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  • Lightening kills 5, injures more than 100 in Malawi
    26 november 2001 19:00:00
    Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least five people were killed and more than a hundred injured when lightening struck a crowded football pitch in Malawi's southern border district of Nsanje. Full text...

  • South African power company to revise language policy
    26 november 2001 17:17:00
    Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's national electricity supplier, Eskom, has agreed to revise the rigid use of English as the means of communication after the Mine Workers Union Solidarity demanded a change. Full text...

  • Ivorian President Condoles Family of Murdered WHO Official
    26 november 2001 15:13:00
    Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, has expressed sympathy to the family of Kassi Manlan, former representative of the World Health Organisation in Burundi, who was murdered in Bujumbura last week. Full text...

  • Democratic bodies remember slain Burkinabe journalist
    26 november 2001 14:43:00
    Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The action group of mass democratic organisations and political parties in Burkina Faso said they have planned a series of events throughout the country to commemorate the third anniversary of journalist Norbert Zongo's death. Full text...

  • Six persons killed in Casablanca road accident
    26 november 2001 11:52:00
    Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Six persons were killed while one other person got wounded in a road accident in Casablanca Sunday when a tourist car collided with a bus, according to the public Moroccan television, TVM. Full text...

  • WHO repatriates body of slain representative in Burundi
    26 november 2001 10:29:00
    Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The body of the late WHO representative in Burundi, Dr Kassi Malan (Ivorian) was repatriated Sunday on a regular Kenyan Airways flight. Full text...

  • Zidane shows solidarity with flood victims in Algeria
    26 november 2001 09:56:00
    Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- World ace footballer, Frenchman Zineddine Zidane, who has roots in Algeria, will Thursday participate in the telethon in Algiers to support victims of the 10 November floods in the country. Full text...

  • Namibian residents protest alleged army indiscipline
    25 november 2001 18:50:00
    Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Residents of Namibia's volatile north-eastern Kavango Region have accused some members of the Namibia Defence Forces deployed to the Region of "gross acts of indiscipline". Full text...

  • Belgian minister weighs odds against prosecution of Burundians
    25 november 2001 16:14:00
    Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Belgian Foreign minister Louis Michel has been discussing the odds vis-à-vis the universal competence of Belgium's courts, in the wake of complaints filed there against Burundi nationals. Full text...

  • Britain accepts to pay compensation to Kenyans
    24 november 2001 20:03:00
    Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The British Government has accepted in principle to pay Ksh 648 million (about nine million US dollars) as compensation to Kenyans who suffered injuries owing to explosives left behind by British soldiers. Full text...

  • Niger introduces high school examination reforms
    24 november 2001 19:02:00
    Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger on Saturday announced changes in the university entrance examinations (Baccalaureate) after two years of hesitation due to complaints by students that the government intended to make them even harder. Full text...

  • Port-Louis inner suburb residents says no to drugs
    24 november 2001 16:13:00
    Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Members of the Roche-Bois Progressive Movement in one of the inner suburbs of Port-Louis, the Mauritian capital, on Saturday denounced the proliferation of drugs and drug dealers in their area. Full text...

  • Authorities in Nairobi threaten to arrest prostitutes
    24 november 2001 15:57:00
    Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Prostitutes operating along the streets of Nairobi will be arrested, the city's deputy Provincial Commissioner, Paul Yatich, has announced. Full text...

  • 2 million condoms used monthly in Kinshasa
    24 november 2001 15:30:00
    Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Some two million condoms are used monthly in Kinshasa, comprising six million inhabitants, a local anti-AIDS NGO reported Friday. Full text...

  • Adulatory convict under Sharia law in Nigeria speaks out
    24 november 2001 15:11:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- More than a month after an Islamic court in northern Nigeria sentenced her to death by stoning for adultery, Safiya Hussaina Tungar-Tudu said she was actually raped and appealed to the government to save her life. Full text...

  • Food crisis in Malawi claims two lives
    24 november 2001 14:49:00
    Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least two people have died in the southern district of Mulanje after staying for days on end without eating anything, a local medical officer said. Full text...

  • French immigrants increase in Reunion
    23 november 2001 23:36:00
    Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- A specialist from France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), Francois Chevalier, has brought to an end the popular belief that most immigrants to Reunion come from the Indian Ocean area. Full text...

  • Namibian soldiers to shoot armed criminals
    23 november 2001 20:21:00
    Oshakati- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian soldiers will soon be allowed to shoot criminals found with assault rifles in the northern regions, the country's defence minister, Errki Nghimtina, disclosed Friday. Full text...

  • 2 Kenyan pupils die in a borehole
    23 november 2001 20:18:00
    Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Two pupils of Soweto Baptist Church Primary School in a Nairobi slum of Kenya, have died in a water borehole, the local media reported Friday. Full text...

  • Five feared dead in clash over oil royalty
    23 november 2001 12:19:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A clash between rival groups in the oil-producing area of Nigeria's south-western Ondo State over a 150 million-naira (1. Full text...

  • Tanzania expels Ugandan immigrants
    23 november 2001 11:29:00
    Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- More than 1,000 Ugandan immigrants have been expelled from Tanzania for living in the country illegally, government authorities disclosed Friday. Full text...

  • Zambian police under fire for locking up baby
    23 november 2001 10:59:00
    Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Lusaka Central Police have come under fire from a local rights group, for locking up and detaining a mother along with her 18-month old baby. Full text...

  • Two alleged Senegalese traffickers of models released
    22 november 2001 19:39:00
    Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Two Senegalese sisters, Nancy and Leila Campbell, were provisionally released Wednesday in Dakar from three months of detention for their alleged role in an abortive attempt to smuggle about 100 Senegalese models to Libya. Full text...

  • Court quashes sentence for Moroccan human rights activists
    22 november 2001 19:35:00
    Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- A Court of Appeal in Rabat has acquitted 36 members of the Moroccan Human Rights Association who had been sentenced by a lower court to three months in jail for holding an unauthorised meeting. Full text...

  • Moroccan newspaper editor sent to jail
    22 november 2001 19:12:00
    Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- An editor of a Moroccan weekly has been sentenced to four months imprisonment for publishing what was officially said to be "false information" about possible sale of a royal palace. Full text...

  • Group decries child abuse in Mauritius
    22 november 2001 19:06:00
    Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The NGO, Save The Children, released a report Thursday lamenting child abuse, including child labour, in Mauritius. Full text...

  • Liberian journalists protest newspaper closure
    22 november 2001 18:48:00
    Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) Thursday said the closure of The News newspaper and arrest of its board chairman could "negatively impact on government-media relations. Full text...

  • Monrovia Court denies lawyers writ of habeas corpus
    22 november 2001 17:13:00
    Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- A Monrovia Court Thursday rejected an application by two detained Liberian lawyers to enforce their rights. Full text...

  • Kenyan MP fights registration of Somalis
    22 november 2001 16:07:00
    Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan MP Thursday went to court to stop the government from registering as nationals, people believed to be aliens from neighbouring Somalia, warning that they were a risk to national security. Full text...

  • Nigerian Government congratulates Miss World
    22 november 2001 15:18:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's federal government has joined the growing list of people and organisations congratulating the new Miss World, Nigeria's Agbani Darego, who beat 93 other contestants to lift the title in South Africa last week. Full text...

  • Kenyan musician to hang for killing German lover
    22 november 2001 14:02:00
    Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A musician who murdered his German lover at Kenya's Kwale district four years ago, has been sentenced to death by a Mombasa High Court, local press accounts said Thursday. Full text...

  • Burundi sets inquiry commission to probe diplomat's death
    22 november 2001 13:00:00
    Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Burundi, the late Ivorian Kassi Manlan, was allegedly killed in his home and not near Lake Tanganyika as originally thought, investigators said Thursday. Full text...

  • Rwandan police detain journalists
    22 november 2001 11:44:00
    Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- A weekly Kinyarwanda "Umuseso" (Dawn) newspaper has claimed that Rwandan police detained one of its journalists for nine hours last week. Full text...

  • Mauritius to introduce community service for minor offenders
    22 november 2001 10:22:00
    Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian social security and national solidarity minister Samioullah Lauthan announced Wednesday that he was introducing very soon in the national assembly (parliament) the community service order bill. Full text...

  • Metrorail disputes labour court's ruling on drug tests
    21 november 2001 23:52:00
    Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's national rail commuter company, Metrorail, has rejected suggestions that its random dope and alcohol tests on workers were found to be unlawful by the Labour Court. Full text...

  • Liberian officials, Japanese probed for diamond deal
    21 november 2001 21:01:00
    Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Two Liberian officials and a Japanese national are being probed for alleged complicity to export rough Liberian diamonds, National Bureau of Investigation sources confirmed in Monrovia Wednesday. Full text...

  • Court postpones trial of Tunisian businessman
    21 november 2001 20:11:00
    Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- The High Court in Tunis once again Wednesday postponed the trial of businessman Kamel El Tayef, a former advisor to President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, until 26 November. Full text...

  • Liberian Police question former finance minister
    21 november 2001 19:53:00
    Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Former Liberian finance minister Wilson Tarpeh has been called for questioning by the police in Monrovia on "sensitive matters," press reports Wednesday quoted police chief Paul Mulbah as saying. Full text...

  • UN, ECOWAS seek support for repatriation of S/Leonean refugees
    21 november 2001 17:32:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The UN, ECOWAS and the Sierra Leonean government have asked donor countries to support the UN refugee and related agencies for the repatriation of that country's refugees. Full text...

  • Rape suspect Mwakembeu reappears in Namibian court
    21 november 2001 17:30:00
    Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The suspended chairperson of the recently formed Namibian Men For Change (NAMEC) association, Abdullah Mwakembeu, reappeared in the Katutura magistrate's court for the second time Wednesday on rape charges. Full text...

  • Empower youths, remove poverty from Africa, say officials
    21 november 2001 17:05:00
    Oshakati- Namibia (PANA) -- The Director of Commonwealth Youth Programmes in Africa, Ignatius Takawira, has urged African countries to remove poverty from the continent. Full text...

  • French rights groups defend foreigners
    21 november 2001 17:04:00
    Paris- France (PANA) -- Several French rights groups are pushing for legislative changes to end what they consider double punishments suffered by illegal immigrants in France. Full text...

  • 3,000 unaccompanied children under 18 are in France
    21 november 2001 16:32:00
    Paris- France (PANA) -- French immigration authorities have said that hundreds of unaccompanied children enter France each year, 60 percent of them from Africa, to seek shelter and safety from war. Full text...

  • French NGO against use of child soldiers
    21 november 2001 16:10:00
    Paris- France (PANA) -- French NGO "Médecins du Monde" marked the World Child Day Tuesday by collecting war toys as part of the an anti-war campaign in Paris. Full text...

  • Violent crime causing concern in Reunion
    21 november 2001 15:43:00
    Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Police and the general population in Reunion have expressed deep concern over the rising crime rate, especially among youths in the country. Full text...

  • Nigeria to privatise semi-official Daily Times newspaper 2002
    21 november 2001 15:15:00
    Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The privatisation of Nigeria's oldest surviving newspaper, Daily Times, will be concluded by April 2002, according to the country's privatisation agency. Full text...

  • Nigeria fixes census for 2003
    21 november 2001 13:14:00
    Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria will conduct its next population census in 2003, according to the head of the country's National Population Commission (NPC). Full text...

  • South Africans hail conviction of racist dog handlers
    21 november 2001 11:31:00
    Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The New National Party and the Democratic Alliance Tuesday welcomed the conviction of four men for setting their police dogs on three illegal immigrants, in an incident that generated shock waves around the world. Full text...

  • Zambian President chides former Vice for breaking confidentiality
    21 november 2001 10:40:00
    Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Embattled Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, still smarting from public embarrassment after divorcing his wife Vera, has attacked former Vice President Christon Tembo for making public the contents of a discussion on his (Chiluba's) matrimonial problems with the then First Lady. Full text...

  • Children in Reunion observe Day of Children's Rights
    20 november 2001 22:42:00
    Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- More than 400 pupils in Reunion Tuesday participated in a pedagogic rally in observance the 12th anniversary of the international convention on the Day of Children's Rights. Full text...

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