Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government says it is ready for dialogue with the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram, after the group reportedly indicated its readiness to end its violent campaign if the government meets certain conditions. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Armed robbers attacked Kabaru village in Nigeria's northern Zamfara state in the early hours of Tuesday, killing 18 people including the village head, in the latest of such attacks by criminal gangs in the area, the private Daily Trust newspaper reported Wednesday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – A DR Congo gynaecologist and human rights activist, Dr Denis Mukwege, who has been treating women rape victims in areas where rebels, including the M23, are operating, has been evacuated to Burundi after he survived an attack on his house last Thursday night. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has pledged support for Eritrea's bid to rejoin the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), but said Asmarah must renounce its support to extremists in the region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Archbishop overseeing the Nigeria church that was attacked by a suicide bomber on Sunday, killing 8 persons and injuring 145, said 90% of the victims were children. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned Sunday's suicide bombing of a Catholic church in Kaduna, capital of the country's northern Kaduna state, describing it as "barbaric, cruel and uncalled for''. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eight persons were killed while 145 others were injured on Sunday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the gates of St. Rita's Catholic Church in Nigeria's northern Kaduna State, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said in a statement. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state said 'scores of worshippers' were killed in Sunday's suicide bombing of a church in the state capital, Kaduna. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared killed or injured on Sunday when a suicide bomber rammed his car into the gates of St. Rita's Catholic Church in Nigeria's northern Kaduna during the morning mass, triggering a massive blast, the local media reported. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict has called on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to protect Dr. Denis Mukwege after a violent attack and assassination attempt at his home in Bukavu. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram have killed at least 34 people since Friday in Potiskum in Nigeria's northern city of Yobe state, the private Sunday Trust reported, quoting sources at the General Hospital in the town. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The Rwandan government on Friday strongly condemned the killing of one of its nationals in Mozambique and demanded the opening of a judicial investigation into the death, according to a statement in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri Friday announced it had captured a top Boko Haram commander, whom it identified as Shuaibu Mohammed Bama. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Military Joint Task Force (JTF), battling the insurgency by the Islamic sect Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, said Tuesday it killed 24 suspected members of the sect after repelling Monday night's multiple attacks in the sect's spiritual base, Maiduguri. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 24 people, mostly Muslim worshipers, were killed and many others injured on Sunday when gunmen attacked the village of Dogon Dawa in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, the local media reported Monday, quoting the police. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted on the roadside and targeted at a patrol of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Boko Haram in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri went off Sunday before the patrol got there, according to JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared killed on Sunday when unknown gunmen attacked a mosque in Dogon Dawa village, located some 120 kilometres outside Kaduna, capital of the eponymous Kaduna state in northern Nigeria, police said. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz was 'lightly wounded' after his convoy was accidentally shot at by soldiers at a military camp Saturday, government officials said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - While saying that widespread and systematic murder and persecution by Boko Haram, the deadly militant Islamist group in northern Nigeria, is likely to amount to crimes against humanity, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Thursday indicted the Nigerian government when it revealed that State security forces have also engaged in numerous abuses, including extrajudicial killings. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Tuesday condemned the shelling of Kaduglli in Sudan's South Kordufan, which the government said killed one woman. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Soldiers attached to the military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Islamic insurgency in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri killed 30 people in a revenge attack on their patrol that left at least an officer dead, the local Punch newspaper reported Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The leader of the separatist Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), who has been seeking the secession of the coastal region, was arrested and charged with incitement to violence on Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military said it killed 30 members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram in a gun battle in Damaturu, capital of northern Yobe state, on Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One person was killed and 11 injured on Thursday night when an explosion rocked a beer garden in the Doruwa area of Jalingo, in Nigeria's northern Taraba state, the private Nation newspaper reported Friday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, has condemned the attacks at the coastal city of Mombasa, which killed four people, including the bodyguard of the fisheries minister, Amason Kingi, on Thursday. Full text...

Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - Four people, including a bodyguard to Kenya's fisheries minister Amason Kingi, have been slashed to death in the latest flare up in violence in Kenya's coastal region, witnesses said Thursday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, has warned against the increasing number of murder cases in his country, saying the development is "unacceptable", according to a statement from the presidency, received here by PANA Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The violent Islamic sect Boko Haram has warned that there will be unspecified consequences over the anti-Islam video that denigrates Prophet Mohammed, while threatening to attack those in authority (Emirs, State Governors and others over recent successes against the sect's members by the security agencies.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - For the second day running Sunday, Nigeria's northern city of Zaria has been rocked with explosions, as security operatives raided suspected hideouts of Islamic insurgents, the police said. Full text...

Kilifi, Kenya (PANA) - Eleven people have been killed in Kaloleni, Kilifi district at the country's coast, after a suspected oath taking ceremony was foiled, coast provincial police chief said Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A few hours after killing 35 suspected members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect during a 24-hour gun battle in Damaturu, capital of Yobe state, the Joint Task Force (JTF) has raided the main hide out of the suspected terrorists in Mubi, the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State, arresting 156 suspected members. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Islamic sect Boko Haram in northern Nigeria said on Monday it killed 35 suspected members of the sect after a 24-hour gun battle in Damaturu, capital of Yobe state.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police in Bauchi in northern Nigeria said Sunday morning's suicide bombing at a Catholic Church in the city left three dead and 46 injured, representing an increase in the figure of one dead earlier given by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A suicide bomber died when he detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at the gate of the St. John's Catholic Church in Nigeria's northern city of Bauchi on Sunday, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A church in the eponymous capital of Nigeria's northern Bauchi state was bombed Sunday morning, but casualty figures are yet unknown, the police said. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Civilians are bearing the brunt of horrific abuses that include amputations, sexual violence and extra-judicial executions in Mali, according to Amnesty International. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - For the second time in a week, Nigeria's military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Boko Haram Islamic sect in the northern part of the country announced Thursday it had killed two suspected commanders of the sect in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, which is the spiritual base of the sect. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, has said violence against women and girls and the indiscriminate extraction of natural resources are among the most pressing issues that indigenous peoples face today. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling Nigeria's Islamic sect Boko Haram said Monday it killed one suspected top member of the sect and arrested two others during an early morning operation in the northern city of Kano. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan cabinet has taken additional steps to end the tribal violence in the coastal region of Tana River, where up to 110 people have been killed in recent skirmishes. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has condemned what it calls the deadly cycle of recent attacks and reprisals in Kenya's Tana River Delta that has left more than 100 people dead. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s parliament Wednesday unanimously approved a motion asking the country’s President to authorise the military to douse escalating tribal violence in the Tana River Delta, where 100 people, including nine police officers, have been killed in recent times. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government has strongly condemned Saturday night's massacre by the Malian army of 16 Muslim preachers, 13 of them Mauritanians, and called for an independent investigation into the killings. Full text...

Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya Red Cross has confirmed the death of 32 people, including seven police officers, in the latest clashes in the volatile Tana Delta in the country's coastal region Monday. Full text...

Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - Local leaders have blamed Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki for failing to act urgently to stem insecurity after revenge attacks in Tana River Delta in the country’s coastal province, left 12 people dead several days after the killing of 50 people in the region.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attacks on telecommunications base stations in some parts of northern Nigeria, which have disrupted telephone and related services in the area.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military said on Monday it discovered a treasure trove of information and weapons following a dawn raid on the residence of a commander of Boko Haram in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military task force keeping the peace in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri said Saturday it killed five suspected members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram and successfully repelled an attack by the sect on Friday evening. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An international gathering of anti-violence activists Friday called on governments to implement the African Union (AU) protocol that bans harmful traditional practices that limit women from enjoying their full rights. Full text...