Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 90 women and children being held in connection with the activities of the Nigerian Islamic insurgent group Boko Haram are to be released in the first phase of the implementation of a presidential directive on the release. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - La Jeunesse, a television station in central Tripoli, the Libyan capital, was razed by angry demonstrators who were protesting the death of a citizen during a manhunt for a drug dealer mounted by a local vigilante group in the neighborhood of "Karkach". Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military announced on Tuesday that it would release a number of suspects, including all women, being held over alleged terrorists activities. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian troops battling Boko Haram insurgents in the country's South-east on Sunday killed 14 of the insurgents, but lost three of their men, while seven (troops) were wounded and one declared missing. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - At least three persons were killed and some 15 others injured on Saturday night by unidentified gunmen during a raid on Gatumba’s sea resort, located in the Western part of the capital, Bujumbura, the private African Radio quoted security sources as saying. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military has imposed a 24-hour curfew on parts of Maiduguri, capital city of Nigeria's northern Borno state which is one of the three states placed under emergency rule last week to stem the activities of the Islamic sect Boko Haram, the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military has arrested a total of 65 Boko Haram terrorists who attempted to infiltrate Maiduguri, Borno State capital, while fleeing from various camps now under attack by the military's Special Forces.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - As thousands of Nigerian troops poured into the country's north-east to battle the Islamic sect Boko Haram, the US has called on the troops to apply "disciplined use of force" in all operations. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the war against terrorists in northern Nigeria hots up, advancing troops of the Special Task Force of the Nigerian military have destroyed some terrorists camps sited in the forests of Northern and central Borno State, one of the three States over which a state of emergency had been slammed.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The kidnappers of the wife, daughter and driver of Nigerian Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour has demanded a ransom of 300 million naira (US$1.88 million) for their release, the local media reported Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram Tuesday night killed a Christian leader in Nigeria's northern Borno state, shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan declared emergency rule in the state and two others over Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - After years of violence by Islamists that has left over 3,000 people dead, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in the three states worst hit by the violence - Adamawa, Borno, Yobe - all in northern Nigeria. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Defence and Security Forces Tuesday released more information on the total number of casualties in the massacre of policemen and other security agents in the North Central Nassarawa State, saying casualty figures had reached 56. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared emergency rule in the three states worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has strongly condemned the deadly attack near the Al-Jala hospital in the country's second city of Benghazi that left at least 15 people, including children, dead and many wounded. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Amid reports in some quarters that the federal government may impose emergency rule on some states worst-hit by the violence being perpetrated by the Islamic sect Boko Haram, Nigeria's main opposition party has advised against such move. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The deadly militia group that killed at least 30 policemen and many other security agents last week in Nigeria's northern Nasarawa State are still holding four policemen in captivity, the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen have kidnapped the wife, daughter and driver of Nigeria's Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, according to the local Punch newspaper. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll from Tuesday's attack on the police by a militia group in Nigeria's northern Nassarawa state has risen to 30, the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Abayomi Akeremale, told journalists Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A militia group has ambushed and killed 20 policemen in Nigeria's northern Nassarawa state, the local press reported Thursday, quoting State Governor Tanko Al Makura. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Hundreds of women on Wednesday demonstrated against violence in the capital, Nouakchott, and urged the authorities to protect the citizens.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Army has reorganised its counter insurgency and counter terrorism operation to contain the activities of members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, according to the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday deplored Tuesday's attack by armed terrorists on Bama, in Nigeria's North Eastern Borno State, which claimed scores of lives. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) party has strongly condemned Tuesday's attack on Bama town in the country's northern Borno state by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, which left 55 people dead. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram Tuesday killed 55 people, including security agents, one woman and three children, during an attack on Bama town, 70 kilometres from Maiduguri,the capital of Nigeria's northern Borno state, regarded as the spiritual base of the sect, the private Vanguard newspaper reported Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday condemned the fresh outbreak of violence in Sudan's disputed Abyei region over the weekend in which the Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka, Kual Deng Majok, and a UN peacekeeper were killed. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - No ransom was paid to secure the release of former Nigerian government minister Shettima Ali Monguno, who was kidnapped by gunmen on Friday in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno State, State Governor Kashima Shettima said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's first petroleum minister, 92-year-old Alhaji Shettima Ali Monguno, was freed unharmed on Monday, three days after he was abducted after Jumat prayers in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen killed 10 people and injured nine in an attack on a market and a church in Jilang village in Nigeria's North-eastern state of Adamawa on Sunday, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The African Union on Sunday condemned the killing of a paramount chief and a UN peacekeeper in Abyei, the disputed oil-rich area between Sudan and South Sudan. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police in Nigeria's northern Taraba state has put the death toll from Friday's sectarian violence in Wukari town in the state at 39, with 30 others injured, the local media reported Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's first petroluem minister Shettima Ali Monguno has been kidnapped by gunmen in Maiduguri, capital of the country's northern Borno state which is the epicentre of the violence being perpetrated by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

Maiduguri, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen riding in 50 vans have attacked public buildings in the Marte local council area of Nigeria's northern Borno state. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – A Libyan police station in Benghazi was destroyed early Thursday after unidentified gunmen lobbed cocktail Molotov into the building, causing material damage, official police sources told PANA here. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Satellite images taken after the 16-17 April military raid in Nigeria's northern town of Baga has given the best indication yet of the massive destruction in the town following a raid by the military Joint Task Force (JTF) which is battling Boko Haram insurgents in the area. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's violent Islamic sect Boko Haram will henceforth concentrate more on kidnapping than robbery, the military alleged Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military has denied local media reports that some soldiers have been arrested in connection with last week's massacre in Baga, northern Borno State, during a clash between the military and insurgents. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll from last week's clash between the Nigerian military and insurgents suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect has been put at 228, higher than the 185 widely reported by the local media and contested by the government. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Islamic sect Boko Haram in northern Nigeria says it has killed a notorious commander of the sect, Mohammed Chad. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan, has approved the release of a total sum of 5,747,694,780 Naira (about US$ 35 million) to nine states in the country for direct disbursement to those who lost properties, means of livelihood and places of worship in the post-election violence of 2011. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday inaugurated the committee he set up to engage the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in talks and work out the modality for a possible amnesty for its members who renounce violence. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military has issued contrasting figures on the killing of 185 civilians in Baga, northern Borno state, last week during a clash between the military and suspected members of the Boko Haram sect. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military said on Monday it killed 25 suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect and lost a soldier during a clash with the insurgents in Baga, a border town in the northern state of Borno, over the weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a "full-scale investigation" into the killing of 185 people, mostly women and children, in the clash between Islamists and the military in Nigeria's northern border town of Baga last weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 185 people, including women and children, were killed when suspected members of the Islamic group Boko Haram clashed with the military Joint Task Force in Baga in Nigeria's northern Borno state, according to the online Nigerian newspaper Premium Times on Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Catholic Church and a socio-political organisation in Nigeria's predominantly-Muslim north have appealed to the country's oil militants not to attack mosques and Muslim clerics, as they have threatened to do in retaliation for the incessant attacks on Christians in the north. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military on Monday dismissed the threat by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to bomb mosques and kill Muslim clerics in retaliation for the attacks against Christians in the northern part of the country by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's umbrella group for oil militants has threatened to attack mosques, hajj camps, Islamic institutions, large Islamic congregations and Muslim clerics who propagate the doctrine of hate, in retaliation for the attacks against Christians in the predominantly-Muslim north by the Boko Haram Islamic sect. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Against renewed attacks in Nigeria's oil region by militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the Nigerian army has said it is ready to take on the militants. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Federal Government is beefing up security at the nation's land borders as a fallout from the rejection of its planned amnesty for the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, according to the local Nation newspaper. Full text...