Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania's ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), has condemned the bombing of its offices in Dar es Salaam, which it blamed on "political thugs". Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Gambia's Secretary of State (Minister) for Foreign Affairs, Momodou Lamin Jobe has resigned and the government has accepted his resignation, a State House statement said in Banjul. Full text...

Bo- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has postponed Sierra Leone's national elections saying the country is still at war. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Suspected terrorists killed seven persons Sunday night on the road linking Relizane and Mascara in western Algeria, eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia's former deputy minister of Prisons and Correctional Services, Micheala Hubschle, has criticised white Namibians for avoiding events organised in honour of the country's people. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The ruling Frelimo party in Mozambique Monday renewed its determination to unearth the causes of the death of the country's first president, Samora Machel. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Experts involved in the Libyan- Egyptian initiative for peace in Sudan started meeting Monday in Tripoli under the chairmanship of the move's co-ordinator, Soleiman Chhoumi and the Egyptian deputy foreign minister, Rafik Khalil. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Authorities in Zimbabwe deported 71 illegal Mozambican immigrants over the weekend, Radio Mozambique reported Monday in Maputo. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo's interior minister Brig. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- After escaping from a shattering episode that still makes front-page news, survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide have more than a legal battle in mind. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Edinburgh (Scotland) High Court of Justice has ruled as admissible an appeal lodged by Libyan national Abdelbasset Meghrahi, who was last January sentenced to life imprisonment over the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, Tripoli sources said Monday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan has vowed to deal firmly with Uganda's opposition Lord Resistance Army (LRA) of Joseph Kony, accusing it of attacking Sudanese troops in the south of the country. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Co-operation and Francophonie Affairs Minister Charles Josselin, is leading the French government delegation to the World Conference Against Racism, which opens Thursday in Durban, South Africa, Foreign Ministry sources said in Paris Monday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The President of Burundi's National Assembly, Leonce Ngendakunana, has lashed out at the country's politicians, after they failed to turn up at a sensitisation campaign called to push for peace and national concord. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Ahead of the World Conference against Racism in Durban, the New York based Human Rights Watch has released a report indicting the authorities in Cote d'Ivoire for condoning and even inciting xenophobia. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The Burundi military has sacked 200 soldiers from service in connection with the 22 July botched coup attempt in the country, according to military sources in Bujumbura. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A delegation from the US Congress led by J. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria has said it would attend a meeting billed for Wyoming (United States) on the settlement of the Western Sahara conflict. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Given its tremendous influence on international relations, America's threat to boycott the forthcoming third World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa, over agenda disagreement has the dangerous potential of undermining a UN effort at combating a serious evil plaguing human kind. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Malawian Chimaimba Banda has been living in South Africa for the past 18 years but he says he still feels like a foreigner in this land of gold. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Central African Republic authorities were on Sunday reportedly convinced that France played a role in the removal of the wife of former President André Kolingba from the French embassy in Bangui to an unknown destination. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Somali's interim President Abdulkassim Salad Hassan conceded Sunday that his provisional administration had failed to meet the needs of the people during the past year. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Ruling Zambian Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) presidential candidate Levy Mwanawasa on Sunday appealed for an end to insults among the country's political class. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's front-line female opposition politician and presidential aspirant, Charity Ngilu, has threatened to sue the government after being roughed-up by the police on Saturday as they dispersed a rally in the coastal town of Mombasa, local newspapers reported Sunday. Full text...

Ziguinchor- Senegal (PANA) -- Southern Senegal's rebel group, the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance, which has been fighting for the area's independence since 1982, has recently recruited hundreds of youths to enhance its troops. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema on Friday received a message from the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in connection with the World Conference Against Racism scheduled to be held in Durban, South Africa from 31 August to 7 September. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor has called for a national debate on whether the state should devise a formula for funding qualified political parties to enhance multiparty democracy in the country. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor Saturday called for a national debate on whether the State should devise a formula for the funding of qualified political parties to enhance multi-party democracy in the country. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo's Interior minister Pierre Oba Saturday conceded that the country would need international help in the conduct of several of a referendum on a draft constitution later this year, as well as general elections due in 2002. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Several members of the African Diaspora in France, meeting Friday in Paris, lashed out at President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal for his stance against calls for reparations on the abuses of slavery and colonisation. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheik Muhammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah arrived in Port Louis Saturday on a one-day visit to seek Mauritian support at the UN Security Council for the release of Kuwaiti prisoners in Iraq. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Guinean President Lansana Conte is in Morocco on a private visit, the State Television TVM has reported. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A political committee of the joint Sudanese-Ethiopian Ministerial Committee will meet in Addis Ababa in early September, Sudanese ambassador Osman Al-Sayed said Friday. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Ethiopia will host the Inter- Congolese Dialogue proper starting on 15 October, delegates decided Friday night at a preparatory meeting in Gaborone. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Gambia's opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has taken to court some foreigners accused of acquiring voters' cards during a registration exercise. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- A Nigerian Senator, Abubakar Danso Sodangi, has urged the country's citizens who cannot sustain themselves abroad to return home and save the nation further image problems. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa Friday asserted that his government was committed to upholding the rule of law and perpetuating the principles of human rights, including freedom of assembly and of worship. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- A split is looming in the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) party following Minister Without Portfolio Michael Sata's petition against the election of Levy Mwanawasa as the party's presidential candidate, alleging that the election process was fraudulent. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Constitution of Kenya Review Commission Secretary Arthur Okoth Owiro resigned Friday, citing "irreconcilable differences" with the Commission's Chairman Yash Pal Ghai. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The Tembo faction of the divided opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said it would not support a campaign by ruling party officials to change the Constitution so as to allow President Bakili Muluzi stand for a third term of office when his term expires in 2004. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Exiled Liberian opposition leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Friday blamed Liberian President Charles Taylor for the country's difficulties, charging that four years into his current tenure the former warlord has done little to promote democracy and human rights. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Organisation of Islamic Conference has urged the international community to compel Israel to implement the various UN Security Council resolutions on the Middle East conflict. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's ruling KANU party and its close ally, the National Development Party, Friday announced they were merging to form a powerful political group ahead of next year's general elections. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Thursday reaffirmed their political commitment to restore stability within the Mano River Union through peaceful means. Full text...

GABORONE- Botswana (PANA) -- The preparatory meeting on DR Congo Friday agreed for the Inter-Congolese dialogue to begin 15 October, but no consensus was reached on its venue. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The resignation of Prof. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- President Robert Mugabe denied Friday that there was a rift between him and his colleagues in the Southern African Development Community over his government's handling of land reforms in Zimbabwe. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria police Friday arraigned the leader of the militant faction of the Yoruba nationalist group, Ganiyu Adams, before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos on 25 charges including murder, arson, armed robbery and conspiracy. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Foreign, security, internal affairs, defence and justice ministers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone on Thursday signed an agreement in Freetown reaffirming their political will to restore peace and stability within the Mano River Union through confidence-building measures. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Contact group currently visiting Sierra Leone on Friday expressed the organisation's willingness to assist in the country's post war rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts. Full text...