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Last Updated     20/11/2009    08:46:00
11 ex-militants arraigned in court in Nigeria after riot
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eleven former militants who went on rampage Monday in so uthern Rivers state, over the delay in the payments of their allowances, have been charged to court f or robbery, rioting and disorderly behaviour, the police said Friday.    20/11/2009   full text...
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...
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...
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...
Crime in SA is most violent worldwide, admits Jacob Zuma
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday acknowledged that crime in South Africa was the most violent in the world.    13/11/2009   full text...
Nigeria police 'arrest' kidnappers of ex-apex bank boss' dad
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police said they have arrested the suspected kidnappers of Pa Simeon Soludo,father of the immediate past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).    12/11/2009   full text...
Kenyan lawmakers shun debate on post-poll violence court
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan lawmakers tactfully evaded debate on the formatio n of a special tribunal to try post-election violence suspects on Wednesday, day s after the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor vowed to take over the t rials.    11/11/2009   full text...
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 a llegedly by ruling SWAPO members, forcing the police to intervene, according to l ocal media reports here Monday.    09/11/2009   full text...
ICC appoints judges to probe Kenya poll-violence suspects
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has appointed thr ee judges to establish whether to commence investigations on the key masterminds of the 2008 post-poll violence in Kenya which claimed 1,300 lives.    07/11/2009   full text...
Kidnapped father of ex-Nigerian apex bank boss 'freed for 10m Naira'
  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 l lion naira (about US$70,000) ransom, the private Vanguard newspaper reported on i ts website Thursday night, quoting sources close to the family.    05/11/2009   full text...
Kenya's outlawed militia spokesman shot dead
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The spokesman of Kenya's outlawed militia, Mungiki, Njug una Gitau, was shot dead in Nairobi on Thursday afternoon by unknown gunmen.    05/11/2009   full text...
'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.    05/11/2009   full text...
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 n ces, are being held in good detention conditions according to international stan d ards, the General Manager of the Rwandan Prisons National Service (PNS), Mrs. Ma r y Gahonzire, told PANA here on Tuesday.    03/11/2009   full text...
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...
Kidnappers of Nigerian ruling party official's dad want 5b naira
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The unknown gunmen who kidnapped the 78-year-old father of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor and ruling party official, Char l es Soludo, are demanding 5 billion naira as ransom, the local press reported Thu r sday (US$1=150 Naira).    29/10/2009   full text...
Zimbabwe court imposes 53-year sentence on rapist
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A Zimbabwean court, trying to stem rising rape cases, Monday imposed a stiff 53-year jail sentence on a man who raped three young girls and infected them with HIV.    26/10/2009   full text...
MEND announces 'indefinite ceasefire'
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main oil militants have announced an 'indefini te ceasefire', starting Sunday, to pave the way for peace negotiations with the f ederal government.    25/10/2009   full text...
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...
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...
'Nigeria lost US$3.2b in 3 years to Niger Delta violence'
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The long-drawn crisis in Nigeria's oil producing Niger D elta region cost Nigeria over US$1 billion every year between 2004 and 2007, the country's officials said .    19/10/2009   full text...
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...
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...
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...
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 t ions with Kenyan leaders, including President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Rai l a Odinga, over the fate of suspects believed to have fuelled the 2008 post-elect i on violence.    13/10/2009   full text...
Ex-militant says MEND incapable of launching fresh oil attacks
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government's amnesty programme, which round ed off 4 Oct., may have succeeded in pitching repentant militants against unrepentant ones, if the statement credited to a former militant is anything to go by.    11/10/2009   full text...
Nigeria to screen repentant militants
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government is to screen the militants who h ave embraced the amnesty deal to determine whether or not they are genuine militants.    08/10/2009   full text...
More than 8,000 militants embrace Nigeria amnesty
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 8,299 militants embraced the Nigerian government's amnesty programme for oil militants, which ended 4 Oct., according to officials of the Coordinating Committee on the Amnesty.    08/10/2009   full text...
Nigerian govt amnesty nets 8,299 militants, 2,760 arms
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government's 60-day amnest...    08/10/2009   full text...
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...
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 m embers of the House, all from the same North Bank Region, saying that the legisl a tors were members of the ruling APRC.    07/10/2009   full text...
'Troops to remain in Nigeria's oil region after amnesty deal'
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The thousands of troops deployed to Nigeria's restive Ni ger Delta oil region are to remain there despite the acclaimed success of the government's amnesty programme, which rounded off on Sunday, government and defence officials said Tuesday.    06/10/2009   full text...
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 t age, which involves the rehabilitation of the thousands of former militants and t he massive development of the impoverished oil region.    05/10/2009   full text...
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.    05/10/2009   full text...
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 c ipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has announced the retirement of its overall field c ommander and appointed new commanders.    04/10/2009   full text...
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 y militant Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) on Saturday night signed on to the pro g ramme.    04/10/2009   full text...
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.    03/10/2009   full text...
Ugandan troops kill unarmed people following tribal riots
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) â" American-based International Human Rights Watch (HRW) , citing a total of 13 cases, has accused the Ugandan security forces of killing unarmed civilians in tribal riots last month.    03/10/2009   full text...
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 t he programme, meeting President Umaru Yar'Adua in the capital city of Abuja Thur s day.    01/10/2009   full text...
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?.    01/10/2009   full text...
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.    01/10/2009   full text...
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...
UN Security Council condemns violence in Guinea
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Wednesday expressed "utmost concern" over the violence in the West African state of Guinea, which has claimed more than 150 lives.    30/09/2009   full text...
Kidnapped Nigerian state govt official freed
Kaduna, Nigeria (PANA) - The Secretary to the government of Kaduna state in Nort hern Nigeria, Mr. Waje Yayok, has been freed unharmed more than a week after he w as kidnapped, government sources said Wednesday.    30/09/2009   full text...
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 l y Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and three others to negotiate with the federal gov e rnment on how to end the violence in the oil region.    29/09/2009   full text...
Nigerian police kill 3 kidnappers, rescue 2 victims
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - After nearly 45 minutes of a hot exchange of fire along the Port Harcourt-Aba expressway, in South South Nigeria, a police patrol team s u ccessfully killed three kidnappers and rescued two of their victims.    28/09/2009   full text...
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 a te of Rivers, the local press reported Sunday.    27/09/2009   full text...
Repentant Nigeria oil militants protest non-payment of allowances
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - For the third time since the start of the 60-day amnesty programme for Nigerian oil militants began, repentant militants Friday staged a public demonstration in Yenagoa, capital of the oil state of Bayelsa, to protest alleged non-payment of their allowances.    25/09/2009   full text...
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 e d marking the United Nations â?International Day of Peaceâ? with street protest s, PANA learnt here.    22/09/2009   full text...
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...
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...
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.    18/09/2009   full text...
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 l y in twin explosions by suspected suicide bombers embedded in a convoy of peace n egotiators inside their fortified compound on Thursday morning.    17/09/2009   full text...
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 e vastating bandit attack Tuesday morning that claimed 43 lives and left scores of others critically injured.    17/09/2009   full text...
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 e 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...
Manhunt on for raiders who massacred 34 in Northern Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya security personnel have launched a massive manhunt for armed raiders who Tuesday staged an early morning attack at a remote settle m ent in the Northern Kenya district of Samburu, leaving more than 34 people dead.    16/09/2009   full text...
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 a l ceasefire which ended midnight Tuesday, the group said in an online statement W ednesday.    16/09/2009   full text...
Turkish national killed in Gambia
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian police have confirmed the killing of a Turki sh national, Serif Iseri, by a Gambian, Bubacarr Tunkara.    15/09/2009   full text...
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...
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 w ed attack on the country's oil facilities.    15/09/2009   full text...
Nigeria beefs up security ahead of MEND ceasefire expiration
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has beefed up security in t he Niger Delta ahead of Tuesday's expiration of the 60-day unilateral ceasefire declared by the region's largest militant gro up, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).    14/09/2009   full text...
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 d ing to the Ugandan Inspector General of Police, Major General Kale Kayihura.    12/09/2009   full text...
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 e ssed grave concern about the increasing number of deaths due to the escalating a t 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.    12/09/2009   full text...
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.    11/09/2009   full text...
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 r 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.    11/09/2009   full text...
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.    08/09/2009   full text...
'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 g overnment's amnesty programme for oil militants.    08/09/2009   full text...
UN chief expresses concern over attacks in Southern Sudan
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his deep conce rn at the string of attacks and counterattacks in southern Sudan.    07/09/2009   full text...
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...
Nigeria opposition dismisses govt's amnesty deal for militants
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's opposition Action Congress (AC) party Sunday d ismissed as a 'charade' and an 'agenda' by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party ( P DP) party the current amnesty deal for the country's oil militants by the federa l government.    06/09/2009   full text...
UN calls for global efforts to end piracy
New York, US (PANA) - The UN has called for global efforts to curb the rising ca ses of piracy along the Indian Ocean waters.    05/09/2009   full text...
Another key Nigerian oil militant 'to embrace amnesty'
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A key Nigerian oil militant, Farah Dagogo, is expected t o embrace the government's amnesty programme in the next few days, the local press reported Friday, quoting his law yer.    04/09/2009   full text...
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.    02/09/2009   full text...
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.    02/09/2009   full text...
'Nigerian govt will not extend amnesty for militants'
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government will not extend the 60-day amnes ty offer to the country's oil militants when it expires 6 October 2009, accordin g to President Umaru Yar'Adua.    01/09/2009   full text...
Two international peacekeepers kidnapped in Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two international peacekeepers with the African Union/U nited Nations Hybrid Operations in Darfur (UNAMID) were kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region early Saturday, according to UN AMID spokesman Kemal Saiki.    29/08/2009   full text...
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 g clearer as news emerged that no fewer than 125,000 people have been driven out o f their villages in the Haut Uele district of Orientale province in the last thr e e weeks.    28/08/2009   full text...
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 g clearer as news emerged that no fewer than 125,000 people have been driven out o f their villages in the Haut Uele district of Orientale province in the last thr e e weeks.    28/08/2009   full text...
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 r ties to resolve their differences during the holy month of Ramadan.    27/08/2009   full text...
Top Nigerian oil militant 'rejects' amnesty offer
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Contrary to claims by the Nigerian government, a top oil militant may have rejected the amnesty offered to Niger Delta militants by President Umaru Yar'Adua.    27/08/2009   full text...
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 e ach out to all clans, the region that has so far enjoyed relative peace, may bre a k up violently, adding to the chaos in Somalia.    24/08/2009   full text...
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.    23/08/2009   full text...
Nigerian amnesty nets highest number of surrendered arms, ammunition to date
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 60-day amnesty programme initiated by the Nigerian government Saturday recorded the highest number of arms and ammunition surrender e d in one day, when seven key militants gave up a total of 520 assorted guns, 95, 9 70 rounds of ammunition and 14 gunboats.    22/08/2009   full text...
Mauritanian leader urges citizens to eschew violence
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has called his compatriots to eschew violence, in a speech ahead of the st art of the Ramadan fasting Saturday.    22/08/2009   full text...
MEND alleges discrimination in amnesty programme
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (ME ND) has alleged there is discrimination in the federal government's amnesty programme for repentant oil militants.    21/08/2009   full text...
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 s and ammunition to the government in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state.    20/08/2009   full text...
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 b egun, the local press reported Wednesday.    19/08/2009   full text...
Angry Niger Delta youths 'kill' Nigerian soldier in reprisal attack
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Youths in a community in Nigeria's Niger Delta oil regio n, angered by the alleged killing of a civilian by soldiers, have attacked the army unit it perceived to be responsible for the att ack, killing a soldier and making away with his rifle, according to oil militants.    19/08/2009   full text...
I was kidnapped by unemployed graduates - Nigerian actor
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Popular Nigerian actor Pete Edochie, freed Monday night by the gunmen who kidnapped him a day earlier, has identified his kidnappers as ' 'young graduates who did not have employment and were looking for how to survive ' '.    18/08/2009   full text...
Kidnapped Nigerian actor freed
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Kidnapped Nigerian actor Pete Edochie has been freed unh armed, the local media reported Tuesday.    18/08/2009   full text...
Kidnappers of Nigerian actor demand 10m naira, actors protest
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The unknown gunmen who kidnapped one of Nigeria's top actors, Pete Edochie, Sunday have demanded a ransom of 10 million naira (US$66,000), as the country's actors were expected to stage a protest march against the abduction.    18/08/2009   full text...
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 n ts in the restive Niger Delta region, PANA reported from here.    17/08/2009   full text...
Nigerian govt. to brief foreign diplomats on amnesty offer to militants
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 n ts in the restive Niger Delta region, PANA reported from here.    17/08/2009   full text...
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 n ts in the restive Niger Delta region, PANA reported from here.    17/08/2009   full text...
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 n ts in the restive Niger Delta region, PANA reported from here.    17/08/2009   full text...
Popular actor, Pete Edochie, kidnapped in Nigeria (Corrected)
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Three persons were feared killed as unknown gunmen kidna pped popular 'Nollywood' star Pete Edochie in Onitsha, Anambra state in Nigeria's South-east, the local media reported Mond ay.    17/08/2009   full text...
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.    16/08/2009   full text...
Key Nigerian election rerun marred by violence
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The privately-owned GUARDIAN newspaper reported Sunday t hat violence and irregularities Saturday marred elections in parts of Ekiti and O yo States, South West Nigeria.    16/08/2009   full text...
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 ).    15/08/2009   full text...
Key militant surrenders weapons in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A key Nigerian oil militant surrendered his weapons to t he authorities Thursday, the ninth of a 60-day amnesty granted the militants by the federal government.    14/08/2009   full text...
Gas pipeline attack worsens power supply in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Unknown persons have attacked the Shell-operated Utorogu gas pipeline in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region, cutting off gas supply to power plants in the country.    14/08/2009   full text...
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