Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Tens of thousands of people on Tuesday swarmed the church of a Nigerian prophet in Accra, Ghana, causing a huge traffic jam on an important road linking east of the capital. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A Mauritian court Tuesday sentenced a South African to 20 years in jail for drug trafficking in Mauritius, judiciary sources told PANA here. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A 40-year-old man, Victor Adepoju, died while running in a 10-km road race in Nigeria's southern Edo state last weekend, the private Vanguard newspaper reported Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has tasked all warring parties in northern Mali to abide by the laws of war, in the event of a Malian military offensive against opposition armed groups in the Kidal region. Full text...

Washington, US (PANA) - US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Robert D. Hormats is currently on a five-day visit to Africa to meet with government officials, civil society, advocate for U.S. businesses and investors. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN has expressed deep concern about the situation of thousands of civilians in South Sudan who require humanitarian assistance and protection. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the attack on a UN convoy in Abyei, during which a top tribal chief and a peacekeeper from the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) were killed. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha jet crashed in Dargol, near the Nigerien capital city of Niamey, on Monday, killing the two pilots on board, Nigeria's Defence Headquarters said in a statement. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan court on Monday jailed two Iranians for life after finding them guilty of plotting a terror attack in the country in June 2012. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi President Joyce Banda has said she will not be stampeded into signing the 'Table Mountain Declaration' that urges governments in Africa to abolish “insult laws” and set free press high on the agenda. Full text...

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) – Twelve mine-clearing experts, including three women, have been abducted in Casamance, Southern Senegal, by members of the Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), reliable sources told PANA here Monday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - No ransom was paid to secure the release of former Nigerian government minister Shettima Ali Monguno, who was kidnapped by gunmen on Friday in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno State, State Governor Kashima Shettima said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's first petroleum minister, 92-year-old Alhaji Shettima Ali Monguno, was freed unharmed on Monday, three days after he was abducted after Jumat prayers in Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen killed 10 people and injured nine in an attack on a market and a church in Jilang village in Nigeria's North-eastern state of Adamawa on Sunday, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The US and the UK have expressed concern over the welfare and safety of Imam Baba Leigh, who is believed to have been arrested and detained since last year by the Gambian government. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The government of Gambia has reacted angrily to a UK human rights report detailing widespread human rights violations in its former colony, according to local media reports here Monday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The African Union on Sunday condemned the killing of a paramount chief and a UN peacekeeper in Abyei, the disputed oil-rich area between Sudan and South Sudan. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A UN group of independent experts has drawn attention to discrimination against persons with albinism in Tanzania, where they are the victims of ritual attacks and are routinely mistreated. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One of Nigeria's popular columnists, Pini Jason, has died at the age of 65, according to local media reports on Saturday. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Authorities in Mauritania have granted broadcast licences to two new Television stations -- Dava and ‘Al Mourabitounes, official sources told PANA here Saturday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Saturday warned that the security situation remains volatile in the so-called “Triangle of Death”, which covers the area between the towns of Pweto, Mitwaba and Manono, in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 3.9 kilogrammes of cocaine stashed in female handbags and folders, according to the local PUNCH newspaper. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Only 10 candidates of the 1.6 million students who sat for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), scored 300 and above of the maximum 400 marks, according to local media reports which quoted the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Police Force has pledged its commitment to protecting the rights of journalists in the country, according to local media reports. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian journalists on Friday asked the government to stop harassing them, saying this does not only tarnish the image of he country but also retards professionalism and overall development of the media. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Ten persons were killed and 45 other injured Friday in a road accident not far from Mauritius capital, Port-Louis, PANA reported. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN has revealed that over 20,000 civilians have been driven from their homes by recent rebel attacks on a number of localities in western Sudan's Kordufan region, at a time direct talks have been launched with the AU facilitators in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The Executive Secretary of Rwanda High Council of the Media (HCM), Emmanuel Mugisha, on Friday denounced a recent report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) which named Rwanda among the countries that gag the press. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's first petroluem minister Shettima Ali Monguno has been kidnapped by gunmen in Maiduguri, capital of the country's northern Borno state which is the epicentre of the violence being perpetrated by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the African Union (AU) to champion the call for the release of all journalists imprisoned in Africa and appeal for justice in the murders of journalists killed in the line of duty. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda will soon allow tourists to visit the 2-km long prehistoric cave in Musanze (North), according to Ms. Rica Rwigamba, Head of Tourism and Conservation at the Rwanda Development Agency. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Migrant Response Centre (MRC) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Djibouti is struggling to cope with increased numbers of stranded migrants from Ethiopia asking for transport assistance to return home, IOM said. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least six people were killed and 23 others seriously injured in a road accident which occurred early Friday on the main road from the Rwandan capital, Kigali, to the south of the country, according to a police spokesman. Full text...

Maiduguri, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen riding in 50 vans have attacked public buildings in the Marte local council area of Nigeria's northern Borno state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government has withdrawn the forgery charges filed against two journalists of the private Leadership newspaper at a federal court in the capital city of Abuja. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Mr. James Anaya, says the Namibian government must increase efforts to address the loss of land of indigenous groups and ensure that their traditions and customs are preserved Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – A Libyan police station in Benghazi was destroyed early Thursday after unidentified gunmen lobbed cocktail Molotov into the building, causing material damage, official police sources told PANA here. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Thursday released its 2013 Impunity Index, saying unpunished, deadly violence continues to plague the press globally, and has notably increased in Nigeria. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 270, 000 pedestrians lose their lives on the world’s roads each year, accounting for 22% of the total 1.24 million road traffic deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Over sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed the right of every person “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers,” that right remains in peril in far too many countries, according to US Ambassador to Tanzania Alfonso E. Lenhardt. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - West Africa’s human rights institutions have called for the prosecution of human rights violations at the Community Court of Justice. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Secretary General of Confederation of Mauritanian Workers (CGTM), Mr. Aballahi Ould Mohamed, has denounced the over-exploitation of the country's workers. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – A massive jail break has taken place at the Sebha correctional facility, 800 kilometres south of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, according to an official spokesperson of the local council, Abobker Hanza, who did not specify when the incident took place. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Satellite images taken after the 16-17 April military raid in Nigeria's northern town of Baga has given the best indication yet of the massive destruction in the town following a raid by the military Joint Task Force (JTF) which is battling Boko Haram insurgents in the area. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Thousands of Chadian refugees and internally-displaced persons who ran away from inter-tribal fighting in Sudan, are facing yet another threat with the advent of the wet season, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A new report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), released Tuesday in Washington DC, has identified governments across the globe that are most egregious violators of religious freedom. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Nobel Laureate and renowned author Wole Soyinka has Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Representatives of over 85 countries, international organisations, and the private sector, under the aegis of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, will meet at the UN headquarters in New York Wednesday (1May) Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A court in Nigeria's South-west state of Osun has sentenced a 31-year-old man, Kelvin Ighodalo, to 10 years in prison without an option of fine for stealing a Sony Ericsson mobile phone valued at 50,000 naira (US$300) from the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola. Full text...