Port Louis- Maurice (PANA) -- The Mauritius agency for treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts (NATRESA) has announced the launching, on Monday, of a national campaign against alcohol abuse. Full text...

Chipata- Zambia (PANA) -- A father in the Zambian town of Chipata has appealed to President Frederick Chiluba for help in meeting medical costs for his son, David Lungu. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A Zambian cleric Sunday called for the strengthening of the extended family system in Africa to cater for the growing number of orphaned street kids. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Five young boys, aged between 12 and 17 years old, were killed when a lime mine collapsed on them at Umbadda suburb of Khartoum Saturday, press reports said Sunday. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Botswana Centre For Human Rights (DITSHWANELO) has decried rising ethnic tensions in Botswana. Full text...

London UK (PANA) -- A 15-year old Somali boy has been stabbed to death in London following a row over an alleged debt of £10. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Security agencies sent to the northeastern corner of Ghana to restore calm in fighting between two ethnic groups on Saturday said it has been difficult to disarm them. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least one person was killed and several others injured when armed robbers fired at passenger buses at the popular Iddo terminal in Lagos early Saturday. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius Child Education and Development Centre has published a tale on child prostitution to assist parents in sensitizing children to the ill effects of the activity. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Authorities in Niamey on Friday released the editor of the satirical weekly, Canard dechaine, Abdoulaye Tiemogo, who was jailed in October after being found guilty of libel. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana plans to amend its Refugee Act to include provisions for asylum seekers and refugees on transit, a local paper has reported. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- A UN radio station to be known as "Okapi" is scheduled to begin broadcasts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) next month, the world body's Observer Mission in Congo announced in Kinshasa Friday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- One more victim of Ghana's ethnic clashes at Bawku, about 830 km north of Accra has died as the security agencies arrested five more people. Full text...

Luena- Angola (PANA) -- Israeli government has been spending some 60,000 US dollars annually on landmine danger awareness programmes in Angola over several years, the Angolan news agency (ANGOP) reported Friday. Full text...

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...