New York- UN (PANA) -- Human Rights Watch, an international human rights organisation, has promised to press for concrete measures on reparation for slavery, caste discrimination and discrimination in the administration of justice at the forthcoming world conference on racism. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The worldwide media watchdog group - Reporters sans frontieres or RSF - Wednesday condemned a Liberian government crackdown denying the Catholic Church-run Radio Veritas in Monrovia to broadcast on shortwave frequency. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The Liberian government has stopped Radio Veritas - a Roman Catholic Church-run radio station in Monrovia - from broadcasting on short-wave frequency, the station manager confirmed Wednesday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's white farmers Wednesday appealed to the government for dialogue over its militant land reforms. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Wednesday denied allegations that it was protecting a suspected Rwandan genocide sponsor, Felicien Kabuga. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- US Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney has called on the Bush Administration to show a commitment to ending racism in America and the world at large. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Liberia's opposition Unity Party (UP) Wednesday urged the government to drop the treason charges against its leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, to complete President Charles Taylor's latest amnesty to his political opponents. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- French Foreign Minister, Hubert Vedrin, said Wednesday in Nairobi that Paris has chosen Kenya as a strategic partner in the development of Paris' new African policy. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The trial of eight gendarmes (policemen) charged with murder following the discovery of 57 bodies in 2000 in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, entered day three Wednesday with the cross-examination of witnesses. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A Zimbabwe High Court judge resigned Wednesday as the authorities press ahead with plans to reform the judiciary, which they accuse of upholding pre-colonial minority white interests. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Former Togolese minister of Human Rights and Democratisation, Harry Octavio Olympio, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined 360,000 francs CFA (about 480 US dollars). Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkina Faso has signed three financial agreements worth over five billion CFA francs (about 6. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian Supreme Court has quashed a military court ruling in which Gen. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Democratic Alliance (DA) deputy chairman Marthinus van Schalkwyk has attacked the Central Firearms Registry (CFR) and Safety and Security minister Steve Tshwete for unfair discrimination and irregularity in the licensing of firearms. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- About 2. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia has begun consulting the OAU secretariat in Addis Ababa on arrangements for a series of technical committee meetings that would give shape to the main structure of the African Union. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan has called on all Arab and Muslim states as well as peace-loving nations to take decisive action against what it said were provocative acts of the Israeli government. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Cote d'Ivoire has a stake in moving towards national reconciliation because the present generation believes this is the first time such problems are faced, according to Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The South Africa police have been called upon to help solve the last November murder of Mozambique's best known journalist, Carlos Cardoso. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- The South Africa police have been called upon to help solve the last November murder of Mozambique's best known journalist, Carlos Cardoso. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Facilitation of people's movement and citizenship status among countries of the Portuguese speaking community, or CPLP, is the focus of a ministerial conference under way in Sao Tome and Principe. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine is expected in Nairobi Wednesday for a daylong official visit during which he is scheduled to hold talks with Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's besieged white farmers meet Wednesday for an annual congress amid a hardening stance by the government on its controversial land reform programme involving the forcible seizure of their idle farms to resettle landless peasants. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Foreign ministers from the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) Tuesday convened in Sao Tome and Principe to discuss common projects, as well as take stock of the last five years. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Egypt Tuesday deposited its instrument of ratification of the African Union, becoming the 45th OAU member state to do so. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- An MP Tuesday motioned for a five- year extension of the life of Kenyan Parliament by up to five years. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- With only a few months remaining before elections, the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) has charged that opposition leader Godfrey Miyanda is not an indigenous Zambian. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- In an unprecedented move, President arap Moi Monday sued former a US ambassador to Kenya, Smith Hempstone, for linking the president to the murder in 1990 of cabinet minister Robert Ouko, press reports said Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Amid refusal by some of Nigeria's former military rulers to answer summons from the country's Commission investigating human rights violations, President Olusegun Obasanjo says it is in the interest of such rulers to honour the panel's invitation. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Elated at its weekend victory in a key parliamentary by-election, Zimbabwe's embattled ruling party is waxing with confidence that its controversial land reform policies would deliver the votes in next year's do-or- die presidential polls. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A retired Nigerian Army General has apologised for his role in the military rulership of the country, in what is perhaps the first such move by a member of the military elite that ruled Nigeria for more than two-thirds of its 40 years of independence. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia has condemned Sunday's desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by a group of suspected Jewish extremists, describing the action as "serious provocation" and an "attack on Muslim feelings". Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Former Angolan prime minister and secretary general of the ruling MPLA party, Lopo do Nascimento, said Monday in Praia that if nominated by the party, he would run for the country's presidency. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Authorities in Kinshasa have renewed complaints that Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi be investigated over large scale massacres perpetrated in DR Congo by troops from those countries. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Officials of the US Republican Party, currently on a fact-finding mission in several African countries, Monday said they would not hesitate to take steps that would give the continent a complete facelift. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- As industrialised nations face a huge influx of refugees seeking asylum, a French philanthropist Monday urged developed and developing countries to address the root causes of the problem in order to stop the increasing number of refugees worldwide. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Monday alerted the nation to the presence of "anti-democracy" groups, which he said were bent on returning the nation to its dark days. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Despite a high profile and gruesome campaign headed by President Daniel arap Moi, the ruling Kanu party lost a by-election for the Taveta parliamentary seat, thus forcing back to the drawing board what pundits believe to be a scheme for him to hang on after his present term. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Visiting Rwandan Prime Minister Bernard Makuza signed three co-operation agreements with Mauritian officials Monday, designed to strengthen relations between the two countries. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The secretary-general of the Kampala-based Pan-African Movement, Tajudeen Abdulrahim, says African leaders with dictatorial tendencies pose the greatest threat to the African Union that was endorsed at the Lusaka Summit of the OAU two weeks ago. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Secretary-General of the Kampala-based Pan-African Movement, Tajudeen Abdulrahim, says African leaders with dictatorial tendencies pose the greatest threat to the African Union, endorsed at the 37th Summit of the OAU in Lusaka, Zambia, two weeks ago. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo left Dakar early Monday afternoon at the end of a 24-hour working and friendly visit to Senegal, during which he had talks with host President Abdoulaye Wade. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Sunday warned against leaving the rebirth of democracy and good governance, free trade and growth in Africa exclusively to an elite of leaders and African nationalists. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- King Mohammed VI of Morocco will Monday pardon 825 prisoners during the country's national day celebrations, the justice ministry said Sunday in Rabat. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The eighth session of the Algeria- Niger joint commission ended Sunday in Algiers with the signing of several memoranda of understanding to enhance trade among businessmen in the two countries. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Despite instituting minor reforms, President Joseph Kabila's government has not changed the moribund economic and social situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where opposition parties still consider him an interim leader. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African government remains confident that talks aimed at getting Burundi's rebel forces to sign a cease-fire agreement will succeed. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo arrived in Dakar Sunday for two-day consultations with his Senegalese counterpart on the fate of the beleaguered Air Afrique multinational company. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- France has provided 12. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- Chadian foreign minister Mohamed Salh Annadif Sunday delivered, in the eastern town of Sirte, a message from President Idriss Deby to the Libyan leader, Col. Full text...