Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has accused the Nigerian government of attacking several Ijaw communities across the restive Niger Delta oil region and vowed retaliatory attacks. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Forty-four Zambian trainee pastors in South Africa have asked the Zambian government to repatriate them back home following the xenophob i c violence in South Africa, the state-run Zambia Daily mail reported Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Eight gunmen killed two persons and wounded four others during an attack on the Delta campus of the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region Tuesday, police said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Unknown gunmen Sunday kidnapped the wife of a former Commissioner in Bayelsa state government in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region, the police said Mrs. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Sunday ruled out general amnesty to perpetrators of the post-election violence which rocked the East African nation over disputed presidential elections. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Extra precautions taken by the Nigerian security agencies may have scuttled plans by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to carry out planned deadly attacks in the oil region Thursday, to coincide with the observance of 29 May as 'Democracy Day'. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua on Thursday ruled out any retaliation against South Africa over the recent xenophobic attacks against African migrants, including those from Nigeria. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya government has dispatched funds to South Africa to help fly back home Kenyan victims of the xenophobic attacks. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A string of attacks was expected in Nigeria's violence-ridden Niger Delta oil region Thursday as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has vowed to use the attacks to mark `Democracy Day', which is observed yearly on 29 May. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- South Africa has called for understanding by Kenyan politicians angered by the xenophobic attacks against African migrants in the country, even while admitting that the (SA) government has taken longer in addressing the plight of the poor. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Police in Zimbabwe said Wednesday that three locals had so far been confirmed among the 56 African migrants who have been killed in the wave of xenophobic attacks sweeping South Africa. Full text...

Arusha- Tanzania (PANA) -- A top African diplomat who has served in the southern Africa region has told PANA in Arusha that the mayhem in Johannesburg that swept to Cape Town targeting African nationals from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria, Som a lia and Kenya so far, cannot be an orchestrated plot, either bred internally or w hose strings are managed from outside. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian Army Monday denied 11 of its soldiers were shot dead by militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) after an attack on an oil pipeline. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa has strongly condemned the use of live bullets to disperse protesting University of Zambia (UNZA) students in Lusaka, saying the police could have used other options. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has condemned the xenophobia attacks on foreigners by South Africans, saying that the behaviour was not in line with the spirit of African unity. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said Monday it killed 11 soldiers during an early morning attack on a Shell pipeline in Rivers state in the oil producing Niger Delta region. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The umbrella Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has written to South African President Thabo Mbeki urging him to act fast to stop the attacks against African migrants in his country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned that vio lence in Zimbabwe is likely to escalate and could lead to a military coup, unles s African and other international leaders help negotiate a government of national unity led by opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Football's world governing body, FIFA, has add ressed the xenophobic violence in South Africa, saying it hoped the 2010 World C u p could help to overcome the divisions that are evident in the country today. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the deployment of the military to help deal with spreading xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The number of cases of sexual violence committed aga inst women increased remarkably in the province of Katanga in the Democratic Rep u blic of Congo (DRC) in the first quarter of this year, the Congolese News Agency (ACP) reported on Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Suspected militants have bombed the building housing the office of Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in oil-rich Bayelsa state, but there were no reports of any casualty, police said. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The death toll in ethnic clashes at Bawku in the north-eastern corner of Ghana has risen to five, Interior Minister Kwamena Bartel said on Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Suspected militants have blown up a 30,000bpd Shell flow station in Nigeria's oil-rich state of Bayelsa, causing a massive oil spillage and dealing another blow at the country's crude oil export. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The string of attacks on Shell oil export pipelines by the militants from the Movement from the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has forced oil giant Shell to shut in a total of over 500,000 barrels per day, MEND said in a statement emailed to PANA Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The military task force deployed to the oil producing Niger Delta to protect personnel and installations has denied a report by the region's main militants that they attacked two oil pipelines in Rivers state in the early hours of Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said Monday it had attacked two major oil pipelines in Rivers in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region, in continuation of ''operation cyclone'' to cripple Nigeria's oil export. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Soldiers and police Tuesday clashed with protesters in several suburbs of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, as the opposition pressed on with an indefinite general strike to force the release of results of a presidential vote held more than two weeks ago. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The United States has condemned the use of violence and intimidation by Zimbabwe security forces and ruling party ZANU-PF supporters against regime opponents since the 29 March elections. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, accompanied by a high-level government team, headed to Mahalla Al Kobra Wednesday to end the violence that ensued following a nationwide strike on Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A school boy was killed in a stampede as sporadic violen ce broke out in Nairobi and parts of Kenya on Tuesday, hours after the oppositio n Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) suspended talks on the formation of a coalitio n government with the ruling Party of National Unity (PNU). Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A school boy was killed in a stampede as sporadic violen ce broke out in Nairobi and parts of Kenya on Tuesday, hours after the oppositio n Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) suspended talks on the formation of a coalitio n government with the ruling Party of National Unity (PNU). Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A violent clash late Monday between Mauritanian police officers and suspected terrorists left two policemen dead and several others wounded, PANA reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least four suspected militants were shot dead during a gun duel with government troops in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region Monday, according to the joint (military) task force deployed to the area. Full text...

Murombedzi- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said securi ty agencies were on high alert to thwart any Kenya-style violence in the country after next weekend's election. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The US government Wednesday pledged a grant of US$ 10 mi llion to enable Kenya set up a rape crisis centre equipped with a forensic labor a tory, besides facilitating the implementation of the sexual offences law that ha s been in abeyance for two years since its enactment by parliament. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The military unit deployed to Nigeria's restive Niger Delta oil region to protect facilities and personnel said Tuesday it had uncovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition belonging to a fleeing militia leader, Ateke Tom. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan government has despatched a contingent of 1,000 military personnel to quell insurgency in the western part of the country, where a militia group calling itself Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) is said to be committing atrocities, the Kenya Television Network (KTN) reported here Monday. Full text...

a Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two militants were feared killed while one was arrested following a gunfight between Nigerian Navy (NN) soldiers and militants along the Bakana River, off the coast of Port Harcourt in the oil producing Niger Delta re g ion, on Wednesday, NN officials said. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Parliament has adopted a resolution stro ngly condemning the massacres and crimes against humanity perpetrated for severa l years in North-Kivu, in the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Co n go (DRC), sources in Brussels said on Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African countries' report on progress made in pre venting and addressing gender-based violence will be presented at a three-day in t ernational colloquium organized here by the UN in collaboration with the African Union (AU) and the Government of Ethiopia this week. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigeria Police said Thursday a leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, is alive and well but said he was under probe for plotting to topple some governments in West Africa, theft of weapons and munitions and promoting secession in the oil region. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Ester Mabecuane, the delegate of the southern province of Inhambane, for Mozambique's former rebel movement. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Unidentified thugs in Southern Sudan attacked four Ugandan traders operating in the capital, Juba, killing one of them over the weekend, PANA reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has asked the federal government to allow access to its (MEND) extradited leader, Henry Okah, to confirm he is still alive. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- There was a momentary scare in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region Tuesday (19 Feb) evening after the region's largest militant group claimed one of its leaders has been shot dead while in government custody. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A Nigerian Navy soldier was killed, another wounded and several militants were feared dead following a clash between soldiers and suspected militants along the Bonny River in the oil producing Niger Delta region early Monday, Police said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes on Saturday voiced concern over the plight of those forced to flee their homes following violence that erupted after Kenya's disputed presidential vote last December. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan Member of Parliament, Gitobu Imanyara, admitted here Monday that he was viciously assaulted and injured by Kenya's First Lady, Lucy Kibaki, at the State House, where he had been invited to a meeting by President Mwai Kibaki. Full text...