Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Member countries of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) have said "the resolution of the crisis in Mali must be comprehensive and should not be limited to military operation," the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, has said. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – Ivorian minister of foreign affairs, Charles Koffi Diby, says increasing the number of troops of the International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) is the top priority to guard against all eventualities. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Didier Reynders, Monday indicated that Belgium will participate in the training of Malian soldiers, under a programme designed by the European Training and Counselling Mission (EUTM). Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The body of a Togolese soldier at the Mali International Support Mission (AFISMA), Sergeant Tchango Atché, aged 38, who died on 1 February in a road accident on the San-Sévaré trunk, was repatriated home Tuesday, official sources told PANA Thursday. Full text...

Timbuktu, Mali (PANA) – French President Francois Hollade was on Saturday given a tumultuous welcome in Mali’s historic northern city of Timbuktu, 900 kms northeast of Bamako, which soldiers from his country assisted Malian troops to retake from jihadists. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – Morocco Tuesday pledged US$ 5 million to the funding efforts of the Mali International Support Mission (MISMA), under the leadership of the African Union (AU), the Morocco News Agency (MAP) reported here. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Burkinabe president, Blaise Compaoré, declared on Monday in Addis Ababa that he is prepared to receive dissidents of the armed Islamist group, Ansare Dine, operating in northern Mali. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government has asked the country's military to respect human rights and comply with all the provisions of international humanitarian law as it battles to reclaim the northern part of the country from armed Islamist groups. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's president, Mahamadou Issoufou, on Tuesday exhorted Niger's soldiers heading to Mali to accomplish their mission with professionalism. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) is to release 50 million euro, as part of its "Peace facility for Africa", to support the deployment of the Mali peacekeeping mission, the Mali International Support Mission (MISMA), to be led by the African Union, official sources told PANA on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has called for an East African intervention to help rescue Sudan and its southern neighbour from returning to a full-scale war, as the African Union (AU) warned against troops movements around the dispute Abyei. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government has called on the two Sudanese states to avoid a return to full-scale war and go back to the African Union (AU) mediated talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to finalize the pending demarcation of the north-south border. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Chairman of the African Union (AU), Beninese President Yayi Boni, has said he is very concerned about the pre-election violence in Senegal. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has lifted Libya's suspension and allowed the National Transitional Council (NTC) to occupy the country's seat at the continental body, following Thursday's death of ousted leader Mouammar Kadhafi by NTC fighters. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The United Nations Mision in Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) on Monday "deplored and strongly condemned the violent incidents" that took place on Saturday at a rally organised by the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) of former president Laurent Gbagbo at Koumassi Campement in the country's commercial capital, Abidjan. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Encouraged by the progress made in the war against Mouammar Kadhafi loyalists in Sirte, 450 km east of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC) on Friday launched a major offensive to overrun the entire city. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Forces loyal to the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) on Thursday advanced into the centre of Sirte, 450 km east of Tripoli, after heavy figting with forces of ousted Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Clashes continued on Wednesday in Sirte, 450 km east of Tripoli, between forces loyal to former Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi and fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC), who have stormed the city said to be the old regime’s last stronghold. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Despite military successes recorded by fighters of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC), it is yet to put in place a transitional government. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The European Union (EU) Friday announced the easing of sanctions against Libya following resolutions to that effect by the UN Security Council, including the lifting of the freeze on Libyan assets, among others. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The city of Sebha, 800 km south of Tripoli and one of the strongholds of soldiers loyal to Mouammar Kadhafi, has fallen to the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) troops, according to reports from the war front. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Dozens of families are fleeing Beni Walid, one of the remaining strongholds of Kadhafi's loyalists, as fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC) maintained their siege on the city. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A precarious calm prevailed Sunday on the various fronts in cities still held by supporters of the Libyan leader, after the expiration of the ultimatum issued by the National Transitional Committee ( NTC) on Saturday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The much-anticipated military action to take over the town of Beni Walid from Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union's Peace and Security Council rounded off its almost day-long meeting on the situation in Libya Friday without recognizing the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC), according to a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate NATO commanders for possible crimes against humanity during the bombing operations in Libya. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Seif Ul-Islam Gaddafi, the most visible son of Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi whose capture was announced Sunday evening in Tripoli, reappeared Tuesday morning in Bab Al-Aziziyah, the Tripoli suburb where the Libyan leader's residence is based. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Reacting to the capture of Seif Al-Islam Kadhafi, the Libyan leader's son, by Libyan rebels, the European Union (EU) Monday said: "the hard work made by forces of the new Libya, supported militarily by NATO and several member states as well as countries in the region, has sounded the death knell for the regime of Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi." Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Monday it was in touch with the Libyan Transitional National Council, seeking for the custody of Saif Al-Islam Kadhafi, son of the Libyan leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, reportedly seized by the rebels who entered Tripoli after a six-month old Libyan uprising. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - President of the National Transition Council (NTC) Mustapha Abdeljelil has confirmed the arrest of Seif Ul-Islam Kadhafi, son of the Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi, as rebel fighters swept into Tripoli Sunday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Forces of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia Thursday captured strategic positions from Al Shabaab extremists in northeast Mogadishu following highly targeted security operations, the mission announced. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Uganda's Minister of Defence, Dr. Crispus Kiyonga and his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart, Charles Mwando Nsimba have welcome the initiative of the African Union Commission for a regional approach to solve the problem of the Ugandan rebels' Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - France has urged authorities from Northern and Southern Sudan to work for an early political settlement of the crisis in Sudan, the spokesman of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Valero, said here Thursday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - NATO war planes on Sunday bombed a factory producing industrial oxygen in the Al-Maya area, 30 km west of Tripoli, causing enormous damage, Libya Television reported. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) has denounced the contempt shown by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) regarding the African Union (AU) initiative on Libya calling for a cease-fire. Full text...

Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - The road map developed under the mediation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which will be submitted Friday at the Windhoek summit, is the only way to end the crisis in Madagascar, Prime Minister of the country's transitional authority, HAT, Gen. Albert Camille Vital, said. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The president of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, on Friday told his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, to ask his compatriots lay down their arms to contribute to the quick establishment of peace in their country. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The current NATO military strikes in Libya is neither a "humanitarian" war nor a knee-jerk reaction to events that occurred in that African country, according to popular Belgian journalist-writer Michel Collon. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan authorities have urged their fellow citizens, who fled to Tunisia and Egypt, following the war taking place in their country, to return home, calling on those wishing to do so to contact the Libyan consulate to facilitate their safe return. Full text...

Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - The Comoran Minister of State and Chief of Staff in the presidency, Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Heavy gunfire was heard Tuesday and Wednesday in the Yopougon district of Abidjan, where pro-Laurent Gbagbo forces continue their clash with supporters of the president-elect Alassane Ouattara, PANA learnt here. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Cote d'Ivoire's new authorities Monday took over the Felix Houphouet-Boigny International Airport in Abidjan, which had been under the control of French forces since 3 April. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - "The security situation in Côte d'Ivoire remains precarious and humanitarian needs are enormous," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement Thursday. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - President-elect of Cote d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, said Wednesday that former President Laurent Gbagbo, arrested Monday, has been moved from the Gold Hotel and was transferred to a villa fit for his status as a former head of state. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Secretary-General of the International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF), Abdou Diouf, has called on the new Ivorian authorities to fight against impunity, according to a statement by the organisation. Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The Gabonese government said Wednesday it welcomes Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara's call for national reconciliation, in the wake of Monday's arrest of Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - An NGO based in Cotonou, the Observatory for a new Africa (ONA), has urged the new Ivorian authorities to urgently work for reconciliation in Côte d'Ivoire, following Monday's arrest of outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo by pro-Ouattara forces. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - President-elect of Côte d’Ivoire, Mr. Alassane Ouattara, has announced that a judicial proceeding will soon be initiated against outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo, his wife, Simone, and his close associates. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Inter-Parliamentary Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (IPC-UEMOA), which met in Bamako, the Malian capital, has asked the outgoing president of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to accept the election results of the 28 November presidential run-off. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Sorrow and grief were written on the faces of residents of the main Ivorian city of Abidjan on Friday as sounds of gunfire boomed throughout the day. Full text...