Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen killed 12 policemen in Nigeria's oil-rich state of Bayelsa on Friday night, the same day that the nation's oil militants said they would commence attacks in the oil region to protest the jailing of their leader, Henry Okah, by a South African court. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eleven people were killed when gunmen attacked a remote village, Midlu, in Nigeria's northern Adamawa State early Saturday, the local media reported. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Several hundred people, mostly women and girls of all ages from civil society and other groups, demonstrated on Wednesday in Nouakchott to denounce the recurrent violence against women.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella organisation for Nigeria's oil militants, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), announced on Wednesday it was resuming its attacks against oil facilities and personnel in the oil producing Niger Delta region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Army Chief, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has vowed that "until terrorists sheath their swords, the use of force would be applied on members of the Boko Haram sect." Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 19 people were shot dead and many others injured when gunmen launched a dawn attack on a village in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state on Easter Sunday, according to local media reports. Full text...

Kano, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 14 suspects were killed when soldiers of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling Islamic insurgents in northern Nigeria launched a dawn raid on a house at Unguwa Uku in northern Kano State, believed to be housing the insurgents. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Over 40 people have been killed in the past week around Nigeria's central city of Jos, in continuation of the tit-for-tat killings between Christians and Muslims in the area, the private Guardian newspaper reported on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Nigerian oil militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has said it received ''with incredulity'' the 24 years sentence slammed on its leader, Henry Okah, by a South African court on Tuesday for his role in the 1 Oct. 2010 deadly bombing in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 127 inmates of the Ganye prison in the northern Nigerian state of Adamawa escaped after the prison was attacked on Friday evening by gunmen, who killed 25 people in the coordinated attack that also targeted a police station, a bank and several relaxation joints. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Twenty-five people, including a former Commissioner of Health and a chief prison warder, were killed when gunmen launched a series of attacks in Ganye in Nigeria's northern state of Adamawa on Friday night, the private Leadership newspaper reported Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Thursday lashed out at the federal government for lacking the ''vision and capacity'' to stop the incessant attacks by the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram, following Monday's suicide bombing that killed dozens in northern Kano city. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A top official of Nigeria's main opposition party, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has been kidnapped from his home in the country's South-eastern state of Anambra, the party's spokesman said Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The spokesman for the military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Islamic sect Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, has shrugged off a threat by the sect to attack him, saying he is not afraid of such threats. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police in Nigeria's northern state of Kano said Tuesday that 22 people died while 65 were injured in a suicide bomb attack at a motor park in the state capital, Kano, on Monday evening. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With no official casualty figure from the authorities yet, Nigerian newspapers on Tuesday put the death toll from Monday evening's suicide bomb attack at a popular bus park in the northern city of Kano at around 60. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the bomb attacks in the northern city of Kano Monday evening that left many people dead and injured, saying barbaric activities by terror groups would not stop the government from its firm resolve to fight terrorism in the country. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - More than 130 member states of the UN Commission on the Status of Women have adopted a global plan on the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, the UN announced on Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram members, on Thursday attacked a prison in Gwoza Local Government Area of the northern Borno state with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and petrol-bombs, setting all the inmates free, the local Vanguard newspaper reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military said Wednesday it killed four armed persons, including a woman, in a joint raid with the police on their hideout at Alu Quarters in the northern city of Sokoto. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The recent military intervention in northern Mali has been followed by a serious escalation of retaliatory violence by government soldiers who appeared to be targeting members of various ethnic groups perceived to be supportive of the armed groups, the UN Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The increasing number of conflicts and wars on the African continent has been blamed on socio-economic imbalance, the privately-owned GUARDIAN Newspaper quoted a former Ghanaian leader, Mr. Jerry Rawlings, as saying. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Islamic sect Boko Haram Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday joined communities worldwide in marking International Women’s Day, with a call to advance women’s rights, promote and defend those rights, particularly for women and all others made vulnerable in situations of armed conflict. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The spiritual head of Nigerian Muslims has called on the federal government to grant amnesty to all members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram so they can stop the violence that has claimed over 3,000 lives since 2009. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan authorities have warned the two warring tribes in the Western part of the country to end their hostilities or face air strikes to restore order, the Libyan news Agency reported. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan army has been put on high alert following the overnight killing of 12 people, including six Kenyan police officers and six members of a separatist group in Kenya's coastal region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Islamic sect Boko Haram said on Sunday it killed 20 members of the sect following an attempted attack on a military barracks at Monguno in Nigeria's northern Borno State in the early hours of the day. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Commissioner of Police in Nigeria's central Kwara State, Mr. Chinwike Asadu, was shot dead by unknown gunmen near his private residence in Amorji Nike in Enugu, capital of the eponymous South-east Enugu State, on Saturday night. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - As Kenya prepares to go to the polls on Monday, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, has called on authorities to ensure the protection of civilians, especially women and girls, against sexual violence and abuses. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A football pitch argument between two players on Saturday sparked an orgy of religious violence in Wukari, in the northern Taraba State, leaving at least five people dead, according to local media reports. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) fighting the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram in Nigeria's northern state of Borno has welcomed the ceasefire declared by the sect Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, which has killed over 3,000 people in gun and bomb attacks in Nigeria since 2009, on Monday declared an immediate ceasefire. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwandan police said on Wednesday that six suspects have been arrested in the murder of a Ugandan businessman, Dickson Tinyinondi. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Tensions remain high in South Africa's Free State town of Sasolburg on Wednesday, following two days of running street battles between police and residents that have left at least two protesters dead and 200 others arrested. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A group suspected to be a breakaway faction of the Islamic sect Boko Haram on Sunday claimed responsibility for the previous day's attack on a military convoy that killed two soldiers and injured four others, part of Nigeria's contingent to Mali. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Nigeria's northern Kano state has confirmed the death of four persons in Saturday's gun attack on the vehicular convoy of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One of Nigeria's most revered traditional rulers, Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano in the country's north, was attacked by unknown gunmen on Saturday while he was returning from a mosque in the city, according to local media reports. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria secret police said they have arrested two suspected masterminds of last November's suicide bombing of a church located within a key military facility in Jaji, in the country's northern Kaduna state, in which 11 persons died and 30 others were injured. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN's top relief official in Kenya has expressed its worry over the continuing acts of violence in the restive Tana Delta after an early Thursday attack there left 11 people dead, bringing the death toll to 450 since 2012.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Four policemen were killed as a result of public violence in Tanzania's northwestern Kagera Region within three weeks, according to reports from the region that borders Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least 14 people were killed and dozens injured in an inter-ethnic fighting in Western Sudan Sunday, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The four South Koreans who were kidnapped in Nigeria last month were released upon the payment of 30 million naira (US$188,700) in ransom by their Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The suspects behind the deadly bombing of the UN building and the Nigeria police headquarters, both in the country's capital city of Abuja, as well as a Catholic Church in Madalla, northern Niger State, have been arrested and are now in custody, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government has foiled plots by the insurgents in the northern part of the country to unleash terror during the ongoing Christmas and New Year holidays, the private Punch newspaper reported Sunday, quoting the police. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen believed to be members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram have killed 25 people in two states in northern Nigeria, according to the local media and the military on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Yet-to-be identified gunmen riding on a motorcycle Thursday night killed Prof. Hyacinth Nong Mbibu, Head of Department of Surgery at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in Zaria, northern Kaduna State. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian security agents on Thursday shot dead five suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in the northern city of Kaduna, the military said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In the spirit of Christmas, the Catholic Church in Nigeria's northern Kaduna State said it had forgiven the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram for its attacks on Catholic churches in the state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Islamic sect Boko Haram in northern Nigeria has discovered and detonated many explosives planted in strategic locations in northern Kano city, according to a top army officer. Full text...