Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - Equatorial Guinea’s President Obiang Nguema has asked African countries to invest heavily in their agricultural sector to reduce their dependence on the developed world, ensure food security, and significantly reduce hunger in their countries. Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - African leaders who met here at their 23rd ordinary summit have approved a Protocol to create the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples Rights to try 14 international crimes including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, piracy, corruption, mercenaries, money laundering and unconstitutional changes of government. Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The African Union Summit meeting in the Equatorial Guinean resort of Sipopo, on Friday granted three more months to the ongoing investigations into the war crimes in South Sudan, officials said. Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - African leaders attending the 23rd Assembly of African Union (AU) heads of State and Government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, are unanimous on the need to step up agricultural transformation for the continent’s development.Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso and Moncef Marzouki of Tunisia on Thursday held talks on the sidelines of the 23rd Ordinary Summit of the African Union in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on strengthening bilateral cooperation, the press service of the Tunisian Presidency said on Friday.Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibe has dismissed fears over possible drying up of HIV/AIDS funds, saying steps have been taken to reduce the global cost of treatment to free more resources for investments.Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The African Union (AU) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) have launched a landmark campaign to curb malnutrition in Africa, warning that the continent's future was at risk unless the high malnutrition rate was checked. Full text...

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - As the 23rd African Union (AU) Summit continues in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, a campaign and advocacy organisation, which calls on African leaders to recommit to spending at least 10% of national budgets on effective agriculture investments, has gathered more than 2 million signatures of support from African citizens across the continent.Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General José Graziano da Silva has congratulated African leaders attending the AU Summit here for "raising the bar" in the fight against hunger.Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has praised African leaders for their commitment to the fight against climate change, ahead of a key summit in September to try to bridge global differences over a binding climate change treaty. Full text...

Malabo, E. Guinea (PANA) – Civil society organizations (CSOs) on Thursday in Malabo appealed for their involvement in the peace process in Africa.Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has urged Africans to banish sectarianism and gender chauvinism if they want to ensure security on the continent. Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The FAO-managed Africa Solidarity Trust Fund Thursday gave the green light to four new projects that will focus on youth employment and malnutrition, among others. Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The 23rd ordinary summit of the African Union (AU) kicked off Thursday in Equatorial Guinea's sea side resort of Sipopo with a focus on agriculture and food security, among others.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, left Abuja Wednesday for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to participate in the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit of Heads of State and Government. Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has embarked on plans for the implementation of a continental high-speed railway linking all African economic centres, a senior AU official said Wednesday. Full text...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Summit will set a broad set of goals for Africa’s agriculture sector to eliminate hunger and triple continental trade in agricultural products by 2025.Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - President Jacob Zuma will lead South Africa's delegation to the 23rd ordinary session of the African Union (AU) summit in Equatorial Guinea, to be held from Wednesday to Friday in Malabo. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – "The ceasefire deal signed on 23 May between the Malian government and various Touareg armed groups should pave the way for the sustenance of peace in the country’s northern region," the African Union (AU) chairman and the Mauritanian leader, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, said. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The African Union (AU) peace and security commissioner, Smail Chergui, has said there are indications that Burundi has made "very significant" progress on security, and appealed to Burundians to desist from rumour mongering.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A preparatory meeting for the African Union Summit on infrastructure financing in the continent opened Saturday morning in Dakar, Senegal. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will depart the capital city of Abuja Saturday evening for Dakar, at the head of Nigeria’s delegation to the African Union’s Summit on Financing Infrastructure Development, scheduled to hold in the Senegalese capital Sunday, the presidency said. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – An African Union (AU) electoral observation mission (MOEUA), led by Beji Caid Essebsi, will be deployed to Mauritania during the West African nation's presidential poll, scheduled for 21 June, official sources told PANA on Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has expressed her condolences to the Mbeki family, following the death of Epainette Mbeki, a South African liberation icon and mother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania will ratify the African Union (AU) Charter on Democracy, Election and Governance after inclusion of its fundamental provisions in the country’s constitution, Attorney General Fredrick Werema has told the ongoing session of the National Assembly. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Regional and local tribunals should be created to try perpetrators of violence in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Nigeria, the African Union’s Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security Bineta Diop said Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Violence in camps for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) is intensifying in the Central African Republic (CAR) along religious lines, the African Union (AU) Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security Bineta Diop warned Monday.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African countries with troops who have sexual violence records will be blacklisted from future African Union (AU) peacekeeping missions, the AU Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security said Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has congratulated the people of Malawi for holding peaceful and successful elections and reinforcing the country’s democratic maturity. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has launched a campaign to stop forced marriages and the discrimination of under-age girls fleeing such marriages. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has expressed its determination to cooperate with the Arab League and Libya's neighbours to help resolve the political crisis in this North African country. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghef, president of the Opposition National Pact for Democracy and Development (NPSD/ADIL) and former Prime Minister (2008-2009), has made a passionate appeal for the return of Mauritania to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ). Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania will host a regional meeting of the Advisory Committee of Experts on the AIDS observatory in Africa (Awa), PANA learnt Monday from official sources.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC) on Sunday hosted a luncheon at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of the closing events of the year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the OAU/AU. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is also Chairman of the African Union (AU), has made a plea for African integration, in a message broadcast on Saturday, ahead of celebrations marking the African unity day on Sunday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The board of directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Friday ended their 49th annual meetings here, declaring that in the next 50 years, they want an “integrated Africa that is prosperous and at the service of its people and at peace with itself. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – The African Union (AU) senior representative for Mali and the Sahel, Pierre Buyoya, on Thursday called for unconditional and immediate ceasefire from the outbreak of new violence in the Malian northern city of Kidal.Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have strongly condemned the violent incidents that led to many deaths in Kidal on Saturday.Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - A joint meeting of the Political and Security Committee of the European Union (EU) and the Peace and Security Commission of the African Union (AU), opened Thursday in Brussels, PANA learnt from official sources.Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Nine African Heads of State, who are members of the African Union (AU) committee of 10 states in charge of the UN security council reform, were due in Oyo, 500km northern of Congo's capital, Brazzaville, Thursday to attend in a meeting scheduled for Friday, the government announced in a statement.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS has launched a review of its flagship free movement protocol to eliminate the requirement for residence permit which has been a source of “discrimination and harassment” of community citizens, ECOWAS Commission President Kadré Ouédraogo has said. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Following the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls by the Islamist sect Boko Haram in Nigeria, the Malian women's organizations Tuesday handed over to the African Union Mission for Mali and the Sahel (MISAHEL) a statement condemning the incident.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Monday called for a concerted effort to rescue the over 200 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists 27 days ago. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Monday congratulated the people of South Africa for the successful and peaceful elections of 7 May.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) is to deploy 40 Observers, led by former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, to Guinea Bissau for the country's presidential runoff scheduled for 18 May 2014, the AU Commission (AUC) said Friday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has totally condemned the abduction of over 200 schools girls in Nigeria by the Boko Haram terrorist group. Full text...

Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - Discussions on ways of strengthening cooperation between Tunisia and Australia in the field of natural resources and mining were held here Monday between the Tunisian Foreign Minister, Mongi Hamdi, and the president of the Australian House of Representatives, Mrs. Bronwyn Bishop. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is due to visit the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday, the African Union Commission (AUC) has announced. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The African Union mission for Mali and Sahel (MISAHEL), the department of Development and Swiss cooperation (DDC) and the Radio Kledu, on Saturday signed a tripartite agreement marking the beginning of the programme -- Anka Ben! or Let’s make peace, reliable sources told PANA. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Zambian government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched the Strategic Framework for the Local Integration of Former Refugees in Zambia, requiring US$20.9 million to implement. Full text...