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...

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Somali President Sheikh Hassan Mohamud, said Tuesday his government’s efforts to pardon some 900 Somali youth engaged in piracy would not be extended to the piracy kingpins. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The International Association of Athletics Associations (IAAF) has said it is shocked and appalled by the twin bombings that marred Monday's Boston Marathon in the US. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At their meeting Monday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, representatives of the African Union (AU) and the UN expressed concern over reports of continuing armed clashes and inter-communal violence in Darfur, according to a press release, received here by PANA. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Tuesday urged Sierra Leonean President, Ernest Bai Koroma, to respect the independence of his country's Independent Media Commission (IMC) in carrying out its regulatory mandate. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Sunday attacks on Mogadishu, the Somali capital, are regrettable signs of a prevailing climate of insecurity and violence, a statement said on Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Ms Pansy Tlakula, the Commissioner and Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, over the “increasing level of attacks against journalists and media houses in the country.” Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), one of several bodies on strike in Ghana, has suspended its two-week old strike with effect from Tuesday morning, according to an executive member of the Association. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN on Tuesday expressed concern about what it calls the safety and well-being of thousands of civilians caught up in the ongoing fighting between government forces and rebel groups in Darfur. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - At least two South Africans were injured in the blasts that occurred near the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon in the American city where the race was held, according to South Africa's international relations and co-operation department. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda, who is currently being tried for his alleged involvement in an oil deal with Nigeria, has been slapped with additional charges. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police on Monday rearrested and detained two journalists with the private Leadership newspaper, a week after they were released from a previous arrest over a story published by the paper. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The death toll in Monday's collapse of an illegal gold mine pit in Ghana has risen to 17, following the death of one of the illegal miners in hospital, according to the police. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A coalition of over 2,500 rights groups across the globe on Monday released a statement, saying Cameroon can further ''demonstrate its growing commitment to justice and the rule of law'' by joining the International Criminal Court (ICC). Full text...

Washington D.C., US (PANA) - The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has condemned the ongoing attacks and retaliations by Muslims and Christians in Nigeria’s violent, religiously and ethnically mixed Middle Belt, saying the incidents have left more than 100 dead and dozens of properties destroyed since March this year. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS has announced plans to deploy 40 volunteers to Sierra Leone to support the country’s health and education sectors, according to a statement issued here Monday by the West African regional bloc. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military on Monday dismissed the threat by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to bomb mosques and kill Muslim clerics in retaliation for the attacks against Christians in the northern part of the country by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Amnesty International (AI) on Monday called on the UN Security Council and African Union (AU) to take immediate action to halt indiscriminate attacks in Sudan's Southern Kordofan region. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan Telecommunications ministry has been empowered to cover the nation's air space by radar, according to the Libyan Chief of Air Staff, Colonel Jomaa al-Abani. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – About 16 illegal miners, digging for gold in Ghana’s Central Region, are feared dead when the pit in which they were mining caved in on Monday morning, local radio stations reported. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A four-day meeting of regional experts on education of girls and other vulnerable children is scheduled to start on Tuesday in Banjul, the capital of Gambia, under the auspices of the ECOWAS Girls’ education Programme. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has called on the international community to increase its support for the alleviation of the Great Lakes region's humanitarian crisis. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's umbrella group for oil militants has threatened to attack mosques, hajj camps, Islamic institutions, large Islamic congregations and Muslim clerics who propagate the doctrine of hate, in retaliation for the attacks against Christians in the predominantly-Muslim north by the Boko Haram Islamic sect. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in partnership with a group of 37 NGOs that make up the Libyan Consortium for Humanitarian and Legal Work, has begun targeted distribution of essential non-food relief items to displaced families (IDPs) living in camps around the country, particularly around the capital city of Tripoli. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said the adoption of a new media law by Burundi’s National Assembly on 3 April ''is an attempt to curtail free speech and independent journalism''. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Against renewed attacks in Nigeria's oil region by militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the Nigerian army has said it is ready to take on the militants. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Federal Government is beefing up security at the nation's land borders as a fallout from the rejection of its planned amnesty for the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, according to the local Nation newspaper. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Global anti-corruption organisation, Transparency International, has said it has no links with an organisation calling itself "Transparency in Nigeria (TIN)" and has written to the organisation demanding that it stops associating its work with Transparency International, its name and logo. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Friday said that more than 2,000 children had been recruited by forces in Central African Republic (CAR) since the latest wave of violence began in December. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Geneva-based UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday that new tribal clashes in Sudan's Darfur region had driven about 50,000 refugees into Chad, describing the movement as "the largest number in years". Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a formal internal inquiry into allegations communicated by four individuals under the ICC’s protection programme that they had been subject to sexual abuse by a former ICC staff member working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a statement said on Friday. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Italian government is to provide food aid worth 200,000 euros to Malian refugees at the M’Beri camp in East Mauritania, sources at the World Food Programme (WFP) office in Mauritania disclosed on Friday. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda, who on Tuesday was prevented from travelling to Kenya to attend President Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration, has expressed concern over the manner Zambian authorities defied a court order allowing him to travel to Kenya. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen suspected to be members of Nigeria's violent Islamic sect Boko Haram Thursday stormed a police station in Babangida village in northern Taraba state, killing four policemen, the state police commissioner said. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A replica of the Mama Muxima (Mother of the Heart) statute is being Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The Malawi government has accused US pop diva Madonna of lying and blackmail following her controversial week-long tour to the southern African country. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The Malawi government has accused US pop diva Madonna of lying and blackmail following her controversial week-long tour to the southern African country. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Gambia is playing host to the 53rd Ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) which started on Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – A regional workshop on the programming strategies of the economic and social policies for intermediate countries with abundant natural resources opened Wednesday in Brazzaville. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union Commission (AUC) has condemned the killing of five UN peacekeepers and a number of civilians in an ambush by unknown gunmen in South Sudan, describing it as a cowardly attack. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, his Special Representative in South Sudan Hilde Johnson, and the UN Security Council on Tuesday strongly condemned the killing of at least 12 people working with the UN peacekeeping mission in Jonglei State. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Millions of South Africans were Wednesday marking the 20th anniversary of the assassinations of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani, which dramatically reshaped the country’s history. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Pope Francis on Tuesday in Rome discussed what can be done to accelerate work to reduce poverty and advance economic development during a meeting in the Vatican. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Geneva-based Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Tuesday called on the South Sudanese government to conduct an investigation into the violence that killed 85 people in Jonglei state. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A man has been arrested in Nigeria for allegedly selling his baby son for 350,000 naira (US$2,258) so he could raise money to procure a visa to Greece, the local media reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has condemned the arrest and detention of four journalists working for the private Leadership newspaper in the capital city of Abuja, and demanded their immediate and unconditional release. Full text...