L'armée de l'air française survole les frontières Tchad-Libye et Niger-Libye depuis octobre 2013 afin de repérer tout véhicule suspect dans le sud libyen.

L'Assemblée nationale constituante a voté dans son intégralité le chapitre droits et libertés de la nouvelle Constitution tunisienne, accomplissant de réelles avancées par rapport au texte de 1959. Explications.

Le président malien Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta se rend samedi à Alger pour une visite de "quelques jours". Un déplacement à forte valeur symbolique, à l'heure ou les autorités algériennes tentent de se replacer dans le règlement de la crise malienne.

South Sudan's government troops and rebels have both carried out atrocities over the past month of fighting, a UN human rights chief says.

Dans l?Egypte de l?après-Morsi, quid de ceux qui tentent de "faire l?amour et non la guerre" ? De jeunes Egyptiens parlent de leur vie amoureuse ou sexuelle.

China is to intensify mediation efforts aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the crisis in strife-torn South Sudan. Zhong Jianhua, China's special representative for African affairs, said a quick solution is essential to end the conflict, and China is acting as a communications bridge among all parties involved. He has just returned from an African trip, which took him to South Sudan and neighboring countries including Kenya, Sudan and Uganda, as well as the headquarters of the African Union in Ethiopia. The international community wants to see an end to conflict between...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika signed a decree on Friday authorizing a formal start to campaigning for the April 17 presidential election in the major oil- and gas-producing OPEC country. Reported by the official news agency APS, the decree was Bouteflika#39;s first public act after he returned from a hospital visit in Paris on Thursday for...

At least one...

A man uses his mobile phone at a beach in the Somali capital, Mogadishu on Friday. With the imminent arrival of fibre optic services, the Islamist group al-Shabab, which controls territory outside Mogadishu, has issued a directive banning companies from providing the internet. A man who sought refuge in the grounds of the cathedral in South Sudan?s capital, Juba, tunes his radio on Monday. The conflict between the government and rebels, which erupted in mid-December, showed no sign of ending this week?...

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(Source: Confédération Africaine de Football) Ghana and Libya played out a 1-1 draw in group C of the Orange 2014 Africa Nations Championship. In a game that befitted the cliché, a game of two halves, the first half belonged to Ghana while Libya controlled the second. An early powerful header from the edge of the six yard box by Yahaya Mohamed opened the scoring after only six (6) minutes on the clock but Libya hit back from the penalty spot in the 72nd minute through Fasail Ali. The draw leaves both teams on four (4) points with Libya in first...

(Source: Confédération Africaine de Football) Ghana coach- Maxwell Konadu: What happened today is very normal in football. We played really well in the first half and created numerous chances from which we should have scored more than...

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A group of 46 Senegalese were evacuated from the Central African Republic (CAR) Thursday night to Dakar via the Malian capital, Bamako
Society

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Leading conglomerate Unilever Nigeria Plc has appointed Mr. Yaw Nsarkoh, a Ghanaian, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the company announced in a statement made available to PANA here Friday.
Economy

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Nigerian army soldiers chased and killed about 60 suspected members of the country's violent Islamic sect Boko Haram in Cameroon's territory on Wednesday, PANA learnt from reliable sources Friday.
Society

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has said part of its main strategic focus for 2014 is to facilitate the realisation of West African Capital Market integration and attract more foreign investors into the Bourse.
Economy

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military Friday confirmed that its troops engaged members of the violent Islamic group Boko Haram at its border with Cameroon on Wednesday, but denied entering into the Cameroonian territory during the exchange of fire with the insurgents.
Society

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ghana's Black Stars meet Libya Friday in a Group C, Day 2 match at the ongoing 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa.
Sports

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Seventeen people died in a road accident while returning from a religious ceremony in Kiota, 125 kilometres east of the capital city of Niamey Monday, the government-owned weekly newspaper ''Le Sahel Dimanche'' reported Friday.
Society

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The new regional representative of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Mauritanian Mamadou Lamine N'Dongo, assumed office earlier this month in Dakar, the Capital of Senegal, according to the Pan African institution.
Economy

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The First Deputy Speaker of Libya's General National Congress (parliament), Mr. Ezeddin Al-Awamy, has reaffirmed his country?s support to the African Union (AU) during a courtesy call on the AU Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma at the AU headquarters here Friday.
Politics

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The interplay of religious, political and economic factors have been cited by analysts as some of the major motivations for the upsurge in agitations among ethnic groups, which blossom into violence and terrorism across Nigeria, Africa?s most populous black nation.

New York, US (PANA) - UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Mr. Ivan Simonovic says fighting in South Sudan has turned into a horrifying humanitarian and human rights disaster with mass atrocities committed by both sides.
Society

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) -The International Committee of the Red Cross has expressed concern about access to health care in South Sudan where tens of thousands of people were displaced by renewed fighting in Unity state over the past week.
Society

Mahamadou Diana, ministre du Logement et PCA de lOffice malien de lhabitat (OMH) a présidé jeudi 16 janvier 2013 dans les locaux de lOMH la 34e session ordinaire de son conseil dadministration. Le procès-verbal de la 33e session ordinaire, le contrôle des tâches issues des résolutions et recommandations de la 33e session ordinaire, le rapport [&]

Il fut l?un des ténors du MNLA avant de claquer la porte du mouvement avec fracas en décembre 2012, peu avant le déclenchement de l?opération Serval contre les djihadistes du Nord-Mali. Hama Ag Mahmoud estime que cette opération militaire poursuivait également d?autres objectifs. Interview : Hama Ag Mahmoud était en charge des affaires Extérieures dans le Conseil [&]

Tal-B prédit un avenir radieux au rap malien parce qu?au-delà du plaisir, il est un moyen incomparable de conscientisation et une source potentielle d?emplois rémunérateurs. Au milieu du hip-hop malien, Tal-B, un rappeur à la fleur de l?âge, nourrit de grandes ambitions pour le rap. En formation auprès des grandes vedettes du hip-hop comme Sidi [&]

Qu?est-ce que vous retenez de cette rencontre Afrique du Sud-Mali ? Un match tendu qui s?est joué jusqu?au bout. L?équipe est très bien entrée dans le match et on aurait même pu ouvrir le score dans les vingt premières minutes si l?arbitre n?avait pas refusé notre penalty suite à cette faute évidente et en pleine surface [&]

Comment vous vous sentez après ce nul d?un but partout face à l?Afrique du Sud ? Je suis très content du fait que les enfants aient accepté de jouer et ils ont joué comme on s?y attendait. Nous avons vu deux formations qui voulaient réellement jouer  pour gagner, mais le sort du match en a décidé [&]