Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- At least five farmers have died and 11 others serious injured in clashes this week between farmers and Sukuma herders over grazing land and cattle theft disputes in southern Tanzania, the police said Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least 16 persons were killed, 10 others wounded and five houses razed after three days of communal violence in the Mgbowo community in Nigeria's southeastern state of Enugu, local press reports said Wednesday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki Tuesday expressed outrage at the bomb explosions that killed more than 100 people in Mumbai, India. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) - – Authorities in Ouagadougou Tuesday appealed for calm among people living along the Burkinabe/Malian border after violent clashes involving farmers from both countries Friday night left nine killed and two missing. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- Clashes that took place Sunday between inhabitants of Guinea-Bissau's southern village of Gampara left three persons seriously wounded, the local press reported here Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Thursday said an upsurge of violence has led to displacement, injury and death of civilians in the Upper Nile and Jonglei provinces of southern Sudan. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan authorities say they are unhappy with a recent decision made during a World Trade Organisation conference in Hong Kong excluding the country from a list of the world's least developed countries. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian Army Thursday officially confirmed the clash between soldiers and militants in the oil- producing Niger Delta region Wednesday, but denied the militants claim that they killed 13 soldiers. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian soldiers deployed to protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta region clashed with militants in the region in a firefight that lasted 45 minutes Wednesday, both sides confirmed Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) Monday launched an Atlas of African Lakes here at the opening session of the 11th World Lakes Conference. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's Inspector-General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, Wednesday visited the scene of Tuesday's violent clash in Lagos between police and soldiers, promising to rehabilitate the massively- destroyed police barracks "as soon as possible". Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Two South Africans in London were seriously injured in the "terrorist attacks" in London, South Africa's Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- President Paul Kagame will on Sunday witness the baptism of 80 gorillas living in the Volcano national park in northern Rwanda. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Vice President Solomon Berewa has denied making comments that are tantamount to blasphemy while addressing a recent political rally in Sierra Leone's second city of Bo. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghanaian government, faced with a growing menace of plastic waste that threatens to choke the environment, is working at a law that would regulate the deposit of litter, including plastic waste. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi said the bomb explosion, which rocked Mogadishu last Tuesday, killing nine persons and injuring 27 others, was in his defence and that of his delegation of foreign diplomats. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least eight persons were killed and scores got injured on Tuesday by an explosion at a rally in a football stadium in Mogadishu being addressed by Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, Somali government officials confirmed here. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The National Association of Sachet Water Producers (NASWAP) called Wednesday for dialogue with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on how to clean the city of plastic waste, after the AMA threatened to ban the sale of sachet water, and the production, storage, sale and possession of plastic bags. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has thanked the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi for showing concern following a bomb blast that killed three people Thursday in Cairo. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Plastic waste ranging from wrappers, bags to bottles are a sore site in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, and indeed, the whole country. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Demonstrating youths seeking an extension of the review of polling registers beyond Tuesday's deadline, clashed here Wednesday with security forces. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The explosion at a munitions depot of the 43 Marine Infantry Battalion (BIMA) that killed two French soldiers 5 March was the result of an "all-French blunder," the satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné reported here Wednesday. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- On 1 March the Trade and Industry ministry in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland banned the production, importation, selling or use of plastic bags in Somaliland but three weeks on, indications are that no one has taken notice of the injunction. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Many international organisations and prominent personalities will attend the 17th Arab League summit set for 22-23 March in Algiers, Algeria. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Angry Chinese workers at the Mauritian Textile Company (CMT) near Port Louis and security forces clashed Wednesday in the aftermath of a Chinese colleague on Monday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian foreign affairs minister, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, on Tuesday predicted that the Arab summit scheduled 22-23 March in Algiers would be "exceptional" in terms of participation and agenda. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai has supported a plan by Kenya to ban the use of polythene shopping bags and impose heavy penalties on plastic products manufacturing plants distributing the environmental pollutant. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Seizing the opportunity availed by random shooting in the Bubanza province northwest of here by armed civilians and soldiers "welcoming" the New Year, National Liberation Front (FNL) rebels attacked government positions, leaving at least seven dead in the ensuing clashes. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At least four people, including a soldier of the national army, were killed and three others injured Monday night in an attack by the National Liberation Front (FNL) on positions of the Burundian army, military sources revealed here. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco on Monday signed the Arab Charter of Human Rights approved by the Arab Summit last May in Tunis, an official source announced in Rabat. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- European Union Commissioner for Foreign Policy and Common Security (FPCS) Javier Solana has expressed concern about reports of Rwandan military incursions into DR Congo in pursuit of Interahamwe rebels. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The Uganda army has clashed with soldiers suspected to be members of the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF), who where crossing into restive eastern DR Congo. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Two disputing groups within the Armed Forcer of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) have been fighting in North-Kivu's Bwerenemena area since last Monday, reveals a news release issued by the UN Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) obtained here Friday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Military authorities announced here Tuesday that government troops killed at least six combatants of the National Liberation Front (FNL) Monday night during clashes in the province of Bujumbura, outside the capital. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somali (PANA) -- Heavy fighting has erupted between militias loyal to runaway warlord Mohamed Hirsi, alias General Morgan, and supporters of the rival Juba Valley Alliance (JVA) in Southern Somalia. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least 30 persons were feared dead and 20 others injured over the weekend in communal clashes which started in Ataba, a riverine community in Nigeria's southeastern Rivers State, the local press reported Wednesday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana, (PANA) -- Four persons are known to have been killed in an ethnic clash between Konkombas and Battors in Dambai in Ghana's Volta Region of Ghana. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa is due here Wednesday, a spokesperson indicated Tuesday at the league's Cairo headquarters. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon police and taxi drivers Tuesday violently clashed in Douala, leaving three people seriously wounded in the economic capital of Cameroon, eyewitnesses told PANA Wednesday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The 119th brigade of Democratic Republic of Congo's army clashed with dissidents led by Colonel Jules Mutebutsi in the Kamanyola area, about 50 km along the Bukavu-Uvira road, the commander of the government force Lieutenant-Colonel Nakabaka has said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A special unit of Nigerian security forces killed 10 suspected sea pirates and lost one member during the latest clash in the oil-rich but volatile Niger Delta region, according to local press reports Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigeria Conservation Foundation (NCF) has condemned the transfer to South Africa of the four baby gorillas smuggled from Cameroon through Nigeria to Malaysia. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- The authorities in Yemen have indicated that the country would be represented at the Arab League summit billed for 22 and 23 May here, by Prime Minister Abdul-Qader Ba- Jammal. Full text...

Dutse- Nigeria (PANA) -- A clash between farmers and Fulani herdsmen in Miga, Nigeria's northern Jigawa State, left six persons dead and four injured, police said Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Lassa fever outbreak in some parts of Nigeria's midwestern Edo State has claimed 19 more lives in the past five weeks, bringing the death toll since the outbreak in January to 53, according to the state commissioner for health, Godwin Ovbiagele. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- An outbreak of Lassa fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic disease has been reported from Sierra Leone's Kenema district, the World Health Organisation (WHO) disclosed Wednesday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian Foreign Affairs minister Habib Ben Yahia was off Sunday to Riyadh, the first stop of a diplomatic tour to rally member countries ahead of the rescheduled Arab League summit. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- After his trip to the Maghreb, Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa has announced a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, as consultations continue towards a reconvening of the Arab summit that failed to hold here, media reports said Wednesday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, has said in Nouakchott that the next Arab summit would "be held soon, very probably in May. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- President Omar Hassan el-Bashir of Sudan, who was earlier billed to fly to the resort town of Sharm el Sheikh for a meeting Friday with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, has postponed the visit to next week with Cairo sources citing "changes in the schedules" of the two leaders. Full text...