Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has strongly condemned the deadly attack near the Al-Jala hospital in the country's second city of Benghazi that left at least 15 people, including children, dead and many wounded. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – The volume of interventions undertaken in Benin by The Netherlands will increase from 16 million Euros (about 10 billion CFA) last year to 29.5 million Euros (18 billion CFAF) this year, official sources said on Monday in Cotonou. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – The volume of interventions undertaken in Benin by The Netherlands will increase from 16 million Euros (about 10 billion CFA) last year to 29.5 million Euros (18 billion CFAF) this year, official sources said on Monday in Cotonou. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) – Denmark will end its development cooperation with Benin this year after more than 20 years of partnership, official sources said on Monday in Cotonou. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union (AU) on Monday described the killing of two former rebel leaders, who had joined the peace process in Darfur, as a “cowardly act” that seeks to dissuade other movements from joining the peace process. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The peace keeping mission in Darfur on Monday denounced the killing Sunday of two former rebel leaders, who had signed the Doha Peace document in April this year, while on their way in a convoy from Chad to Sudan. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Dr. Choguel Kokala Maiga has returned as the flag bearer of the Patriotic Movement for Renewal (MPR) for the Malian presidential polls, slated for July, reliable sources told PANA here. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - An international donors' conference for Mali will be held in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, in the presence of Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore, PANA reported from here Monday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The armed militia groups that laid a siege on Libya's Ministries of Justice as well as Foreign Affairs have ended their onslaught, following an agreement reached with the country’s transitional authorities. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The stage is finally set for the emergence of what is being touted as Nigeria's mega opposition party, to be called All Progressives Congress (APC), after the three opposition parties planning a merger rounded off their conventions to approve the alliance, PANA reported Sunday Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS and the international community have made irreversible progress in Mali by freeing the north of the country from the grip of terrorists and securing its territorial integrity, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo, has affirmed. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Sweden is to give Mali CFA F 3.45 billion in support of the electoral process in the African country, official sources told PANA Friday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The British embassy in Libya Friday announced it would withdraw part of its personnel following the current political and security situation in the north African country, PANA reported here. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar El-Bashir arrived in Ndjamena, the capital of Chad, Friday to take part in the second summit of the Great Green Wall. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, has been appointed chair of The Elders, replacing South Africa’s Bishop Desmond Tutu who had chaired the group since it was founded by Nelson Mandela six years ago, the elite group said in a press statement Friday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The modalities for the transformation of the Africa-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) into a UN Mission will be discussed at a two-day meeting of the sub-Committee of the ECOWAS Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS), opening in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on Saturday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has recommended that the mandate of the UN political mission in Guinea-Bissau be adjusted to support a two-phase process for the full restoration of constitutional order and medium-term stability in the country. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson, on Thursday stressed the need for widespread support from the international community for the new Somali government to help it succeed in its reform efforts. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The US State Department on Thursday said that US assistance to Somalia was aimed at helping to ensure a stable government and to prevent terrorists from establishing a safe haven in the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his planned state visit to Namibia, due to start Thursday (9May), and will be returning home, after dozens of people were killed in a series of violent attacks that have rocked Africa's most populous nation in recent times. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his state visit to Namibia, due to start Thursday (9May), and will be returning home from South Africa, following a series of violent attacks that have left dozens dead in three Nigerian states. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it spent 122.9 billion naira on the 2011 general elections. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Libya desires increased solidarity and communication with all African countries, a diplomat from the North African country has told African public relations practitioners meeting here with the aim of positioning Africa in the new milieu. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan government has not succumbed to the pressure to resign, which is being mounted by the armed militias which have taken over some key government buildings in the capital, Tripoli, PANA reported Wednesday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The president of the Senate of DR Congo, Kengo wa Dondo, on Tuesday expressed the wish to establish "strong" diplomatic ties between his country and Rwanda, stressing that all measures should be taken to end the conflict in eastern DR Congo. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN envoy for Africa's Great Lakes Region, Mrs. Mary Robinson, Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, Tuesday said in a statement here that his cabinet was still in tact, denying stories making the round that his defence minister, Mohamed al-Barghiti, had resigned following the ongoing siege on the Justice and Foreign Affairs ministries by armed groups. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Stakeholders have called for uninterrupted funding for and sustainability of ECOWAS peace support initiatives, especially the resettlement and rehabilitation of thousands of conflict-displaced persons in the region, according to an ECOWAS press statement, received here Tuesday by PANA. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Having successfully liberated the continent from colonialism, racism and apartheid, African leaders must now give the fullest possible attention to the economic emancipation of their countries, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Defence Minister Mohamed al-Barghiti on Tuesday stepped down, citing the ongoing siege on the Justice and Foreign Affairs Ministries by armed groups. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday condemned the fresh outbreak of violence in Sudan's disputed Abyei region over the weekend in which the Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka, Kual Deng Majok, and a UN peacekeeper were killed. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – At least 206 Rwandans, made up of soldiers, police officers and civilians, are to participate in a series of joint military exercises against terrorism, under the initiative of some East African and Indian Ocean nations, Rwandan army spokesman Gen. Joseph Nzabamwita, disclosed here Monday. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Member countries of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) have said "the resolution of the crisis in Mali must be comprehensive and should not be limited to military operation," the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, has said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday paid tribute to his predecessor in office, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, on the third anniversary of his death after a prolonged illness. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Mrs. Mary Robinson, the UN Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes Full text...

Rabat Morocco (PANA) – Moroccan Prime minister, AbdelIlah Benkirane, on Friday held talks in Rabat with the visiting head of the Libyan national coalition, Mahmoud Guibril. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Congolese president, Denis Sassou NGuesso, on Friday urged the international community to help the Central African Republic (CAR) which has faced insecurity, humanitarian and economic crisis since the military coup there a few weeks ago. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan government on Friday deployed the military at key areas in the capital, Tripoli, including Martyrs Square. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to establish the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia, to be known as UNSOM and based in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, from 3 June for an initial period of 12 months. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government on Thursday announced a minor cabinet reshuffle, appointing a new minister for the education sector, according to a statement issued by the Mauritanian presidency. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Residents of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, Thursday protested the proliferation of arms and the occupation in recent days of some ministries in the city by armed militia alleging political exclusion of officials of the fallen Gaddafi regime. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A major political row has erupted in South Africa following revelations that government permitted a private aircraft to land at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday called on French president François Hollande in Paris with their talks focusing on the situation in Mali, according to a French presidency communiqué issued in Paris. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – France says it is concerned about the situation in Chad after the announcement on Wednesday evening on national television by the Chadian government that it has foiled an attempted coup against president Idriss Déby. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The South African president, Jacob Zuma, arrived here late Thursday to attend Friday's meeting of the international contact group on Central African Republic (CAR), official sources told PANA. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Ms. Mary Robinson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes Region, has stressed the need for countries in the region to restore trust among themselves to ensure long-term peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and beyond. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union on Thursday welcomed the start of direct talks between the Sudanese government and northern rebel groups from the Blue Nile and South Kordufan. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, accompanied by International Relations Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane, will attend a meeting to address the situation in the Central African Republic in the Congo on Friday. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – A delegation from the International Francophone Organization (OIF) is in the Togolese capital, Lomé, to observe preparations for local and parliamentary elections due to be held shortly, official sources told PANA on Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African Union (AU) member states and their regional economic communities should conduct a comprehensive and physical assessment on the early operationalisation of the African Standby Force (ASF) that has been on the drawing board for the last 10 years, according to a recommendation adopted here Tuesday by the African Chiefs of Defence Staff. Full text...