Ghislaine Dupont, 57 ans, et Claude Verlon, 55 ans, ont été tués le 2 novembre, peu après avoir été enlevés.

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Close calls with crocodiles, a brutal civil war and even the death of a fellow traveler have not deterred a British man from attempting to walk the length of the Nile River. The yearlong 4,250 mile journey along the world's longest river will see the former British army captain pass through seven countries. After four months trekking through Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, Levison Wood is now in South Sudan, a country with little infrastructure that has been destabilized by four months of fighting between pro-...

Human Rights Watch has accused Kenya of treating Somalis like scapegoats amid swoops by security forces that have seen thousands arrested and scores expelled back to their war-torn country. Scapegoating and abusing Somalis for heinous attacks by unknown people is not going to protect Kenyans, Somalis,...

[AI London]The UN Security Council must expand the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Western Sahara to include sustained human rights monitoring, said Amnesty International, amid clampdowns on peaceful protests and reports of activists tortured in custody during the past year....

[UNHCR]Geneva -The UN refugee agency said on Friday the Italian navy had rescued some 6,000 people who had set out from Libya in overcrowded boats over the past four days alone....

(Source: UNECA - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa) Addis Ababa, 10 April 2014 (ECA) - The third African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) will take place in Abuja, Nigeria from 10 to 12 July 2014. According to the Secretariat of the African Internet Governance Forum...

United Nations, United States - UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for #8220;sustained, independent and impartial#8221; monitoring of human rights in Western Sahara, while welcoming Moroccan efforts to improve the situation in disputed territory under its control. His call, in a report to the Security Council released late Thursday, is likely to stoke renewed debate about widening the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the territory when it comes up for renewal later this month. A US-backed effort to do so last year was dropped only in the face of intensive lobbying by Morocco, which is deeply sensitive to outside criticism of...

[AlertNet]Up to 50,000 undernourished children below the age of five are likely to die in war-torn South Sudan unless they receive urgent treatment, the U.N. Children's Fund has warned....

[Garowe Online]Kismayo -Kenyan-AMISOM troops along with Somalia's Jubaland forces have freed two Kenyan nationals being held captive by Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group on Friday, Garowe Online reports....

[ThinkAfricaPress]Egypt's military doesn't only control the political levers of power, but also the economic ones. And its involvement is getting even deeper....

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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? Mauritania's ruling party and the opposition Thursday agreed on a calendar for a political dialogue as the country's presidential election approaches, according to political sources here.
Politics

Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Kodjovi Kégbalo, former coach of the first division teams, Dyto FC and Agaza FC, has been appointed head of the Togolese national junior football team and tasked with taking the West African nation to the African Nations Championship, slated for Niger in 2015.
Sports

Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? The sixth edition of the Senegalese-Malian fashion week will be held from 30 April to 10 May in the Malian capital, Bamako, organizers told PANA here on Friday.
Culture

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? Judge Kamel al-Bahri, Deputy Director of Libya's Higher Institute of the judiciary, who was kidnapped Thursday from his office here, was released Friday, according to the Libyan news agency (LANA).
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? The Nigerian government has contributed US$5million to the feasibility study aimed at restoring the Lake Chad Basin.
Environment

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) ? Another batch of illegal immigrants, this time 400 in number, has been arrested in the past two days off Libyan coasts while attempting to get to Europe on board of several small boats.
Society

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? The bill on cyber-criminality "will not have effects on press freedom which is an essential option for the Mauritanian authorities and people?, the Mauritanian Minister of Employment, Vocational training, Information and Communication technology, Ismael Ould Bedda Ould Cheikh Sidya, said here Friday.
Society

Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? The Malian Under-14 tennis team will take part in an international tennis tournament beginning on Saturday in the Togolese capital, Lomé, PANA learnt from the Malian tennis federation (FMT) on Friday.
Sports

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) ? "Tunisia?s economic outlook is difficult and Tunisians do not have any choice but to work hard and make sacrifices to get out of the crisis," Tunisian Prime minister Mehdi Jomâa, warned here on Friday.
Economy

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) ? The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA), with its secretariat at the African Union Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has appointed Dr. Benoit Gnonlonfin, as its new Technical Officer, according to a statement, made available to PANA here Friday.
Agriculture

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A prominent opposition leader in the Sudan, Dr Ghazi Salah Eddin, has warned that current tribal and ethnic tension in his country is more serious than any other problems the country faces.
Politics

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have warned in separate reports about hard times for thousands of refugees or people displaced by the current conflict in South Sudan, particularly with the approach of the rainy season.
Society

Plus de cinq mois après la disparition de Ghislaine Dupont et Claude Verlon, les deux journalistes de RFI assassinés dans le Nord-Mali, le parquet de paris a ouvert ce vendredi une information judiciaire.

More than 400, mostly from the Horn of Africa, detained as they tried to illegally cross to Europe in small boats.

Two members of banned group shot in exchange of gunfire with security forces in New Delta, interior ministry says.

Le président malien Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta est attendu dimanche après-midi à Dakar « pour une visite dEtat » au Sénégal devant durer jusquau 15 avril, a annoncé vendredi la présidence sénégalaise dans un communiqué. M. Keïta sentretiendra lundi matin en tête-à-tête avec son homologue sénégalais Macky Sall, entretien qui sera ensuite élargi aux délégations des deux pays. [&]

Pour contribuer, à travers le balafon, à la promotion dun Etat de paix et de sécurité au Mali, les balafonistes viennent de créer une association éponyme, parrainée par Malamine Koné, PDG de léquipementier Airness. Le lancement aura lieu le 19 avril à travers un concert sur les berges du Palais de la culture sous la présidence [&]

Après plusieurs semaines de mise en condition au cours d?une préparation pointue, le deuxième bataillon sénégalais des « Jambars » en partance pour le Nord du Mali a reçu, hier, à la base aérienne de Thiès, le drapeau des mains du chef d?état-major général des armées, le Général Mamadou Sow. Composé des éléments du 24ème [&]

L?Agence pour l?aménagement des zones industriels (AZI SA), qui a été créée pour faire la promotion de l?industrie malienne, est aujourd?hui dans l??il de cyclone. Certains industriels de notre pays pensent qu?elle n?agit pas dans l?intérêt du secteur industriel. D?agence de promotion de l?industrie, l?AZI est devenue en quelques années une agence commerciale dont le [&]