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...

Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - Violence escalated in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa a day after the killing of a controversial Muslim cleric linked to past terrorist activities. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for South Sudan, Ms. Hilde Johnson, has condemned an attack by armed insurgents in the country’s eastern Jonglei state, noting that the violence was a deliberate attempt to undermine the country’s progress towards peace and reconciliation. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A state-sponsored commission has exonerated the Burundi government of alleged cases of extrajudicial killings saying there was not sufficient evidence to support the allegations.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The four expatriate contract workers who were kidnapped when suspected sea pirates attacked an oil platform off the Bonny Coast in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region 4 Aug., have been freed, the Nigerian Navy said. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A Mauritian political party, Lalit (meaning Struggle), has said that it noted with horror, the murder of over 35 platinum mine workers by the South African police at Marikana last Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Christians in Nigeria's predominantly-Muslim north, where the Islamic sect Boko Haram has been carrying out deadly gun and bomb attacks since 2009, have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to resign over his purported comments on the sect. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The violent Islamic sect Boko Haram has denied reports credited to Nigeria's military Joint Task Force (JTF) that it killed 20 of its (sect) members in a shootout in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state, over the weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police said they have arrested three suspects in connection with this week's gun attacks in Okene, central Kogi State, that left 19 dead. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In the wake of Monday night's killing of 19 worshippers at a pentecostal church in Okene, Nigeria's central Kogi state, the Prelate of the Anglican Church, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, has warned that the country is drifting to anarchy. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The government of Kogi State in central Nigeria on Tuesday imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the town of Okene, a day after gunmen killed 19 worshippers of the Deeper Life Bible Church in the town, the government said in a statement. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian authorities Tuesday vowed to fish out the perpetrators of Monday night's attack on a pentecostal church in Okene, in the country's central Kogi state, which led to the death of 19 church members and left many injured.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen on Monday killed 16 worshippers at a Deeper Life Church in Okene in Nigeria's central Kogi state, the military said. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least six persons were killed in various clashes and attacks in north Darfur region of western Sudan, indicating the renewed spread of violence in a region that has otherwise witness a lull in clashes recently. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The violent Islamic sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attack that left six soldiers and one civilian dead in Damaturu, Nigeria's northern Yobe state, Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudanese security forces must stop shooting protesters with live ammunition, Amnesty International (AI) said after confirming that at least eight demonstrators killed earlier the week had bullet wounds. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday urged Sudan to launch an independent investigation into the reported use of excessive force by government security forces during a protest in Darfur on Tuesday, which resulted in eight deaths and injured more than 50 people. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) has reaffirmed its commitment to support the UN Women campaign to end violence against women in Africa, PANA reports Thursday.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's violent Islamic sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Monday's attack on the country home of Vice President Namadi Sambo, as well as others in the predominantly-Muslim north that left a total of 13 persons dead. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency has condemned rampant abuses against civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid fighting that has uprooted nearly half a million people in four months. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A total of five persons, including 1 policeman, were killed by suicide bombers and gunmen who struck in two Nigerian northern cities Monday, following a weekend of similar killings, the police said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen on Sunday shot dead two officers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), and two others in separate incidents in the northern city of Kano, the local media reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two suspected members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram were killed Friday in a clash in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri between the sect members and the military Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to help keep the peace in the city, JTF said. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Unknown gunmen Thursday killed three persons, including two policemen, following an attack on Gubio, headquarters of Gubio Local Government Area of Borno state in Nigeria's north-east, the police said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead five persons, three of them brothers, in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri, according to the local National Mirror newspaper. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Six persons were killed in two separate incidents in Maiduguri, the home base of Nigeria's violent Islamic sect Boko Haram, on Thursday, the private Vanguard newspaper reported Friday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Mr. Vijay Nambiar, has condemned the sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reportedly perpetrated by armed groups, including the group of renegade soldiers known as the M23, and called on authorities to investigate the crimes. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – The Togolese head of State, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, has given his minister of security 48 hours within which to fish out those who, Saturday, broke into the house of the leader of the opposition National Alliance for Change (ANC), Jean-Pierre Fabre, according to a statement here from the presidency. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One student was killed and several others injured Tuesday, when gunmen fired at an Islamic school in Bukuru, near Jos, capital of Nigeria's volatile central state of Plateau, the military said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen on Sunday night shot dead Hajja Bayayi, a female Councillor representing the Bolori ward 1 in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri, the local media reported Monday Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body at a mosque in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri on Friday, killing five persons and injuring six, including two soldiers, according to the spokesman for the military Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to the city, Col. Sagir Musa. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan suspects facing crimes against humanity will officially stand trial from 10 to 11 April, 2013, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two serving federal and state lawmakers died while they were attending the mass burial of the over 30 of their kinsmen killed by suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen a day earlier in Nigeria's northern state of Plateau, the local media reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More than 20 people, mostly women and children, were killed when unknown gunmen invaded many villages in Barakin-Ladi and some parts of the Riyom Local Government Areas of Nigeria's northern Plateau state Saturday, the local media reported. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police have said no one died from Tuesday night's explosion near a popular shopping mall in the capital city of Abuja. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The bodies of four persons who had their throats slit have been recovered by soldiers of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri, the spiritual base of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic sect, according to JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Musa Sagir. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has condemned Sunday’s twin terrorist attacks in North Eastern Kenya, which killed 17 people, and vowed its support to Kenya’s efforts to continue its fight against international terror in Somalia. Full text...

Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has urged member states and the international community to assist Nigeria in its efforts to combat the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police on Saturday detonated two bombs planted on a bridge in Riyom, some 40kms from the troubled Nigerian central city of Jos. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen killed three policemen during an attack on a police station in Nigeria's northern state of Adamawa on Thursday, according to local press reports. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Attacks by gunmen riding motor bikes have killed at least 45 people in the past three months in Nigeria's largest northern city of Kano, the local media reported Wednesday, quoting Kano State Police Commissioner Ibrahim Idris. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN has called on South Sudan to develop a comprehensive plan for curbing violence in Jonglei state, as it released the findings of an investigation into inter-communal attacks that claimed hundreds of lives there in 2011 and early 2012. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police have launched an investigation into Sunday night's terrorist attack in Mombasa, which killed one person and left 26 people wounded. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the Islamic sect Boko Haram continues to carry out unbridled attacks in northern Nigeria, the country's White-collar oil workers have threatened to embark on a nationwide strike if the federal government fails to stem the rising violence. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has said it is ''horrified" by the recent attacks against churches in Nigeria and called on the country's authorities to punish the perpetrators of the heinous acts. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has alleged that the escalating attacks on churches in the predominantly-Muslim northern Nigeria suggests a ''systematic religious cleansing which reminds Christians of the genesis of a Jihad''. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 40 people, including soldiers and policemen, died in Monday's gun and bomb attack perpetrated by suspected members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram in Damaturu, capital of northern Yobe state, the local media reported Wednesday, quoting hospital sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Government of Yobe State in Nigeria's north-east Tuesday imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state capital, Damaturu, following an extended gun and bomb attacks on the city starting from 5pm Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Sunday's coordinated suicide bomb attacks on three churches in two cities in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state that the police said left 16 dead, the local Peoples Daily newspaper reported Monday. Full text...