Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa and Turkey have signed an agreement to cooperate in fighting crime, the Foreign Affairs ministry said here Wednesday in a statement. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- A study by the UN drug and crime office reveals that sub-Saharan Africa was the region most negatively impacted by organised crime, and that outlaws there were increasingly turning to high technology. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- The Gabonese Defence ministry has announced a toll-free number for the provision of information in its fight against a recent spate of insecurity in the capital Libreville. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Police in Zimbabwe and Zambia have launched joint operations to smash cross-border criminal gangs involved in drug trafficking and stock theft. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A 25-year-old Mautitian man, Moctar Diallo alias "Oumar Ould Abdoullah," has died in a police cell at Kaedi, southern Mauritania, where he was being held on theft charges, two rights groups said in Nouakchott Sunday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian police say they have arrested a group of Senegalese nationals over several suspected murder and armed robbery cases. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Suspected burglars have shot dead a Malian at his home in Libreville, the Gabonese government-run daily Union Plus reported on Tuesday. Full text...

Lilongwe- Malawi (PANA) -- Blantyre police Friday confirmed arresting a gang of five, including the son of President Bakili Muluzi. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- An armed robber was killed and four people injured Saturday during an unsuccessful raid at a foreign exchange bureau in central Maputo. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has maintained that the country represented the capital of crime and disagreed with government claims that it compares favourably with the rest of the world. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Details have emerged over how the Mozambican police recovered a heavy truck in the district of Manhica in the southern province of Maputo on Wednesday last week, which is believed to have been stolen at gun point in South Africa. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- At least 23 taxi and minibus drivers have been shot dead by police in the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan since 1993, the National Union of Ivorian Transport has revealed. Full text...

Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- Victim Hassan Ali Ivessi took the law into his hands at the weekend by severing the hand of a young burglar with a machete in the village of Seleani, police sources revealed Monday in Mbeni, capital of the Comoran region of Hamahamet. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth, said he has asked police in the country to strengthen their hunt for criminals following an increase in crime including rape and killing of women. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The Mozambican government said on Thursday that it was determined to fight against transborder organised crime. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian police are looking for two individuals said to be South African nationals who have allegedly cashed stolen traveller's cheques worth 185,000 rupees (about 6,600 US dollars), a police source said on Tuesday in Port Louis. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- A suspected British thief is in Malawi police custody after swindling several banks of thousands of British pound sterling in fake travellers' cheques, police told PANA on Monday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Car theft is increasingly becoming a menace in Algeria, with the emergence of new networks of well- organised thieves, a police report on crimes in the first quarter of 2003 indicated Tuesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Residents in the impoverished townships around Cape Town are up in arms over an upsurge in gang-related violence that has left several children killed. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Cape Town police were out in full force Friday after two children were injured during gang violence in Eerste River, Thursday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- A 70-year-old woman from the southern tea-growing district of Thyolo is battling for her life at a Blantyre hospital after unidentified assailants gouged out her eyes at the weekend, bringing to life a spectre of fresh serial killings in the area. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Two Roman Catholic priests, a Canadian and a Frenchman, are battling for their lives in a rural hospital in northern Zambia after bandits attacked and hacked them with machetes following a burglary into their parish home early Tuesday. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican police said they are still waiting for owners to claim their stolen vehicles seized in Mozambique during a regional operation in January to crack down on the growing cross-border crime. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Police in the Western Cape on Monday said they achieved several successes against organised crime syndicates over the past week. Full text...

Malabo- Equatorial Guinea (PANA) -- Three Cameroonians have been arrested by the Equatorial Guinean police for "illegal possession of weapons and passport trafficking," the national radio reported in Malabo Friday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Security was extremely tight Monday when the two men accused of murdering nine people in gay brothel in January appeared in a Cape Town court. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A driver wanted by Kenya police in connection with the stealing of 700,000 US dollars last October, has given himself up, police sources indicated Saturday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian and US officials ratified a treaty on mutual assistance in criminal matters Wednesday in Abuja, more than 10 years after the bilateral pact was signed. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Two unidentified gunmen are at large after what is believed to have been an attempt on the life of Mozambique's assistant attorney general Isabel Rupia last Wednesday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Cote d'Ivoire Human Rights League has called for a "credible probe" into circumstances surrounding two mass graves discovered recently in rebel-controlled areas. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Daring thieves broke through several reinforced walls and stole about 20 million rand in foreign currency last weekend, police disclosed Tuesday in South Africa. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Police in Zimbabwe said Sunday that Zambian cattle rustlers were raiding border villagers in Zimbabwe, stealing livestock worth millions of dollars. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Gangsters raided Kenyatta University in Nairobi at the weekend, overpowered a guard and made away with 15 computers just days after thugs carried out an earlier robbery at the same institution. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said in Maputo Thursday that his government was "determined to intensify efforts against crime, and to take strong measures to arrest criminals. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- A renown Somali traditional chief was Friday evening killed after two rival clans failed to reach a truce over cattle rustling accusations. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The fifth international meeting on transnational financial crimes opened in Abuja Thursday with representatives from four of the seven listed countries in attendance. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Experts from 40 European and African countries Tuesday in Algiers appealed for the ratification of the international convention against organised crime. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A man has been arrested in connection with an attack last Tuesday night on a British couple in South Africa's resort town of Pilgrims Rest in Mpumulanga Province. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Assailants suspected to be Hutu rebels injured five people and looted properties in a late Tuesday night attack in southern and northern Bujumbura. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Scotland Yard and Interpol are the latest law enforcement agencies to help South Africa check fraud, especially in the domain of medical aid. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Police negligence and misconduct was the reason three members of the People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) group escaped from the Cape High Court holding cells last month. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Over 600 people have been killed in farm attacks in South Africa since 1997, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation disclosed Thursday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Amid rising cases of financial crimes involving Nigerians living in South Africa, Abuja has approved an extradition agreement with South Africa. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa was fast becoming the new hub for the perennial Nigerian "419" scams which can have dire financial and physical consequences for those being taken in by the fraudsters, says Howard Griffiths, managing director of Griffiths and Associates in Johannesburg. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday began a seven-day training workshop here for staff of Ghana's Criminal Investigation Department. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A massive manhunt on Sunday night resulted in police recapturing Faizel Samsodien, one of the three Pagad gang members who in September escaped from a South African High Court sitting in Cape Town. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Suburban road closures for security purposes are likely to continue in South Africa for as long as the government was unable to deal with rising crime, a real estate warned Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Last week's escape from custody of Ebrahim Jeneker, one of South Africa's most wanted men, is an indictment on government's efforts to bring peace and stability to the Cape Flats, according to a local branch of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A greater part of Uganda's independent history has been characterised by political turmoil, civil strife and economic stagnation whose sum effect has tended to cripple governments ability to combat crime ands maintain law and order. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Ugandans' reluctance to report criminal activities within their midst results from losing confidence in the justice system, and this has led to a high prevalence of crime in the country, said Amos Ngolobe, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecution. Full text...