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...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin newspapers this week widely commended the country's ratification of the constitutive act of the African Union (AU), which came into force on 26 May. Full text...

GABORONE- Botswana (PANA) -- The independent Botswana Gazette reported in its latest edition that recent developments in Zimbabwe were scaring investors away from the southern African region. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The press in Burkina Faso this week widely featured threats by teachers' unions to disrupt this year's certificate examinations. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The resumption of economic and financial co-operation between the European Union (EU) and Cote d'Ivoire, and murders committed at a home of a journalist are the main focus of the press this week. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- This week the press in Benin has focused its comments on the crisis within the Renaissance of Benin (RB), the opposition party of former President Nicephore Soglo. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The ranking of Senegal as among the world's most corrupt countries - 65th out of 91 - and the attacks by the Socialist Party against President Wade are the most covered discussions in the press this week. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- While the state media early this week reported of a demonstration organised by the Konian and Kouranko peoples in support of a third mandate for President Lansana Conte, the private press dealt with the issue from a different angle. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Zambia's privately owned weekly, 'The Monitor', has criticised the government for the belated preparations being made to host the forthcoming 29th Summit of African leaders which is billed to usher in the African Union. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- No single event dominated media coverage in South Africa this week, but the 46th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, President Thabo Mbeki's visit to the US and the axing of Springbok captain Andre Vos were all widely covered. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's civil servants should feel uneasy after the government decided this week to scrap subsidy on their rentals. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Newspapers in Kinshasa this week focused on the controversial matter of resumption of cooperation between DR Congo and its former colonial power, Belgium. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Police brutality against leaders and members of the National Federation of Education Workers in Congo was the focus of comments in Congolese newspapers this week. Full text...