Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The appointment of General Toumany Siaka Sangare of Mali a t the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Guinea (CENI) was roundly welcome by the Malian press this week. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a very busy week of mixed grill of stories, the trial of the independence-day bombers and Amos Adamu's bribery scandal which resulted in his suspension by the World Football governing body, FIFA, easily overshadowe d every other story. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian media this week highlighted the Second Afro-Arab summit which was held last weekend in the central Libyan city o f Sirte. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- President Bingu wa Mutharika's ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) electoral “white wash” of the opposition and fuel woes. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The rescue of 33 Chilean miners, trapped underground, the trial of former president Olusegun Obasanjo's aide in the Halliburton bribery scandal, the death of foremost Nigerian educationist, Professor Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa, and the sack of the ruling party's governor in South West Ekiti State captured front pages in Nigeria during the past week. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – A directive by President Joh-n Evans Atta Mills to all ministers and their deputies not to travel until the national budget has been read, debated and passed and strikes by teachers in the universities and polytechnics for higher pay occupied the front pages of the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- A randy man, who married and divorced eleven women and sired 15 children, managed to cause some sensation but it was opposition leadership woes and fuel crisis that dominated m ost of Malawian newspaper headlines this week. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian newspapers this week were awash with reports on the aftermath of the 1 October bombing in the capital city of Abuja, which left 10 dead and 36 injured, as politicians kept pointing accusing fingers at one another, in their reactions to the unfortunate incident. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian media during the week highlighted the celebration of World Teachers' Day and the arrival of the controversial presidential jet that was ordered by the previous government, under a hail of cr iticism by the current government and the public. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian press this week played up the fight against terrorism in the Sahel Saharan sub-region. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two bomb blasts, one of them planted in a car, near the Eagles Square, Abuja, venue of Nigeria's 50th independence anniversary celebrati o ns, overshadowed all other stories in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) â" The Ghanaian media this wee-k highlighted the country's p opulation and housing census which began on Sunday night and explosions that kil l ed at least eight people during Nigeria's Golden Jubilee celebration in the capi t al, Abuja, on Friday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian newspapers reported extensively on t he offensive of the national army against suspected members of Al Qaeda in the I s lamic Maghreb (AQIM) in northern Mali, which lead to contradictory death tolls. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The gruesome murder of a 25-year-old Zimbabwean accoun tancy student and fuel woes dominated the headlines in the Malawi media this wee k . Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A five-day visit to China by Ghana's president, John Evans Atta Mills, during which he clinched several deals in loans from Beijing, the C h ina Eximbank and private investors, estimated at US$ 30 billion, and the celebra t ion of the 101st birthday of Dr. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a week full of political, economic and social activit ies, the media in Nigeria highlighted the shake up in army and the shift in the 2 011 elections from January to April, among other issues. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan newspapers this week highlighted celebrations mar king the 79th anniversary of the hanging of Omar Mokhtar, popularly called "the D ean of the martyrs", and the 34th session of the Board of Governors of Arab Cent r al Banks and Monetary Institutions. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's pardon grant ed to 35 Islamists and 166 non-political prisoners in accordance with Article 37 of the constitution, dominated from pages in Mauritania this past week. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The week just ending evidently belonged to one Bakili Muluzi, if newspaper headlines are to be believed, as it began and ended with th e former Malawi president's public and private woes dominating the news. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Stories on the declaration of intent to run for the Nigerian presidency by political big wigs of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including President Goodluck Jonathan and former military President Ibrahim Babangida, filled newspaper pages during the past week. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A pledge by Ghana's President John Evans Atta Mills for a free media and developments towards the commercial production of oil in the last quarter of this year once again dominated the newspapers this week. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Leadership problems in the former ruling United Democr atic Front (UDF) and money matters fought for headlines in the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghanaian media this week highlighted the four-day visi t of Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Nguema Mbasogo, which ended on Friday, and government's creation of 10,000 new jobs. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The sudden sack of the leadership of the military and se curity services by President Goodluck Jonathan, the release of the timetable for the 2011 general elections by the Independent Natio nal Electoral Commission (INEC) and the celebration of Eid-El-Fitr highlighted n e wspaper reports in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togolese newspapers this week devoted a large part of their publications to the numerous complaints lodged against privately-owned newspapers, including five by president Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The announcement by the Minister of Finance, Olusegun Ag anga, that government's fuel subsidy on petroleum and the bid for consultancy on power privatisation by six companies dominated front pages in Nigeria this past w eek. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) – A stern warning by Ghana's P-resident John Evans Atta Mills to oil “vampires” to keep their distance as the country gears up to pump its oil and the controversial downgrading of the sovereign credit rating were some of the stories that were highlighted by the media during the week. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The usual everyday politics took the back seat in the Malawi media this week as macabre religious rituals that led to a mass suicide in the commercial capital, Blantyre, dominated the headlines. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan papers this week focused on the call on forme r colonial powers to apologise to the peoples they colonised, compensate them an d give them back their cultural property such as the manuscripts and archaeologic a l pieces and archives of their history during the colonial period. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania newspapers this week devoted front pa ges to developments in terrorist events in the Sahelian-Saharan sub-region, with the release by Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), of the Spanish hostages Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta, kidnapped on the Nouadhibou-Nouakchott road in Novem b er 2009. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The concern over violence in Eastern Democratic Repu blic of Congo and the release of the electoral calendar by the country's Indepen d ent Electoral Commission caught the attention of Congolese press this week. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The frenzy generated by jostlings for a successor to P resident Bingu wa Mutharika has pervaded the air across Malawi as if the polls w i ll be held next month, dominating press reports all through the week. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan newspaper, Al-Chams analysed the festivities marking the 50th anniversary of Senegalese independence, marked this year by the determination expressed by President Abdoulaye Wade to close all French military bases in Dakar, the Senegalese capital. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The 15th Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Awards night and the declaration by President John Evans Atta Mills that he has faith in the j udiciary dominated the media this week. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Thursday's announcement of plans to turn around the poor electricity situation in Nigeria, Central Bank's multi-million naira interventi o n fund for the power and aviation sectors and the cholera outbreak in the northe r n part of the country made interesting newspaper reading this week. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The surprise sacking of four key ministers by President Bingu wa Mutharika and the battle for succession at the top job continued to dominate the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A senior clergyman's open endorsement of the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and an angry criticism of the judiciary by the chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Adjei, following a string of losses of court decisions by the Attorney-General were some of the major stories in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Friday's presidential assent to the electoral bill, the multiple auto accident in Lagos which claimed uncountable lives and citizenship f or 82 foreigners capped a myriad of front-page stories during the past week in N i geria. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Friday's presidential assent to the electoral bill, the multiple auto accident in Lagos which claimed uncountable lives and citizenship f or 82 foreigners capped a myriad of front-page stories during the past week in N i geria. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- An outburst by the Malawi First Lady, Callista Muthari ka, that no one should claim credit for her husband's political successes, the p o stponement of local government elections and freedom for one of the country's we l l-known politicians dominated front pages in Malawi this week. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- The congresses organized by Togo's main opposition Union of Forces for Change (UFC) which lead to the formation of two factions within the p a rty was the major story in Togo this week. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- In 2005, an American woman, Gizelle Yazji, became a househ old name in Ghana. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Council approval for President Goodluck Jonathan to purc hase three new jets and the National Assembly passage of funds for the Independe n t National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct the 2011 elections dominated f r ont pages in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

Lilongwe- Malawi (PANA) -- There may still be four years before Malawians go to t he polls again but it seems jockeying for the pole position to succeed President Bingu wa Mutharika is already at full throttle if the country's newspaper headli n es in the past week are anything to go by. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) – Senegalese newspapers on F-riday highlighted the chaos in the country's telecommunications sector on Thursday following crippling disruptions to internet service and the telephony network, Orange, following a strike by employees of the national telecommunication company (SONATEL). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Rewards for the silver-medal winning Nigeria's national U-20 women's team, the Falconets, following the recent FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in Germany, and ''knocks'' for former President Olusegun Obasanjo ''for promoting corruption'' were among the main stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The approval of a controversial housing deal between a Kor ean construction company and the government and Saturday's primaries to elect a presidential candidate of the mai n opposition New Patriotic (NPP) for the 2012 election were some of the main stories highlighted by newspapers in Ghana t his week. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Presidential woes and doggy escapades again fought for domination in Malawi media this week. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The performance of Nigeria's team, the Falconets, at the current FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany and the politics of 2011 elections were the major stories during the wee k in Nigerian newspapers. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Continuing controversy over a massive housing deal being p roposed by the Ghana government and alleged suspension of insurance cover for the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) shi p crucial to the country's oil production were some of the stories that dominated the headlines this week. Full text...