Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Air Algeria plane (flight AH 5017), which crashed on 25 July near the Malian north-western city of Gossi, was caught between two storms, according to information released by the analysts of the first black box found Friday last week by French soldiers, the Malian private newspaper, L’indépendant, reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In the latest in a flurry of activities to keep the Ebola Virus Disease at bay, Nigeria's federal government has banned the repatriation of the remains of dead Nigerians, especially from the three worst-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, for burial. Full text...

Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - A public transport bus on Friday morning crashed into a broken-down truck parked on a public highway in the department of Menoua (about 400 kms from Yaoundé) in the Western region, killing 13 people and injuring several others seriously, PANA learnt from security sources. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday approved the appointment of Suleiman Abba, Assistant Inspector General of Police, as the country's new police boss. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian policeman has died from the injury he suffered when he accidentally shot himself in the leg, the private Vanguard newspaper reported Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - US President Barack Obama on Monday in Washington DC, US, renamed the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) as the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As Muslim faithful across Nigeria Sunday marked the end of the month-long fasting period, an Islamic scholar, Gazal Shittu Adepoju, has stressed the need for them to continue to imbibe the lessons of perseverance, charity and love in post Ramadan period. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A UN report launched on Thursday in Tokyo says reducing vulnerability and strengthening resilience are critical to securing human development progress. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan muslim leaders are opposed to the month-long curfew imposed by Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo on Saturday following sustained terror attacks in the Lamu County by suspected Al Shabab terrorists. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) has condemned the raid on the offices of Sudan's Al-Tayar newspaper and the attack on the paper’s Editor, Osman Merghani, as well as three other journalists, all of whom were left injured. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin(PANA) - Benin's National Employment Agency (NEA) is planning to recruit some 2,800 trainees to teach in nursery and primary schools and work in central public administration, PANA learned from official sources Sunday in Cotonou. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – A vehicle carrying Senegalese and Cambodian soldiers from the UN multidimensional mission for Mali stabilization (MINUSMA) was hit by a missile Friday near the MINUSMA camp in the Malian far northern region of Kidal, sources from the UN mission told PANA here on Saturday. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – Benin will participate in the African ministerial conference on youth training and employment, scheduled to open Monday in Cote d'Ivoire, according to official sources here Saturday. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have collected some 19,000 signatures for a petition demanding the release of the president of the Burundi Association for the Defence of Human and Prisoners Rights (APRODH), Pierre Claver Mbonimpa. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) has lauded the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ) on its re-launch to re-position itself as an effective advocate for journalists’ rights. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Thursday's convictions for contempt of court of an editor and lawyer in Swaziland. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - A national social labour centre will soon be set up in Congo to train future leaders so they can help resolve the problems facing the country, according to a statement issued Thursday at the end of the weekly council of ministers meeting here. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have launched an Investigative Journalism and Corruption Reporting Training initiative, which will cover 11 countries in the Eastern Africa Region from July to October 2014. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A seven-month strike by teachers in Nigeria's public Colleges of Education was suspended Thursday, the teachers' union has announced. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Some 2,389 people have committed suicide in the diamond-rich Botswana since 2007, according to the country's Defence, Justice and Security Minister Dikgakgamatso Seretse. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan government has said it will consider asking for foreign intervention to help restore security and order in the country, following the violent clashes that broke out on Sunday at Tripoli airport, leaving 26 dead and causing huge material damage. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN on Thursday reported that an additional 2.5 billion people are predicted to live in urban areas by 2050, stressing the need for a successful urban planning agenda and greater attention to be given to smaller cities where nearly half of all people currently reside. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says "tectonic shifts" in technology are having mixed results for freedom of expression and media development and sparking unprecedented creativity and dialogue. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Saudi authorities have granted Mali a quota of 9,000 pilgrims to perform this year's Hajj, sources told PANA on Tuesday. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Malian National Workers' Union (UNTM), the country's main trade union, on Monday criticised the increase in the water and electricity tariffs announced by the water and electricity regulation committee (CREE). Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has rejected an increased wage offer and authorities on Friday reported "serious” outbreaks of violence with striking workers running riot in several parts of the country. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – The Malian government will in September recruit 1,132 workers in the different categories of the country’s public sector, sources from the ministry of Labor, Civil Service and Relations with Institutions said on Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Just days after a crippling five-month mining strike ended, South Africa is facing another major industrial strike which is expected to cost the economy about US$30 million per day. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – On the occasion of holy month of Ramadan, which has just started, the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General to Mali, Albert Koenders, has pledged UN's commitment and that of the UN-led multidimensional mission to the stabilization of Mali in the efforts to achieve unity, security, stability and prosperity. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) and the World Bank, is working to re-establish primary public services in the Central African Republic (CAR), such as the payment of salaries of civil servants. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s Broadcasting Complaints Commission has agreed with a radio listener who complained that a national radio station had ridiculed red-heads. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Thursday joined the global outcry over the sentencing of Al-Jazeera journalists by the Egyptian court and confirmed it will table the matter for discussion at the Pan African Parliament. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has welcomed the decision by the Sudanese Appeals Court to order the release of Ms. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag, who was sentenced to death for apostasy. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s battered and bruised business leaders are relieved that the news that the crippling five-month strike in the platinum mining industry is over. Full text...

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has granted US$5 million (F CFA 27.5 billion) to the Cameroon office of the World Food Programme (WFP) to meet urgent food needs of Central African Republic (CAR) refugees in Cameroon. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos, who is visiting Côte d'Ivoire, was received in audience Friday by Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara. Full text...

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Cameroon, which Friday joined the rest of the world to mark World Refugee Day, hosts over 100,000 refugees, according to the Country Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ndeye Ndiougue Ndour. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has launched an appeal for US$4 million to meet a US$9 million budget planned for its humanitarian actions in support of those affected by the crisis in the Central African Republic, Benoit Kalasa, Regional Director of UNFPA in West and Central Africa, said on Wednesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged governments Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – About 30 prisoners, including Mohamed Ag Walhouseini, described as a dangerous jihadist linked to Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), escaped from prison on Monday evening at the central prison of Bamako, official sources told PANA. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Global rights group Amnesty International has said torture still continues in Tunisia, even after the country's revolution. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – The Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, will from 21 to 23 July host a ministerial conference on youth employment in Africa. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN officials on Thursday marked the World Day Against Child Labour by highlighting the crucial role of social protection in keeping boys and girls out of a heinous practice that robs them of their childhood and threatens their prospects for a better future. Full text...

Pamplemousses, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said Wednesday night that education opens up a world of opportunities and has the capacity to change people's life for the better. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa has elevated the role of the disabled in the country, Deputy Minister of the Department of Social Development Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu has told a New York Conference. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Wednesday adopted a new legally binding protocol on forced labour, aiming to advance prevention, protection and compensation measures, as well as to intensify efforts to eliminate contemporary forms of slavery. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa has marked 20 years of pro-abortion policies with a conference entitled ''20 years of advancing access to safe abortion in South Africa". Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's Mining Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi on Tuesday denied that he “abandoned” wage negotiations with role players in the crippling platinum mining industry strike. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Intenational Labour Organisation (ILO) says following the aftermath of the global economic crisis, more than 70 per cent of the world population is without proper social protections, urging governments to scale up investment in child and family benefits, pensions and other public expenditures. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Young people from more than 1,000 youth organisations have gathered on Monday at UN headquarters in New York to add their voices to the ongoing discussion about a new global agenda that will succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Full text...