Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- In their preachings at Friday's jumat service in Tripoli , Libyan imams have warned Arab leaders to break their silence on attempts to 'J u daize' Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque there. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the League of Arab States (LAS) on Thursday adopted a draft resolution to refer to the Inte r national Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, Netherlands, issues on Al Quds (Je r usalem), Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ryad Al Wassil, told the pres s at Sirte, central Libya, The resolution is still subject to approval at the forthcoming Summit of Arab He ads of State which opens Saturday in Sirte. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- Qatar's Prime Minister, Cheikh Hamed Ben Jasem Ben Jaber Al Tahni, on Thursday said the Palestinian issue should be high on the agenda of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Arab League, which on Thursday began a preparatory meeting for the summit in Sirte. Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The secretary of the Libyan General People's Committee for External Relations and International Cooperation, Moussa Koussa, said here Thursday that "genocides, massacres, destruction, blockades and famine suffered by the Palestinian people are without doubt a dark period in the history of humanity". Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- The foreign ministers of member countries of the Arab Leag ue here on Thursday held a meeting behind closed doors on the issue of Al-Quds ( J erusalem). Full text...

Sirte- Libya (PANA) -- Libya on Wednesday urged Arab countries to create an Arab peacekeeping force and to grant executive powers to the Arab Council for Peace a n d Security, PANA reported from here Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The 9th Extraordinary Summit of the East Africa n Community (EAC) heads of state to address food security and climate change that had been scheduled for 26 March in Arusha, Tanzania, has been postponed to a later date, the EAC Secretariat announced Tuesday. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) sa id on Saturday that it would host a meeting next month to consider what else the UN could do to help th e Haitian government rebuild its country. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The preliminary meeting of the 22nd summit of the League of Arab States (LAS), which will start from Sunday in Sirte, Central Libya, is e xpected to mark a significant step towards integration between Arab nations and A frica, PANA reported from here Friday. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The Libyan leader Mouamar Kadhafi has invited the king o f Morocco, Mohammed VI, to participate in the summit of heads of State of the Arab League that will be held on 27 and 28 March in Libya, according to an official M oroccan source in Rabat. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) â" The Libyan leader Mouamar- Gaddafi on Tuesday invited t he Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to the Arab League Summit slated f o r 27-28 March in Libya. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Over 250 youths from Africa and other parts of the world w ill attend the third Pan-African Summit for Young Leaders for meeting the Millen n ium Development Goals (MDGs), scheduled from 19 to 23 April in Bamako, official s ources in the Malian capital told PANA Tuesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Heads of State of the West African Economic and Monetary U nion (WEMU) have urged member states to work harder to boost their agricultural production t o ensure food security. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- ECOWAS leaders Tuesday re-elected Nigeria to another one -year term as chair of the 15-member regional bloc, as they rounded off their day-long meeting here. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The twice-postponed ECOWAS end-of-year 2009 ordinary sum mit finally opened Tuesday in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, with the Acting P r esident of Nigeria, Dr. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The 37th ordinary session of the authority of ECOWAS Hea ds of state and government has opened in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, with Nigeria' s acting President Goodluck Jonathan presiding. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The 2009 end-of-year ordinary summit of the Economic Com munity of West African States (ECOWAS), postponed twice because of the illness of Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua, is set to ho ld Tuesday in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, ECOWAS said Thursday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza declared Wedne sday on his return from Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, which hosted the 14t h Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), that he was " satisfied" with the results of the conference. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The chairman of the African Union Commission, Jea n Ping, at the close of the 14th summit of the pan-African organization in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, urged the continent's donors to honour the financi a l commitments they took on Somalia during the Brussels roundtable. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) has declared zero toleranc e against coups in Africa, saying it would impose sanctions on countries instiga t ing or sympathizing with anti-constitutional change in other member countries of the organization. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- When they ended their three days summit in the Et hiopian capital Tuesday, African leaders left signs that the continental organiz a tion would be working better than it ever did before on political, economic and s ocial sectors. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Burkina Faso, Ghana, Egypt and Tanzania have been asked by the 14th African Union summit which ended here on Tuesday to take part in the preparatory committee's works for the upcoming Afro-Arab summit slated fo r Libya in October 2010. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- A donors' roundtable is to be organised in Dakar, Senegal, this year to raise funds for the trial of former Chadian President Hissene Habre, according t o decisions reached by African leaders at their summit which ended in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Libyan leader, Moummar Kadhafi, in a press co nference over the weekend in Addis Ababa held in line with the 14th African Unio n summit in Ethiopia, has urged the US President, Barack Obama, to "free the Unit e d States from the label as gendarme of the world". Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The president of the African Union Commission (AU C), Jean Ping, has warned top Malagasy political stakeholders against any obstru ction to the implementation of the Maputo agreement, while giving them two weeks to respond to the written proposals of the International Contact Group (ICG). Full text...

From Segun Adeyemi- PANA Correspondent Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -- In their determination to use Information and Com munication Technologies (ICTs) to propel the development and integration process on the Continent, African leaders Tuesday declared the I CT sector as ''a sector of top priority''. Full text...

From Segun Adeyemi- PANA Correspondent Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -- Africa leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have agreed to push forward their 2010 mid-year summit, due to be held in Kampala, Uganda, so it does not cl ash with the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first to be held in Africa, PANA reported Tuesday. Full text...

From Segun Adeyemi- PANA Correspondent Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -- African heads of state and government said Tuesda y that those responsible for the 28 Sept. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African leaders meeting here Monday approved the establishment of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA) as a technica l body of the African Union, replacing the NEPAD Secretariat and formally integra t ing the project into the AU. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi said Sunday that a ttempts to form the United States of Africa were sluggish but there were reasons to be optimistic that African leaders, meeting in Addis Ababa, could make progre s s. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi said Sunday the Sou thern Sudan had a right to separate from the rest of Sudan during the January 20 1 1 referendum, but this might worsen tribal wars in the region. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Sports and politics may mix, against conventional wisdom, if the African Union (AU) goes ahead to shift the dates for its June/July, mid-year Summit for 2010 to avoid a clash with the dates for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first to be held on the African soil. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The sanctions slammed on the Democratic Republic of Congo for defaulting in its contributions to the AU are to be lifted after the country cleared 50% of its arrears, PANA reported here Monday, citing AU sources. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- As heads of state gather in the Ethiopian capital for the 53-member continental body's annual Assembly, the African Union (AU) on Monday urged Sudan to step up efforts to rescue the Comprehensive Peace Agreemen t (CPA) and hold democratic elections in April. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has welcomed a proposal by African leaders to help resettle some Haitians who were displaced by a devastating earthquake that hit their country about three weeks ago. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban ki-Moon, said here Sunday that the impartiality of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was not in doubt. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Libyan leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, on Sunday he ld a closed-door meeting with Presidents Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, Jacob Zuma o f South Africa, Franأ§ois Bozizأ© of the Central African Republic, Denis Sassou N g uesso of Congo and Cheikh Cherif Cheikh Ahmed of Somalia. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- A mini-Summit on Sudan was held here Sunday, atte nded by the Sudanese President Omar El-Bechir, the chairman of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, and the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-M o on, PANA reported on the sidelines of the African Union Summit. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Malawian President Bingu Wa Mutharika took over t he rotational chairmanship of the African Union (AU) Sunday, urging African leaders to embark on an agricultural r evolution to feed the hungry. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Malawi's President Bingu Wa Mutharika was Sunday elected the African Union Chairman, taking over from Libyan leader Mouammar Kadh a fi. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Commission chairman Jean Ping said Sunday the continental body had opened a fund to help Haiti recover from a d evastating earthquake. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Sunday he would convene a special summit in September to examine progress made in meeting Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particul arly in the developing world. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Jean Pi ng waxed optimistic Sunday as he opened the 14th Ordinary session of the AU summ i t here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African leaders Sunday opened a summit here devot ed to the development of information and communication technology, seen as cruci a l in powering future economic growth, and speeding up integration on the contine n t. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Africa's top sports administration body, the Supr eme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA), is to be dissolved and its functions tr a nsferred to the African Union Commission (AUC), sources close to the commission t old PANA here Saturday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon is expected to speak to heads of state and government at the 14th African Union (AU) Summit this weekend , at which he will highlight "the need for African leaders to work towards achiev i ng the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)'', according to a UN statement made a v ailable to PANA here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African leaders have started arriving in Ethiopia Saturday for the 31 Jan-2 Feb African Union (AU) summit, devoted to the development of information and communi cation technology (ICT) on the continent. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Africa Union (AU) will Sunday announce the fi rst winners of its scientific award, which was instituted 9 Sept 2008, according to an AU official. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday for the 31 Jan-2 Feb. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Foreign ministers gathered for talks on the chang e of the African Union Commission into an Authority should focus on giving this p roposed government real power, the Libyan Foreign Minister, Moussa Koussa, said h ere Thursday. Full text...