Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Two 190-million-year- old dinosaur embryos, out of a group of seven eggs, discovered in South Africa have been identified as the world's oldest dinosaur embryos found to date, a University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) scientist said Friday in Johannesburg. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- An agreement to establish a mechanism for multilateral financing for a project to develop Mozambican human resources in the sphere of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) was signed Thursday in Maputo, the country's capital. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- President Olusegun Obasanjo said Thursday Nigeria would put a Nigerian astronaut in space in the next 15-20 years, and he challenged Nigerian scientists at home and in the Diaspora to work towards achieving this feat. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Thuraya, a satellite solutions firm based in the Gulf State of United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it had expanded coverage in Africa with the use of its second satellite. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's security systems firm Dex Security Solutions, has signed a contract with a leading South Korean technology company, Techsphere for the acquisition of an advanced infrared vein scanner system. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- One South African will win a trip into space this year as a result of an extraordinary competition being offered by one of the country's leading banks. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The Algerian government intends to equip every Algerian family with a personal computer by 2010, official sources said on Tuesday here. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Minister of Minerals and Energy, Lindiwe Hendricks has announced that the SAFARI-1 nuclear research reactor of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) located at Pelindaba, north-west of Pretoria will be converted from using High Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU). Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Pan-African Internet Service Provider (ISP), Africa Online, on Tuesday unveiled a US$2. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Postal Corporation of Kenya has started installing information and communication technology facilities in its offices countrywide to facilitate financial transactions locally and internationally, a senior government official announced Sunday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The International League of Journalists for Africa (LIJAF) said the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) is "a chance for the African press to make itself heard in a world where the domination of information multinationals has marginalised it. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- A World Digital Solidarity Agency (ASN), aimed at reducing the gap between the North and South in the area of new information and communication technology (NICT), has opened its doors in Lyon (southeast of France), official sources have said. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Arabcom 2005, the eighth International Telecom Development Forum and Expo for the Arab world and North Africa, opened Wednesday in Tunis with over 500 participants attending. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Africa needs to catch up with the rest of the world in the multi-billion dollar information communication technology for it to be integrated into the global communication systems, a Kenyan official said on Tuesday here. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Citing breaches of freedom of expression and information in Tunisia, a number of NGOs Friday in Paris protested the holding of the next World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A ministerial conference of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on biotechnology opened Tuesday in Bamako, with "Strategy and action for sustainable agricultural production without endangering man and environment" as its theme. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) has pledged 385,000 US-dollar support to Mozambique's Science and Technology Ministry. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria will by late August set a new record in the number of mobile phone subscribers, with leading operators Mobilis, Djezzy and Nedjma targeting eight million customers. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt, (PANA) -- The Egyptian information ministry has revealed that Egyptian authorities signed a pact with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkoto for the Arab country to launch communication satellites from the Baikonour base. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The first communication and information technology fair organised by the Libyan general company of telecommunication opened Sunday in Tripoli under the theme "Technology 2005". Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A local public university and the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) have embarked on a four-year herbal medicine research project to make traditional medicine effective, safe and acceptable to many users. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angolan Deputy Science and Technology Minister Pedro Teta has been elected in Geneva (Switzerland) to lead the UN Science and Technology Commission for two years, official sources disclosed here Friday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The World Francophone Numeric University (UNFM) opens its doors here on 28 June at the initiative of the Malian born NASA interplanetary cosmonaut Cheick Modibo Diarra of Mali, official sources revealed in the Burkina capital. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- The minister of higher education in Niamey, Dr Galadima Ousmane has disclosed that, with support from the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), Niger plans to create an autonomous biotechnology institute that will have a regional vocation. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Due to financial constraints dogging most African countries, the digital divide between developed and developing world has been rising steadily over the years, a communication official has said. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Making the Internet cheaper and more accessible to all will be the challenges of the Phase II of the Tunis Summit on Information Society (WSIS), according to the International Telecommunications Union on Tuesday during the observation of the World Telecommunication Day. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The annual Global Standards Conference opened here Monday with delegates from over 100 countries attending to launch the new international Radio Frequency Identification system. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Trustees of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust have announced Professors Igor Barashenkov and Frank Brombacher of the University of Cape Town as the recipients of the prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Awards, media reports said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Government of Kenya and the African Academy of Sciences have signed a headquarters agreement for the location of the academy in Nairobi, media reports Thursday quoted Kenya foreign minister Ali Mwakwere as disclosing. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- India has offered to set up a pan-African satellite interconnection system that would facilitate communication among African leaders and with the African Union (AU) headquarters here. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's National Science Week, an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (ministry) is taking place throughout the country. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- India has offered to set up a pan-African satellite interconnection system that would facilitate communication among African leaders and with the African Union (AU) headquarters here. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- US software giant Microsoft has announced the granting of seven Unlimited Potential (UP) grants to organisations across several Arab countries, including Tunisia. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A researcher at the Research Institute for Development (IRD) has called for the setting up of anti-venom serums banks in Africa, considering the number of cases of venomous snake bites on the continent annually. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- French-speaking African member states of the Islamic Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (ISESCO) on Tuesday in Nouakchott called for the creation of a fund to support digital solidarity. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- A team of Belgian researchers from Antwerp University is currently visiting Kinshasa to carry out studies on the DR Congo's medicinal plants and set certification standards for the drugs produced from the plants. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- As fossil fuel prices come under increasing global attention, a new independent study launched here shows how South Africa can reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, starting in the electricity sector, media reports said Wednesday. Full text...

Bizerte- Tunisia (PANA) -- The minister of communications technologies in Tunisia, Montassar Ouaïli has begun finalising works to have Tunisia connected to the international submarine communication network "Sea-Me-We 4" that reaches southeastern Asia via Europe and the Middle East. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- An international workshop on new information and communication technologies (NICT) opened Tuesday in the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers focusing their contribution to the development of e-trade in the Maghreb. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- A grouping of biotechnology stakeholders, AfricaBio has expressed concern at a High Court order in South Africa granting Biowatch, a lobby group opposed to genetically modified organisms access to information pertaining to imports, exports, trials and general release of GMO approvals granted to date. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan education minister George Saitoti said on Saturday that the Japanese government has granted the country one million to bolster the teaching of science and technology and mathematics and the government has earmarked 160 million shillings (1 USD = 77 shs) for secondary schools to be used for building science laboratories. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- National Museum and House of Culture director Dr Paul Msemwa has decried the reluctance of the German government to return the remains of a dinosaur excavated in Tanzania between 1905 and 1912. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's software industry, currently estimated at over 15 billion naira, received a further boost Tuesday when President Olusegun Obasanjo set up a five-man ministerial committee to provide the conducive environment for its growth. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde has been designated to host a research station of the world network monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to be established on Maio Island, officials reported in Praia. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Following the success of the maiden satellite launch in 2003, Nigeria has announced plans to launch its second satellite, Nigeria Sat II, next year. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A three-day Preparatory Conference on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) wound up here Friday with a pledge to forge a common front to build an information society inclusive of all stakeholders, notably governments, the private sector, civil society and international organisations. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PNA) -- Participants at a African Regional Preparatory Conference on the next World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) tasked development partners and the business community Thursday to fund the development of Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure in Africa. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Africa needs a common standpoint on Information and Communication Technology in order to bridge the digital divide between it and the developed world, regional leaders and experts stressed here Wednesday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- An official of the UN Economic Commission of Africa (ECA) Wednesday said African leaders must take "a bold and innovative step" to make budgetary allocation for information communication technology (ICT) as a show of readiness to develop the sector. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian president John Kufuor Wednesday urged the media in Africa to help demystify the new information and communications technologies (NICTs) by educating the people on this new global thrust. Full text...