Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) battling the Islamic sect Boko Haram said on Sunday it killed 20 members of the sect following an attempted attack on a military barracks at Monguno in Nigeria's northern Borno State in the early hours of the day. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Commissioner of Police in Nigeria's central Kwara State, Mr. Chinwike Asadu, was shot dead by unknown gunmen near his private residence in Amorji Nike in Enugu, capital of the eponymous South-east Enugu State, on Saturday night. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - As Kenya prepares to go to the polls on Monday, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, has called on authorities to ensure the protection of civilians, especially women and girls, against sexual violence and abuses. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A football pitch argument between two players on Saturday sparked an orgy of religious violence in Wukari, in the northern Taraba State, leaving at least five people dead, according to local media reports. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) fighting the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram in Nigeria's northern state of Borno has welcomed the ceasefire declared by the sect Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, which has killed over 3,000 people in gun and bomb attacks in Nigeria since 2009, on Monday declared an immediate ceasefire. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwandan police said on Wednesday that six suspects have been arrested in the murder of a Ugandan businessman, Dickson Tinyinondi. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Tensions remain high in South Africa's Free State town of Sasolburg on Wednesday, following two days of running street battles between police and residents that have left at least two protesters dead and 200 others arrested. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A group suspected to be a breakaway faction of the Islamic sect Boko Haram on Sunday claimed responsibility for the previous day's attack on a military convoy that killed two soldiers and injured four others, part of Nigeria's contingent to Mali. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Nigeria's northern Kano state has confirmed the death of four persons in Saturday's gun attack on the vehicular convoy of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One of Nigeria's most revered traditional rulers, Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano in the country's north, was attacked by unknown gunmen on Saturday while he was returning from a mosque in the city, according to local media reports. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria secret police said they have arrested two suspected masterminds of last November's suicide bombing of a church located within a key military facility in Jaji, in the country's northern Kaduna state, in which 11 persons died and 30 others were injured. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN's top relief official in Kenya has expressed its worry over the continuing acts of violence in the restive Tana Delta after an early Thursday attack there left 11 people dead, bringing the death toll to 450 since 2012.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Four policemen were killed as a result of public violence in Tanzania's northwestern Kagera Region within three weeks, according to reports from the region that borders Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least 14 people were killed and dozens injured in an inter-ethnic fighting in Western Sudan Sunday, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The four South Koreans who were kidnapped in Nigeria last month were released upon the payment of 30 million naira (US$188,700) in ransom by their Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The suspects behind the deadly bombing of the UN building and the Nigeria police headquarters, both in the country's capital city of Abuja, as well as a Catholic Church in Madalla, northern Niger State, have been arrested and are now in custody, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government has foiled plots by the insurgents in the northern part of the country to unleash terror during the ongoing Christmas and New Year holidays, the private Punch newspaper reported Sunday, quoting the police. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen believed to be members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram have killed 25 people in two states in northern Nigeria, according to the local media and the military on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Yet-to-be identified gunmen riding on a motorcycle Thursday night killed Prof. Hyacinth Nong Mbibu, Head of Department of Surgery at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in Zaria, northern Kaduna State. Full text...

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...