Livingstone- Zambia (PANA) -- The immigration department in Livingstone, Zambia Thursday rounded up and detained 29 Zimbabwean nationals for working illegally in the town. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's angry Muslims took to the streets Friday, burning US and Israel flags in a protest to express solidarity with Palestinians. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania's bilateral and multilateral partners Friday raised serious concerns over the fragile political climate in Zanzibar and the 'faltering' efforts to reduce poverty in the country. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Political temperature was high Friday in two constituencies in Zimbabwe ahead of weekend elections which rival parties are using to gauge their strength ahead of next year's crunch presidential poll draws close. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean political and farming groups Friday gave guarded welcome to the outcome of landmark land reform talks in Nigeria but deplored what they termed as unclear diplomatic language. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The Lower House of the Liberian parliament has suspended its speaker to facilitate a probe into allegations of corruption and perjury levelled against him, an official confirmed Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Malagasy government has prohibited candidates from inserting trade marks of their products on campaign posters during the forthcoming presidential election campaign, reports the MATERA Indian Ocean news agency. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Zimbabwean government has agreed to end the occupation of white-owned farmlands by landless blacks, while Britain has re-stated its commitment to significantly fund the controversial land reform programme in the Southern African country. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- With just hours remaining before the close of the World Conference Against Racism, hopes that delegates would resolve their differences on key issues and secure a consensus, have all but fizzled out. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Results of latest parliamentary by-elections in Zambia show that voters are moving away from the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) to the opposition. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The brutality of South Africa's apartheid system was vividly portrayed late Thursday by an 84-year-old black labourer who told a World Conferences Against Racism Special Forum that he was thrown off a farm and left to die after providing 40 years of service. Full text...

Makeni- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Thursday boycotted a well-planned meeting with representatives of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and government in the rebel stronghold town of Makeni. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN Security Council has stressed that scheduled talks by the different groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on the political future of their country be held without any outside interference. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN said Thursday it was still waiting for evidence from Iraq to back its allegations that five UN staff members in Baghdad, four of them Nigerians and one Bosnian, were spies. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, convener of Thursday's Commonwealth meeting to mend strained relations between Zimbabwe and Britain over land reform disagreement, is to give details of the agreement reached between the parties, Nigerian officials said late Thursday. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Former South-African president Frederick de Klerk has offered to mediate in the political crisis simmering in Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Serious fighting was reported Wednesday between the Burundi army and the National Liberation Front (NLF) rebels in the mountain area overlooking the nation's capital, Bujumbura, military sources said. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- A Namibian High Court sitting at Grootfontein, 500-km north of Windhoek, Thursday refused bail to 130 suspects facing treason trial over the 1999 failed rebellion in the north-eastern Caprivi region. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Thursday repatriated 319 Ethiopian nationals from Eritrea. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) charged Thursday that the Durban World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), had degenerated into an anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish gathering. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya police said Thursday that they were ready to deal firmly with any lawbreakers during a demonstration planned for Friday in Nairobi by Muslims who want Kenya to sever diplomatic links with Israel. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Commonwealth Foreign Ministers meeting in Abuja, on Zimbabwe's controversial land reform programme, have agreed to extend the agenda beyond the land issue, participants said Thursday in the Nigerian capital. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- In a bid to reinvigorate the former ruling African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau (PAIGC), former Planning Minister Aristides Gomes has officially entered the race to succeed current leader Francisco Benante at the helm of the former ruling party. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- It is still not certain whether a consensus would be reached on a final declaration at the World Conference against Racism, as negotiators scramble to agree on a number of controversies. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Foreign Minister Sule Lamido has described Thursday's Commonwealth meeting to mend strained relations between Britain and Zimbabwe as successful. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The out-going secretary- general of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), Salim Ahmed Salim, has completed a farewell visit to Eritrea. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- UN Under-secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, C. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria Thursday proposed a two-track approach to resolving the lingering land issue in Zimbabwe, as the ground-breaking meeting called to mend frosty relations between Zimbabwe and Britain got underway in Abuja. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo Thursday made a brief appearance at the meeting of the Committee of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers on Zimbabwe, but made no comments to reporters. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian police are investigating circumstances connected with a pistol bullet found in a toilet bowl of a building occupied by a law firm in Lusaka. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- A day-long tripartite meeting that would bring together representatives of the Sierra Leone government and the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF), opens Thursday in the rebel-controlled northern town of Makeni. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- A declaration drawn up by non-governmental organisations at the ongoing World Conference Against Racism has been rejected by Western and southeast Asian NGOs, including five prominent human rights groups. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Some 45 villages with a population of 70,000 in the Negev Desert face the danger of being wiped out any time because they are not recognised by Israel, a resident of the area has told the ongoing World Conference Against Racism in Durban. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The Arab caucus to the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South African has dismissed the US withdrawal from the forum as a ploy to divert attention from other fears. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's opposition political parties are demanding the resumption of the inter-party dialogue initiated by the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD). Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Former Botswana President Ketumile Masire, facilitator of the inter-Congolese Dialogue, has started an Euro-American tour to source for funds in support of the Congolese peace talks beginning 15 October. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan's ruling party, the National Congress, has dismissed rumours about President Al-Bashir scheming to throw out Islamists from his government and set up a military junta. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Sierra Leone's Attorney General and Justice Minister, Solomon Berewa confirmed Wednesday in Freetown that 31 detained officials of the Rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF), had been freed. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Foreign Minister Chris Obure Wednesday restated Kenya's desire to maintain relations with Israel despite calls by a local pressure group on Nairobi to sever ties. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania Wednesday called on Burundi's armed rebels to lay down their arms and join the peace process which he said has reached an advanced stage. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- As part of a farewell tour of African countries, out-going OAU Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim Wednesday wound up a two-day visit to Eritrea, during which he also met with officials of the UN Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Rwanda and Burundi Wednesday became the latest countries to join the Conference of Eastern, Southern and Central Heads of Correctional Services (CESCA) at the body's 5th biannual conference holding in Windhoek, Namibia. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan president Paul Kagame has reiterated his commitment to the implementation of the Lusaka peace agreement to end war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania and Burundi Wednesday declared an end to long-standing allegations that authorities in the East African nation were training rebels based in refugee camps to carry out cross-border attacks. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Peace talks scheduled to be held Wednesday in Nairobi between the Sudanese government and the Sudanese People's Liberation Army have been put off. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, is at pains convincing the world that the World Conference Against Racism "will achieve its mandate", despite the withdrawal of the US and Israeli delegations from the Durban parley. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Delegates attending the World Conference Against Racism have failed to reach agreement over the issue of slavery and reparations. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The United States which has come under enormous criticism for its decision to withdraw from the World Conference Against Racism has attempted to soften the blow by claiming it had not withdrawn completely. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Victims of gross human rights abuses in England, Australia and the United States have added their voices to a special forum being held as part of the World Conference Against Racism in Durban. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki is due in Harare, Zimbabwe on Monday for a two-day meeting with role players in the ongoing economic decline in that country. Full text...