Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's "Awash River" has flooded 12 localities in the Ayssaita and Dubti districts of Afar State, the national radio reported Friday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The owners of the only registered wildlife rehabilitation centre in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa have threatened to close down the centre in protest against continuing harassment and obstruction by the provincial Nature Conservation Service. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria has banned the use of second-hand refrigerators and air conditioners as part of efforts to protect the environment. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- An organisation, the Ethiopian Red Fox Protection said more than half a million birr (about 59,000 US dollars) has been budgeted to help save the "endemic animal" found only in Ethiopia. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan's Irrigation Ministry has warned that the nation's capital, Khartoum, risks escalating wave of flood from the Blue Nile. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- About 13 million trees are to be planted Niger this year in a bid to halt the relentless advance of the desert in several parts of the Sahelian country, according to the ministry of environment and desert control. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Wildlife conservation and management lobbyists have expressed alarm at the growing threat on Africa's forests and wildlife, from wanton exploitation a blossoming illegal trade. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese Interior Minister Abdul-Rahim Mohamed Hussein, Friday inspected the damage caused by Blue Nile flooding in Sinja town and a number of villages in Sennar State. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Green Belt Movement in Kenya has written to the World Bank and IMF urging the Bretton Woods institutions to insist on a commitment to environmental conservation as part of the conditionalities for financial assistance to Kenya. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Urgent international efforts are needed to conserve West Africa's sea turtles with studies showing that the region holds some of the world's most important feeding and nesting sites, many of them under threat. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's environmental council has threatened to close about 67 industrial firms in the northern mining Copperbelt Province for allegedly polluting the Kafue river without discharge water licenses. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) is helping Tanzanian authorities appraise the country's industrial emissions. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian government and the European Union have agreed to spend 765 million rupees or 85 percent of the 900 million rupees (about 30. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria's national electricity and gas company intends to use helicopters in order to speed up the cleaning of power transmission cables covered with pollutants. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian government has approved new regulations to protect marine life around the island, officials at the Albion fisheries Research Centre confirmed Monday in Port Louis. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Alarmed by the consequences of a severe drought which hit the country last year, the authorities in Kenya have inaugurated an emergency water supply programme to cover the entire country. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Chad's Environment and Water Resources Minister Oumar Kadjalami has inaugurated in N'Djamena, one of the country's Centres for the control of desertification. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- More than 2 500 people have been displaced after the Tekeze River burst its banks, flooding the Ethiopian town of Humera in East Tigray, municipal authorities said Friday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The Council of Arab Environment Ministers has instituted a 10,000-US-dollar prize for the best research and programme on sustainable development in the Arab world. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Addis Ababa City Administration has launched a 2. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The Arab Council of Ministers has launched an Environment Prize for the year 2002 worth 10,000 US dollars, official sources said in Morocco. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The European Union is to provide financial support to DR Congo's Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) in the latter's bid to revamp the country's parks and reserves, officials said. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The Rwandan government has plans to relocate 12,000 families illegally settled in the Gishwati natural forest, official sources in Kigali said Tuesday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- As many as 40 people are thought to have died recently from sun stroke in the Red Sea coastal city of Port Sudan, news reports said Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The director of Kenya's Institute of Primate Research (IPR), Dr Jason Mwenda, has appealed for collaboration between the institute and partner universities in France. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A row has emerged in Kenya's beach district of Kendu Bay over the removal of water hyacinth from Lake Victoria. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Kaus Topfer Monday urged environmentalists and all those working to improve their natural habitats to close ranks in a bid to forestall the imminent effects of global warming. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Nairobi residents have had to cope with unusually early rains and cold conditions in the past week, with weathermen warning them to brace for harsher conditions. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Although the negative effects of climate change would affect Africa disproportionately, the continent stands to gain from the latest deal on the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Although the negative effects of climate change would affect Africa disproportionately, the continent stands to gain from the results of the recent Kyoto protocol on climate change, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said Friday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Prominent animal disease specialists and wildlife conservationists from various countries this week joined forces in South Africa to address the issue of diseases transmitted between domestic livestock, wild animals and humans. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- The compromise text proposed by the chairman of the UN Conference on Climatic Change, Dutch Environment minister Jan Pronk, was officially adopted Wednesday afternoon. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The standing committee of the Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM) met last week in Luanda, Angola in its 7th ordinary session, a release said Thursday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A regional locust control outfit in Southern Africa is about to move out against red locusts before they form swarms. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A giant passenger ship, which was being towed from the US to India to be dismantled for scrap, sank early Thursday off the Eastern Cape coast. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Bad weather has been blamed for the sinking Monday night of a cargo vessel with 14 crewmembers off the Zangoene coast in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Five southern and eastern African states have agreed to harmonise their wildlife enforcement laws in a renewed effort to combat illegal trade in wild plants and animals. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- The Bonn Conference on climatic change succeeded Monday in reaching a compromise on a text removing obstacles that have so far prevented the coming into force of a UN framework agreement on the Kyoto Protocol. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- African delegates at the Bonn conference on climatic change have expressed "general satisfaction" with the forum after reaching an agreement on the reduction of greenhouse gas. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The UN Environment Programme was prepared to strength its collaboration with African institutions in order to become a full partner in major initiatives on the continent, UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer said Tuesday in Addis Ababa. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The UN development programme has given a total of 168,791 US dollars to enable four Moroccan NGOs undertake biodiversity conservation programmes in humid zones. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African government has welcomed the news of the agreement on the Kyoto Protocol, which was reached in Bonn on Monday. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- The Group of 77 has taken exception to a number of points in proposals presented last Saturday by the Chairman of the UN Conference on Climatic Change, Dutch Environment minister Jan Pronk. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Weather Bureau has been re-launched to ensure that it will cater for the needs of communities such as subsistence farmers, fishermen and vulnerable communities in rural areas. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's minister for state in the Presidency Marsden Madoka on Monday decried the rising illegal trade in live animals in the east, central and southern African region. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Here is the weather forecast for Monday 23 July, as issued Sunday by the Namibian Meteorological Service (NMS). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A massive construction work at the Lekki Peninsula Conservation Project, near Nigeria's economic capital of Lagos, has depleted the population of animals and birds on the peninsula, according to the Project Manager, Alade Adeleke. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- The outcome of the UN conference on climatic changes which is seeking ways to save the Kyoto Protocol adopted in 1997 has raised guarded optimism from several delegates. Full text...

Bonn- Germany (PANA) -- Togolese Environment and Forest Resources minister, Koffi Santy Sany Adade, has deplored the decision by the United States not to ratify the Kyoto protocol, indicating that such position "worries Africa as it is likely to discourage men of goodwill". Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, Klaus Toepfer, is set to pay a two-day working visit on Monday to Ethiopia, a UNEP press release said Saturday in Addis Ababa. Full text...