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 | Nigerian military denies MEND's attack claims | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to
the country's oil producing Niger Delta
region has denied attacking the Kula community in Rivers state, as claimed by th
e militant group Movement for the Emancipation
of the Niger Delta (MEND).
18/11/2009 full text... |
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| Nigeria's oil production rises to 2.4mpd | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - For the first time in over three years, Nigeria's oil pr
oduction has peaked at 2.4 million barrels per day,
thanks to a relative peace created in the Niger Delta oil region by the governme
nt's amnesty programme, government officials said.
16/11/2009 full text... |
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| Nigeria's President 'meets' MEND's team | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (ME
ND) said on Sunday the first formal talks between its â?Aaronâ? team and Nigeri
a's President Umaru Yar'Adua were held in the capital city of Abuja on Saturday.
15/11/2009 full text... |
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| Violence erupt at opposition rally in Namibia | | Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - A rally by Namibia's opposition Rally for Democracy a
nd Progress (RDP) at Outapi in the northern Omusati region was disrupted Sunday
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llegedly by ruling SWAPO members, forcing the police to intervene, according to
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ocal media reports here Monday.
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| Kidnapped father of ex-Nigerian apex bank boss 'freed for 10m Naira' | | Â
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The kidnapped father of the immediate past Central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN) governor Charles Soludo was freed after the family paid a 10 mi
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lion naira (about US$70,000) ransom, the private Vanguard newspaper reported on
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ts website Thursday night, quoting sources close to the family.
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| 'Kenya's post-poll violence merits ICC trials' | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Loui
s Moreno-Ocampo arrived in Kenya
Thursday and immediately vowed to begin investigations into the post-election vi
olence that left more than 1,300 people dead
in the East African nation, saying crimes against humanity were committed.
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| Rwandan jails are of international standards, says Prison Official | | Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The eight convicts, sentenced by the Special tribunal on
Sierra Leone (SCSL) and transferred last weekend to Rwanda to serve their sente
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ces, are being held in good detention conditions according to international stan
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ards, the General Manager of the Rwandan Prisons National Service (PNS), Mrs. Ma
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y Gahonzire, told PANA here on Tuesday.
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| Zim court jails Mozambicans for arms | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A court in southern Zimbabwe Friday jailed four Mozamb
ican nationals for illegally possessing weapons
which they intended to use to commit armed robberies.
30/10/2009 full text... |
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| Okah urges MEND to halt Niger Delta attacks | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) lead
er Henry Okah may have prevailed on Nigeria's
main oil militants not to launch fresh attacks on oil facilities, in order to cr
eate the necessary environment for the development of the region in the
post-amnesty phase.
22/10/2009 full text... |
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| Nigerian opposition party seeks end to killings | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Against the background of the recent killing of a member
of the National Youth Service Corps by yet unknown
persons, Nigeria's opposition Action Congress (AC) party has urged the federal g
overnment to take a decision step to end the ''growing
culture of impunity in the country, characterised by the killing of innocent peo
ple by hoodlums masquerading as ethnic or religious defenders''.
21/10/2009 full text... |
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| Nigerian govt declares MEND 'enemies' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has declared as
enemies of the state members of the main oil militant group
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the local
media reported Sunday.
18/10/2009 full text... |
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| MEND announces 'resumption of hostilities' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria oil region's main militants have announced the p
lan to 'resume hostilities' from midnight Friday, in what
could be a blow to the much-touted success of the amnesty granted repentant mili
tants by the federal government.
16/10/2009 full text... |
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| ECOSAP seeks to check proliferation of light, small arms | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The director of ECOWAS Small Arms Control Programme (ECO
SAP), Mohamed Lamine Coulibaly, has stressed the need to
build the capacity of the national commissions in order to enhance the fight aga
inst the proliferation of light and small arms in the sub-region.
15/10/2009 full text... |
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| Kenya invites ICC prosecutor for post-poll violence probe | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor
Luis Moreno O'campo is expected in Kenya on 3 November, for high-profile negotia
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ions with Kenyan leaders, including President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Rai
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a Odinga, over the fate of suspects believed to have fuelled the 2008 post-elect
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on violence.
13/10/2009 full text... |
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| MEND 'to resume Niger Delta attacks' next week | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (ME
ND) has vowed to resume attacks on oil
facilities next week, ruining celebrations in government circles over the succes
s of the just-concluded 60-day amnesty for oil militants.
08/10/2009 full text... |
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| 6 Gambian parliamentarians arrested, Police deny | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The majority leader of the Gambian House of Representati
ves, Fabakry Tombong Jatta, Wednesday confirmed the arrest and detention of six
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embers of the House, all from the same North Bank Region, saying that the legisl
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tors were members of the ruling APRC.
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| Nigerian govt moves to rehabilitate repentant oil militants | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the amnesty granted Nigerian oil militants expired mi
dnight Sunday, the country's federal government said it was moving to the next s
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age, which involves the rehabilitation of the thousands of former militants and
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he massive development of the impoverished oil region.
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| Group urges Nigerian govt to declare Niger Delta national emergency | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria
[HURIWA] has called on the government to view the issue of physical and
general infrastructural
development of the Niger Delta oil region as a national emergency, saying
sustainable peace is unrealisable when poverty is widespread in any
community.
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| MEND "appoints new commanders" after amnesty deal | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the Nigerian government's amnesty deal ends at midnig
ht on Sunday (4 Oct), the oil region's main militant group Movement for the Eman
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ipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has announced the retirement of its overall field
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ommander and appointed new commanders.
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| Key oil militant beats amnesty deadline in Nigeria | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of Sunday's (4 October) expiration of the 60-day d
eadline for Nigeria's oil militants to embrace the government's amnesty deal, ke
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militant Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) on Saturday night signed on to the pro
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ramme.
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| Key Nigerian militant, Ateke Tom, surrenders weapons | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two days after meeting with Nigeria's President Umaru Ya
r'Adua in the capital city of Abuja to formally embrace the government's amnesty
programme, key oil militant Ateke Tom has surrendered his weapons to the amnesty
committee.
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| Key oil militant embraces amnesty in Nigeria | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - With just three days to the end of the 60-day amnesty pr
ogramme for Nigerian oil militants, a key oil militant, Ateke Tom, has embraced
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he programme, meeting President Umaru Yar'Adua in the capital city of Abuja Thur
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day.
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| Ghana condemns bloody Guinea crackdown | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Thursday condemned Mondayâ?s bloody crackdown on
demonstrators in the Guinean capital, Conakry, that claimed more than 150 lives
and called on the military junta, led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, to â?cease
all acts of repression and respect the rights and liberties of Guineansâ?.
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| MFWA decries "mayhem" in Conakry | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Accra-based rights body, Media Foundation for West
Africa (MFWA), on Thursday decried "the mayhem on Guineans", resulting in the
killing of more than 150 civilians and the violent attack on "countless
others, including 11 journalists on duty," the body said in a statement
received here by PANA.
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| MFWA decries â?mayhemâ? in Conakry | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Accra-based rights body, Media Foundation for West A
frica (MFWA), on Thursday decried â?the mayhem on Guineansâ?, resulting in the
killing of more than 150 civilians and the violent attack on â?countless others,
including 11 journalists on duty,â? the body said in a statement received here
by PANA.
01/10/2009 full text... |
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| MEND names Nobel Laureate, others to negotiate peace | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In perhaps the strongest indication yet that they are wi
lling to embrace peace, Nigeria's main oil militants have named the country's on
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y Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and three others to negotiate with the federal gov
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rnment on how to end the violence in the oil region.
29/09/2009 full text... |
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| Gunman kills traditional ruler in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An unknown gunman has shot dead a prominent traditional
ruler, Chief Badumeri Orime, in the Obio/Akpor local council in Nigeria's oil st
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te of Rivers, the local press reported Sunday.
27/09/2009 full text... |
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| Zimbabwean police battle WOZA protesters in Bulawayo | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Police in Zimbabwe Tuesday battled rioters in Bulawayo a
s members of the leading pressure group, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), continu
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d marking the United Nations â?International Day of Peaceâ? with street protest
s, PANA learnt here.
22/09/2009 full text... |
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| CPJ urges Kenyan govt to bring journalist's killer to justice | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged the
Kenyan government to bring to justice the killers
of journalist Francis Nyaruri, who was found decapitated with evidence of tortur
e to his body 29 January in Kodera Forest, near his
hometown of Nyamira.
22/09/2009 full text... |
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| Nigerian newspaper journalist, Bayo Ohu, shot dead | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Bayo Ohu, the deputy political editor of one of Nigeria'
s foremost privately-owned newspapers, The Guardian, was shot
dead by unknown gunmen in his Dopemu residence on the outskirts of Lagos early S
unday, PANA reported, quoting the local media and sources close to
the newspaper.
20/09/2009 full text... |
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| At least 10 Burundian soldiers killed in Somalia | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - At last 10 Burundian soldiers were killed and severa
l others wounded in Thursday's
suicide attack on the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base near Mogadishu, S
omalia, according to the
spokesperson of the Burundian army, Maj.-Gen. Lazare Nduwayo.
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| Ugandan Army confirms attacks on its peacekeeping forces in Somalia | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Uganda peacekeeping commander, Major General Nathan Mig
isha, was injured while his Burundian deputy, Juvenile Niyonguruza, died instant
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y in twin explosions by suspected suicide bombers embedded in a convoy of peace
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egotiators inside their fortified compound on Thursday morning.
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| 43 victims of northern Kenya banditry attack buried | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A sombre mood engulfed the remote northern Kenyan settle
ment of Kanampio Thursday as survivors buried their dead relations following a d
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vastating bandit attack Tuesday morning that claimed 43 lives and left scores of
others critically injured.
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| Nigerian govt eyes dialogue with MEND | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government, delighted at the 30-day extensi
on of the ceasefire deadline by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger D
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lta (MEND), has indicated it may enter into dialogue with the main oil militants
with the aim of resolving the Niger Delta crisis.
17/09/2009 full text... |
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| MEND extends ceasefire by 30 days | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main oil militant group Movement for the Emanc
ipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has extended, by 30 days, its 60-day, unilater
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l ceasefire which ended midnight Tuesday, the group said in an online statement
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ednesday.
16/09/2009 full text... |
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| Top Al Qaeda operative 'killed' in Somali raid | | Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - A top Al Qaeda operative, wanted for years over the 1998
US embassy bombings in Nairobi
and Dar es Salaam, was killed Monday in an air raid in Southern Somalia, where h
e has been suspected of masterminding the
ruthless attacks by the rag-tag forces in Somalia, Kenyan media reports said Tue
sday.
15/09/2009 full text... |
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| Uncertainty as MEND's ceasefire expires | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The unilateral, 60-day ceasefire declared by Nigeria's m
ain oil militants was due to expire Tuesday (15Sept), triggering fears of a rene
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ed attack on the country's oil facilities.
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| Death toll in Uganda riot now 14 | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The death toll in the violence which rocked the Ugandan
capital, Kampala, for the last three days is now 14, including a soldier, accor
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ing to the Ugandan Inspector General of Police, Major General Kale Kayihura.
12/09/2009 full text... |
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| UN worried about increasing LRA attacks in Southern Sudan | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary Ge
neral and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Ameerah Haq, has expr
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ssed grave concern about the increasing number of deaths due to the escalating a
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tacks by rebels of the Lordâ?s Resistance Army (LRA) against civilians - mostly
women and children - in Southern Sudanâ?s Western and Central Equatoria States.
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| 4 die in Uganda riots - Police chief | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - As the riots by supporters of the dominant Buganda King
dom in Uganda enters the second day Friday,
the country's police chief, Maj.-Gen. Kale Kayihura, said only four people had d
ied in the riots, contrary to reports.
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| Dozens feared dead in Kampala riots, Museveni seeks dialogue | | Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - As riots by supporters of Uganda's dominant Buganda kin
gdom over its (kingdom) disagreement with the government continued in various pa
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ts of the country, amid fears that dozens of lives may have been lost, President
Yoweri Museveni has opted for dialogue to end the violence.
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| 6 die in Burkina Faso prison riot | | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Six prisoners died have been confirmed dead i
n Sunday evening's riot
at the Koudougou prison (about 100km from Ouagadougou), the Burkinabe government
's information service said
It also said seven prisoners were wounded were another seven escaped during the
violence, triggered by the death
of a prisoner who was ill.
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| 'Non-militants' responsible for protest over amnesty in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian authorities are blaming non-militants for the d
emonstrations staged in Yenagoa, capital of Nigeria's oil-rich state of Bayelsa,
Monday to protest the non-payment of allowances promised them for embracing the
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overnment's amnesty programme for oil militants.
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| Six killed in Ghana ethnic violence | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Six persons have been confirmed dead in Bawku in the Upper
East Region of Ghana,
following violence that erupted on Sunday between the Mamprusi and Kusasi ethnic
groups, who have been at
each otherâ?s throat for decades.
07/09/2009 full text... |
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| Armed bandits attack 2 BRT buses in South Africa | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - In what looked like a serious setback for Sout
h Africaâ?s new multi-million rand Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, a policeman a
nd a passenger were shot and wounded when the occupants of a minibus taxi opened
fire on two BRT buses in Soweto on Tuesday night.
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| Nigerian oil militant leader 'to sue Angolan govt' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Henry Okah, leader of Nigeria's main militant group Move
ment for the Emancipation of the Niger
Delta (MEND), is to sue the government of Angola for wrongful arrest and detenti
on in the southern African nation, his lawyer,
Femi Faland, said.
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| LRA attacks in DR Congo uproot 125,000 people (Corrected) | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The scale of destruction and displacement caused by the
Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), in eastern DRC is becomin
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clearer as news emerged that no fewer than 125,000 people have been driven out
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f their villages in the Haut Uele district of Orientale province in the last thr
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e weeks.
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| LRA attacks in DR Congo uproots 125,000 people | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The scale of destruction and displacement caused by the
Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), in eastern DRC is becomin
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clearer as news emerged that no fewer than 125,000 people have been driven out
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f their villages in the Haut Uele district of Orientale province in the last thr
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e weeks.
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| UN envoy calls for end to violence in Somalia | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Soma
lia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has called on the Horn of Africa nation's warring pa
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ties to resolve their differences during the holy month of Ramadan.
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| ICG warns of looming violence in Puntland | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned that if
the self-declared government of Puntland does not enact meaningful reforms and r
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ach out to all clans, the region that has so far enjoyed relative peace, may bre
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k up violently, adding to the chaos in Somalia.
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| MEND dismisses government amnesty again, vows to fight on | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Apparently angered by the massive surrender of
arms and ammunition in its backyard on Saturday, Nigeria's largest
militant group has again dismissed the government's amnesty programme
as a â?charadeâ?, while pledging more attacks against oil facilities in
the Niger Delta oil region.
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| More oil militants embrace Nigerian amnesty | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More Nigerian oil militants Thursday embraced the govern
ment's 60-day amnesty, as 65 militants from various groups surrendered their arm
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and ammunition to the government in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state.
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| Nigeria repatriates Islamic sect members | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The repatriation of illegal immigrants among the 3,500 m
embers of the Islamist sect Darul-Islam, which was dislodged by security agencie
s
from its camp in Mokwa, in Nigeria's northern Niger state at the weekend, have
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egun, the local press reported Wednesday.
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| Nigerian govt. to brief foreign diplomats on amnesty | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Defence Minister, Maj.-Gen. Godwin Abbe (rtd),
said Monday the government would soon meet with the diplomatic community and ap
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raise them on the progress made on the on-going amnesty programme offered milita
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ts in the restive Niger Delta region, PANA reported from here.
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| Nigerian govt. to brief foreign diplomats on amnesty | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Defence Minister, Maj.-Gen. Godwin Abbe (rtd),
said Monday the government would soon meet with the diplomatic community and ap
p
raise them on the progress made on the on-going amnesty programme offered milita
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ts in the restive Niger Delta region, PANA reported from here.
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| Nigerian govt. to brief foreign diplomats on amnesty | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Defence Minister, Maj. Gen. Godwin Abbe
(rtd),
said Monday the government would soon meet with the diplomatic community
and ap
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raise them on the progress made on the on-going amnesty programme offered
milita
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ts in the restive Niger Delta region, PANA reported from here.
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| Nigeria police raid Islamic sect camp, dislodge 3,500 members | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police, acting on orders from the presidency
, Saturday raided the camp of suspected Islamic fundamentalist sect 'Darullslam'
in Mokwa, northern Niger state, and dislodged its over 3,500 inhabitants without
casualty, the private
Punch newspaper reported Sunday.
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| Abducted monarch freed in Niger Delta | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A traditional ruler in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Del
ta has been set free by soldiers who abducted him
in June, according to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND
).
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