Dadaab, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan policeman was killed and three others wounded after a landmine explosion targeted their convoy near the Dagahley camp, in the Dadaab refugee complex in northern Kenya, a local police commander said Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - One person died and four others were injured following clashes between militias and security forces Tuesday in front of the offices of the Prime Minister in Tripoli, the chairman of the security commission in the Libyan capital, Hachem Béchir, said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ethiopian long distance running legend Haile Gabreselassie, who won a chase race against British World Marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe in Vienna, Austria, on Sunday, was hosted to a reception by the country's President, Mr Heinz Fischer, ahead of the race. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - European Union (EU) High Representative Catherine Achton is deeply concerned at the escalating armed conflict on the border between Sudan and South Sudan, the EU said in a statement. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday expressed ''deep concern'' over the continued fighting along the border between Sudan and South Sudan and urged the two countries’ leaders to meet as soon as possible and ensure a quick end to the conflict. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday welcomed the ceasefire brokered in the south-western city of Sabha, where fighting in recent days has resulted in some 50 deaths, and called on all sides to address the underlying causes of the violence. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Wednesday said talks with South Sudan, for the resolution of pending post-secession issues, would be on hold until the south shows it really wants peace, the Sudanese Ministry of Information said in a statement here. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep concern over the military clashes along the border region of Sudan and South Sudan, and called on the two nations to fully respect and implement the agreements they have already reached on security, border monitoring and the disputed area of Abyei. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Four people were killed after a series of four explosions hit a busy bus park in Nairobi, injuring 30 people, 12 of them critically, witnesses and the police confirmed to PANA on Saturday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has deployed a team to Congo to support the authorities, following Sunday's munitions dump explosions in the capital city of Brazzaville that killed at least 200 people and injured some 1,500 others. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has expressed grave concern over reports of renewed cross-border violence between Sudan and South Sudan, and called for a ceasefire in the area to end the hostilities that have caused thousands of people to flee the region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has inaugurated a Lassa fever Rapid Response Committee in an attempt to curtail the spread of the disease which has killed 40 people in 12 of the country's 36 states in recent times. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An outbreak of Lassa fever, an acute haemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus, has killed 40 people in 12 of Nigeria's 36 states, Minister of State for Health Muhammed Pate told a press conference in Abuja, the nation's capital, Tuesday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has expressed concern at the violence which erupted in the northern part of Mali on 17 January, following attacks launched by the National Movement of Liberation of the Azawad (MNLA), according to a statement issued on Wednesday in Brussels.Full text...

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Five East African countries - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania - have moved closer to a total ban on the use of plastics, after a regional legislative body passed a new law banning their use. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Senior UN official visiting south Sudan has expressed concern at the scope and magnitude of violence that have taken place in Jonglei. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative and the head of the UN peacekeeping operation in Cote d' Ivoire (UNOCI), Bert Koenders, on Monday deplored the deadly clashes in the west of the country that reportedly killed at least six people over the weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Dozens are feared to have died and thousands displaced in the latest clash between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in several Tiv communities in the border areas of Nigeria's central Benue and Nasarawa states, according to relief officials and local newspapers Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ethiopian long distance runner Haile Gebrselassie has announced that he will run the Tokyo Marathon on 26 February 2012, where he hopes to qualify for that year's London Olympics. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Foreign Ministers from the member states of the Arab League are due to meet in Rabat, Morocco, Wednesday to seek ways of easing the tension in Syria, where protesters are seeking a regime change. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline running through Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Thursday in Northern Sinai, using remote controlled bombs and thereby forcing a shut down. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - "From Space to Place", an Image Atlas of World Heritage Sites on the “In Danger” list of UNESCO, will be launched 9 November by Director-General, Irina Bokova, and US Ambassador to UNESCO, David Killion, at the Organization’s Paris Headquarters. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Cairo-based Arab League has agreed to form a committee, led by Qatar, to oversee the situation in war-torn Syria, while giving the embattled country two weeks to stop its attacks on protesters. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt's powerful military, which is ruling the north African country in the interim, has said its soldiers were attacked by protesters armed with swords, firebombs and rocks during a rally by Coptic Christians earlier this week that left dozens dead and hundreds injured. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Cairo-based Arab League on Wednesday welcomed the Egypt-brokered prisoner exchange deal between Palestinian movement Hamas and Israel. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Violent clashes broke out between the police and young black Mauritanian activists of the "Touche pas à ma Nationalité" group, who took to the streets to protest the national population census of 6 May, describing it as "discriminatory and racist", PANA reported from here Thursday. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Two Nigerien soldiers and six gunmen died in clashes between patrol teams of the Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) and a group of drug smugglers and fighters of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), a statement released by the Nigerien Ministry of National Defence disclosed Friday. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Arab Foreign Ministers wrapped up their extra-ordinary meeting on Libya and Syria on Sunday, with a call on the United Nations to hand over Libya's seat at the world body to the National Transitional Council (NTC), which overthrew long-serving leader Mouammar Kadhafi from power.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The war may have ended in Sudan, north and south, but its legacy, especially fire arms, remains heavily felt, particularly for the poor and vulnerable groups, women and children in the remote villages. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two former Nigerian leaders, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, are virtually dancing naked in the public square, as they trade words over who ran a more successful tenure than the other. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egyptian Prime Minsiter Essam Sharaf said Thursday that his country was keen on playing a pivotal role in strengthening African-Arab ties. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Following the spate of bombings in Nigeria in recent times, the Senate Tuesday invited all the heads of the nation's defence, intelligence and security agencies for debriefing on how to ensure security for the citizens. Full text...

Grand Baie, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Deva Virahsawmy, Monday launched the concept of "zero plastic" to minimise the use of this product in the island. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Thursday confirmed that a total of 18 people died in the 29 May inauguration day bomb blasts in the northern town of Bauchi and Zuba, on the outskirt of the national capital of Abuja. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Two Angolan soldiers were killed Tuesday in clashes with fighters of the Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave (FLEC), which took place in Mbata Yema, in south-west Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), PANA learnt from authoritative sources here Wednesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A UN-backed meeting held in Kigali, Rwanda, has called for better enforcement of laws to protect endangered gorillas in 10 African countries.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sudan, Haile Menkerios, has deplored renewed clashes in Sudan’s contested Abyei region, whose status North and South Sudan have pledged to solve by the end of March. Full text...

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - A Senegalese soldier was killed Monday near the Gambian frontier, north of Ziguinchor, in Casamance, during clashes between the Senegalese troops and elements of the Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC, independence rebellion), PANA learnt from military sources here. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Julius Nyerere International Airport here re-opened to traffic Thursday as the Tanzanian nation started mourning over 20 persons so far confirmed killed following accidental explosions at a military arms depot in the vicinity of the airport. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudanese army and Darfur rebels engaged in heavy fighting as of Monday, resulting the death of dozens. Full text...

By Mildred Mulenga- PANA Correspondent Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) -- Libya's widening investment role in Africa has spread to Zambia, where the north African nation is taking a grip on the Zambian telecommunications sector with the recent acquisition of a 75 percent stake in the Zambia Telecommunication Company (Zamtel) at a cost of over US$380 million. Full text...

CBZ Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- When Pakistan's Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) collapsed in the 1990s, its subsidiary in Zimbabwe zoomed to the cliff, widely expected to similarly plunge. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The first Arab-African Youth Summit, organized ahead of a second one scheduled for 10 October in the Libyan city of Sirte, began in Trip o li Tuesday, with an unanimous call by the participants for the need to build an A rab-African space. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A high level forum on ways to enhance Arab-African coope ration in the fields of investment and trade began work Saturday in Tripoli on t h e sidelines and ahead of the Afro-Arab summit scheduled in Libya 10 October, wit h the theme: "Towards an Arab-African partnership". Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) â" Three people are confirmed -dead and seven others are inj ured following communal clashes in Ghana's north-eastern town of Bawku, Upper Ea s t Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo, announced on Monday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) - â" At least two men were killed on Tuesday in bloody clashe s between two feuding groups at a sprawling slum in Accra inhabited mainly by pe o ple from northern Ghana, police said. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The huge fire that has been devastating the Volcano Nati onal Park in northern Rwanda for the past two days has forced a troop of gorilla s living in the mountains to seek refuge in Uganda while the two countries examin e ways to find a home for the animals faced with extinction, a local newspaper re p orted on Tuesday. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- A Muslim teenager was killed in the latest spate of sectar ian violence in Egypt, again highlighting the tense situation facing Muslims and Christians in Egyptian villages. Full text...

Sfax- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian team, CS Sfaxien, was held in check by the visit ing Moroccan team, Widad Athlétique de Casablanca (WAC), 1-1 in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Arab League championships played Sunday in Sfax, the capi t al of Southern Tunisia. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A new publication by the United Nations Environmental Pr ogramme (UNEP) that maps a blueprint for Kenya's Green Development was launched h ere Saturday. Full text...