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...

Kuwait City, Kuwait (PANA) - African and Arab leaders adopted a wide-ranging plan to fight terrorism and illegal migration into their countries after both sides agreed to respect international laws in dealing with illegal immigrants. Full text...

Kuwait City, Kuwait (PANA) - African and Arab leaders rose from a two-day Summit on boosting economic cooperation Wednesday, with a declaration to pump more funds into Arabian financial institutions to promote Africa’s development, fight hunger and food shortages in both regions.Full text...

Kuwait City, Kuwait (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC) is ready to lay out detailed plans on how African countries could effectively tap the US$ 1 billion pledged for investments over the next five years, the AUC President, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, said here Wednesday.Full text...

Kuwait City, Kuwait (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has explained that the sanctions against Egypt were imposed following the illegal transfer of power in the North African nation, rather than for any extraneous reasons as being peddled in certain quarters. Full text...

Kuwait City, Kuwait (PANA) - The Third Summit of African and Arab leaders which opened here Tuesday offers a new definition in the conduct of diplomatic relations between Africa and its international partners under the leadership of the African Union (AU). Full text...

Kuwait City, Kuwait (PANA) - The poor treatment of migrant African workers in most Arab states was top on the agenda at the third African-Arab Summit which opened here Tuesday. Full text...

Kuwait City, Kuwait (PANA) - African and Arab leaders kicked off two-days of talks in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Tuesday, hoping to hammer out a series of deals to boost trade, agriculture and joint investment projects. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Central Darfur government has ordered the dispersal of all tribal gathering in Abu Dukhin area, where clashes between Arab herdsmen from the Salamat and Missairiya tribes left at least 30 dead from both sides last week, the local media reported Tuesday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese army says it has repelled an attack by the Darfuri rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on the regional town of Abu Zabad, West Kordufan state, inflicting heavy losses on the attackers and killing their leader.Full text...

New York, US PANA) – The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has strongly condemned the violence which took place in the capital, Tripoli, on Friday and Saturday that led to the loss of civilian lives and called for maximum restraint and an end to bloodshed in the country.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is on "high alert" following Friday's clashes between Congolese government forces and M23 rebels in the vast country’s restive eastern region. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The third Afro-Arab Summit, slated for November, was officially launched Wednesday in Kuwait City, the African Union (AU) revealed in a statement obtained here by PANA. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Five persons have been killed and four others injured in clashes in the town of Tawouche, some 1,000 kilometres away from Tripoli, the Libyan capital, local media reported Monday, quoting security sources. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – An undetermined device which exploded Friday in a trash can in the south-western Congolese city of Sibiti left two persons dead and five others injured, the Congolese radio reported Sunday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A report compiled by UN agencies has said that recent tribal clashes in Darfur resulted in 100 deaths in East Darfur while the official media said at least 700 families have been displaced from their homes. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A manufacturing plant for the production of aflasafe is currently undergoing a test run at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan, capital of Nigeria's South West Oyo State. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Nine civilians were killed in Darfur’s region in the last two days in separate clashes between Arab and Fur tribes, in yet the most fresh inter-tribal fighting in the region, and two weeks after the federal government brokered an agreement between two ethnic groups in fighting that left dozens dead. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese army Wednesday confirmed the loss of five of its soldiers in central Sudan following clashes with armed opposition Revolutionary Front. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Sudan Country Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), on Tuesday said it is alarmed at the sharp escalation of the political crisis in Egypt and expressed concern that dozens of people have reportedly been killed or wounded following the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi last week. Full text...

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...