(Source: Confédération Africaine de Football) Two time winners Esperance of Tunisia will have to overcome an all- North African group if they are to add a third title in this year's Orange CAF Champions League. The draw for the 2014 group stage of the continent's premier inter-club competition conducted in Cairo (Tuesday 29 April) produced fascinating encounters. Recently retired Egyptian international and reigning African Player of the Year based in Africa, Mohamed Abou-Trika was at CAF HQ to assist Secretary General, Hicham El Amrani to do the draw. Abou-Trika the Al Ahly legend picked out fellow Egyptian side, Zamalek to be in group A where the, five-time winners of the competition...

[ICRC]Since violence erupted in South Sudan in mid December, more than 95,000 people have fled to Gambella, in neighbouring Ethiopia, where they arrive exhausted, sick and in desperate need of support....

[HRW]Beirut -New mass death sentences issued by a court in central Egypt on April 28, 2014, after a cursory trial are a blatant and fundamental violation of the right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Egyptian constitution and international law....

[IFRC]Since early December when violence erupted in South Sudan, more than 85,000 people have fled into neighboring Ethiopia, arriving in Gambella, exhausted, sick, and in desperate need of support....

[UN News]The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today strongly condemned the imposition of the death penalty on hundreds of people in Egypt, after mass trials that she said clearly breached international human rights law....

[UN News]The Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire in Western Sahara and organizing a referendum on self-determination for the people of the territory....

[UN News]The United Nations refugee agency is preparing to airlift relief supplies to South Sudan today for 100,000 displaced people ahead of the rainy season, while the top UN relief official there is calling for a month-long truce to enable people to move around safely and cultivate their fields....

Mali's new prime minister has painted an unflattering picture of his own country and announced an ambitious plan to unite the nation....

[Deutsche Welle]Gunmen have stormed the seat of Libya's General National Congress in Tripoli. The attack came as parliamentarians were preparing to elect a new prime minister....

29 April 2014 Last updated at 22:32 BST The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned of the possibility of revenge killings in the on-going conflict in South Sudan. Navi Pillay was speaking during a trip to the towns of Bentiu and Bor where mass killings have taken place recently. Her visit comes as negotiations, to...

Nel tardo pomeriggio è arrivata alla compagnia italiana la lettera di Etihad che formalizza un ulteriore passo nella trattativa per l'ingresso del vettore arabo nel capitale di Alitalia

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Africa Progress Panel (APP) will Thursday release its annual Africa Progress Report, ''Grain, Fish, Money - Financing Africa?s Green and Blue revolutions'', at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
Economy

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A three-day National Gender Training Workshop opened in Nigeria?s capital, Abuja, Tuesday with a consensus by participants that the West African sub-region would gain more if women are properly mainstreamed into governance and decision making.
Gender

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following the draws made Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt, the headquarters of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), the eight qualifiers for the mini-league stage of the 2014 CAF Confederation Cup have been placed in their groups in continuation of the contest.
Sports

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Below are the two groups in the mini-league or group stage of the 2014 CAF Champions league, according to the draws made Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt, by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
Sports

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's foreign exchange rates for the Tunisian Dinar:
Economy

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) ? There are more than 600,000 jobless youths in Tunisia with about 100,000 others abandoning their studies, the Tunisian Employment and Professional Training Minister Hafedh Laamour announced here Tuesday while speaking at a forum on the presentation of a study on youth and employment.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Back from the Easter break, the Nigerian Senate Tuesday asked the Nigerian government to declare a total war against the Boko Haram terrorists who have been unleashing violence, including kidnappings, in the North Eastern part of the country.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian leader, President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday sacked his Political Adviser, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, with immediate effect.
Politics

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian National Assembly on Monday adopted a bill authorizing the government to ratify the Protocol to the Convention of the African Union (AU) on the prevention and fight against terrorism, approved at the continental level 8 July, 2004, and signed by Mauritania 27 January, 2013, PANA learnt from official sources.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? A three-day meeting of the African Business Summit and Business Association Conference opened Tuesday in Nigeria?s capital, Abuja.
Economy

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) airlifted relief supplies to South Sudan on Tuesday for 100,000 displaced people ahead of the rainy season, while it also is calling for a month-long truce to enable people to move around safely and cultivate their fields.
Society

Bahir Dar, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian water experts said on Tuesday an upstream electric power dam along the River Nile would not affect Egypt?s water survival compared to the risks posed by climate change.
Environment

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Members of the umbrella body of Nigeria?s polytechnic and education colleges, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), who staged a demonstration in Abuja on Tuesday to draw attention to their 11-month-old strike were tear-gas and dispersed by a detachment of the Nigerian Mobile Police.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? The Nigerian House of Representatives on Tuesday summoned the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh and the three Service Chiefs over the abduction of about 273 school girls from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.
Society

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Tuesday extended for another year the mandate of the UN mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire in Western Sahara and organising a referendum on self-determination for the people of the territory.
Politics

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) ? A former Libyan judge was shot dead on Tuesday by gunmen in the city of Derna while an army officer was injured when an explosive device went off under his car in an attack perpetrated in Benghazi.
Society

Enlevées dans leur lycée le 14 avril à Chibok, dans le nord-est du Nigeria, la plupart des 187 jeunes femmes aux mains des islamistes de Boko Haram auraient été mariées de force et emmenées dans les pays voisins, notamment au Cameroun.

Several people were wounded when armed men began firing during a special assembly session to elect a new prime minister.

Le sélectionneur national, Henri Kasperczak, en conférence do presse hier, est revenu sur le match Sénegal-Mall, le tirage des éliminatoires de la Coupe dAfrique des nations, «Maroc en 2015» et le programme des rencontres amicales des Aigles. Et de marteler que les calculs ne serviront à rien quand II faut compter sur sol-même. «Il faut compter [&]