Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said here Monday that opportunities provided by satellite technology should be shared by in a partnership that benefits all of humanity. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) e-Africa Commission on Monday began hosting a ceremony here for the signing of a protocol on the broadband ICT infrastructure network project - including the Eastern Africa sub-marine system (EASSy cable). Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa was elected chairperson of the Nuclear Suppliers Group for 2007-2008, at the group's consultative meeting held Thursday in Vienna, Austria. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) – Microsoft Company has pres-ented 12 computers with accessories to the Gambian government, an official press release said here Thursday. Full text...

New York (PANA) -- When he left Nigeria in 1975 for America, Emeka Uzoh's simple goal was to pursue higher education in a safer environment than in post-civil war Nigeria. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame has officially launched the NEPAD e-schools demonstration project, making Rwanda the fifth country to do so, according to NEPAD's official bulletin. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – A Senegalese researcher, At-ta Diop, on Monday proposed in Paris the installation of solar energy power stations to help meet the Africa's electricity needs and lessen the burden of the soaring oil prices. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Science and Technology Ministers from six African nations have underscored the need to develop appropriate structures to facilitate the movement of experts and sharing of resources to enable cooperation in science, technology and innovation in the region, according to NEPAD's official bulletin. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican government banks on support from American software giant Microsoft to develop the country's Information and Communications Technology industry, Science and Technology Minister Venancio Massingue has said here. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A Ghanaian nuclear physicist Edmund Osae, Monday called on the country to develop nuclear energy to help address is electricity problems. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Scientists working in Ethiopia Wednesday announced the discovery of the earliest and most complete skeleton of a juvenile human ancestor ever found in the world. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria is to host a two-day Digital World Conference on Information Communications and Technology (ICT) in Abuja from Tuesday, organisers said at the weekend. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) - – The level of access to the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Cameroon is still low, Posts and Telecommunications Minister, Bello Bouba Maïgari lamented Thursday in a survey report here. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- An international symposium on neurosciences organised by the Association for the promotion of neurosciences (APRONES) opens Thursday in Kinshasa, according to Dr Tharcisse Kayembe Kalala, president of APRONES. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Ministers in charge of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) from 23 East and Southern African countries are meeting here on a protocol for the implementation of an underwater fibre optic cable in the Indian Ocean region. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) – A scientific mission- made up of 20 researchers is in Mayotte to map the seabed, sources revealed in St Denis, the capital of Reunion. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Cars in Nigeria will start running on a combination of petrol and 10 per cent ethanol from the last quarter of 2006, the local media reported Thursday, quoting the Minister of State for Petroleum, Edmund Daukoru. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Rwanda will host a protocol signing ceremony of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministers from Eastern and Southern Africa participating in the NEPAD broadband infrastructure network, including the Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSY) cable, in Kigali 28-29 August. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Astronomers at the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) have made public their first serious scientific results - a study of a binary star system 400 light years away from earth. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – A local NGO plans to open a- multimedia centre to train youngsters on new information and communication technologies shortly in Guinea's eastern city of Kankan, according to Amara Camara, promoter of the project. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria is to commission its first nuclear plant in 10 to 12 years time, but the acquisition of nuclear technology would be for peaceful purposes, President Olusegun Obasanjo announced here Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Africa might in future be forced to consume genetically modified food products from other continents if it failed to develop adequate research capacity on genetic modification, a panel of experts warned here Tuesday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian scientists have produced a brand of heat-resistant chocolate in what is being regarded as a major breakthrough in food science, the "British Food Journal" has reported in its latest issue. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, has announced that his firm is in the process of partnering with South African cellular operator MTN to help bring affordable broadband Internet connectivity to the country. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Government is negotiating for a $30-million Chinese concessionary loan to speed up Information Communication Technology (ICT) connectivity to rural areas. Full text...

Cape Town- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday invited all cooperation partners, and the Microsoft Corporation in particular, to join the efforts of Mozambique and Africa to harness information and communication technologies to development programmes. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's bid to promote a home-grown Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is being frustrated by the exodus of indigenous professionals, Capacity Building Minister Teferra Waluwa, revealed here Monday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and former US President Bill Clinton have arrived in Cape Town to address a two-day conference of African government leaders on use of Information Technology (IT) to promote social and economic development. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Ministers of Science and Technology in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold a one-day conference Friday in Pretoria to prepare for the SADC Summit slated for Lesotho in August. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Second African Regional Youth Congress on Science and Technology entered its second day here Tuesday with participants discussing best practices to tap science and technology for food security and improved health in Africa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) --Kenyan scientist Davy Koech, revered for earth- breaking discovery of Kemron, a drug which sought to address the nutritional aspects of the HIV/AIDS, has been given an award from the prestigious Australian-Asian Institute of Civil Leadership for his scientific escapades. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The liberalisation of the Telecommunications sector, started some years ago in Africa to meet the new demands of globalisation but also to allow the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) facilities and their easy availability to disadvantaged populations, has not yet brought the desired changes, according to ICT experts here. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) plans to convene an international conference here Monday under the theme: "Engineers and sustainable development in Africa: African solution to African problems". Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa has become a world- leader in the field of radio frequency identity (RFID) tracking, tagging everything from endangered species in the bush to inmates in prison and guarding babies against abduction in maternity wards. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- A 32-year-old Congolese woman, Karine Ndjoko, has won the Alfred Vogel Prize for her thesis written at the Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Institute (IP) at the Lausanne University, according to a Swiss newspaper. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian Lancine Sylla has been appointed head of the African Regional Cooperative Agreement for Research (AFRA), an intergovernmental body to promote the development and application of nuclear science and technology in Africa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Africa Online, a Kenyan firm with operations in nine African countries, on Tuesday launched a new telecommunication linkage service, providing users with mobile Internet and voice on Internet connections. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo stressed on Monday that the government was determined to promote the inclusion of rural communities in the development of the country based on science and technology. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan general Office on Documentation and Communications and an American company specialised in the implementation of geographical data plans and programmes have signed a co-operation accord to improve government's database in Tripoli. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Scientists working in Middle Awash valley of Afar Region in eastern Ethiopia Wednesday announced the discovery of fossils they claim help define the origin of the ape-man genus, 'Australopethicus'. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Intelsat, a global communications service provider, has announced the signing of a multimillion dollar contract with the Agency for the Safety of Aerial Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) to expand its satellite capacity. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- More than 1,200 tourists joined hundreds of thousands of locals in Agadez, Niger to watch the solar eclipse that took place Wednesday at about 10:35 local time, Tourism minister Amadou Nouhou disclosed. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Sirens blared across Accra, the Ghanaian capital, shortly after 0908 hours GMT as the nation went dark in an experience of a total eclipse of the sun. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Delegates at the fourth international conference on electric and electronic engineering have called for the promotion of scientific research and cooperation with universities, research centres and specialised institutions at the national, regional and global levels. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- For millions of people on the southern third of Ghana, March 29, 2006 is a day they are anxiously waiting for. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Modified mobile phones -- which can be acquired for as little as US$1,000 over the Internet -- have been found in some of South Africa's corporate boardrooms hidden and awaiting remote activation for use as remote listening devices. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya and France agreed to cooperate in the use of civilian nuclear energy during a meeting the two sides held in Tripoli on Wednesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- France plans to establish partnership with Libya in the field of civil nuclear technology, visiting French general administrator of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Alain Bugat, said here Wednesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A five-day international workshop on "radio-electric spectrum" is underway in Bamako, Mali, organised by the Dakar-based International Telecommunications School (ESMT) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Full text...

Doha- Qatar (PANA) -- The Arab world was lagging behind in the digital revolution, with Internet users making up less than four percent of its population, according to an ICT development conference here on Monday. Full text...