Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The Algerian town of Tamanrasset counts some 47,000 immigrants from 30 countries who sojourn there while hoping to raise enough money to continue on the trail to Europe. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Some 266 Nigerians and nine foreigners are to receive Nigeria's national awards this year, to mark the country's 41st independence anniversary being celebrated 1 October, an official statement said Sunday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Permanent Human Rights Commission has commended the donor community for its continued assistance to the Commission. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Four suspected hired thugs at the weekend invaded the venue of a meeting convened by top members of Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Owo, south- western Ondo State, shooting a policeman in the chest and sending others scampering for safety, the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A wayward snake sent Nigerian first lady, Stella Obasanjo, scampering from a podium during a ceremony in the south-eastern city of Calabar at the weekend, the semi-official Sunday Times newspaper reported. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA), a state parastatal in charge of retirements and pension matters, has embarked on an extensive public awareness campaign targeting 85 percent of workers who do not have access to any form of retirement benefits, Chairman Mutuma Kathurima has said. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- With effect from 1 October, Radio Senegal International (RSI) will relay its programmes on Worldspace network for wider audience in Africa and part of Europe, it was announced here Saturday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Amid tightened national security, Nigeria's federal government has deported five Indians and one German, the local media reported Saturday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The body of South African citizen, Nick Rowe, who died during the terror attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on 11 September, arrived in Cape Town on Friday night. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's popular tourism video, the Lion's Share, will entertain more than two million transit passengers in Hong Kong over the next six months. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The newly formed anti-corruption NGO, "Ethics Mozambique", has proposed a "witness protection scheme" to guarantee the safety of victims and witnesses to corruption or violent crime who decide to expose those responsible. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Reporters Sans Frontieres and the International Human Rights Federation on Thursday submitted new elements to the Ivorian Government commissioner who handled the dismissed case of eight gendarmes who had been charged with mass killings in Yopougon, a suburbs of Abidjan. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Lecturers and administrative staff of Angola's public Agostinho Neto University (UAN), are to begin a strike from Monday over a pay dispute, their Unions announced Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Violence against children is a bigger problem than many governments acknowledge, and is often carried out by officials of the State, Human Rights Watch noted in a new global study released Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In fulfilment of its pledge, the US government Friday donated some security equipment to Nigeria's Lagos State to boost crime fighting. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to take up residency at Harvard University in the United States as part of an initiative to improve South Africa-US relations. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A man accused of disseminating a false report claiming that South Africa was involved in this month's terror attacks in New York and Washington, has been fired by his company. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Students from the Wits University in Johannesburg protested Thursday against expected US led strikes on Afghanistan. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Arsonists believed to be Muslims Wednesday set ablaze two churches in Kenya's northern town of Isiolo. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Nigerian and a Tanzanian have appeared before a Magistrate's Court in Nairobi, Kenya for publishing and displaying posters of the controversial Islamic fundamentalist, Osama bin Laden. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has posthumously awarded its Press Freedom Prize to Carlos Cardoso, editor of the independent news sheet "Metical" and former director of the Mozambican News Agency, who was murdered in Maputo last November. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Hundreds of Mozambican workers who returned from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wednesday besieged the ministry of Labour as they stepped up demands for outstanding entitlements. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- About 40 executives from several sectors in Nigeria and Benin are meeting in Cotonou to evaluate a cooperation programme between the two countries on the teaching of French. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Representatives of Churches in Africa, Europe and the Americas are participating in an international workshop in Lome, focusing on contemporary theological challenges, dealing with sexuality, ethical and cultural issues in the context of globalisation. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Export Promotion Association of Cote d'Ivoire (APEX-CI) has paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the 11 September terror attacks in the United States. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Chad and the US have signed two conventions for the financing of the national mediation body and the information Committee, grouping 30 NGOs, in the African country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A forum of 160 Islamic Associations from West Africa has decided in Accra, Ghana, to set up a sub-regional Islamic Council, according to Ahmed Saloum Dieng, chairman of the Union of Islamic Youth in Senegal, who attended the meeting. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria has ratified the legal assistant treaty between it and the United States in a major move to strengthen the global fight against drug trafficking. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Amid a growing possibility of a US-led attack on Afghanistan, Nigeria has decided to move its citizens living in the country to nearby Pakistan, government officials said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's federal government has opted for a low-key celebration of the country's 41st independence anniversary 1 October, according to the programme of activities for the anniversary. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria has banned the importation of used cars which are more than five years old into the country. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- A follow-up panel discussion to the recent UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, ended at the Africa Centre in London Wednesday, with most of the participants happy with its outcome despite the marching out, yet again, of Isreali and US delegations before the end of the conference. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Five armed robbers were sentenced Wednesday to a total of 360 years in jail after being found guilty in a cash-in-transit robbery on 26 July 1999 in Benoni in the East Rand. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- A procedural blunder Wednesday forced the government of Botswana to postpone a national referendum scheduled for 6 October to 3 November. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana and the United States Wednesday signed a funding agreement for the proposed bureau of the International Law Enforcement Agency in Gaborone. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Belgium has offered 15 postgraduate bursaries to enable students from the Democratic Republic of Congo join Belgian universities. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- An outbreak of cholera killed 40 prisoners last week at the Man civilian prison, 585 km north-west of Abidjan, the official national redio reported Tuesday evening. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Renewed communal clashes in Nigeria's south-eastern Rivers State has claimed 11 lives and caused property damage worth millions of naira, the News Agency of Nigeria reported Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A young woman, desperate to make good a marital promise, Wednesday tried but failed to kidnap a newly born baby at a hospital nursery. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A gang of smugglers shot dead four customs policemen and wounded three others Tuesday in north-west Sudan near the borders of Libya and Chad, customs police said in Khartoum Wednesday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is supporting Sudan's population programme with 13. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria's population is expected to reach 31. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Scientific Council of Cameroon's Central Board of Census and Population Studies has met in Yaounde to prepare for the third national population census, an official said Wednesday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- A man in Bujumbura's working class district of Bwiza was early this week flown to Belgium for treatment after his genitals were severed by a neighbour who caught him with his ex-wife, press accounts said. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Investigators in Brussels Tuesday said large quantities of explosive agents discovered last week could belong to a Tunisian earlier arrested on suspicion of plotting attacks on US interests in Europe. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Foreign Affairs minister Keli Walubita has declined any comment after former Mines minister Syamukayumbu Syamujaye renamed his dog after him. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Six FM private radio stations were licensed Tuesday by the communication commission which regulates broadcasting in Burkina Faso. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Hundreds of Dar es Salaam residents scampered for their lives Tuesday morning following a bomb scare at a bank in the Tanzanian economic capital Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Interpol General Assembly meeting in Budapest on Tuesday unanimously condemned "the murderous attacks perpetrated against citizens of over 80 countries" in the US on 11 September. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The South African authorities have pledged to reduce discharges from the Pongolapoort Dam - from 400 to about 85 cubic metres a second - which could affect areas along the banks of the Maputo river in southern Mozambique, reports Tuesday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias". Full text...