Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- After his attempt to overthrow the local military regime in Anjouan and set up a civil authority on the island, Commandant Ayouba Combo returned to Moroni on Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, will meet former South African president Nelson Mandela, during a four-day trip to the country next week. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- President Charles Taylor Friday announced the reopening of Liberia's borders with Sierra Leone and Guinea as part of efforts to restore normal relations. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- As the boycott of Liberian courts by lawyers entered its third day Friday, the Liberian government has termed the action as "unfortunate and irresponsible". Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- UN secretary general Kofi Annan has commended the Libyan leader Col. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to take place in Brisbane, Australia, from 6-9 October has been indefinitely postponed. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Friday appointed a 19-member Elders Council of Advisers, in fulfilment of a pledge he made at the 2000 National Convention of his ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- King Mohamed VI of Morocco Friday received Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama in Morocco's southern city of Marrakech. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Just before the terrorist attacks on the US on 11 September, the administration was considering whether to grant legal status to three million illegal Mexican immigrants or extend the measure to all seven million immigrants living illegally in the US. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Security Council Friday lifted the sanctions it imposed on Sudan six years ago for failing to extradite for prosecution, persons living on its territory who were accused of attempting to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak a year earlier. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwanda and Malawi Thursday signed a general agreement aimed at promoting and strengthening closer bilateral relations and other forms of co-operation between the two countries, a statement from the president's office in Kigali said Friday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- President Benjamin Mkapa has assured the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, that there would be no forced repatriation of tens of hundreds of Rwandese refugees currently staying in refugee camps in Tanzania. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's main opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Friday accused President Robert Mugabe of using his secret service agents to infiltrate and destabilise it ahead of next year's presidential elections. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi police Friday arrested millionaire James Makhumula, chairman of the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA), on charges of conspiracy and illegal possession of fire arms. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- New Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity, Amara Essy met Friday with Zambian President and OAU chairman, Frederick Chiluba, on the transformation of the continental Organisation into the African Union, officials said in Lusaka. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- A three-day conference on peace in West Africa that, jointly organised by the New York-based International Peace Academy and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is underway in Abuja, Nigeria. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- A UN delegation left Luanda Thursday at the close of a ten-day mission during which it assessed conditions ahead of general elections due this year in Angola. Full text...

Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- Major Ayouba Combo returned to Moroni on Thursday after failing to take over the command of the local military unit on Anjouan Island so as to install a civilian as leader of the separatist island's executive board. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius police have seized financial books containing evidence of payments of between 200,000 rupees (about 6,000 USD) and three milllion rupees (about 102,000 USD) by Air Mauritius to the country's major political parties, MATERA news agency reported Thursday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- There have been clashes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the rebel RCD movement and "uncontrolled" armed groups, the head of the UN Mission in Congo reported Thursday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Portugal's Foreign Affairs minister Jaime Gama is due in Rabat on Friday for a day's visit during which he will hold talks with Moroccan officials on the current international situation following terrorist attacks in the US. Full text...

Antananarivo- Madagascar (PANA) -- The US charge d'Affaires in Madagascar, Philip Carter, on Thursday stressed the need for all countries to join the fight against terrorism. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan's opposition Umma party and National Democratic Alliance have agreed to consult other political parties before responding to a request for their views on procedures of a national forum, proposed under the Egyptian- Libyan peace initiative, Khartoum press reported Thursday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Newly installed Organisation of African Unity (OAU) secretary general Amara Essy declared on arrival in Lusaka Thursday that enhancing peace and stability was one of his major priorities. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Courts in the Liberian capital Thursday remained closed for the second day as lawyers continued their boycott of the judiciary protesting the detention of their president, J. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A Zimbabwean newspaper Thursday lashed out at the United States for its threat to attack Afghanistan in reprisal for deadly bombings in New York and Washington DC two weeks ago without proof the poor central Asian country was the culprit. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Nigerian Ambassador to the UN, Arthur Mbanefo has underscored the need to punish those behind the recent terrorist attacks on the US, but stressed that efforts must be made to avoid inflicting pain on innocent people. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- President Paul Kagame says Rwandan troops will only pull out of DR Congo Congo when Rwanda's Intrahame militias in Congolese eastern towns of Kisangani and Kivu are disarmed and demobilised. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The first summit of regional leaders involving South Africa's Western Cape Province and five other partners will hold in Munich, Germany next January, Western Cape Premier Gerald Morkel hinted Wednesday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his DR Congo counterpart Joseph Kabila, have pledged to speed the implementation of the 1999 Lusaka cease-fire deal on the Congo conflict, official sources said in Kigali Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki will pay a three-day visit to Japan beginning Monday for talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, officials said in Pretoria Thursday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso was Thursday off to Libya for a 48-hour friendly and working visit, presidential sources in Ouagadougou said. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- The Cape Verde government plans to set up a rapid police intervention unit to reinforce security at the Amilcar Cabral international airport on Sal Island, an official source in Praia disclosed Wednesday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania's opposition Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD), has called on its members to vote for the candidates of other opposition parties in areas where it is not fielding candidates in the 19 and 26 municipal elections. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- President Daniel arap Moi Thursday told Kenyans to take a firm stand against terrorist activities saying that such acts led to senseless loss of human lives. Full text...

Kolda- Senegal (PANA) -- Authorities in Senegal's south- eastern border town of Kolda and their Guinean Bissau counterparts meet Thursday to discuss conflicts and livestock theft that have rocked the region since 2000, the Senegalese news agency has reported. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya's Ministry of African Unity Wednesday said until a meeting of Arab states is held to discuss developments on the international scene on the recent US terrorist attacks, no one should speak on behalf of the member states. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Former Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings is expected to arrive in Nairobi Thursday to begin a three-day visit to Kenya to promote voluntarism and to help combat HIV/AIDS and malaria on the continent. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia's ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally on Wednesday named President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to run for a fourth consecutive term in 2004. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Presidents Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda have agreed on measures to end the protracted Congolese conflict, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi announced late Wednesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Authorities in Tripoli have distanced themselves from the list of fundamentalists and organisations whose assets in US banks have been frozen by President George W. Full text...

Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- Former Comorian Prime Minister Abbas Djoussouf has suggested the stationing of an African force in the archipelago during the transition period. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Activities at the Temple of Justice here which houses all courts of records in the nation's capital were Wednesday paralysed as lawyers carried out their threat to boycott the courtrooms. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The need to combat the profound causes of terrorism would to a large extent help eradicate the phenomenon much more than the desire to physically eliminate those responsible for terrorism, several western researchers and university scholars have advised. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Defence and national security ministers of the Mano River Union (MRU) states Wednesday began a three-day meeting here to review the security situation in the region. Full text...

Chikomba- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The date has yet to be fixed for Zimbabwe's crunch presidential poll next year, but the country's rival political parties have already begun to whip the nation into an election frenzy. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawians Wednesday rolled out a red carpet and rolled traditional drums to welcome two unlikely bedfellows - the DR Congo's youthful leader Joseph Kabila and his Rwandese counterpart Paul Kagame - to Blantyre for talks on their troubled Great Lakes region. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- African countries should shun the international military coalition against terrorism being built by the US following the 11 September deadly attacks in New York and Washington DC, a Benin academic and activist has warned. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan's opposition Umma party and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), are to consult other concerned parties for a response to the preparatory forum, proposed under the Egyptian-Libyan peace initiative, the local press reported in Khartoum Wednesday. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Liberian lawyers have threatened to boycott all courts until their president detained by parliament is released "immediately and unconditionally," a statement published Wednesday said. Full text...