Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A meeting is underway in Bamako, Mali, by experts of the eight-nation West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), to finalise a legal framework on air transport in the sub-region. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Elahe Tirvengadum, spouse of Air Mauritius former general manager appeared in court on Wednesday on charges of misappropriating 1. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- About 200 passengers booked on Air Afrique, the West Africa regional airline, have been stranded in Brazzaville for a week, the company's local representative, Adibo Holonou, has said. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Côte d'Ivoire's national airline has been sold to Air France for 1. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Zambian government is to spend more than 188 million US dollars to reconstruct and repair roads in various parts of the country next year. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan government has agreed to provide a whooping 750 million US dollars additional insurance guarantee for Kenya Airways in the wake of the US terrorist attacks, which have raised insurance premiums for commercial air carriers world-wide. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Ethiopia-Djibouti railway is launching a rehabilitation programme, with indications that a South African and a British company are poised to land contracts for the project. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The Union of Road Transport Drivers of Burkina Faso (UCRB) started a two-day strike Monday to protest against the killing of a fellow driver shot dead by a presidential security guard, the UCRB said in Ouagadougou Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African airlines concluded a two-day high level meeting in Nairobi Tuesday with calls for the setting up of a monitoring body that would help them improve the poor state of intra-African air transport services. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Royal Air Morocco (RAM) cancelled two Thursday flights to New York and Montreal because of the Tuesday terrorist attacks in the USA. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Representatives of Namibia's Transport and Allied Workers Union (NATAU), Thursday continued negotiations with the management of State-run TransNamib Company over demand for pay rise. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Airways (KA) recorded an overall positive growth rate in its operations for the month of July due to buoyancy in its traffic. Full text...

Nacala- Mozambique (PANA -- Zambia has been formally granted membership of the "Nacala Development Corridor", thus winning the right to take part in all meetings to discuss the projects to be carried out after the international investors conference on the corridor. ) Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A five-day meeting of public work experts of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) member states opens Monday in Dakar, Senegal to examine a joint strategy and programme of action for infrastructure and road transport of the union. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Truck drivers in Niger Thursday announced that they had decided to shun the payment of road toll throughout the country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade on Wednesday assured representatives of the moribund Air Afrique airline of his commitment to ensure its recovery and expansion. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A private group has launched a helicopter airline to alleviate transport problems in areas without airstrips. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde Airlines plans to resume flights to Boston in the US beginning next March, its board chairman, Joمo Ramos, disclosed Friday in Praia. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana and Zimbabwe have signed a bilateral road transport agreement after protracted negotiations spanning almost a decade. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Air Mali said Wednesday it has acquired a 103-seater DC-9 aircraft, under a co-operation agreement with Belgian Company NAS-Air. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Railways Corporation will start transporting oil to Moshi Town in Tanzania starting in August, said KRC business development manager Jane Musomba Tuesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Namibia and South Africa are currently sharing experiences, information and ideas aimed at improving their transport systems and harmonising cross border vehicle traffic. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde -- Cape Verde's first private airline, Inter Island Airlines, has suspended flights to the various islands of the country due to logistic problems, the company announced Tuesday. ) Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Over the last six years, South African motor vehicle suppliers have greatly improved their services to their dealers and customers, according to the latest independent study of dealer satisfaction released Monday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Experts from the Transport and Transit Coordination Authority (ACTT) will be in Kinshasa 9-12 July for discussions with transport and communication companies on traffic along the 'Northern Corridor. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Transport, Land and Shipping Minister, Anil Bachoo has announced a 16-percent rise in bus fares in the country with effect from 1 July. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Rail Commuter Corporation (SARCC) this week gave visitors to the Africa Rail 2001 exhibition a sneak preview of their 50 million dollar new look commuter trains. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Civil aviation managers from 28 African nations are meeting in Santa Maria in Cape Verde to analyse problems hampering air navigation in the Africa-Indian Ocean region. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- A private airline intended to operate as a feeder to the multinational Air Afrique will be launched 10 July in Niamey, the airline's chief executive has announced. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- British Airways decided to suspend its traditional summer-end flights between Abidjan and London, with effect from 27 October 2001, the airline's representative said in Abidjan Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has accused the former boss of Air Afrique, Frenchman Yves- Rolland Billecart of mismanaging the eleven-nation-owned company. Full text...

Mutare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's bus operators are not sure they are still in the passenger transport business. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Armed groups opposed to the recently installed Transitional National Government (TNG) have prevented the re-opening of Mogadishu airport and seaport. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- South Korean group Komyung has announced it is setting up a public transport company named "Congo Korea Trans" in Kinshasa that would operate 500 buses. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Negotiations are almost complete for Kenya Airways (KQ) to acquire African Cargo Handling Services Limited (ACHL), its major competitor in ground aircraft and cargo handling at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta international airport (JKIA). Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The overall tonnage for traffic at the Port of Dakar rose by 2. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso Monday laid the foundation stone for a new international airport in Ollombo, over 400 km north of Brazzaville, the capital. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Air France officials in Cameroon's coastal city of Douala have explained recent flight drags as occasioned by "technical problems," the latest such flops occurring last 10 May. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian Transport minister Aime Kabran Appiah has said the multinational company, Air Afrique, needs 50 billion CFA francs (1 US dollar = 700 FCFA) if it is to avoid floundering. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The multinational air company Air Afrique intends to turn Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital into a major gateway to Europe under its 2001 programme beginning Monday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The international show on the transportation of goods, persons and logistics (SITMAP) will be organised in Casablanca from 31 May to 3 June on the theme "transport, a vehicle for economic development". Full text...