Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government will ban the production, importation, possession, sale and use of non-biodegradable plastic bags, under a law passed in 2012, PANA reported from here Friday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the fighting between Seleka rebel coalition members and civilians in Central African Republic (CAR), describing it as "worrisome".Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - At least two South Africans were injured in the blasts that occurred near the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon in the American city where the race was held, according to South Africa's international relations and co-operation department. Full text...

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – The Guinean military, in collaboration with the ministry of Security, Civil Security and Security Sector Reform, on Tuesday called on Guineans to remain calm following the acts of vandalism in some districts of Conakry, the capital. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least 60 persons were killed and an unspecified number of others injured when traditional gold mining groups clashed in North Darfur, bordering Libya, the second such fighting in two months. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Army said on Monday it clashed with rebels in the Blue Nile Region where it freed Mafo, a strategic area. Full text...

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – Opposition and government supporters clashed in the Guinean capital, Conakry, on Monday as opposition supporters demonstrated to demand free and fair elections.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Twenty-eight people have either been killed and wounded in renewed tribal clashes between the Rizaigat Abbalah and Bene Hussein, both Arab tribes, in Sudan's Central Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said it has sent a medical team to help evacuate and treat victims of tribal clashes in Sudan's western Darfur region, where dozens are reported killed or injured. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) clashed with rebel fighters and drove them away from North Darfur capital, Al-Fashir, SAF spokesman Sawarmy Khalid Saad said Sunday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Tuesday said it was ready to cooperate with the international community to address the humanitarian situation in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, two areas still suffering from civil strife.Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Monday jointly launched the Atlas of Health and Climate that gives practical examples of how the use of weather and climate information can protect public health. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) – Many people were injured Saturday in Lome in an opposition rally that resulted in clashes between a pro-government militia and opposition activists, PANA reported. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somalia’s newly-elected President Sheikh Hassan Mahmoud, survived a suicide bomb attack that killed a Presidential guard and four soldiers guarding the hotel where he was meeting visiting Kenyan foreign minister Sam Ongeri, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A suicide bomber Friday killed himself in a Somali-dominated community neighbourhood in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, hours before US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, arrived in Kenya for a scheduled visit. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian currency, the Dalasi, depreciated in June, 2012, by 4.7 percent, following the reduction in foreign exchange inflow into the country and the increased demand for hard currency, said nation's Central Bank Governor, Amadou Kolley.Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) is worried about the security situation prevailing in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where deadly clashes between government forces and former rebels have been on for a couple of months.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - One person was killed and four others injured in a renewed clash Sunday between the Toubou tribe insurgents and the Libyan Shield forces, a unit of the Libyan Ministry of Defence, local newspaper Ourayna reported Monday, quoting military sources.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Calm has returned to south-west Libya where clashes between the Guentrar and Al-Machachiya tribes have left at least 105 people dead and 500 injured. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's warring Al-Zouei and Toubou tribes have reached an agreement to cease fire, a spokesman for the Libyan army staff, Colonel Ali Al-Chikhi, announced here. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Three persons were killed and three injured Thursday night in clashes between rival militia groups in Al-Chakika and Mizdah in Libya's South-west, the Libyan news agency, LANA, reported. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Clashes have broken out again in the localities of Al-Chakika and Mizdah in south-west Libya, according to the Libyan News Agency. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - There was an "uneasy" calm on Monday in the city of Koufra, south eastern part of Libya, after a truce was signed to halt the clashes that broke out over in the last couple of days, the Libyan Army Chief of Staff, Major-General Youssef Al-Manghouch, said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - One person has been killed and three others, including a child, are nursing wounds after a suspected Al Shabaab suicide bomber hurled a grenade at a hotel in the north eastern town of Wajir on Wednesday, police said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan police officers investigating Monday's bomb attack in Nairobi, the capital, have been joined by their American counterparts drawn from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), PANA reported from here.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency reported on Tuesday that the recent fighting in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has left more than 40,000 people internally displaced. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Augustine Mahiga, has expressed concern over recent violent clashes in the northern city of Hargeisa, located in Somaliland, between Somali security forces and citizens which allegedly resulted in deaths on both sides. Full text...

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...