Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - France is to train some 3,000 Libyan police officers in an effort to reinforce the country’s security, the French Minister in charge of French Nationals Abroad, Mrs Helene Conway-Mouret, announced Thursday at the French Senate. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan authorities have arrested 500 illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa in the town of Ajdabia, 800km from the capital, Tripoli, the Libyan press agency reported here. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Northern Mali will descend to emergency levels of food insecurity in less than two months if the security situation and humanitarian access to vulnerable communities in the West African country do not improve, four international aid agencies have warned following the analysis of experts. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Chad has shunned the call by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) to arrest visiting Sudanese Defence Minister Abdelraheem Mohammed Hussein, who is being sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has written to Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza urging him not to sign the country's New Media Law, which was adopted by the Senate 19 April 2013. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's National Assembly has passed the controversial Protection of State Information Bill with an overwhelming majority, after years of debate. Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) - A road accident involving two vehicles on Wednesday in Tsevie, 35 kilometres away from Lome, the capital, has claimed the lives of seven persons and injured many others, police sources told PANA here Thursday. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Some 2.6 million rounds of unexploded ammunition have been neutralized at the Mpila district in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, as part of efforts to clear the mess caused by the 4 March 2012 explosion at the arms depot there, according to a statement from the European Union (EU) Wednesday, obtained by PANA here. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A feeling of anxiety and despair pervaded the length and breadth of Libya following Tuesday's car bomb attack on the French Embassy in Tripoli which injured two French guards and a Libyan girl, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked Kenya's new administration to cooperate fully with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has indicted the new President and his deputy for their role in the post-election violence that ravaged the East African nation in 2007/2008. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, is undertaking a working visit to Kenya during which she will meet and engage with President Uhuru Kenyatta, Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on Wednesday said it delivered hundreds of kilogrammes of badly-needed humanitarian aid to thousands of civilians in two areas that have been the scene of battle between government and rebel forces in East Darfur state. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The association of media professionals in Burundi Wednesday petitioned the government, urging President Pierre Nkurunziza not to sign the recently-adopted press bill into law. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - African States have been urged to build functional democratic human rights institutions in an effort to end human rights violations and abuses in the continent. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A two-day technical meeting on accidents in work places and occupational hazards in Africa will run in The Gambia 25-26 April , PANA reported from here Wednesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday warned that education was becoming another casualty of the months-long conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), with half the country’s schools shuttered and hundreds of thousands of students at risk of missing out the entire year. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military has issued contrasting figures on the killing of 185 civilians in Baga, northern Borno state, last week during a clash between the military and suspected members of the Boko Haram sect. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for an immediate end to the ongoing strike by members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) that has crippled delivery of medical services at public health facilities. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has strongly condemned the reported killing of 185 people, mostly women and children, in the town of Baga in the north Eastern Borno state, during a clash between suspected members of Boko Haram and the Joint Task Force (JTF) last weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has said that while corruption is pervasive in the country, reports on it are being exaggerated. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military said on Monday it killed 25 suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect and lost a soldier during a clash with the insurgents in Baga, a border town in the northern state of Borno, over the weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a "full-scale investigation" into the killing of 185 people, mostly women and children, in the clash between Islamists and the military in Nigeria's northern border town of Baga last weekend. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Ahmed Kadhaf Al-Dem, former Libyan official and cousin of Mouamar Kaddafi, on Sunday appeared before an Egyptian court charged with assassination attempt and resisting arrest. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, on Monday said that the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) is deteriorating daily and the number of civilian victims affected by serious crimes continues to rise. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 185 people, including women and children, were killed when suspected members of the Islamic group Boko Haram clashed with the military Joint Task Force in Baga in Nigeria's northern Borno state, according to the online Nigerian newspaper Premium Times on Monday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libyan journalist, Amaar Hassan Al-Khatibi, arrested for trying to expose corrupt practices in the nation's judiciary, was granted bail on Sunday, PANA reported from here, indicating that he (Al-Khatibi) will formally appear in court on 23 June. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The Ghana government and doctors are engaged in a blame game as public health facilities remain bare and patients struggle for basic and affordable health care. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The remains of the late Nigerian literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe, would be laid to rest on 23 May, according to the Chairman of the South-east Governors' Forum and Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A new report submitted to the United States Congress by the Secretary of State John Kerry, has alleged massive corruption at all levels of the Nigerian government, according to local media reports Monday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday said it had facilitated the handover of seven government soldiers who were held captive by the Darfur rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA- MM). Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The US on Sunday condemned last week's attack and killing of a peacekeeper and injury of two others during an assault on a United Nations African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Ghana’s public health facilities, which have been in crisis for the past two weeks following a strike by doctors not to attend to out-patients, will experience more chaos from Monday as all emergency services would be withdrawn by the medical officers. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – As part of its effort to preserve unity and security throughout the Libyan territory, the Libyan government Saturday reconciled two warring Southern tribes, with their representatives signing a reconciliation document in Tripoli, PANA reported here. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The Burundian Senate, voting 32 in favour and six against, Friday passed the "highly-controversial" media bill, regarded here as a heavy blow to the media professionals in the country, PANA reported here. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Work permit fees could be a thing of the past in the East African Community (EAC) partner states if the regional bloc duly implements a resolution passed Thursday by the East African Legislative Assembly at its ongoing session in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The pressure group, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), Thursday disclosed that it had petitioned the Zimbabwean government at the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Karim Wade, son of former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade, has been arrested, accused of illegally enriching himself along with seven other persons, judicial sources told PANA here Thursday. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Arts and Culture Minister Mukeshwar Choonee, said here Thursday that two nomination dossiers -- the “Sega Tipik” and the “Bhojpuri Folk Songs” -- have been submitted for possible inscription on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A human rights activist, Shehu Sani, has declined to serve on the 26-member Presidential Committee empanelled by President Goodluck Jonathan to constructively engage key members of the extremist Boko Haram sect, saying he was not consulted before the appointment, according to the online Premium Times. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following the activities of pension thieves in Nigeria, the Federal Government has proposed stiffer penalties for persons or organisations involved in the mismanagement and embezzlement of pension funds, according to local media reports. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the fighting between Seleka rebel coalition members and civilians in Central African Republic (CAR), describing it as "worrisome". Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Fresh cases of lead poisoning have killed 100 children in the last three months in Nigeria's northern state of Zamfara, according to Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF). Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) – Togolese businessman Bertin Sow Agba, detained since March 2011 for embezzling funds, was released on bail Tuesday, judicial sources told PANA here. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it has facilitated the release and handover of four Sudanese soldiers held by a Darfur rebel faction, the Sudan Liberation Army - Ali Karbino (SLA-AK). Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the constitution of a Presidential Committee to constructively engage key members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect and define a comprehensive and workable framework for resolving the crisis of insecurity in Nigeria, according to a press statement issued here Wednesday by the presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's highest political authority, the General National Congress (GNC), has received a proposal to send 30,000 youths abroad for training in various scientific fields, as part of efforts to propel rapid growth and development in the north African nation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government on Tuesday charged two journalists with the private Leadership newspaper with a 10-count charge of forgery for allegedly publishing a document purported to have emanated from the presidency. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – Ethiopian journalist, Reeyot Alemu, who is serving a five-year sentence, is the winner of the 2013 World Press Freedom prize - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano - in recognition of her “exceptional courage, resistance and commitment to freedom of expression”, the jury said on Tuesday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has sent a message of condolence to the American people over the loss of life and injury during Monday’s twin bombing at the Boston marathon. Full text...