Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Liberian President Charles Taylor said Thursday that government troops have "contained" dissident attacks in the north of the country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- OAU Secretary General Essy Amara recalled Wednesday that the regional body already has an appropriate framework to fight terrorism. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The UN Security Council would on Friday discuss the peace process in Angola, according to a despatch Thursday, of the Angolan Press Agency (ANGOP). Full text...

Kisumu- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya and Uganda Thursday agreed to continue to jointly intensify mechanisms that would assist them in combating terrorism, cross-border crime and insecurity on Lake Victoria. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan has withdrawn more than 300 troops from Congo to Kigali in a preparation of their redeployment, military sources said Thursday in Kigali. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Gambia's independent electoral commission chairman, Gabriel Roberts, Thursday ordered polling officers to allow voters who hold cards for the presidential poll to cast their votes even if their names are not on election registers. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian President Cassam Uteem on Thursday complained that US bombs in Afghanistan were killing children, women and old people. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Authorities in Zimbabwe Thursday accused the country's embattled white commercial farmers of withholding the staple maize food to create an artificial shortage, describing it as part of a political plot involving the opposition ahead of next year's presidential elections. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Incumbent Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and his main challenger, lawyer Ousainou Darboe have commended the electorate for turning out massively to cast ballots in Thursday's presidential election. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- The head of the development commission and the European parliament co-operation, Joaquim Miranda Wednesday slammed the European Union for deciding to curtail food assistance to Cape Verde. Full text...

Rundu- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian Defence Force's Army Commander, Major General Martin Shalli has ordered the inhabitants of the Kavango region to refrain from moving along the banks of Okavango River in the night, NAMPA news agency has reported. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- UNICEF has urged UNITA rebels to "immediately release" 16 children that the movement recently abducted from a church in Kiluanje locality in the Kwanza-Nord (central south) province, the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP) has reported. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- President Frederick Chiluba's government has called for amends with all parties ahead of Zambia's general elections due to be held before the end of the year. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The leader of Angolan National Liberation Front, or FNLA, Lucas Ngonda, has said his party wants general elections to be held immediately in Angola. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has urged the business community in the country to work tirelessly and in partnership with all sectors to eliminate poverty in communities paying special attention to children. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal Wednesday enjoined his peers from across Africa to adopt a pact against terrorism, insisting it should be one that was both operational and adapted to present circumstances. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Wednesday urged the US to "impose peace" in the Middle East. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian leader Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, currently on a State visit to South Africa, says he wholeheartedly supports the US action against terrorism. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) has dismissed as total fabrication, allegations that the party was being funded by the Rwandan government. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Prince Bola Ajibola, Wednesday expressed regrets over the bloody violence in Nigeria's northern city of Kano following last week's peaceful anti-American demonstration. Full text...

Ndola- Zambia (PANA) -- An outspoken cleric has criticised the church in Zambia for taking a partisan stance in the run up to the country's council, parliamentary and presidential elections expected later this year. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia, (PANA) -- Reacting to criticisms following Tuesday's cabinet shake-up, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia Wednesday said he picked ministers on political grounds, while appointments to sub-cabinet positions were on the basis of professional aptitude. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- President Mamadou Tandja of Niger Tuesday congratulated UN secretary general Kofi Annan for his designation as winner of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, an official statement said in Niamey. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The British embassy in Dar es Salaam Tuesday suspended its activities for a week to sort out security problems at its offices. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Eighteen persons accused of direct responsibility for the 1 October demonstrations in Bamenda, administrative centre of the north-western Cameroonian province, wound on Wednesday receive response to their application for bail. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The general conference of Sudan's ruling party, the National Congress, on Wednesday unanimously re-elected President Omar el Bashir as its chairman for another five-year term. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- President Bakili Muluzi Wednesday likened treason to terrorism and vowed that his government would deal with any subversive elements in Malawi. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A Muslim leader has told a workshop in Khartoum on terrorism and family disintegration that "the Talibans were created by Western powers to tarnish the image of Islam, particularly in the West where the religion is gaining ground". Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party Wednesday sunk deeper into political crisis, and postponed a planned weekend congress to formally launch its campaign for next year's presidential election after two top officials reportedly voiced interest in the party presidency. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Close to 500,000 Gambian voters were on Wednesday preparing to cast ballots in Thursday's presidential election amid fears that violence could flare up on polling day. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Captain Fabien Coulibaly, aide- de-camp of the former military ruler of Cote d'Ivoire, Gen. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- President Thabo Mbeki has said news that the Nobel Peace Prize been awarded to the United Nations and its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has filled him with a sense of "joy and pride". Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismael has said his government would soon reach an agreement with the European Union on normalisation of bilateral relations. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Inter Congolese dialogue that officially opened here Monday could not begin treating its main agenda as participants continue to wrangle over issues of representation and finance. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- With only a few months left before Zambia holds presidential and general elections, lawyers in the country have presented a conflicting interpretation of the presidential candidate's citizenship. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The advocacy desk officer at the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone, Florella Hazely, has announced the postponement of an ecumenical conference on small arms earlier scheduled for 16 October in Freetown. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The ad-hoc Commission set up by the Mozambican Parliament to revise the country's electoral legislation is reported to have run out funds, with opposition MPs accusing the ruling party of obstructing the work of the Commission. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian President Frederick Tuesday hoped the absence of President Joseph Kabila and Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) leader Jean Pierre Bemba at the start of the Inter-Congolese dialogue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia would not derail the initiative. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola said at the weekend that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN and its secretary general augurs well for the global struggle against terrorism. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Newly elected Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) chairman Christon Tembo has said it is for the party's National Policy Council (NPC) to decide on whether or not the FDD would be part of a coalition government now widely vaunted by the opposition in Zambia. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's leading opposition politician Brown Mpinganjira has been arrested on treason charges by the authorities. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde leader Pedro Pires has sent a congratulatory message to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for sharing the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with the world body. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Tuesday announced a cabinet reshuffle including the appointment of Amahara National Democratic Movement chairman Addisu Legese as Deputy Prime Minister alongside 18 new ministers and 27 deputy ministers. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- As part of efforts to consolidate the fragile peace process in Sierra Leone, a police team was Tuesday deployed from the capital Freetown to the diamond-rich Kono District. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Gambian opposition leader Ousainou Darboe Tuesday appealed to his compatriots to shun violence during and after Thursday's crucial presidential election. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- President Joseph Kabila at the weekend reiterated his call for a complete withdrawal of foreign troops from DR Congo as a precondition for lasting peace in the country. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian Democratic Union of Secondary Education Teachers has called on former presidents Henri Konan Bedie and Robert Guei as well as erstwhile prime minister Alassane Ouattara to apologise to the Ivorian people for the suffering caused them while they were in power. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Ghana has indicated interest in undertaking an exchange programme with Nigeria's Immigration and Prisons services to foster bilateral co-operation between the two nations and enhance regional security, the News Agency of Nigeria reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Pakistani High Commission in Nigeria Tuesday denied claims that five of the Asian country's citizens, suspected to be terrorists, were arrested in Nigeria, even as the police authorities re-confirmed the report. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Sankarist parties Monday failed to commemorate 15 October, the anniversary of President Thomas Sankars's death in unison as a result of discord over protocol, observers in the Burkinabe capital noted. Full text...