Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- EU Commissioner for External Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, has returned to Brussels after a two-day working visit to Libya during which she met with Colonel Kadhafi and Libyan Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday gave a brief but positive outline of Africa's future, predicting that it would be a continent of peace and prosperity. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Well-trained diplomats are indispensable in a state's conduct of international relations, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said in Dakar on Wednesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Kenya plans to open a diplomatic mission in Libya to strengthen relations between the two countries, foreign minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere said here. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian leader Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya received in audience on Tuesday in Nouakchott Senegalese senior minister of justice, Cheikh Tijane Sy, who was carrying a message from President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Indian foreign secretary Sheri E. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Uganda has told locally based diplomats to desist from making public statements about the country's transition process, which is under attack by the international community, with donors threatening to withdraw aid. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade met in Tripoli on Saturday over the AU summit planned for Syrte in central Libya in July. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin left the country for a visit to Libya on Friday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he expected France to atone for its behaviour that left 45,000 Algerians dead on 8 May 1945. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Zambian President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa arrives in Accra on Wednesday for a three- day state visit to Ghana, the president's office said on Tuesday. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- UN secretary general's special representative to the Great Lakes region, Ibrahima Fall is expected in Brussels Tuesday to begin a two-day working visit for meetings with European Union authorities. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Abdusalami Abubakar, the former Nigerian leader and special Commonwealth envoy, arrived in the country on Thursday and held discussions with Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, official sources said in Banjul, the country's capital. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan Prime Minister Choukri Ghanem held discussions here Thursday with the Speaker of the Italian Parliament, Fernando Cassini on ways to implement a declaration the two countries signed way back July 1998. Full text...

Jakarta- Indonesia (PANA) -- After a two-day summit in Jakarta, Asian and African leaders have agreed to a new strategy for their relationship, with the aim of combating poverty and underdevelopment. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya government has called on the Nairobi-based Transitional Federal Government of Somalia to expedite its physical relocation to Somalia, failure to which it will lose the goodwill both at home and abroad. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The arrival here of Gabonese president Omar Bongo Ondimba brings to three the number of African leaders paying private visits to France. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Gabonese president Omar Bongo Ondimba arrives here Thursday for a private visit spanning an unspecified number of days, reliable sources announced here. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The African Diplomatic Academy (ADA) intends to help Africa appoint its candidates for the UN security council in the prospect of the reforms of the UN system, Benoit Ngom, the organisation's chairman, said Wednesday in Paris. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- French president Jacques Chirac has appointed Bernard Garancher as the next French ambassador to Uganda, official sources in Paris told PANA. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Mozambican President Armando Emilio Guebuza arrived in Luanda on Wednesday on a daylong official visit to Angola to boost cooperation between the two countries. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Monday called for more technical support from Japan, especially in the areas of irrigation and agriculture. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- President Jacques Chirac has appointed François Saudubray as the new French ambassador to Zambia with residence in Lusaka, official sources confirmed here Saturday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Moroccan Prime Minister Driss Jettou will on Friday begin a two-day official visit in France where he will meet with his French counterpart Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Madagascar has "decided to freeze its recognition" of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), whose independence was proclaimed by the Polisario Front, which declared its sovereignty over Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony annexed by Morocco in 1975. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya's External Relations and International Cooperation Minister Abderrahman Chalgham has held audience in Tripoli with the visiting leader of a delegation from the New York State External Relations Council Peter Peterson. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi has awarded Moroccan ambassador Idriss Allaoui the Order of Good Work for immense efforts made in enhancing ties between Rabat and Tripoli during the tenure of his posting to Libya. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins a four-day visit to Mauritius on Wednesday where he will discuss with the authorities the issue of the repatriation of Indian prisoners detained in Mauritius. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Haitian Foreign and Religious Affairs Minister Herard Abraham on Tuesday solicited the support of the Benin authorities for his country to become a member of the African Union with observer status (AU), diplomatic source said here. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi received a message Thursday from his Gabonese counterpart Omar Bongo Ondimba on preparations for the next African Union summit billed for the Libyan resort town of Sirte. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Gabonese president Omar Bongo Ondimba has demanded his former French advisor, André Tarallo, to return all his assets, including a 400 square metre apartment in Paris, the satirical weekly, Le Canard enchaîné, reported Wednesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Kenya and Ethiopia have agreed to intensify security patrol along their common border to ensure residents of the two countries live in peace and harmony, the leaders of the two nations resolved in Addis Ababa on Friday. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa returned home on Thursday after a successful three-day state visit to Botswana during which he held talks with his host President Festus Mogae on a number of issues. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- King Mohamed VI of Morocco, who ended a two-day friendly and working visit here Tuesday, "had not come to mediate between Burkina Faso and Mauritania," the Mauritanian minister of communication, Hamoud Ould Abdy, clarified here Wednesday. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has replaced Angolan ambassador to Italy, Manuel Pedro Pacavira with Boaventura Cardoso, former governor of the northern province of Kwanza-Norte. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- King Mohamed VI of Morocco is expected to make a two-day visit in Nouakchott starting on Sunday, the Mauritanian president's office has said. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- French president Jacques Chirac has appointed Christian Jacob as the country's new ambassador to the Comoros, official sources revealed here Tuesday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The feud between Libya and Mauritania "is now a thing of the past", Libyan foreign affairs minister, Abderahmane Chelgham declared here Monday following an audience with Mauritanian President, Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The situation in Sudan's Darfur region and continued efforts to end the conflict there have been the focus of the tête-à-tête meeting between visiting Colonel Kadhafi and Egyptian President Mubarak. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The secretary general of the Sahel- Saharan States Community (CEN-SAD), Mohamed Al-Madani Al-Azhari, has held talks with the Guinea ambassador here, Abdelaziz Soumah, on his country's desire to join the regional grouping, official sources said in the Libyan capital. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African deputy President Jacob Zuma will host Angolan Prime Minister Fernando de Piedade Dias Dos Santos in Cape Town for four-days beginning Tuesday, the foreign ministry said on Monday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- French President Jacques Chirac has hailed the warm welcome accorded to him upon his arrival on Wednesday in Dakar to begin a three-day official visit to Senegal. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Visiting French President Jacques Chirac told journalists in the Senegalese capital of Dakar on Wednesday that NEPAD was a beautiful initiative for the development of Africa. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- French troops under Operation Unicorn will leave Cote d'Ivoire if African countries, including the host country, do not need them anymore, French President Jacques Chirac said on Wednesday in Dakar, Senegal Starting his three-day visit to Senegal, Chirac said his country's mission was not to conquer Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Three Paris-based NGOs Wednesday criticised the upcoming visit of French president Jacques Chirac to Congo, accusing him of ignoring the disappearance of 353 Congolese from a Brazzaville beach in 1999 to which the government has been linked. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- At least five million euro is to be released by Paris to help organise the 23rd Africa-France summit slated for next November in Bamako, a Malian sources hinted here Tuesday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin, a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Tuesday starts chairing the 15-member body the month of February, a diplomatic source told PANA in Cotonou. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian Foreign Minister Mohamed Vall Ould Bellal and his South African counterpart, Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, have signed in Nouakchott an agreement in various areas of co-operation, sources here said Tuesday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin will on 30 January pay a 48-hour visit to Tunisia, official sources in Paris told PANA Saturday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Commission chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare has called on the international community to make good use of the end of Africa's longest civil war in the Sudan. Full text...