Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique government will grant 14. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The African Development Fund has approved a loan of 20 million Units of Account and a UA 1. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The government and trade unions in Senegal have agreed on a tax-free salary increase of between 5 and 10 percent effective January 2002, sources affirmed in Dakar Monday, saying both sides also confirmed an extension of the retirement age from 55 to 60 years. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian First Lady Vera Chiluba, has taken President Frederick Chiluba to the High Court challenging a lower Court's decision to dissolve their 33-year-old marriage, the press reported Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A four-day inter-governmental conference on ageing in Africa opened Monday in Nairobi, with an appeal to governments and peoples of the continent to pay greater attention to problems of its increasing elderly population. Full text...

Kinshasa- RD Congo (PANA) -- Public Service minister Benjamin Mukulungu has affirmed government's determination to continue paying salaries to civil servants working in territories controlled by the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy and the Congolese Liberation Movement. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The very first international water show will be held in the Senegalese capital from 4 to 8 December, attended by scientists, experts and professionals working in the various water sub-sectors. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The Zimbabwe government Saturday ordered several schools having colonial names to drop them and adopt new ones reflecting the history and cultural heritage of the country. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The African Development Fund (ADF) has approved a grant of 1. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Three high-ranking international civil servants have jointly appealed for humanitarian aid to internally displaced persons and refugees from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- An international conference on poverty and the rights of the African child is underway in Yaounde, with about a hundred delegates from 17 countries attending. Full text...

Antananarivo- Madagascar (PANA) -- About 20,000 employees of duty-free shops in Madagascar have formed an association to protect their rights and interests, MATERA news agency has reported. Full text...

Praia- Cape-Verde (PANA) -- The Association of Lawyers from Portuguese-speaking countries (Ad Jus), Monday denounced government's interference with the judiciary in Guinea Bissau. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Workers of Air Afrique Union (SUTAS) in Senegal, Monday decided to shun Air France flight from Paris, following a boycott call by the Air Afrique umbrella Union for the 11-owner countries of the ailing multinational Company. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The days when children were considered to be the best insurance cover for parents in old age seem to be fast disappearing in most parts of Africa. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe needs a whopping 400 billion Zimbabwean dollars (about 7. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Inhambane's Provincial Court in southern Mozambique on Friday sentenced five Pakistani citizens to 18 years imprisonment, and four others to 17 years, for drug trafficking, the country's news agency, AIM reported. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angola has planned a symposium in Luanda on 30 November to discuss integration of the physically disabled into society. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A Senegalese medical team, comprising ten doctors and nurses, led by Ambassador without portfolio, Abdou Latif Gueye, chairman of the Inter-States Organisation -- Africa Helps Africa (AAA) -- left Dakar Friday for Algiers for a fortnight of rescue mission. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Modernity has not spared the French protectorate of Reunion, where the traditional family system is crumbling, according to a study by the National Statistics and Economic Studies Institute (INSEE). Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- More than 200 police personnel and workers in the Interior Ministry of the French protectorate of Reunion, Thursday staged a strike to protest difficult working conditions and rising crime rates in the protectorate. Full text...

Kono- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Diseases and malnutrition have been kill more than 10 people every day in Soukodu and Kaikodou towns in eastern Sierra Leone's diamond-rich Kono district, it was revealed Thursday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana Airways has grounded one of its pilots because of pro-bin Laden statements he was alleged to have made. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The UN Population Fund (UNFPA), has allocated 24. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda is to host an international conference expected to draw representatives of communities of genocide survivors in different parts of the world, the organisers said Thursday. Full text...

Bulawayo- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Police in Zimbabwe Wednesday said that they had found a huge contraband of 326 kg of marijuana destined for an undisclosed regional market. Full text...

Chililabombwe- Zambia (PANA) -- A British manager working for a construction firm in Zambia's central mining town of Chililabombwe was Wednesday forced to apologise publicly to his workers for allegedly making derogatory and racist remarks against them. Full text...

Praia- Cap Verde (PANA) -- The Cape Verde government and trade unions have agreed to a 2. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco's National Labour Union has called a 24-hour strike starting Wednesday in the health sector, reports from the union affiliated to Islamic Party for Justice and Development (PJD) said in Rabat Tuesday. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Over eight hundred officials from Portuguese-speaking African countries have undergone administration and management training in Cape Verde since 1996, thanks to a joint project funded by the European Union (EU), according to official sources. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The first International Conference on Emergency Management in Africa opened Monday in Nairobi, Kenya, with emphasis on how to prevent and tackle the many emergency situations that occur in parts of the continent. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Between 10 and 14 people were killed during communal clashes in Kenya's Tana River district, South-east of Nairobi, local television stations reported Monday evening. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Representatives of six International NGOs left Freetown Monday to assess the damage done to Kono district during the decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone and identify ways to render assistance. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The Congolese government and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have undertaken to work hand in hand to integrate refugees in host communities until they opt to return to their countries of origin. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The recent floods in Algeria forced 30,000 pupils out of schools within Algiers after their premises were destroyed, educational officials told PANA. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- A total of 312 Eritrean civilians have been voluntarily repatriated from Ethiopia, according to a news release issued by the International Red Cross Society (ICRC) in Addis Ababa Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Efforts by a former Rwanda government official, Alfred Musema, to quash a life sentence passed on him by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for genocide last year, came to naught Friday, after the Tribunal rejected his appeal. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Police unions in Reunion have planned to demonstrate next Wednesday to protest against insecurity for police personnel and their insufficient number in the service, union leaders announced on Friday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African authorities have welcomed the arrest of Schabir Shaik, brother of the state's arms acquisition chief, who became the third high profile person to be arrested in connection with arms deal irregularities. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Sierra Leoneans have demanded the immediate privatisation of the state-owned Telecommunications Company, which they described as "disgraceful and behind times". Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye Thursday announced an increase in Public Service salaries effective 1 January 2002, as well as an extension of the retirement age from 55 to 60. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has joined its sister institution at The Hague from where it would Friday, rule on an appeal against last year's life sentence handed to a former Rwandan top government official, Alfred Musema. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- The National Water Company of Togo (RNET), has raised water tariff in the country by 20 percent with effect from this month. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Sweden authorised Wednesday four million US dollars to support Tanzania's population and housing census slated for August 2002. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe Wednesday named two major streets in Harare after Namibian President Sam Nujoma and Ghana's late founding leader Kwame Nkrumah. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Three US Army soldiers were injured, two of them seriously, during a training accident in Nigeria a fortnight ago, according to the American Consulate General in Lagos. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The establishment and development of universities in Africa raises fundamental issues of their precise role in African life, said South Africa's Deputy Minister of Education, Mosibudi Mangena. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- The Cape Verdean government and a shipping firm, Kauberdi Nautico, Tuesday signed a maritime link contract to provide ferry service to Brava, the smallest and far-flung island in the archipelago. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- A teachers' strike Tuesday crippled Morocco's primary and secondary schools. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroonian Urban Transport Company, or SOCATUR, has increased its fleet on the streets of Douala by 20 buses to ease the shortage of public transport for the city's two million residents. Full text...