Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has congratulated Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on their National Days being marked this weekend. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has assured Somalia that it would continue to support the Horn of African nation after the current transition period. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - France has said that now is the time for a new impetus in the bilateral relations with Algeria, given the historical links between both countries, the spokesperson for the French foreign ministry, Bernard Valero, indicated Wednesday in Paris, the French capital. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has hailed Djibouti's role in efforts to ensure peace in the Horn of Africa, while expressing the hope that both nations can strengthen their partnership in the days ahead. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria will leave Abuja for Brussels on Wednesday on a one-day official visit to Belgium, according to a press statement issued here Tuesday by his special adviser on media and publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has asked Jean Felix-Paganon, his Special Representative for the Sahel, to submit an action plan for the Sahel region, which is faced with terrorist threat, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Bernard Valero said Tuesday. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Michael Nevin, who worked as the British High Commission Second Press and Political Secretary and Public Affairs Officer in Malawi between 2000 and 2003, has been named the new British High Commissioner to the African nation. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The deputy secretary of the Libyan ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mohamed Abdelazi, says Libya is will cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resolve the disagreement between them on the detention of an ICC team in the North African country. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi President Joyce Banda said Thursday although she respected the African Union's decision to move next month's summit from Lilongwe, Malawi, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, following disagreements over the attendance of embattled Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, she had no regrets for her stand on the issue. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ninety-three Nigerian ambassadors, deployed to foreign countries and in-situ, were Tuesday presented their letters of credence by President Goodluck Jonathan, PANA reported here. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – Togo has extradited Kouassi Moise Lida, former Ivorian defence minister under ousted president Laurent Gbagbo, for engagement in several subversive activities against his country. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan announced here Thursday that Nigeria was working towards establishing embassies or representational offices in all African countries, saying that the move was in furtherance of the nation's commitment to work with other African countries to promote democracy, good governance and progress on the continent. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) – The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) on Friday in Luanda reiterated its support for the candidacy of Nkosasana Zuma for the chair of the African Union (AU) Commission. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba says several African countries, including Gabon, have expressed the wish for Morocco to return to the African Union (AU). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Professor Jammeh Singhateh, the outgoing Senegalese Ambassador to the Gambia, was at the Gambian presidency in Banjul on Wednesday to bid farewell to President Yahya Jammeh, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan and US officials Wednesday discussed a wide range of issues bordering on bilateral relations between the two countries and the pending elections in the north African nation, PANA reported here. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Ambassadors of some African countries accredited to Morocco, on Wednesday made a case for Morocco's return to the African Union (AU) fold from which it pulled out in 1984, the Moroccan press agency (MAP) reported. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Moroccan King Muhamed VI, on a private visit to France since last Friday, is scheduled to meet with newly-elected French president, François Hollande, at the Elysée palace on Thursday, according to official sources here. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - US Ambassador to the Gambia Pamela Ann White has ended her tour of diplomatic duty in the West African nation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Africa’s two most powerful countries, Nigeria and South Africa, are meeting in Cape Town under their Bi-National Commission (BNC) with immigration, trade, health and aviation matters top on the agenda. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi and Somalia are to strengthen their diplomatic relations by opening embassies in Mogadishu and Bujumbura respectively. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has met with US Ambassador in Banjul Pamela Ann White, with the crises in Guinea Bissau and Mali topping their discussions. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, has removed his Interior Minister, Lamin Kaba Bajo, PANA confirmed Tuesday. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Monday sent a message of congratulations to French president-elect, Mr François Hollande, the Mauritania news agency reported. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Indian President Pratibha Patil has said he plans to use his three-day trip to South Africa to promote the development of ties and economic growth between the two countries. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The Senegalese Foreign Minister, Mr. Alioune Badara Cissé, on Monday delivered a message here from his president, Macky Sall, to the Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, official sources told PANA. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has visited Guinea Bissau's interim President, Raimundo Pereira, and Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior, who have been in detention since the military coup there on 12 April, PANA reports Saturday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Gambian government has condemned “the brutal and forceful seizure of power” by Guinea Bissau’s military and called for “immediate and unconditional” release of the country’s detained Prime Minister along with his government officials. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Presidents Macky Sall of Senegal and Yahya Jammeh of Gambia have pledged to work together to ensure peace and development in their countries and the West African sub-region, PANA reported Monday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has hailed the planned return to constitutional rule in Mali, following an agreement reached between the coupists who seized power in the country 22 March and the regional bloc ECOWAS. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou, accompanied by a powerful delegation, was expected to arrive in Banjul Wednesday at the start of four-day working visit to The Gambia, PANA reported. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh is preaching the need for a peaceful co-existence between his country and neighbouring Senegal, saying the two West African states are “condemned by destiny to live together”, PANA reports Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Angola has assumed the rotating presidency of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) for the month of April. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 457 Nigerians are currently in different jails in Brazil for various offences, according to the chairperson, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, Ms. Abike Dabiri-Erewa. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Buoyed by its recent 'victory' over South Africa in a diplomatic row triggered by the deportation of Nigerians for allegedly carrying fake Yellow Fever vaccination documentation, Nigeria has warned against the deportation of its citizens without following the appropriate institutional and legal framework. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The diplomatic spat between Nigeria and South Africa, over the deportation of 125 Nigerians for allegedly presenting fake Yellow Fever vaccination documentation at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport, has elicited a "great concern" among the Association of Retired Ambassadors of Nigeria (ARAN). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, returned Thursday from Qatar at the end of a three-day working visit during which he signed a number of agreements between the two countries, PANA confirmed from here Friday. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government on Thursday expressed its dismay at the treatment allegedly meted out to a group of Nigerians who were last week detained and deported on arrival at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The third batch of 32 South Africans were deported by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) on Wednesday, as the diplomatic row between both countries escalates. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria on Tuesday deported another batch of 56 South Africans, bringing the total number deported to 84 since the diplomatic row between both nations started last week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The diplomatic row between Nigeria and South Africa may have deepened amid reports, in the Nigerian media Tuesday, that the West African nation's authorities have denied entry to 28 South Africans, in an apparent retaliation for Thursday's deportation of 125 Nigerians for alleged lack of authentic yellow card vaccination documentation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As anger grows in Nigeria over the deportation of 125 Nigerian citizens by South Africa on Thursday, over their alleged failure to produce genuine Yellow Fever vaccination documentation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned South Africa's High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Kingsley Mabolo. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria(PANA) - The Nigerian government has decried the deportation of 125 of its citizens from South Africa for allegedly being in possession of fake yellow fever certification, according to the state-owned Radio Nigeria. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Angolan leader, José Eduardo dos Santos, on Friday received the letters of credence from four new ambassadors, all of whom will not reside in Angola, PANA reported, quoting the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP). Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Newly-appointed ambassadors to Angola from Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Finland, Canada and Côte d'Ivoire on Wednesday presented their letters of credence to the Angolan Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Rui Mangueira, in Luanda, the capital. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Indian Minister of External Affairs, Mrs. Prenneet Kaur, who has been visiting Burundi since Thursday, held talks on Friday with the Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza, PANA learnt from official sources. Full text...

Hanoi, Vietnam (PANA) - The Angolan Embassy in Vietnam was inaugurated on Wednesday in Hanoi city. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, on Tuesday received a message from King Mohamed VI of Morocco, PANA learnt here from official sources. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, on Tuesday received a message from King Mohamed VI of Morocco, PANA learnt here from an official sources. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Ousman Sonko, Gambia's Minister of Interior, has been appointed the country's new ambassador to Spain, PANA confirmed Saturday. Full text...