Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Four fighters of the Darfur rebel movements have been killed and others wounded in clashes in the contested Abyei region, according to the UN Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA).Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The representative of the Secretary General of the Arab League, Nasser al-Koudwa, has reaffirmed his organization's support to efforts by the UN in Libya, particularly moves by Bernardo Leon, the special envoy of the UN Secretary General, to avoid the escalation of violence in the north African country. Full text...

Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – Cameroon will next month launch a programme to recycle 10,000 tons of plastic waste annually in the main cities such as Douala and Yaoundé.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Mr. Martin Kobler, head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), on Tuesday condemned the deaths and injuries that occurred when protests turned violent on Monday in the country’s capital, Kinshasa.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Arab foreign affairs ministers, under the aegis of the Council of the Arab League, are due to meet Thursday in Cairo, Egypt, to start a high-level emergency meeting on the latest developments in Libya, according to the League's Secretary General in Libya, Nasser al-Koudwa. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi has appealed for crucial decisions against terrorism in Libya and full support to the country's legitimate Chamber of Representatives (Parliament) and the government formed from it. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) on Monday said it was concerned about fighting that took place this weekend in several locations around the country, including between anti-Balaka members and peacekeepers. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA ) - Niger's Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill banning the production, import, trade and use of plastic bags in the West African country. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The League of Arab States Wednesday evening appealed for a speedy resolution of the crisis rocking Libya and expressed support for the Libyan people and its legitimate institutions. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Thousands of people fleeing from clashes between the Nigerian Army and insurgents of the Islamic sect Boko Haram have in recent weeks flocked to Niger's easternmost region of Diffa, the International Red Cross Society (IRCS) said in Niamey Friday.Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) – Local manufacturers and importers of non-biodegradable plastics in Togo have two months to abide by the government ban on the use of plastic bags, according to a joint communique issued here Thursday by the ministries of Industry and Trade and Environment.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegal's Autonomous Union of Teachers of the Tertiary Education (SAES) on Friday called all its members to boycott lectures in public universities until the resignation of the ministers of Tertiary Education and Home ministers, PANA reported from here.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Thousands of Libyans on Friday took to the streets in the capital, Tripoli, to demonstrate against calls, by the new Parliament, for international intervention in the violent crisis ravaging their country. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has condemned Friday's outbreak of violence in Bentiu which caused hundreds of people to seek shelter at the nearest airport.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Mr. Jens Laerke, a official of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), says fighting from 30 to 31 July in Batangafo in the Central African Republic (CAR) has caused renewed displacement.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two rebels, a soldier and a civilian were killed and several others were injured in clashes between a group of rebels and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarian staff working in crisis-torn Central African Republic (CAR) says that despite peace talks, civilians continue to be caught in crossfire in ongoing fighting. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A bomb explosion has occurred at the central motor park on Nigeria's northern city of Kano, a day after another northern city was rocked by a twin explosion that left at least 85 dead Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Mr. Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, the Governor of the North Central Kaduna State, which Wednesday was hit by a twin bomb attack by suspected suicide bombers of the Boko Haram sect has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the Kaduna metropolis. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Clashes between rival gangs on the outskirts of Tripoli airport have left six dead and 11 injured, TV channel, al-Nabaa, quoted sources at the Libyan Health ministry as saying on Sunday. Full text...

Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - About 215.39 tons of non-biodegradable plastic bags have been seized in Cameroon in the past two months following a ban on the production and sale of the product, according to the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Sustainable Development. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya’s efforts aimed at promoting its democratic process are supported at regional and international levels, Mohamed Abdelaziz, the Libyan Foreign Minister, said while ensuring that the Arab League, the African Union (AU) as well as other organizations are also providing support to Libya. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Arab League is available to contribute to any Arab, regional or international initiative to restore peace to Libya, according to the Secretary General of the Arab League, Nabil al-Arabi.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The United States Embassy in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja Thursday “strongly” condemned Wednesday’s bomb blast at the Emab shopping mall in the highbrow Wuse II district of the city, in which 21 persons died and many others were injured. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Police Wednesday announced that a total of 21 lives were lost while 17 were injured and 17 cars burnt in a bomb blast which occurred Wednesday at the Emab Plaza in the elite Amino Kano Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared dead or injured Wednesday in an explosion that rocked a popular shopping plaza in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Concern is growing over the threat that widespread plastic waste poses to marine life, with conservative estimates of the overall financial damage of plastics to marine ecosystems standing at US$13 billion each year. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Terrorists and Tunisian security forces have engaged in clashes since Sunday in the governorate of Jendouba, located in the northwest of the country, according to a security source. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Arab League has called for a national dialogue in Libya, following the meeting of its national representatives in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Friday.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – For the second consecutive day, students of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) Thursday continued their battle with the Senegalese security forces, PANA reported from here.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Federal Executive Council (FEC), a meeting of ministers at the national level, Wednesday deliberated on the security situation in the country, especially the current bombing in Kano, Jos and Borno States by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, describing them as "senseless." Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The League of Arab States has designated former Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Naser Al-Kadwa to lead a delegation to Libya for consultations with the different protagonists in a bid to initiate a dialogue and national reconciliation in the country. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday rejected a World Bank classification of Nigeria as among the five poorest countries in the world.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese army says it has driven out rebels from "important locations" and inflicted heavy material and human losses on them during clashes in the mountainous South Kordufan region, over 700 kms west of Khartoum.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Six people have been killed and 18 people wounded, nine of them critically, after twin blasts hit the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday, police and the state disaster body said.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - South Sudanese Ambassador to Sudan Mayan Dot has said the clashes that have claimed dozens of lives in oil-rich Abyei Area have nothing to do with Khartoum or Juba governments. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese private newspaper, Talassa, has been banned for a period of four months by the Superior Council for the Freedom of Communication (CSLC), PANA reported from Brazzaville. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations says its staff visiting the South Sudan town of Malakal have seen scores of bodies scattered in the town following clashes between government troops and rebel forces. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Hundreds of civilians have been injured as a result of the fighting in and around Malakal, the second largest town in South Sudan, between the government and rebel forces. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A Tunisian National Guard officer and about four terrorists were killed Monday night in clashes between the police and an armed group in Raoued suburb, in the north of the capital, Tunis, Tunisian Home Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 23 people, including three soldiers and 20 criminals, were killed while 25 others were injured in clashes that erupted Thursday night between the Libyan army and members of the armed groups operating in Warshafa, in the western part of the nation's capital, Tripoli, PANA reported from here Friday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwandan Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister, Mrs. Louise Mushikiwabo, said here Thursday that her country would deploy 800 soldiers to the Central African Republic (CAR) shortly, as part of the international support mission under the leadership of the African Union (AU). Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The the Mauritanian Environment and Sustainable Development Ministry on Monday launched a campaign to confiscate all materials made of non-degradable plastic in the markets of Nouakchott. Full text...

Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - Cameroonian Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development Minister Hélé Pierre Saturday directed manufacturers, sellers and users of non-biodegradable plastic bags to stop using the product by 31 March 2014. Full text...

Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – Seven people have died in clashes between Cameroonian soldiers and "Seleka" forces loyal to the Central African Republic (CAR) government, according to an official statement issued on Thursday in Yaoundé. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The widening split between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar, which led to the current political and military crisis in the world’s youngest state, has been caused by deep divisions over the handling of relations between the South and North Sudan. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Monday's confrontation between policemen and the security guards of Col. Marcel Tsourou, a former Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC) who finally surrendered himself to the police, has led to 22 deaths, according to a new toll given on Tuesday by the city morgue of Brazzaville. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya Police have circulated the photograph of a 21-year-old man, Hussein Nur Mohamed, over claims he was involved in the recent blast that killed six people in the capital city, Nairobi. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Nicholas Kay, on Saturday said he is deeply concerned by the recent outbreak of violence in Somalia's northern Sool region, and called for calm. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) on Friday strongly condemned the latest violence in Kidal, in the northern part of the country, and called for restraint. Full text...