Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two police officers and one civilian were killed when gunmen attacked and burnt a police station in Mafa council area of Nigeria's northern Borno state, the spiritual base of the Islamic sect Boko Haram, at the weekend, the military said Monday. Full text...

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - Suspected rebels of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) have disrupted the annual Gamou (religious event) in the village of Brikama, located about 50km east of Ziguinchor in Senegal, with an attack. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The head of the Libyan interim government, Abdelrahim Al-Kib, has said the acts perpetrated against the building housing the council of ministers by those he described as "vandals" were illegal and flagrant violation of the government's integrity. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Carmel Mukono, one of the alleged perpetrators of the killing of at least 39 people in November 2011 in Gatumba, a tourist city on the outskirts of Bujumbura, was shot dead in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) overnight Thursday, PANA learnt from security sources in the Burundian capital. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the Islamic sect Boko Haram continues to target Christians, the umbrella Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has issued what it calls a final warning to the Federal Government to check the rampaging sect or face the wrath of its members. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Fourteen persons, half of them civilians, died Tuesday in Mali when they were hit by stray bullets following the eruption of violent clashes between troops loyal to the coup plotters and those still supporting the ousted President Toumani Toure, PANA learnt from official sources.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Islamic sect Boko Haram recorded last Thursday's attack on the private Thisday newspaper in the capital city of Abuja and posted the video on YouTube, an action analysts said could be an indication of the sect's growing sophistication and audacity. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Residents of Nigeria's northern city of Kano woke up to sporadic shootings Tuesday morning as security agents clashed with suspected Boko Haram suspects in parts of the beleaguered city, according to the state-run Radio Nigeria. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death from Monday's apparent suicide attack on the convoy of the Commissioner of Police of Nigeria's northern Taraba state has risen to 11, with 20 injured, according to Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) officials. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least three persons were killed Monday when two suspected suicide bombers riding on a motorcycle detonated the explosives they were carrying near the convoy of the Commissioner of Police in Nigeria's northern Taraba state, the local media reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An early morning explosion rocked Jalingo, the capital of Nigeria's northern state of Taraba, Monday, causing damage to some government offices, according to state police command spokesman Ibiang Mbasike. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan officials called for extra-caution on Sunday after a grenade attack in a city church killed one and wounded 15 others in the second such attack to target worshippers. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 18 people, including two professors, were killed in Sunday morning's attack on Christian worshippers at the old campus of the Bayero University in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, the local Leadership newspaper reported, quoting eyewitnesses who saw rescue workers removing the bodies. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sunday morning's attack on Christian worshippers in Nigeria's northern city of Kano left 8 dead and many more injured, Kano state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen on Sunday attacked Catholic worshippers at the old campus of the Bayero University in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, the military Joint Task Force (JTF) in the city said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The violent Islamic sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Thursday's coordinated attacks on Nigeria's private Thisday newspaper, which caused the death of five persons and left many more injured. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday condemned the bomb blasts which rocked the offices of the private Thisday newspaper in the capital city of Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The offices of Nigeria's independent Thisday newspapers in the capital city of Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna were rocked by explosions Thursday morning, raising fears that the newspaper may be under coordinated attacks. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police have confirmed that five persons were killed in an overnight attack Tuesday in the Christian village of Riyom in the country's central Plateau state.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has again dismissed an alert by the US Embassy in the country, warning against possible attacks on hotels frequented by Westerners in the capital city of Abuja. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to combat the Islamic sect Boko Haram said on Tuesday it killed 1 suspected sect member and arrested 13 others in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state which is the base of the sect. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military on Monday dismissed threats by the militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to attack South African interests in Nigeria, especially the telecommunication firm MTN. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Spokesman for Nigeria's violent Islamic sect Boko Haram, Abu Qaga II, may have been killed this weekend following a growing rift within the sect, local newspapers reported Sunday, quoting security sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) said on Friday it attacked and destroyed a pipeline belonging to AGIP Oil Company, a subsidiary of Italian oil giant ENI, in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram killed five persons, including three civilians, one policeman and one Immigration official, in an attack on Banki town in Nigeria's northern state of Borno Tuesday evening, the military said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Contrary to reports by the local and international media that as many as 40 people died in Easter Sunday's explosion in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, government officials have said only nine people died and 38 were injured in the blast. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sunday's night's explosion in Nigeria's central city of Jos was caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) placed on a motorcycle by unknown persons, the police said Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sixteen people died and 35 were injured in Sunday's blast in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, according to the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, has warned that comments by the Governor of Sudan’s Southern Kordofan state, Ahmed Haroun, who was filmed telling his soldiers not to bring rebels back alive, could amount to a serious crime and lead to an escalation of violence. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram on Wednesday killed seven people when they stormed a popular market in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state, considered the home base of the sect, according to local media reports Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram shot dead the chair of Chibok council area of Nigeria's northern Borno state Sunday, a military spokesman said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One soldier, one State Security Service (SSS) personnel and nine gunmen were killed in a clash between security agents and gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram in Okene in Nigeria's central Kogi state this weekend, the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Kilifi, Kenya (PANA) - One person was killed and 26 wounded after twin grenade explosions in the tourism hotspots of Mtwapa, 15 km outside Mombasa, and another one at a bar within the Mombasa Municipal Council, officials said Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - One person was killed and 26 injured, five of them critically, in a twin blast in Kenya on Saturday, the police said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram set free 14 inmates of the Satellite Prison in Nigeria's northern state of Yobe when they attacked the prison and a police station in the state on Wednesday night, the local media reported. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has named Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police in Nigeria's northern Borno state have announced a 1 million naira (US$6,300) reward for any information leading to the arrest of members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram and recovery of arms and ammunition in the state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic sect Boko Haram has said it will no longer accept any offer of talks from the Nigerian government, following the botched mediation between the two last week. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Jewish community on Tuesday expressed shock over Monday's cold-blooded killing of a rabbi, his two young sons and a third child in a shooting incident outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - One person was arrested while a police station in the capital, Lilongwe, was razed to the ground after hundreds of people went on rampage on Sunday following police attack on a series of rallies addressed by Atupele Muluzi, former president Bakili Muluzi's son, who has expressed interest to contest the 2014 presidential election. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Hopes that the secret talks between the Nigerian government and the Islamic sect Boko Haram could end the sect's incessant attacks have suffered a setback, after the mediators pulled out of the talks over alleged leakage of the main details of the talks. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Wednesday said it had sent patrol units and a medical team to an area on the country’s border with Ethiopia where unidentified raiders reportedly attacked several cattle camps occupied by members of the Lou Nuer ethnic group. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Security chiefs and government officials in Nigeria's northern Plateau state, the capital of which has experienced the bombing of several churches in recent times, have announced measures to prevent a recurrence. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The town of Mubi in Nigeria's northern Adamawa state was rocked by several explosions on Monday night, followed by sporadic gunshots that sent residents scampering for safety, eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll from Sunday's suicide bombing of a Catholic church in Nigeria's restive northern city of Jos, and the reprisal attacks that followed, has risen to 19, the local Punch newspaper reported on Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eleven people died and 22 were injured in Sunday's suicide bombing of a Catholic Church in Nigeria's northern city of Jos, the local media reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned Sunday's suicide bombing of St. Finbar's Catholic Church in the northern city of Jos, and expressed his "sincerest and heartfelt commiserations" to the families of the victims of the bomb attack that left at least five persons dead. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least five persons were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when suicide bombers rammed their explosive-laden vehicle into the gate of St. Finbars Catholic Church in Jos, capital of Nigeria's northern state of Plateau. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Explosions occurred near two churches in Nigeria's beleaguered northern city of Jos on Sunday, but casualty figures are not yet known, residents told PANA. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Friday unveiled new guidelines to help mediators address the problem of sexual violence in conflict by placing the issue high on the agenda when brokering peace agreements and ceasefires. Full text...