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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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- 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The NGO, Save The Children, released a report Thursday lamenting child abuse, including child labour, in Mauritius. Full text...

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- Liberia (PANA) -- A Monrovia Court Thursday rejected an application by two detained Liberian lawyers to enforce their rights. Full text...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...