Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - At least three persons were killed and some 15 others injured on Saturday night by unidentified gunmen during a raid on Gatumba’s sea resort, located in the Western part of the capital, Bujumbura, the private African Radio quoted security sources as saying. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Four people have been confirmed dead in a stampede on Sunday at a church service of popular Nigerian prophet T.B. Joshua in Ghana's capital, Accra. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The funeral rites of the late renowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, began Sunday with prayers at the Ecumenical Centre in the capital city of Abuja. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Olebile Gladys Masire, wife of Botswana’s second President Ketumile Masire, has died. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The military has imposed a 24-hour curfew on parts of Maiduguri, capital city of Nigeria's northern Borno state which is one of the three states placed under emergency rule last week to stem the activities of the Islamic sect Boko Haram, the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military has arrested a total of 65 Boko Haram terrorists who attempted to infiltrate Maiduguri, Borno State capital, while fleeing from various camps now under attack by the military's Special Forces. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian troops deployed massively to combat the Islamic sect Boko Haram in the country's north-east since Tuesday's emergency rule declaration in the region have retaken 17 towns and villages allegedly controlled by the insurgents in Borno state, the private Leadership newspaper reported on Saturday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (Abuja) - For the first time since the beginning of the insurgency in Nigeria of Boko Haram, the terror group on Thursday night struck in Daura, in northwest of Katsina State killing two soldiers and injuring one. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the war against terrorists in northern Nigeria hots up, advancing troops of the Special Task Force of the Nigerian military have destroyed some terrorists camps sited in the forests of Northern and central Borno State, one of the three States over which a state of emergency had been slammed. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Thursday wrote to US Secretary of State John Kerry, asking him to include in his discussions at the African Union (AU) Summit the issue of press freedom in Africa. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday said members of the violent sect, Boko Haram, and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing. Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Hundreds of Tamil Mauritians Friday demonstrated in Port-Louis to demand that Mauritius should boycott the Commonwealth Summit, to be held in September this year in Sri Lanka. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Determined to stamp out arms and drug trafficking as well as stop illegal immigrants from entering the country, Libyan air force jets have continued to conduct air surveillance along the nation's southern and eastern borders, Yusuf al-Takouss, spokesman for the Air Force, told journalists Friday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame is due in London on Saturday to participate in a meeting organised by his compatriots who are based in Europe and North America, the local media reported Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 31 persons were killed and 16 others injured in a freak accident that occurred when a tree fell on them at a market in Umuejinwaoke Umuadagu village in Nigeria's South-eastern state of Imo, the local media reported Friday Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African doctor who has been at the centre of a major diplomatic row between South Africa and the United Arab Emirates arrived in Cape Town on Friday morning, after being detained in Abu Dhabi for eight months on murder charges. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian court has discharged the two journalists with the local Leadership newspaper who were arraigned by the federal government over alleged conspiracy and forgery of a presidential directive’s bromide. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN on Thursday welcomed the international community’s pledge of 3.25 billion euros to support a recovery plan for Mali, which is emerging from a recent crisis that saw its northern territory overtaken by extremists and hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by conflict. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said he is "very concerned" over the deteriorating security situation in parts of northeast Nigeria where a state of emergency has been declared. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Two days after declaring emergency rule in three States in North Eastern Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday met with Mr. Ahmadou Ali, the Cameroonian Vice Prime Minister and envoy of the Cameroonian President, with both parties pledging to strengthen cooperation and collaboration on trans-border security. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The kidnappers of the wife, daughter and driver of Nigerian Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour has demanded a ransom of 300 million naira (US$1.88 million) for their release, the local media reported Thursday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan coast guards on Tuesday rescued 99 illegal migrants, mainly Africans, after their boat stalled off the coast of Zelitine, in Western Libya, Marine spokesman, Col. Omar Kassem, told newsmen here Wednesday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has condemned Monday's car bomb attack near the Al Jala’a hospital in Benghazi, Libya, which killed three persons and injured scores of others. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – In protest against Monday's car bomb attack in Benghazi which killed three persons and injured scores of others, media houses in Libya will not function Thursday, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Six people were killed and dozens more injured when a four-storey building under construction collapsed in Nyagatare, 160 km away from the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Tuesday afternoon, police spokesman Theos Badege said Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan telecommunications company Orange has joined seven telecoms firms that have partnered with the Global Network Initiative (GNI) in a two-year collaboration aimed at advancing freedom of expression and ensuring that privacy rights in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector are more effective. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Wednesday the opening of a fourth camp in Burundi to better cope with the continuous arrival of refugees from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who are fleeing from armed groups or inter-ethnic rivalries in their country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The police and the State Security Service (SSS) have put the death toll from last week's attack on their personnel by a militian in northern Nigeria at 56. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - International donors must help Mali to rebuild its ability to govern itself and stop its slide into economic ruin, if it is to “win the peace” following the French-led military intervention, international aid agency Oxfam said Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram Tuesday night killed a Christian leader in Nigeria's northern Borno state, shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan declared emergency rule in the state and two others over Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The explosion on Monday in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, left three people dead and 14 others injured, according to the ministry of Health in a communiqué issued on Tuesday in Tripoli. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Ms. Sheila Keetharuth, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Defence and Security Forces Tuesday released more information on the total number of casualties in the massacre of policemen and other security agents in the North Central Nassarawa State, saying casualty figures had reached 56. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Tuesday expressed deep concern about the deteriorating situation in and around Pibor town in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Nearly 40,000 Congolese have voluntarily returned from Angola, ahead of the 15 May deadline set by Angolan authorities after which they would forcibly expel them. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The American government Monday welcomed the release of Gambian Moslem cleric, Imam Baba Leigh, who was detained by the West African country’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) for more than five months. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - ECOWAS member states have been urged to establish a mechanism for monitoring and evaluating the efficacy of their National Youth Employment Plans in responding to the youth employment challenges facing the region. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Assistance Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has strongly condemned the bombing that took place on Monday near a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi resulting in a number of deaths, including children, as well as injuries. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Top UN officials on Monday urged the UN General Assembly to fully implement key anti-human trafficking treaties and to cooperate more closely to counter the estimated US$32 billion industry which has trapped some 2.4 million people into forced labour and domestic servitude, sexual work and as child soldiers. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday stressed the need to adopt a "holistic approach" to deal with terrorism in Africa, warning that the continent was facing a rise in the presence of extremist groups and terrorist entities. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian court Monday sentenced an Iranian, Azim Aghajani, and his Nigerian accomplice, Ali Usman Abbas Jega, to five years in prison for smuggling weapons into the country. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Head of the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA), Pierre Buyoya, has expressed shock and sadness at the sudden death of the mission's Deputy Force Commander, Brig.-Gen. Yaya Garba. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Amid reports in some quarters that the federal government may impose emergency rule on some states worst-hit by the violence being perpetrated by the Islamic sect Boko Haram, Nigeria's main opposition party has advised against such move. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Customs Service ( NCS) has arrested two Chinese and one Malian for attempting to smuggle out of Nigeria over 21kg of processed ivory and elephant tusks, NCS spokesperson Thelma Williams told journalists here on Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the expulsion of Chadian blogger and journalist Makaila Nguebla by the Senegalese government, describing it as a blow to freedom of expression. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The deadly militia group that killed at least 30 policemen and many other security agents last week in Nigeria's northern Nasarawa State are still holding four policemen in captivity, the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen have kidnapped the wife, daughter and driver of Nigeria's Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, according to the local Punch newspaper. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Deputy Force Commander of the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA), Brig.-Gen. Yaye Garba, has died, PANA reported Sunday, quoting ECOWAS sources. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council Counter-terrorism committee dealing with Al-Qaida is strengthening its work and cooperation with related UN bodies to more urgently address the evolving threats posed by the network in Mali, the Sahel and Somalia, a UN statement said on Saturday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A contingent of Tanzanian soldiers Friday arrived in the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the intervention brigade authorized by the UN to help neutralize armed groups in this volatile part of the country, a UN statement said on Saturday. Full text...