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...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen have kidnapped four foreigners after attacking a supply boat off the coast of Bayelsa state in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region, the police said Monday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A Rwandan national was stabbed and slightly wounded by unknown persons in an attack in Brussels, Belgium, at the weekend, the local media quoted Rwanda's Embassy in Belgium as saying. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government has been urged to take urgent steps to address the recurrent violence in northern Plateau state, where settler-indigene tensions have fuelled inter-communal crisis, leading to internal displacements and several deaths. Full text...

Djerba, Tunisia (PANA) - A rally, organized here by the main Opposition party in Tunisia, Nida Tounes, was disrupted Saturday by people believed to members of the ruling Islamist movement, 'Ennahdha', according to Aida Klibi, the Publicity Secretary of Nida Tounes. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The President of Libya's General National Congress, the country’s highest legislative authority, Dr. Mohamed Al-Megreyef, Saturday deplored Thursday's violence in Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, stating that "these acts are not acceptable and do not reflect the status of Benghazi as the 'city of resistance'.''Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two suicide car bombers on Saturday attacked facilities of mobile phone operators, Airtel and MTN, in Kano, killing themselves, the Kano State Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Idris, has confirmed. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Suicide bombers have carried out two separate attacks against telecommunication facilities in Kano, in what seems to be a resumption of attacks on telecommunications facilities in the Northern part of Nigeria, according to local media reports. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has directed the security forces deployed to the troubled Tana Delta region to stop any further killings after a dawn raid killed 39 people, mostly children, Friday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - More than one million people are at risk of militia, rebel and army attacks as fighters begin to position themselves in and around the provincial city of Goma, in eastern DR Congo, with little or no protection from the government or UN peacekeepers, International Agency, Oxfam, warned Tuesday. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - An officer of the Tunisian National Guard was killed Monday during clashes involving Tunisian security forces and unidentified gunmen, PANA learnt from security sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Fourteen people, including a police officer and 13 suspected terrorists, were killed in a gun battle that lasted several hours in Potiskum in Nigeria's northern Yobe State overnight Sunday, the private Leadership newspaper reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 82-year-old mother of Nigeria's Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in her native Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State in the country's oil region, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The outgoing Chief Executive Officer of mining giant Anglo American Tuesday said the violence experienced in South Africa's mining sector this year has its roots in the Apartheid system. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese police on Friday attacked the training camp of Islamic fundamentalists in the country's South-east, killing two and arresting at least 25 others, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll from Monday night's shooting at a drinking bar at Heipang in the Barkin Ladi Local Council area of Nigeria's central Plateau state has risen from 8 to 10, amid accusations that the killings may have been carried out by security agents, the local Leadership newspaper reported Wednesday. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The president of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, on Tuesday opened a two-day conference on the role of security organs in the prevention of violence against women and girls. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll from Sunday's twin suicide bombing of a church at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, 35 kilometres from Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, has risen from 11 to 17, including the two suicide bombers who have been confirmed dead, the local media reported Tuesday. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The president of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, on Monday officially launched a 16-day nationwide campaign on violence against women and girls with a pledge to punish perpetrators. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police said two of its officers were killed while 30 inmates escaped when gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram attacked a detention facility of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the capital city of Abuja early Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Army has instituted an inquiry into Sunday's attack on a church in a key military facility in Jaji, located some 35 kilometres from the northern city of Kaduna, which left 11 people dead and 30 injured. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Unknown gunmen Monday attacked the headquarters of the crack anti-robbery squad of the Nigeria police in the capital city of Abuja, but there are no reports of casualties, the local media reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eleven people were killed while 30 others were injured in Sunday's suicide bomb attacks on a church situated within the Nigerian Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Jaji, some 35 kilometres outside the northern city of Kaduna, Army Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Bolaji Koleoso said in a statement.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 5 persons were killed and many more injured in an explosion that rocked a Church within the Nigerian Armed Forces Command and Staff College in the country's northern Kaduna state on Sunday, the local Daily Trust newspaper reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An explosion on Sunday rocked a church in a military barracks in Jaji in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, but casualty figures are as yet unknown, PANA reported, quoting security sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government Friday said it would pay 290 million Naira (or US$1.8 million) to anyone who provides information leading to the capture of leader of the Boko Haram sect leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau, and his 18 other colleagues, according to local media reports Saturday. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Officials of Gambia’s Department of Social Welfare, under the Ministry of Health, said it recorded close to 376 cases of domestic violence, including violence against children and women, paternity and custody cases between January and October, 2012. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The state of national anger brewed up across Kenya Tuesday, the second day of a national army rampage in the Eastern town of Garissa, which infuriated parliamentarians and the Defence Minister Yusuf Hajji. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - As the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group advances towards Goma with fighting resuming around the capital of North Kivu province, combatants on all sides of the escalating conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must take steps to safeguard civilians from attack, Amnesty International (AI) said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Madagascar’s rampaging security forces must be brought under control in the south of the country, Amnesty International (AI) demanded Tuesday following widespread State killings of civilians over cattle theft. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - At least five people have been arrested as tension remains high in the Mpempha area in the outskirts of Blantyre following violent clashes between villagers and students at the Blantyre Islamic Mission. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The African Union Commission chairwoman, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, on Monday strongly condemned the military offensive launched by the M23 rebel movement in Goma, eastern DR Congo, demanding that the group "unconditionally ends this immediately". Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United Kingdom issued a new travel advisory against Kenya on Monday, warning its citizens against travel to trouble spots, including inching closer to within 60 km of the border with Somalia. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan said Sunday his administration is currently not in talks with the Islamic sect Boko Haram, despite media reports that some form of dialogue is going on behind the scene. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Seven people were killed and 30 others wounded when a mini-bus was bombed in Nairobi's Somali-dominated neighbourhood of Eastleigh, police and rescue workers said Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Many people are feared to have been killed or injured following a grenade attack against a mini-bus in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan military search and rescue mission has recovered four more bodies from the Suguta valley, where policemen on a mission to recover a herd of stolen cattle were killed recently. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Two boys, aged 12 and 13, have been arrested in South Africa for allegedly throwing stones at the Zambian soccer team's bus in Soweto, shortly after the team’s 1-0 triumph over South Africa in the Nelson Mandela Challenge on Wednesday night. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Some 23 persons have been killed in three separate incidents across Sudan since Monday, the local media reported Wednesday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Sexual violence is widespread in Uganda and disabled women and girls are particularly vulnerable, Equality Now, an international organisation working to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world, said Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The death toll in the banditry attack in Lomelok village in Baragoi division, 342km north of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has risen to 30 police officers following the discovery of more bodies, rescuers said Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Managing Director of the Nigerian Compass newspaper, Mr. Sina Kawonise, was shot by unknown gunmen Monday night around Ikeji Arakeji, South-west Osun state, while returning from a conference, sources at the newspaper told PANA here Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Islamic sect Boko Haram has killed over 3,000 people in gun and bomb attacks since 2009, according to the country's Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Azubuike Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan security officials have called for an all-out battle against militants seeking to create a Mogadishu-like crisis in the Eastern town of Garissa, where a rocket-propelled grenade killed a chaplain and a worshiper on Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Islamic sect Boko Haram has said it is not responsible for last week's killing of a retired Nigerian Army General, Mohammed Shuwa, as well as other high-level personalities in Maiduguri, capital of the country's northern Borno state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following last Sunday's suicide bombing of a Catholic Church in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna by a suspected member of the Islamic sect Boko Haram, soldiers on Saturday carried out a house-to-house search in the city. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian security agents have killed 13 kidnappers in a shootout that ensued after they stormed the hideout of kidnappers of a Turkish national, Biram Karakus, in the country's oil-rich Rivers State on Friday, state police spokesman Ben Ugwuegbulam said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram Friday shot dead a retired Nigerian Army General, Muhammadu Shuwa, in his residence in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state that is regarded as the spiritual base of the sect, the military said. Full text...