Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya granted audience to Moroccan Prime Minister Driss Jettou, Wednesday afternoon. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- President Maouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania has addressed a congratulatory message to his Israeli counterpart Moshe Katsav on the occasion Israel's National Day celebrated 7 May. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- President Mwai Kibaki Tuesday received credentials from the new envoys of Columbia, China, Angola, United Arab Emirates and New Zealand, as well as special messages from his Senegalese, Ugandan and South African counterparts. Full text...

Washington- DC, US (PANA) -- President Olusegun Obasanjo's re- election testifies to Nigerians' trust and confidence in him to lead them, Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said in Washington, DC. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian head of state Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and interim African Union (AU) Commission chair Amara Essy held discussions here Thursday on progress towards setting up institutions of the pan-African body. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali is due in Algiers Thursday for a two-day official visit at the invitation of his Algerian counterpart, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, sources here announced. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Japanese ambassador to Benin, Yuij Kurokawa said Tuesday in Cotonou his country was "satisfied" with the initiative of African leaders forming the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Two Malian journalists, Mamadou Kaba and Mamadou Bandiougou Diawara, have been appointed as ambassadors to Egypt and Canada, respectively, an official source told PANA on Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi received a message Tuesday from his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade, despatched through Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Five new ambassadors have presented their credentials to Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, official sources disclosed Tuesday in Abidjan. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Senegalese foreign minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio is on a two-day working visit to Libya to deliver a message from President Abdoulaye Wade to Colonel Moammar Kadhafi. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Kuwait has asked Libya's chargé d'affaires to leave the country, while also demanding that Libya reduce the number of diplomats at its embassy to three, the Kuwait News Agency reported Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria has released three Cameroonian soldiers who "strayed" into Nigerian territory in the disputed Bakassi Peninsula as part of confidence-building measures between the two African neighbours, the local press reported Friday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his Libyan counterpart, Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi, Monday stressed the need for a "peaceful resolution" of the current US- Iraqi crisis, according to the Tunisian News Agency (TAP). Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin stated Monday in Luanda that his country will respect Angola's voting position on the Iraqi crisis. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin arrived in Yaounde Monday on a short visit to Cameroon in connection with the US-threatened war against Iraq, official sources said in Yaounde. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Egyptian National Assembly Speaker Ahmed Fathi Sorour has ruled out the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations with Iran. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Belgian Foreign Vice-Minister Annemie Neyt has begun a working visit to Luanda during which she is expected to discuss the holding of an international conference of donors for Angola and the world diamond trade with her hosts, official sources said on Tuesday According to the source, Neyt will hold talks with her Angolan counterpart, Joao Bernardo de Miranda, with whom she will discuss the bilateral co-operation and the situation in the DR Congo, another big diamond producer. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan Peoples General Congress (CGP), which appoints the country's diplomatic representatives has recalled its Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, a release from the CGP secretariat indicated Monday in Tripoli. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- The UN Security Council will Wednesday meet in New York to discuss the difficult situation Guinea-Bissau is facing, a diplomatic source told PANA. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Vice president Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of a two-day visit to South Africa by his Sudanese counterpart Dr Moses Machar, affirmed Friday that the two countries were working at strengthening bilateral relations. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema had talks Wednesday with French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, but details of the meeting were not disclosed. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Moroccan King Mohammed VI and Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are working for a peaceful resolution of the Iraqi question to avoid US-threatened war, Moroccan Foreign Affairs and Co-operation Minister Mohamed Benaissa said in Tunis Wednesday. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- A Chinese delegation of more than 100 members -- led by Li Ruihuan, chair of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference -- is due in Seychelles Wednesday, diplomatic sources said Tuesday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Tuesday granted separate audiences in Tunis to Libyan and Moroccan envoys, who brought messages from their respective leaders, centred on the Iraqi question and the Maghreb Arab Union (UMA), officials said. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- French Co-operation and Francophonie minister Pierre-Andre Wiltzer on Friday arrived in Antananarivo to begin a two-day visit during which he is expected to sign agreements worth six million Euros, diplomatic sources said here. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Kadhafi and his Eritrean counterpart Issaias Afeworki met in Asmara Sunday to examine ways to strengthen Libyan-Eritrean relations, according to official sources in Tripoli. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Kadhafi and his Egyptian and Syrian counterparts, Hosni Moubarak and Bachar Al-Assad, held a meeting in Sharm Al-Sheikh in the Sinai Peninsula Sunday afternoon to discuss the situation in the Middle East, according to official sources in Tripoli. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Visiting Libyan leader, Colonel Moammar Kadhafi and his Eritrean host Issaias Afeworki held their last meeting in Asmara Sunday during which they discussed ways of enhancing bilateral ties between their two countries, official sources said in Tripoli. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- US film star Michael Douglas, visiting Sierra Leone in his role as a UN goodwill ambassador, Friday condemned violence as a means of resolving political conflicts. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Ronji has congratulated his Malagasy counterpart Jacques Sylla, on his reappointment by President Marc Ravalomanana, following the Malagasy parliamentary elections, an official source said here Tuesday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France is to station a diplomat in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe, official sources said in Paris Monday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Visiting Egyptian president Hosni Moubarak held talks Saturday in Tripoli with his Libyan counterpart Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi on the latest developments in the Arab, African and international scene, according to official sources in the Libyan capital. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has indicated that he plans to attend the 19 January inauguration of Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who was recently re-elected. Full text...

Saint-Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- The Chinese deputy prime minister, Li Lanqing, arrives in Reunion Friday for a two-day visit as part of an African tour that will also take him to South Africa, a Chinese official said in Saint-Denis. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Monday received the vice-president of the Iraqi cabinet, Tarek Aziz, who visited Tunis as Saddam Hussein's special envoy to acknowledge the solidarity of Tunis with Baghdad in the US- Iraqi arms crisis. Full text...

Saint-Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- President Marc Ravalomanana and Princess Lalla Amina, aunt of King Mohammed VI have hinted about the imminent restoration of diplomatic ties between Madagascar and Morocco, beginning with the opening of a Moroccan honorary consulate in Antananarivo. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Belgium's consul general Jacques Huygen, who was recalled from Casablanca last December following a visa scandal has been dismissed from Belgian public service, sources in Brussels revealed Friday. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angolan Foreign minister Joمo Benardo de Miranda has said the country will give priority to the pacification of DR Congo and other African countries during its two-year stint at the UN Security Council. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A 37-year-old journalist Adonia Ayabera has been appointed Uganda's ambassador to Rwanda in a major reshuffle which saw several long-serving diplomats recalled home. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth was expected to leave for New Delhi Sunday at the head of a high-level delegation attending the Indian Diaspora Days running 9-11 January. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi has cut all ties with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic of Western Sahara which has been fighting Morocco over the control of the former Spanish colony since Spain pulled out in 1975. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France, in 2002, made a shift in its policy vis-à-vis the internal affairs of African states, reviewing its previous stance that hinged on the principle of non-interference. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- President Abdoulaye Wade has boasted of what he intimated was Senegal's diplomatic radiance last year, adding that the country would in 2003 continue to spearhead implementation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Foreign minister Anil Gayan affirmed late Friday that war against Iraq was not inevitable "in current circumstances". Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cote d'Ivoire's new ambassador to Cameroon Laurent Ayoman Ambohale on Thursday presented his credentials to the country's external relations minister, Francois-Xavier Ngoubeyou. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Morocco's foreign minister Mohamed Benaisa on Thursday handed a written message from king Mohammed VI to the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis, reports the Tunisian news agency (TAP). Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Patrick Foya has been named Sierra Leone's Ambassador-Designate to Liberia, to replace Kemoh Salia Bao, Foreign Ministry sources said Wednesday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Chadian Premier Haroun Kabadi in Paris has called for the departure of Libyan troops from the Central African Republic (CAR) where they have been protecting President Ange-Felix Patasse for several months from his former soldiers out to oust him from power. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France has appointed Louise Avon its new Ambassador to Mozambique, officials said Tuesday in Paris. Full text...