Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Spokesman for Nigeria's violent Islamic sect Boko Haram, Abu Qaga II, may have been killed this weekend following a growing rift within the sect, local newspapers reported Sunday, quoting security sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) said on Friday it attacked and destroyed a pipeline belonging to AGIP Oil Company, a subsidiary of Italian oil giant ENI, in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram killed five persons, including three civilians, one policeman and one Immigration official, in an attack on Banki town in Nigeria's northern state of Borno Tuesday evening, the military said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Contrary to reports by the local and international media that as many as 40 people died in Easter Sunday's explosion in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, government officials have said only nine people died and 38 were injured in the blast. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sunday's night's explosion in Nigeria's central city of Jos was caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) placed on a motorcycle by unknown persons, the police said Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sixteen people died and 35 were injured in Sunday's blast in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, according to the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, has warned that comments by the Governor of Sudan’s Southern Kordofan state, Ahmed Haroun, who was filmed telling his soldiers not to bring rebels back alive, could amount to a serious crime and lead to an escalation of violence. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram on Wednesday killed seven people when they stormed a popular market in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state, considered the home base of the sect, according to local media reports Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram shot dead the chair of Chibok council area of Nigeria's northern Borno state Sunday, a military spokesman said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One soldier, one State Security Service (SSS) personnel and nine gunmen were killed in a clash between security agents and gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram in Okene in Nigeria's central Kogi state this weekend, the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Kilifi, Kenya (PANA) - One person was killed and 26 wounded after twin grenade explosions in the tourism hotspots of Mtwapa, 15 km outside Mombasa, and another one at a bar within the Mombasa Municipal Council, officials said Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - One person was killed and 26 injured, five of them critically, in a twin blast in Kenya on Saturday, the police said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram set free 14 inmates of the Satellite Prison in Nigeria's northern state of Yobe when they attacked the prison and a police station in the state on Wednesday night, the local media reported. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has named Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police in Nigeria's northern Borno state have announced a 1 million naira (US$6,300) reward for any information leading to the arrest of members of the Islamic sect Boko Haram and recovery of arms and ammunition in the state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic sect Boko Haram has said it will no longer accept any offer of talks from the Nigerian government, following the botched mediation between the two last week. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Jewish community on Tuesday expressed shock over Monday's cold-blooded killing of a rabbi, his two young sons and a third child in a shooting incident outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - One person was arrested while a police station in the capital, Lilongwe, was razed to the ground after hundreds of people went on rampage on Sunday following police attack on a series of rallies addressed by Atupele Muluzi, former president Bakili Muluzi's son, who has expressed interest to contest the 2014 presidential election. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Hopes that the secret talks between the Nigerian government and the Islamic sect Boko Haram could end the sect's incessant attacks have suffered a setback, after the mediators pulled out of the talks over alleged leakage of the main details of the talks. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Wednesday said it had sent patrol units and a medical team to an area on the country’s border with Ethiopia where unidentified raiders reportedly attacked several cattle camps occupied by members of the Lou Nuer ethnic group. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Security chiefs and government officials in Nigeria's northern Plateau state, the capital of which has experienced the bombing of several churches in recent times, have announced measures to prevent a recurrence. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The town of Mubi in Nigeria's northern Adamawa state was rocked by several explosions on Monday night, followed by sporadic gunshots that sent residents scampering for safety, eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death toll from Sunday's suicide bombing of a Catholic church in Nigeria's restive northern city of Jos, and the reprisal attacks that followed, has risen to 19, the local Punch newspaper reported on Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eleven people died and 22 were injured in Sunday's suicide bombing of a Catholic Church in Nigeria's northern city of Jos, the local media reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned Sunday's suicide bombing of St. Finbar's Catholic Church in the northern city of Jos, and expressed his "sincerest and heartfelt commiserations" to the families of the victims of the bomb attack that left at least five persons dead. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least five persons were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when suicide bombers rammed their explosive-laden vehicle into the gate of St. Finbars Catholic Church in Jos, capital of Nigeria's northern state of Plateau. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Explosions occurred near two churches in Nigeria's beleaguered northern city of Jos on Sunday, but casualty figures are not yet known, residents told PANA. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Friday unveiled new guidelines to help mediators address the problem of sexual violence in conflict by placing the issue high on the agenda when brokering peace agreements and ceasefires. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Several thousand Mauritanian women marched on Thursday in the capital, Nouakchott, to denounce violence and marginalisation as the country marked International Women's Day. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials have urged member states to tackle violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, saying countries cannot continue to overlook such grave violations of human rights. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned the attacks on schools in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri, which has left thousands of pupils without access to education. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Burning of schools, the latest strategy to be employed by the Islamic sect Boko Haram, has forced an estimated 10,000 pupils out of schools after their institutions were burnt in the past two weeks in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria's northern Borno state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to Nigeria's Niger Delta said on Sunday it had recovered the bodies of the four soldiers who were killed on Thursday by unknown gunmen in the oil region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Former militants who have been agitating to be included in the amnesty programme put in place by the Nigerian authorities in 2009 have claimed responsibility for Thursday's killing of four soldiers in Bayelsa in the Niger Delta oil region. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Friday claimed responsibility for Thursday's killing of four policemen in oil-rich Bayelsa state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Suspected Boko Haram members have burnt two more schools in the sect's home base of Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state, bringing to seven the number of schools burnt by the sect in the past week, according to local media reports here Friday. Full text...

Tunis,Tunisia (PANA) – A national survey on violence to women in Tunisia carried out in 2010 has revealed that 47.6% of women have been subjected to, at least, one form of violence in their life. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen on Thursday killed four policemen at their duty post in Nembe Creek in Bayelsa, the home state of Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan, the police said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Living true to its name, Boko Haram (Western Education is Sin) has embarked on a new campaign of burning schools in its home base of Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police in Jos, capital of Nigeria's central state of Plateau, said ''at least'' six persons died and 50 were injured in Sunday's suicide bombing of a church in the city. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Three female church members died when suicide bombers rammed their explosive-laden vehicle into the headquarters of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) during service on Sunday in Jos, capital of Nigeria's central Plateau state, the local media reported, quoting Dr. Samuel Ibrahim of the Plateau Specialist Hospital. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared killed or wounded on Sunday when the headquarters of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) in the central city of Jos was hit by suicide bombers during a church service, eyewitnesses told PANA. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The government of Nigeria's northern Gombe state has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state capital, Gombe, after suspected Boko Haram members attacked a police station and some public institutions in the city, leaving many dead.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Following the decision of the Sudanese government to authorize their return to the South Kordofan State, the first batch of the UN international staff returned Friday to the state capital, Kadugli. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) -The annual UN report documenting conflict-related sexual violence around the world for the first time on Thursday named some of the military forces, militia and other armed groups that are suspected of being among the worst offenders. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen riding on a motorbike on Thursday shot dead two policemen and injured two others in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, where a massive attack claimed by Boko Haram last month left 185 dead, the private Leadership newspaper reported. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Election Observation Mission of the European Union (EOM/EU), deployed to monitor Sunday's presidential election in Senegal, has called for an end to the violence that has wracked the West African nation in recent weeks. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – At least 60,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Mali and more than 22,000 others have taken refuge in Niger following attacks in Northern Mali perpetrated by Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad (MNLA), according to a statement issued here by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Clashes between Senegal's opposition and the police left one person dead and many others injured on Sunday, as tension continues to rise ahead of the 26 Feb presidential poll in the West African nation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One person was seriously injured and five vehicles damaged in an explosion near a church in Suleja in Nigeria's northern Niger state on Sunday, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Full text...