[Deutsche Welle]As fighting continues in three states in South Sudan, rebels are rejecting allegations by the United Nations that they killed hundreds of civilians after seizing an oil town last week....

[UN News]Confirming that children were killed in South Sudan during recent brutal attacks on displaced civilians or as a result of being recruited by armed groups, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned today that the surging violence is exacerbating an already very dangerous malnutrition crisis....

Gilberto Rodrigues Leal era un turista pensionato, in Africa per vacanza. Rapito l'anno scorso, a novembre i rapitori ne avevano diffuso un video. Il Mujao alla France Presse: "La Francia è un nostro nemico". Il presidente Hollande: "Non lasceremo impunito quanto avvenuto"

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The World Bank said it had approved a US$250 million credit facility to help the Nigerian government to increase access to water supply and improve the financial as well as management viability of existing utilities.
Economy

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza Tuesday left Bujumbura for Mogadishu on a working visit to Somalia, the state radio reported.
Politics

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Peace talks to end the ongoing fighting in South Sudan have been postponed to 28 April following the flare up in the war which has displaced more than one million civilians, mediators said Tuesday.
Politics

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Tens of thousands of people who fled targeted ethnic violence in Bentiu last week are receiving just one litre of safe drinking water per day in the desperately overcrowded UN base, the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) said in a press release, obtained by PANA here Tuesday.
Society

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs says five Sudanese nationals, injured in the fight between South Sudanese government and dissident groups, have been evacuated to Juba, but said there are no specific number on those killed last week.
Society

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The safety of seven million people in South Sudan is rapidly deteriorating, an international organization operating in South Sudan, Oxfam, said in a press statement, release Tuesday.

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) said it has recaptured, from the armed opposition, five gold-rich areas and set free 7,500 people held by the rebels in South Kordufan, the official Radio Omdurman reported on Tuesday.
Society

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Twenty Libyan cities will elect their city councillors on Saturday as part of the second wave of polls aimed at endowing cities with elected local councils.
Politics

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan security forces (army and the police) on Monday raided the "bird market" of Benghazi, a popular market where weapons and drugs are sold, PANA reported, saying, however, that officials have yet to indicate the outcome of the raid.
Society

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Defending champions Kenya Prisons and compatriots Kenya Pipeline Company won respective second-round matches to advance to the quarter-finals in the CAVB African Women?s Club Championships in Carthage, Tunisia, over the Easter Holidays.
Sports

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian Minister of Communications and government spokesman, Sidi Mohamed Ould Maham, on Tuesday said that the ruling party was ready to continue the dialogue with the opposition.
Politics

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) ? The Tunisian Prime minister, Mehdi Jomâa, on Tuesday pledged his government's support for the world social forum that will be hosted by his country on 15 March next year.
Society

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? The Libyan constituent assembly has elected Ali Tarhouni, Finance and Oil minister in the defunct post-revolution National Transitional Council (NTC), as chairman of the Constituent Assembly that would write the North African country's new constitution.
Politics

Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? The Malian Parliament has named a 16-member ad hoc commission to investigate former president Amadou Toumani Touré for alleged high treason.
Politics

Lomé, Togo (PANA) ? The President's Cup, an international football tournament for junior teams in West Africa, entered its second day on Tuesday in Lomé with Benin and Nigeria winning their respective matches.
Sports

New York, US (PANA) - Following the murder on Tuesday of Somali parliamentarian, Mr. Abdiaziz Isaaq Mursal, the second lawmaker to be killed in less than 48 hours in Mogadishu, the UN envoy in the country strongly condemned the incident.
Society

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) ? Tunisia will not negotiate under the pressure of abductors of Tunisian diplomats kidnapped in Libya and will not bow to blackmail, the Tunisian foreign affairs minister, Mongi Hamdi, declared on Tuesday.

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? The financial commission at the Libyan National General Congress (NGC, Parliament) on Tuesday examined how to repatriate Libyan funds stashed way in foreign countries by the regime of the late Mouamar Kaddafi, estimated at some US$200 billion.
Economy

Mardi, un député somalien a été abattu par balles à Mogadiscio. Il s?agit du second parlementaire assassiné dans la capitale somalienne en 24 heures. L?opération n?a pas été revendiquée.

Rebel commander Riek Machar says his forces were not behind the killing of hundreds in the contested town of Bentiu.

Correspondent Peter Greste, and producers Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have already spent 115 days in Egyptian jail.

Le Malien Traoré Bakary a remporté 1. 500 dollars américains comme premier prix du tournoi international du jeu déchecs de Lomé, rapporte mardi le journal « Icilome ». Il est suivi de lIvoirien Simplice Detondo, du Malien Bah Bréma, et des Ghanéens Sekyere Kwame et Kojo Hasforo. Pour Frédéric Kouévi, président de la Fédération Togolaise des Echecs [&]

Les cinq membres de léquipe du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR), enlevés le 8 février 2014 pendant une mission dans le Nord du Mali, ont été libérés le jeudi 17 avril. Deux des anciens otages sont légèrement blessés mais leur vie nest pas en. danger. Tous, selon un communiqué de presse du CICR, vont [&]

Lun des deux derniers otages français enlevés au Mali, Gilberto Rodrigues Leal, est mort, a annoncé mardi le Mouvement pour lunicité et le jihad en Afrique de lOuest (Mujao), groupe jihadiste qui avait revendiqué son rapt en novembre 2012. « Nous annonçons la mort de Rodrigues. Il est mort, parce que la France est notre ennemie », [&]

Dans le cadre du tournoi de football des cadets dénommé « Président Cup 20143 qui se déroule à Lomé, les Aiglonnets du Mali ont été battus, hier, par leurs homologues du Nigeria sur le score de 2 buts à 0. Cette défaite nest surprenante pour qui connait les conditions dans lesquelles les poulains de Baye Bah [&]

A linstar de la communauté internationale, léglise Catholique du Mali a célébré la Jeté de Pâques dans une atmosphère conviviale dans lenceinte de lécole de la cathédrale de Bamako. Cet événement qui marque la résurrection de Jésus-Christ a été placé sous le signe du retour de la paix et ta réconciliation dans notre pays. Cette [&]

À l?instar de la communauté internationale, notre pays a célébré samedi 19 avril la Journée internationale des jeunes filles dans le domaine des TIC autour d?une conférence-débat dont le thème était : «Enjeux et dangers des réseaux sur les jeunes filles». C?était à la Maison de la Presse du Mali.  L?événement a été présidé par le ministre [&]