Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Police Force said it had not made any arrest over the Christmas Day bombing targeting churches in Madalla, near Abuja, and Jos, the northern Plateau state capital, contrary to reports. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Most of the victims of the Christmas Day bomb attack on a church in Madalla, near Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, may be given a mass burial because their bodies were either mutilated or burnt beyond recognition, the private Tribune newspaper reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government is to strengthen security around churches and mosques in the country, in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bomb attacks on some churches, including the St Therera's Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger state, where at least 35 died. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria will organise a national security summit early next year as part of efforts to tackle the security challenges facing the country, especially from the Islamic sect Boko Haram whose deadly attacks across three states in the north left at least 40 dead and many more injured on Christmas Day. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Five bomb and gun attacks in four towns across three northern Nigeria states, most of them targeting Churches, left at least 31 dead and many more injured, and ruined Christmas for many, police and rescue officials said. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 12 persons, including three policemen, have died following a bomb explosion in a church in Madalla town, near the Nigerian capital city of Abuja, on Christmas day, the police said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Another Christmas day explosion has rocked Nigeria, this time in the northern city of Jos, shortly after the one recorded in Madalla on the outskirts of the capital city of Abuja earlier in the day, the police said. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Explosion rocked a Catholic Church in Madalla on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital city of Abuja Sunday, as Christian faithful celebrate Christmas, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - One person died while three others were injured when the Mayor of a Senegalese municipality shot at gunmen who attacked the premises of the municipality, private television station TFM reported. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A workshop in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on the psychological and social support for battered women has called for institutional suppoty for victims of the inhumane act. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police said they have arrested a leader of the Islamic sect Boko Haram in the northern city of Kano, Mohammed 'Hamza' Aliyu, following a shootout. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over fresh clashes between security forces and protesters in Cairo, Egypt, which reportedly claimed the lives of 10 people and injured hundreds. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has stressed that efforts to restore peace and stability in Africa’s Great Lakes region will not come to fruition unless the scourge of sexual violence is completely eradicated and justice systems are strengthened to end impunity. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many casualties are feared on Tuesday following an explosion that rocked Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri, security sources said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan policeman was killed and 11 soldiers were wounded after twin blasts near the Somali border with Kenya, a military spokesman said Sunday. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The first deaths have been recorded in DR Congo's post-election violence as police confirm that four people have been killed in the restive central African country and appeals pour in for restraint to avoid a full-blown conflict. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - What caused Wednesday's explosion in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna that left at least 7 people dead and many more badly injured? Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said on Wednesday that it was probing another round of ethnic violence in the country that has reportedly killed dozens of villagers and displaced many more.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Several victims of Wednesday's blast in Kaduna, capital of Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, were either burnt beyond recognition or dismembered by the explosion, eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Many people were feared dead or injured on Wednesday in an explosion Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday expressed deep concern over the continuing deadly violence in Egypt in recent days and urged the country's transitional authorities to ensure that all citizens enjoy basic human rights. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Margot Wallstrom, on Friday marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with a call for solidarity with the survivors of sexual violence in conflict throughout the world. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A resurgence of the lingering ethno-religious violence in Nigeria's northern city of Jos Thursday left 12 people dead, bringing to 19 the number of people killed in the area in the past 72 hours, the local Punch newspaper reported Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - On the same day that Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan boasted that Islamic sect Boko Haram will soon be history, the group announced plans to carry out fresh attacks, this time against political party offices as well as top politicians. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said on Thursday in Paris, France, that the days of the Islamic sect Boko Haram are numbered, due to intensified efforts by Nigerian security agencies to curb the menace. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United States said Wednesday it welcomed the African Union’s appointment of Francisco Caetano Jose Madeira as its Special Envoy for the Counter-Insurgency operation against the Ugandan Lords Resistance Army (LRA). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Margot Wallstrom, has urged the international community not to forget the deadly violence which ravaged Guinea in September 2009, noting that while justice in the country had been delayed, it could not be denied. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - There was chaos at a service station in Blantyre Monday night when security guards smashed the rear windscreen of a Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) minibus that was carrying rowdy ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadres, PANA reported. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - At least 18 people were killed on Monday following a violent clash between a group of unidentified armed men and government defence and security forces in Cankuzo, a province in Eastern Burundi, local administrative sources said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following the confession allegedly made by an arrested member of the Islamic group Boko Haram, Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) has arrested a serving Senator, Mr. Ali Ndume, the private Nation newspaper reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's secret police said it had unearthed evidence showing that politicians are behind the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, which has carried out a campaign of terror mostly in the capital city of Abuja and in the northern part of the country in recent times. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - One of Egypt's presidential aspirants, Hesham Al-Bastawissy, on Sunday announced his withdrawal from the country's presidential race, following the latest wave of violence to hit the north African nation. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has asked the government to apologise for what it described as the crime committed by security forces against anti-regime protesters in Tahrir square in Cairo and elsewhere across the country over the weekend. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - An unconfirmed number of people were killed and hundreds injured Saturday during ongoing protests against the interim ruling military council in Egypt. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Detectives have started grilling the nine suspected Boko Haram members who were arrested Monday in connection with last week's terror attacks that left dozens dead and injured in Nigeria's northern Yobe state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic insurgent group Boko Haram has killed 5,000 people, mostly ethnic and religious minorities in the predominantly-Muslim north, according to Nigerian rights group Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian security agencies have arrested nine persons in connection with last Friday's terror attacks in northern Yobe state that the police said left 53 dead. Full text...

Yenagoa, Nigeria (PANA) - The Police in Nigeria's South South Bayelsa State have confirmed the death of five persons following clashes by rival cult gangs. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government is to publish the list of terrorists and their sponsors, as part of efforts to combat the worsening terror attacks in Africa's most populous nation, the private Guardian newspaper reported on Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The US Embassy in Nigeria has warned of imminent attacks by the Islamic insurgent group Boko Haram against targets in the capital city of Abuja, following the multiple attacks in northern Yobe state on Friday night that the police said left 53 dead. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria opposition has asked the country's security chiefs to resign or be fired, after Friday night's terror attacks by Islamic insurgents Boko Haram that left dozens dead and injured in the northern state of Yobe. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered security agencies to smoke out the perpetrators of Friday's terror attacks in three cities in the north, as the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the death toll has topped 150. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Police Commissioner in Nigeria's northern Yobe state, Suleiman Lawal, has confirmed that 53 people died in the series of attacks carried out by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Potiskum and Damaturu in northern Yobe state, starting on Friday and lasting far into the night. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Three suspected members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram died on Friday when the explosives they had wanted to use to attack the military Joint Task Force (JTF) headquarters in the northern city of Maiduguri exploded prematurely. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) Friday welcomed the statement by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), that a report on its “preliminary examinations” concerning allegations of crimes against humanity in the northern city of Jos will be published by December. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, has condemned the violence which erupted Wednesday in Fanaye, in the region of Saint-Louis, northern Senegal, leaving two persons dead and 20 others injured. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere, warned Thursday of a growing threat posed by the local recruits into the Al Shabaab militant group currently occupying parts of Southern and Central Somalia.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A grenade attack at a bus terminal in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday evening left one person dead and many more injured, the police said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga Wednesday engaged each other in a rare public exchange of rhetoric over the post-election violence after Odinga urged Kibaki to accept responsibility for police killings in the 2007/08 violence in Kenya.Full text...