Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The war of words between former leaders Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), the battle between the two top judicial officers in the country and the successful launch of two satellites were the top stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A big goof by one of the most bitter critics of President John Evans Atta Mills and his ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a controversial report by a reputable governance think-tank dominated the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The media this week put itself under the microscope as Ghana commemorated the 10th anniversary of the repeal of the Criminal Libel Law. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawians' determination to head back to the streets Wednesday, Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Oil shortage was the main issue in Tanzanian newspapers this week, as the government and the frustrated public tussled with oil marketing companies to resume their supplies across the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Domestic issues, including the return of World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Finance Minister, dramatic changes in the banking industry and crime busting by the anti-graft EFCC dominated newspaper headlines in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The Malawi Government's unease over civil society's warning that it would mobilise people to go on the streets again on 17 August if President Bingu wa Mutharika does not satisfactorily address its 20-point complaints after the 20 July nationwide demonstrations dominated the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – It has been a notable week in relation to the deepening energy crisis in Tanzania, which several dailies described as a test for the East African nation. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A mysterious tape that the Ghana's opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) says has caught a deputy minister of Information soliciting help from journalists to slant stories in favour of the government in return for favours was one of the major stories highlighted by the media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The damning UN report on pollution in Ogoniland, nationalisation of three banks and President Goodluck Jonathan's "thumbs down" for government privatisation programme got big media play in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Repercussions from the July 20 mass demonstrations continued to dominate the Malawi media a week after Malawians' unprecedented show of growing disaffection with the government of President Bingu wa Mutharika. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Repercussions of the 20 July mass demonstrations continued to dominate the Malawi media a week after Malawians' unprecedented show of growing disaffection with the government of President Bingu wa Mutharika. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Fears about radiation-contaminated fish imported from Japan and squabbles in the National Assembly after some parliamentarians charged the House procedures were being openly violated were leading issues in the Tanzanian media this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Concerns about insults of political opponents in Ghana and President John Evans Atta Mills' tour of flood-hit areas in the Eastern and Volta Regions dominated the media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The minimum wage palava and knocks for President Goodluck Jonathan's single-term proposal for the president and state governors dominated newspaper pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Parliament’s rejection of budget estimates for the Energy and Minerals ministry in fiscal 2011/2012, amid charges that the ministry’s permanent secretary had attempted to bribe some members of the House to ease approval, overshadowed events reported in the Tanzanian newspapers this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The Ghanaian media this week once again highlighted the issue of homosexuality as religious leaders and politicians pushed for firm action against the practice. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The three-day warning strike, averted at the last minute, Islamic Banking which has stirred controversy across the nation and the continuing menace by the Boko Haram Islamic sect dominated front pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The torrential rain that "soaked" and "sacked" Lagos, the continuing menace by the Boko Haram Islamic sect, and labour's decision to begin a three-day warning strike next Wednesday over the new minimum wage were the main stories this week in Nigeria. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Domestic issues continued to dominate the coverage and comments in Tanzanian newspapers this week with only ‘The African’ speaking up for Africa’s youngest nation South Sudan. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A national delegates' congress of Ghana's ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the continuing revulsion of homosexuality in the country were the major stories that were highlighted in the media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The continuing menace of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, M. K. O. Abiola's remembrance, kerosene scarcity and the birth of the world's newest State, South Sudan, were the main stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – As the fighting between Libyan government forces and rebels drags on, some Tanzanian dailies this week quickly reacted to prospects of a political solution to the conflict, following the decision of the African Union (AU) leaders at their 17th ordinary summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Deliberations in the on-going budget session of Parliament and President Bingu wa Mutharika's austerity measurers on the economy dominated the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Claims of drug money funding political campaigns, the real debt figures and public flogging of a teacher by a chief for allegedly smoking cannabis in public were played up by the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Illicit drugs are dreadful in Tanzania as reported by some dailies in the East African country this week, but despite the growing public worries, many young people are becoming addicted to the substances. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Army's notice of "extinction" to the dreaded Boko Haram religious sect, labour's two-week notice of a national strike to government over unpaid minimum wage, the screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate and the death of the "Lady of Songs" played up prominently in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Efforts to tax parliamentarians, judges and all constitutional office holders and mounting pressure on Education Minister Sam Ongeri to resign over the embezzlement of US$46 million meant for free primary education dominated news headlines in Kenya this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – While a section of Tanzanians feel there is lack of clearness about their country’s leadership, according to one paper, another daily this week urged Africa to place in position competent leadership that will take the continent to prosperity. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The 30 June deadline for all users of mobile phones in Ghana to register their numbers or lose them, the never-ending debate on homosexuality and whether politicians should be allowed to own media houses dominated the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Renewed bomb attacks, believed to have been carried out by members of the dreaded Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram, two new satellites to be launched in July, and a hike in electricity tariff were the main stories in Nigeria during the week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania’s media kicked off their coverage this week highlighting US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s three-day official visit to the East African country before reverting their attention to matters relating to usual public concerns. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A five-year-old chieftaincy dispute in Accra exploded into an embarrassing "coup" this week when two more claimants to the stool emerged, giving the ethnic group of the Ghanaian capital, called the people of the Ga state, three rival chiefs. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Thursday's fatal bombing of the Police headquarters in Abuja, the Nigerian Federal capital city, MKO Abiola and June 12 as well as Nwankwo Kanu's farewell match in Lagos got big newspaper play in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The deepening power struggle in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), which its leaders fear could end up in the birth of a breakaway party by former president Jerry John Rawlings, gay issues and birth of quintuplets dominated the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Government budget announcement rarely tastes sweet, but it always makes headlines in Tanzanian newspapers as it once again did this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The meeting between Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Barack Obama, the corruption case against the immediate past Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, as well as the retirement of soccer star Kanu Nwankwo made headline news in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The much-anticipated 'zero-deficit' budget, necessitated by Malawi's worsening relations with Western donor countries and agencies over deterioration of human rights and good governance, and the continued woes of beleaguered Vice-President Joyce Banda dominated the headlines in the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The openness of gays, their indecent activities and health risks to the society occupied the front pages of Ghanaian newspapers this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Dr. Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration as Nigeria's President for the next four years, his invitation to opposition parties to partake in his new administration and the Super Eagles' swift demolition of renowned Argentine national football team dominated the media this week. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The diplomatic spat between Malawi and its former colonial masters, Great Britain, sparked by Malawi's unprecedented move to expel High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet over a leaked scathing diplomatic cable to his bosses in London, continued to dominate the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The role of Ghana's president John Evans Atta Mills in the investiture of Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara and corruption in the judiciary occupied the front pages in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – This week saw a mixture of issues covered by the Tanzanian press including Africa Day, efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the country’s relations with India and the battle to replace former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As expected, the inauguration on Sunday of President Goodluck Jonathan for a four-year term in office filled newspaper pages in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian newspapers this Saturday devoted their headlines to the inauguration of president Alassane Ouattara, Saturday in Yamoussoukro, the political capital of the country. Full text...

Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - The collapse of a building housing a popular Blantyre eatery and the Malawi government's continued diplomatic spat with the United Kingdom following the expulsion of British High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, dominated the headlines in the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The current kerosene scarcity, political stories, including the forum for newly-elected and re-elected State governors, probing the post-election violence and the pending Super Eagles' international engagements early June dominated front pages in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The Ghanaian newspapers this week covered a variety of subjects, ranging from politics through the economy to social issues. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania’s leading dailies this week highlighted differing issues of concern to the nation and the African continent, ranging from donor aid dependency and poverty eradication to biotechnology and athletic championships of the East and Central African nations. Full text...

Tanzanian papers dwell on domestic, regional issues) Full text...