Benghazi , Libya (PANA) - Fighter jets on Wednesday bombed a barracks belonging to an armed Islamist group, Ansar Al-Sharia, in the restive eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan government has strongly condemned Tuesday night's attack by armed groups against a security unit in charge of protecting the Prime Minister’s office.Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The “Ansar Asharia”, a salafist-jihadist group classified by the Libyan government as a terrorist group, has threatened the country with a Syrian-like war, 12 days after former Gen. Khalifa Haftar launched “Operation Karama” to fight terror in Libya, PANA reported Wednesday from here. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Religious leaders in the Central African Republic (CAR), led by Bishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga of Bangui, have urged the CAR crisis mediator, President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo, to strengthen the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic ( MISCA) under Congo's command. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An attempt by a suicide bomber to kill football fans in Nigeria's northern city of Jos on Saturday night failed as the bomber was instead killed in the blast. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Several missiles slammed into the district of Salaheddine, in the southern suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Friday night, as tension remains high in the city which has openly expressed support for former army General Khalifa Haftar, who last week waged a campaign against terrorists and extremist groups.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian federal government on Friday denied reports that the military is underfunded in its war against the Boko Haram terrorism. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Friday said deadly clashes between Tuareg rebels and Malian government forces in northern Mali have sent a "small but growing" number of terrified civilians fleeing southward and into neighbouring countries. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki Thursday condemned the two terrorists attacks that were perpetrated in the town of Jos, north central Nigeria, which caused the death of several civilians, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Lyon, France (PANA) Interpol Secretary General, Ronald K. Noble, has condemned what he called the recent "callous" violence in Nigeria which has seen at least 118 people killed in bombings in Jos, the central Plateau State, on Tuesday, and many more fatalities during attacks in the northern part of the country. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Former Libyan Army General Khalifa Haftar, who is leading an operation against armed groups and terrorists in a part of the country, has called on the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors to set up a transition government tagged Presidential Council. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) said on Wednesday that it is "very concerned" about the deterioration of the security situation in Libya, where a retired Army General has been fighting militias since last Friday in what the government has described as a coup attempt.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 46 people died in Tuesday's twin blasts in Jos, capital of Nigeria's northern Plateau state, the police said. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The International Francophone Organization (OIF) has strongly condemned the return of violence in the Malian northern city of Kidal and called for calm.Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has strongly condemned the bomb blasts in Jos, the capital of the central Plateau State, describing the perpetrators of the tragic assault on human freedom as cruel and evil. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Police fired several rounds of teargas to disperse frustrated voters who vented their anger on electoral staff following delays in starting polling at some centres. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Monday claimed responsibility for Sunday's explosion near the Port Harcourt refinery in the oil rich Rivers State that left seven persons dead.Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Jacob Zuma, on Monday addressed the crisis over Nigeria’s missing school children – five weeks after they were abducted. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Hundreds of people fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria are seeking refuge in the region of Diffa, in Niger, according to the latest bulletin from the International Red Cross Committee (IRCC). Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – An armed group on Sunday afternoon invaded the seat of the Libyan National General Congress (NGC), the country’s highest political and parliamentary authority, at the close of the plenary session devoted to discussions on the security situation in the country following clashes in Benghazi on Friday between armed groups and troops loyal to a former general.Full text...

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Some 79 people were killed and 141 injured in last Friday's clashes between Islamist militias and troops led by a retired general in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.Full text...

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...