Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- President Mathieu Kerekou received the credentials Tuesday of the new Ambassadors of the Netherlands and Slovakia. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- French President Jacques Chirac has appointed Jean-Paul Veziant as the new French ambassador to Togo, an official source revealed here Wednesday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- An envoy despatched by Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) leader Mohamed Abdel Aziz delivered a message here Monday to President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Tanzania has appointed a new ambassador to Burundi, eight years after it unilaterally closed its embassy in Bujumbura, official sources said at the weekend. Full text...

Antananarivo- Madagascar (PANA) -- The Malagasy head of State Marc Ravalomanana would, beginning 16 September embark on a succession of trips spanning two weeks within and outside Africa, State House sources indicated Thursday. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- A South African foreign ministry delegation is in Madagascar to negotiate re-opening of its diplomatic mission to the Grand Island, official sources revealed here Wednesday. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos Tuesday held talks here with Guinea Bissau's foreign minister Fatumate Balde on issues relating to the 12 October elections in that country. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- There are indications William J. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi held discussions here Thursday with a delegation from Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by the party's secretary general, Welshman Ncube. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The new Belgian ambassador to Angola, Hubert Correman has a basic mission to interact with Angolan authorities to prepare the international conference of donors for the rebuilding of Angola, official sources said here. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Kenya's new permanent representative to the UN, Judith Mbula Bahemuka has presented her credentials to Secretary General Kofi Annan. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- French President Jacques Chirac has signed a decree appointing Jean-Didier Roisin as France's new ambassador to Senegal, an official source said here Tuesday. Full text...

Casablanca- Morocco (PANA) -- Israeli Foreign minister Sylvain Shalom arrived Monday afternoon in Morocco for consultations on the Middle East peace process, official sources said here. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The new United States ambassador to Mauritania, Joseph E. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Outgoing interim chairman of the African Union Commission Amara Essy has hailed the gradual return of peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), saying the country must regain its place within the comity of nations. Full text...

Antananarivo- Madagascar (PANA) -- Libya plans to raise its diplomatic representation in Madagascar to an ambassadorial level, a top official of Lima Holding, a Libyan-Malagasy joint venture, said here Friday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The French Foreign ministry expressed optimism Friday about discussions with Libya for a "more equitable compensation" of families of victims of the 1989 terrorist explosion of a UTA DC-10 plane over Niger. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- An official of the Bissau-Guinean opposition United Social Democratic Party (PUSD) has accused the country's consul in Paris, Antony Jean Correia of trafficking diplomatic passports. Full text...

Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- Comoran envoy Bacar Salim accredited near Pretoria, South Africa has been recalled to Moroni "for consultation," but Foreign ministry sources say the diplomat has been fired by his country. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo arrived here Monday at the start of a two-day official visit with his Ghanaian counterpart, John Agyekum Kufuor. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Guinean President Lansana Conte held talks on Friday with an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) delegation led by erstwhile Nigerian President, Abdusalami Abubakar, the national television has reported. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Madagascar has been elected deputy-chairman of the 58th United Nations General Assembly, which begins sitting in September, an official statement said here Thursday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The Beninese government has appointed Omer de-Souza as its ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire, an official statement said here Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The question confronting the international community is no longer whether Somaliland, a breakaway autonomous region of Somalia, should be recognised as an independent state, but whether there remained any viable alternative, according to a report by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG). Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Sierra Leone has withdrawn recognition from the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR, Sierra Leonean Foreign minister, Al Haji Momodu Koroma said Wednesday in Rabat. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- King Mohamed VI of Morocco has held telephone conversations with the US and French Presidents George W. Full text...

Bangui- Central African Republic (PANA) -- France Remains a loyal, active and demanding partner" of Central African Republic, the new French ambassador to Bangui, Michel Destouesse, declared here Monday. Full text...

Saint-Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Madagascar's new Ambassador, Bruno Ranarivelo has presented his letters of credence to President France Albert René of the Seychelles, undertaking to invigorate ties between the two countries. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Senegalese envoy Pierre Agboba delivered a message Wednesday to Cape Verde President Pedro Pires from President Abdoulaye Wade, official sources said. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- A court in Algiers has sentenced an Algerian diplomat to five years in prison for "spying, collaborating and revealing information that can endanger national security and military institutions at the service of Moroccan intelligence. Full text...

Malabo- Equatorial Guinea (PANA) -- The US State Department has decided to reopen "in the next three months" the American embassy in Equatorial Guinea, an official source said here Monday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- French President Jacques Chirac has appointed Jean-Marc Simon as ambassador to Gabon, replacing Philippe Selz, official sources disclosed here Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- President Mwai Kibaki on Wednesday called on foreign diplomats accredited to African countries to avoid playing the old politics of exploiting unfortunate situations in Africa for their own benefits. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- An Ivorian Foreign ministry official has urged security personnel to stop searching the vehicles of diplomats accredited to the West African nation. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Morocco's communication minister Nabil Ben Abdallah said here Thursday that the time was not ripe for a summit between Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and King Mohamed VI. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos received Wednesday a message from his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade relating to a conference of African intellectuals in the Diaspora slated for December in Dakar. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Angolan Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos arrives in Cape Verde Tuesday at the start of a three-day working visit aimed at concretising economic ties, official sources announced here Monday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Jean Marc de la Sablière, head of a 15- man UN Security Council delegation on an African tour over the DR Congo conflict, Saturday appealed to the various stakeholders in the Congolese crisis to restore confidence amongst themselves. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The guide of the Libyan revolution, Col. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- A 15-member UN Security Council delegation on a peace mission to the Great Lakes region is expected to hold talks with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali on Saturday, a Rwandan foreign ministry source said. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Thursday threatened to expel the British High Commissioner (ambassador), Brian Donnelly, accusing him of masterminding the opposition to his rule. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi Thursday held talks with Italian Foreign Minister Frattini Franco, who is in Tripoli to delivered a special message from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Italian Foreign Minister Frattini Franco and his Libyan counterpart Abderrahmane Chalgam Thursday held talks in Tripoli on progress in bilateral cooperation between the two countries in various fields. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya has decided to cut diplomatic relations with Iraq, close its embassy in Baghdad and withdraw its entire staff from there, official sources said here Sunday. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- President Lansana Conte has appointed Alpha Ibrahima Sow Guinea's permanent representative at the UN in New York, State radio announced here Tuesday. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Mauritian president Karl Offman arrived in Saint Denis Monday to participate in the 8th Indian Ocean Communication University (UCOI) annual meeting from 20-23 May. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Senegal and Mauritania "are one nation with two states," Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said in Nouakchott on Thursday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi Saturday held talks with the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, on a recent tour of several Arab capitals, the Libyan news agency, JANA, reported. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- After freezing for 40 years, diplomatic relations between Ethiopia and Portugal are beginning to thaw and Lisbon's ambassador has started his tour of duty in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya said it would like to see New Zealand open a diplomatic mission in the country, Foreign Minister Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka said in Nairobi while welcoming the New Zealand High Commissioner accredited to Kenya, Warren Searell. Full text...