Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Calm prevailed Saturday in the Libyan second largest city, Benghazi, following Friday's bloody clashes between Islamist armed groups and troops loyal to retired Gen. Khalifa Haftar.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan government has described the entry of the troops under the command of former General Khalifa Haftar into Benghazi as a “coup” against the legitimacy and the 17 February revolution which overthrew the regime of Mouamar Kaddafi.Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Friday's clashes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi between armed Islamist groups and troops loyal to former Libyan General Khalifa Haftar have claimed 12 lives.Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Nine supporters from the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) were badly injured Friday at the magistrate courts in Lusaka after a car rammed into a group of UPND supporters who had gone to show solidarity with the UPND leader, Hakainde Hichilema, who was appearing in court.Full text...

Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – Outrage over the kidnapping of a group of Nigerian schoolgirls continues to grow in South Africa with protestors in Cape Town on Friday urging Pretoria and the African Union (AU) to intervene. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Several persons were feared to have been killed Friday following an explosion at the Gikomba market in downtown Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, PANA reported. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Four people, including two soldiers, have been killed and twelve others injured in a new wave of violence in Libya, security sources said on Thursday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The British Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Mark Simmonds, who arrived Nigeria Wednesday morning has held various high-level meetings with stakeholders on British assistance to the threat posed by the Boko Haram, especially on the rescue of the over 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, Tuesday met with a delegation of US military officers and experts, led by the Commander of United States African Command (US-AFRICOM), Lt.-Gen. David Rodriguez.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed deep Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Eleven persons, including a former rebel leader, have been killed in Congo in a clash between Congolese police and a group of immigrants from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the state-run radio announced here on Sunday, quoting from a police statement. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Four people have been killed and 16 others injured in clashes on Friday night in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi between citizens and the 17 February Brigade, an armed militia, according to hospital sources.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Three judicial police officers were killed and six others injured on Thursday in an attack in the city of Ouerchafana, in western Libya, by an armed gang, according to the chief of judicial police guards at the Justice ministry, Mr Abdallah Mohamed.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Sixty Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Thursday in Abuja released a damming report, saying that the Nigerian Government is unserious in tackling the security challenges rocking the country, especially the ongoing abduction of over 200 school girls by the Boko Haram group. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A new investigation into the conflict in South Sudan has revealed horrific atrocities committed by both parties to the conflict, with ethnically-motivated attacks on civilians constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The number of girls who were newly abducted in Nigeria's northern state of Borno is 11, not 8 as previously reported, the local media reported Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto on Monday stated categorical that Kenya would not withdraw its troops from Somalia, until the war against the Al-Shabaab militia is won. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 19 days after over 200 girls were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria's northern Borno State, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday the government does not yet know the whereabouts of the girls. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Calm Saturday returned to Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, after bloody clashes between soldiers and armed groups of the Ansar Asharia sect left nine people dead, among soldiers and policemen, and 24 others injured. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Amnesty International on Friday called for an end to the violent campaign by the Boko Haram Islamic group against civilians.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United States has announced plans for a joint strategy with the Nigerian military to battle the terror group Boko Haram, blamed for a series of deadly terror strikes that have left over 1,500 dead this year alone.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll in Thursday evening's bombing at a bus station in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja has risen from 9 to 12, with 19 injured, the police said. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - At least nine people were killed and 11 others critically injured in Thursday night's bombing at a bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, the local media quoted the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) as saying. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared killed or injured on Thursday night when a bus station at Nyanya, on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, was hit by an explosion, the second in as many weeks. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A bomb blast has rocked Nyanya on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, scene of the blast that left 75 dead and over 200 injured on 14 April, PANA reported, quoting security sources. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – A car bomb explosion on Thursday in the district of Salaheddine, southern suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has left one dead and four others injured, medical sources said. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - A police officer was killed and a soldier seriously wounded Wednesday evening in Libya's second city of Benghazi, security sources said.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, painted a bleak picture of human rights abuse in South Sudan where, he said, both local leaders and international community have failed to live up to the challenges, including a looming famine. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – A former Libyan judge was shot dead on Tuesday by gunmen in the city of Derna while an army officer was injured when an explosive device went off under his car in an attack perpetrated in Benghazi. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Back from the Easter break, the Nigerian Senate Tuesday asked the Nigerian government to declare a total war against the Boko Haram terrorists who have been unleashing violence, including kidnappings, in the North Eastern part of the country. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - At least two persons were killed and two others wounded in a suicide car-bomb attack on a military camp in Libya's second city of Benghazi Tuesday, the public television reported, quoting security sources. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Disturbed by the ongoing civil disturbances in South Sudan, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is planning to have another summit aimed at ending the war. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - A powerful explosion hit Libya's second city of Benghazi Sunday, but no one was killed, the Libyan New Agency, LANA, reported. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – More violence has been reported over the past two days in the restive eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, where the body of a woman was discovered on Friday night and six separate attacks were recorded, security and hospital sources told PANA. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said despite the current unprecedented political will to eliminate sexual violence in conflict, hold perpetrators to account and support victims, the reality is that raping a woman, child or man is still a largely cost-free crime.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Friday steps to stop the crisis in South Sudan from “creeping into a possible genocide” were being taken days after Rwanda’s genocide anniversary.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura has said despite unprecedented political momentum to fight rape in war zones, sexual violence remains a global crime affecting women, men and children in more than 20 countries. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Five members of the same family were shot dead and another injured slightly on Thursday evening in their house on the road to the airport of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, which has been a theatre of daily violence. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the the UN to “urgently intervene'' to secure the release of the school girls who were abducted nine days ago by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in northern Nigeria. Full text...

Port Harcourt, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, which is the 2014 World Book Capital, Wednesday made a collective demand for the immediate release of the girls who were abducted from their school in Chibok in the northern state of Borno, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Suspected members of the violent Boko Haram sect have threatened to kill the parents of the missing school girls in Nigeria if they continue to search for their children.Full text...

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Somali Member of Parliament Abdiaziz Isaak Mursal was shot dead Tuesday near his home in the Dharkenley district of the capital city of Mogadishu, near a spot where another MP was killed in a car bomb attack Monday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – No Arab or special foreign force has arrived in Libya to liberate the kidnapped Jordanian ambassador, Faouaz al-Aytan, the spokesperson for the Libyan foreign affairs ministry, Saïd al Assoued, said on Monday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Two people were killed on Sunday in armed clashes in the Libyan city of Sebha (South), a town known for tribal clashes, hospital sources said. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Portuguese embassy in Tripoli was attacked on Friday by unknown gunmen who injured the security guard, the spokesperson for the Libyan foreign affairs ministry, Said Lassoued, announced here on Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Another set of 14 of the 129 school girls who were abducted from a school in Nigeria's northern state of Borno have escaped from their abductors, bringing the total number of those found so far to 44, the local media reported on Saturday, quoting state Commissioner for Education Inuwa Kubo. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Commission has strongly condemned Monday's bombing of a bus station on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, that left 75 dead and 216 injured. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – A total of four persons were killed, three of them in Benghazi and one in Derna, eastern Libya, following a new wave violence in the last 48 hours, according to military sources. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The escalation of violence in Libya has negative impacts on the country's reputation and economic development, the United Nations Mission to Libya (UNSMIL) said in a press release following the kidnapping Tuesday in Tripoli of the Jordanian ambassador, Faouzi al-Aytan.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military said on Wednesday evening that it had freed 121 of the 129 girls who were abducted from a government girls school in Chibok, northern Borno state, on Monday night. Full text...