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...

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...