Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- African experts in the technical military committee backing Burundi's peace process are currently meeting in Bujumbura to determine modalities under which foreign peacekeepers would operate in the country. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The lower house of parliament Monday jailed the president of the Liberian National Bar Association, Counsellor J. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Monday described the terrorist strikes in the US 11 September as attacks on all that the UN stands for, and urged the world body to respond "by reaffirming, with all our strength, our common humanity and values that we share". Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's former First Lady Vera Chiluba Monday sounded upset about her divorce with President Frederick Chiluba, intimating that the break-up was somewhat abrupt. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Divorced First Lady Vera Chiluba has thanked the women of Zambia for what she said was the support they gave her during her stay at the State House. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- British Anti-Terrorist Squad officers have been granted more time by Magistrates to question an Algerian pilot and two others arrested in connection with the deadly terrorist attacks on America, the press reported in London Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Escalating ethnic and religious violence in Nigeria and recent terrorist attacks on the US have prompted tighter security measures in the West African country. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- King Mohammed VI of Morocco Monday received a message from his Congo Brazzaville counterpart Denis Sassou Nguesso, officials said in Rabat. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africans were reminded Monday that a nation which does not respect its national symbols can not expect to be respected by anyone. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has condemned the 11 September aerial attacks on some US landmarks in New York and Washington DC, saying they constituted a crime against humanity, the semi-official Daily Times newspaper reported in Lagos Monday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian Head of State Abdelaziz Bouteflika has officially invited village committees in the troubled Kabylia for discussions, a release said Sunday evening. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The Justice Minister of Burkina Faso, Boureima Badini, is expected to arrive in Paris Wednesday for talks with International Co-operation and the Francophonie Minister Charles Josselin, French Foreign ministry sources said Monday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The Justice Minister of Burkina Faso, Boureima Badini, is expected to arrive in Paris Wednesday for talks with International Co-operation and the Francophonie Minister Charles Josselin, French Foreign ministry sources said Monday. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- The London-based Pan African rights group, PANAFEGAL, Monday expressed sympathy for the US terrorist attack victims and urged Africans to emulate the example of solidarity portrayed by Americans in times of difficulties. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The 11 September terrorist mayhem in the US has elicited an equal measure of universal outrage and an outpouring of sympathy, solidarity and support for America. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Ruling in a case involving six Bulgarians (a doctor and five nurses) accused of contaminating over 400 Libyan children with HIV/AIDS at Benghazi hospital, 1,050 km east of Tripoli, was Saturday adjourned to 22 December. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A group of suspected Angolan soldiers reportedly abducted a Zambian student from a village near the common border because of his alleged links with the rebel Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or UNITA. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- The Niger army has destroyed a base used by former Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Sahara (FARS), which waged a failed rebellion in the north, the National Radio has reported. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Stunned by the 11 September hijacking and suicide crashing of commercial aircraft into public buildings by terrorists believed of Arab extraction, American travellers now fear taking the same flights with real or suspected Arabs. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The government of Senegal is in the process of restructuring several of its diplomatic missions, a Foreign ministry statement said. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian President and ECOWAS chairman, Alpha Oumar Konare, has advocated a federation of West African States within the African Union (AU) as a prelude to the creation of a United States of Africa. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves has said the country would back any action against global terrorism. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Malian Head of State Alpha Oumar Konare has appealed for some minimum compromise among the country's politicians for the successful conduct of general and presidential elections in April 2002. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Official sources in Bujumbura reported Saturday that at least one person was killed in the locality of Kanyosha, south of the Burundi capital, in a rebel attack last night. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A five-member delegation of the Rwandan-backed rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) arrived in Zimbabwe at the weekend for talks with President Robert Mugabe on the peace process in DR Congo. Full text...

Chikomba- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Election officials in Zimbabwe said Saturday voter turnout was light on the first day of voting in Chikomba constituency in the east of the country, where a weekend by-election was being held to elect a new parliamentary representative. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Friday offered his country's support to the US administration in its fight against international terrorism. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan governments has expressed its full backing to the global campaign to rid the world of terrorism as another of its national was reported to have died in the 11 September attacks in New York and Washington DC that have resulted in more than 6,000 deaths. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania has renewed the call on African states to initiate joint action and make a genuine claim for African debt relief from developing countries, saying the continent cannot make any headway in poverty reduction without slashing the huge resources it devotes to debt repayment. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The OAU organ on Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution met Thursday in Addis Ababa in its 76th ordinary session under chaired by Zambian Ambassador Simataa Akapelwa and attended by new OAU Secretary-General Amara Essy. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The Czech Republic's outgoing Ambassador to Namibia, Pavel Vosalik, has called for the strengthening of bilateral co-operation between Namibia and his country in the areas of trade, science and technology. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The military in Burundi Thursday issued a flat denial of reports that Rwandan soldiers were in the country, after pursuing rebel Hutu forces beyond the border into Burundi. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's opposition Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) external relations parliamentarian, Tendai Biti, Friday in Paris cited bad governance as being at the core of the current crisis facing Zimbabwe. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- A minor airport incident between Liberian State security operatives and supporters of opposition politician Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf nearly marred her home-coming Friday after one year in exile. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- President George W. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Leaders of Tanzania's 12 opposition parties are working on a joint proposal to press the government to review the country's 1977 constitution. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- While the world grieves over last week's deadly aerial bombings by suspected Afghanistan-based terrorists in the US, Zimbabwe is breathing a sigh of relief over the shift in international attention away from its controversial land reforms. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- With the resignation Thursday from Parliament of Mark Kiptarbei arap Too, analysts in Nairobi reckon President Daniel arap Moi would soon announce the new team he had long hinted of. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Benin President Mathieu Kerekou arrived in Paris Friday on a private visit, diplomatic sources said in the French capital. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Voters in the rural constituency of Chikomba in the east of Zimbabwe go to the polls this weekend to elect a parliamentary representative, in an election the contestants see as a crucial test of their popularity ahead of next year's presidential poll. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Christians Friday came out strongly in defence of the country's diplomatic ties with the state of Israel. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya has reiterated its commitment to fight terror in the wake of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington but denied reports that it has agreed to serve as a launching pad for US retaliatory attacks against the presumed terrorists. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The Liberian government has offered its airspace, sea and land facilities to the US and its allied forces in the global fight against terrorism, press reports said in Monrovia Friday. Full text...

Moroni- Comoros (PANA) -- A former Comorian legislator, Abdou Soule Abdoulbak or El-Bak, known to be close to Khartoum, has defended the Saudi-born billionaire Oussama Bin Laden accused by the US of being responsible for the deadly terrorist attacks against New York and Washington on 11 September. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's opposition National Leadership for Development Party (NLDP) says a government of national unity being instigated by opposition political parties is not feasible in Zambia. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- An official of the Zambia National General Forum for non-governmental organisation has appealed to some local NGOs and media organisations to refrain from tarnishing the image of the country, especially to the outside world. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's opposition United National Independence Party (UNIP) President Tilyenji Kaunda, has pledged to strengthen law enforcement if given the mandate to govern. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The ministerial political committee overseeing the cease-fire agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo has noted the withdrawal of Namibian troops, which were helping the government in Kinshasa to combat rebels in the east. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) said it would now allow the free movement of people and goods as well as the establishment of government authority in areas where disarmament has taken place. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Senior Sudanese government officials Wednesday rebutted "deliberate reports insinuating" that the country could be among the targets of US retaliatory attacks in its resolve to stem terrorism world-wide. Full text...