Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As Nigerian military authorities get tough on mutinous soldiers amid a deadly insurgency battle in the country's North-east, 16 soldiers, including three officers, have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment each for the 14 April 2014 abduction of nearly 300 school girls in Chibok, Borno State.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Hundreds of Muslim residents in western parts of the Central African Republic (CAR) are trapped in enclaves in deplorable conditions, Human Rights Watch said Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people are feared to have been killed or injured Monday when a bomb went off at the Dukku Motor Park in Nigeria's North-east Gombe State, the local media reported.Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Fierce fighting that broke out on Friday evening between the Libyan army and Islamist militias in the locality of al-Sabri, where the army is attempting to oust the Islamists, has continued on Saturday, say military sources.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Special Envoy for Women and Peace, Benita Diop, has launched a bid to effectively protect women in conflict zones by proposing a series of strict measures to punish sexual offenders. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Seven Libyan soldiers have been killed, three of them in a car bomb explosion, while 36 others were injured in armed clashes in Benghazi, according to hospital sources. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Troops based in the central Libyan city of Sirte and allied to a coalition of Islamist groups known as Fajr Libya on Tuesday carried out air raids on positions of guards deployed around oil installations in the eastern city of Ras Lanouf, but according to military sources, they caused no damage. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Determined to "liberate" the capital city of Tripoli from rebel armed groups, Libyan fighter jets Sunday continued pounding enemy positions as government ground troops advance, PANA reported, quoting security sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least six persons died while seven others were injured in Wednesday's suicide bombing of a popular textile market in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, according to the state government. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - One in four children has been physically abused, one in five girls hasFull text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Eleven people, including 10 soldiers, have been killed and 51 others wounded in renewed armed clashes between the units of the Libyan army and Islamist militias in the city of Benghazi, eastern Libya, hospital sources said Wednesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Three people believed to be supporters of "Fajr Libya", a coalition of armed groups controlling Tripoli and other cities in western Libya, were killed and several others injured in air strikes launched Monday by the Libyan Air Force.Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – At least three soldiers were killed and 17 others injured on Friday night in armed clashes between Libyan army units and Islamist militias in different districts of the eastern city of Benghazi.Full text...

Tripoli,Libya (PANA) - Three members of the Fajr Libyan forces, a coalition of armed groups from Misrata and Islamists, were killed on Thursday in violent clashes with the former rebels of Zenten and armed tribesmen near the city of Sabratha, west of Tripoli.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said inter-communal tensions in Kenya have sparked outbursts of violence across the nation, Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - At least four persons were killed and 10 others injured Tuesday when rockets landed in Ben Younis, in the centre of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, which has witnessed incessant clashes between units of the Libyan army and Islamist militias, hospital sources said.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – At least, three persons were injured in the car-bomb explosion on Sunday evening in the Libyan eastern city of Ajdabia, local newspapers quoted eye witnesses as saying.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In perhaps one of the most audacious attacks by the Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram, Damaturu, the capital of North-west Yobe state, came under heavy attack early Monday, but casualty figures are yet unknown. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Nearly 400 people have been killed in two months of fighting in eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, according to a medical centre in the city.Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has strongly condemned Friday's horrendous attack on worshippers at the Central Mosque in Nigeria's northern city of Kano and recent attacks on innocent civilians in northeastern Nigeria. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was not in the Kano Central Mosque when a bomb blast rocked the mosque on Friday, sources close to the Emir told PANA here. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared killed or injured on Friday after an explosion rocked the Kano central mosque in the eponymous Kano state in northern Nigeria, the local media reported, quoting the military and eyewitnesses.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday voiced deep concern over an uptick in violence across Libya and urged all parties to recommit to the values of the revolution that inspired the North African country’s break towards democracy. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – At least two Libyan soldiers were killed and five others injured in armed clashes onTuesday between units of the Libyan Army and Islamist militias in the eastern city of Benghazi, hospital sources said Wednesday.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta launched a new plan Wednesday to battle gender inequalities by promoting women’s rights to key government services and protection from harm. Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The popular uprising of 30 and 31 October 2014 that led to the resignation of President Blaise Compaoré killed 24 people and injured 625 others, according to a draft report of the ad hoc committee on human rights. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Four soldiers have been killed and 38 injured in clashes during the past 24 hours between Libyan army units and the Islamist armed militia in the city of Benghazi, according to security and medical sources.Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian Foreign Affairs Ministry has condemned the repeated attacks in Libya against Tunisian nationals residing in the country.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Over 30 people were killed on Tuesday in a twin suicide bomb attack at a crowded market in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria's North-eastern Borno state which is the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency that has killed over 12,000 people since 2009. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Suspected members of Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram Monday carried out a massive attack on two towns along the Nigeria/Cameroon border, killing more than 50 residents in one of the towns alone, the local media reported Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A UN humanitarian mission has visited a town in the Central African Republic (CAR) amid an outburst of violence that left at least 14 people injured and three killed, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Unidentified gunmen on Sunday shot dead the head of the technical department of the Libyan intelligence services, Colonel Mokhtar Msadagh Naili, in Tripoli, the newspaper Al -Wassat reported on Monday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The fourth meeting of military and security chiefs from the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and Benin Republic began here Monday with Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen. Aliyu Gusau Mohammed, urging member nations to forge closer collaboration towards defeating the Boko Haram insurgents. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto said Kenya Forces have killed 100 militants and sympathisers inside Somalia, following the massacre of 28 Kenyans by Al Shabaab terrorists in Mandera near the Kenya-Somalia border on Saturday.Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - At least one soldier was killed and five others injured Wednesday in Benghazi, eastern Libya, during armed conflicts which violated a 12-hour truce agreed by warring factions, under the supervision of the United Nations, according to security and humanitarian sources. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Two policemen guarding the high security prison in Murembwe, Southern Burundi, were seriously injured late Wednesday night in a grenade attack by prisoners who escaped from detention, PANA reported Thursday, quoting the Public Radio and Television of Burundi. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan army has announced a 12-hour unilateral truce, starting from 7 pm local time Wednesday, to allow the supply of relief materials and the evacuation of the wounded from some districts in the country's second city of Benghazi. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Tuesday expressed deep concern about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Katanga in DR Congo (DRC) saying violence has forced some 400,000 people to flee their homes in the province since the end of 2012. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Four persons have been hacked to death in an apparent revenge attack hours after police raided mosques in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa and arrested at least 250 people.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Against the background of raging insurgency in Nigeria's North-east, the federal government announced on Monday that it will again seek an extension of the state of emergency which it first imposed on the three worst-hit states. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen. Aliyu Gusau Mohammed, on Monday announced that Nigeria had commenced the re-engineering of its defence and security posture in order to cope with global and domestic threats posed by the Boko Haram insurgency and other international terror groups.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Special Representative for Somalia Nicholas Kay has expressed Full text...

Tobruk, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Parliament has condemned "terrorist militias" for the violence at the airports of Lebrag, Zintan and Oubari Ghat, which are vital facilities for citizens, a statement issued on Thursday night said.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Chibok, the village in Nigeria's North-east Borno State where nearly 300 girls were abducted more than six months ago, has now been captured by the insurgent group Boko Haram that abducted the girls, according to local media reports. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The town of Maiha in Nigeria's North-east Adamawa state has been liberated from Boko Haram by a combined team of local hunters and vigilante group who also killed 75 of the insurgents who captured the town on Monday, the local media reported Thursday, quoting some residents of the town. Full text...

Tobruk, Libya (PANA) – At least five people were killed on Wednesday in two separate car bomb attacks in Libya's eastern cities of Tobruk and Beidha, military and hospital sources said. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Violence by Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria’s northeast continues to send thousands of refugees across the border into neighbouring Cameroon, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's insurgent group Boko Haram has continued to expand the territory under its control after capturing another town in the country's North-east on Monday, the local media reported Tuesday, quoting residents of the town. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 47 students died while 79 others were injured when a suicide bomber Monday attacked a government secondary school in Potiskum, Nigeria's northern Yobe State, the police said.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many students were feared killed and injured Monday morning when an explosion ripped through the Comprehensive Secondary School in Potiskum, Nigeria's northern Yobe state, the local media reported. Full text...