Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique is to reform its legal system to ensure that suspects of violent crimes are denied bail, Interior Minister Almerino Manhenje has said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya Friday toured the clash-torn Kibera Estate within Nairobi and ordered an immediate crackdown against those he said were inciting the residents to fight against each other. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) marked its 24th anniversary and Africa Telecom Day Friday, with the continent still struggling to catch up in the global information and communication technology (ICT) race. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- The Netherlands is to grant Guinea-Bissau 500,000 US dollars to clear mines in the country, Bissau UN anti-mines coordinator Rui Miranda said Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi arrived in Dar es Salaam Friday for a three-day state visit in the course of which he would be chief guest at Tanzania's 40th independence anniversary celebrations on 9 December. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi arrived in Dar es Salaam Friday for a three-day state visit in the course of which he would be chief guest at Tanzania's 40th independence anniversary celebrations on 9 December. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A scheme is in the works to provide financial assistance to families of Mauritius police officers killed or injured in the line of duty, the regional MATERA news agency hinted Friday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Cape Town police say a security guard detained in connection with the murder of former First Lady Marike de Klerk confessed to the crime late on Thursday night. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- More than 60 percent of Burundians are badly fed while 25 percent lack enough food to eat, indicates a report issued Thursday by the ministry of agriculture and livestock. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Three media associations in Benin have protested against Monday's decision by the country's Communication and Broadcasting Authority (HAAC) to withdraw the press accreditation of a journalist over alleged false publication. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Journalists in Botswana are working on a self-regulatory body to pre-empt the passage of an anti-press Bill proposed by the government. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- A 10-day deadline given a commission of inquiry into the assassination of Burundi WHO representative Kassi Manlan ran out Wednesday with still no lead to the perpetrators of the crime. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Social and political scientists from several African countries are meeting in Bujumbura to reflect on traditional institutions and their potential role in conflict resolution. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- A unit of the Mozambican riot police Wednesday broke up violently a demonstration outside parliament by a group of citizens who had once worked in the now defunct German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the nation's parliament to quickly amend the law setting up the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to make all stakeholders contributors of funds to the body. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Two Zambian non-governmental organisations concerned with the status and human rights of senior citizens have begun preparing for a UN world assembly on ageing to be held in Spain from 8 to 12 April 2002. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African police Thursday arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of Marike de Klerk, former wife of South Africa's last apartheid era president, FW de Klerk. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Some 37 street children have re- joined their families in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, thanks to efforts by an NGO, Solidarity Action for the Children. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi Wednesday received US official Walter Kainsteiner for talks on international terrorism and the alleged existence of terror groups in Somalia. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Three gangsters on Tuesday evening shot dead a Frenchman in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital, police sources said Wednesday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The official death toll from the ethnic fighting at Bawku, some 930-km north of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, has risen to 28 following the death of two more victims. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Doctors For Life, a non-governmental organisation of 740 medical doctors, has urged the South African government to clampdown on pornography, which it links with the rising child rapes in the country. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Director of Botswana's Information and Broadcasting, Andrew Sesinyi has rejected the government's proposed mass media Bill, saying it undermines press freedom. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Director of Botswana's Information and Broadcasting, Andrew Sesinyi has rejected the government's proposed mass media Bill, saying it undermines press freedom. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The World Bank is going to release 36 million US dollars to Burkina Faso for its 10-year education programme, official sources in Ouagadougou said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A French national on a cycling expedition across Africa died Tuesday in a road accident along the Nairobi-Moyale-Addis Ababa road near the Kenya-Ethiopia border town of Moyale, police said Wednesday. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Two Europeans were arrested at Mauritius international airport Tuesday for attempting to bring into the country 4. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- As details emerge on the death of Marike de Klerk, ex-wife of erstwhile South African President FW de Klerk, the initial fears of a suicide are giving way to suspected murder. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The death toll in a bloody ethnic clash between Mamprusi and Kusasi at Bawku, some 830 km north of Accra, has risen to 26, police indicated Wednesday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The ex-wife of former South African President FW De Klerk was found dead late on Tuesday afternoon at her Dolphin Beach home, Blaauberg, on the Cape West coast. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Uneasy calm returned to Nairobi's Kibera slums Wednesday, after a stepped in to contain a bloody skirmish between tenants and landlords, that left at least ten people dead. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- A very fruitful petty trade, run by small "roadway employees", has been developing over the past months in the vicinity of the main traffic lights in Yaounde, Cameroon. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Malian authorities on Tuesday arrested a top Rwandan genocide suspect accused of planning, inciting and perpetrating genocide against Tustsis in Rwanda is 1994, judicial sources said in Kigali. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Riot police in Maputo on Tuesday dispersed a demonstration by a group of former Mozambican migrant workers in the now defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR). Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African police has arrested a 37-year-old Czech Republic man who was convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment for armed robbery in 1994. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Calm has returned to Bawku town, 830 km north of Accra, after a weekend of deadly clashes between the Kussasi and Mamprusi ethnic groups which left 18 people dead and dozens of others injured. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambian (PANA) -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has conceded that wars in neighbouring countries were placing an enormous strain on the refugee programme in Zambia. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Bade Onimode, a renowned professor of economics and former deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), has died at the age of 57, press reports said Tuesday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi president Bakili Muluzi has ordered an inquiry into the controversial circumstances that led to the death of reggae singer Evison Matafale last week. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- A second Nigerian national has died of injuries suffered as a result of torture at the hands of Liberian presidential guards, family sources disclosed Tuesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- There is growing outrage in South Africa over the high incidents of child rape with indications that angry communities are more willing to take the law into their own hands. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- The Director of the Tunisian National Radio, Awatef Hmida, was killed Sunday in her home at El Menzah District near Tunis, media sources said Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's advisory body on population has ratified the revised national population policy after four years of scrutiny. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has approved the compulsory retirement of a judge of the federal High Court in the South-Eastern city of Calabar for "gross misconduct". Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawian police and villagers continued the search Tuesday for the body of Albert Gombwe, an associate pastor with the Mpemba Assemblies of God Church, who drowned Sunday in the Mpemba Dam, near Blantyre. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Saudi Prince Azize bin Fahd is to finance the building of one of the biggest Mosques in Mauritius, according to Labour and Industrial Relations Minister, Showkatally Soodhun. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance party has called for a national crisis meeting to deal with the increasing spate of child rape. Full text...

Praia- Cap Verde (PANA) -- Fifteen people were killed and eight others injured in a road accident that occurred last Friday five km from Praia, the Cape Verdian capital, hospital sources said Monday. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The International Federation of Journalists wrote Botswana President Festus Mogae on Monday, urging him to withdraw the government's new controversial media bill. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The death toll in ethnic clashes in the north-eastern corner of Ghana rose to 18 as the police and military rushed in forces to control the situation, Radio Ghana reported on Monday. Full text...