Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- All the three Zambian daily newspapers on Friday wrote about the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy's presidential candidate, Levy Mwanawasa, noting that his nomination ended months of guessing as to who would succeed President Frederick Chiluba. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Rising crime and cases of AIDS as well as initiatives by some African leaders to steer the continent to a better future were the main issues discussed by the Tanzanian media this week. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Local press reports in Botswana were this week awash with a denial by the authorities in Gaborone that the country was wooing white farmers in Zimbabwe, who are presently at odds with the seizure and redistribution of their farmland. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- A two-day state visit by DR Congo president Joseph Kabila called the shots in this week's press coverage in Namibia, alongside the collective sacking of the board the country's transport company, TransNamib. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya is losing on average 20 medical doctors each month to better jobs abroad, local dailies reported this week. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's biggest newspaper has said declarations of intent by African leaders to see the newborn African Union succeed were not enough and urged the masses to push forward for continental union. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Not surprisingly, South African newspapers gave columns of space this week to grieve the death of one of their own -- Donald Woods, the controversial journalist and leading anti-apartheid activist who died last Sunday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal's enthusiastic welcome for the world 400m champion, Amy Mbacke Thiam, on Thursday and the consequences of recent changes in the leadership of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) were the concentration of newspapers in Dakar this week. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- President Laurent Gbagbo's invitation to former Presidents Henri Konan Bedie and Robert Guei as well as main opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara to attend Cote d'Ivoire's national reconciliation forum on 7 September this week featured in the Ivorian press. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- President Benjamin Mkapa's administration has come under scathing press attacks for its handling of conflicts plaguing the country's burgeoning mining sector. Full text...

GABORONE- Botswana (PANA) -- Junior officers of the Botswana Defence Force who have threatened to mutiny over inadequate pay would be granted salary hikes next April, the local press reported Thursday in Gaborone. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Violence in Zimbabwe's farming area of Chinhoyi received wide coverage in South African newspapers this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Two caricatures of President Benjamin Mkapa appearing separately in one of Tanzania's leading dailies captured the poignancy of editorial commentaries this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Tanzania press this week expressed support for campaigns for land reform in order to reduce land disputes in rural areas, especially between peasants and pastoralists. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzanian media organs this week accused the government of not doing enough to deal with a growing drug trafficking problem, address a perennial food shortage or curb the spread of the killer disease AIDS. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki's concession that his quiet diplomacy policy towards Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe had failed, caused a media stir in South Africa this week and opposition political parties were quick to say "we told you so". Full text...

Mbabane- Swaziland (PANA) -- Swaziland's ministry of education intends to modify the school curriculum to address HIV/AIDS, 'The Swazi Observer' quoted education minister John Carmachael as saying this week. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- President Thabo Mbeki's concession that his policy of quiet diplomacy toward Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe had failed caused a media stir in South Africa this week and opposition political parties were quick to say "we told you so". Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The fatal shooting of Kilome MP Tony Ndilinge in Nairobi's Githurai estate last Thursday underlines the level of insecurity in Kenya, noted the People newspaper in an editorial. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Leaders of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa, or UEMOA, have been asked to consider unpegging the CFA franc from the French franc before the circulation of the euro in the European Union member countries in January 2002. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya PANA - A Kenyan newspaper has said -that Thursday's shooting to death of Kilome Member of Parliament Tony Ndilinge in Nairobi was a sign of the generalised insecurity in the country. ) Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Most newspapers in Senegal this week focused the general policy statement of the government which Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye delivered on Wednesday at the National Assembly in Dakar. Full text...

Cotonou- Bénin (PANA) -- Newspapers in Benin this week directed their attention towards Wednesday's 41st anniversary and developments since the country obtained its independence from France on 1 August 1960. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African papers this week reacted negatively to President George Bush's threat that the US would boycott the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban if Zionism was equated to racism. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africans were jolted this week after President George Bush issued a threat that the United States would boycott the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban if Zionism was equated to racism. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- All the midweek papers in Botswana reported the looming albeit controversial pay packages that MPs in the country recently awarded themselves. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The independent press and human rights advocates in Liberia Thursday criticised a decision by the government not to allow the Catholic Church-run Radio Veritas in Monrovia to resume broadcasting on its short wave frequency. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The raging sugar scandal in Tanzania this week grabbed headlines in the country's leading newspapers. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan independent daily, Al Chams, has lauded the outcome of the latest sub regional summit in Arusha, Tanzania on the peace process in Burundi. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The decree on the re-organisation of the military and Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge's warning to officials over the "hasty" purchase of vehicles were the focus of comments in the Cameroonian press this week. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A daily in Nairobi Friday criticised the Kenyan police, accusing them of "indulging too much in extra-judicial killings" to the detriment of justice. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Newspapers in Congo this week concentrated editorial comments on the armed raid on the residence of Defence Minister Itihi Ossetoumba Lekoundzou in Brazzaville. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Several Ivorian newspapers this week commented on the criminal trial involving eight gendarmes charged with the murder of 57 people whose bodies were found dumped in Yopougon, a suburb of Abidjan in October 2000. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Insecurity was a doinant topic in Cameroonian newspapers this week, with state-owned Cameroon Tribune reporting at least three robberies a day in the capital, Yaounde. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Widely read Tanzanian newspapers have urged government to review its mining policy to benefit all stakeholders in the sector. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- The pending departure of President Eyadema from the political scene in 2003 and the case facing Prime Minister Messan Agbeyome Kodjo and the chairman of the opposition Committee of Action for Renewal (CAR) hit the headlines of the Togolese press this week. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroonian newspapers widely commented on President Biya's absence from the Lusaka summit of African Heads of State - the last such assembly under the aegis of the OAU. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A Ghanaian newspaper has supported a statement by Libyan leader Moammar Kaddafi that the so-called sovereignty which African leaders adhere to belongs to the dustbin of history. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's decision to import zero-rated oil from neighbouring Sudan has sparked debate with the local media urging the government to tread carefully on the move. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The newly-launched African Union (AU) must tackle the continent's daunting economic problems and make Africans self-reliant, Tanzanian newspapers say. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A day after African leaders ended the 37th OAU summit in Lusaka, the independent Post newspaper of Zambia Thursday hailed Libyan leader Col. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Just a day after African leaders ended the 37th OAU summit in Lusaka, the independent Post newspaper of Zambia Thursday hailed Libyan leader Col. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A Sudanese paper today criticized the proposal of the Council of Ministers of the just-ended OAU summit to introduce Spanish as one of the official languages of the organization. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The just-ended OAU summit in Lusaka, Zambia dominated media coverage in South Africa this week with most observers pointing out the importance of the new African Union as well as the Millennium Africa Recovery Plan for the continent. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA -- The government-owned Daily Mail in Zambia has cautioned African leaders meeting in Lusaka to launch the African Union not to allow history to judge them harshly. ) Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Newspapers in Cameroon this week focused the qualification of the Cameroonian national football team for the 2002 World Cup and the extraordinary congress of the ruling Rally for Democracy and Progress in Cameroon. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The defeat of the national soccer team last Sunday by Ghana's Black Stars has sent Liberian papers calling for re-examination of the country's sporting programme. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- If there is one word that dominated discussions in the Tanzanian press this week, it is "commerce," with much of the coverage focusing on the apparent inability of the country's economy to improve the lot of the citizens. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Complaints lodged in Belgium for "crimes against humanity" against Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivorian Interior and Defence Ministers are the focus of Abidjan-based papers this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Wednesday's sudden death of Tanzania's vice-president Omar Ali Juma dominated headlines in the East African country's media in the latter half of the week as millions of Tanzanians mourned their fallen leader. Full text...