Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan national army now controls a number of strategic sites in Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 29 people were killed and 105 others injured from the multiple explosions that rocked two motor parks in Nigeria's northern city of Gombe on Wednesday evening, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Thursday. Full text...

New York,US (PANA) - The 20 July meeting in Washington DC between US President Barack Obama and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari offers both nations the opportunity to re-invigorate their commitment to, and develop initiatives that would, help curb the activities of Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said on Friday.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Army has revised downwards the casualty figures from Friday's suicide bombings in Damaturu, North-east Yobe state, saying only 9 people died, as against 50 that it announced earlier. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 50 people were killed on Friday when two female suicide bombers attacked a praying ground in Damaturu, capital of Nigeria's North-east Yobe state, as Muslims gathered there to mark Eid-el-Fitr, the end of the Muslim's month-long fasting, Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An explosion rocked a praying ground in Damaturu, capital of Nigeria's North-east Yobe State, Friday as Muslims converged there for prayers marking Eid-el-Fitr, the end of the Muslim's month-long fasting. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Several families belonging to the Touareg and Toubou tribes in the district of al-Taiouri, in the city of Sebha, 800 km south of the capital, Tripoli, have fled their homes after clashes between members of the two tribes claimed the lives for five and injured 24 others, witnesses said on Thursday. Full text...

Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – DR Congo president Joseph Kabila on Thursday held talks in Kinshasa with the special representative of the UN Secretary General for the Great Lakes Region, Saïd Djinnit, on the situation in the region.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The escalating pattern of politically-motivated violence in Burundi demands a response from the UN Security Council before the hostilities can evolve into wholesale atrocities, a group of the UN experts warned on Thursday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Three persons were killed on Monday evening in Sebha, 800km South of Libya's capital, Tripoli, in a fresh outbreak of communal violence between the Toubou and Touareg tribes.Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Five civilians were killed while 17 others were injured in a rocket attack on the residential areas of Libya's second city of Benghazi on Sunday evening, hospital sources said here Monday.Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Executive Director of the Mauritius Family Planning and Welfare Association (MFPWA), Vidya Charan, on Saturday called for the education of girls so that they do not remain in ignorance. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least one person was killed and four others injured on Saturday when a suicide bomber struck near the offices of Nigeria's secret police, State Security Service (SSS), in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, eyewitnesses said.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Two weeks after the contested legislative and communal elections Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - South Sudan marked its fourth independence anniversary Thursday amid a deepening political crisis that is tearing the world’s newest state into pieces, and with the opposition threatening to escalate the war in the country to end President Salva Kiir’s mandate. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Col. Taher Al-Ouch, the head of Libya's military intelligent services in Misrata, 220 kilometres East of the capital, Tripoli, was killed Wednesday evening when his car exploded near a mosque of the city, security sources said on Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military said Wednesday its troops have arrested the mastermind of last Sunday’s bombing in Jos, central Plateau state, and Tuesday’s suicide blast in Zaria, northern Kaduna state, that claimed a total of about 70 people. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS Chairman and Senegal's President Macky Sall has strongly condemned the recent terrorist attacks in Nigeria that left more than 150 dead and many others injured.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In a move aimed at sending a strong message to the Boko Haram terrorists, the Nigerian army is holding this year's Army Day Celebration in the North-eastern city of Maiduguri, the spiritual heartland of the terrorists. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 44 people died while 47 others were injured in Sunday night's twin bomb attacks in Nigeria's central city of Jos, according to an official of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mohammed Abdulsalam.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared to have died in the two explosions that rocked Nigeria's central city of Jos late on Sunday, the local media reported Monday.Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has strongly condemned the recent wave of attacks in Nigeria's North-east by the terror group Boko Haram, which has claimed about 150 lives. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness at Sunday's bomb attack at a church on the outskirts of Potiskum, North-east Yobe State. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest wave of killings by the terror group Boko Haram in the country's North-eastern Borno State, describing them as ''most inhuman and barbaric''. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Boko Haram terrorist group has killed a total of 145 people in two separate attacks in remote communities in Nigeria's northern Borno state, the local media reported Friday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has condoled with Egypt over the killing of the latter's prosecutor Hisham Barakat in a bomb explosion that targeted his convoy in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Monday. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – The UN envoy in Libya, Bernardino Leon, has urged stakeholders Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Four Fajr Libya fighters have been killed and several others injured in clashes that broke out on Friday evening in Janzour, in the southwestern region of Tripoli, with the Libyan army. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A new date will soon be agreed for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Security Summit on Boko Haram, as part of a broader war against terrorism, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said.Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - At least four people were killed and nine others injured on Wednesday night when a rocket landed on the residential districts of Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, medical sources said. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – At least four people were killed on Monday in separate grenade attacks perpetrated by unidentified gunmen in Ngozi and Kirundo provinces of northern Burundi, the national radio reported. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Fierce fighting broke out early on Monday in the district of Ghout al-Chaal of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, showing an escalation of the violence that has plagued Libya over time as the army launched an offensive to retake control of the city from the Fajr Libya militias. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - In an effort to boost the global fight against the horrors faced by women Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 63 people were killed in a massive explosion that rocked the town of Monguno, in Nigeria's North-east Borno State, on Tuesday, the private Premium Times reported Wednesday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS has condemned the recent Boko Haram attack in Chad that left over 20 people dead, calling it appalling, barbaric and despicable. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – Armed clashes between the Libyan army and Islamist militias in the eastern city of Benghazi claimed the lives for 76 people, including 35 soldiers, in May, a source at al-Jala hospital said on Tuesday. The sources said 288 people were wounded.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The killing of 11 Al Shabaab operatives, including top Commanders, during a Sunday raid on a Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) military camp in Buare in the coastal region of Lamu, has confirmed that the terror cells established by the al-Qaeda top command in the region remain active. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - At least three persons were killed and five others wounded in a twin car bomb attacks on Saturday evening in Derna, east of Libya, official sources said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Deeply worried at the increasingly violent and threatening actions Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Reiterating his Administration's total commitment to end the Boko Haram insurgency, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari Monday sought greater support from France and other countries for Nigeria's efforts. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The bomb attack on a busy market in Yola in Nigeria's North-east Adamawa state on Thursday evening killed 27 people and left many more injured, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated his call for calm and restraint in Burundi following rising political tensions, saying he remains concerned about the potential for escalating violence in the country. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's National Security and Intelligence Service (NISS), a Rapid Intervention Forces (RIF), has recovered UNAMID vehicles and other property, which were stolen earlier this week in South Kordufan, and killed at least six of the carjackers and apprehended three others.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has expressed its grave concern over the security and humanitarian situation in the country, which is torn by a conflict that is only growing more violent as it nears its 18th month. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday promised to study the Amnesty International report, which alleged that the Nigerian military committed war crimes and killed 8,000 people in its ongoing battle with the Boko Haram insurgents in the North-east, and take appropriate action. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday met with his Nigerien counterpart in Niamey, after which he expressed confidence in ability of the Nigerian military to rout the insurgent group Boko Haram.Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - At least 35 Libyan soldiers were killed and 236 others wounded last month during fighting in Benghazi, according to figures released on Wednesday by the al-Jala hospital in the city where the dead and wounded soldiers were sent. Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Fresh fighting has broken out in Libya's eastern region of Lamlouda between the Libyan army and elements of the terrorist organization Deach (Islamic State). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Bangura, on Wednesday condemned Nigeria-based terror group, Boko Haram, for waging war on women’s physical, sexual and reproductive autonomy and rights, by repeatedly raping their female captives and treating them as vessels for producing children for fighters.Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Some 21 people were injured in Tuesday evening's clash between two communities in Tunisia over a land dispute, security sources told PANA here Wednesday.Full text...