Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Regional and local tribunals should be created to try perpetrators of violence in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Nigeria, the African Union?s Special Envoy...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar has agreed to issue military orders to indefinitely freeze military activity in an agreement reached after the first face-to-face tal...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The series of Boko Haram terror attacks in Nigeria has put a new strain on Africa's most effective regional body, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, has appointed Ethiopian Hiroute Guebre Selassie as his special envoy and bureau chief for the Sahel, PANA reported, quoti...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has admitted ?a serious dilemma? over the fate of Field Marshall Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who is running for Egypt?s Presidency after ousting former P...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) ? Noting that there were ?major challenges? impeding the effectiveness of the AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) in implementing its core mandate, the Peace and Secu...

[IRIN]Gambela Region -With around 1,000 South Sudanese refugees streaming into the Gambela Region of western Ethiopia every week, relief workers and agencies warn of an imminent humanitarian crisis as ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) ? Calling for renewed efforts to ensure that logistical support provided to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) meets its needs on the ground, the Peace and Secur...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The 21,126 African troops deployed to Somalia by early January 2014 have launched the most ambitious military assault ever against the Somali Islamist militant group al-...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The South Sudanese government representatives and the rebels wrangled Wednesday over the agenda of the talks to end fierce fighting in their country. Politics