Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government has just provided security forces in border areas with a large consignment of rolling stock, the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security announced on Wednesday Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Prevailing intense political situation in the run-up to local government, mayoral and chairpersonship elections marked  the end of the 2016-2023 electoral cycle in The Gambia Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - As fighting between the regular army and paramilitaries continued in Khartoum, hundreds of UN staff were evacuated on Monday, said the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), affirming its commitment to remain in the country Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least 40 people, including 6 Burkinabe soldiers and 34 Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP), were killed on Saturday in an attack on a military detachment, located 15 km from the town of Ouahigouya in the north of the country, an official source told PANA on Sunday Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The 13th meeting of the forum of ministers in charge of security of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) opened on Thursday in Niamey, Niger, under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Niger, Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned, in a statement issued Friday, the recent attacks that left several dead in the ranks of the Burkinabe army Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Interior Ministry held an enlarged meeting on national security Thursday at the ministry's premises in Tripoli, in the presence of the Prime Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba and the acting Interior Minister, Imad Trabelsi Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The activities of armed terrorist groups are further complicating humanitarian access in the Ménaka region in the north-east of the country, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned on Wednesday Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa this weekend marked the one-year anniversary of the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma which sparked massive riots in the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces Full text...

Ouagadougou, (Mali) - Two humanitarian workers of the Malian Red Cross were killed on Wednesday in an attack on their vehicle in the locality of Kayes, the NGO announced Thursday in a statement Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Three assailants were killed, and one wounded on Tuesday night on two Ivorian army bases in Abidjan, the Ivorian army announced in a statement Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Friday said it was alarmed by the upsurge in violence in the Greater Kasai region of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has already displaced thousands of civilians Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe army conducted 113 air operations, 38 security operations and 305 patrols from 1-7 February, 2021, a statement by the General Staff of the Armed Forces said here Tuesday Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Three Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush on Tuesday by an armed terrorist group in the central Mopti region, the army said in a statement Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 43,829 refugees and asylum seekers were repatriated during the past three months of the new Burundian regime, the spokesperson for the ministry of the Interior, Pierre Nkurikiye, said here Thursday on state radio Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Two people were killed Friday in the explosion of an artisanal mine in Titao commune, Loroum province (North), PANA learned from a security source Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - At least five people were killed in a road crash involving a car and a lorry on the highway connecting Kigali to North Western Rwanda, a police source told PANA here Thursday Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The National Union of Police (UNAPOL) in Burkina Faso has expressed its discontent after the death on Saturday of ten police officers in an attack on their station in the Sahel Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Faced with the many security crises that are shaking the country, the Nigerien authorities have decided to mobilize the populations to get them to become more involved in the fight against terrorism through an information and awareness campaign of social strata of the country Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The President of the Congolese National Assembly, Isidore Mvouba, on Tuesday urged the Congolese government to "vigorously" tackle the scourge that has disrupted the tranquility of citizens in large cities Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA)  -  The European Union (EU) Friday handed over to the Malian gendarmerie here a mobile security camp estimated to cost more than 600 million CFA francs, official sources told PANA here Saturday Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - At least one Burkinabe gendarme was killed and a dozen terrorists were shot dead on New Year's eve in an attack on the gendarmerie in Djibo, Soum province in the Sahel, a security source told PANA Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso's committee for working out the national security policy and strategy which had a hundred days to propose a document has finished its work, PANA learnt on Friday from the ministry in charge of security Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)  - The security situation in the Sahel is very worrying, said Gilles Yabi, director and founder of Wati, a citizen think thank on West Africa, based in Dakar, in an interview with PANA Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo's former coach of the Under-17 Sparrowhawks (2005-2007), Abraw Samer, was shown among the 18 people arrested in connection with the so-called "attempted insurrection" case in Lome in Sokode, PANA learnt from police sources Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) -  Togo's security and defence forces have foiled an insurgency attempt in Lomé and Sokodé following attacks on gendarmes and police officers, and the destruction of public property, according to Minister of Security, General Yark Damehame Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – There was chaos in Cape Town on Friday after a delegation of religious leaders and representatives of the Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) were attacked inside the Central Methodist Church by refugees who are demanding a safe exit from South Africa Full text...