[Daily Observer]The special representative of the United Nations secretary general in West Africa and the Gambian leader Tuesday held talks on a number of security and development issues within the sub-region, prominent among them, the situation in Guinea Bissau - which recently held a presidential election - as well as the activities by the militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria....

[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -Minister of Youth and Sports Mr. Mohammed Moloud Mohamed Fadel indicated Tuesday that the total number of children who will benefit from holiday in peace programme for the summer 2014 has reached 5143 children, hosted by European organizations and associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people, in addition to 1000 children will be hosted by the brotherly country of Algeria....

[Heritage]The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned the deplorable acts of violence and killing perpetrated by separatist and terrorist groups in Kidal and its adjoining towns in northern Mali....

4 June 2014 Last updated at 18:25 BST Dozens of people have been killed in attacks on villages in Borno State by Boko Haram. The village of Attagara was worst hit. On Sunday at least nine people died when the church there was attacked. People from the village went after Boko Haram and reportedly killed some of their fighters, but on Tuesday Boko Haram...

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who romped home in Egypt's presidential election after crushing Islamists, faces a tough task to restore stability and revive a battered economy....

Anita Powell JOHANNESBURG ? The U.S. government is investing more than $1 billion to create about 20 million new electricity connections in sub-Saharan Africa as part of its ldquo;Beyond the Gridrdquo; Initiative. The African continent has the worldrsquo;s lowest rates of electrification, a fact that caught the attention of U.S. President Barack Obama when he visited the continent last year. So he announced an ambitious plan to electrify 20 million households in six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania. U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz visited the Ethiopian capital...

[Aswat Masriya]Thousands of Egyptians gathered in Heliopolis on Tuesday to celebrate the official landslide victory of former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as Egypt's new president....

[Aswat Masriya]Cairo -The Egyptian government agreed on the Parliamentary Elections and Political Rights draft laws on Wednesday....

[Aswat Masriya]Cairo -Egypt's former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be sworn in as the country's president on Sunday at 10:30 am, the Supreme Constitutional Court said....

[Aswat Masriya]Cairo -Interim President Adli Mansour addressed Egyptians for the last time as president on Wednesday, a day after former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's victory in last week's presidential elections was officially announced....

[Aswat Masriya]Cairo -The Egyptian government, headed by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, will convene on Sunday to submit its resignation....

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis -Caretaker President Moncef Marzouki received, on Wednesday, an official invitation to attend the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi scheduled next Sunday, said an official source of the Presidency of the Republic....

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis -An itinerant multi-sectoral economic mission will be organised in four African countries (Mali, Niger, Chad and Gabon) from June 20 to 27, 2014....

[HRInfo]Cairo: -The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) today deprecated the arbitrary procedure taken by Kuwaiti Religious Endowments Ministry (Awqaf) against an Egyptian mosque preacher. The ministry deported the preacher from Kuwait against the backdrop of criticizing the Egyptian presidential elections....

[Aswat Masriya]Cairo -Egypt's former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be sworn in as the country's president on Sunday at 10:30 am....

[EOHR]On Tuesday 4 June, 2014, Hafez Abu Saada the head of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights and Alaa Shalabi, Secretary-General of the Arab Organization for Human Rights had a meeting with Dr. Fouad Abdel-Moneim Riad, the chairman of the Fact-finding Committee after the revolution June 30, and the counselors members of the Committee, at the headquarters of the Consultative Council....

VOA News Nigerian officials are denying a report that 15 officers, including 10 generals, have been court martialed for cooperating with Boko Haram militants. The Leadership...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates ? Against the backdrop of a rising sun and an imposing lion, renegade Libyan general Khalifa Hifter strides over rugged terrain in combat fatigues and black boots. The propaganda imagery on Haftar's Facebook page is part of his bid to rally the nation against Islamist militias in Libya's east and their political allies in the capital, Tripoli. It borrows from that employed by Egypt's soldier-turned-president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who overthrew an elected Islamist leader before securing power at the ballot box. If Hifter harbors similar ambitions, his will be a far harder task. Successive Libyan governments have failed to unify the forces that removed Moammar...

Peter Clottey A senior Nigerian official says President Goodluck Jonathanrsquo;s administration has launched a nationwide sensitization campaign to inform citizens about the governmentrsquo;s effort to improve security, combat terrorism and update people on the search for over 200 school girls abducted by the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram. Mike Omeri, the director general of Nigeriarsquo;s National Orientation Agency, and Coordinator of National Information Center says security...

Libyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar has been briefly treated in hospital after suffering minor injuries in an assassination attempt....

A suicide bomber has failed in his attempt to kill the Libyan general who is trying to neutralise the influence of Islamist militias in Libya. The bomber drove up to the residence of General Khalifa Hifter in Benghazi and detonated his explosives-laden vehicle when guards stopped him at the compound?s gate. The site is...

Islamic gunmen are hoisting black flags as they seize villages in Nigeria denying the army access....

[UN News]Benghazi, Libya -Citing aerial attacks, use of heavy weaponry and civilian casualties in Benghazi and elsewhere in eastern Libya, the United Nations today called for an end to the bloodshed and urged the country's officials to agree on precise means to counter terrorism and other challenges to security and state authority....

A Swiss aid worker of the International Committee of the Red Cross has been killed in the Libyan city of Sirte....

L?inchiesta della Procura sarda era partita nel 2011 dopo alcuni casi di tumore tra militari e pastori e alcune malformazioni su animali nati nella zone. Secondo le indagini della Procura le morti sospette erano da ricondurre agli esperimenti con armi e munizioni radioattive e all'interramento di bombe e munizioni della Seconda guerra mondiale.

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Wednesday called all Libyan stakeholders to avoid bloodshed and ensure a successful political transition, following the escalation of the country's political crisis.
Politics

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) ? The Tunisian city of Nabeul will host the African rugby championship which will feature teams from Tunisia, Senegal, Uganda and Cote d'Ivoire, the chairman of the Tunisian Rugby federation, Mohamed Chali, told a press conference here Wednesday.
Sports

Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? A two-day workshop on rice growing in the Sahel region, jointly organized by the NGO -- Global Water Initiative (GWI) in West Africa, the International Union for nature preservation (UICN) and the regional association for irrigation and drainage (ARID),
Agriculture

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday forwarded the names of four individuals, including the former Kano State Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation as ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Politics

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The World Bank has approved a financial assistance of over US$ 55 million for Niger to enable the West African country to implement several development projects, the Nigerien News Agency (ANP) reported Wednesday.
Economy