palm grove 850 km north of Niamey are in danger, as wells subside and the oasis in which they were planted gradually silt up, the weekly Sahel Dimanche magazine has warned. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Some 400 disgruntled sand extractors, who are members of the 1200-strong Lagoon sand extracting owners and employees common front in Mauritius, demonstrated Monday in Port Louis against a government ban on extraction. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African wildlife television newsmagazine, "50/50" has won the 2001 Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Pal Award. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In a fresh bid to clean Nairobi, the city council has issued an order banning the careless disposal of waste, which it says has become a common feature near schools, churches and other institutions. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- The president of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires, is to attend the fifth session of the parties conference on the UN convention on desertification control (COP 5) to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1 to 12 October. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian capital, Accra, is being clogged by tons of refuse as city authorities and residents disagree over dump sites. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The precarious water situation remains a priority issue on the agenda as the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) introduces reforms, a senior official has stated. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- International efforts to save the world's remaining great apes has received a big boost following a pledge from the government of the United Kingdom. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana has donated four hippopotamus to Malaysia, where they will be used to attract visitors to one of the country's wetlands. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- A meeting of the World Commission on Protected Areas, planned to be held 1-5 October in Tanzania, has been put off following the recent terrorist attacks in the United States. Full text...