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...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Assuring that his administration will address the current security challenges in the country, the Libyan Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, said the government would put in place a strong security machinery for that purpose. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, declared Monday at a press conference here that the provisional government was bent on dealing with corruption, adding that "no concession will be made to perpetrators". Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has expressed its deep concern about the situation in Egypt in the wake of the religious violence in Cairo near the Saint-Marc Cathedral during the memorial service of two Christian members of the Coptic Church killed earlier. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda, currently on trial for his alleged involvement in an oil deal with Nigeria, was Tuesday forcefully prevented from boarding his flight to Kenya for the inauguration of Uhuru Kenyatta as President, despite a court order releasing his passport and an official notification to immigration authorities approving his trip, his lawyer said. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - US Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) Chief Executive Officer Daniel Yohannes Tuesday started a five-day on-site inspection tour of recently completed development projects under the MCC Compact with the Tanzanian government. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Some 30 demonstrators on Monday demanded the resignation of the Mauritian government, especially the Public Infrastructure minister, Anil Bachoo, following last weeks’ floods which claimed the lives of 11 people in Port Louis. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Qatar has pledged to provide US$ 500 million for the rehabilitation of War-fatigued region of Darfur of western Sudan, out of the total sum of US$ 7.5 billion estimated to bring the area out of its current state of misery. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday condemned reports in the Kenyan media over the level of witness cooperation in cases relating to some public figures in the country. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur has welcomed the peace agreement signed in Doha, Qatar, between the Government of the Sudan and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM-Sudan). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - An ECOWAS delegation and officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and UNESCO have ended a three-day meeting in Dakar, Senegal, for the review of the regional Support to ECOWAS for Peace and Development Project (PADEP) funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella group for oil militants in Nigeria on Sunday claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 12 policemen at Azuzama in southern Ijaw, Nigeria's oil rich Bayelsa state, on Saturday. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Pop star Madonna left Malawi on Saturday night ending the most controversial tour in all the seven years she has been visiting the southern African country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen killed 12 policemen in Nigeria's oil-rich state of Bayelsa on Friday night, the same day that the nation's oil militants said they would commence attacks in the oil region to protest the jailing of their leader, Henry Okah, by a South African court. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghanaian medical officers in government health facilities are poised to declare another strike as labour agitations continue to rock the West African country over demands for higher salaries and allowances. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Deputy Governor of Nigeria's South-west Ekiti State, Mrs Funmilayo Olayinka, died on Saturday of breast cancer at the age of 52, her family sources said. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eleven people were killed when gunmen attacked a remote village, Midlu, in Nigeria's northern Adamawa State early Saturday, the local media reported. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) Forum and 53rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights opened in Banjul, the Gambia, Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 36 people died in a major road crash involving a passenger bus, a truck and a fuel tanker along the busy but pot-holed Benin-Ore expressway in southern Nigeria on Friday, the Federal Road Safety Corps said. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Pop diva Madonna, spending her fifth day in Malawi, admitted facing unspecified "challenges" from authorities in the southern African country but vowed she will not abandon the children of Malawi. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The international Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday said that the consequences of fighting in South Sudan are causing "massive" hardships for the civilian population, Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra- based sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has welcome the release of detained Malian journalist, Boukary Daou who was granted bail by a magistrate court, PANA report from here Friday. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A Tunisian military helicopter crashed Friday near Tunis, injuring two persons among the five crew members, PANA reorted, quoting the Tunisian National News Agency (TAP). Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Friday congratulated Archbishop Desmond Tutu - one of his fiercest critics - after the outspoken cleric was awarded the Templeton Prize for 2013. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Togolese authorities to investigate Wednesday's apparently deliberate hit-and-run attack Wednesday on freelance photojournalist and videographer Koffi Djidonou Frédéric Attipou. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Cooperation between Libya and the United Kingdom on border security was at the heart of discussions on Thursday between the Libyan minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Mohamed Abdel Aziz and the British minister for international security strategy, Andrew Murisson. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Pop diva Madonna, spending her fourth day in the southern African country of Malawi, Thursday visited an overcrowded paediatrics (children's) ward in the commercial capital, Blantyre. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt has arrested up to 33 people in the past two weeks as the authorities increasingly clamped down on freedom of expression and dissent, Amnesty International said. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian government has not yet delivered on its promises of impartial accountability for the serious international crimes from the 2010-2011 post-election crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Former South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has won the 2013 Templeton Prize, worth US$1.7 million, for his life-long work in advancing spiritual principles such as love and forgiveness which has helped to liberate people around the world. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - For reasons not yet known, a high number of Rwandans are leaving town ahead of the week-long commemoration of the 1994 genocide in the country, according to the president of the National Anti-Genocide Committee (CNLG), Mr. Jean de Dieu Mucyo. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two students died and four others were injured following a ghost scare Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military said it is preparing to defend oil personnel and facilities in the country's oil-producing Niger Delta region, after the umbrella group for oil militants threatened to resume attacks on Friday in protest against the jailing of their leader, Henry Okah, by a South African court for terrorism Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella organisation for Nigeria's oil militants, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), announced on Wednesday it was resuming its attacks against oil facilities and personnel in the oil producing Niger Delta region. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Wednesday expressed sorrow at the passing of Nigerian author and former UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador, Professor Chinua Achebe. Full text...

Mchinji, Central Malawi (PANA) - US pop diva Madonna, currently visiting Malawi, Wednesday took her Malawian children back to the orphanage where she adopted one of them, David Banda. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s health continues to improve after nearly a week in the hospital, where he is being treated for pneumonia, the government confirmed on Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Mrs. Zainab Bangura, has praised the Somali government's efforts to enhance the protection of women against sexual violence. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - European Union (EU) soldiers have begun training the first batch of 570 Malian troops in Koulikoro, 70 km from the capital city of Bamako. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - A 21-year-old a grade nine pupil at Shem basic school in Nakonde, northern Zambia, has committed suicide after allegedly impregnating a 52-year-old woman of the same village. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Over 32,566 nationals from the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), who have found refuge in North Congolese province of Likouala since 2009 due to violence in their homeland, have returned home, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Egypt and Sudan to stop asylum-seekers and refugees being kidnapped from camps in Sudan, forcibly transported to Egypt, and being severely abused in the Sinai desert. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The editor of the Malian private daily "Le Républicain", Boukari Daou, who has been detained for over two weeks in Bamako Central Prison over charges of "incitement to crimes", was released on bail Tuesday, following a request by his lawyers, PANA learned from judicial source. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 18 people died and several others were injured in a road crash that occurred early Wednesday along the busy Abuja-Lokoja road in central Nigeria, according to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Muhammed Garba, has been elected President of Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), at the third FAJ Congress in Casablanca, Morocco, according to the local VANGUARD newspaper. Full text...