[SPS]Bir Lehlou -President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has sent a letter of congratulation to the President-elect of Chile Ms. Michelle Bachelet, following her victory in the presidential elections, held last Sunday.

[Aswat Masriya]CAIRO, Dec 17 (Aswat Masriya) A Central Security officer was killed on Tuesday in a security operation to capture "terrorists" in Ismaliya, a source from the interior ministry said.

Il 17 dicembre 2011 un commerciante ambulante, Mohamed Bouazizi, si diede fuoco e, inconsapevolmente, innescò la rivolta che in poche settimane fece cadere il presidente Ben Ali. Dopo 3 anni, nei Paesi arabi rimane un profondo malcontento

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Teachers in Nigeria's public universities have suspended their over five-month strike that has put academic activities in the institutions in abeyance.
Society

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nineteen Nigeriens have been killed and ten others injured in two road accidents that occurred in Nigeria, Niger?s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement issued here.
Society

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) ? The safety and security of the civilian population in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, has become a matter of deep concern to the African Union (AU) Commission following an outbreak of fighting in the city on 15 December 2013, the Commission?s Chairperson, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, said here Tuesday.
Politics

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mamadou Kaba, former chairman of the Malian Superior Council for Communications, journalist and former Malian ambassador to Egypt, has died at age 69 in Paris, the Malian Television announced Monday night.
Society

Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? Following are the fixtures for the fourth round of the Malian football league Tuesday:
Sports

Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? Bamako, the Malian capital, will soon be provided with good drinking water under an agreement signed here Monday by the Malian government, the French Development Agency (AFD), the European Union (EU) and the European Investment Bank, official sources told PANA Tuesday.
Society

New York, US (PANA) ? The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is deeply concerned about a new bout of fighting that has forced an estimated 13,000 civilians, many of them women and children, to seek refuge at the UN base in Juba, the country's capital city.
Society

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has said that reconstruction and development of 315 projects, in line with the Darfur Development Strategy, have commenced in Darfur region.

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday inaugurated the nation's first Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), tagged GULMA.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Nigeria?s National Assembly conference committee on Same-Sex marriage prohibition on Tuesday ratified the recommendation of 14-year jail term for offenders, clearing the way for the controversial bill to become law.
Politics

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday expressed concern about developments in South Sudan following an alleged botched coup attempt.
Politics

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Nigeria?s first locally made Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), unveiled by President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday, would be ready for operational deployment in the fight against the Boko Haram Islamist terrorists and other internal security operations by the end of first quarter 2014.
Society

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) ? Nigeria?s leading anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Major Fraud Squad (MFS) of Western Australia Police to fight internet fraud and money laundering.
Society

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese Presidential Assistant, Prof. Ibrahim Ghandour, has stated that the country accords priority to the development of relations with Russia, considering the status of the latter as a big influential power in international issues.
Politics

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN mission in South Sudan says nine babies have been born in the past two days inside its health facilities where people have flocked following unrest in the capital, Juba.
Society

Le parti du président malien Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta et ses alliés ont obtenu une confortable majorité à l?issue du second tour des élections législatives au Mali. Ils récoltent 115 des 147 sièges que compte l?Assemblée nationale.

At least 66 dead in fighting, and 10 senior officials held in what president says is a coup attempt by former deputy.

Tra fazioni rivali militari

Dopo scontri tra fazioni rivali della Guardia repubblicana

Portavoce, è organizzato dagli autori del golpe

In sei mesi, negli Stati di Adamawa, Borno e Yobe

Incubo guerra civile a Juba. Il presidente Kiir: «Abbiamo il pieno controllo della situazione». Ma si spara ancora

L'accord arraché à la dernière minute sur le nom du nouveau Premier ministre, Mehdi Jomaâ, a suscité dimanche un mélange de soulagement et d'appréhension en Tunisie.

Non, Twitter n'a pas fait la révolution tunisienne de 2010-2011. Mais la contestation s'est propagée en partie grâce au réseau social. Outil de mobilisation, d'information et d'entraide pour les manifestants… Trois ans après, retour sur la tempête de sable numérique qui a contribué au renversement de Ben Ali.

Discrète mais tenace, la militante marocaine Khadija Ryadi a été distinguée par les Nations unies, le 10 décembre, pour son combat en faveur des droits de l'homme.

CAIRO -- South Sudan President Salva Kiir announced an overnight curfew for civilians Monday after what he characterized as a failed coup attempt.

Google acquires the engineering company that developed Cheetah, the world's fastest-running robot and other animalistic mobile research machines.