L'ambassadeur jordanien en Libye, Fawaz Al-Itan, a été enlevé mardi à Tripoli par des inconnus, a indiqué un porte-parole du ministère libyen des affaires étrangères.

Le procès de trente-sept proches de Mouammar Kadhafi, dont son fils Saïf Al-Islam, s'est ouvert lundi à Tripoli.

Les jeunes filles devaient passer cette semaine un examen donnant accès à un diplôme commun à plusieurs pays d'Afrique anglophone.

Il rapimento di massa avvenuto lunedì sera a Chibok. Il sospetto che ad agire siano stati i «talebani africani» di Boko Haram. Si aggrava il bilancio dell?attentato ad Abuja

Masked gunmen have abducted the Jordanian ambassador in the Libyan capital, officials say, the latest in a wave of abductions in Libya....

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis, -Co-operation between Tunisia and Brazil and ways to make the best of the Brazilian experience, particularly in combating poverty were discussed, Monday, as Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi met with Brazilian ambassador to Tunisia Julio Bitelli....

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Bardo, -Attempts to question the fate of the democratic transition and the future of the Tunisian Revolution will not be tolerated, said President of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) Mustapha Ben Jaafar when receiving, Tuesday, families of martyrs and the wounded of the Revolution....

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria ? Suspected Islamic extremists abducted about 100 female students from a school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Tuesday, but some of the teens managed to escape from the back of an open truck, officials said. The girls were abducted after midnight from a school in Chibok, on the edge of the Sambisa...

There still are buildings on this Libyan city?s main drag that look like Swiss cheese from months of bombardment by Muammar Gaddafi?s forces three years ago. But while much of Libya stagnates and festers amid post-war politicking, protests and factional violence, Misrata ? possibly the worst-damaged city in the country?s 2011 revolution ? is moving on and up. New restaurants and hotels have popped up among the bombed-out apartment blocks and thousands of local entrepreneurs stand ready to make it big. The instability plaguing the country was evident today, when Jordan?s ambassador was kidnapped in Tripoli by masked gunmen who attacked his car and shot his driver. Undeterred by violence...

Presidential hopeful Ali Benflis says thousands of his supporters will monitor Algeria's election, vowing to protest if it is rigged in favour of ailing incumbent Abdelaziz Bouteflika....

[SPS]Copenhagen -The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) has noted that since the Moroccan regime has, since 30 April 2013's Security Council resolution extending MINURSO's mandate, continued to violate human rights Western Sahara....

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis, -The 10th European Union-Tunisia Association Council held in Monday in Luxembourg was marked by the political agreement reached on the overall text of the Action Plan 2014-2017 establishing privileged partnership between the two sides....

15 April 2014 Last updated at 20:06 BST Around 100 girls are thought to have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria, officials say. Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the teenagers on to lorries. Will Ross reports from Abuja. Read more...

Morocco has jailed a British man, previously convicted of child sex offences, for 20 years for kidnapping and attempting to rape three young girls....

[GAVI]Geneva -Yesterday Bill Gates and Ali Dangote, two billionaires with a passion for immunisation, joined Nigeria's Federal Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, in the nation's capital Abuja to launch Nigeria's National Routine Immunisation Strategic Plan....

[GAVI]Geneva -I was happy to be in Sokoto, northern Nigeria last month to see how the introduction of the latest batch of pentavalent vaccines funded by the GAVI Alliance was progressing....

Lo riferisce la polizia di Borno. Il sequestro nel Nord Est del Paese: le ragazze sono state prelevate da un istituto di Chibok. Già in passato gli estremisti islamici hanno sequestrato giovani donne costringendole poi a lavorare per loro come cuoche o schiave sessuali

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? The Nigerian Air Force Tuesday held a one-day retreat here for all its commanders, with the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu, tasking them to adopt advocacy, diplomacy and tact in the way troops relate with host communities in order to win the war against Boko Haram insurgency.
Society

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - In a telephone conversation with his Jordanian counterpart, Nacer Jaouda, the Libyan Foreign Affairs Minister, Mohamed Abdelaziz, pledged Tuesday that no effort will be spared in getting the kidnapped Jordanian ambassador to Libya, Faouaz al-Aytan, released.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? There was pandemonium, palpable fear and panic Tuesday afternoon at the Nigerian National Assembly complex Abuja as lawmakers, workers and visitors suddenly began to run helter-skelter in search of the nearest escape route over a hoax bomb scare.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? To mitigate the effects of climate change on Nigeria?s agricultural sector, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has unfolded plans to establish agro-meteorological stations across the country in order to alert farmers on weather conditions.
Agriculture

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? The Nigerian government Tuesday said the number of persons who died from Monday's bombing in Nyanya, near Abuja, has risen from 72 to 75.
Society

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Here are the latest foreign exchange rates for the Nigerian currency, the Naira:
Economy

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? Libyan Prime Minister Abdallah al-Theni on Tuesday condemned the kidnapping of the Jordanian ambassador in Tripoli.
Politics

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) ? Nigeria on Tuesday officially invited Tunisia to the 7-9 May World Economic Forum for Africa to be hosted in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
Politics

Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? Malian journalist Mariétou Konaté has been elected chair of the Malian branch of the Association of African female Communication Professionals (APAC).
Society

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A two-day international conference on human trafficking opened in Tunis on Tuesday with the North African country pledging to enact a law to protect human beings against trafficking.
Society

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? The Libyan National General Congress (NGC), the country's highest political and parliamentary body, on Tuesday appointed Imed Al-Sayeh as the chairman of the higher national electoral commission (HNEC).
Politics

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The violent Boko Haram sect has abducted at least 200 girls from a government high school in Chibok in Nigeria's northern Borno state, the local Channel Television station reported on Tuesday, quoting the police.
Society

Plus de cent jeunes filles ont été enlevées, lundi soir, dans un établissement d?enseignement secondaire à Chibok, localité dans le nord-est du Nigeria, par des islamistes lourdement armés du groupe Boko Haram.