The commander of US forces in Africa has flown to Nigeria to discuss how to help the government in Abuja trace more than 200 schoolgirls....

Fraught relatives of almost 300 schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria have identified only four of the young women in a propaganda video published by their captors. The recording, released by Boko Haram on Monday, showed more than 100 young women in black and grey veils chanting verses from the Koran. The Islamic extremist group?s leader, Abubakar Shekau, said they were the schoolgirls captured from Chibok in the north-east of the country last month and that they had been ?liberated? and converted to Islam. However, a community leader from Chibok, whose younger sister is among the missing, said that despite successive screenings of the video to parents and classmates since Monday, only four girls...

An Al-Jazeera journalist held in Egypt since August is in critical health and could slip into a coma after more than 100 days on hunger strike....

France will begin training Libyan policemen in the coming weeks, more than a year after pledging to do so as part of efforts to help restore security....

[Guardian Network]Flanked by fields of millet and groundnut, the northern Nigerian outpost of Bagega is so far out on the periphery of the global economy that when the financial crisis struck in 2008 few residents had any idea it was happening....

Boko Haram is one of the most effective and successful guerrilla groups anywhere. Nowhere in the north-east of Nigeria is safe nowadays from it. It has even carried out attacks in distant cities like Kaduna, Kano and the capital, Abuja. What shocked me was that Boko Haram could launch a major attack on a smallish town like Gamburo, close to the border with Cameroon, and kill 375 people - and yet this would scarcely be reported in the rest of Nigeria, let alone the outside world. It happened eight days ago. My television team and I went there with the...

[UN News]Ensuring that there is no impunity for those alleged to have committed serious crimes in Libya is crucial to bring lasting peace to the country, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) stressed today, as she lamented the slow progress to date in this vital aspect of the democratic transition....

For more than five years, the Islamist terror group...

Il Senato ha però escluso che il presidente Goodluck Jonhatan possa avviare un negoziato con il movimento islamico sul rilascio delle ragazze rapite

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and Morocco have signed a partnership protocol in the mining sector, PANA reported here Tuesday, quoting a statement from the Malian ministry of Mining.
Economy

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the National Assembly (parliament) to approve the extension by another six months of the state of emergency he imposed in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe last year to curtail the activities of the terror group Boko Haram.
Politics

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? As Nigeria moves to reduce post-harvest losses in the country, an American company, Bloomberg, says it will invest US$250 million in the establishment of modern and conditioned warehouses for the storage of fresh farm produce.
Agriculture

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed deep
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, Tuesday met with a delegation of US military officers and experts, led by the Commander of United States African Command (US-AFRICOM), Lt.-Gen. David Rodriguez.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? The Nigeria Police on Tuesday warned against the increasing tendency by some citizens to resort to extra-judicial killings against those suspected to have committed crimes, saying the Police will arrest and prosecute anyone involved in ?such reprehensible acts?.
Society

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? The Mauritanian government Monday published the approved official list of five candidates who will contest the presidential elections of 21 June, 2014, PANA reported from here Tuesday.
Politics

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, says political dialogue is the only answer to the conflict in South Sudan, urging maximum restraint by all parties amid accusations of breaches of the ceasefire agreement signed just a few days ago.
Society

New York, US (PANA) - Ms. Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Tuesday stressed need to educate all children, saying that the abduction of schoolgirls in Nigeria "is an attack against the aspirations of these girls".
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? United States Under-Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Ms Sarah Sewall, on Tuesday began a two-day visit to Nigeria, meeting with top political, civil and other stakeholders over issues of counter-terrorism, elections and human rights.
Politics

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? The United Nations has expressed huge concern about the continuation of the acts of violence aimed at delaying the establishment of Libyan state institutions.
Politics

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration and International Cooperation, Abdoulaye Diop, and the Ambassador of Switzerland to Mali, Muriel Berset Kohen, on Tuesday signed in Bamako two Memorandums of Understanding for about F CFA 5.5 billion for two programmes.
Social

Lomé, Togo (PANA) ? The West African Development Bank (WADB) has given Niger two loans for the overall amount of 25 billion CFAF to finance a project for the building of the Diori Hamana interchange in Niamey and the regeneration of ecosystems programme in Kandadji, according to a statement from the bank issued on Tuesday
Economy

New York, US (PANA) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, says ensuring that there is no immunity for those alleged to have committed serious crimes in Libya is crucial to bring lasting peace to the country.
Society

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) ? Stade Tunisien beat J. Tozeur 1-0 in the battle to avoid relegation on Tuesday evening to stay in the first division of the Tunisian football league.
Sports

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - After their consultations on regional security, Presidents Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and Denis Sassou N?guesso of Congo Tuesday called on African leaders, the African Union (AU) and its Peace and Security Council to intensify efforts aimed at eradicating Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in the continent.
Politics

Les États-Unis ont annoncé lundi soir avoir envoyé des avions de surveillance au Nigeria et transmis des images satellites aux autorités locales pour aider à localiser les plus de 200 lycéennes enlevées et détenues par Boko Haram.

Minister says government willing to negotiate with group on any issue, including the release of abducted schoolgirls.

Au Mali, le nouvel avion présidentiel acheté par Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta continue de provoquer des remous. Un avion qui aurait coûté entre 17 et 20 milliards de francs CFA, selon que l?on pose la question au président IBK ou à son Premier ministre Moussa Mara. Après l?opposition, après les députés de l?Assemblée nationale, c?est au [&]

Les soldats français étaient 4 500 au Mali il y a un an, ils ne seront plus que 1 000 à la mi-2014. Leur soutien à la lutte antiterroriste va donc évoluer. Les explications du commandant de la force Serval. Plus dun an après les premières frappes françaises contre les groupes islamistes armés dans le [&]

41 ans après sa disparition, le Mali a rendu le dimanche 11 mai 2014 un digne hommage à Omar Blondin Diop, un intellectuel panafricain, militant politique sénégalais et membre actif du Mouvement des jeunes marxistes-léninistes du Sénégal. C?était au CICB sous la présidence du président de la République, Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita. Après le Sénégal, l?année [&]