Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Presidential poll results challenger, Raila Odinga, lost a plea before the Supreme Court Tuesday, to be allowed a forensic audit of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) vote transmission system. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Heads of State and Government of the Organization for the Development of the Senegal River (OMVS), who ended their 15th general conference here Monday, have named Guinean Kabinet Komara head of the sub-regional organization. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The US embassy in Nairobi Tuesday warned that there could be “strong public reactions” to a final announcement by the Kenyan Supreme Court of an election challenge by Raila Odinga against the declaration of Uhuru Kenyatta as the President-elect. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The democratic opposition in Nigeria has won a major victory after the country's electoral body disqualified an organisation seeking to register the same acronym they (opposition) have chosen for their budding merger. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The fifth summit of the group of developing nations under the umbrella BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is due to start later Tuesday in Durban, South Africa, with an opening ceremony and a banquet hosted by South Africa's President Jacob Zuma. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - ECOWAS Commission President Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo has hailed Cape Verde as a beacon of hope for democracy, judging by its successive transparent, free and fair elections. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Chairman of ECOWAS Committee of Chief of Defence Staff (CCDS), Gen. Soumaila Babayoko, has called for intensified and sustained international support to rid Mali of terrorism and criminality which are threatening not only the country but the region and the rest of the world. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union has hailed the nomination of Mrs Mary Robinson as special envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region and pledged to work closely with her. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – The French president, Francois Hollande, and his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, on Sunday exchanged views, in a telephone conversation, on the current situation in Central African Republic (CAR), official sources told PANA here. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – The African Union’s Envoy to Guinea Bissau, Ovido M. B. Pequeno, on Monday told PANA that the reform of the Bissau Guineans army is the key step to building a republican state. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Chinese President Xi Jinping Monday concluded a one-day state visit to Tanzania, affirming his country’s determination to strengthen cooperation with African countries in their pursuit of development. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia’s former president, Rupiah Banda, was Monday formally arrested by police for alleged abuse of authority and corruption when he appeared before a panel of Government investigators. Full text...

Bangui, Central African Republic (PANA) – The situation remains confused on Monday in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), where sporadic gunshots could be heard in spite of the capture of Bangui over the weekend by the Seleka rebels under the leadership of the self-proclaimed president, Michel Djotodia. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Emphasizing that the entry of rebel elements to Bangui and their subsequent seizure of power constitute a flagrant violation of the AU Constitutive Act, the Lomé Declaration on Unconstitutional Changes of Government and the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, the AU Monday suspended the Central African Republic (CAR) after the Seleka rebels seized power following a blitz on the capital, Bangui, over the weekend, ousting President Francoise Bozize. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has suspended the Central African Republic (CAR) after the Seleka rebels seized power following a blitz on the capital city of Bangui over the weekend, PANA reported Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has rejected what it described as the 'coup' in Central African Republic (CAR), where the Seleka rebels have taken over power following a renewed onslaught on the capital, Bangui, over the weekend. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma Monday confirmed that 13 South African troops have been killed and 27 others wounded during this weekend’s rebel onslaught in the Central African Republic (CAR). Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Amid the reported takeover of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), by the Seleka rebels this weekend, the US has expressed deep concern about what it called a serious deterioration in the security situation in the country. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Chinese President Xi Jinping was accorded a rousing welcome on his arrival here Sunday at the start of his first to Africa as leader of the Asian country. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Unconfirmed reports reaching PANA here Sunday said the organised coalition of rebels, called Seleka (which means alliance), has taken over Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), and that the presidential palace has fallen into their hands, following a fresh onslaught by the rebels. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Congolese rebel General Bosco Ntaganda, who surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC), has departed the Rwandan capital, Kigali, enroute the ICC detention centre in The Hague, Netherlands, the Court confirmed Friday. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania will ratify the Protocol on the African Union (AU) Convention on the prevention and the fight against terrorism, according to an official statement issued in the capital city of Nouakchott Friday. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – The situation in the Sahel region and its environs makes the solution to the Western Sahara problems more urgent than ever, the personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Sahara, Christopher Ross, said on Thursday in Rabat. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – France is changing its ambassadors in Mali and Senegal with Mr Gilles Huberson going to Mali and Mr Jean Félix-Paganon going to Senegal, the spokesperson for the French Foreign Affairs ministry, Philippe Lalliot, said on Thursday in Paris. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's two-chamber Parliament has been summoned to hold its first sitting since the 4 March elections. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) – “Morocco must find its way back to the African Union,” the Ivorian Foreign Affairs minister, Charles Koffi Diby, said on Thursday as the Moroccan King, Mohamed VI, continued his visit to Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Egyptian authorities have said they will hunt and arrest pro-Mouammar Kadhafi allies who may have taken refuge in Egypt after the fall of the former Libyan strongman, in return for the release of a group of Egyptian prisoners held in Libya. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has called on the UN Security Council to fully support the current peace process between Sudan and South Sudan, as the two countries have now managed to pull out forces from joint borderlines to their sides of the borders. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will embark on a two-day official visit to Equatorial Guinea starting Thursday, as part of his administration's efforts to boost economic and trade relations between Nigeria and neighbouring countries, the Nigerian presidency announced Wednesday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The Rwandan judicial authorities have begun negotiations with US diplomatic officials to pave the way for the extradition of DR Congo rebel leader, General Jean Bosco Ntaganda, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the public prosecutor in Kigali, Martin Ngoga, said on Wednesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya will not accept the presence of foreign forces on its soil, the Libyan foreign affairs minister, Mohammed Abdel Aziz, has reiterated as international experts arrived in the country to support it to secure its borders. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The African Union Peace and Security Council on Wednesday expressed support for efforts being made to bring peace to Darfur region, and commended the role played by African peacekeepers in the region. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – A former French ambassador to Mali, Michel Reveyrand de Menthon, has been appointed the European Union (EU) envoy to Sahel, PANA reported here, quoting a communiqué from the European bloc in Brussels. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The US Wednesday congratulated Namibia on the occasion of the South West African nation's 23rd independence anniversary, to be marked on 21 March, 2013, according to a press statement received here from the office of the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, in Washington, US. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s Supreme Court, preparing to make a landmark ruling in just a few days on the conduct of the 4 March Presidential elections, Wednesday issued an order banning public utterances over the petitions challenging the conduct of the vote. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga disagreed Wednesday over an order to all ministers elected to political offices during the 4 March elections to immediately resign. Full text...

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - A summit on maritime safety and security in the Gulf of Guinea will be held on 17 April in Yaounde, Cameroon. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - After almost quarter of a century in power, Sudan’s President Omar El Bashir has announced he will not seek a fresh term of office. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – German minister of foreign affairs, Guido Westerwelle, has called on Tunisian political leaders to complete the writing of a new constitution and organize elections as quickly as possible to guarantee economic and social stability. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) is to grant an additional aid of 33 million Euros to the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to play its key peacekeeping role in Somalia, a statement issued in Brussels said on Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ms. Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and UN human rights chief, as his special envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a UN statement said on Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Morocco and Senegal have agreed to improve their bilateral economic cooperation by holding their 14th Joint Commission for Cooperation as soon as possible, a joint communiqué released on Tuesday in Dakar at the end of the five-day visit of Moroccan King Mohamed VI to Senegal. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Brig.-Gen. Chris Olukolade has been appointed the new Director of Defence Information, Defence Headquarters, Nigeria, PANA reported Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged participants at the UN Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to conclude work by 28 March on a comprehensive instrument that would establish standards for international trade in conventional weapons. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian presidency has denied reports that American billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates cancelled his impending trip to Nigeria because of the controversy surrounding the pardon granted a former state governor who was convicted of money laundering. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the bomb attacks in the northern city of Kano Monday evening that left many people dead and injured, saying barbaric activities by terror groups would not stop the government from its firm resolve to fight terrorism in the country. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The victims of Kenya's post-election violence have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ensure the urgent prosecution of Kenya's President-elect, Uhuru Kenyatta, at a hearing over whether to refer the confirmation of his crimes against humanity charges back to the pre-trial chamber. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is eager to develop ties with the African Union and African countries, the minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, told PANA on Monday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Lebanese President Michel Sleiman began a two-day visit to Nigeria Monday with President Goodluck Jonathan saying that his administration was working hard to secure the release of the remains of some of the foreign hostages alleged to have been killed by the splinter Ansaru group of the Boko Haram terrorist group. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Foreign Affairs Ministers from Mali's neighboring countries rose from their meeting here, hailing the liberation of major cities in northern Mali from rebels, according to a communique issued on Sunday. Full text...