Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- An IMF mission would be in Congo Brazzaville beginning 15 June assess progress towards the conclusion of a medium term reform programme to be underwritten by the Fund. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- German company Siemens is to rehabilitate DR Congo's two hydro-electric Power stations and strengthen one of the country's High-Voltage line, officials said Wednesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Press reports in Maputo Wednesday said the World Bank has suggested Mozambique let go its third largest commercial bank, the Austral Bank, into liquidation. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican and Danish governments Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding in Maputo as a first step towards an agreement on the reciprocal promotion of investment between the two countries. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Following is the daily equities trading at the Nigerian Stock Exchange for Wednesday, 16 May, 2001. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- A Saudi Holding Company is moving ahead with plans to develop a hotel complex in Tripoli. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- The UK's Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) is reviewing its policy on Libya with a view to possibly easing insurance cover rules governing UK exporters. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- International oil companies have voted Libya as the most attractive country for exploration activities in the world. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Zambian kwacha came under fresh pressure Wednesday from oil companies as they increased their demand for US dollars to import petroleum. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Lusaka Stock Exchange all share index was up by more than 2 percent on Wednesday after the share price of Chilanga Cement Plc stock appreciated by 50 kwacha to close at 300 kwacha a share. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Against the backdrop of the country's worst economic crisis, Zimbabwe's stock market outperformed all its counterparts in the emerging markets in March, the international rating agency, Standard and Poor, said on Wednesday. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea Bissau and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation have signed a contract under which the West African country will be assisted to improve the quality of its fish exports. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Representatives of financial and banking institutions of Islamic countries will hold their annual meeting Sunday and Monday in the Jordanian capital, Amman, the Islamic Information Agency (IINA) has reported. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- A South Korean delegation in the telecommunications sector, led by its deputy minister of information and telecommunications, Kim Dong-Sun, is expected to arrive in Morocco Thursday for a five-day working visit, official sources said Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- In the quest for a common development plan for Africa, Finance Ministers who met 8-10 May in Algiers, Algeria, have advocated a merger of the "Omega" and African Recovery Plan (MAP). Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin will soon embark on an electrification programme of 17 urban and rural centres in the country, Felix Essou Dansou, outgoing Mines, Energy and Water Resources Minister, has said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities and stakeholders in the tourism industry say they are working to harmonise visa issuance procedures to visitors including foreign tourists. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Trading on the Lusaka Stock Exchange was Tuesday still muted with only one volume of shares amounting to 7,964 shares changing hands at Standard Chartered Bank. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Fish products exports dropped to 88,019 tons in 2000 against 124,338 tons in 1999 - a 29. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The third Africa-America Business Summit takes place in Philadelphia, United States 16-20 September 2001, according to the organisers, Corporate Council on Africa (CCA). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Following is the daily equities trading at the Nigeria Stock Exchange for Tuesday, 15 May, 2001. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Ahead of this week's international conference on sustainable Debt Strategy being hosted by Nigeria, government officials say they have discovered some discrepancies in the claims by major creditors, the Paris Club, and Brazil, one of the creditor nations. Full text...

Johannesburg - SA (PANA) -- A new 'electronic gold mine' is now available to South Africans and a 'prospector's licence' to tap into millions costs only 30 Rands (about 4 US dollars). Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Forum is drafting the Millennium African Recovery Programme (MAP) that will be presented to the Organisation of African Unity summit in July. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- French group Accor intends to invest 60 million US dollars in construction of a 1,300-bed tourist club in the Agadir tourist resort, 600 km south of Rabat, the daily L'Economiste reported on Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The overall tonnage for traffic at the Port of Dakar rose by 2. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Production of unbarked logs, which resumed recently in southwestern Congo after a long stoppage due to the 1998-1999 civil war, should reach 400,000 tonnes at the end of 2001. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Moroccan draftsmen are rewriting the country's law to enhance suppression of acts of forgery, an official source disclosed Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A body grouping the manufacturers and exporters of wood carvings and other allied products in Kenya has appealed to the government to grant them patent rights so as to protect their handiworks from piracy. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso Monday laid the foundation stone for a new international airport in Ollombo, over 400 km north of Brazzaville, the capital. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Following is the daily equities trading at the Nigeria Stock Exchange for Monday 14 May 2001. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin Posts and Telecommunication Board (OPT) and a US group, Titan, recently installed a 400-km fibre optics line linking Cotonou and Parakou, a source close to Libercom, the country's first mobile phone network said on Monday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Reserve Bank is upbeat about the future of the rand currency despite the hammering it has taken in recent months. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Bank of Mozambique has insisted that the country faces no foreign currency shortage despite the continuing sharp depreciation of the Mozambican currency, the metical, against the US dollar. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Affordability may not be a problem for the majority of low and moderate-income South African families seeking to buy a house. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique's largest bank, the BCM, has decided to take debtors to court, in an effort to recover some of the unwise loans which brought it to the verge of bankruptcy. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The pace of privatisation of public entities in Kenya has been jeopardised by the absence of proper legislation, according to Kenyan MP Peter Anyang Nyong'o. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Air France officials in Cameroon's coastal city of Douala have explained recent flight drags as occasioned by "technical problems," the latest such flops occurring last 10 May. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The maritime committee of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), would launch a Mahghreb data base in the field of maritime transport and ports in the five member States, sources at UMA's Rabat headquarters said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's official economic watchdog has blamed the country's Central Bank for the continuous depreciation of the national currency, the naira and the spiralling inflation. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) will suspended its flights to Buenos Aires next month, but the airline will increase its traffic to Sao Paulo in Brazil, official sources said Monday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Airways (SAA) on Monday announced a temporary suspension of service to Buenos Aires with effect from 30 June 2001, due to commercial reasons. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL) on Monday reported a 15 percent increase in headline earnings to 47. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) on Monday announced a 14-billion Zimbabwe dollar electrification project for rural schools and health institutions. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- The Spanish city of Valence is to host the annual assemblies of the African Development Bank (ADB) group from 29 to 31 May, says a news release received by the Gabonese news agency. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A South African delegation is attending the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries, which began in Brussels on Monday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Authorities in Burkina Faso on Saturday increased fuel prices by between 2 and 7 percent. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Officials at the Burkina Faso Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts (CCIA-B) Sunday announced an investment forum dubbed "Investing in Burkina" for 12-14 June. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's state-owned telecommunications giant NITEL has signed new interconnectivity agreement with the eight Private Telecommunications Operators (PTOs) in the country to ease their operation, even as the company grapples with a near-collapse of its own system. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia has secured a 26 million euros (1USD = 1. Full text...