Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A bomb scare at the head office of Barclays Bank in Accra Friday sent panic-stricken staff and customers running for safety. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niamey University's chief academic officer Ali Bouli Diallo has lamented that the institution can hardly afford even the barest of conditions necessary for it to function well. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The Congolese government is working on a practical guide for institutions involved in improvement of the welfare of women and children, it was disclosed here Friday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese authorities have suspended the salaries of 9,710 civil servants with effect from October because their reference numbers are missing at the treasury. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Five people were Wednesday killed in a road accident in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- On the eve of World Teachers' Day coming up 5 October, UNESCO has stressed that some 15 million more teachers would have to be hired in the coming decade, if the solemn pledge by governments for universal basic education by 2015 is to be achieved. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The president of the Common Front for Transport in Mauritius, Wakil Lalloo, has urged government to nationalise the sector throughout the country. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A three-day strike by the Ivorian Customs Workers Unions was called off Thursday morning after extensive negotiations between government authorities and the strikers. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The chairman of the Federation of the Mauritian Public Sector Unions, Rashid Imrith, has called on civil servants in the country to begin a national strike Saturday, the regional press agency, MATERA reported Wednesday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- A strike by Ivorian customs officers entered its third day Wednesday paralysing activities at Abidjan port and Cote d'Ivoire's Felix Houphouet-Boigny international airport. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger's Equipment minister, Abdou Labo, has announced that the government plans construct 20,000 housing units in the next decade to meet the needs of the country's growing population. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania is hosting the sixth biennial meeting of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) from 7-10 October in Arusha. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Many cash-strapped countries in Africa and other parts of the world are investing in distance education programmes because it costs less. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Police came under severe public criticism Tuesday following the reported deaths of six suspects in a police cell at the weekend. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Five years on since the second UN Conference on Human Settlements, Tanzania's urban crisis shows no signs of abating and many towns cannot provide basic services to all their residents. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- One hundred Congolese policemen have arrived in Nigeria for a four-month intensive training, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- A couple from Cote d'Ivoire has criticised the standards of child protection in the United Kingdom, at the hearing of an inquiry into the murder of their daughter Victoria Climbie in February last year. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- After keeping genocide suspects in custody for seven years pending their trial, the government of Rwanda has started feeling the pinch, judicial sources disclosed Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The 19th annual conference of the Association for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA) ended in Nairobi Friday, with recommendations aimed at improving performance assessment mechanisms in schools across the continent. Full text...

Sumbe- Angola (PANA) -- The Governor of Angola's Kwanza Sul province, Higino Carneiro, has appeal for 150 million dollars to implement socio-economic projects in the region. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Nigeria's budding author, Helon Habila, received the 15,000-US-dollar Caine Prize for African Writing 2001 in Thursday, saying his win should encourage ordinary youths to achieve success in life. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde'S Bar Association has described the government's decision to ban pregnant girls from attending school as "discriminatory, inappropriate, disproportionate and unconstitutional". Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Barney Pityana Thursday became Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa, Africa's biggest university. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) and the Society of Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (SOFIES) plan to construct a computerised library at the Addis Ababa University. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Chernoh Ojukwu Sesay, Editor and Publisher of Sierra Leone's "Pool" newspaper, appeared before a Freetown Magistrate's Court Monday charged with fraud and forgery. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Police have identified a female lecturer mistakenly shot dead with two others in a hold-up outside Nairobi Friday, as Mumbi Mwangi of the Political Science Department of the University of Nairobi. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- The Association of Douala central market traders (ASCOMCED) has written to the local administrative authorities warning of a planned strike in protest against harassment from tax officials, sources said at the weekend. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Tanzanian government has accepted the stunning scale of corruption and its impacts on society and stated with "high confidence" that effort to rid the country of the vice has had "discernible" successes. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Judges and other officials of the judiciary in Malawi have issued an ultimatum to the government to implement their salary increases before they retaliate. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities are investigating the death of four persons, including a female university teacher, allegedly shot dead Friday by Administration Police on suspicion they had planned to rob a petrol station. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has been granted divorce from his wife of 33 years, Vera Chiluba. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The international French weekly magazine 'L'Autre Afrique,' which reappeared on the news-stands in July after two years of absence, Thursday reappeared again in Paris. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Forty-eight non-governmental organisations (NGO) operating in the East Shoa Zone of Ethiopia's Ormia State have earmarked 231. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Trade union organisations in Cape Verde have challenged the government to prove its openness to dialogue on the crisis thrown up by a recent increase in the prices of hydrocarbons, trade union sources said. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- A play encouraging illiterate parents and guardians to massively enrol children in schools throughout Burkina Faso has been launched in Ouagadougou. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Central African Republic prime minister Martin Ziguele Wednesday said that CAR authorities would meet with International Monetary Fund officials and donors on Monday in Paris to discuss an interim economic recovery programme for the country for the fourth semester of 2001. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Lecturers at the University of N'djamena, alongside members of the National Union of Higher Education Teachers and Researchers (SYNECS), have gone on strike over outstanding wages and allowances. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- A consultative meeting of Guinean civil society and media organisations has resolved to strive for the creation of private radio and television stations as well as a free press. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- As Zimbabwe slides deeper into economic crisis, due to official and unofficial sanctions imposed on the country by donors over its controversial land reforms, more and more children drop out of school. Full text...

Hwange- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A bitter row has erupted between government resettlement officers and villagers being resettled in a district in western Zimbabwe over a ban on dogs in the new settlements, which are close to a game park. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Many policy prescriptions adopted by the Zambian government were either contradictory or have led to worsening economic and social conditions in the country, according to a report of UN agencies released here Wednesday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday arrested the Mayor of Lilongwe, Charles Chimdzeka, his deputy Beatrice Baisi and a councillor, Hastings Mkandawire over corruption allegations. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has lifted the suspension it had imposed on a private radio station for non-renewal of the operating licence. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The French Development Agency, or AFD, has announced it will scale down activities in Central African Republic as it rearranges its operations worldwide. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan computer analyst, Kaaria Mbaya, has been named as one of the casualties of last week's terrorist attack on World Trade Centre in New York. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Internet link with the United States, which was crippled in the aftermath of last Tuesday's World Trade Centre disaster in New York has been restored. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Another six people died in a hit-and-run road accident in Kenya Sunday, raising the weekend toll in two major road mishaps to 18. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Twelve passengers in a "matatu" (commuter) bus died after their vehicle's tyre burst, causing it to somersault several times along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway in the Rift Valley Province, a press report said Sunday. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Junior medical doctors in Sierra Leone on Friday ended a strike that had lasted for nearly 40 days to press for better working conditions. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Residents of Nairobi have been avoiding the usually busy central business District of the Kenyan capital following a bomb scare, in the wake of the murderous attacks on key US buildings in New York and Washington D. Full text...