Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The authorities in Dar es Salaam have picked issue with a UN report linking Tanzania to the civil war in DR Congo. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has sued a publisher-owner of a weekly newspaper called "Today" over an item it carried alleging that he was having an affair with Tungwa Chanda, a wife of a detained Lusaka businessman named Archie Malie Mactribouy. Full text...

Masvingo- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe military helicopters Monday made daring flights to rescue 60 villagers trapped on an island in the middle of a flooded river in the south of the country, local civil protection officials said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Two brides in full wedding regalia and accompanied aides, friends and relatives, turned up to wed a groom in Kenya's western village of Mumias over the weekend. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundian communication minister Albert Mbanerane announced at the weekend that a journalism and communication school would soon be opened in Burundi to end the "current amateurism in Burundian media. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi University closed Monday following last week's violent student protests, the university's governing body said. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkinabe Muslims Sunday celebrated Aid El Fitr, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, under the sign of peace and forgiveness. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian Parliament plans to hire an Israeli company to provide security at its sprawling complex in Abuja, the private Comet newspaper reported Monday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A train travelling between the South African southern city of Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg derailed near the northern Free State town of Koppies on Sunday, killing at least seven people. Full text...

Benguela- Angola (PANA) -- President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola said Saturday in the southern town of Lobito that peace would come to Angola in 2002. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A nine-foot long famished python with its mouth wide open on Saturday invaded a church, hosting a wedding ceremony in western Kenya, forcing the bride and the groom, officiating clergy and congregation to scamper for their lives, a local weekly reported Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for understanding between Christians and Moslems in the country to ensure peace and unity, as Moslems celebrated Eid-el-Fitr Sunday to mark the end of Ramadan. Full text...

Makoni- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A traditional chief in eastern Zimbabwe Sunday held an elaborate party to honour 2,000 young women in his area for remaining virgins in the "face of rapid moral decay. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- With about 2 500 people killed, 4 000 houses destroyed and more than 200 000 displaced, civil strife has taken a disquieting toll on Guinea-Bissau. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Heralded as a new impetus in Africa's bid for economic integration, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is, 26 years on, having to grapple with political instability at the expense of needed economic focus. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Private sector workers in Senegal would from next January get a pay raise of between 4 and 8 percent, with the higher hikes going to workers of the lower categories. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has received a cash donation of 2,250,000 pounds from the British Government. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Child defilement is on the increase in Rwanda where young girls and even babies are raped by adults, human rights activists in Kigali reported Saturday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- A plane crash Friday in eastern DR Congo killed six people, rebel officials in Bunia reported Saturday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Violence flared again in Blantyre Saturday, as Malawi University students protested the death of a mate, Fanikiso Phiri, shot Tuesday by police. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Still basking in the euphoria of her victory in the Miss World Pageant 2001, Nigeria's Agbani Darego may be dragged to court, after a fellow beauty queen accused her of misrepresentation. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- Angolan welfare minister, Albino Malungo, has underscored the need to revitalise the organs responsible for the protection of refugees, the Angolan news agency (Angop) has reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Moving quickly to douse rising ethnic tension over the killing of an ethnic Igbo driver by suspected Moslem fundamentalists in Nigeria's northern Kano State earlier in the week, the state police have denied rumours that those arrested over the killing have been released. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's organised labour has said it will soon embark on a massive, nation-wide campaign to mobilise citizens to boycott future elections in the country, in protest against the controversial electoral bill signed into law by President Olusegun Obasanjo last week. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican police have arrested 43 illegal immigrants in the southern city of Matola as part of a police crackdown to ensure order and tranquillity during the festive season, the daily "Noticias" reported Saturday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The southern Mozambican city of Inhambane is virtually cut off from the rest of the country by road due to flooding in the Jangamo peninsula, Radio Mozambique reported Saturday. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Residents of the Cameroon city of Douala have been experiencing frequent water and power cuts in the past two weeks. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Government-sponsored paramilitary forces known as "Guardians of the Peace" have committed many killings, rapes and other crimes over the last four years in Burundi, Human Rights Watch charged Friday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Some 116 prisoners condemned to death for violating the common law in Algeria, have been pardoned by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, an official statement said. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The International Foundation of Charity Associations (FKIAC), or the Kadhafi Foundation, named after Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi, has secured the release of 177 Libyan prisoners convicted for various offences. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and the Free State Provincial Government have formed a united powerful force to fight against gangsters in Bethlehem. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawian President Bakili Muluzi has inaugurated a Commission of inquiry into the November death in police custody of Reggae musician Evison Matafale. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Friday approved a financial commitment of about 38 million US dollars to reinforce its operations in Tanzania between January 2002 and December 2006. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Former Senegalese President Leopold Sedor Senghor has been hospitalised in the north-west of France for suspected critical heart problems, authoritative French sources said Friday in Paris. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Christians in Malawi Friday said they would shun the Muslim holiday scheduled on Monday to mark the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan, though President Bakili Muluzi declared the day to be so observed. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A memorial service for former anti-apartheid activist and newspaper editor Donald Woods, who died of cancer in August at the age of 68, was held in East London, South Africa on Friday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Cellphone thefts have been identified as the major cause of the rise in aggravated robbery and insurance fraud in South Africa. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A theme park worth 2 000 million francs CFA has gone operational in Bamako, making come true the dreams of thousands of children in the Malian capital. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Bishop Nelson Onono Onweng of Ugandan bishop Thursday in Paris urged Africans to lobby for peace as the best avenue for continental unity without which the visions currently being espoused to lift Africa out of the socio-economic doldrums would be hindered. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- There has been an increase this year of almost six percent in the number of first level primary schools (grade one to five) in Mozambique, according to Education Minister Alcido Nguenha. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi Thursday denied that his government had ordered the riot police to break up a demonstration outside the country's parliament last week. Full text...

Strasbourg- France (PANA) -- Don Zacarias Kamuenho, archbishop of Lubango (south-western Angola), Wednesday at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France received the Andrei Sakharov Award in recognition of his peace activities in Angola. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Barely 12 hours after Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi announced tough new rules for rapists and child abusers, a clergyman in Meru District, Eastern Kenya Thursday appeared in court charged with defiling a minor. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- As suspicions grow about Somalia harbouring terrorist groups with al Qaeda links, indications are that the US might use neighbouring Kenya as a launch pad for strikes on the Horn of Africa. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Some lecture halls opened their doors Thursday after two days of rioting at the University of Malawi's Chancellor College in Zomba some 68 km east of Blantyre, the commercial capital. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Over 6,500 families of squatters around Douala international airport will have to move after the Cameroonian authorities announced this week that they intend to improve security on all airports. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- At least 58 children were victims of rape or attempted rape in South Africa every day of last year, according to a report compiled by the South Africa Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR). Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- War veterans in Senegal and other former French colonies are waiting for the implementation of a decision by the French Council of State (CS) to bring their pensions equal to that of their French colleagues, said Alioune Kamara, director of the national office for the veterans of Senegal, Wednesday. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togo police are holding 97 pump guns, 22 hunting rifles and 10,250 cartridges taken from seven suspected arms dealers, police have said. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Sports, Youth and Child Development Minister, Peter Chintala Wednesday called for greater efforts for the protection and development of children in the country. Full text...