Libya will hold parliamentary elections on 25 June, the election commission has said, amid fears that the country is descending into a civil war. Earlier, Libya#039;s embattled government proposed that parliament go into recess after voting on this year#039;s budget. The...

At least 46 people have died in the Nigerian city of Jos after two car bombs ripped through a busy market....

Twin car bombings have killed scores of people at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the area governor's spokesperson told AP....

Libya's parliament has moved to a luxury hotel until a powerful militia can take up positions to protect its old building, which was attacked by gunmen....

Nigeria is asking the Security Council to impose sanctions on Boko Haram, the group that has carried out a wave of deadly attacks and the recent abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls....

Qatar-based satellite network Al Jazeera has written to world powers asking them to secure the release of one of its journalists jailed in Egypt....

Libya#039;s enigmatic General Khalifa Haftar has been on different sides of almost every power struggle in Libya since the 1960s. He initially fought for Muammar Gaddafi, then against him. He fought alongside Islamist rebel groups in the uprising that toppled Gaddafi in 2011 before becoming their nemesis this year. Just as he was fading from the scene, he has re-emerged as the leader of the most serious challenge yet to the post-revolutionary government, which accuses him of being a renegade driven by a thirst for power. Rise and fall Alongside Gaddafi, Gen Haftar was part of the cadre of young army officers who seized power from Libya#039;s King Idris in 1969. He remained a close ally of...

20 May 2014 Last updated at 19:42 BST At least 46 people have been killed and many others injured by two bomb explosions in the volatile central Nigerian city of Jos, police say. The blasts happened in a busy market near a bus terminal. No group has said it carried out the attack. However, Jos has seen several deadly clashes...

At least 46 people have died after twin car bombs exploded at Terminus market in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday, according to Plateau state Superintendent Felicia Anslem Ali. The second bomb killed some rescuers who were working in the billowing black smoke at the scene, with witnesses believing it was timed to explode half an hour after the first. The explosives in the second attack were loaded with grain, witnesses told reporters. No groups have yet claimed responsibility...

The bodies of at least 118 people have now been recovered from the sites of twin bombings in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the nation#039;s emergency management agency says. The first blast was in a busy market, the second outside a nearby hospital. No group has said it was behind the attack but Boko Haram militants have carried out a spate of recent bombings. Jos has also seen deadly clashes between Christian and Muslim groups in recent years. A spokesperson for the regional governor told AFP news agency that most of the victims were women. The market and bus terminal are part of the commercial centre of Jos. The second blast was some 30 minutes after the first and killed some rescue...

After lurching from one military coup to another, Nigeria now has an elected leadership. But the government faces the growing challenge of preventing Africa#039;s most populous country from breaking apart along ethnic and religious lines. Political liberalisation ushered in by the return to civilian rule in 1999 has allowed militants from religious and ethnic groups to...

Days after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan...

JOS - At least 118 people were killed in two blasts on...

JOS, Nigeria ? Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing at least 46 people, wounding dozens and leaving streets strewn with bloodied bodies. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the twin car bombs. But they bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group that abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls last month and has repeatedly targeted bus stations and other locations where large numbers of people gather in its campaign to impose Islamic law on Nigeria. The second blast came half an hour after the first, killing some of the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, which was obscured by billows of...

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese presidency has warned the media in the country against any "mishandling of issues related to the army, the Security and the judiciary", least they cross what it called "the red line".
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Rome, Italy (PANA) ? The security situation in Libya calls for the intervention by the international community, the Italian Prime Minister, Mateo Renzi, said on Monday at the close of talks here with his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? The Nigerian Police Tuesday ordered the immediate appraisal of the safety measures and other defence parapets as well as the related concerns in all secondary schools in Nigeria in order to forestall future incidence of security breaches and kidnapping of students.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? The Nigerian Senate Tuesday endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan's request to extend emergency rule in the three North Eastern States of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa by six months.
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Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? Saudi Arabia has offered Malians living in the region of Timbuktu (northern Mali) 1,400 tonnes of food, worth 1.1 billion CFAF, to assist vulnerable families and children sent to school in that region, the Malian news agency reports here on Tuesday.
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Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? The Malian president, Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, Monday vowed that perpetrators of the attack during Prime Minister Moussa Mara's visit to Kidal, northern Mali, will be punished appropriately.
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Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? Several current and former African football stars will storm Bamako, the Malian capital, on 9 June to participate in the fourth edition of the international Sido-Foot festival, aimed at achieving total reconciliation in Mali, organizers told here PANA.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has strongly condemned the bomb blasts in Jos, the capital of the central Plateau State, describing the perpetrators of the tragic assault on human freedom as cruel and evil.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Nigeria?s main opposition party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), Tuesday accused President Goodluck Jonathan and members of his administration of insincerity in the execution of the ongoing fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Nigerian President, Dr. GoodLuck Jonathan, Tuesday ordered the deployment of additional troops in the Boko Haram enclave of North Eastern Nigeria in order to strengthen the military force fighting the Boko Haram insurgency.
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New York, US (PANA) - International donors on Tuesday pledged more than US$600 million in aid to South Sudan at a conference hosted in Oslo by Norway and the UN aimed at preventing famine and upholding human rights in the world?s newest country, which has been ravaged by months of fighting.
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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) ? The International Francophone Organization (OIF) has strongly condemned the return of violence in the Malian northern city of Kidal and called for calm.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has called for early parliamentary elections in the North African country which has continued to reel under escalating violence.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? The Mauritanian national committee for transparency on extractive industries (CNITIE) is preparing for a wide sensitization campaign to make the population know about the importance for a better management of natural resources for the profit of the people, sources from the institution told PANA on Tuesday.
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